Gen 15:14, 28:15, 46:4, Deu 1, 31:8, Jos 1:5, 9, 3:7, 23:14, Jos 24 | TSK | STEP

and Joseph.This last and most solemn office, as Mr. Hewlett observes, that could be paid to a parent, was generally performed by the nearest relation of the deceased. This promise must have given great consolation to the venerable patriarch's mind.

50:1

Deuteronomy 1

Defile not.

5:3; Le 20:24-26

I dwell.

Ps 135:21; Isa 57:15; Ho 9:3; 2Co 6:16,17; Re 21:3,27

dwell among.

5:3; Ex 25:8; 29:45,46; 1Ki 6:13; Ps 132:14; Isa 8:12 The Fifth Book of Moses, called Deuteronomy.

1 Moses' speech in the end of the fortieth year;

6 briefly rehearsing the history of God's sending them from Horeb;

14 of giving them officers;

19 of sending the spies to search the land;

34 of his anger for their incredulity;

41 and disobedience.

on this.

Nu 32:5,19,32; 34:15; 35:14; Jos 9:1,10; 22:4,7

Red sea. or, Zuph. Or rather, Suph.This could not have been the Red Sea, not only because the word {yam,} "sea," is not joined with it as usual, but because they were now east of Jordan, and farther from the Red Sea than ever. It seems to be the same which is called {Suphah} in Nu 21:14; which must necessarily signify some place in or adjoining to the plains of Moab, and not far from the Jordan and Arnon. Ptolemy mentions a people called Sophonites that dwelt in Arabia Petræa, who may have taken their name from this place.

Paran.Paran, Tophel, Laban, Hazeroth, and Dizahab, seem to have been either places or cities not far from the plains of Moab; for it is evident that Paran and Hazeroth could not have been those near the Red sea, and not far from Horeb.

33:2; Ge 21:21; Nu 10:12; 12:16; 13:3,26; 1Sa 25:1; Hab 3:3

Hazeroth.

Nu 11:35; 33:17,18

by the way.

44; 2:4,8; Nu 20:17-21

unto.

Le 2:14; 9:23; Nu 13:26; 32:8; Jos 14:6

Nu 20:1; 33:38

2:26-37; 3:1-11; Nu 21:21-35; Jos 12:2-6; 13:10-12; Ne 9:22

Ps 135:11; 136:19,20

to declare.

4:8; 17:18,19; 31:9; 32:46

in Horeb.

5:2; Ex 3:1; 17:6

Ye have.

Ex 19:1,2; Nu 10:11-13

the mount.

Ge 15:16-21; Ex 23:31; Nu 34:3-12; Jos 24:15; Am 2:9

all the places. Heb. all his neighbours. in the plain.

11:11; Jos 10:40; 11:16,17

the great.

11:24; Jos 1:4; 2Sa 8:3; 1Ch 5:9; 18:3

set. Heb. given. which.

Ge 12:7; 13:14,15; 15:16,18; 17:7,8; 22:16-18; 26:3,4; 28:13,14

I am not.

Ex 18:18; Nu 11:11-14,17

your God.

10:22; 28:62; Ge 15:5; 22:17; 28:14; Ex 12:37; 32:13; Nu 1:46

1Ch 27:23; Ne 9:23

ye are this day.This was the promise made by God to Abraham, (Ge 15:5, 6,) which Moses considers now as amply fulfilled. Many suppose the expression to be hyperbolical; and others, no friends to revelation, think it a vain, empty boast, because the stars, in their apprehension, amount to innumerable millions. But, as this refers to the number of stars that appear to the naked eye, which only amount to about 3,010 in both hemispheres, the number of the Israelites far exceeded this; for independently of women and children, at the last census, they amounted to more than 600,000.

make you.

2Sa 24:3; 1Ch 21:3; Ps 115:14

and bless you.

Ge 15:5; 22:17; 26:4; 49:25; Ex 32:13; Nu 6:27; 22:12

9; Ex 18:13-16; Nu 11:11-15; 1Ki 3:7-9; Ps 89:19; 2Co 2:16; 3:5

Take. Heb. Give.

Ex 18:21; Nu 11:16,17; Ac 1:21-23; 6:2-6

I took.

16:18; Ex 18:25,26

made. Heb. gave.

Eph 4:11

captains over thousands.

Nu 31:14; 1Sa 8:12; 17:18; 22:7

charged.

27:11; 31:14; Nu 27:19; 1Th 2:11; 1Ti 5:21; 6:17

Hear.

