13And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
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And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not, …
For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills;
There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
But as for the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-14)Joshua thought he had taken his last farewell of Israel in the solemn charge he gave them in the foregoing chapter, when he said, I go the way of all the earth ; but God graciously continuing his life longer than expected, and renewing his strength, he was desirous to improve it for the good of Israel. He did not say, “I have taken my leave of them once, and let that serve;” but, having yet a long…
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