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<div2 id="Jos.xix" n="xix" next="Jos.xx" prev="Jos.xviii" progress="7.99%" title="Chapter XVIII">
<h2 id="Jos.xix-p0.1">J O S H U A</h2>
<h3 id="Jos.xix-p0.2">CHAP. XVIII.</h3>
<p class="intro" id="Jos.xix-p1">In this chapter we have, I. The setting up of the
tabernacle at Shiloh, <scripRef id="Jos.xix-p1.1" osisRef="Bible:Josh.18.1" parsed="|Josh|18|1|0|0" passage="Jos 18:1">ver.
1</scripRef>. II. The stirring up of the seven tribes that were yet
unsettled to look after their lot, and the putting of them in a
method for it, by Joshua, <scripRef id="Jos.xix-p1.2" osisRef="Bible:Josh.18.2-Josh.18.7" parsed="|Josh|18|2|18|7" passage="Jos 18:2-7">ver.
2-7</scripRef>. III. The distributing of the land into seven lots,
by certain men employed for that purpose, <scripRef id="Jos.xix-p1.3" osisRef="Bible:Josh.18.8-Josh.18.9" parsed="|Josh|18|8|18|9" passage="Jos 18:8,9">ver. 8, 9</scripRef>. IV. The determining of these
seven portions to the seven tribes yet unprovided for by lot,
<scripRef id="Jos.xix-p1.4" osisRef="Bible:Josh.18.10" parsed="|Josh|18|10|0|0" passage="Jos 18:10">ver. 10</scripRef>. V. The particular
lot of the tribe of Benjamin, the borders of it, <scripRef id="Jos.xix-p1.5" osisRef="Bible:Josh.18.11-Josh.18.20" parsed="|Josh|18|11|18|20" passage="Jos 18:11-20">ver. 11-20</scripRef>. And the cities contained in
it, <scripRef id="Jos.xix-p1.6" osisRef="Bible:Josh.18.21-Josh.18.28" parsed="|Josh|18|21|18|28" passage="Jos 18:21-28">ver. 21-28</scripRef>. The
other six tribes we shall find well provided for in the <!-- <a href="MHC06019.HTM" id="Jos.xix-p1.7"> -->next chapter<!-- </a> -->.</p>
<scripCom id="Jos.xix-p0.1_1" osisRef="Bible:Josh.18" parsed="|Josh|18|0|0|0" passage="Jos 18" type="Commentary"/>
<scripCom id="Jos.xix-p0.2_1" osisRef="Bible:Josh.18.1" parsed="|Josh|18|1|0|0" passage="Jos 18:1" type="Commentary"/><div class="Commentary" id="Bible:Josh.18.1">
<h4 id="Jos.xix-p1.10">The Tabernacle at Shiloh. (<span class="smallcaps" id="Jos.xix-p1.11">b. c.</span> 1444.)</h4>
<p class="passage" id="Jos.xix-p2">1 And the whole congregation of the children of
Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of
the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Jos.xix-p3">In the midst of the story of the dividing
of the land comes in this account of the setting up of the
tabernacle, which had hitherto continued in its old place in the
centre of their camp; but now that three of the four squadrons that
used to surround it in the wilderness were broken and diminished,
those of Judah, Ephraim, and Reuben, by the removal of those tribes
to their respective possessions, and that of Dan only remained
entire, it was time to think of removing the tabernacle itself into
a city. Many a time the priests and Levites had taken it down,
carried it, and set it up again in the wilderness, according to the
directions given them (<scripRef id="Jos.xix-p3.1" osisRef="Bible:Num.4.5-Num.4.33" parsed="|Num|4|5|4|33" passage="Nu 4:5-33">Num. iv.
5</scripRef>, &amp;c.); but now they must do it for good and all,
not one of the stakes thereof must any more be removed, nor any of
the cords thereof broken, <scripRef id="Jos.xix-p3.2" osisRef="Bible:Isa.33.20" parsed="|Isa|33|20|0|0" passage="Isa 33:20">Isa.
xxxiii. 20</scripRef>. Observe,</p>
<p class="indent" id="Jos.xix-p4">I. The place to which the tabernacle was
removed, and in which it was set up. It was <i>Shiloh,</i> a city
in the lot of Ephraim, but lying close upon the lot of Benjamin.
