John Gill Commentary Joshua 15:5

"And the east border was the Salt Sea, even unto the end of the Jordan. And the border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan;" — Joshua 15:5 (ASV)

And the east border [was] the salt sea, [even] unto the end of
Jordan
To the place where Jordan fell into it; so that this border was the whole length of the salt sea, which Josephus says ^F25 was five hundred eighty furlongs; and, according to Pliny ^F26 , an hundred miles:

and [their] border in the north quarter [was] from the bay of the sea ,
at the uttermost part of Jordan ;
this northern border began where the eastern ended, at the bay or creek of the sea, where Jordan fell into it.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F25: De Bello Jud. l. 4. c. 8. sect. 4.
• F26: Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 16.