Introduction
BOUNDARIES OF THE LAND AND THE BOARD OF DISTRIBUTION.
The command to exterminate the Canaanites, and the penalty threatened in case of disobedience, rendered it necessary that very definite geographical limits to the Holy Land should be pointed out in order that Israel might know its exact duty. The early designation of the men who should divide the land is on the assumption of the perfect obedience of Israel and the speedy total extinction of the doomed inhabitants and the immediate allotment to the tribes. But, through Israel’s failure in point of obedience, and for other reasons, the allotment was not completed till after a seven years’ war. Joshua 11:18, note.
CONCLUDING NOTE.
By inspecting Genesis 15:18; Deuteronomy 11:24, and 2 Samuel 8:3, it will be seen that the Euphrates was the eastern boundary of the Land of Promise, while this chapter and Joshua 13:9-12, assign a different limit, which greatly diminishes the land. “Keil suggests that these different passages give the limits the maxima and minima of the promise; the actual extent to be determined by and proportionate to Israel’s loyalty and fidelity to God.” Haley.
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