Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.
Ver. 3. Ye have not left your brethren these many days.] Seven years at least; some say more, even twice seven: which long absence from their own families, friends, and estates, left in a land so lately conquered, and that upon such a difficult and dangerous undertaking, was an undoubted evidence of their singular constancy and fidelity toward their brethren.