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including it in the years of Joshua, and understanding the 

 term by which he mentions his administration afier the con- 

 quest for 25 years, viz. " he rested in that good land," as equi- 

 valent and identical to that mentioned in the book of Joshua, 

 " and the land had rest from war," which we have shewn to 

 signify the interval succeeding the conquest, to the wars of 

 the elders or to tlie conciucst of Chusan. — In either case it 

 will be evident and admitted that my system is more con- 

 sistent and just, in granting 30 years to Joshua and the elders 

 conjointly, which adding the six years of war to the 25 of rest, 

 is conformable to the calculus of Clement ; especially, as it is 

 evident and demomtrablt from Scripture, that after the death 

 of Joshua, the ciders led out the tribes to successful enter- 

 prise, and of course were not subjugated in the 3'ear of his 

 death, (1. Judg. pass.) and here is no opportunity for the 

 subterfuge, " that the success of some tribes, and the servi- 

 tude of others* may have (as is probable in other instances) 

 been partial and contemporaneous, since we are told all the 

 tribes consulted the Lord, " who should go up" against their 

 enemies ; which shews that they were both united and inde- 

 pendent at that period. 



2. In granting 50 years to Othnicl, in which many of the 

 ancient chronologists concur, it should seem he originally 



meant 



• Pcihaps, indeed, he meant to say, bellum gessit hn, i, and that the | is a mistake of 

 the transcriber. 



