“‘This shall be your north border: from the great sea you shall mark out for yourselves Mount Hor.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 7. The most high mountain. Libanus. Challoner.—Hebrew “the mountain of the mountain, or of Hor.” Some understand Mount Casius, Hermon, Taurus, or Amanus; which last lies on the confines of Cilicia, and hence the Rabbins draw a line by the straits of Gibraltar to Pelusium, so as to comprise all the islands and the waters of the Mediterranean. Selden. Marc. Claus. i. 6. But Grotius denies that the sea can be claimed by any one, nor was it, even for fishing, says he, before the days of Justinian. Jur. ii. 2, 3. Calmet.—At any rate, Moses here seems to mean the northern limits from the point of the Mediterranean, where Libanus is situated, across the country eastward to Emath, and as far as the village of Enan, verse 9. Bible.