_AND JOSHUA GATHERED ALL THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL TO SHECHEM, AND CALLED FOR THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL, AND FOR THEIR HEADS, AND FOR THEIR JUDGES, AND FOR THEIR OFFICERS; AND THEY PRESENTED THEMSELVES BEFORE GOD._ Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem. Another and final opportunity of dissuadi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSHUA SAID UNTO ALL THE PEOPLE, THUS SAITH THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, YOUR FATHERS DWELT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FLOOD IN OLD TIME, EVEN TERAH, THE FATHER OF ABRAHAM, AND THE FATHER OF NACHOR: AND THEY SERVED OTHER GODS._ Joshua said unto all the people. His address briefly recapitulated the pr... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I TOOK YOUR FATHER ABRAHAM FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FLOOD, AND LED HIM THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND OF CANAAN, AND MULTIPLIED HIS SEED, AND GAVE HIM ISAAC._ Took your father Abraham. It was an irresistible impulse of divine grace which led the patriarch to leave his country and relatives, to migr... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I GAVE UNTO ISAAC JACOB AND ESAU: AND I GAVE UNTO ESAU MOUNT SEIR, TO POSSESS IT; BUT JACOB AND HIS CHILDREN WENT DOWN INTO EGYPT._ Gave unto Esau mount Seir (see the note at Genesis 36:8) - in order that he might be no obstacle to Jacob and his posterity being the exclusive heirs of Canaan.... [ Continue Reading ]
_I SENT MOSES ALSO AND AARON, AND I PLAGUED EGYPT, ACCORDING TO THAT WHICH I DID AMONG THEM: AND AFTERWARD I BROUGHT YOU OUT._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND YE WENT OVER JORDAN, AND CAME UNTO JERICHO: AND THE MEN OF JERICHO FOUGHT AGAINST YOU, THE AMORITES, AND THE PERIZZITES, AND THE CANAANITES, AND THE HITTITES, AND THE GIRGASHITES, THE HIVITES, AND THE JEBUSITES; AND I DELIVERED THEM INTO YOUR HAND._ Girgashites. The mention of this Canaanite t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I SENT THE HORNET BEFORE YOU, WHICH DRAVE THEM OUT FROM BEFORE YOU, EVEN THE TWO KINGS OF THE AMORITES; BUT NOT WITH THY SWORD, NOR WITH THY BOW._ Sent the hornet - a particular species of wasp which swarms in warm countries, and sometimes assumes the scourging character of a plague (Kirby's '... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND I HAVE GIVEN YOU A LAND FOR WHICH YE DID NOT LABOUR, AND CITIES WHICH YE BUILT NOT, AND YE DWELL IN THEM; OF THE VINEYARDS AND OLIVEYARDS WHICH YE PLANTED NOT DO YE EAT._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_NOW THEREFORE FEAR THE LORD, AND SERVE HIM IN SINCERITY AND IN TRUTH: AND PUT AWAY THE GODS WHICH YOUR FATHERS SERVED ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FLOOD, AND IN EGYPT; AND SERVE YE THE LORD._ Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. After having enumerated so many grounds... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IF IT SEEM EVIL UNTO YOU TO SERVE THE LORD, CHOOSE YOU THIS DAY WHOM YE WILL SERVE; WHETHER THE GODS WHICH YOUR FATHERS SERVED THAT WERE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE FLOOD, OR THE GODS OF THE AMORITES, IN WHOSE LAND YE DWELL: BUT AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE, WE WILL SERVE THE LORD._ No JFB commentary o... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO JOSHUA MADE A COVENANT WITH THE PEOPLE THAT DAY, AND SET THEM A STATUTE AND AN ORDINANCE IN SHECHEM._ So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day - he induced them solemnly and voluntarily to renew the national covenant (cf. Nehemiah 10:1).... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSHUA WROTE THESE WORDS IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW OF GOD, AND TOOK A GREAT STONE, AND SET IT UP THERE UNDER AN OAK, THAT WAS BY THE SANCTUARY OF THE LORD._ Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God - registered the engagements of that solemn covenant in the book of sacred history.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSHUA SAID UNTO ALL THE PEOPLE, BEHOLD, THIS STONE SHALL BE A WITNESS UNTO US; FOR IT HATH HEARD ALL THE WORDS OF THE LORD WHICH HE SPAKE UNTO US: IT SHALL BE THEREFORE A WITNESS UNTO YOU, LEST YE DENY YOUR GOD._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND IT CAME TO PASS AFTER THESE THINGS, THAT JOSHUA THE SON OF NUN, THE SERVANT OF THE LORD, DIED, BEING AN HUNDRED AND TEN YEARS OLD._ Joshua ... died. Lightfoot computes that he lived 17 years, others 27 years after the entrance into Canaan. He was buried, according to the Jewish practice, withi... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY BURIED HIM IN THE BORDER OF HIS INHERITANCE IN TIMNATHSERAH, WHICH IS IN MOUNT EPHRAIM, ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE HILL OF GAASH._ In Timnath-serah, which is in mount Ephraim - i:e., portion remaining, or reserved for Joshua after the land was distributed. It is called, Judges 2:9, Timnath-... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ISRAEL SERVED THE LORD ALL THE DAYS OF JOSHUA, AND ALL THE DAYS OF THE ELDERS THAT OVERLIVED JOSHUA, AND WHICH HAD KNOWN ALL THE WORKS OF THE LORD, THAT HE HAD DONE FOR ISRAEL._ Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua. The high and commanding character of this eminent leader had given so... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE BONES OF JOSEPH, WHICH THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL BROUGHT UP OUT OF EGYPT, BURIED THEY IN SHECHEM, IN A PARCEL OF GROUND WHICH JACOB BOUGHT OF THE SONS OF HAMOR THE FATHER OF SHECHEM FOR AN HUNDRED PIECES OF SILVER: AND IT BECAME THE INHERITANCE OF THE CHILDREN OF JOSEPH._ The bones of Joseph.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ELEAZAR THE SON OF AARON DIED; AND THEY BURIED HIM IN A HILL THAT_ Eleazar ... died, and they buried him in ... mount Ephraim. The grave is at the modern village Awertah, which, according to Jewish travelers, contains the graves also of Ithamar, the brother of Phinehas, the son of Eleazar (Van... [ Continue Reading ]