The Mystery of Esau and Ephraim

“I am thy shield … Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the River Euphrates” Genesis 15

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Deuteronomy 3

¹ “Then we turned and went up the way to Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan came out against us, he and all his people, to battle at Edrei. — Og was very powerful, but he did not take warning by the ruin of Sihon, the Amorite, king of Heshbon, and desire conditions of war instead of peace;

— Og the king of Bashan trusted his own strength, and so was hardened to his destruction; those not awakened by the judgements of God on others, ripen for the like judgements on themselves;

— the the king of Bashan, Og, and it people were not one of ten tribes destined to be wiped out; in Genesis 15; but they could be if they have not taken the warning from the destruction of Sihon, the Amorite, king of Heshbon;

— such stubbornness (of king of Bashan, Og, and it people) will be repeated by “Gog and Magog” of Ezekiel 38 and Ezekiel 39

² And the Lord said unto me, ‘Fear him not; for I will deliver him and all his people and his land into thy hand, and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.’ — and the Lord said unto me, Moses; when Og was marching with all his forces against Israel;

— after the defeat of king Sihon king of the Amorites and the conquest of his land, the Israelites were able to advance to the Jordan; and now, the land of Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan.

³ So the Lord our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people; and we smote him until none was left to him remaining. — they smote him at Edrei, the modern Dra, without leaving him even a remnant; and took all his towns;

⁴ And we took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we took not from them: threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan. — “sixty towns, the whole region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.” 

⁵ All these cities were fortified with high walls, gates, and bars, besides unwalled towns a great many. — all these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; literally, double gates and a bar; that is, all the cities in the kingdom of Bashan;

⁶ And we utterly destroyed them, as we did unto Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city. — utterly destroying the men, women, and children, of every city;

⁷ But all the cattle and the spoil of the cities we took for a prey to ourselves. — after the defeat of king Sihon and the conquest of his land, the Israelites were able to advance to the Jordan, and beyond.

⁸ And we took at that time out of the hand of the two kings of the Amorites the land that was on this side of the Jordan, from the River of Arnon unto Mount Hermon — prophecised earlier in Genesis 15 the Amorites were one of ten tribes to be wiped out;

“I am thy shield … Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the River Euphrates:

the Kenites and the Kenizzites and the Kadmonites,

and the Hittites and the Perizzites and the Rephaim,

and the Amorites and the Canaanites and the Girgashites and the Jebusites.” Genesis 15:1,18-21

⁹ (which Hermon the Sidonians call Sirion, and the Amorites call it Senir),

¹⁰ all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salchah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

¹¹ For only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron. (Is it not in Rabbath of the children of Ammon?) Nine cubits was the length thereof and four cubits the breadth of it, according to the cubit of a man. — only Og king of Bashan remained of the remnant of giants; namely, in those parts; for there were other giants among the Philistines, and elsewhere.

¹² “And this land, which we possessed at that time, from Aroer, which is by the River Arnon, and half Mount Gilead and the cities thereof, gave I unto the Reubenites and to the Gadites. — and half Mount Gilead, and the cities thereof: which were taken from Og king of Bashan, Deuteronomy 3:10

— and God gave it unto the Reubenites, and to the Gadites; at their request, on certain conditions to be performed by them, afterwards repeated.

¹³ And the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave I unto the halftribe of Manasseh: all the region of Argob, with all Bashan, which was called the land of giants. — after the cubit of a man; that is, after the usual and ordinary cubit, taking 18 inches to the cubit, the bedstead or sarcophagus would thus be from thirteen to fourteen feet long.

¹⁴ Jair the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob unto the borders of Geshuri and Maachathi, and called them after his own name, Bashanhavothjair, unto this day.

