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Psalms 60 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine, Ephraim
Book of Psalms
Psalms 60:1 To the chief Musician upon Shushan eduth,
Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aram naharaim and with Aram zobah,
when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand. O
God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O
turn thyself to us again.
2 Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches
thereof; for it shaketh.
3 Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine
of astonishment.
4 Thou hast given a banner to them that fear thee, that it may be displayed
because of the truth. Selah.
5 That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.
6 God hath spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, I will divide Shechem, and
mete out the valley of Succoth.
7 Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine
head; Judah is my lawgiver;
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Gilead . . . Manasseh.
Eastern side.
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Joshua 17:1
There was also a lot for
the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn
of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn of
Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a
man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
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1 Chronicles 12:19
And there fell some of
Manasseh to David, when he came with the
Philistines against Saul to battle: but they
helped them not: for the lords of the
Philistines upon advisement sent him away,
saying, He will fall to his master Saul to the
jeopardy of our heads.
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Ephraim . . . Judah.
Western side.
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Lawgiver
... Compare Genesis
49:10 The sceptre
shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from
between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto
him shall the gathering of the people be.
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Numbers 21:18
The princes digged the
well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the
direction of the lawgiver, with their staves.
And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:
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Deuteronomy 33:21
And he provided the first
part for himself, because there, in a portion of
the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with
the heads of the people, he executed the justice
of the LORD, and his judgments with Israel.
8 Moab is my wash pot; over Edom will I cast out my shoe: Philistia, triumph thou
because of me.
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Moab was the son of the Lot's eldest daughter,
the progenitor of the Moabites.
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Zoar was the cradle of the race of Lot.
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From this centre the brother tribes spread
themselves.
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The Moabites first inhabited the rich highlands
which crown the eastern side of the chasm of the
Dead Sea, extending as far north as the mountain
of Gilead, from which country they expelled the
Emims, the original inhabitants,
9 Who will bring me into the strong city? who will lead me into Edom?
10 Wilt not thou, O God, which hadst cast us off? and thou, O God, which didst
not go out with... our armies?
11 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the help of man.
12 Through God we shall do valiantly: for He it is that shall tread down our
enemies.
• Exactly 2520 years from the exile
of Benjamin, Iceland became an independent nation.
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The first tribe to be
conquered by the Assyrians was Manasseh,
in 745 B.C. Exactly 2520 years later America became a nation on July 4, 1776.
(Leviticus. 26: 28-46) God warned Israel that if they persisted in continually
breaking His Laws, not only would curses come upon them.
He would punish them for seven times, (a time being 360 years, seven times would
be 2520 years) and would banish them from the land of Palestine and scatter them
among the heathens (like lost sheep)
• Study the book: Abrahamic Covenant,
(A study outline of the identity of God's people) By E. Raymond Capt
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