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Joshua 13:15
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13 Nevertheless the children of Israel adid not drive out the Geshurites or the Maachathites, but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.  
14 aOnly to the tribe of Levi he had given1 no inheritance; the sacrifices of the Lord God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, bas He said to them.  

The Land of Reuben

15 aAnd Moses had given to the tribe of the children of Reuben an inheritance according to their families.  
16 Their territory was afrom Aroer, which is on the bank of the River Arnon, band the city that is in the midst of the ravine, cand all the plain by Medeba;  
17 aHeshbon and all its cities that are in the plain: Dibon, Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,  
18 aJahaza, Kedemoth, Mephaath,  
19 aKirjathaim, bSibmah, Zereth Shahar on the mountain of the valley,  
20 Beth Peor, athe slopes of Pisgah, and Beth Jeshimoth—  
21 aall the cities of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, bwhom Moses had struck cwith the princes of Midian: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba, who were princes of Sihon dwelling in the country.  
22 The children of Israel also killed with the sword aBalaam the son of Beor, the soothsayer, among those who were killed by them.  
23 And the border of the children of Reuben was the bank of the Jordan. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and their villages.
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Joshua

JOSHUA. The title of this book is derived from the pious and valiant leader whose achievements it relates and who is commonly supposed to have been its author. The objections to this idea are founded chiefly on the clause, "unto this day," which occurs several times (Joshua 4:9; Joshua 6:25; Joshua 8:28). But this, at least in the case of Rahab, is no valid reason for rejecting the idea of his authorship; for assuming what is most probable, that this book was composed toward the close of Joshua's long career, or compiled from written documents left by him, Rahab might have been still alive. A more simple and satisfactory way of accounting for the frequent insertion of the clause, "unto this day," is the opinion that it was a comment introduced by Ezra, when revising the sacred canon; and this difficulty being removed, the direct proofs of the book having been produced by a witness of the transactions related in it, the strong and vivid descriptions of the passing scenes, and the use of the words "we" and "us," (Joshua 5:1-6), viewed in connection with the fact, that, after his farewell address to the people, Joshua "wrote these words in the book of the law of God" [Joshua 24:26] —all afford strong presumptive proof that the entire book was the work of that eminent individual. Its inspiration and canonical authority are fully established by the repeated testimonies of other Scripture writers (compare Joshua 6:26 with I Kings 16:34; compare Joshua 10:13 with Habakkuk 3:11; Joshua 3:14 with Acts 7:45; Joshua 6:17-23 with Hebrews 11:30; Joshua 2:1-24 with James 2:25; Psalms 44:2; Psalms 68:12-14; Psalms 78:54-55). As a narrative of God's faithfulness in giving the Israelites possession of the promised land, this history is most valuable, and bears the same character as a sequel to the Pentateuch, that the Acts of the Apostles do to the Gospels.

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