Talmud sobre Josué 1:4

The rabbis of Caesarea in the name of Rebbi Ḥanina: The disagreement: (Deut. 11:24) “Any place¹⁶In the masoretic text: כל המקום. כל מקום is in the parallel Jos. 1:3 which cannot be the verse quoted here. your foot will tread on shall be yours,” the general statement contains only the detail¹⁷The full verse reads: Any place your foot will tread on shall be yours, from the prairie and the Lebanon, from the river Euphrates to the Western Sea shall be your border region. It is a hermeneutic principle (Sifra, Introduction, 7) that a general statement followed immediately by a clarification means only what is intended in the clarification. Therefore, “Any place” means only the region described here in general terms and in detail in Num. 34:1–12; “river Euphrates” here can only mean the region of Dura Europos, nearest to the Mediterranean., and following Rebbi Jehudah¹⁸Who defines the Western Sea as the Atlantic Ocean (at the Straits of Gibraltar) rather than the Mediterranean; cf. Ševi‘it 6, Note 93.. They object to Rebbi Jehudah: If this is about the boundaries of the Land of Israel, is there not written: (Jos. 1:4) “From the prairie and this Lebanon up to the great river, the Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites¹⁹The Hittite settlement in the region after the disappearance of the Hittite empire in central Anatolia. and to the great ocean at sunset shall be your borders.” If it²⁰The general statement “any place”. cannot deal with the border regions of the Land of Israel, consider it for the border regions outside the Land²¹That, if conquered, would become part of the Land of Israel.. Then, what David was conquering in Aram of the rivers and Aram Ẓova should be subject to ḥallah! There is a difference, because David was neglecting the border regions of the Land of Israel and conquering the border regions outside the Land²²The Northern part of the Land, the region of Phoenicia, as described in Num. 34:1–12 never was part of David’s empire. Therefore, he was not authorized to conquer the regions East of the promised Land. The argument appears in greater detail in Sifry Deut. 51..