Joshua 24:1
GOD. Hebrew ha-Elohim, the God. App-4. Compare Joshua 22:34.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD. Hebrew ha-Elohim, the God. App-4. Compare Joshua 22:34.... [ Continue Reading ]
THUS SMITH THE LORD. A supplementary revelation by the Spirit of God, who knows all (Hebrew. _Jehovah._ SAITH. hath said. THE LORD GOD. Hebrew. _Jehovah Elohim_. App-4. FLOOD. the river Euphrates.... [ Continue Reading ]
I TOOK. Genesis 11:31; Joshua 12:1. AND GAVE. Genesis 21:1.... [ Continue Reading ]
JACOB AND ESAU. Compare Genesis 25:25; Genesis 25:26. ESAU. Compare Genesis 36:8; Deuteronomy 2:5 BUT JACOB. Compare Genesis 46:6. CHILDREN. sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
I SENT. Compare Exodus 3:10; Exodus 4:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
EGYPT. After this word the Septuagint preserves. sentence omitted by Figure of speech _Homoeoteleuton:_ "And they became there. great, populous, and mighty people, and were afflicted by Egypt"; the scribe's eye going back to this preceding word Egypt and continuing. _from_ there. the Red sea. Compar... [ Continue Reading ]
DARKNESS. Hebrew. _ophelah,_ thick and intense darkness. (Occurs only here. AND THE. Note Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6). "and [between] the". HAVE SEEN. saw. have DONE. did.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEY FOUGHT. Compare Numbers 2:21; Numbers 2:32.... [ Continue Reading ]
SENT. Compare Numbers 22:5.Deuteronomy 23:4.... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN. lords or rulers. Hebrew. _ba'al_.... [ Continue Reading ]
TWO KINGS. Promise began to be fulfilled here. See Exodus 23:28; Deuteronomy 7:20.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND IN EGYPT. So that they were idolaters there. Compare Ezekiel 23:8. Three systems of idolatry referred to in verses: Joshua 24:14; Joshua 24:15, Chaldean, Egyptian, and Canaanite.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE. The italics not needed. There is. Figure of speech Homseoteleuton (App-6), which the Septuagint supplies: "He (is God. He] brought us up", &c. The scribe's eye went back to the latter "He". PEOPLE. peoples.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD FORBID. For be it from us.... [ Continue Reading ]
YE CANNOT SERVE. The Ellipsis must be supplied by adding from Joshua 24:14. "Unless ye put away your idols". See App-6. HOLY. See note on Exodus 6:5. GOD. Hebrew. _El._ App-4. SINS. App-44.... [ Continue Reading ]
THEN. Compare Joshua 23:15.... [ Continue Reading ]
STRANGE GODS. strangers' (or foreigners') gods.... [ Continue Reading ]
MADE. COVENANT: i.e. by sacrifice. Compare Jeremiah 34:18; Jeremiah 34:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BOOK OF THE LAW. See note on Exodus 17:14 and App-47. AN. the.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. IT HATH HEARD. Figure of speech _Prosopopmia_. App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
EVERY MAN. Hebrew. _'ish._ App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
DIED. In 1434, after living seventeen years in the Land. App-50.... [ Continue Reading ]
MOUNT. the hill country. GAASH. The Septuagint adds here: "And _they_ placed with him in the tomb in which they buried him the knives of stone with which he circumcised the sons of Israel is Gilgal, when he brought them out of Egypt, as the Lord appointed them; and there they are until this day. ... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THE DAYS. The expression is not necessarily. long period. in Joshua 11:18 it-seven years; in Joshua 23:1. within ten years; here it. three years. See App-50. WORKS. work.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BONES OF JOSEPH. Compare Genesis 50:25.Hebrews 11:22. Shechem. Where God first appeared to Abraham in Canaan (Genesis 12:6), and where he built his first altar (Genesis 12:6; Genesis 12:7). JACOB BOUGHT. Compare Genesis 33:19. Not Acts 7:16, nor Genesis 23, which was quite. different transactio... [ Continue Reading ]
ELEAZAR. He dies and is succeeded by his son Phinehas. Compare Judges 20:28. Phinehas had been acting as deputy High Priest as far back as 1444; ten or twelve years before his father died. Compare Joshua 22:13. EPHRAIM. The Septuagint adds here: "In that day the sons of Israel took the ark of God,... [ Continue Reading ]