Turn, and take your journey, and go to the hill country of the Amorites and to all the places near there: in the Arabah, in the hill country, in the lowland, in the South, by the seashore, in the land of the Canaanites, and in Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 7. Turn you. The Hebrews, after the passage of the Red Sea, seemed to turn their backs upon the promised land, to go southward. Now, therefore, they are ordered to bend their course to the north, and to enter Chanaan, ( Bible.) on the western side of the lake of Sodom, where the Amorrhites dwelt. Calmet.—Their mountain, and the other hills, and plains, and vales, (Hebrew sephela, mentioned 1 Maccabees 12:38,) as far as the Nile and Mediterranean, were the southern limits of the Chanaanites, whose country extended to Libanus. See Numbers 34. Bible.—God promises also to deliver the country as far as the Euphrates to the Hebrews, provided they continue faithful to him. Calmet. 19:8. As they neglected this condition, they never possessed the whole country, not even that of Chanaan, unmolested. Yet the whole was tributary to them in the days of David and Solomon. Saint Augustine q. 21. in Jos. Masius. Tirinus.