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Daley SevsPhuve Reodinrr ONL Oe Ltbrartan Werarpara Joykeisaua Puntic Libragy Govt. of Wost Beozal ag¥RP, FP BLIC DAILY SCRIPTURE READINGS Junars s I-15 —The work of Aghiing against the Cu- nannites who rermmned in the Jand ix here bogum The Lsraelites asked counyl of the Lord respretang tf, by Utins and Thusamim—the evidence of @ yet strung rligious feel- ing in the mation, Judah and Simeon, as contermiiugus, were waturnlly associated in this enterprise. Beach in marked as to the youth hy east of Jurtsalem, and not more than twelve iniles from it—proving how closely they were sill hemmed in by the aborigines of the country. Onoshould feel that whut was dune to Adoni-bezch wns 9 dood of wan- ton orvelty—though one of retributive juetice, us is acknow- ledgeil by Adoni-bozok himself, who marks the hand of God in ii; and lot us therefore hope that the principle of God's known will in tho matter led to this act of mutila- tion... After the enpture of Jerusalem there remained tavch to be done on tho south of it... Tho story of Caleb, given before in Joshua. xv. 16-19, in here repeated, It ‘was probebly given there in anticipation. 16.27-—Tho city of palm-trocs is anid to be Jericho, ‘The Kenites were the descendants of Jethro, and eo, though vob th. A 2 DALY SCRIPTURE READINGS. seoars t not Iuraclites, lived in the midst of them, Tlormal is in the tribe of Simcon—aftcr the talking of which they wore quite in the way of Gaza, ani Askelon, and Ekron, whieh they afterwards tack; but these must have Lecu subsc- quently reeaverad hy the Philistines—scoing that we read of hom ns their cities. ‘They aubilned, but did not extir- pate them ; and so tlicir enemies still remained amongat thems in firee. . Venjamin, it seems, did not. drive the Jebusites out of their part of Jerusalom ae Judah had driven then out of theies. (verse 8) ‘The border of the two triles ran through the town, Tlow closely, then, the Istaclitos nnd natives of the land must huve been intemmingled {*"Tho entire cap- ture of Jerusalem was an after exploit. The same work of completing the eubjugation was ear ried on hy the other tries... There is 2 Laz marked in the maps, unt fur from Beth-cl, and which may be the socond Juiz, Hoth-el is illustrious in ancient story. Gen. sii. 8; wxviii. 19.) 28-46,—Thia inabitity to drive out tho natives utterly, seomns to have cxtended over the whole of Canaan. How was it with the Ismelites on the east sido of Jonlan? or woro they Inid under the order of exterminating the abo- riginos? But though te Canaanites were not all driven out, yet when Ismael became strong, they wero so far sub- Juguted a to bo Inid under tribute. Doubtless many in ‘the progress of these conquests, instead of waiting to he aloughtered, took flight—often by sea-and henoe the colonizations of Greoco and other parts of Europe may nome of them have proceeded from tho ware of Joshus, The Philistines are by some authora identified with the Pelnsgi, who made descents both on Greece and Ttaly....1¢ srnaea i. DAILY SCRIPTURE READINGS, 8 is interesting to note among the towns within the tenitory of Asher, the Zidon and the Acre of our own day. ‘The Amoritos had oceupaney on both sides of Toran, The children of Joseph gut more the upper hand of them, than the childven of Dan, Ephraim seems to have helped Dan, as Aijolon nnd Shaalbim are both in the territory of thelatter.... Thelastverne, reapecting the Amorites,sectns to indicate the extent of their occupation, even to the south of Juden—Akrathim being, F understand, on the stream which mun into the southern extremity of the Dead Sea, Tunes 1, 1-6.—It is not «nid whether (his angel of the Lond was eiuply a human messenger, or a boing of the angelic elass, or the Augel of the Covenant. He spake, we are told, unto all the children of Israel, and his words wore those of remonstrince and rebuke. God would never break His covenant with them, though thoy, Ly breaking, their covenant with Him, might forfeit its stipulations And it scema that in disobedionee of His exprem charze, they were now forming leagues with tho pouple of the Jand. God, in not driving thein out, wos not falling away from Hix promiso; for they had violated its conditions, and so strikingly exemplified the generat truth, that if ‘wo will not placo temptations beyond our reach, by cither removing ourselves from them, or thom from ontselvos, when we might, God will Joavo us to fall under the power ‘of them—Savo mo, 0 God, from the guilt and danger of those who wilfully run theraselves into snares, or will not flee for safoty when snares are brought near them arid. sround them....The expostulation of the angel had a good effect, at least for u time, upon the people; und beth, their tears and their sacrifices prove that their religious