Joshua:15

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* Verse 1-12 - Joshua allotted to Judah , Ephraim , and the half of Manasseh , their inheritances before they left Gilgal . Afterwards removing to Shiloh , another survey was made , and the other tribes had their portion assigned . In due time all God 's people are settled . * Verse 13-19 - Achsah obtained some land by Caleb 's free grant . He gave her a south land . Land indeed , but a south land , dry and apt to be parched . She obtained more , on her request , and he gave the upper and the nether springs . Those who understand it but of one field , watered both with the rain of heaven , and the springs that issued out of the earth , countenance the allusion commonly made to this , when we pray for spiritual and heavenly blessings which relate to our souls , as blessings of the upper springs , and those which relate to the body and the life that now is , as blessings of the nether springs . All the blessings , both of the upper and the nether springs , belong to the children of God . As related to Christ , they have them freely given of the Father , for the lot of their inheritance . * Verse 20-63 - Here is a list of the cities of Judah . But we do not here find Bethlehem , afterwards the city of David , and ennobled by the birth of our Lord Jesus in it . That city , which , at the best , was but little among the thousands of Judah , Micah strkjv @5:2 ,. except that it was thus honoured , was now so little as not to be accounted one of the cities . **** Matthew Henry 's Commentary ****

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