28And by the border of Gad, at the south side southward, the border shall be even from Tamar unto the waters of strife in Kadesh, and to the river toward the great sea.
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And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward. …
Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar, which is Engedi.
And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;
This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the LORD, and he was sanctified in them.
Then came the children of Israel, even the whole congregation, into the desert of Zin in the first month: and the people abode in Kadesh; and Miriam died there, and was buried there.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-30)We have here a very short and ready way taken for the dividing of the land among the twelve tribes, not so tedious and so far about as the way that was taken in Joshua’s time; for in the distribution of spiritual and heavenly blessings there is not that danger of murmuring and quarrelling that there is in the participation of the temporal blessings. When God gave to the labourers every one his pen…
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