Doubtless God himself did some way or other direct them to this
place, for he had promised to <i>choose the place</i> where he
would make <i>his name to dwell,</i> <scripRef id="Jos.xix-p4.1" osisRef="Bible:Deut.12.11" parsed="|Deut|12|11|0|0" passage="De 12:11">Deut. xii. 11</scripRef>. It is most probable God made
known his mind in this matter by the judgment of Urim. This place
was pitched upon, 1. Because it was in the heart of the country,
nearer the centre than Jerusalem was, and therefore the more
convenient for the meeting of all Israel there from the several
parts of the country; it had been in the midst of their camp in the
wilderness, and therefore must now be in the midst of their nation,
as that which sanctified the whole, and was <i>the glory in the
midst of them.</i> See <scripRef id="Jos.xix-p4.2" osisRef="Bible:Ps.46.5" parsed="|Ps|46|5|0|0" passage="Ps 46:5">Ps. xlvi.
5</scripRef>. 2. Because it was in the lot of that tribe of which
Joshua was, who was now their chief magistrate, and it would be
both for his honour and convenience and for the advantage of the
country to have it near him. The testimony of Israel and the
thrones of judgment do well together, <scripRef id="Jos.xix-p4.3" osisRef="Bible:Ps.122.4-Ps.122.5" parsed="|Ps|122|4|122|5" passage="Ps 122:4,5">Ps. cxxii. 4, 5</scripRef>. 3. Some think there was an
eye to the name of the place, <i>Shiloh</i> being the name by which
the Messiah was known in dying Jacob's prophecy (<scripRef id="Jos.xix-p4.4" osisRef="Bible:Gen.49.10" parsed="|Gen|49|10|0|0" passage="Ge 49:10">Gen. xlix. 10</scripRef>), which prophecy, no doubt, was
well known among the Jews; the setting up of the tabernacle in
Shiloh gave them a hint that in that Shiloh whom Jacob spoke of all
the ordinances of this worldly sanctuary should have their
accomplishment in a greater and more perfect tabernacle, <scripRef id="Jos.xix-p4.5" osisRef="Bible:Heb.9.1 Bible:Heb.9.11" parsed="|Heb|9|1|0|0;|Heb|9|11|0|0" passage="Heb 9:1,11">Heb. ix. 1, 11</scripRef>. And Dr. Lightfoot
thinks that the place where the tabernacle was set up was therefore
called <i>Shiloh,</i> because of the peaceableness of the land at
this time; as afterwards in Salem was his temple, which also
signifies <i>peaceable.</i></p>
<p class="indent" id="Jos.xix-p5">II. The solemn manner of doing it: <i>The
whole congregation assembled together</i> to attend the solemnity,
to do honour to the ark of God, as the token of his presence, and
to bid it welcome to its settlement. Every Israelite was interested
in it, and therefore all testified their joy and satisfaction upon
this occasion. See <scripRef id="Jos.xix-p5.1" osisRef="Bible:2Sam.6.15" parsed="|2Sam|6|15|0|0" passage="2Sa 6:15">2 Sam. vi.
15</scripRef>. It is probable those tribes that were yet encamped
when the tabernacle was removed to Shiloh decamped from Gilgal and
pitched about Shiloh, for every true Israelite will desire to fix
where God's tabernacle fixed. Mention is made, on this occasion, of
the land being subdued before them, to intimate that the country,
hereabouts at least, being thoroughly reduced, they met with no
opposition, nor were they apprehensive of any danger, but thought
it time to make this grateful acknowledgment of God's goodness to
them in the constant series of successes with which he had blessed
them. It was a good presage of a comfortable settlement to
themselves in Canaan, when their first care was to see the ark well
settled as soon as they had a safe place ready to settle it in.
