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h ; for Mo»v* gare Gilead to Machtr, the son of Manaaseh, who took it •nd disposeiesscd the Aniorito* that were in it, and Manasacb^ who b mentioned bestdee Giiead and Ephratm, wn^ one of the M>ns of Joseph ; j^o that ^e have JosephV family ^thered together and declared to be the strength of God's bead, while Jtidah is declared to be hi» lawjfiver j bei^idcc ^hich no oihcfB are mentioned. Now so little bad the Ephraimite» attained to this charncter before the disprrwion that they were defeated by Jephthah and hi."^ Gileadite.^ in the uiid^t of their saucy wkI proud bQastings. (Judges xii.) So alfio by the men of Galh (I Chron. t. 2) ; and in gene* ralitis^aid of them (PsalmlxxviJLO), "Thcchil- drcn of Ephraim, being armed, and carrying bows, lumed back in the day of battle/' Their mighty promif^e^ Rcem to have inflated their minds, and made them boai^tftil against Gideon and Jephthah. i Tliey wished all the power; but they had no patience nor courage for the fight : becauft© the time was not yet comc> Just aa Judah, ex- pecting the sovereignty and legislation of king- domg before the time to which the promise refer- .160 7H-L ^:iG& Of r:t± .i^zT. [7>fe -yj, ^va&caL of m the prcwaaiin ai^ pBdA-oC 'iut MjiDui and ^flory of bon^tt^ ifabra tfae tinft ly^nsf which it will come u jiim*. was Am<m- TUfT^?* tioaiiiu God sod KaicuiB ti£ dFviy vaiuntt ^ow TTPTOgiwtiijftff thiff-^iitmciion fiiiiwf)m_C»ii runL andjudah Ls another wkich. iftSikffli hy thfi pn^ phetHtaeawith retttnmre tadi£iaiii«timeft^^ll). and Jacoh shall ^^"!»^ bia ciodsv ' Thu muat bt studied *l"wg with the y*^''-^'*^ wtuch wholly rcB: iTgiTi^^ y-phi-^iai and hift niy^ ciiv of J*fc«™i>m^ [iLLheikh.Tene»tfati«d:he Uwf rnnriimanrfi nf their httflftii^rm md tiiifii'ttTT ^voji tRun As daya oc' the traaagreaiica of Gibcah, which they did not av^^ aa the; cnf^ to haro thmft^ b^ caoae ot their own iclaxaaottof righ£atiua&etiii^ in ihe Hth vene, comca their acrricade to thenar tiona, Uk£ that oi a b^iiier which is bound to th» yoke, and dn^geth co&ii&oaUy between two fdrrowa. Then, in verae 11, the Lord beautifully lepreaenteth the altered cooditica q£ Ephmm : " Ephraim i^ asa heifer thai U tan^t and luTedi to tread out the com ■" Uagfat aa it were from my word to know her high dcstinatioa of treading down and apoiling hia enemies, and hiving t£> fae employed in that most gk>rioas work, aa a tt^Sa Joreth al>f/ve all the work^ of huflbaodry to trad out the corn, id which work being unmuzzled, aod permitted to eat at tbeir pleasure, the bewta grew fa