_NOW AFTER THE DEATH OF MOSES THE SERVANT OF THE LORD IT CAME TO PASS, THAT THE LORD SPAKE UNTO JOSHUA THE SON OF NUN, MOSES' MINISTER, SAYING,_ Now ... it came to pass, х_ WAYªHIY_ (H1961)] - and it was. The copulative waw (w), and, placed at the commencement of a book, is a nexus or link uniting... [ Continue Reading ]
_MOSES MY SERVANT IS DEAD; NOW THEREFORE ARISE, GO OVER THIS JORDAN, THOU, AND ALL THIS PEOPLE, UNTO THE LAND WHICH I DO GIVE TO THEM, EVEN TO THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL._ Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan. Joshua's mission was that of a military leader. This passage records his call to begin th... [ Continue Reading ]
_EVERY PLACE THAT THE SOLE OF YOUR FOOT SHALL TREAD UPON, THAT HAVE I GIVEN UNTO YOU, AS I SAID UNTO MOSES._ Every place, of course, means, not universal dominion, but only the territory comprised within the boundaries here described (see the note at Deuteronomy 19:8). AS I SAID UNTO MOSES, (see... [ Continue Reading ]
_FROM THE WILDERNESS AND THIS LEBANON EVEN UNTO THE GREAT RIVER, THE RIVER EUPHRATES, ALL THE LAND OF THE HITTITES, AND UNTO THE GREAT SEA TOWARD THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN, SHALL BE YOUR COAST._ From the wilderness and this Lebanon. It is observable that, instead of tracing the limits of the promis... [ Continue Reading ]
_THERE SHALL NOT ANY MAN BE ABLE TO STAND BEFORE THEE ALL THE DAYS OF THY LIFE: AS I WAS WITH MOSES, SO I WILL BE WITH THEE: I WILL NOT FAIL THEE, NOR FORSAKE THEE._ There shall not any man be able to stand before thee. Canaan had been promised to Israel by a divine grant; and the renewed confirmat... [ Continue Reading ]
_BE STRONG AND OF A GOOD COURAGE: FOR UNTO THIS PEOPLE SHALT THOU DIVIDE FOR AN INHERITANCE THE LAND, WHICH I SWARE UNTO THEIR FATHERS TO GIVE THEM._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_THEN JOSHUA COMMANDED THE OFFICERS OF THE PEOPLE, SAYING,_ Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people. Thus divinely commissioned and encouraged, the new leader inaugurated his work by issuing orders to the Shoterim (see the notes at Exodus 5:10; Deuteronomy 20:5), whose duty it was to keep... [ Continue Reading ]
_PASS THROUGH THE HOST, AND COMMAND THE PEOPLE, SAYING, PREPARE YOU VICTUALS; FOR WITHIN THREE DAYS YE SHALL PASS OVER THIS JORDAN, TO GO IN TO POSSESS THE LAND, WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD GIVETH YOU TO POSSESS IT._ Prepare you victuals. This was the proclamation those officers were charged to make, t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND TO THE REUBENITES, AND TO THE GADITES, AND TO HALF THE TRIBE OF MANASSEH, SPAKE JOSHUA, SAYING,_ And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua. At this time also Joshua himself convened the two and a half tribes which had settled east of Jordan, to... [ Continue Reading ]
_REMEMBER THE WORD WHICH MOSES THE SERVANT OF THE LORD COMMANDED YOU, SAYING, THE LORD YOUR GOD HATH GIVEN YOU REST, AND HATH GIVEN YOU THIS LAND._ Remember the word which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying. The words spoken by Joshua are not a literal quotation, but the substance... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY ANSWERED JOSHUA, SAYING, ALL THAT THOU COMMANDEST US WE WILL DO, AND WHITHERSOEVER THOU SENDEST US, WE WILL GO._ All that thou commandest us we will do. Their readiness to redeem their pledge, and the terms in which they answered the appeal of Joshua, displayed to great advantage their pa... [ Continue Reading ]