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then to Lebo-hamath, and on through Zedad

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21 So they went up and explored the land from the wilderness of Zin as far as Rehob, near Lebo-hamath.

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25 Jeroboam II recovered the territories of Israel between Lebo-hamath and the Dead Sea,[a] just as the Lord, the God of Israel, had promised through Jonah son of Amittai, the prophet from Gath-hepher.

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Footnotes

  1. 14:25 Hebrew the sea of the Arabah.

15 “These are the boundaries of the land: The northern border will run from the Mediterranean toward Hethlon, then on through Lebo-hamath to Zedad; 16 then it will run to Berothah and Sibraim,[a] which are on the border between Damascus and Hamath, and finally to Hazer-hatticon, on the border of Hauran. 17 So the northern border will run from the Mediterranean to Hazar-enan, on the border between Hamath to the north and Damascus to the south.

18 “The eastern border starts at a point between Hauran and Damascus and runs south along the Jordan River between Israel and Gilead, past the Dead Sea[b] and as far south as Tamar.[c] This will be the eastern border.

19 “The southern border will go west from Tamar to the waters of Meribah at Kadesh[d] and then follow the course of the Brook of Egypt to the Mediterranean. This will be the southern border.

20 “On the west side, the Mediterranean itself will be your border from the southern border to the point where the northern border begins, opposite Lebo-hamath.

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Footnotes

  1. 47:15-16 As in Greek version; Masoretic Text reads then on through Lebo to Zedad; 16 then it will run to Hamath, Berothah, and Sibraim.
  2. 47:18a Hebrew the eastern sea.
  3. 47:18b As in Greek version; Hebrew reads you will measure.
  4. 47:19 Hebrew waters of Meribath-kadesh.

But the Babylonian[a] troops chased them and overtook Zedekiah on the plains of Jericho. They captured him and took him to King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, who was at Riblah in the land of Hamath. There the king of Babylon pronounced judgment upon Zedekiah.

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  1. 39:5 Or Chaldean; similarly in 39:8.

When King Toi of Hamath heard that David had destroyed the entire army of Hadadezer,

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the land of the Gebalites and all of the Lebanon mountain area to the east, from Baal-gad below Mount Hermon to Lebo-hamath; and all the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, including all the land of the Sidonians.

“I myself will drive these people out of the land ahead of the Israelites. So be sure to give this land to Israel as a special possession, just as I have commanded you.

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