You shall draw a boundary from Mount Hor to the Lebo-hamath, and the termination of the border shall be at Zedad;
Parallel translations
- WEB From Mount Hor you shall mark out to the entrance of Hamath; and the border shall pass by Zedad.
- KJV From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:
- BSB and from Mount Hor to Lebo-hamath, then extend to Zedad,
- NKJV from Mount Hor you shall mark out your border to the entrance of Hamath; then the direction of the border shall be toward Zedad;
- NLT then to Lebo-hamath, and on through Zedad
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Quick answer
From Mount Hor the border runs to the entrance of Hamath and passes by Zedad. The northern boundary is traced through these landmarks.
Overview
The entrance of Hamath marks the far northern reach of the ideal land, a point referenced often as the land's northern extremity (e.g. 1 Kings 8:65). These named places located the boundary in real geography known to Israel. The expansive northern limit shows the generous scope of the inheritance God set before His people.
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Cross-references · 6
- Num 13:21So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin to Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.
- 2 Kgs 14:25He restored the border of Israel from the entrance of Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, according to Yahweh, the God of Israel’s word, which he spoke by his servant Jonah the son of Amittai, the prophet, who was from Gath Hepher.
- Jer 39:5But the army of the Chaldeans pursued them, and overtook Zedekiah in the plains of Jericho: and when they had taken him, they brought him up to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment on him.
- Josh 13:5–6and the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath;
- 2 Sam 8:9When Toi king of Hamath heard that David had struck all the army of Hadadezer,
- Ezek 47:15–20This shall be the border of the land: On the north side, from the great sea, by the way of Hethlon, to the entrance of Zedad;
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