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In the fourth generation they will come here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full."
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God's Patient Justice
Commentators stress that God's plan to give Canaan to Israel was not arbitrary but an act of justice. God would only dispossess the Amorites after their "iniquity was full," demonstrating His patience by giving them centuries to repent. Their eventual removal was a righteous judgment for their persistent sin, not simply a land grant for Israel's benefit.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
19th Century
Anglican
The fourth generation. —Heb. dôr. (See Note on Genesis 6:9.) As the four generations are identical with the four centurie…
Baptist
True emblems of the Church of God with her smoke and her light, her trying affliction, yet the grace by which she still keeps burning and shining i…
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16th Century
Protestant
The iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. The reason given here is considered absurd, as it seems to imply that Abram's sons could not…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And in the fourth generation they shall come here again , &c.] The seed of Abram were in the land of Canaan before t…
A deep sleep fell upon Abram; with this sleep a horror of great darkness fell upon him: a sudden change. The children of light do not always walk i…
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