16:18,19; Ex 23:2,3,7,8; Le 19:15; 2Sa 23:3; 2Ch 19:6-10; Ps 58:1

Joh 7:24

the stranger.

10:18,19; 24:14; Ex 22:21; 23:9; Le 24:22

shall not.

10:17; 16:19; Le 19:15; 1Sa 16:7; 2Sa 14:14; Pr 24:23; Lu 20:21

Ac 10:34,35; Ro 2:11; Eph 6:9; Col 3:25; Jas 2:1,3,9; 1Pe 1:17

respect persons. Heb. acknowledge faces.That is, let not the bold, daring countenances of the rich or mighty induce you to give an unrighteous decision; and let not the abject look of the poor man induce you either to favour him in an unrighteous cause, or to give judgment against him at the demand of the oppressor.

ye shall hear.

Ex 23:3,6,7; 1Sa 12:3,4; Job 22:6-9; 29:11-17; 31:13-16; Ps 82:3,4

Pr 22:22,23; Jer 5:28,29; Am 5:11,12; Mic 2:1-3; 3:1-4; 7:3,4

Jas 2:2-4,5

ye shall not.

1Ki 21:8-14; Job 31:34; Pr 29:25; Jer 1:17; Mt 22:16; Mr 12:14

1Th 2:4

the judgment.

2Ch 19:6

the cause.

17:8-10; Ex 18:18,22,26

4:5,40; 12:28,32; Mt 28:20; Ac 20:20,27

through.

8:15; 32:10; Nu 10:12; Jer 2:6

we came.

2; Nu 13:26

the mountain.

7,8

fear not.

20:1; Nu 13:30; 14:8,9; Jos 1:9; Ps 27:1-3; 46:1,7,11; Isa 41:10

Isa 43:1,2; Lu 12:32; Heb 13:6

We will send.The people proposed this measure through unbelief; Moses, mistaking their motive, approved of it; and God, being justly displeased, permitted them to follow their own counsel, which proved injurious to them only through their sin and folly.

Nu 13:1-20

Nu 13:3-33

Nu 13:21-27; Jos 2:1,2

Nu 14:1-4; Ps 106:24,25; Isa 63:10; Ac 7:51

The Lord hated us.

9:28; Ex 16:3,8; Nu 14:3; 21:5; Mt 25:24; Lu 19:21

discouraged. Heb. melted.

20:8; *marg:

Ex 15:15; Jos 2:9,11,24; *marg:

Jos 14:8; Isa 13:7; Eze 21:7

The people.

9:1,2; Nu 13:28-33

walled.That is, with very high walls, which could not be easily scaled. Harmer says, high walls are still to be seen in Arabia, and are deemed a sufficient defence against the Arabs, who scarcely ever attempt to plunder except on horseback. The monastery on Mount Sinai, and the convent of St. Anthony in Egypt, are surrounded with a very high wall, without gates; the persons and things being taken up and let down through an opening in the upper part, by means of a pulley and a basket. This kind of walling is a sufficient defence.

we have seen.

9:2; Jos 11:22; 15:14; Jud 1:10,20; 2Sa 21:16-22

he shall.

20:1-4; Ex 14:14,25; Jos 10:42; 1Sa 17:45,46; 2Ch 14:11,12; 32:8

Ne 4:20; Ps 46:11; Isa 8:9,10; Ro 8:31,37

according.

Ex 7:1-25; 15:1-27; Ps 78:11-13,43-51; 105:27-36

in the wilderness.

Ex 16:1-17:16; Ne 9:12-23; Ps 78:14-28; 105:39-41

bare thee.

32:11,12; Ex 19:4; Nu 11:11,12,14; Isa 40:11; 46:3,4; 63:9

Ho 11:3,4; Ac 13:18; *marg:

2Ch 20:20; Ps 78:22; 106:24; Isa 7:9; Heb 3:12,18,19; Jude 1:5

Who went.

Ex 13:21; Nu 10:33; Ps 77:20; Eze 20:6

in fire.

Ex 13:21,22; 14:19,20,24; 40:34-38; Nu 9:15-22; 10:11,12; 14:14

Ne 9:12; Ps 78:14; 105:39; Isa 4:5,6; Zec 2:5

and sware.

2:14,15; Nu 14:22-30; 32:8-13; Ps 95:11; Eze 20:15; Heb 3:8-11

Caleb.

Nu 13:6,30; 26:65; 32:12; 34:19; Jos 14:6-14; Jud 1:12-15

wholly followed. Heb. fulfilled to go after.

Nu 14:24

3:23-26; 4:21; 34:4; Nu 20:12; 27:13,14; Ps 106:32,33

Joshua.

