EXPOSITION
THE LAST RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT.—
JOSHUA 24:1
TO SHECHEM. The LXX. and the Arabic version read _Shiloh _here, and as
the words "they presented themselves (literally, _took up their
station_)_ _before God" follow, this would seem the natural reading.
But there is not the slightest MSS.... [ Continue Reading ]
EXPOSITION
JOSHUA'S DEATH AND BURIAL.—
JOSHUA 24:29
THE SERVANT OF THE LORD. The theory of some commentators, that this
expression is evidence of a later interpolation because "the title
only dates, from the period when Moses, Joshua, and others were raised
to the rank of national saints," need on... [ Continue Reading ]