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on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the border of the Amorites;
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Verse 4. Chanaan. From the south to Sidon was yet undivided, and thence eastward, ( Bible.) to Apheca of Syria, were was the capital of the kings of that country, and a famous temple of Venus, 3 Kennicott. 20:26. Sozom. i. 58.—Amorrhite, or perhaps Aramean, ( Calmet.) though we may understand that all the country of the Amorrhite on the south, as well as the northern parts of Chanaan, were to be divided, ( Bible.) as far as Emesa.—Will, and so forth provided the Israelites observe their part of the covenant. Calmet.
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