13And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia.
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And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea.
And the sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, and Phut, and Canaan.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-15)Man consisting of body and soul, a body made out of the earth and a rational immortal soul the breath of heaven, we have, in these verses, the provision that was made for the happiness of both; he that made him took care to make him happy, if he could but have kept himself so and known when he was well off. That part of man by which he is allied to the world of sense was made happy; for he was put…
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