OLD TESTAMENT

Joshua 22:6

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So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents.

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Verse 6. Blessed them, like a good magistrate, having given them a solemn admonition not to forget God, the source of all blessings. Bible.—This expression may also intimate that he loaded them with praises and with presents, and wished them all prosperity.—Dwellings. Lit. “tents,” in which they had been accustomed to live, in the desert. Hence they gave the name to houses, temples, and so forth

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