Numbers 34:7-9

7-9. Your north border This cannot be accurately identified, since the whole topography is in a most unsatisfactory state as regards the comprehension of the original record and knowledge of the ground, all the places being now unknown except Hamath, which must mean the kingdom of Hamath, and not Hamath, its capital city, modern Hamah, called Epiphania by the Greeks and Romans. Numbers 13:21, note.

Mount Hor This is not to be confounded with the Mount Hor of the Seir range. Numbers 20:22, note. This Mount Hor is spoken of only here. Its identification is one of the puzzles of sacred geography. Some suppose that the great chain of Lebanon itself is meant, which is clearly the natural northern boundary of Palestine. Knobel moves the boundary still farther north, and identifies Mount Hor with Mons Casius, southwest of Antioch, on the Orontes. Robinson agrees with him in recognising this Zedad in Zadad, a Syriac Christian village of three thousand inhabitants, to the southeast of Hunes, on the east of the road from Damascus to Hunes.

Wetstein and Knobel suppose that Ziphron is the same as a ruined city, Zifran, of which we have no accurate information except that it is fourteen hours to the northeast of Damascus, near to the road from Palmyra. The location of Hazar-enan is in dispute; some contending for Centum Putea, twenty-seven miles northwest of Palmyra, and others showing that it is impossible that this could be a border town.