The Limits of Israel’s Inheritance

As has already been pointed out, Canaan, not including the area occupied by the two and a half tribes east of the Jordan, was a small strip of land, approximately 160 miles in length and whose greatest width measured but 40 miles. It extended to the wilderness of Zin on the south, was bordered by the Mediterranean Sea on the West, reached up into the region of the Anti-Lebanon on the north, while its eastern border rested on the north-eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee, skirted this sea and so...