Commentaries and Annotations on the Holy Scriptures - Softcover

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Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1816. Excerpt: ... I Or the writer might mention these circumstances by way of recapitulation; and the translation, as Grotius observes, would have been better in the preterpluperfcct tense. 14. When she came to him.]--'. When she was going home.'-- Dr. Geddes. 14. And she lighted from off her ass.~--See note on Josh. xv. 18. 16. The children of the Kenitc, Moses' father-in-law.]-- Moses had invited Hobab, the son of Raguel, or Jethro, Numbx. 29, to accompany him into the land of Canaan, and it appears from this text that he accepted the invitation. He and his family are thought to have settled near the city of palm-trees, which is supposed to be the same as Jericho. 18. Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon, &c]--There ble variation in the Septuagint: 'But Judah did not possess Gaza, nor the coast thereof, nor Askelon, nor Ekron, nor Ashdod, nor the coasts thereof.' This, in all probability, is the true reading; for in chap. iii. 3. of this same book, the five lords of the Philistines are both in the Hebrew and the Septuagint reckoned among the nations which God left unsubdued, to prove Israel by. And, in the following history of Samuel, &c we do not find that Judah ever had possession of those cities. Josephus says, (lib. v. cap. 2.) Judah did take Askelon and Ashdod; but not Gaza, nor Ekron.-- Dr. Wall. 1Q. Could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.]--The conquest of Canaan by an army composed entirely of infantry, over a warlike people, abounding with horses and chariots of iron, evidently appears miraculous; and affords a lasting manifestation of that extraordinary providence which conducted the Israelites. We must not suppose in this instance, because the inhabitants of the valley had chariots of iron, that the purposes of God were de...

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