22. — and to the strangers &c.] Foreigners before never had the privilege of purchasing or possessing any inheritance among the Jews; so this mystically imports the incorporating of the Gentiles into the same Church with the Jews, making them "fellow-heirs, and of the same body" with them "by the Gospel," Ephes. iii. 6. W. Lowth. There is no reason to believe that this privilege was ever granted under Zerubbabel. Calmet. From ver. 15 to the end of the chapter is prefigured NOW these are the names of the tribes. From the north end to the coast of the way of Hethlon, as one goeth to Hamath, Hazar-enan, the border of Damascus northward, to the coast of Hamath; for these are his sides east and west; a portion for Dan. 22. — the Levites.] Including the priests; see chap. xlv. 15. The sense of the verse is, that the possession belonging to the priests and Levites, (see ver. 11,) and the city, were bounded on the east and west by the prince's portion; that the former lay in the middle, the latter beyond them. W. Lowth. 25. — Issachar.] These appointments are not laid out with any regard to the division of the land made in Joshua's time; for here a platform of a new church and state is set forth. W. Lowth. 28. — from Tamar.] See note on chap. xlvii. 19.