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Now Joshua was old [and] stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him, Thou art old [and] stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.

Thou art old and stricken in years, — q.d., Thou hast not long to do; up therefore and be doing; work while it is yet day; the night of death cometh, when none can work. Divide what thou hast conquered, yea, that which is yet to be conquered, among the tribes; for all is theirs, unless they forget their charter. See the true Christian’s charter, which he cannot forfeit. 1 Corinthians 3:22-23

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This [is] the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,

All the borders of the Philistines. — Anciently called Caphtorims. Deuteronomy 2:23 Amos 9:7 Their country lay along the coast of the midland sea; whereby the Israelites were kept from much trading with other nations, that they might not learn their manners. Hence Judea is called an "isle," though part of the continent. Isaiah 20:6 Like Benjamin, who had his mess by himself.

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From Sihor, which [is] before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, [which] is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:

From Sihor. — Or Nile, which hath its name Sihor from blackness, and Nile from muddiness. So much of Egypt as this river watereth, is a black mould, so fruitful, as they do but throw in the seed, and have four rich harvests in less than four months, as travellers tell us.

Also the Avites. — Who, belike, still held part of their old possession. Deuteronomy 2:22-23

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From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that [is] beside the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:

All the land of the Canaanites. — Who yet held out against the Israelites, but hindered them not from dividing the land. No more shall those remnants of corruption hinder the saints from possession of their mansions prepared for them by Christ. John 14:2

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And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.

And the land of the Giblites. — Called Gebal in Psalms 83:7 Ezekiel 27:9 . Enemies to the Church.

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All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephothmaim, [and] all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.

Them will I drive out, …, — viz., If the Israelites rule with me and be faithful with my saints, as Hosea 11:12 ; else "they shall know my breach of promise," as Numbers 14:34 .

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Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,

Now therefore divide this land. — Even those parts thereof also that are yet unsubdued; for it is theirs, but so as they must win it before they wear it. Sic petitur caelum. The kingdom of heaven suffereth violence.

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With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, [even] as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them;

Even as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them. — So do thou confirm it. Here then is no tautology, as at first it may seem to be.

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