Numbers 34:9 (BSB)
continue to Ziphron, and end at Hazar-enan. This will be your boundary on the north.
From Numbers 34. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Numbers 34:9
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Numbers 34:9: And the border shall go on to Ziphron,.... Which in the Jerusalem Targum is called Zapherin; and Jerom (s) says, that in his time this city was called Zephyrium, a town in Cilicia; but this seems to be at too great a distance: and the goings out of it shall be at Hazarenan; which was the utmost of the northern border, and so it is...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Numbers 34:9: Ziphron--("sweet odor"). Hazar-enan--("village of fountains"); but the places are unknown. "An imaginary line from mount Cassius, on the coast along the northern base of Lebanon to the entering into the Bekaa (Valley of Lebanon) at the Kamosa Hermel," must be regarded as the frontier that is meant [VAN DE VELDE].
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Numbers 34:7-9: Num 34:7-9 The northern boundary cannot be determined with certainty. “From the great sea, mark out to you (תּתאוּ, from תּאה = תּוה, to mark or point out), i.e., fix, Mount Hor as the boundary” - from thence “to come to Hamath; and let the goings forth of the boundary be to Zedad.