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Joshua 18 - Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible

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The remainder of the land described and divided.

After a year or more, Joshua blamed their slackness, and told them how to proceed. God, by his grace, has given us a title to a good land, the heavenly Canaan, but we are slack to take possession of it; we enter not into that rest, as we might by faith, and hope, and holy joy. How long shall it be thus with us? How long shall we thus stand in our own light, and forsake our own mercies for lying vanities? Joshua stirs the Israelites up to take possession of their lots. He is ready to

do his part, if they will do theirs. (Jos 18:11-28)

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