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Verse Joshua 22:33. _AND DID NOT INTEND TO GO UP AGAINST THEM IN
BATTLE_] That is, they now relinquished the intention of going against
them in battle, as this explanation proved there was no cause fo...
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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:...
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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...
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Return of the Embassy
33. _blessed God_ Compare 1 Chronicles 29:20, "And David said to all
the congregation, Now _bless_the Lord your God. And all the
congregation _blessed_the Lord God of their fathe...
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_VER._ 33. _DID NOT INTEND TO GO UP_— Or, _Talked no more of going
up._...
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_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...
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22:33 said (a-24) Or 'intended,' as Exodus 2:14 ....
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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...
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COME IN, AND RECEIVE GOD’S PROMISES!
JOSHUA
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CHAPTER 22
4. ACCEPT GOD’S *BLESSING
The *tribes...
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DID NOT INTEND — _i.e.,_ they decided not (Heb. _they did not say to
go up against them_)_.
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וַ יִּיטַ֣ב הַ דָּבָ֗ר בְּ עֵינֵי֙
בְּנֵ֣י
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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The return of the embassy in peace, must have been highly grateful to
all Israel. When ministers return with an account of their success, in
their acting as ambassadors for Jesus, what holy joy doth i...
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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...
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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...
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AND THE THING PLEASED THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL,.... They were quite
satisfied with the account of things, and were pleased and delighted
with what their brethren, the other two tribes, had done:
AND TH...
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_The children of Israel blessed God_ As Phinehas had done, that their
brethren had not offended the Divine Majesty as they suspected. _And
did not intend to go up against them_ Laid aside the intentio...
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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...
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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...
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30-34 It is well that there was on both sides a disposition to peace,
as there was a zeal for God; for quarrels about religion, for want of
wisdom and love, often prove the most fierce and difficult...
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As they were by the law of God obliged to do, if they had been guilty
and persisted therein; as afterwards they did they tribe of Benjamin
for the same reason....
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Joshua 22:33 thing H1697 pleased H3190 (H8799) H5869 children H1121
Israel H3478 children H1121 Israel H3478 blessed
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‘ And the thing pleased the children of Israel, and the children of
Israel blessed God, and did not speak any more of going up against
them to war, to destroy the land in which the children of Reuben...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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1 Chronicles 29:20; 1 Samuel 25:32; 1 Samuel 25:33; 1 Thessalonians
3:6;...
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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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Destroy the land — As they were by the law of God obliged to do, if
they had been guilty and persisted therein; as afterwards they did the
tribe of Benjamin for the same reason....