¹⁵ And I gave Gilead unto Machir. — and I gave Gilead unto Machir, the son of Manasseh; not to him personally, who cannot be thought to have been living at this time, but to his posterity;

¹⁶ And unto the Reubenites and unto the Gadites I gave from Gilead even unto the River Arnon half the valley, and the border even unto the River Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon;

¹⁷ the plain also, and the Jordan and the border thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the plain, even the Salt Sea, under Pisgah eastward. — the Sea of Galilee received the name of Sea of Chinnereth: Numbers 34:11;  the Salt Sea is today the Dead Sea;

¹⁸ “And I commanded you at that time, saying, ‘The Lord your God hath given you this land to possess it. Ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all who are meet for the war. — all that are meet for the war; that is, the Reubenites and Gadites should pass over Jordan with the rest of the tribes, being armed to assist them in the conquest of Canaan;

¹⁹ But your wives and your little ones and your cattle (for I know that ye have much cattle) shall abide in your cities which I have given you, — the wives and their little ones and the cattle of Reubenites and Gadites to remain behind;

²⁰ until the Lord shall have given rest unto your brethren as well as unto you, and until they also possess the land which the Lord your God hath given them beyond the Jordan; and then shall ye return every man unto his possession which I have given you.’ — until the Lord have given rest unto your brethren, as well as unto you; rest from their enemies, and habitations to dwell quietly in; so the land of Canaan is called a rest;

²¹ And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, ‘Thine eyes have seen all that the Lord your God hath done unto these two kings; so shall the Lord do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest. — saying, thine eyes have seen all that the Lord your God hath done unto these two kings; Sihon and Og; how their kingdoms were taken from them, and given to Israel, and they slain with the sword;

²² Ye shall not fear them, for the Lord your God He shall fight for you.’ — for the Lord your God he shall fight for you; as he did, particularly at Jericho, the walls of which city fell at the sound of rams’ horns;

— and at Gibeon, when he cast down hailstones on their enemies, and more were slain by them than with the sword; and in all their battles it was he that gave them success and victory;

²³ “And I besought the Lord at that time, saying,

²⁴ ‘O Lord God, Thou hast begun to show Thy servant Thy greatness and Thy mighty hand; for what God is there in heaven or in earth who can do according to Thy works and according to Thy might?

²⁵ I pray Thee, let me go over and see the good land that is beyond the Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.’ — Let me go over; for he supposed God’s threat might be conditional and reversible, as many others were;

²⁶ But the Lord was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me. And the Lord said unto me: ‘Let it suffice thee: speak no more unto Me of this matter. — and would not hear me; now, and grant the above request, having before declared that he and Aaron should not bring the people of Israel into the land he had given them;

— speak no more unto me of this matter; decided it would be in vain, and to no purpose, to solicit such a favour, since it would never be granted;

²⁷ Get thee up onto the top of Pisgah, and lift up thine eyes westward and northward and southward and eastward, and behold it with thine eyes; for thou shalt not go over this Jordan. — for thou shall not go over this Jordan; into the land of Canaan;

— this affair, of not being suffered to enter there, Moses frequently takes notice of, no less than four or five times, it being what lay near his heart.

²⁸ But charge Joshua, and encourage him and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.’ — he shall go over; it was not Moses, but Joshua, a type of Christ, that was to cross the Jordan and to give the people rest;

²⁹ So we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor. — so we abode in the valley over against Bethpeor; Moses’ burial-place, as appears by Deuteronomy 34:6 “And the Lord buried him in a valley in the land of Moab, over against Bethpeor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.”

Deuteronomy 4

¹ “Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments which I teach you to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you.

— hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you; by statutes were meant all ordinances respecting religion and the rites of divine worship; and by judgments, and enactments to all matters.

² Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish aught from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you. — Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you; make new laws of their own, and join them to the law of God, and set them upon a level with it, or prefer them before it; as the Scribes and Pharisees did in Christ’s time;

— nor abrogate nor detract from the law of God, nor make void any part of it; neither do that which is forbidden, nor neglect that which is commanded; neither be guilty of sins of omission nor commission;

— that the Law was tampered with in Josiah’s day is implied in Jeremiah 8:8, the false pen of the scribes has wrought falsehood.

³ Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baalpeor; for all the men who followed Baalpeor, the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you. — your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baalpeor;

— because of the idolatry the people of Israel fell into by worshipping that idol, being drawn into it by the daughters of Moab and Midian, through the counsel of Balaam, with whom they committed fornication; which led them to the other sin, and both highly provoking to God.

