Numbers 34:7
 Numbers 34:7 
New International Version (©2011)
"'For your northern boundary, run a line from the Mediterranean Sea to Mount Hor

New Living Translation (©2007)
"Your northern boundary will begin at the Mediterranean Sea and run east to Mount Hor,

English Standard Version (©2001)
“This shall be your northern border: from the Great Sea you shall draw a line to Mount Hor.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
And this shall be your north border: you shall draw your border line from the Great Sea to Mount Hor.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall point out for you mount Hor:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
This will be your northern border: From the Mediterranean Sea draw a line to Mount Hor;

International Standard Version (©2012)
"'Your northern border is to extend from the Mediterranean Sea to Mount Hor.

NET Bible (©2006)
"'And this will be your northern border: From the Great Sea you will draw a line to Mount Hor;

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
"The northern border extends from the Mediterranean Sea to Mount Hor,

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
And this shall be your north border: from the Great Sea you shall mark out for you mount Hor:

American King James Version
And this shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall point out for you mount Hor:

American Standard Version
And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall mark out for you mount Hor;

Douay-Rheims Bible
But toward the north side the borders shall begin from the great sea, reaching to the most high mountain,

Darby Bible Translation
And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall mark out for you mount Hor;

English Revised Version
And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall mark out for you mount Hor:

Webster's Bible Translation
And this shall be your north border: from the great sea ye shall designate for you mount Hor:

World English Bible
"'This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall mark out for you Mount Hor;

Young's Literal Translation
'And this is to you the north border: from the great sea ye mark out for yourselves mount Hor;

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

34:1-15 Canaan was of small extent; as it is here bounded, it is but about 160 miles in length, and about 50 in breadth; yet this was the country promised to the father of the faithful, and the possession of the seed of Israel. This was that little spot of ground, in which alone, for many ages, God was known. This was the vineyard of the Lord, the garden enclosed; but as it is with gardens and vineyards, the narrowness of the space was made up by the fruitfulness of the soil. Though the earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof, yet few know him, and serve him; but those few are happy, because fruitful to God. Also, see how little a share of the world God gives to his own people. Those who have their portion in heaven, have reason to be content with a small pittance of this earth. Yet a little that a righteous man has, having it from the love of God, and with his blessing, is far better and more comfortable than the riches of many wicked.


Pulpit Commentary

Verse 7. - Ye shall point out for you, i.e., ye shall observe and make for, in tracing the boundary. Septuagint, καταμετρήσετε... παρά Mount Hor. Not of course the Mount Hor on which Aaron died, but another far to the north, probably in Lebanon. The Hebrew הֹר הָהָר, which the Septuagint had rendered Ὤς τὸ ὄρος in chapter 20, it renders here τὸ ὄρος τὸ ὄρος, taking הֹר as simply another form הָר, as it probably is. Her Ha-har is therefore equivalent to the English "Mount Mountain ;" and just as there are many "Avon rivers" on the English maps, so there were probably many mountains locally known among the Jews as Hor Ha-hat. We do not know what peak this was, although it must have been one clearly distinguishable from the sea. There is, however, no reason whatever for supposing (contrary to the analogy of all such names, and of the other Mount Hor) that it included the whole range of Lebanon proper.


Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

And this shall be your northern border,.... What follows:

from the great sea ye shall point out for you Mount Hor; not that Mount Hor on which Aaron died, for that was on the southern border of the land; but rather Mount Herman, which is said to be unto the entering into Hamath, Joshua 13:5 as this Mount Hor is in the following verse; or some part of Mount Lebanon might be so called, which was the northern border of the land: the Targum of Jonathan calls it Umanus; and the Jerusalem Targum, Manus or Taurus Umanus, the Mountain Umanus, which divided Syria and Cilicia; it is joined with Lebanon by Josephus (p), and with that and Carmel by Aelianus (q).

(p) Antiqu. l. 1. c. 6. sect. 2.((q) De Animal. l. 5. c. 56.


Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

7-9. north border—The principal difficulty in understanding the description here arises from what our translators have called mount Hor. The Hebrew words, however, Hor-ha-Hor, properly signify "the mountain of the mountain," or "the high double mountain," which, from the situation, can mean nothing else than the mountain Amana (So 4:8), a member of the great Lebanon range (Jos 13:5).


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The Boundaries of Canaan
6And as for the western border, you shall even have the great sea for a border: this shall be your west border. 7And this shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall point out for you mount Hor: 8From mount Hor you shall point out your border to the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad: …

Numbers 34:6 "'Your western boundary will be the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. This will be your boundary on the west.
Ezekiel 47:15 "This is to be the boundary of the land: "On the north side it will run from the Mediterranean Sea by the Hethlon road past Lebo Hamath to Zedad,
Amos 6:14 For the LORD God Almighty declares, "I will stir up a nation against you, Israel, that will oppress you all the way from Lebo Hamath to the valley of the Arabah."