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CHAPTER XXIII
_Joshua, being old, calls for the rulers and different heads of_
_the Israelites_, 1, 2,
_to whom he relates how God had put them in possession of the_
_promised land_, 3, 4;
_from...
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This and the next chapter contain the last addresses of Joshua. These
addresses were no doubt among the closing acts of Joshua’s life, but
were evidently given on different occasions, and are of diffe...
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2. JOSHUA'S TWO ADDRESSES
The First Address
CHAPTER 23
_ 1. The people gathered (Joshua 23:1)_
2. God's faithfulness remembered (Joshua 23:3)
3. Exhortations to obedience (Joshua 23:6)
4. Warni
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A LONG TIME AFTER. Eight years. See App-50.
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4.
OLD AND STRICKEN IN AGE. Aged 102. Compare Joshua 13:1. Figure of
speech, _Pleonasm_. App-6. Hebrew. "old and advanced...
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Joshua 23:1-16. Joshua's first Farewell Address
1. _had given rest_ Comp. Joshua 21:43-44; Joshua 22:3-4.
_waxed old_ Comp....
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_VER._ 1. _AND IT CAME TO PASS A LONG TIME AFTER,_ &C.— That is to
say, fourteen years after the conquest of the land of Canaan, and
seven after the division of the country among the tribes. See ch.
J...
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_A Review of Joshua's Work Joshua 23:1-5_
And it came to pass a long time after that the Lord had given rest
unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old
and stricken in age....
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_AND IT CAME TO PASS A LONG TIME AFTER THAT THE LORD HAD GIVEN REST
UNTO ISRAEL FROM ALL THEIR ENEMIES ROUND ABOUT, THAT JOSHUA WAXED OLD
AND STRICKEN IN AGE._
A long time after that the Lord had giv...
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23:1 age, (c-30) Lit. 'in days;' and so ver. 2....
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THE FIRST FAREWELL ADDRESS OF JOSHUA
This discourse was probably delivered at Shiloh or Timnath-Serah.
Unlike the Second Discourse, which is mainly a historical retrospect,
it dwells chiefly upon the...
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COME IN, AND RECEIVE GOD’S PROMISES!
JOSHUA
_BRIAN ROWLANDS_
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CHAPTER 23
JOSHUA SAYS ‘GOODBYE’ TO HIS LEADERS – J...
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XXIII.
JOSHUA’S LAST CHARGE.
(a) To the rulers (Joshua 23).
(b) To the people (Joshua 24 to Joshua 24:25).
(a) To THE RULERS.
(1) JOSHUA WAXED OLD AND STRICKEN IN AGE. — The same expression
employe...
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וַֽ יְהִי֙ מִ יָּמִ֣ים רַבִּ֔ים
אַ֠חֲרֵי אֲשׁ
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CHAPTER XXXI.
JEHOVAH THE CHAMPION OF ISRAEL.
Joshua 23:1.
THE last two Chapter s of Joshua are very like each other. Each
professes to be a report of the aged leader's farewell meeting with
the hea...
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JOSHUA'S FAREWELL ADDRESS
Joshua 23:1
Joshua's anxiety for the welfare of his people after his death has New
Testament parallels. See Acts 20:29; 2 Peter 1:13; and especially...
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As the time approached for Joshua's passing, he twice gathered the
people together and delivered to them his farewell messages.
The first of these is contained in this chapter. Its burden was of the...
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As Joshua neared the end of his life, he called for all the leaders of
the people to meet with him. He reminded them that it was God who
fought for them in the conquest of the land. How else could the...
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Long time. Josue governed only ten years after the distribution of the
land. Towards the close of his life, perceiving that the Israelites
were too indolent in subduing the people of the country, and...
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CONTENTS
In this chapter we are drawing towards the close of Joshua's ministry.
Like all the other servants of the Lord, his work being finished, his
death succeeds. He is represented here as conveni...
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In the wars of Jehovah it was not always a question of hostile power.
Indeed this is not the most serious evil which the people of God have
to encounter in this world. The very same principle which wa...
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_A BRAVE SOLDIER_
‘And it came to pass a long time after that the Lord had given rest
unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old
and stricken in age.’
Joshua 23:1
At the...
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Here we have a narrative of the solemn protestation which Joshua used
towards the time of his death, that he might leave the pure worship of
God surviving him. But although the peace and quiet which t...
