Commentaries:
Barnes' Notes
In Exodus 23:23, the limits of the Land of Canaan, strictly so called, are indicated; to this, when the Israelites were about to take possession of it, were added the regions of Gilead and Bashan on the left side of the Jordan Numbers 32:33-42; Joshua 13:29-32. These two portions made up the holy land, of which the limits were recognized, with inconsiderable variations, until the final overthrow of the Jewish polity. But in this verse the utmost extent of Hebrew dominion, as it existed in the time of David and Solomon, is set forth. The kingdom then reached to Eloth and Ezion-geber on the AElanitic Gulf of the Red Sea I Kings 9:26, and to Tiphsah on the "River," that is, the River Euphrates I Kings 4:24, having for its western boundary "the Sea of the Philistines," that is, the Mediterranean, and for its southern boundary "the desert," that is, the wildernesses of Shur and Paran (compare Genesis 15:18; Deuteronomy 1:7; Deuteronomy 11:24; Joshua 1:4).
Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Exodus 23:31:
Leviticus 26:3-45
Deuteronomy 19:1-13
Psalms 72:8
Isaiah 2:6
Isaiah 63:9
Amos 9:7
Micah 7:11-12
Micah 7:11-12
Revelation 9:14
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