22And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
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And he set the one in Bethel, and the other put he in Dan. …
And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.
And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and went down unto Arabah:
And Abijah stood up upon mount Zemaraim, which is in mount Ephraim, and said, Hear me, thou Jeroboam, and all Israel;
And the border went up to Bethhogla, and passed along by the north of Betharabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben:
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 11-28)We have here the lot of the tribe of Benjamin, which Providence cast next to Joseph on the one hand, because Benjamin was own and only brother to Joseph, and was little Benjamin (Ps. 68:27), that needed the protection of great Joseph, and yet had a better protector, for the Lord shall cover him all the day long , Deut. 33:12. And it was next to Judah on the other hand, that this tribe might hereaf…
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