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17Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD,
Joshua 22:17 —
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Matthew Henry
(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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