28 The Nile is the Nahal Miteraim, 



which lay the neareft to them ; even that of the Avims, {pent. 

 ^. xg.) or Hhites, {Jojh. 1 3. ^.) of the Sons oi Canaan. 

 The Land of That the Land of the Thilifiines was to be Part of the Land 

 ^iTT'ZlofPromife, will appear from feveral Texts of Scripture. Thus 

 w "/^'^"■^g jg^j.j^ fj-om Gen. 16. i. that, when Ifaac went unto y^ime- 

 lech the King of the Thilifiines y at Gerar, God told him to fo- 

 iourn in that Land\ for unto him and to his Seed he would 

 give all thofe Countries. Which is further fpecified, Jo/h. 13- 

 t, 3. &c. there remaineth yet, [ays the Lord to JoJJmaj very 

 much Land to he ^offejfed: viz. all the Borders of the Thili- 

 /lines y and all GeJIjuri, from Sihor which is before Egypt ^ even 

 unto the Borders of Ekron Northward. This again is more 

 particularly illuflrated from Jo/Jj. 15-. 47. Judg. i. 18. where 

 the Cities of the Thilijlines, that were given to the Tribe of 

 Judah, are Ekron, and ^JJodod and Gaza, with their Towns 

 and their Villages, unto The River of Egypt, and the great 

 Sea^ and the Borders thereof. 

 Gojhen ano- ^y-^^ that thisConQueft did not only extend and ftretch itfelf 



ther Portion ■ -^ c ■% -xn J^ ^ i -vt 



of the i"""^ along the lower Part of the Nile, (known to us by the Name 

 of the Telu/iac BranchJ but even a great way higher up to 

 the S. W. even to the Parallel of the ancient Memphis and of 

 the Red Sea ; will appear from the Gift that was made to the 

 Ifraelites o( the Land oWo/ben^ For Gojhen, as I have proved, 

 (Trav. p. 341.) lay contiguous with this Part of^ the Nile, and 

 was watered by it. In Proof of which, Jofhua is faid {Jojlj. 

 to. 41.) to f mite the Countries and Teople from Kade/Jj Barnea 

 even unto Gaza, and all the Country of Go/hen \ i. e. all the 

 Countries and People that lay to the Northward, as far as the 

 Great Sea-, and to the Weft ward, as far as the Nile. And 

 again, JoJh. 11. 16. So Jofhua took all the Land, the Hills and 

 all the South Coajl and all the Land of Gojhen. 

 TheN^/fthe The vcry Situation therefore and Extent of the Lot of the 

 the THbe' of Tribe oi Judah, will naturally point out to us The River of 

 Egypt, to be their Weftern Boundary. For their South Border 

 was to be the Wilder nefs of Zin \ {Jojh.is- 1-) which compre- 

 hended Kadejh Barnea and Gerar and Gejhuri, or the Country 

 of the Gejhurites. Now as Gerar was fituated betwixt Kadejh 

 znd Shur, (Gen.^o. i.) and theGeJJourites, together with the 

 Gezrites and the udmalahites, (i Sam. 17. 8. JoJJj. 13. x, 3.) 



were 



