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15: 12-17 GENESIS
the seed of Abraham shall acutally proceed to take possession
of the land. This interval can only-commence when
the seed its born; that is, at the birth of Isaac, when Abram
was a hundred years of age, and therefore thirty years after
the call. During this interval they are to be, first, strangers
in a land not theirs for one hundred and ninety years; and
then for the remaining two hundred and ten years in
Egypt: at first, servants, with considerable privilege and
position; and at last, afflicted serfs, under a hard and cruel
bondage. At the end of this period Pharaoh and his nation
were visited with a succession of tremendous judgments,
and Israel went out free from bondage with great wealth
(Exo. chs. 12:14) .”
Leupold (EG, 486) : “Another factor enters into these
computations and readjustments-‘the guilt of the Amorites.’
All the inhabitants of Canaan are referred to by the
term ‘Amorites,’ the most important family of the Canaanites
(see on 10: 16). The term is similarly used in 48:22;
Num. 13:29, 21:21, etc., Deut. 1:7, 19. These aboriginal
inhabitants of Canaan had heaped up a measure of ‘guilt’
by this time. The measure was not yet ‘complete’
(shdem), that is, they were nearing the point where divine
tolerance could bear with them no longer, but they
had not yet arrived at this point. God’s foreknowledge
discerned that in a few more centuries these wicked nations
would have forfeited their right tp live, and then He would
replace them in the land of Canaan by the Israelites. Passages
bearing on the iniquity of the Canaanites are Lev.
18:24 ff.; 20:22 ff.; Deut. 18:9ff. So God will allow the
children of Israel to be absent from tlie land while the
Canaanites continue in their‘ evil ways. When He can
bear the Canaanites no longer, He will have another nation
ready wherewith to teplace them. Thus far we have encountered
no direct evidence of Canaanite iniquity but
shall soon see the starting examples offered by Sodom.”
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