Numbers 34:5

And the border shall fetch a compass,.... Not go on in a straight line, but turn about:

from Azmon unto the river of Egypt; the river Nile, as both the Targums of Jonathan and Jerusalem; but Aben…

The southern boundary commenced at the Dead Sea. The broad and desolate valley by which the depressed bed of that sea is protected toward the south, is called the Ghor. A deep narrow glen enters it at…

the brook of Egypt Heb. -the naḥalof Miẓraim." A.V. -the river of Egypt" gives the erroneous impression that the Nile is meant. The name is that of a wady or torrent, now called Wâdy el--Arîsh, which…