Here the ark continued about 300 years, till the sins of Eli's
house forfeited the ark, lost it and ruined Shiloh, and its ruins
were long after made use of as warnings to Jerusalem. <i>Go, see
what I did to Shiloh,</i> <scripRef id="Jos.xix-p5.2" osisRef="Bible:Jer.7.12 Bible:Ps.78.60" parsed="|Jer|7|12|0|0;|Ps|78|60|0|0" passage="Jer 7:12,Ps 78:60">Jer. vii. 12; Ps. lxxviii. 60</scripRef>.</p>
</div><scripCom id="Jos.xix-p0.3" osisRef="Bible:Josh.18.2-Josh.18.10" parsed="|Josh|18|2|18|10" passage="Jos 18:2-10" type="Commentary"/><div class="Commentary" id="Bible:Josh.18.2-Josh.18.10">
<h4 id="Jos.xix-p5.4">Joshua Reproves the Unsettled
Tribes. (<span class="smallcaps" id="Jos.xix-p5.5">b. c.</span> 1444.)</h4>
<p class="passage" id="Jos.xix-p6">  2 And there remained among the children
of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their
inheritance.   3 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel,
How long <i>are</i> ye slack to go to possess the land, which the
<span class="smallcaps" id="Jos.xix-p6.1">Lord</span> God of your fathers hath given
you?   4 Give out from among you three men for <i>each</i>
tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through
the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and
they shall come <i>again</i> to me.   5 And they shall divide
it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their coast on the south,
and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north.
  6 Ye shall therefore describe the land <i>into</i> seven
parts, and bring <i>the description</i> hither to me, that I may
cast lots for you here before the <span class="smallcaps" id="Jos.xix-p6.2">Lord</span> our God.   7 But the Levites have no
part among you; for the priesthood of the <span class="smallcaps" id="Jos.xix-p6.3">Lord</span> <i>is</i> their inheritance: and Gad, and
Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their
inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of
the <span class="smallcaps" id="Jos.xix-p6.4">Lord</span> gave them.   8 And the
men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went to
describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and
describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for
you before the <span class="smallcaps" id="Jos.xix-p6.5">Lord</span> in Shiloh.
  9 And the men went and passed through the land, and
described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came
<i>again</i> to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.   10 And Joshua
cast lots for them in Shiloh before the <span class="smallcaps" id="Jos.xix-p6.6">Lord</span>: and there Joshua divided the land unto the
children of Israel according to their divisions.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Jos.xix-p7">Here, I. Joshua reproves those tribes which
were yet unsettled that they did not bestir themselves to gain a
settlement in the land which God had given them. Seven tribes were
yet unprovided for, though sure of an inheritance, yet uncertain
where it should be, and it seems in no great care about it,
<scripRef id="Jos.xix-p7.1" osisRef="Bible:Josh.18.2" parsed="|Josh|18|2|0|0" passage="Jos 18:2"><i>v.</i> 2</scripRef>. And with them
Joshua reasons (<scripRef id="Jos.xix-p7.2" osisRef="Bible:Josh.18.3" parsed="|Josh|18|3|0|0" passage="Jos 18:3"><i>v.</i>
3</scripRef>): <i>How long are you slack?</i> 1. They were too well
pleased with their present condition, liked well enough to live in
a body together, the more the merrier, and, like the
Babel-builders, had no mind to be scattered abroad and break good
company. The spoil of the cities they had taken served them to live
plentifully upon for the present, and they banished the thoughts of
time to come. Perhaps the tribes of Judah and Joseph, who had
already received their inheritance in the countries next adjoining,
were generous in entertaining their brethren who were yet
unprovided for, so that they went from one good house to another
among their friends, with which, instead of grudging that they were
postponed, they were so well pleased that they cared not for going
to houses of their own. 2. They were slothful and dilatory. It may
be they wished the thing done, but had not spirit to stir in it, or
move towards the doing of it, though it was so much for their own
advantage; like the sluggard, that <i>hides his hand in his bosom,
and it grieves him to bring it to his mouth again.</i> The
countries that remained to be divided lay at a distance, and some
parts of them in the hands of the Canaanites. If they go to take
possession of them, the cities must be rebuilt or repaired, they
must drive their flocks and herds a great way, and carry their
wives and children to strange places, and this will not be done
without care and pains, and breaking through some hardships; thus
<i>he that observes the wind shall not sow, and he that regards the
clouds shall not reap,</i> <scripRef id="Jos.xix-p7.3" osisRef="Bible:Eccl.11.4" parsed="|Eccl|11|4|0|0" passage="Ec 11:4">Eccl. xi.
