Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
Joshua 23:10
for. The Hebrew accent (Legarmeh) puts the pause or emphasis on this word, as calling attention to the basis of all blessing and success.
for. The Hebrew accent (Legarmeh) puts the pause or emphasis on this word, as calling attention to the basis of all blessing and success.
Verse Joshua 23:10. _ONE MAN OF YOU SHALL CHASE A THOUSAND_] Do not remain inactive on the supposition that you must be much more numerous before you can drive out your enemies, for it is the Lord tha...
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
_One man of you_ Comp. Leviticus 26:8; Judges 3:31; Judges 15:15; 2 Samuel 23:8....
DISCOURSE: 258 GOD’S INTERPOSITIONS FOR US ARE OBLIGATIONS TO LOVE AND SERVE HIM Joshua 23:10. _The Lord your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you. Take good heed therefore un...
_VER._ 7-11. _THAT YE COME NOT AMONG THESE NATIONS,_ &C.— "Hold no familiarity; make no marriages with these idolatrous nations: never _make_ the least honourable _mention of the name of their_ false...
_Promises of Blessings for Obedience Joshua 23:6-11_ 6 Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the ri...
_BE YE THEREFORE VERY COURAGEOUS TO KEEP AND TO DO ALL THAT IS WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF THE LAW OF MOSES, THAT YE TURN NOT ASIDE THEREFROM TO THE RIGHT HAND OR TO THE LEFT;_ No JFB commentary on these...
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...
ONE MAN OF YOU SHALL CHASE A THOUSAND] RV 'hath chased,' cp. Deuteronomy 32:30....
COME IN, AND RECEIVE GOD’S PROMISES! JOSHUA _BRIAN ROWLANDS_ Maps to help you to study this book are on the Internet at www.easyenglish.info. CHAPTER 23 JOSHUA SAYS ‘GOODBYE’ TO HIS LEADERS – J...
ONE MAN OF YOU SHALL CHASE A THOUSAND. — See Deuteronomy 28:7....
אִישׁ ־אֶחָ֥ד מִכֶּ֖ם יִרְדָּף ־אָ֑לֶף כִּ֣י...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_Thousand. This Moses had repeatedly foretold, Leviticus xxvi. 13., and Deuteronomy xxviii. 7._...
The holy jealousy which the man of God so warmly and affectionately recommended, may serve to teach us, with what circumspection believers in Jesus ought to walk amidst the swarm of vanities, with whi...
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...
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...
ONE MAN OF YOU SHALL CHASE A THOUSAND,.... Here Kimchi and Ben Melech observe, that the future tense is put for the past, and that the sense is, one of them had chased a thousand in their war with the...
One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he [it is] that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you. Ver. 10. _He it is that fighteth for you._] He who alone is a whole army of me...
_No man hath been able_, &c. To wit, whom you have attacked; otherwise some of those people did yet remain unconquered. _He fighteth_ Impute not this therefore to your own valour, as you will be apt t...
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...
One man of you shall chase a thousand, as Moses had promised, Leviticus 26:8; Deuteronomy 32:30; FOR THE LORD, YOUR GOD, HE IT IS THAT FIGHTETH FOR YOU, AS HE HATH PROMISED YOU, Exodus 14:14;...
THE URGENT EXHORTATION TO BE FAITHFUL TO THE LORD...
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...
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...
HE IT IS THAT FIGHTETH FOR YOU; impute not this therefore to your own valour, as you will be apt to do, but to God's gracious and powerful assistance....
Joshua 23:10 One H259 man H376 chase H7291 (H8799) thousand H505 LORD H3068 God H430 fights H3898 ...
‘ One man of you will chase a thousand, for YHWH your God, he it is who fights for you, as he spoke to you.' This picturesque phrase cited from Deuteronomy 32:30 means simply that only one of them wou...
CONTENTS: Last counsels of Joshua. CHARACTERS: God, Joshua. CONCLUSION: As all good things come upon the believer according to the promise, so long as we have kept close to God, so all evil things w...
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...
_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...
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....
CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 23:7. That ye come not among these nations] They were not to form with the Canaanites any civil or social alliances. The word rendered “come” indicates close and familiar inte...
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...
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...
1 Samuel 14:12; 1 Samuel 14:6; 2 Samuel 23:8; Deuteronomy 20:4;...
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...
He fighteth — Impute not this therefore to your own valour, as you will be apt to do, but to God's gracious and powerful assistance....