⁴ But ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day. — but ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God; to the worship of the Lord your God, as the Targum of Jonathan says;

— attended the service of the sanctuary, were observant of the laws of God, and walked in his statutes and judgements; did not apostatize from him by idolatry or otherwise, but kept close unto him;

⁵ Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.

— Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the Lord my God commanded me, Moses; and he had faithfully delivered them, without adding them, or diminishing from them, and had diligently instructed the Israelites in them, had taken pains to lead them into a thorough knowledge and understanding them;

⁶ Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations who shall hear all these statutes, and say, ‘Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.’ — which hear all these statutes; which they had a report, got knowledge of by some of the philosophers who travelled into those parts, and by the translation of the Bible into other languages;

— and say, surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people; that had such a body of laws, in which they were instructed, and according to which they were governed, and in which they walked; that were sensible to reason, truth, justice, and equity; insomuch that so far as they became known they were admired and copied after, by all peoples; and hence it was that the oracle declared;

⁷ For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon Him for? — for this mighty and attractive force of the wisdom of Israel consisted in the fact, that in Yehovah they have a God who was at hand with his help when they called upon him;

⁸ And what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous as all this law which I set before you this day? — what nation is there so great, that hath statutes and judgments so righteous? these words are directing our attention to the laws and statutes “of Moses,” but actually laws and statutes of God already given at Mount Sinai.

⁹ “Only take heed to thyself and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; but teach them to thy sons and thy sons’ sons, — and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life; out of thy mind and memory, and have no place in thy affections, through a neglect and disuse of them;

— but teach them thy sons, and thy sons’ sons; their children and grandchildren, that they may be trained up in them in their youth, and so not depart from them when grown up, and in years; Deuteronomy 6:7.

¹⁰ especially the day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said unto me, ‘Gather Me the people together, and I will make them hear My words, that they may learn to fear Me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.’ — in Horeb; these words confirms these laws and statutes “of Moses,” were actually laws and statutes of God given at Mount Sinai, verse 8 above.

¹¹ And ye came near and stood under the mountain; and the mountain burned with fire unto the midst of heaven, with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness. — and the mountain burnt with fire unto the midst of heaven; the flame and smoke went up into the middle of the air;

— with darkness, clouds, and thick darkness; which thick darkness was occasioned partly by the smoke, which went up like the smoke of a furnace, and partly by the thick clouds, which were on the mount, and covered the face of the heavens;

¹² And the Lord spoke unto you out of the midst of the fire. Ye heard the voice of the words, but saw no similitude; only ye heard a voice. — and the Lord spake unto you out of the midst of the fire; for the Lord descended on Mount Sinai in a cloud, in fire, and was in the thick darkness, from whence he delivered out the his laws and statutes;

¹³ And He declared unto you His covenant, which He commanded you to perform, even Ten Commandments; and He wrote them upon two tablets of stone. — which he commanded you to perform, even the ten commandments; which is in Exodus 20:1, and in this book repeated, Deuteronomy 5:6; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone;

— and he wrote them upon two tables of stone; to denote the durableness of them; the Targum of Jonathan says on tables of sapphire;

¹⁴ And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it. — that ye may do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it; the land of Canaan, which was on the other side of Jordan, and over which they must go in order to possess it;

¹⁵ “Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves (for ye saw no manner of similitude on the day that the Lord spoke unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire), — take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves, as to keep all the laws given them, so particularly to avoid idolatry;

¹⁶ lest ye corrupt yourselves and make you a graven image: the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female, — the likeness of male or female; of a man or a woman; so some of the heathen deities were in the likeness of men, as Jupiter, Mars, Hercules, Apollo, and others in the likeness of women, as Juno, Diana, Venus;

¹⁷ the likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air, — the heathen nations did represent and worship God, some by an ox, some by a goat, or a hen, or a serpent, or a fish;

¹⁸ the likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth; — the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth; as the crocodile and hippopotamus, or river horse, by the Egyptians; and Dagon among the Phoenicians;

¹⁹ and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath imparted unto all nations under the whole heaven. — nor the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them;

²⁰ But the Lord hath taken you and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto Him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day. — the furnace wherein iron and other metals are melted, to which Egypt is fitly compared, which they there endured, but also because they were thoroughly tried and purged thereby, as metals are by the fire.

