or River of Egypt. 2p 



were of old the Inhahitants of the Land^ as thou goeft to Shur, 

 even unto the Land of Egypt : thefe Tribes, I fliy, muft lye 

 to the Weftward of Gerar and Kadeflj, even as far as Egypt. 

 The S. W. Border then of the Tribe of Judah would reach be- 

 yond, t. e. to the Southward of the Northern Extremity of the 

 Heroopol'itk Gulf of the Red Sea, and thereby take in no finall 

 V^no^ ^rabiaTetr^aj or ofthe Southern Divili on of the Land 

 ofEdo?n. And then again, as the Tribe of Judah was to pof- 

 fefs all Gojhen and all the Land of the Th'tlifiines ; (which St. 

 Jerom, inLoc.Hebr. extends even as far as Eloth,) theirWeftern 

 Border would thereby contain the whole or the greateft Part 

 of what was called afterwards the Eaftern Edsm or Idumceay 

 and muft therefore, of Courfe, fall in with the Kile. The Nile 

 therefore, confidered in this View and Situation ; either with 

 Regard to the Barrennefs of the Country of the Th'tl'i [lines ; or 

 to the Eaftern Pofition of it with refpeft to thQEandofTro- 

 mife or elfe of the River Euphrates \ may, with Propriety- 

 enough, be called, as it is m^mos 6. 14.. r\'2r\vr\ Sm [^Nahal 

 Harabah'\ The Rker of the fFildernefs, as we tranflate it, or 

 the Weflern Torrent, ■)^n^, '^' ^<^i^h as it is rendered by the 

 LXX. 



For it may be proper here to obferve, that the LXX. in their ^^j^j^^^j^^^^^ 

 Interpretation of nnnjr (^rbah) no lefs than ofSihor and Nahal^''"'^^ i- «• 



^ t 1- ^'ver of 



Mitzraim, do not always keep to the fame Terms. In the'^^ wuder- 



yteCs or tli6 



Textjuft now cited and elfewhere ', it isrendredeVj ShafxZf, ^Umjem m- 

 Shar/itli &c. In z Chron. 33. 14,. for Arbah, we have a-jro \Q>i, jcar* 

 voTov; and, in 1 Chron. "t^i. ^o. ©fos aiC*. In thefe Texts, and 

 in I Chron. 16. 30. our Tranflators have underftood Arbah, as 

 denoting a Situation to the Weftward; but in others, they 

 tranflate it the Tlam\ and in Deut. 11. 30. the Champion \ 

 taking it, as we may prefume, for fome of the more level Por- 

 tions of what feems to be called, in general, ( innD Midbar) 

 The Wildernefs. Thus the Arbah ' or Plain, which is men- 

 tioned T>eut. I. I. to be over-againftthei?6'<i5e'^, (viz. 2XShur, 



1 Numb. 2.1. I. and 33. 48,49, jo. and ^6. 13. Deut. I. I. and 11. 30. Jojl].^. 10. Ii. 

 l5. z Sam. 2. 29. and 4. 7. 



2 HDIl' Talem locum feu terroe partem fignlficat, quje neque montofa eft, neque de- 

 clivis fed plana. Aibitror a mixtura dici, h. e. mixto lapore pabuli quod in eo crefcit & 

 jumcntis conveniens eft & gratiim, qux acidis deledancur. Sunt enim ejufmodi campeftria 

 non melliflua, ficut funt valles vel colles, nee plane fterilia, qualia funt loca afpera & de- 

 lerta, fed ubi fAyjMt. crefcit, id quod Efaias »*>an 'j'Sj Migma acetofum vocat Cap. 30. 22. 

 Vid. C. Kinh. in voce TM")};- 



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