"The south side, toward the South, [shall be] from Tamar to the waters of Meribah by Kadesh, along the brook to the Great Sea. [This is] the south side, toward the South.

Then some came and told Jehoshaphat, saying, "A great multitude is coming against you from beyond the sea, from Syria; and they are in Hazazon Tamar" (which [is] En Gedi).

Then the children of Israel, the whole congregation, came into the Wilderness of Zin in the first month, and the people stayed in Kadesh; and Miriam died there and was buried there.

This [was] the water of Meribah, because the children of Israel contended with the LORD, and He was hallowed among them.

They angered [Him] also at the waters of strife, So that it went ill with Moses on account of them;

On the same day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying: "To your descendants I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the River Euphrates --

'the border shall turn from Azmon to the Brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the Sea.

"from Sihor, which [is] east of Egypt, as far as the border of Ekron northward ([which] is counted as Canaanite); the five lords of the Philistines -- the Gazites, the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites;

And it shall come to pass in that day [That] the LORD will thresh, From the channel of the River to the Brook of Egypt; And you will be gathered one by one, O you children of Israel.

"This [shall be] the border of the land on the north: from the Great Sea, [by] the road to Hethlon, as one goes to Zedad,

"The south side, toward the South, [shall be] from Tamar to the waters of Meribah by Kadesh, along the brook to the Great Sea. [This is] the south side, toward the South.

"The west side [shall be] the Great Sea, from the [southern] boundary until one comes to a point opposite Hamath. This [is] the west side.