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And they of the south shall possess then mount of Esau; and they of the plain the Philistines: and they shall possess the fields of Ephraim, and the fields of Samaria: and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.

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Amos 9:12• ¹²that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations upon whom my name is called, saith Jehovah who doeth this. (Amos 9:12)

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the south.

Num. 24:18‑19• ¹⁸And Edom shall be a possession, and Seir a possession,--they, his enemies; but Israel will do valiantly.
¹⁹And one out of Jacob shall have dominion, and will destroy out of the city what remaineth. (Num. 24:18‑19)

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Josh. 15:21• ²¹The cities at the extremity of the tribe of the children of Judah, toward the border of Edom in the south, were: Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur, (Josh. 15:21)

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Jer. 32:44• ⁴⁴Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the writings, and seal them, and take witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the environs of Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill-country, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the south: for I will turn their captivity, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 32:44)

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Amos 9:12• ¹²that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations upon whom my name is called, saith Jehovah who doeth this. (Amos 9:12)

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Mal. 1:4‑5• ⁴If Edom say, We are broken down, but we will build again the ruined places,--thus saith Jehovah of hosts: They shall build, but I will throw down; and men shall call them the territory of wickedness, and the people against whom Jehovah hath indignation for ever.
⁵And your eyes shall see it, and ye shall say, Jehovah is magnified beyond the border of Israel. (Mal. 1:4‑5)

the plain.

Josh. 13:2‑3• ²This is the land that yet remaineth: all the districts of the Philistines and all the Geshurites,
³from the Shihor, which floweth before Egypt, as far as the borders of Ekron northward, and which is counted to the Canaanite; five lordships of the Philistines: of Gazah, and of Ashdod, of Eshkalon, of Gath, and of Ekron; also the Avvites; (Josh. 13:2‑3)

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Josh. 15:33,45‑46• ³³--In the lowland: Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
⁴⁵Ekron and its dependent villages and its hamlets.
⁴⁶From Ekron and westward all that are by the side of Ashdod, and their hamlets. (Josh. 15:33,45‑46)

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Judg. 1:18‑19• ¹⁸And Judah took Gazah and its border, and Ashkelon and its border, and Ekron and its border.
¹⁹And Jehovah was with Judah; and he took possession of the hill-country, for he did not dispossess the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron. (Judg. 1:18‑19)

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Isa. 11:13‑14• ¹³And the envy of Ephraim shall depart, and the troublers of Judah shall be cut off; Ephraim will not envy Judah, and Judah will not trouble Ephraim:
¹⁴but they shall fly upon the shoulder of the Philistines towards the west; together shall they spoil the sons of the east; they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon shall obey them. (Isa. 11:13‑14)

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Ezek. 25:16• ¹⁶therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I stretch out my hands upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Kerethites, and cause the remnant of the sea-coast to perish. (Ezek. 25:16)

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Amos 1:8• ⁸And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon, and I will turn my hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord Jehovah. (Amos 1:8)

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Zeph. 2:4‑7• ⁴For Gazah shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon shall be a desolation; they shall drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.
⁵Woe unto the inhabitants of the sea-coast, the nation of the Cherethites! The word of Jehovah is against you, O Canaan, land of the Philistines: I will destroy thee, that there shall be no inhabitant;
⁶and the sea-coast shall be cave-dwellings for shepherds, and folds for flocks.
⁷And the coast shall be for the remnant of the house of Judah; they shall feed thereon: in the houses of Ashkelon shall they lie down in the evening: for Jehovah their God shall visit them, and turn again their captivity. (Zeph. 2:4‑7)

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Zech. 9:5‑7• ⁵Ashkelon shall see it, and fear; Gazah also, and she shall be greatly pained; Ekron also, for her expectation shall be put to shame: and the king shall perish from Gazah, and Ashkelon shall not be inhabited.
⁶And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines;
⁷and I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations from between his teeth; but he that remaineth, he also shall belong to our God, and shall be as a leader in Judah, and Ekron as a Jebusite. (Zech. 9:5‑7)

the fields of Ephraim.

2 Kings 17:24• ²⁴And the king of Assyria brought people from Babylon, and from Cuthah, and from Avva, and from Hamath, and from Sepharvaim, and made them dwell in the cities of Samaria instead of the children of Israel; and they possessed Samaria, and dwelt in its cities. (2 Kings 17:24)

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Ezra 4:2,7‑10,17• ²and they came to Zerubbabel and to the chief fathers, and said to them, We would build with you; for we seek your God, as ye; and we have sacrificed to him since the days of Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us up hither.
⁷And in the days of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions, wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in Aramaic, and interpreted in Aramaic.
⁸Rehum the chancellor and Shimshai the scribe wrote a letter against Jerusalem to Artaxerxes the king after this sort:
⁹Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions, the Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,
¹⁰and the rest of the peoples whom the great and noble Osnappar brought over and settled in the cities of Samaria, and the rest of the country on this side the river, and so forth.
¹⁷The king sent an answer to Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions that dwell in Samaria, and the other places beyond the river: Peace, and so forth. (Ezra 4:2,7‑10,17)

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Psa. 69:35• ³⁵For God will save Zion, and will build the cities of Judah; and they shall dwell there, and possess it: (Psa. 69:35)

