“This shall be your northern border: from the Great Sea you shall draw a line to Mount Hor.
And this shall be your northern border,.... What follows: from the great sea ye shall point out for you Mount Hor; not that Mount Hor on which Aaron died, for that was on the southern border of the land; but rather Mount Herman, which is said to be unto the entering into Hamath, Jos 13:5 as this Mount Hor is in the following verse; or...
north border--The principal difficulty in understanding the description here arises from what our translators have called mount Hor. The Hebrew words, however, Hor-ha-Hor, properly signify "the mountain of the mountain," or "the high double mountain," which, from the situation, can mean nothing else than the mountain Amana (Sol 4:8), a member of the great Lebanon range (Jos 13:5).
And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor: (d) Which is a mountain near Tyre and Sidon, and not that Hor in the wilderness where Aaron died.