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way : assuming (for which there is not a shadow of proof ) that 
Joshua was forty- five years old at the Exode; and asserting 
that the statement,— that “ Ehshama, the son of Ammihu , 
was the captain of the host of Ephraim (Numb n. 18), about 
a vear after his grandson, Joshua, had commanded the who 
Hebrew forc'e which fought with Amalek/ 
(See § 58, infra.) Then he charges contradictions against the 
narrative in 1 Chron., which rest, however, wholly on his gloss, 
the passage being capable of a self-consistent interpretation ; 
and at last cites £ reconciling view of Kuenen’s, the result of 
which, Dr. Colenso admits, “ would perfectly agree with ou^ 
other data.” Yet he rejects it, ‘‘ for the reasons ^ f 
by which, I presume, he means his own self-constituted rule ot 
only four generations (I can find no other reasons given ) ; 
and this is worthless. .. 97 wnnld be 
57 My own mode of reading 1 Chron. vn. 20—27 would be 
somewhat like this -.-Ephraim (whose very name sigmfies 
fruitful see Gen xlviii. 16, 19) had nine sons, Shutheiah, 
Be/d, Tahath, Eladah, Tahath H (named P^aps in me m0 ^ 
of the former already deceased), Zabad, Shutheiah II. ( 
before), Ezer, and Elead. The Gittites slew these last two. 
Then another son, Beriah, from whom came, after eig gen 1 - 
rations, Joshua. As Beriah’s daughter seems to have been 
co-ordinate with Aaron (in generation), she could have built 
the Bethhorons only by her descendants, who perhaps retained 
her name; unless, indeed, she had married a Canaanfie, and 
had emigrated to Canaan in the early part of the S 0 J 0U1 ““ 
Goshen . 8 This is by no means impossible : Ehshama who wa 
six generations lower than she, was captain of the host ot 
Ephraim at the Exode. «... i • ~,« a aiETp 
58. As to the generations, the following scheme is possible, 
and consistent : — . tit* 
An. Jul. P. 
Assume that the Eisode into Egypt occurred in the year 
of the Julian Period 
when Joseph was 39, and Ephraim may 
Ephraim may have had several wives, 
nine early sons may have been born by. 
Ezer and Elead, slain at Gath 
Beriah born 
Kephah „ 
Telah „ 
Tahan „ 
Laadan „ 
Ammibud,, 
Elishama „ 
Nun „ 
Joshua „ 
Exode 
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