So they wentup and spiedout the landfrom the wildernessof Zinas faras Rehob,at Lebo-hamath.
Now when Toikingof Hamathheardthat Davidhad defeatedallthe armyof Hadadezer,
Concerning Damascus."Hamathand Arpadare putto shame,For they have heardbadnews;They are disheartened.There is anxietyby the sea,It cannotbe calmed.
Then they capturedthe kingand broughthim up to the kingof Babylonat Riblahin the landof Hamath,and he passedsentenceon him.
Hamath,Berothah,Sibraim,whichis betweenthe borderof Damascusand the borderof Hamath;Hazer-hatticon,whichis by the borderof Hauran.
Gooverto Calnehand look,And gofrom thereto Hamaththe great,Then godownto Gathof the Philistines.Are they betterthanthesekingdoms,Oris their territorygreaterthanyours?
Then the sonsof Israel,the wholecongregation,cameto the wildernessof Zinin the firstmonth;and the peoplestayedat Kadesh.Now Miriamdiedthereand was buriedthere.
for in the wildernessof Zin,during the strifeof the congregation,you rebelledagainstMy commandto treatMe as holybeforetheir eyesat the water."(Theseare the watersof Meribahof Kadeshin the wildernessof Zin.)
They journeyedfrom Ezion-geberand campedin the wildernessof Zin,that is, Kadesh.
You shall drawa linefrom MountHorto the Lebo-hamath,and the terminationof the bordershall be at Zedad;
"They turnedand wentup into the hillcountry,and cameto the valleyof Eshcoland spiedit out.
becauseyou brokefaithwith Me in the midstof the sonsof Israelat the watersof Meribah-kadesh,in the wildernessof Zin,becauseyou did not treatMe as holyin the midstof the sonsof Israel.
and the landof the Gebalite,and allof Lebanon,toward the east,from Baal-gadbelowMountHermonas faras Lebo-hamath.
Now the lotfor the tribeof the sonsof Judahaccording to their familiesreachedthe borderof Edom,southwardto the wildernessof Zinat the extremesouth.
And therewas nooneto deliver[them], becauseit was farfrom Sidonand they hadnodealingswith anyone,and it was in the valleywhichis near Beth-rehob.And they rebuiltthe cityand livedin it.