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THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 12 THROUGH 24.
Chapter 12 is only a summary of their conquests. The Holy Ghost not
only gives us the victory over our enemies, but makes us understand
and kno...
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AND IT CAME TO PASS A LONG TIME AFTER,.... Or "after many days" o,
that is, years:
THAT THE LORD HAD GIVEN REST UNTO ISRAEL FROM ALL THEIR ENEMIES ROUND
ABOUT; the greatest part of the land of Canaan...
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And it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had given rest
unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old
[and] stricken in age.
Ver. 1. _Joshua waxed old._] And so mor...
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_A long time after the Lord had given rest unto Israel_ That is, about
fourteen years after the conquest of the country, and seven after the
division of it among the tribes: see Joshua 11:23; Joshua 1...
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1 Ioshuas exhortation before his death,
3 by former benefits,
5 by promises,
11 and by threatnings.
1 AND it came to passe, a long time after that the LORD had giuen rest
vnto Israel from all thei...
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And it came to pass a long time after that the Lord had given rest
unto Israel from all their enemies round about, when the heathen
nations had been brought to a state of fear which kept them from
und...
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THE URGENT EXHORTATION TO BE FAITHFUL TO THE LORD...
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AN APPEAL ON THE BASIS OF GOD'S FAITHFULNESS
(vs.1-16)
Many years had passed now that Joshua calls for all Israel, elders,
heads, judges and officers, and tells them he is old and advanced in
age (vs...
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STRICKEN IN AGE:
_ Heb._ come into days...
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1-10 Joshua was old and dying, let them observe what he said now. He
put them in mind of the great things God had done for them in his
days. He exhorted them to be very courageous. Keep with care, do...
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JOSHUA CHAPTER 23 Joshua being old assembles the people; declares the
wonders God had wrought for them, and would work, in expelling the
Canaanites, JOSHUA 23:1. Exhorts them to be courageous, to obse...
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Joshua 23:1 long H7227 time H3117 after H310 LORD H3068 rest H5117
(H8689) Israel H3478 enemies H341 ...
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CHAPTER 23 JOSHUA'S SPEECH TO THE NATION.
Joshua grew old and, possibly at the central sanctuary when Israel
gathered together, or at Shechem, called the people together to give
an address to the nat...
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Joshua 23:1.
Joshua and St. John stand out as if in direct hostility to each other.
We know that the Book of Joshua must have been read by the Apostle in
his childhood, his manhood, his old age. Let...
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Joshua 23:1
At the death of Moses a sudden gleam of heaven, as it were, came over
the elder Church. The law seemed for a while suspended as regards its
threats and punishments; all was privilege on th...
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Joshua 23:7. _Neither make mention of the name of their gods._ This
prohibition is often repeated, and it involves mythology in
difficulties. The LXX had authorities for saying, Joshua 24:33, that
the...
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_I am old and stricken in age: and ye have seen all that the Lord your
God hath done._
OLD AGE
As in the snowy realms of the Alps lovely flowers open their cheerful
petals to the sky, so, notwithsta...
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JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 23:1 The next generation of leaders is charged
in terms echoing the charge to Joshua in ch. Joshua 1:1....
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_JOSHUA’S FIRST FAREWELL ADDRESS_
CRITICAL NOTES.—
Joshua 23:1. A long time after that the Lord had given rest] Probably
the beginning of this period is to be reckoned from the time indicated
in chap...
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EXPOSITION
JOSHUA'S SOLEMN CHARGE.—
JOSHUA 23:1
WAXED OLD AND STRICKEN IN AGE. Literally, _was old, advanced in days
_(see Joshua 13:1). But this refers to a more advanced age still, when
the patria...
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In chapter twenty-three,
It came to pass a long time after that the Lord had given rest to
Israel (Joshua 23:1)
A long time, being about seventeen years. So from the time that they
conquered the lan...
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Deuteronomy 31:2; Genesis 25:8; Joshua 11:23; Joshua 13:1; Joshua
21:44
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HALLOWED REMINISCENCES
Joshua 23:1
INTRODUCTORY WORDS
1. A glorious rest. Our study opens with very striking words: "And it
came to pass a long time after that the Lord had given rest unto
Israel f...
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A long time — About fourteen years after it....