12And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them.
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For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge.
They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them. …
And when Peter was come up to Jerusalem, they that were of the circumcision contended with him, …
Thou shalt surely smite the inhabitants of that city with the edge of the sword, destroying it utterly, and all that is therein, and the cattle thereof, with the edge of the sword.
Then all the children of Israel went out, and the congregation was gathered together as one man, from Dan even to Beersheba, with the land of Gilead, unto the LORD in Mizpeh. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-20)Here is, I. The pious care of the separated tribes to keep their hold of Canaan’s religion, even when they were leaving Canaan’s land, that they might not be as the sons of the stranger, utterly separated from God’s people , Isa. 56:3. In order to this, they built a great altar on the borders of Jordan, to be a witness for them that they were Israelites, and as such partakers of the altar of the L…
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