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Updated: June 1, 2025


And Israel said unto Joseph, "Behold, I die; but God shall be with you, and bring you again unto the land of your fathers. Moreover, I have given to thee one portion above thy brethren, which I took out of the hand of the Amorite with my sword and with my bow." And Jacob called unto his sons and blessed them; every one according to his blessing he blessed them.

And so he adds a further blessing; and even then, at that deep moment, the old man cannot refrain from one flash of pride in his old prowess, and speaks, in his closing words, of the inheritance he won from the Amorite with his sword and bow; and this is all the more human because there is no trace in the records of his ever having done anything of the kind.

And there came one that had escaped, and told Abram the Hebrew; for he dwelt in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshcol, and brother of Aner: and these were confederate with Abram. And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.

Here, therefore, there was a confederation of tribes and races who would have met together at a common sanctuary. When Ezekiel says that Jerusalem was both Hittite and Amorite in its parentage, he may have been referring to its conquest and settlement by such a confederacy as that of Hebron.

And thou shalt have a portion from my hand, Above thy brethren, which with sword and bow I took from th' Amorite, my deadly foe. And Jacob called all his sons together, And said, Ye sons of Jacob come you hither: And hearken what your aged father says, Who tells you what shall be in the last days.

But the new leader found himself at once in a very different position. When Moses brought the Children of Israel out of Egypt they were without a Bible. Buried deep in the earth the remains of many old Canaanite cities have been found. Those of Lachish, the great Amorite city, are specially interesting. We know how the Children of Israel dreaded the Amorite cities.

"Thoo ha' made a covenant wi' the Amorite an the Amalekite. They ha' called tha, an thoo art eatin o' their sacrifices!" There was an uneasy laugh from the door, and Laura, turning her astonished eyes in that direction, perceived Hubert standing in the doorway, and behind him another head thrust eagerly forward the head of a young woman in a much betrimmed Sunday hat.

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