John Gill Commentary


John Gill Commentary
"and the border shall go forth to Ziphron, and the goings out thereof shall be at Hazar-enan: this shall be your north border." — Numbers 34:9 (ASV)
And the border shall go on to Ziphron
Which in the Jerusalem Targum is called Zapherin; and Jerom F19 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 in (Ezekiel 47:17) and there called the border of Damascus: Reland F20 takes it to be the same with Enhazor, a city in the tribe of Naphtali, (Joshua 19:37) , the words only inverted:
this shall be your northern border :
from the Mediterranean sea to Hazarenan in Naphtali.