This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,
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Interpretation
At this chapter begins the account of the dividing of the land of Canaan among the tribes of Israel by lot; a narrative showing the performance of the promise made to the fathers, that this land should be given to the seed of Jacob. We are not to pass over these chapters of hard names as useless.
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This thought runs through Joshua 13:1-5.