Bible Strands
Deuteronomy 3:17
The Jordan River in the Arabah bordered it from Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) with the slopes of Pisgah to the east.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — Moses addresses the Israelites on the eastern side of the Jordan, concluding the land grant to Reuben and Gad immediately before commanding the armed crossing.
The words — עֲרָבָה ('arabah) denotes the Arabah lowland, and יַרְדֵּן (yarden) names the Jordan River, together defining the eastern and southern boundaries of the allotted region.
The thread — The Arabah and Salt Sea boundary reappears in Joshua 12:3, traces back to the Valley of Siddim in Genesis 14:3, and frames the Jordan's stopping at Adam in Joshua 3:16.
Why it lands — It fixes the geographic limit of the eastern inheritance, requiring the reader to recognize the precise territorial scope before the subsequent command to advance into the land.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
The plain also, and Jordan, and the coast thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, under Ashdoth–pisgah eastward.
Cross-references
- Joshua 12:3 as well as the Arabah east of the Sea of Chinnereth to the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea), eastward through Beth-jeshimoth, and southward below the slopes of Pisgah.
- Genesis 14:3 The latter five came as allies to the Valley of Siddim (that is, the Salt Sea).
- Joshua 3:16 the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.
- Deuteronomy 4:49 including all the Arabah on the east side of the Jordan and as far as the Sea of the Arabah, below the slopes of Pisgah.
- Genesis 13:10 And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)
- Genesis 19:28 He looked down toward Sodom and Gomorrah and all the land of the plain, and he saw the smoke rising from the land like smoke from a furnace.
- Numbers 23:14 So Balak took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, where he built seven altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.
- Numbers 34:11 then go down from Shepham to Riblah on the east side of Ain and continue along the slopes east of the Sea of Chinnereth.
- Joshua 13:27 and in the valley, Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, with the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon (the territory on the east side of the Jordan up to the edge of the Sea of Chinnereth).
- Joshua 15:2 Their southern border started at the bay on the southern tip of the Salt Sea,