Nu 13:8,16; 14:30,38; 26:65

which standeth.

Ex 17:9-14; 24:13; 33:11; 1Sa 16:22; Pr 22:29

encourage him.

3:28; 31:7,8,14,23; Nu 27:18-23; Jos 1:1,6-9

your little.

Nu 14:3,31

which in.

Isa 7:15,16; Jon 4:11; Ro 9:11; Eph 2:3

Nu 14:25

We have sinned.

Nu 14:39,40-45; 22:34; Pr 19:3

Go not up.

Nu 14:41,42

for I am not.

Le 26:17; Jos 7:8-13; 1Sa 4:2,10; Isa 30:17; 59:1,2; Ho 9:12

but rebelled.

Isa 63:10; Ac 7:51; Ro 8:7,8

went presumptuously up. Heb. ye were presumptuous and wentup.

Nu 14:44

chased you.When bees are provoked or disturbed, the whole swarm attack and pursue whatever annoys them, with great courage and fury, and sometimes are a most formidable enemy. They were so troublesome in some districts of Crete, that, according to Pliny, the inhabitants were actually compelled to forsake their homes. Ælian reports, that some places in Scythia were formerly inaccessible on account of the numerous swarms of bees with which they were infested. Mr. Park relates, that some of his associates imprudently attempted to rob a numerous hive which they found in their way. The exasperated little animals rushed out to defend their property, and attacked them with so much fury, that they quickly compelled the whole company of men, horses, and asses, to scamper off in all directions, The horses were never recovered, and a number of the asses were so severely stung, that they died the next day.

28:25; 32:30; Ps 118:12; Isa 7:18

unto Hormah.

Nu 14:45; 21:3

Ps 78:34; Heb 12:17

Nu 14:25,34; 20:1,22; Jud 11:16,17

Deuteronomy 31:8

he it is that.

3; 9:3; Ex 13:21,22; 33:14

he will be.

6; Jos 1:5,9; 1Ch 28:20; Isa 8:9,10; 43:1,2; Ro 8:31

Joshua 1:5

There shall.

De 7:24; 20:4; Ps 46:11; Ro 8:31,37

as I was.

9,17; 3:7; 6:27; Ex 3:12; De 31:8,23; Mt 28:20; Ac 18:9,10; 2Ti 4:17

I will not.

De 31:6-8; Isa 41:10-14; 43:2-5; Heb 13:5

Joshua 1:9

Have.

De 31:7,8,28; Jud 6:14; 2Sa 13:28; Ac 4:19

Be strong.

6,7

be not.

Ge 28:15; De 20:1; Ps 27:1,2; Jer 1:7,8

for the Lord.

Ps 46:7; Isa 43:1,5

Joshua 3:7

magnify thee.

4:14; 1Ch 29:25; 2Ch 1:1; Job 7:17; Ps 18:35; Joh 17:1; Php 1:20

Php 2:9-11

that, as I was.

1:5,17

Joshua 23:14

I am going.

1Ki 2:2; Job 30:23; Ec 9:10; 12:5; Heb 9:27

not one thing.

21:43-45; Ex 3:8; 23:27-30; Le 26:3-13; Nu 23:19; De 28:1-14

1Sa 3:19; 1Ki 8:56; Lu 21:33

Joshua 24

1 Joshua assembles the tribes at Shechem.

2 A brief history of God's benefits, from Terah.

14 He renews the covenant between them and God.

26 A stone the witness of the covenant.

29 Joshua's age, death, and burial.

32 Joseph's bones are buried.

33 Eleazar dies.

Joshua.This must have been a different assembly from that mentioned in the preceding chapter, though probably held not long after the former.

Shechem.As it is immediately added, that "they presented themselves before God," which is supposed to mean at the tabernacle; some are of opinion that Joshua caused it to be conveyed from Shiloh to Shechem on this occasion, to give the greater solemnity to his last meeting with the people. The Vatican and Alexandrian copies of the Septuagint, however, read [Selo,] both here and in verse 25; which many suppose to have been the original reading. Dr. Shuckford supposes that the covenant was made at Shechem, and that the people went to Shiloh to confirm it. But the most probable opinion seems to be that of Dr. Kennicott, that when all the tribes were assembled as Shechem, Joshua called the chiefs to him on that mount, which had before been consecrated by the law, and by the altar which he had erected.

Ge 12:6; 33:18,19; 35:4; Jud 9:1-3; 1Ki 12:1

called.

23:2; Ex 18:25,26

presented.

