behold, this day I, &c. Punctuate "behold this day,. am, &c. "Joshua lived. years longer. Compare Deuteronomy 4:16.
souls. Hebrew. nephesh. App-13.
thing. word. Compare Joshua 2:21, Jos 2:45.
the good things. the good words.
Verse Joshua 23:14. _THE WAY OF ALL THE EARTH_] I am about to die; I am going into the grave. _NOT ONE THING HATH FAILED, C._] God had so remarkably and literally fulfilled his promises, that not one...
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
_I am going the way of all the earth_ i.e. on the way to death, which a man goes and returns not; the way which all the earth, the whole world, must take, "into the land of darkness and the shadow of...
DISCOURSE: 259 GOD’S FAITHFULNESS TO HIS PROMISES Joshua 23:14._ Behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath fa...
_Warnings of Punishments for Disobedience Joshua 23:12-16_ 12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriage...
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...
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...
YE KNOW... THAT NOT ONE THING HATH FAILED. — These words, as well as the similar statement in Joshua 21:43, show that though the conquest of Canaan by Joshua was in one way a limited conquest, yet it...
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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...
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...
And, behold, this day I [am] (f) going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your (g) hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God...
This day: shortly I must die. (Calmet) --- Metam properamus ad unam. (Horace) "We hasten to one common goal." (Haydock) --- The pagans called death, or the grave, the common place; and Plautus says, i...
The man of God makes use of the same argument again, of his old age and dying circumstances, to enforce all he had said. Not to endear his memory to them. Not to have a monument erected of his valour...
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...
_‘TAKE GOOD HEED!’_ ‘Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God,’ etc. Joshua 23:11 I. IN THIS SPEECH JOSHUA ONCE MORE PRESSED UPON THE PEOPLE THEIR TRUE CHARACTER AS...
_NOT ONE GOOD THING HATH FAILED US_ ‘Not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereo...
14._And, behold, this day I am going, _etc As it has been appointed unto all men once to die, (Hebrews 9:27) Joshua says that in regard to himself the common end of all is at hand, inasmuch as he, too...
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...
AND, BEHOLD, THIS DAY I [AM] GOING THE WAY OF ALL THE EARTH,.... That is, about to die; not that precise day, but in a short time, of which the daily increasing infirmities of old age gave him notice....
And, behold, this day I [am] going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake c...
_I am going the way of all the earth_ That is, of all flesh, or of all men; the way which all men go; I am about to die, as all men must. To die is to go a journey, a journey to our long home. And Jos...
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...
And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth, for Joshua was on his way to the land of darkness and the shadow of death; and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one...
AN EARNEST WARNING...
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...
11-16 Would we cleave to the Lord, we must always stand upon our guard, for many a soul is lost through carelessness. Love the Lord your God, and you will not leave him. Has God been thus true to you...
OF ALL THE EARTH, i.e. of all flesh, or of all men; the way which all men go; I am about to die, as all men must, HEBREWS 9:27. The same phrase is 1 KINGS 2:2. YE KNOW IN ALL YOUR HEARTS AND IN ALL YO...
Joshua 23:14 day H3117 going H1980 (H8802) way H1870 earth H776 know H3045 (H8804) hearts H3824 souls...
“ And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth, and you know in all your hearts, and in all your souls, that not one thing has failed of all the good things which YHWH your God has spoken...
Joshua 23:11 I. In this speech Joshua once more presses upon the people their true character as the chosen people of the Lord God. He is able now to appeal to facts in evidence of the truth which had...
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...
_And behold this day I am going the way of all the earth._ DEATH COMMON TO ALL Death is so dim-sighted and so blundering-footed that he staggers across Axminster tapestry as though it were a bare flo...
_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 23:11. Take good heed therefore unto yourselves] _Marg_., “unto your souls.” “Take heed with all your soul;” so _Winer_ and _Ges_., quoted by _Keil_, who adds, The form is use...
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 Kings 2:2; 1 Kings 8:56; 1 Samuel 3:19; Deuteronomy 28:1;...
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...
Of all the earth — That is, of all flesh, or of all men; the way which all men go; I am about to die, as all men must. To die is, to go a journey, a journey to our long home. And Joshua himself, tho'...