²¹ Furthermore the Lord was angry with me for your sakes, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance. — which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance; to them and to their children after them.

²² But I must die in this land, I must not go over the Jordan; but ye shall go over and possess that good land. — I must not go over Jordan; this he repeats, as lying near his heart; he had earnestly solicited to go over, but was denied it.

²³ Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord your God which He made with you, and make yourselves a graven image or the likeness of any thing which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee. — lest you forget the covenant of the Lord your God; lest you either disregard the knowledge of God’s law, or wilfully disobey it;

²⁴ For the Lord thy God is a consuming fire, even a jealous God. — a consuming fire; when God spoke to Israel at Sinai, his glory appeared “like devouring (consuming) fire on the top of the mount” (Exodus 24:17); and in allusion to this Moses here calls God “a consuming fire.”

— for the Lord thy God is a consuming fire; to his enemies; his wrath is like fire to burn up and destroy all that oppose him and break his commands, and especially idolaters; whose sin of all others is the most provoking to him, since it strikes at his being, his honour and glory;

— even a jealous God; who is jealous of his honour in matters of worship, and will not suffer his glory to be given to another, nor his praise to graven images, without resenting it or punishing for it.

²⁵ “When thou shalt beget children and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God to provoke Him to anger, — and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger; that sin of breaking his laws, statutes and judgements, that God provoking sin, is chiefly intended.

²⁶ I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over the Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed. — that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over Jordan to possess it; though they were now about to go over Jordan and inherit the land of Canaan;

— yet they would not enjoy it long, but be taken and carried captive out of it; as the ten tribes were by Shalmaneser king of Assyria, and the two tribes by Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and both for breaking his laws, statutes and judgements, their idolatry and other crimes.

²⁷ And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen whither the Lord shall lead you. — and ye shall be left few in number among the nations, whither the Lord shall lead you;

— or so few that they might be easily numbered; that it should be better when in Egypt; there they were multiplied and increased the more they were afflicted, but in these new captivities they should be greatly diminished.

²⁸ And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men’s hands, wood and stone, which neither see nor hear nor eat nor smell. — their people, kings and priests, serving other gods:

— a) and the house of Israel is indulging in idolatry; worshipping Easter, which is another form of worshipping Astarte, one of the titles of the Chaldean goddess, the queen of heaven, the ancient Mesopotamian goddess of war, fertility and sex. She is featured in the Epic of Gilgamesh, and the “Ishtar Gate” was part of Babylon;

— b) and Mithra or Mitra (the Sun-God whose birthday drunkards honor and celebrate on December 25th which they christianised as Christmas), Zeus and others; called “gods of the earth” in distinction from the god of heaven; and men shall worship these earthly gods, acknowledging their supremacy, Protestants or Catholics alike;

— and those who persist in their blindness will be more than horsewhipped! They would suffer Judgement by the sword, by famine, by pestilence and spending years in captivity to reflect and repent there (for more see Ezekiel 4 – 190/40 Years and A Sword from the South!)

²⁹ But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find Him, if thou seek Him with all thy heart and with all thy soul. — if they seek him with all their heart and with all their soul; keeping his laws, statutes and judgements, sincerely and affectionately; —

³⁰ When thou art in tribulation and all these things have come upon thee, even in the latter days, if thou turn to the Lord thy God and shalt be obedient unto His voice — this is a prophecy then in general; and in succeeding ages and generations, and “in the latter days”

³¹ (for the Lord thy God is a merciful God), He will not forsake thee, neither destroy thee, nor forget the covenant of thy fathers which He swore unto them.

— he will not forsake thee; though in a strange country, but bring them from thence into their own land again, and favour them with his gracious presence in his house and ordinances; for more, see Another “Out of Egypt” Exodus;

³² “For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? — and ask from the one side of heaven to the other; traverse the whole globe, and examine the records of every nation in it in both hemispheres:

— whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it? whether they can give any account of anything seen, heard, or done like what follows; suggesting that they cannot furnish out an instance to be mentioned with it.