1Sa 10:19; Ac 10:33

Your fathers.

Ge 11:26,31; 12:1; 31:53; De 26:5; Isa 51:2; Eze 16:3

served other gods.In the case of Abraham this was probably the case, till he was called to the knowledge of God, when above 70 years old.

15; Ge 31:19,30,32,53; 35:4

I took.

Ge 12:1-4; Ne 9:7,8; Ac 7:2,3

gave.

Ge 21:2,3; Ps 127:3

unto Isaac.

Ge 25:24-26

unto Esau.

Ge 32:3; 36:8; De 2:5

Jacob.

Ge 46:1-7; Ps 105:23; Ac 7:15

sent.

Ex 3:10; 4:12,13; Ps 105:26

plagued.

Ex 7:1-12:51; Ps 78:43-51; 105:27-36; 135:8,9; 136:10

I brought.

Ex 12:37,51; Mic 6:4

Egyptians.

Ex 14:1-15:27; Ne 9:11; Ps 77:15-20; 78:13; 136:13-15

Isa 63:12,13; Ac 7:36; Heb 11:29

And when.

Ex 14:10

he put.

Ex 14:20

brought.

Ex 14:27,28

your eyes.

Ex 14:31; De 4:34; 29:2

ye dwelt.

5:6; Nu 14:33,34; Ne 9:12-21; Ps 95:9,10; Ac 13:17,18; Heb 3:17

13:10; Nu 21:21-35; De 2:32-37; 3:1-7; Ne 9:22; Ps 135:10,11

Ps 136:17-22

Nu 22:5,6-21; De 23:4,5; Jud 11:25; Mic 6:5

Nu 22:11,12,18-20,35; 23:3-12,15-26; 24:5-10; Isa 54:17

And ye.

3:14-17; 4:10-12,23; Ps 114:3,5

the men.

6:1-27; 10:1-11:23; Ne 9:24,25; Ps 78:54,55; 105:44; Ac 7:45; 13:19

I sent.

Ex 23:28; De 7:20

not.

Ps 44:3-6

And I.

21:45

cities.

11:13; De 6:10-12; 8:7; Pr 13:22

fear.

De 10:12; 1Sa 12:24; Job 1:1; 28:28; Ps 111:10; 130:4; Ho 3:5

Ac 9:31

serve.

23; Ge 17:1; 20:5,6; De 18:13; 2Ki 20:3; Ps 119:1,80; Lu 8:15

Joh 4:23,24; 2Co 1:12; Eph 6:24; Php 1:10

put.From this exhortation of Joshua, we not only learn that the Israelites still retained some relics of idolatry, but to what gods they were attached. 1. Those whom their fathers worshipped on the other side of the food, or the river Euphrates, i.e., the gods of the Chaldeans, fire, light, the sun, etc. 2. Those of the Egyptians, Apis, Anubis, serpents, vegetables, etc. 3. Those of the Amorites, Moabites, Canaanites, etc., Baal-peor, Astarte, etc. How astonishing is it, that after all that God had done for them, and all the miracles they had seen, there should still be found among them both idols and idolaters!

2,23; Ge 35:2; Ex 20:3,4; Le 17:7; Ezr 9:11; Eze 20:18; Am 5:25,26

in Egypt.

Eze 20:7,8; 23:3

choose.

Ru 1:15,16; 1Ki 18:21; Eze 20:39; Joh 6:67

whether the gods.

or the gods.

Ex 23:24,32,33; 34:15; De 13:7; 29:18; Jud 6:10

as for me.

Ge 18:19; Ps 101:2; 119:106,111,112; Joh 6:68; Ac 11:23

1Sa 12:23; Ro 3:6; 6:2; Heb 10:38,39

5-14; Ex 19:4; De 32:11,12; Isa 46:4; 63:7-14; Am 2:9,10

will we also.

Ex 10:2; 15:2; Ps 116:16; Mic 4:2; Zec 8:23; Lu 1:73-75

Ye cannot.

23; Ru 1:15; Mt 6:24; Lu 14:25-33

holy.

Le 10:3; 19:2; 1Sa 6:20; Ps 99:5,9; Isa 5:16; 6:3-5; 30:11,15

Hab 1:13

a jealous.

Ex 20:5; 34:14; 1Co 10:20-22

he will not.

Ex 23:21; 34:7; 1Sa 3:14; 2Ch 36:16; Isa 27:11

he will turn.

23:12-15; 1Ch 28:9; 2Ch 15:2; Ezr 8:22; Isa 1:28; 63:10; 65:11,12

Jer 17:13; Eze 18:24; Ac 7:42; Heb 10:26,27,38

Nay.

