Joshua 24:11

_AND YE WENT OVER JORDAN, AND CAME UNTO JERICHO: AND THE MEN OF JERICHO FOUGHT AGAINST YOU, THE AMORITES, AND THE PERIZZITES, AND THE CANAANITES, AND THE HITTITES, AND THE GIRGASHITES, THE HIVITES, AND THE JEBUSITES; AND I DELIVERED THEM INTO YOUR HAND._ Girgashites. The mention of this Canaanite tribe occurs only once (Joshua 3:10), while the other six nations are constantly enumerated as carrying on the war; and hence, the insertion of their name in this passage seems merely a recapitulation of the nations, whose land God delivered into the hand of the Jews, according to His promise (Deuteronomy 7:1; Graves, 2:, p. 44)....

1-14 We must never think our work for God done, till our life is done. If he lengthen out our days beyond what we expected, like those of Joshua, it is because he has some further service for us to do. He who aims at the same mind which was in Christ Jesus, will glory in bearing the last testimony to his Saviour's goodness, and in telling to all around, the obligations with which the unmerited goodness of God has bound him. The assembly came together in a solemn religious manner. Joshua spake to them in God's name, and as from him. His sermon consists of doctrine and application. The doctrinal part is a history of the great things God had done for his people, and for their fathers before them. The application of this history of God's mercies to them, is an exhortation to fear and serve God, in gratitude for his favour, and that it might be continued....

Verse Joshua 24:11. _THE MEN OF JERICHO FOUGHT AGAINST YOU_] See the notes on Joshua 3:1 and Joshua 6:1, c. The people of Jericho are said to have fought against the Israelites, because they _opposed_ them by _shutting their gates_, c., though they did not attempt to meet them in the field....

EXPOSITION THE LAST RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT.— JOSHUA 24:1 TO SHECHEM. The LXX. and the Arabic version read _Shiloh _here, and as the words "they presented themselves (literally, _took up their station_)_ _before God" follow, this would seem the natural reading. But there is not the slightest MSS. authority for the reading, and it is contrary to all sound principles of criticism to resort to arbitrary emendations of the text. Besides, the LXX. itself reads Συχέμ_,_ in Joshua 24:26, and adds, "before the tabernacle of the God of Israel," words implied, but not expressed in t

AND YE WENT OVER JORDAN,.... In a miraculous manner, the waters parting to make way for the host of Israel: AND CAME UNTO JERICHO; the first city of any size and strength in the land, which was about seven or eight miles from Jordan; Numbers 22:1; AND THE MEN OF JERICHO FOUGHT AGAINST YOU; by endeavouring to intercept their spies, and cut them off; by shutting up the gates of their city against Israel; and it may be throwing darts, arrows, and stones, from off the walls of it at them. Kimchi thinks that some of the great men of Jericho went out from thence, to give notice and warning to the kings of Canaan of the approach of the Israelites, and in the mean time the city was taken; and that these afterwards joined with the kings in fighting against Joshua and the people of Israel: the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Cana

THE SECOND ADDRESS CHAPTER 24:1-28 _ 1. The gathering at Shechem (Joshua 24:1)_ 2. Historic retrospect and exhortations (Joshua 24:2) 3. The answer given by Israel (Joshua 24:16) 4. Joshua's answer (Joshua 24:19) 5. The promise made (Joshua 24:21) 6. Joshua's appeal and the repeated promise (Joshua 24:22) 7. The covenant made and Joshua's final word ...

MEN. lords or rulers. Hebrew. _ba'al_....

_And ye went over Jordan_ The fourth proof of the Divine favour: (_a) the Passage of the Jordan_, and (_b) capture of Jericho_; and the fifth (_c) the victory over the Canaanites_. _the men of Jericho_ i. e. the citizens of Jericho. Comp. Judges 9:2-3, "the _men_of Shechem;" Judges 20:5, "the _men_of Gibeah;" 2 Samuel 21:12, "the _men_of Jabesh-gilead." _the Amorites_ On this enumeration of the nations, see above, ch. Joshua 3:10....

_A Reminder of God's Blessings Joshua 24:1-25_ And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. 2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods. 3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac. 4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. 5 I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I b

24:11 men (b-13) Strictly, 'masters,' 'possessors,' elsewhere rendered 'citizens.' see Genesis 14:13 ....