Joshua 17:13 King James Version with Strong's Concordance (STRONG)

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¹³ Yet it came to pass, when the children ^H1121 of Israel ^H3478 were waxen strong, ^H2388 that they put ^H5414 the Canaanites ^H3669 to tribute; ^H4522 but did not utterly ^H3423 drive them out. ^H3423

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Deuteronomy 20:11-18 STRONG

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And it shall be, if it make thee answer ^H6030 of peace, ^H7965 and open ^H6605 unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people ^H5971 that is found ^H4672 therein shall be tributaries ^H4522 unto thee, and they shall serve ^H5647 thee. And if it will make no peace ^H7999 with thee, but will make ^H6213 war ^H4421 against thee, then thou shalt besiege ^H6696 it: And when the LORD ^H3068 thy God ^H430 hath delivered ^H5414 it into thine hands, ^H3027 thou shalt smite ^H5221 every male ^H2138 thereof with the edge ^H6310 of the sword: ^H2719 But the women, ^H802 and the little ones, ^H2945 and the cattle, ^H929 and all that is in the city, ^H5892 even all the spoil ^H7998 thereof, shalt thou take ^H962 unto thyself; and thou shalt eat ^H398 the spoil ^H7998 of thine enemies, ^H341 which the LORD ^H3068 thy God ^H430 hath given ^H5414 thee. Thus shalt thou do ^H6213 unto all the cities ^H5892 which are very ^H3966 far off ^H7350 from thee, which ^H2007 are not of the cities ^H5892 of these nations. ^H1471 But of the cities ^H5892 of these people, ^H5971 which the LORD ^H3068 thy God ^H430 doth give ^H5414 thee for an inheritance, ^H5159 thou shalt save alive ^H2421 nothing that breatheth: ^H5397 But thou shalt utterly ^H2763 destroy ^H2763 them; namely, the Hittites, ^H2850 and the Amorites, ^H567 the Canaanites, ^H3669 and the Perizzites, ^H6522 the Hivites, ^H2340 and the Jebusites; ^H2983 as the LORD ^H3068 thy God ^H430 hath commanded ^H6680 thee: That they teach ^H3925 you not to do ^H6213 after all their abominations, ^H8441 which they have done ^H6213 unto their gods; ^H430 so should ye sin ^H2398 against the LORD ^H3068 your God. ^H430

2 Chronicles 8:7-8 STRONG

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As for all the people ^H5971 that were left ^H3498 of the Hittites, ^H2850 and the Amorites, ^H567 and the Perizzites, ^H6522 and the Hivites, ^H2340 and the Jebusites, ^H2983 which were not of Israel, ^H3478 But of their children, ^H1121 who were left ^H3498 after ^H310 them in the land, ^H776 whom the children ^H1121 of Israel ^H3478 consumed ^H3615 not, them did Solomon ^H8010 make to pay ^H5927 tribute ^H4522 until this day. ^H3117

Commentary on Joshua 17 Matthew Henry Commentary

John Gill Keil & Delitzsch Robert Jamieson: Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Chapter 17

The half tribe of Manasseh comes next to be provided for; and here we have,

I. The families of that tribe that were to be portioned (v. 1-6).
II. The country that fell to their lot (v. 7-13).
III. The joint request of the two tribes that descended from Joseph, for the enlargement of their lot, and Joshua's answer to that request (v. 14-18).

Jos 17:1-6

Manasseh was itself but one half of the tribe of Joseph, and yet was divided and subdivided.

1. It was divided into two parts, one already settled on the other side Jordan, consisting of those who were the posterity of Machir, v. 1. This Machir was born to Manasseh in Egypt; there he had signalized himself as a man of war, probably in the contests between the Ephraimites and the men of Gath, 1 Chr. 7:21. His warlike disposition descended to his posterity, and therefore Moses gave them Gileaxdand Bashan, on the other side Jordan, of which before, ch. 13:31. It is here said that the lot came to Manasseh, for he was the first-born of Joseph. Bishop Patrick thinks it should be translated, though he was the first-born of Joseph, and then the meaning is plain, that the second lot was for Manasseh, because, though he was the first-born, yet Jacob had preferred Ephraim before him. See the names of those heads of the families that settled on the other side Jordan, 1 Chr. 5:24.
2. That part on this side Jordan as subdivided into ten families, v. 5. There were six sons of Gilead here named (v. 2), the same that are recorded Num. 26:30-32, only that he who is there called Jezeer is here called Abiezer. Five of these sons had each of them their portion; the sixth, which was Hepher, had his male line cut off in his son Zelophehad, who left daughters only, five in number, of whom we have often read, and these five had each of them a portion; though perhaps, they claiming under Hepher, all their five portions were but equal to one of the portions of the five sons. Or if Hepher had other sons besides Zelophehad, in whom the name of his family was kept up, their posterity married to the daughters of Zelophehad the elder brother, and in their right had these portions assigned them. See Num. 36:12. Here is,
- (1.) The claim which the daughters of Zelophehad made, grounded upon the command God gave to Moses concerning them, v. 4. They had themselves, when they were young, pleaded their own cause before Moses, and obtained the grant of an inheritance with their brethren, and now they would not lose the benefit of that grant for want of speaking to Joshua, but seasonably put in their demand themselves, as it should seem, and not their husbands for them.
- (2.) The assignment of their portions according to their claim. Joshua knew very well what God had ordered in their case, and did not object that they having not served in the wars of Canaan there was no reason why they should share in the possessions of Canaan, but readily gave them as inheritance among the brethren of their father. And now they reaped the benefit of their own pious zeal and prudent forecast in this matter. Thus those who take care in the wilderness of this world to make sure to themselves a place in the inheritance of the saints in light will certainly have the comfort of it in the other world, while those that neglect it now will lose it for ever.

Jos 17:7-13

We have here a short account of the lot of this half tribe. It reached from Jordan on the east to the great sea on the west; on the south it lay all along contiguous to Ephraim, but on the north it abutted upon Asher and Issachar. Asher lay north-west, and Issachar north-east, which seems to be the meaning of that (v. 10), that they (that is, Manasseh and Ephraim, as related to it, both together making the tribe of Joseph) met in Asher on the north and Issachar on the east, for Ephraim itself reached not those tribes. Some things are particularly observed concerning this lot:-

1. That there was great communication between this tribe and that of Ephraim. The city of Tappuah belonged to Ephraim, but the country adjoining to Manasseh (v. 8); there were likewise many cities of Ephraim that lay within the border of Manasseh (v. 9), of which before, ch. 16:9.
2. That Manasseh likewise had cities with their appurtenances in the tribes of Issachar and Asher (v. 11), God so ordering it, that though every tribe had its peculiar inheritance, which might not be alienated from it, yet they should thus intermix one with another, to keep up mutual acquaintance and correspondence among the tribes, and to give occasion for the doing of good offices one to another, as became those who, though of different tribes, were all one Israel, and were bound to love as brethren.

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