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On the way home, when the two tribes and a half had reached the border of Canaan, they built a large conspicuous altar in the district of the Jordan, in the land of Canaan, i.e., on this side of the Jordan: “a great altar to see to,” i.e., one which caught the eye on account of its size, since it was to serve for a memorial (Jos 22:24.). The definition appended to Shiloh, “in the land of Canaan” (Jos 22:9), serves to bring out the antithesis “into the land of Gilead,” by which we are to understand the whole of the country to the east of the Jordan, as in Num 32:29; Deu 34:1; Jdg 5:17, etc. נֹאחַז, both in the form and meaning the same as in Num 32:30, made possessors, i.e., settled down. הַיַּרְדֵּן גְּלִילֹות, the circles of the Jordan, is synonymous with הַיַּרְדֵּן כִּכַּר in Gen 13:10, and signifies that portion of the Ghor which was upon the western side of the Jordan.