“Adjoining the territory
Of Gad,
To the south,
The boundary shall run
From Tamar
To the waters
Of Meribath-kadesh.
From there
It shall run
Along the Brook of Egypt
To the Great Sea.”
Somehow the territory of Gad was in the south. Now we have the southern borders of Israel just as it was described in the preceding chapter. This southern border in Numbers, chapter 34 was also vague. Here the border goes almost to Egypt, to the great sea, or the Mediterranean Sea. Tamar was the start of this southeast border. Meribath-kadesh was in the wilderness of Zin, south of the Dead Sea.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 