And the land rested from war But this does not denote a permanent cessation. It rather implies that the Israelites no longer needed to war unitedlyagainst the Canaanites. There was yet much land to be possessed, but the time had arrived for the occupation of the country by the different tribes, and the completion of the work of conquest was now to be left to the separate action of each.

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