A very hopeful poem of God’s goodness to come. (Spoiler alert – it’s through Jesus Christ.) If you have ever felt down and out and long for when God will make it all right, this poem will make you smile.
Canaan is the land of Israel before Israel conquers it (and so it is a land of pagans). The Jordan River is what the Jews have to cross to get there.
It is a skin disease, but it has significance beyond that, even to the New Testament.
Before a temple (of stone) existed, priests of Israel worshiped in a portable building (with a portable fence) called the tabernacle.