John Gill's Exposition on Numbers 34:9

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Exposition of the Old and New Testament
John Gill (1697–1771) · 18th-century historical commentary
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And the border shall go on to Ziphron, etc.] Which in the Jerusalem Targum is called Zapherin; and Jerom f494 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 (<264717>Ezekiel 47:17) and there called the border of Damascus: Reland f495 takes it to be the same with Enhazor, a city in the tribe of Naphtali, (<061937>Joshua 19:37), the words only inverted: this shall be your northern border: from the Mediterranean sea to Hazarenan in Naphtali.

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