Numbers 34:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶And as for the western border, ye shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border.

Numbers 34:6 —

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Ezekiel 47:20
The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.
Ezekiel 47:10
And it shall come to pass, that the fishers shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread forth nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.
Joshua 23:4
Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.
Joshua 15:12
And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families.
Joshua 1:4
From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.

Topics

Canaanites Great Sea Judgments Mediterranean Sea Perizzites

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-15)

We have here a particular draught of the line by which the land of Canaan was meted, and bounded, on all sides. God directs Moses to settle it here, not as a geographer in his map, merely to please the curious, but as a prince in his grant, that it may be certainly known what passes, and is conveyed, by the grant. There was a much larger possession promised them, which in due time they would have…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

6. the western border--There is no uncertainty about this boundary, as it is universally allowed to be the Mediterranean, which is called “the great sea” in comparison with the small inland seas or lakes known to the Hebrews.