CONTENTS This Chapter opens with an account of the setting up the tabernacle in Shiloh. The remaining part of the land is divided. Benjamin's lot particularly marked out, with the cities belonging to it. Joshua 18:1 They who in attending to the division of the land, and have seen the several tribe... [ Continue Reading ]
There is no way of accounting for the sloth of the seven tribes. Surely they were interested to have their portion as well as their brethren. But it should seem to be a pause in the circumstances of Israel, while they inquired what remained to be done. In the Christian warfare, how often is this the... [ Continue Reading ]
What an awe must have been upon the minds of the Canaanites yet remaining around them, that none of them assaulted them, as they walked through the land. Such, Reader, is the case now very frequently in the Christian's walk. So true is that Scripture, When a man's ways please the Lord, he maketh eve... [ Continue Reading ]
The lot of Benjamin forms an interesting part in the portion of Israel. He was the beloved child of the Patriarch Jacob ' s old age: and the tenderness of his father ' s heart towards him we have largely recounted in the book of Genesis 42:36. It was certainly from the Lord's special appointment tha... [ Continue Reading ]
I do not think it necessary to detain the Reader with many observations on these verses. The principal things to be noticed concerning Benjamin's lot, are the spots which were made memorable in them; and the more illustrious persons, which in the after ages of the church sprang out of Benjamin. Jeri... [ Continue Reading ]
REFLECTIONS My soul! while beholding the Israelites busily engaged, as this Chapter represents them, setting up the tabernacle in Shiloh; do thou let thy meditation take wing, and behold that true tabernacle which the Lord pitched, and not man. See, gaze, contemplate, look upon it, and view well th... [ Continue Reading ]