4</scripRef>. Note, Many are diverted from real duties, and
debarred from real comforts, by seeming difficulties. God by his
grace has given us a title to a good land, the heavenly Canaan, but
we are <i>slack to take possession;</i> we enter not into that
rest, as we might by faith, and hope, and holy joy; we live not in
heaven, as we might by setting our affections on things above and
having our conversation there. How long shall it be thus with us?
How long shall we thus stand in our own light, and <i>forsake our
own mercies</i> for lying vanities? Joshua was sensible of the
inconveniences of this delay, that, while they neglected to take
possession of the land that was conquered, the Canaanites were
recovering strength and spirit, and fortifying themselves in the
places that were yet in their hands, which would make the total
expulsion of them the more difficult. They would lose their
advantages by not following their blow; and therefore, <i>as an
eagle stirreth up her nest,</i> so Joshua stirs them up to take
possession of their lot. He is ready to do his part, if they will
but do theirs.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Jos.xix-p8">II. He puts them in a way to settle
themselves.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Jos.xix-p9">1. The land that remained must be surveyed,
an account taken of the cities, and the territories belonging to
them, <scripRef id="Jos.xix-p9.1" osisRef="Bible:Josh.18.4" parsed="|Josh|18|4|0|0" passage="Jos 18:4"><i>v.</i> 4</scripRef>. These
must be divided into seven equal parts, as near as they could guess
at their true value, which they must have an eye to, and not merely
to the number of the cities and extent of the country. Judah is
fixed on the south and Joseph on the north of Shiloh, to protect
the tabernacle (<scripRef id="Jos.xix-p9.2" osisRef="Bible:Josh.18.5" parsed="|Josh|18|5|0|0" passage="Jos 18:5"><i>v.</i>
5</scripRef>), and therefore they need not describe their country,
but those countries only that were yet undisposed of. He gives a
reason (<scripRef id="Jos.xix-p9.3" osisRef="Bible:Josh.18.7" parsed="|Josh|18|7|0|0" passage="Jos 18:7"><i>v.</i> 7</scripRef>) why
they must divide it into seven parts only, because the Levites were
to have no temporal estate (as we say), but their benefices only,
which were entailed upon their families: <i>The priesthood of the
Lord is their inheritance,</i> and a very honourable, comfortable,
plentiful inheritance it was. Gad and Reuben, with half of the
tribe of Manasseh, were already fixed, and needed not to have any
further care taken of them. Now, (1.) The surveyors were three men
out of each of the seven tribes that were to be provided for
(<scripRef id="Jos.xix-p9.4" osisRef="Bible:Josh.18.4" parsed="|Josh|18|4|0|0" passage="Jos 18:4"><i>v.</i> 4</scripRef>),
one-and-twenty in all, who perhaps for greater expedition, because
they had already lost time, divided themselves into three
companies, one of each tribe in each company, and took each their
district to survey. The matter was thus referred equally, that
there might be neither any partiality used in making up the seven
lots, nor any shadow of suspicion given, but all might be satisfied
that they had right done them. (2.) The survey was accordingly
made, and brought in to Joshua, <scripRef id="Jos.xix-p9.5" osisRef="Bible:Josh.18.8-Josh.18.9" parsed="|Josh|18|8|18|9" passage="Jos 18:8,9"><i>v.</i> 8, 9</scripRef>. Josephus says it was seven
months in the doing. And we must in it observe, [1.] The faith and
courage of the persons employed: abundance of Canaanites remained
in the land, and all raging against Israel, <i>as a bear robbed of
her whelps;</i> the business of these surveyors would soon be
known, and what could they expect but to be way-laid, and have
their brains knocked out by the fierce observers? But in obedience
