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Barnes' Notes on Joshua 18:3

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Albert Barnes (1798–1870) · 19th-century historical commentary
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This backwardness probably arose from the indisposition of the people to abandon the nomad life in which they had been born and bred, and to settle in fixed abodes, and perhaps also from a dislike of the exterminating warfare incidental to a complete dispossessing of the Canaanites. return to 'Top of Page'
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