<p>13:19 <i>And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Canaan- </i>There were ten nations in the land (Gen. 15:19-21), but seven of them were destroyed (Dt. 7:1). This combination of ten and seven is repeated throughout the descriptions of the latter day beast dominating the land of Israel with seven heads and ten horns (Rev. 12:3; 13:1; 17:3,7). I suggest that this means that not all of the ten horns will conflict with Israel; perhaps only seven of the ten nation confederacy dominating latter day Israel will be destroyed.</p><p><i>He gave them their land for an inheritance, for about four hundred and fifty years</i>- There are times when the Spirit uses very approximate numbers rather than exact (&quot;about four hundred and fifty years&quot;, Acts 13:20 cp. 1 Kings 6:1, which gives four hundred and eighty years, although the LXX there says 440- hence &quot;about 450 years&quot;). Sometimes the Bible is not precise. Under inspiration, the Hebrew writer seems to have forgotten the exact quotation, or to have been deliberately vague, when he speaks of &quot;one in a certain place testified&quot; (Heb. 2:6). The reference to &quot;seventy&quot; in Judges 9:56 also doesn't seem exact. Seven and a half years (2 Sam. 2:11) becomes &quot;seven years&quot; (1 Kings 2:11); three months and ten days (2 Chron. 36:9) becomes &quot;three months&quot; (2 Kings 24:8). And 1 Kings 7:23 gives the circumference of the laver as &ldquo;thirty cubits&rdquo;, although it was ten cubits broad. Taking &lsquo;pi&rsquo; to be 3.14, it is apparent that the circumference would have been 31.4 cubits; but the Spirit says, summing up, &ldquo;thirty&rdquo;. Surely this is to show that God is God, not man. His word is not contradictory, but in ensuring this, God does not sink down to the level of a man who wanted to produce an apparently faultless book, carefully ensuring that every figure exactly tallied. He has a spiritual culture much higher than this. And this is behind the many Bible paradoxes which we meet. The reading of the AV suggests judges were given for a period of about 450 years. Other readings are as in the NEV. Significantly, the period from the call of Abraham to the death of Joshua was likewise 450 years, suggesting that God works according to a plan and structures 'ages' according to a masterplan which climaxed in His Son (Heb. 1:1,2).</p>