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They possessed all the border of the Amorites, from the Arnon even to the Jabbok, and from the wilderness even to the Jordan.
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Defining the Borders
Commentators explain that this verse provides the precise geographical boundaries of the land Israel possessed after defeating the Amorites. It stretched from the Arnon river (Moab's border) north to the Jabbok river (Ammon's border) and from the eastern wilderness west to the Jordan River. This specificity was crucial to Jephthah's legal argument.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Consult the marginal references. If the ark with the copy of the Law (Deuteronomy 31:26) was at Mizpeh, it would account for Jephthah’s…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites Peaceably and quietly, nor did any pretend to call their right in …
One instance of the honour and respect we owe to God, as our God, is rightly to employ what he gives us to possess. Receive it from him, use it for…
