_BUT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL COMMITTED A TRESPASS IN THE ACCURSED THING: FOR ACHAN, THE SON OF CARMI, THE SON OF ZABDI, THE SON OF ZERAH, OF THE TRIBE OF JUDAH, TOOK OF THE ACCURSED THING: AND THE ANGER OF THE LORD WAS KINDLED AGAINST THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL._ But the children of Israel committed a t... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSHUA SENT MEN FROM JERICHO TO AI, WHICH IS BESIDE BETHAVEN, ON THE EAST SIDE OF BETHEL, AND SPAKE UNTO THEM, SAYING, GO UP AND VIEW THE COUNTRY. AND THE MEN WENT UP AND VIEWED AI._ Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai. After the sacking of Jericho, the next step was to penetrate into the hills... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY RETURNED TO JOSHUA, AND SAID UNTO HIM, LET NOT ALL THE PEOPLE GO UP; BUT LET ABOUT TWO OR THREE_ _ THOUSAND MEN GO UP AND SMITE AI; AND MAKE NOT ALL THE PEOPLE TO LABOUR THITHER; FOR THEY ARE BUT FEW._ Let not all the people go up ... for they are but few. Since the population of Ai amoun... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO THERE WENT UP THITHER OF THE PEOPLE ABOUT THREE THOUSAND MEN: AND THEY FLED BEFORE THE MEN OF AI._ They fled before the men of Ai. An unexpected resistance and the loss of 36 of their number diffused a panic, which ended in an ignominious rout.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE MEN OF AI SMOTE OF THEM ABOUT THIRTY AND SIX MEN: FOR THEY CHASED THEM FROM BEFORE THE GATE EVEN UNTO SHEBARIM, AND SMOTE THEM IN THE GOING DOWN: WHEREFORE THE HEARTS OF THE PEOPLE MELTED, AND BECAME AS WATER._ Chased them ... even unto Shebarim - i:e., unto the 'breakings' or 'fissures' a... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSHUA RENT HIS CLOTHES, AND FELL TO THE EARTH UPON HIS FACE BEFORE THE ARK OF THE LORD UNTIL THE EVENTIDE, HE AND THE ELDERS OF ISRAEL, AND PUT DUST UPON THEIR HEADS._ JOSHUA RENT HIS CLOTHES, AND FELL ... BEFORE THE ARK ... HE AND THE ELDERS, х_ LIPNEEY_ (H6440) _ 'ªROWN _ (H727)] - before or... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSHUA SAID, ALAS, O LORD GOD, WHEREFORE HAST THOU AT ALL BROUGHT THIS PEOPLE OVER JORDAN, TO DELIVER US INTO THE HAND OF THE AMORITES, TO DESTROY US? WOULD TO GOD WE HAD BEEN CONTENT, AND DWELT ON THE OTHER SIDE JORDAN!_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THE LORD SAID UNTO JOSHUA, GET THEE UP; WHEREFORE LIEST THOU THUS UPON THY FACE?_ The Lord said ... Get thee up. The answer of the divine oracle was to this effect:-The crisis is owing not to unfaithfulness in Me, but sin in the people. The conditions of the covenant have been violated by the... [ Continue Reading ]
_ISRAEL HATH SINNED, AND THEY HAVE ALSO TRANSGRESSED MY COVENANT WHICH I COMMANDED THEM: FOR THEY HAVE EVEN TAKEN OF THE ACCURSED THING, AND HAVE ALSO STOLEN, AND DISSEMBLED ALSO, AND THEY HAVE PUT IT EVEN AMONG THEIR OWN STUFF._ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO JOSHUA ROSE UP EARLY IN THE MORNING, AND BROUGHT ISRAEL BY THEIR TRIBES; AND THE TRIBE OF JUDAH WAS TAKEN:_ So Joshua rose up early ... and brought Israel by their tribes - i:e., before the tabernacle. The lot being appealed to (Proverbs 16:33) - a mode of appealing to the divine decision, to w... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND HE BROUGHT THE FAMILY OF JUDAH; AND HE TOOK THE FAMILY OF THE ZARHITES: AND HE BROUGHT THE FAMILY OF THE ZARHITES MAN BY MAN; AND ZABDI WAS TAKEN:_ No JFB commentary on these verses.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSHUA SAID UNTO ACHAN, MY SON, GIVE, I PRAY THEE, GLORY TO THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, AND MAKE CONFESSION UNTO HIM; AND TELL ME NOW WHAT THOU HAST DONE; HIDE IT NOT FROM ME._ Joshua said ... My son, give ... glory to ... God - a form of adjuration to tell the truth.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND ACHAN ANSWERED JOSHUA, AND SAID, INDEED I HAVE SINNED AGAINST THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, AND THUS AND THUS HAVE I DONE:_ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_WHEN I SAW AMONG THE SPOILS A GOODLY BABYLONISH GARMENT, AND TWO HUNDRED SHEKELS OF SILVER, AND A WEDGE OF GOLD OF FIFTY SHEKELS WEIGHT, THEN I COVETED THEM, AND TOOK THEM; AND, BEHOLD, THEY ARE HID IN THE EARTH IN THE MIDST OF MY TENT, AND THE SILVER UNDER IT._ A goodly Babylonian garment, х_ 'AD... [ Continue Reading ]
_SO JOSHUA SENT MESSENGERS, AND THEY RAN UNTO THE TENT; AND, BEHOLD, IT WAS HID IN HIS TENT, AND THE SILVER UNDER IT._ Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent - from impatient eagerness not only to test the truth of the story, but to clear Israel from the imputation of guilt. Having disc... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY TOOK THEM OUT OF THE MIDST OF THE TENT, AND BROUGHT THEM UNTO JOSHUA, AND UNTO ALL THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND LAID THEM OUT BEFORE THE LORD._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSHUA, AND ALL ISRAEL WITH HIM, TOOK ACHAN THE SON OF ZERAH, AND THE SILVER, AND THE GARMENT, AND THE WEDGE OF GOLD, AND HIS SONS, AND HIS DAUGHTERS, AND HIS OXEN, AND HIS ASSES, AND HIS SHEEP, AND HIS TENT, AND ALL THAT HE HAD: AND THEY BROUGHT THEM UNTO THE VALLEY OF ACHOR._ Joshua, and all... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND JOSHUA SAID, WHY HAST THOU TROUBLED US? THE LORD SHALL TROUBLE THEE THIS DAY. AND ALL ISRAEL STONED HIM WITH STONES, AND BURNED THEM WITH FIRE, AFTER THEY HAD STONED THEM WITH STONES._ No JFB commentary on this verse.... [ Continue Reading ]
_AND THEY RAISED OVER HIM A GREAT HEAP OF STONES UNTO THIS DAY. SO THE LORD TURNED FROM THE FIERCENESS OF HIS ANGER. WHEREFORE THE NAME OF THAT PLACE WAS CALLED, THE VALLEY OF ACHOR, UNTO THIS DAY._ They raised over him a great head of stones. It is customary to raise cairns over the graves of crim... [ Continue Reading ]