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Jer. 31:4‑6• ⁴I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel! Thou shalt again be adorned with thy tambours, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
⁵Thou shalt again plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall eat the fruit.
⁶For there shall be a day, when the watchmen upon mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise, and let us go up to Zion, unto Jehovah our God. (Jer. 31:4‑6)

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Ezek. 36:6‑12,28• ⁶Prophesy therefore concerning the land of Israel, and say to the mountains and to the hills, to the water-courses and to the valleys, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I have spoken in my jealousy and in my fury, because ye have borne the ignominy of the nations;
⁷therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I have lifted up my hand, saying, Verily the nations that are about you, they shall bear their shame.
⁸And ye mountains of Israel shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people Israel: for they are at hand to come.
⁹For behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown.
¹⁰And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, the whole of it; and the cities shall be inhabited, and the waste places shall be builded.
¹¹And I will multiply upon you man and beast, and they shall increase and bring forth fruit; and I will cause you to be inhabited as in your former times, yea, I will make it better than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.
¹²And I will cause men to walk upon you, even my people Israel; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave them of children.
²⁸And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God. (Ezek. 36:6‑12,28)

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Ezek. 37:21‑25• ²¹And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the nations, whither they are gone, and will gather them from every side, and bring them into their own land:
²²and I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all.
²³And they shall not defile themselves any more with their idols, or with their detestable things, or with any of their transgressions; and I will save them out of all their dwelling-places wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.
²⁴And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: and they shall walk in mine ordinances, and keep my statutes, and do them.
²⁵And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and David my servant shall be their prince for ever. (Ezek. 37:21‑25)

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Ezek. 47:13‑21• ¹³Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: This shall be the border whereby ye shall allot the land as inheritance according to the twelve tribes of Israel: Joseph shall have two portions.
¹⁴And ye shall inherit it, one as well as another, the land concerning which I lifted up my hand to give it unto your fathers; and this land shall fall to you for inheritance.
¹⁵And this shall be the border of the land: toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Zedad,
¹⁶Hamath, Berothah, Sibraim, which is between the border of Damascus and the border of Hamath; Hazer-hatticon, which is by the border of Hauran.
¹⁷And the border from the sea shall be Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus, and the north northward, and the border of Hamath: this is the north side.
¹⁸--And on the east side ye shall measure between Hauran and Damascus, and Gilead and the land of Israel by the Jordan, from the border unto the east sea: this is the east side.
¹⁹--And the south side southward, from Tamar to the waters of Meribah-Kadesh, by the torrent, unto the great sea: this is the south side southward.
²⁰--And the west side shall be the great sea from the border, as far as over against the entering into Hamath: this is the west side.
²¹And ye shall divide this land unto you according to the tribes of Israel. (Ezek. 47:13‑21)

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Ezek. 48:1‑9• ¹And these are the names of the tribes: From the north end along the way of Hethlon, as one entereth into Hamath, Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus northward unto near Hamath--the east and west side belonging to him--shall Dan have one portion.
²And by the border of Dan, from the east side unto the west side, Asher one.
³And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, Naphtali one.
⁴And by the border of Naphtali, from the east side unto the west side, Manasseh one.
⁵And by the border of Manasseh, from the east side unto the west side, Ephraim one.
⁶And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, Reuben one.
⁷And by the border of Reuben, from the east side unto the west side, Judah one.
⁸And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the heave-offering that ye shall offer, five and twenty thousand cubits in breadth, and in length as one of the parts from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.
⁹The heave-offering that ye shall offer unto Jehovah shall be five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth. (Ezek. 48:1‑9)

Benjamin.

Josh. 13:25,31• ²⁵And their territory was Jaazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer which is before Rabbah;
³¹And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, belonged to the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, to the one half of the children of Machir according to their families. (Josh. 13:25,31)

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Josh. 18:21‑28• ²¹And the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were: Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and Emek-Keziz,
²²and Beth-Arabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
²³and Avvim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
²⁴and Chephar-haammonai, and Ophni, and Geba: twelve cities and their hamlets;
²⁵Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
²⁶and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
²⁷and Rekem, and Jirpeel, and Tharalah,
²⁸and Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, that is, Jerusalem, Gibeah, Kirjath: fourteen cities and their hamlets. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families. (Josh. 18:21‑28)

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1 Chron. 5:26• ²⁶And the God of Israel stirred up the spirit of Pul king of Assyria, and the spirit of Tilgath-Pilneser king of Assyria, and he carried them away, the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, and brought them to Halah, and Habor, and Hara, and to the river Gozan,--unto this day. (1 Chron. 5:26)

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Jer. 49:1• ¹Concerning the children of Ammon. Thus saith Jehovah: Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? Why is Malcam heir of Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof? (Jer. 49:1)

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Amos 1:13• ¹³Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they ripped up the women with child of Gilead, that they might enlarge their border. (Amos 1:13)

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Mic. 7:14• ¹⁴Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thine inheritance, dwelling alone in the forest, in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old. (Mic. 7:14)

• As the places are particularly specified by name, it shows that we should not fritter it away by what people call spiritualizing. (“Obadiah” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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And they of the southe shall possess the mount of Esau; and they of the lowlandf the Philistines; yea, they shall possess the field of Ephraim and the field of Samaria; and Benjamin shall possess Gilead;

JND Translation Notes

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Negeb; and so ver. 20. see Josh. 10.40.

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Shephelah; see Deut. 1.7.