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Form of Government after the Death of Joshua; In Egypt; In the Wilderness;

Princes of Tribes and Heads of Families; Impatience to take Possession

of Promised Land; The Effects of it; Renewal of War; Extent of Holy

Land; Opinions of Fleury, Spanheim, Reland, and Lowman; Principle of

Distribution; Each Tribe confined to a separate Locality; Property

unalienable; Conditions of Tenure; Population of the Tribes; Number of

Principal Families; A General Government or National Council; The Judges;

Nature of their Authority; Not ordinary Magistrates; Different from Kings,

Consuls, and Dictators; Judicial Establishments; Judges and Officers;

Described by Josephus; Equality of Condition among the Hebrews; Their

Inclination for a Pastoral Life; Freebooters, like the Arabs; Abimelech,

Jephthah, and David; Simplicity of the Times; Boaz and Ruth; Tribe of

Levi; Object of their Separation; The learned Professions hereditary,

after the manner of the Egyptians; The Levitical Cities; Their Number and

Uses; Opinion of Michaelis; Summary View of the Times and Character of the

Hebrew Judges.