Numbers 34:8Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers

Douay-RheimsHebrew (Masoretic text)

From which they shall come to Emath, as far as the borders of Sedada:
Douay-Rheims

מֵהֹ֣ר הָהָ֔ר תְּתָא֖וּ לְבֹ֣א חֲמָ֑ת וְהָי֛וּ תּוֹצְאֹ֥ת הַגְּבֻ֖ל צְדָֽדָה׃
Hebrew (Masoretic text)

The Church Fathers on this verse

One Church Father comments on this verse

Jerome of Stridon

4th centuryChurch Father

He states that you will travel to Emath, presently known as Epiphania, a name assigned in honor of the most brutal tyrant, Antiochus, who was referred to as Επιφανη'ς. He also mentions reaching the borders of Sadada, a location that is referenced in the current text of Ezekiel.

Cross references

Passages read together with this verse.

Num 13:21The ground, fat or barren, woody or without trees. Be of good courage, and bring us of the fruits of the land. Now it was the time when the firstripe grapes are fit to be eaten.
Ezek 47:15And this is the border of the land: toward the north side, from the great sea by the way of Hethalon, as men go to Sedada,
Ezek 47:20And the side toward the sea, is the great sea from the borders straight on, till thou come to Emath: this is the side of the sea.
2 Sam 8:9And Thou the king of Emath heard that David had defeated all the forces of Adarezer.
Josh 13:5And his confines. The country also of Libanus towards the east from Baalgad under mount Hermon to the entering into Emath.
Josh 13:6Of all that dwell in the mountains from Libanus, to the waters of Maserephoth, and all the Sidonians. I am he that will cut them off from before the face of the children of Israel. So let their land come in as a part of the inheritance of Israel, as I have commanded thee.
Jer 39:5But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after them: and they took Sedecias in the plain of the desert of Jericho, and when they had taken him, they brought him to Nabuchodonosor king of Babylon to Reblatha, which is in the land of Emath: and he gave judgment upon him.