13Thus saith the Lord GOD; This shall be the border, whereby ye shall inherit the land according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.
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In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.
Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, When ye come into the land of Canaan;(this is the land that shall fall unto you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan with the coasts thereof:) …
And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, a portion for Manasseh. …
And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.
At the same time, saith the LORD, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 13-22)We are now to pass from the affairs of the sanctuary to those of the state, from the city to the country. 1. The Land of Canaan is here secured to them for an inheritance (Ezek. 47:14): I lifted up my hand to give it unto your fathers , that is, promised it upon oath to them and their posterity. Though the possession had been a great while discontinued, yet God had not forgotten his oath which he…
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