18And the east side ye shall measure from Hauran, and from Damascus, and from Gilead, and from the land of Israel by Jordan, from the border unto the east sea. And this is the east side.
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And Lot lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan, that it was well watered every where, before the LORD destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even as the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt, as thou comest unto Zoar.
And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years, all the children of Israel that were on the other side Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.
Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.
And Laban called it Jegarsahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed.
And he took his brethren with him, and pursued after him seven days' journey; and they overtook him in the mount Gilead.
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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