Verse 33
THE PETITION GRANTED, Numbers 32:33-42.
33. Half the tribe of Manasseh It appears strange that this half tribe is included here for the first time at the close of the negotiations. Moses did not overlook the fact that some of the families of Manasseh had conquered districts in Gilead and Bashan, and, consequently, were entitled to inherit them. Numbers 32:39. Moreover, Eastern Palestine would be too large a portion for two tribes.
Sihon… Og Numbers 21:21-35, notes.
With the cities In Argob, a small territory, Jahr took no less than sixty great cities, “fenced with high walls, gates, and bars, besides unwalled towns a great many.” Deuteronomy 3:4-5; Deuteronomy 3:14. “Such a statement seems all but incredible. It would not stand the arithmetic of Colenso for a moment. But, mysterious, incredible as this seemed on the spot, with my own eyes I have seen that it is literally true. The cities are there to this day.
The private houses built with colossal walls, massive stone doors, low roofs of ponderous blocks of roughly hewn stone, all point to a period far earlier than the Roman age, and probably antecedent to the conquest of the country by the Israelites.” Revelation J.L. Porter.
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