JOSHUA CHAPTER 22 The two tribes and half are sent home with, a blessing, strict charge to fear the Lord, and great booty, JOSHUA 22:1. They build an altar of testimony at the brink of Jordan, JOSHUA 22:10. The Israelites are offended, and assemble to wage war against them, JOSHUA 22:11,12. They fir... [ Continue Reading ]
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These many days, i.e. for divers years together, so long as the war lasted. See JOSHUA 11:18, JOSHUA 14:10.... [ Continue Reading ]
UNTO YOUR TENTS, i.e. to your settled habitations, as appears from DEUTERONOMY 22:8, which are oft called TENTS, as JUDGES 19:9 2 SAMUEL 17:17 HOSEA 9:6 ZECHARIAH 2:12.... [ Continue Reading ]
TAKE DILIGENT HEED; watch over yourselves and all your actions. THE COMMANDMENT AND THE LAW; two words expressing the same thing, the law of commandments delivered by Moses. WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL; with the whole strength of your minds, and wills, and affections.... [ Continue Reading ]
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i.e. With them who staid beyond Jordan for the defence of their land, and wives, and children, who therefore were to have a share, though not an equal share, with these. See NUMBERS 31:27. But for them, 1 SAMUEL 30:24, their share was equal, because their danger was equal.... [ Continue Reading ]
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Or, _built then_, as this particle is elsewhere used; and so learned interpreters understand it, PSALMS 14:5, PSALMS 36:12 ECCLESIASTES 3:17 HOSEA 2:15. And in the Latin tongue adverbs of place are sometimes put for adverbs of time: so I take it here. First, Because this best answers to the when in... [ Continue Reading ]
Where they passed over Jordan, either at their first entrance into Canaan, or afterwards, and usually.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL; not in their own persons, but by their elders, who used to transact all affairs of this kind in the name and stead of all the people. TO GO UP TO WAR AGAINST THEM; as apostates from God, according to God's command in that case, DEUTERONOMY 13:13, &c.... [ Continue Reading ]
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THE WHOLE CONGREGATION OF THE LORD, who do and are resolved to cleave unto that God from whom you have revolted, and who speak this to you in the name of the Lord. WHAT TRESPASS IS THIS? how heinous a crime is this! To turn away this day, i.e. so soon after God hath obliged you by such wonderful fav... [ Continue Reading ]
THE INIQUITY OF PEOR, i.e. of our worshipping of BaalPeer, NUM 25. FROM WHICH WE ARE NOT CLEANSED UNTIL THIS DAY; for though God had pardoned it, as to the national punishment of it, NUMBERS 25:11, yet they were not yet thoroughly purged from it; partly because the shame and blot of that filthy and... [ Continue Reading ]
TO-MORROW, i.e. suddenly, as that word is oft used, as MATTHEW 6:30 1 CORINTHIANS 15:32. HE WILL BE WROTH WITH THE WHOLE CONGREGATION OF ISRAEL; with you for doing so, and with us for suffering, or not punishing it.... [ Continue Reading ]
IF THE LAND OF YOUR POSSESSION BE CLEAN; if you apprehend it to be so for want of the tabernacle and altar there, as the following words imply; if you now repent of your former choice in preferring the worldly commodities of that country before the advantage of God's presence and favour, and more fr... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SON OF ZERAH, i.e. one of his posterity, JOSHUA 7:17,18. PERISHED NOT ALONE, but brought destruction upon his whole family, and part of our forces sent against Ai. IN HIS INIQUITY, or, _for his sin_; of which see JOSHUA 7:24.... [ Continue Reading ]
Either, first, properly, each was a governor of a thousand; for there were among them divers rulers, some of tens, some of hundreds, and some of thousands; or rather, secondly, improperly, and indefinitely, i.e. of the people of Israel, which consist of so many thousands more than you, whose authori... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD GOD OF GODS; that Jehovah whom we, no less than you, acknowledge and adore as the _God of gods_, infinitely superior to all that are called gods. The multiplying of his titles, and the repetition of these words, show their zeal and earnestness in this matter, and their abhorrency of the ver... [ Continue Reading ]
i.e. Call us to an account, and punish us for it; as that phrase is oft used, as DEUTERONOMY 18:19 1 SAMUEL 20:16 JOB 10:6 PSALMS 10:13.... [ Continue Reading ]
You have no relation to him, nor interest in him, or his worship.... [ Continue Reading ]
A BORDER BETWEEN US AND YOU, to shut you out of the Land. of Promise, and consequently from thee covenant made, between God and our father. YE HAVE NO PART IN THE LORD; nothing to do with him; no right to serve him or expect favour from him. See the like phrase 2 SAMUEL 20:1 EZRA 4:3 1 THESSALONIANS... [ Continue Reading ]
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THAT WE MIGHT DO THE SERVICE OF THE LORD BEFORE HIM; that we and ours may have and hold our privilege of serving and worshipping God, not upon this altar, but in the office of God's presence, in your tabernacle, and upon your altar.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PATTERN; an exact representation and resemblance. A WITNESS BETWEEN US AND YOU, that we both serve one God, and approve and make use of one and the same altar.... [ Continue Reading ]
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THE LORD IS AMONG US, by his gracious presence and preventing goodness, in keeping you from so great an offence, and all of us from those dismal calamities that would have followed upon it. OUT OF THE HAND OF THE LORD, i.e. from the wrath and dreadful judgments of God; by avoiding that sin which wou... [ Continue Reading ]
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As they were by the law of God obliged to do, if they had been guilty and persisted therein; as afterwards they did they tribe of Benjamin for the same reason.... [ Continue Reading ]
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