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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Joshua 22:21

Verse Joshua 22:21. Then the children of Reuben - answered] Though conscious of their own innocency they permitted Phinehas to finish his discourse, though composed of little else than accusations; there was a decency in this, and such a full proof of good breeding, as does them the highest credit. There are many public assemblies in the present day which lay claim to the highest refinement, who might take a very useful lesson from these Reubenites and their associates.

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  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    III. THE FINAL WORDS OF JOSHUA AND THE EPILOGUE 1. The Two and One-half Tribes and the Altar Ed CHAPTER 22 _ 1. Joshua's address (Joshua 22:1)_ 2. The tribes dismissed and their return (Joshua 22:...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE ALTAR OF WITNESS ERECTED BY THE E. JORDAN TRIBES. This narrative is clearly not historical, and the question arises, Why should it have been composed? The answer is that it is a Midrash (p. 314, 2...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Defence of the Two Tribes and a Half 21. _Then the children of Reuben_ The two tribes and a half proceed to defend themselves and to shew that their object was in all respects the very reverse of tha...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    _VER._ 21, 22. _THEN THE CHILDREN OF REUBEN, &C.—ANSWERED—THE LORD GOD OF GODS,_ &C.— No sooner had Phinehas ended his discourse, than the president of the congregation of the two tribes and a half, t...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _A Reason Given for the Altar Joshua 22:21-34_ 21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands of Israel, 22 Th...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _THEN THE CHILDREN OF REUBEN AND THE CHILDREN OF GAD AND THE HALF TRIBE OF MANASSEH ANSWERED, AND SAID UNTO THE HEADS OF THE THOUSANDS OF ISRAEL,_ THEN THE CHILDREN OF REUBEN ... ANSWERED - repudiatin...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    DISMISSAL OF THE TWO AND A HALF TRIBES. THE AXTAR SET UP AT ED, AND THE CONTROVERSY IT RAISED 1-9. The dismissal of the tribes. 10-34. The controversy at Ed. Here, as in Numbers 25:7, we see Phinehas...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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 22 4. ACCEPT GOD’S *BLESSING The *tribes...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וַֽ יַּעֲנוּ֙ בְּנֵי ־רְאוּבֵ֣ן וּ בְנֵי ־גָ֔

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXX. THE ALTAR ED. Joshua 22:1. THE two tribes and a half had behaved well. They had kept their word, remained with their brethren during all Joshua's campaign, and taken their part in all t...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE ALTAR OF WITNESS Joshua 22:21 Phinehas and the ten princes did their work well. It was politic as well as true to remind the departing warriors that they could not rebel against God without invol...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    We now begin the third and last division of the Book, which tells the story of the final things circling around Joshua's farewell and passing. The first incident recorded is the return of the two and...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    As they were on their way home, they decided to erect an altar on the west side of Canaan. It did not take long for word to reach the rest of Israel about the erection of an altar by the two and one-h...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Israel. Septuagint, "answered the Chiliarchs of Israel," who had spoken by the mouth of their president. They repel the charge with earnestness. (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    I include all these verses in one point of view, because so delightful a passage of scripture, which takes in the whole of the meek and candid answer of the accused, ought not to be broken. The thing...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    21._Then the children of Reuben, _etc The state of the case turns on the definition. For the children of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, explain that they had a different intention, and thus exculpate them...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEN THE CHILDREN OF REUBEN, AND THE CHILDREN OF GAD, AND THE HALF TRIBE OF MANASSEH, ANSWERED,.... By some person whom they appointed to deliver the answer in their name: AND SAID UNTO THE HEADS OF...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands of Israel, Ver. 21. _Answered, and said._] They did not bristle a...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The two Tribes and halfe with a blessing are sent home. 9 They build the Altar of Testimony, in their iourney. 11 The Israelites are offended thereat. 21 They giue them good satisfaction. 1 THEN...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, in defending themselves against the reproach and charge made against them, AND SAID UNTO THE HEADS OF THE T...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE EXPLANATION MADE AND ACCEPTED...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE RETURN OF THE 2 ½ TRIBES (vs.1-9) To their credit, the warriors from Reuben, Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh had continued faithfully with the other tribes in conflict with the enemy until all...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    21-29 The tribes took the reproofs of their brethren in good part. With solemnity and meekness they proceeded to give all the satisfaction in their power. Reverence of God is expressed in the form of...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    Either, first, properly, each was a governor of a thousand; for there were among them divers rulers, some of tens, some of hundreds, and some of thousands; or rather, secondly, improperly, and indefin...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joshua 22:21 children H1121 Reuben H7205 children H1121 Gad H1410 half H2677 tribe H7626 Manasseh H4519 answered H6030

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    ‘ Then the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, answered, and spoke to the heads of the sub-tribes (thousands) of Israel, “God, the God YHWH, God, the God YHWH,...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Two and a half tribes dismissed to their homes. Altar of Reuben and Gad. CHARACTERS: God, Joshua, Phinehas. CONCLUSION: Unhappy strifes will be prevented or soon healed by an impartial and...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Joshua 22:10. _A great altar to see to._ See on Numbers 32. The object of this mount or tumulus was to show that they belonged to the Hebrew nation, and had hope in the Messiah. It was a sudden ebulli...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Ye have not left your brethren._ HELPING ONE ANOTHER I. These tribes helped their brethren to their own inconvenience and positive detriment. A narrow-minded, selfish race would have recognised no c...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 22:1 Serving the Lord in the Land. In this final section, with the Lord having fulfilled all his “good promises” (Joshua 21:45), it is now Israel’s tur

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 22:21 The group from the western tribes is relieved that the altar built by the eastern tribes is only a COPY OF THE ALTAR OF THE LORD (v....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 22:10. The borders of Jordan] _Lit. =_“the circles of the Jordan.” So, in chap. Joshua 13:2, we have “the circles of the Philistines.” The immediate neighbourhood of the Jordan...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOSHUA 22:1 THE REUBENITES AND THE GADITES. According to the Hebrew idiom, these are in the original in the singular, as in Genesis 12:6. Thus a tribe, as has been before remarked, or even...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter twenty-two, after now the land has all been given and apportioned out, Joshua called the men from Reuben, and Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh (Joshua 22:1). Now you remember these...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Peter 3:15; Acts 11:4; Exodus 18:21; James 1:19; Micah 5:2;...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    HOME AGAIN Joshua 22:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The Heavenly warfare supersedes our duty at home. The two and a half tribes had left their homes to go over the Jordan in order to aid their brethren in...

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