Joshua 16:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.

Joshua 16:4 —

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joshua 17:14
And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed me hitherto?

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-4)

Though Joseph was one of the younger sons of Jacob, yet he was his eldest by his most just and best beloved wife Rachel, was himself his best beloved son, and had been the greatest ornament and support of his family, kept it from perishing in a time of famine, and had been the shepherd and stone of Israel, and therefore his posterity were very much favoured by the lot. Their portion lay in the ver…