24 So the children went in, and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, even the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, that they might do with them what they would.

25 And they took their strong cities and the fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, cisterns dug out, vineyards and olives, and trees for food in abundance, and they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and lived in pleasure through thy great goodness.

26 Yet they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy Law behind their backs, and slew thy Prophets (which [a]protested among them to turn them unto thee) and committed great blasphemies.

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Footnotes

  1. Nehemiah 9:26 Taking heaven and earth to witness, that God would destroy them, except they returned, as 2 Chron. 24:19.

24 Their children went in and took possession of the land.(A) You subdued(B) before them the Canaanites, who lived in the land; you gave the Canaanites into their hands, along with their kings and the peoples of the land, to deal with them as they pleased. 25 They captured fortified cities and fertile land;(C) they took possession of houses filled with all kinds of good things,(D) wells already dug, vineyards, olive groves and fruit trees in abundance. They ate to the full and were well-nourished;(E) they reveled in your great goodness.(F)

26 “But they were disobedient and rebelled against you; they turned their backs on your law.(G) They killed(H) your prophets,(I) who had warned them in order to turn them back to you; they committed awful blasphemies.(J)

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