to Joshua's command, and in dependence upon God's power, they thus
put their lives in their hands to serve their country. [2.] The
good providence of God in protecting them from the many deaths they
were exposed to, and bringing them all safely again to the host at
Shiloh. When we are in the way of our duty we are under the special
protection of the Almighty.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Jos.xix-p10">2. When it was surveyed, and reduced to
seven lots, then Joshua would, by appeal to God, and direction from
him, determine which of these lots should belong to each tribe
(<scripRef id="Jos.xix-p10.1" osisRef="Bible:Josh.18.6" parsed="|Josh|18|6|0|0" passage="Jos 18:6"><i>v.</i> 6</scripRef>): <i>That I
may cast lots for you here</i> at the tabernacle (because it was a
sacred transaction) <i>before the Lord our God,</i> to whom each
tribe must have an eye, with thankfulness for the conveniences and
submission to the inconveniences of their allotment. What we have
in the world we must acknowledge God's property in, and dispose of
it as before him, with justice, and charity, and dependence upon
Providence. The heavenly Canaan is described to us in a book, the
book of the scriptures, and there are in it mansions and portions
sufficient for all God's spiritual Israel. Christ is our Joshua
that divides it to us. On him we must attend, and to him we must
apply for an inheritance with the saints in light. See <scripRef id="Jos.xix-p10.2" osisRef="Bible:John.17.2-John.17.3" parsed="|John|17|2|17|3" passage="Joh 17:2,3">John xvii. 2, 3</scripRef>.</p>
</div><scripCom id="Jos.xix-p0.4" osisRef="Bible:Josh.18.11-Josh.18.28" parsed="|Josh|18|11|18|28" passage="Jos 18:11-28" type="Commentary"/><div class="Commentary" id="Bible:Josh.18.11-Josh.18.28">
<h4 id="Jos.xix-p10.4">The Lot of Benjamin. (<span class="smallcaps" id="Jos.xix-p10.5">b. c.</span> 1444.)</h4>
<p class="passage" id="Jos.xix-p11">  11 And the lot of the tribe of the
children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the
coast of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the
children of Joseph.   12 And their border on the north side
was from Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on
the north side, and went up through the mountains westward; and the
goings out thereof were at the wilderness of Beth-aven.   13
And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of
Luz, which <i>is</i> Beth-el, southward; and the border descended
to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that <i>lieth</i> on the south side
of the nether Beth-horon.   14 And the border was drawn
<i>thence,</i> and compassed the corner of the sea southward, from
the hill that <i>lieth</i> before Beth-horon southward; and the
goings out thereof were at Kirjath-baal, which <i>is</i>
Kirjath-jearim, a city of the children of Judah: this <i>was</i>
the west quarter.   15 And the south quarter <i>was</i> from
the end of Kirjath-jearim, and the border went out on the west, and
went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:   16 And the
border came down to the end of the mountain that <i>lieth</i>
before the valley of the son of Hinnom, <i>and</i> which <i>is</i>
in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the
valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended
to En-rogel,   17 And was drawn from the north, and went forth
to En-shemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth, which <i>is</i> over
against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of
Bohan the son of Reuben,   18 And passed along toward the side
over against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah:   19
And the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward:
and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt
sea at the south end of Jordan: this <i>was</i> the south coast.
