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Unto thy seed have I given this land, i.e. decreed and promised in due time to give, which makes it as sure as if it were actually given to them. Or,
I will give; words of the past time being oft put for the future, especially in prophecies.
The river of Egypt; not Nilus, which elsewhere is so called, but a less river, as is sufficiently implied, because this is opposed to the
great river here following; but a river called Sihor, which divides Egypt from Canaan. See Num_34:5 Jos_13:3 1Ch_13:5. The accomplishment hereof, see 2Sa_8:3 1Ki_4:21 9:21.