Numbers 34:4-5

Numbers 34:4-5. To the ascent of Akrabbim— Or to Maaleh-akrabbim, as it is rendered, Jos 15:3 which signifies, according to Bochart, the mount of scorpions; so called from the multitude of those creatures found there. See Deu 8:15 and Hieroz. lib. 4: cap. 29. Hence that tract adjoining to Idumea is called Arabatine, 1Ma 5:3. Hazar-addar is, in the Vulgate, the village of Addar; which seems justified by Jos 15:3 where it is simply called Addar. The river of Egypt means, as we have explained it, Num 34:3 the Nile; as the sea means the Mediterranean sea, called Num 34:6-7 the great sea. It is certain, that the Jews never did extend their territories so far as the Nile; the present is to be considered only as a permission to do so. The words in Num 34:4 and the going forth thereof shall be from the south to Kadesh-barnea, Dr. Waterland renders, and its utmost limits on the south shall be Kadesh-barnea.