Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Numbers 34:12
And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.
Verse 12. The border shall go down to Jordan] This river is famous both in the Old and New Testaments. It takes its rise at the foot of Mount Libanus, passes through the sea of Chinnereth or Tiberias, and empties itself into the lake Asphaltites or Dead Sea, from which it has no outlet. In and by it God wrought many miracles. God cut off the waters of this river as he did those of the Red Sea, so that they stood on a heap on each side, and the people passed over on dry ground. Both Elijah and Elisha separated its waters in a miraculous way, 2Kg 2:8-14. Naaman, the Syrian general, by washing in it at the command of the prophet, was miraculously cured of his leprosy, 2Kg 5:10-14. In this river John baptized great multitudes of Jews; and in it was CHRIST himself baptized, and the Spirit of God descended upon him, and the voice from heaven proclaimed him the great and only Teacher and Saviour of men, Mt 3:16-17; Mr 1:5-11.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Down to Jordan, i.e. all along the river of Jordan, even to the end of it, which is the eastern border.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
And the border shall go down to Jordan,…. A well known river to the east of the land of Canaan:
and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea; the sea of Sodom; and though all sea water is generally salt, this was remarkably so, through the great quantity of bitumen and nitre in it; hence it was called Asphaltites; thus as the description of the borders of the land began with the salt sea, Nu 34:3, it ends with it:
this shall be your land, with the coasts thereof round about: which, according to the Targum of Jonathan, was thus bounded, Rekamgea (or Kadeshbarnea) on the south, Taurus Urnanus (by which he interprets Mount Hor) on the north, the great sea on the west (i.e. the Mediterranean sea), and the salt sea on the east.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
Num 34:12 And the border shall go down to Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the salt sea: this shall be your land with the coasts thereof round about.
Ver. 12. It shall be at the salt sea. ] That is, the Lake of Sodom, called also Asphaltites, and the Dead Sea. Josephus saith, that an ox, having all his legs bound, will not sink into the water of this sea, it is so dense.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
the salt sea: Num 34:3, Gen 13:10, Gen 14:3, Gen 19:24-26
Reciprocal: Gen 13:15 – General Deu 3:17 – the sea Jos 15:5 – General 2Ch 20:2 – beyond the sea