CHILDREN. sons. A TRESPASS. a treachery, unfaithfulness. Hebrew ma'al. App-43. Compare Leviticus 6:2. Deu 32:51. 1 Chronicles 5:25, breach of faith or trust. ACCURSED. devoted. Compare Joshua 6:17, &c. ACHAN Troubler; called Achar, 1 Chronicles 2:7. TOOK. Septuagint has _enosphisanto_. took for... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN. Hebrew, plural of _ish_ or _'enosh_. App-14. AI. Near Beth-el. Compare Genesis 12:8; Genesis 13:3. BETH-AVEN. House of vanity. BETH-EL. House of God. Compare Genesis 28:19.... [ Continue Reading ]
GO UP. go toilingly thither. MEN. Hebrew. _ish_. App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
MELTED. became as water. Figure of speech _Hyperbole._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
ALAS. Figure of speech _Ecphonesis._ App-6 LORD GOD. _Adonai Jehovah_. See App-4. WHEREFORE. ? Figure of speech _Erotesis._ App-6. WOULD TO GOD. Hebrew "would that". No "to God "in Hebrew text.... [ Continue Reading ]
O LORD *, Hebrew. Adonai; but this is one of the 134 places altered from _Jehovah_ to _Adonai_ by the Sopherim TURNETH. hath [once] turned.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHAT. ? Figure of speech _, Erotesis._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
SAID. See note on Joshua 3:7.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton._ App-6. FOR _= and._ All these "ands" might be well rendered "moreover".... [ Continue Reading ]
(10-13) There is. minute correspondence between Joshua 7:10, an _Extended alternation_ of five members each, for which we have no space; also between Joshua 7:14 and Joshua 7:16.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim_. App-4.... [ Continue Reading ]
TAKETH. taketh [by lot], i.e. by the _Urim_ and _Thummim._ Sec note on Exodus 28:30 and Numbers 26:55. The _Urim_ stone bringing to "light" the guilty, and the Thummim declaring the "perfection" or innocence. MAN. geber. App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
BURNT. burnt up, but not necessarily alive, Hebrew. _saraph._ See App-43.... [ Continue Reading ]
FAMILY Some codices, with Septuagint and Vulgate, read plural "families". MAN BY MAN. Some codices, with two early printed editions, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "by their households".... [ Continue Reading ]
GIVE... GLORY TO THE LORD. All the Vulgate versions corrupt this passage by omitting "to Him". The Portuguese version of Figuoredo changes "Him" to "me".... [ Continue Reading ]
A. one. BABYLONISH. Hebrew. "of Shinar", i.e. of Babylonia. SHEKELS. See App-51. WEDGE. bar. Hebrew tongue: put by Figure of speech, _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct) for. coin of this shape (App-6). BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos,_ App-6). IT. Feminine. Probably referring to the garment.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE MIDST. Figure of speech _Pleonasm_ (App-6).... [ Continue Reading ]
SON OF ZERAH. Put by Figure of speech _Synecdoche_ (of Species) for great-grandson. App-6. AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysendeton_ (App-6), emphasising each particular.... [ Continue Reading ]
WHY... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_ (App-6). TROUBLED... TROUBLE. Hebrew. _Achored... Acker_. STONED THEM: i.e. the people, not the property.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE FIERCENESS. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia_ (App-6).... [ Continue Reading ]