  20 And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This
<i>was</i> the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the
coasts thereof round about, according to their families.   21
Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according
to their families were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and the valley of
Keziz,   22 And Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el,  
23 And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,   24 And
Chephar-haammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their
villages:   25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,   26 And
Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,   27 And Rekem, and Irpeel,
and Taralah,   28 And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which
<i>is</i> Jerusalem, Gibeath, <i>and</i> Kirjath; fourteen cities
with their villages. This <i>is</i> the inheritance of the children
of Benjamin according to their families.</p>
<p class="indent" id="Jos.xix-p12">We have here the lot of the tribe of
Benjamin, which Providence cast next to Joseph on the one hand,
because Benjamin was own and only brother to Joseph, and was little
Benjamin (<scripRef id="Jos.xix-p12.1" osisRef="Bible:Ps.68.27" parsed="|Ps|68|27|0|0" passage="Ps 68:27">Ps. lxviii. 27</scripRef>),
that needed the protection of great Joseph, and yet had a better
protector, for <i>the Lord shall cover him all the day long,</i>
<scripRef id="Jos.xix-p12.2" osisRef="Bible:Deut.33.12" parsed="|Deut|33|12|0|0" passage="De 33:12">Deut. xxxiii. 12</scripRef>. And it
was next to Judah on the other hand, that this tribe might
hereafter unite with Judah in an adherence to the throne of David
and the temple at Jerusalem. Here we have, 1. The exact borders and
limits of this tribe, which we need not be exact in the explication
of. As it had Judah on the south and Joseph on the north, so it had
Jordan on the east and Dan on the west. The western border is said
to <i>compass the corner of the sea southward</i> (<scripRef id="Jos.xix-p12.3" osisRef="Bible:Josh.18.14" parsed="|Josh|18|14|0|0" passage="Jos 18:14"><i>v.</i> 14</scripRef>), whereas no part of
the lot of this tribe came near to the great sea. Bishop Patrick
thinks the meaning is that it ran along in a parallel line to the
great sea, though at a distance. Dr. Fuller suggests that since it
is not called <i>the great sea,</i> but only <i>the sea,</i> which
often signifies any lake or mere, it may be meant of the pool of
Gibeon, which may be called <i>a corner</i> or <i>canton</i> of the
sea; it is called the <i>great waters of Gibeon</i> (<scripRef id="Jos.xix-p12.4" osisRef="Bible:Jer.41.12" parsed="|Jer|41|12|0|0" passage="Jer 41:12">Jer. xli. 12</scripRef>), and it is compassed
by the western border of this tribe. 2. The particular cities in
this tribe, not all, but the most considerable. Twenty-six are here
named. Jericho is put first, though dismantled, and forbidden to be
rebuilt as a city with gates and walls, because it might be built
and inhabited as a country village, and so was not useless to this
tribe. Gilgal, where Israel first encamped when Saul was made king
(<scripRef id="Jos.xix-p12.5" osisRef="Bible:1Sam.11.15" parsed="|1Sam|11|15|0|0" passage="1Sa 11:15">1 Sam. xi. 15</scripRef>), was in
this tribe. It was afterwards a very profane place. <scripRef id="Jos.xix-p12.6" osisRef="Bible:Hos.9.15" parsed="|Hos|9|15|0|0" passage="Ho 9:15">Hos. ix. 15</scripRef>, <i>All their wickedness
is in Gilgal.</i> Beth-el was in this tribe, a famous place. Though
Benjamin adhered to the house of David, yet Beth-el, it seems, was
in the possession of the house of Joseph (<scripRef id="Jos.xix-p12.7" osisRef="Bible:Judg.1.23-Judg.1.25" parsed="|Judg|1|23|1|25" passage="Jdg 1:23-25">Judg. i. 23-25</scripRef>), and there Jeroboam set up
one of his calves. In this tribe was Gibeon, where the altar was in
the beginning of Solomon's time, <scripRef id="Jos.xix-p12.8" osisRef="Bible:2Chr.1.3" parsed="|2Chr|1|3|0|0" passage="2Ch 1:3">2
Chron. i. 3</scripRef>. Gibeah likewise, that infamous place where
the Levite's concubine was abused. Mizpeh, and near it Samuel's
Ebenezer, and also Anathoth, Jeremiah's city, were in this tribe,
as was the northern part of Jerusalem. Paul was the honour of this
tribe (<scripRef id="Jos.xix-p12.9" osisRef="Bible:Rom.11.1 Bible:Phil.3.5" parsed="|Rom|11|1|0|0;|Phil|3|5|0|0" passage="Ro 11:1,Php 3:5">Rom. xi. 1; Phil. iii.
5</scripRef>); but where his land lay we know not: he sought the
better country.</p>
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