1 Chronicles 5:23 -
Baal-hermon , etc. These three names need scarcely be read as different names for exactly the same region, but as designating different sides or heights of what was essentially one and the same well-known mountain district, with which would agree Psalms 43:1-5 :6, "Therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan and of the Hermonites , from the hill Mizar.' So Deuteronomy 3:8-10 tells us that Hermon was called Sirion by the Sidonians; Shenir, i.q. Senir ( שְׂנִיר , exactly the same word in the Hebrew text in all the four places of its occurrence —So Deuteronomy 4:8 ; Ezekiel 27:5 ), by the Amorites. And the suggestion of Grove is likely enough, that Baal-hermon was the Phoenician cast of the name. If any point were to be gained by reading the names, however, as intended to cover exactly the same tract, it may be noted
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