³³ Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live? — did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of fire; none ever heard the voice of God as they did, much less speaking such words as they heard, and still less out of the midst of fire;

— as thou hast heard, and live? which was stranger still, when they might have expected they should, and doubtless feared they would be, as it was wonderful they were not, consumed by it.

³⁴ Or hath God deigned to go and take Him a nation from the midst of another nation by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

— and by great terrors; which the same writer interprets of the drowning of Pharaoh and his host in the sea, and dividing it for Israel; but may be understood not only of the terrors which possessed him and his people then, but at other times, especially at the time of the thunder and lightning, and when they sat in thick darkness, and particularly when all their firstborn were slain; see Deuteronomy 26:8,

— according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes; among the men of Egypt, as the above writer, Pharaoh and his courtiers: the above things were done as before them for their terror, so before Israel for their encouragement.

³⁵ Unto thee it was shown, that thou mightest know that the Lord He is God: there is none else besides Him. — that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God, there is none else besides him; that he is the one only living and true God, and there is no other;

³⁶ Out of heaven He made thee to hear His voice, that He might instruct thee; and upon earth He showed thee His great fire, and thou heardest His words out of the midst of the fire. — those who call upon God, shall certainly find him within call, ready to give an answer to every prayer; all these statutes and judgements are just and righteous, above the statutes and judgments of any of the nations.

³⁷ And because He loved thy fathers, therefore He chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in His sight with His mighty power out of Egypt — and because he loved thy fathers; not their immediate fathers, whose carcasses fell in the wilderness, and entered not into the good land because of their unbelief, but their more remote fathers or ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob;

³⁸ to drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou art, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as it is this day.

— to drive out nations from before thee, greater and mightier than thou art; the seven nations of the land of Canaan, which were more in number and mightier in power and strength than they, and particularly the Amorites, who were already driven out and dispossessed of their country, even the kingdoms and nations of Sihon and Og;

³⁹ Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord He is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath: there is none else. — in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath; that he has made both, and is the possessor and Lord of them, and does what he pleases with them;

⁴⁰ Thou shalt keep therefore His statutes and His commandments which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for ever.”

— thou shall keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments; all his laws, ceremonial and judicial, partly being under obligation to him for all the great and good things done by him for them before enumerated, and partly and chiefly because he is the Lord God in heaven and in earth, and has a right to command and ought to be obeyed;

⁴¹ Then Moses set apart three cities on this side of the Jordan toward the sunrising,— Moses set apart three cities east of Jordan as asylums who unwittingly and without previous hatred had slain their fellows

⁴² that the slayer might flee thither who should kill his neighbor unawares, and hated him not in times past, and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live, — which should kill his neighbour unawares; by accident to him, without any design and intention to kill him; ignorantly,

⁴³ namely: Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country of the Reubenites, and Ramoth in Gilead of the Gadites, and Golan in Bashan of the Manassites.

⁴⁴ And this is the law which Moses set before the children of Israel.

⁴⁵ These are the testimonies and the statutes and the judgements which Moses spoke unto the children of Israel after they came forth out of Egypt, — the law, testimonies, statutes and judgements; all to be observed; this is a preface to the rehearsal of the law,

⁴⁶ on this side of the Jordan in the valley opposite Bethpeor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote after they had come forth out of Egypt. — on this side Jordan, in the valley, over against Bethpeor, where the Israelites abode some time; Deuteronomy 3:29,

⁴⁷ And they possessed his land and the land of Og king of Bashan, two kings of the Amorites, who were on this side of the Jordan toward the sunrising, — the land of Og king of Bashan; seized upon and took them as their own, and divided them for an inheritance among two and half tribes;

— two kings of the Amorites; which is more than once mentioned, that it might be taken notice of that these were of the nations of the Canaanites Israel were to root out, and possess their land;

⁴⁸ from Aroer, which is by the bank of the River Arnon, even unto Mount Sion, which is Hermon,

⁴⁹ and all the plain on this side of the Jordan eastward, even unto the sea of the plain, under the springs of Pisgah. — and all the plain on this side Jordan eastward; the plains of Moab, on that side of Jordan to the east: even unto the sea of the plain; the sea of Sodom, the salt sea: under the springs of Pisgah.

~ by Japheth on April 14, 2024.

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