Ex 19:8; 20:19; 24:3,7; De 5:27,28; 26:17; Isa 44:5

Ye are witnesses.Ye have been sufficiently apprised of the difficulties in your way--of God's holiness, and the nature of his service--your own weakness, inconstancy, and insufficiency--your need of the Divine help, and the hope of assistance held out in the law--and the awful consequences of apostasy: and now ye make your choice. Remember then that ye are witnesses against yourselves; and your own conscience will be witness, judge, and executioner.

De 26:17; Job 15:6; Lu 19:22

ye have.

Ps 119:11,173; Lu 10:42

put away.

14; Ge 35:2-4; Ex 20:23; Jud 10:15,16; 1Sa 7:3,4; Ho 14:2,3,8

1Co 10:19-21; 2Co 6:16-18

incline.

Pr 2:2; Heb 12:28,29

De 5:28,29

made.

Ex 15:25; 24:3,7,8; De 5:2,3; 29:1,10-15; 2Ki 11:17; 2Ch 15:12,15

2Ch 23:16; 29:10; 34:29-32; Ne 9:38; 10:28,29

in Shechem.

1,26

Joshua.

Ex 24:4; De 31:24-26

took.

Jud 9:6

set it.

4:3-9,20-24; Ge 28:18-22

under.

Ge 35:4,8; Jud 9:6 A curious coincidence of circumstances is related by Livy, the Roman historian: he writes that "when three ambassadors were sent from Rome to complain of the perfidious conduct of the Æqui, the General informed them, that they might deliver their message to an oak which shaded his tent." On this one of the ambassadors turning away, said, "This venerable oak, and all the gods, shall know that you have violated the peace; they shall now hear our complaints; and may they also soon be witnesses, when we revenge with our arms the violation of divine and human rights." It is worthy of remark that Joshua merely set up a pillar under an oak,--the one, perhaps, to protect the other; while the General directed the ambassadors to address the oak, perhaps with an idolatrous feeling that they were addressing one of the gods, who would aid his cause; while the Roman ambassadors caught the feeling, and really invoked the aid of the oak and the gods.

22:27,28,34; Ge 31:44-52; De 4:26; 30:19; 31:19,21,26; 1Sa 7:12

it hath.

De 32:1; Isa 1:2; Hab 2:11; Lu 19:40

deny.

Job 31:23; Pr 30:9; Mt 10:33; 2Ti 2:12,13; Tit 1:16; Re 3:8

Jud 2:6

after these.

De 34:5; Jud 2:8; Ps 115:17; 2Ti 4:7,8; Re 14:13

an hundred.

Ge 50:22,26

Timnath-serah.

19:50; Jud 2:9

Gaash.

2Sa 23:30

served.

De 31:29; Jud 2:7; 2Ch 24:2,17,18; Ac 20:29; Php 2:12

overlived Joshua. Heb. prolonged their days after Joshua.which had.

De 11:2,7; 31:13

bones.

Ge 50:25; Ex 13:19; Ac 7:16; Heb 11:22

buried.

Ge 33:19; 48:22

pieces of silver. or, lambs.

Eleazar.

14:1; Ex 6:23,25; Nu 3:32; 20:26-28

died.

Job 30:23; Ps 49:10; Isa 57:1,2; Zec 1:5; Ac 13:36; Heb 7:24

Heb 9:26,27

Phinehas.

Jud 20:28 CONCLUDING REMARKS ON JOSHUA. The Book of Joshua is one of the most important documents in the Old Testament. The rapid conquest of the Promised Land, and the actual settlement of the Israelites in it, afford a striking accomplishment of the Divine predictions to Abraham and the succeeding patriarchs; and at the same time bear the most unequivocal and ample testimony to the authenticity of this sacred book. Several of the transactions related in it are confirmed in a very extraordinary manner, by the traditions current among heathen nations, and preserved by ancient profane historians of undoubted character. Thus there are monuments still in existence, which prove that the Carthaginians were a colony of Syrians who escaped from Joshua; as also that the inhabitants of Leptis, in Africa, came originally from the Sidonians, who abandoned their country on account of the calamities with which it was overwhelmed. Procopius relates that the Phoenicians fled before the Hebrews into Africa, and spread themselves abroad as far as the pillars of Hercules; and adds, "In Numidia, where now stands the city Tigisis (Tangiers), they have erected two columns, on which, in Phoenician characters, is the following inscription:--"We are the Phoenicians who fled from the face of Jesus (Joshua) the son of Naue" (Nun).