Joshua 23:1
A long time — About fourteen years after it.... [ Continue Reading ]
A long time — About fourteen years after it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Joshua called — Either to his own city, or rather to Shiloh, the usual place of such assemblies, where his words being uttered before the Lord, were likely to have the more effect upon them. All Israel — Not all the people in their own persons, but in their representatives, by their elders, heads, j... [ Continue Reading ]
Because of you — For your good, that you might gain by their losses.... [ Continue Reading ]
That remain — Not yet conquered. An inheritance — You shall certainly subdue them, and inherit their hand, as you have done the rest, if you be not wanting to yourselves. All the nations — That is, with the land of those nations; the people put for their land, as we have seen before; and as sometime... [ Continue Reading ]
Very courageous — For it will require great courage and resolution to execute all the commands of Moses, and particularly, that of expelling and destroying the residue of the Canaanites. The right hand or the left — That is, in one kind or other, by adding to the law, or diminishing from it.... [ Continue Reading ]
Come not — That is, avoid all familiar converse and contracts, but especially marriages with them. Name their gods — To wit, unnecessarily and familiarly, lest the mention of them breed discourse about them, and so by degrees bring to the approbation and worship of them. Nor cause — Nor require nor... [ Continue Reading ]
Cleave to the Lord — By constant obedience, entire affection, faithful service and worship of him alone. To this day — To wit, since you came in to Canaan; since which time the body of the people (for of them he speaks, not of every particular person) had behaved themselves much better than they did... [ Continue Reading ]
No man — To wit, whom you have invaded; otherwise some of those people did yet remain unconquered.... [ Continue Reading ]
He fighteth — Impute not this therefore to your own valour, as you will be apt to do, but to God's gracious and powerful assistance.... [ Continue Reading ]
Take heed — Now it requires more watchfulness and diligence than it did in the wilderness, because your temptations are now stronger; from the examples and insinuations of your bad neighbours, the remainders of this wicked people; and from your own peace and prosperity: and the pride, security, forg... [ Continue Reading ]
Go back — From God, and from his worship and service.... [ Continue Reading ]
Traps to you — By your converse with them, you will be drawn by degrees into their errors, and impieties, and brutish lusts. Thorns in your eyes — When they have seduced, and thereby weakened you, then they will molest and vex you, no less than a severe scourge doth a man's sides which are lashed by... [ Continue Reading ]
Of all the earth — That is, of all flesh, or of all men; the way which all men go; I am about to die, as all men must. To die is, to go a journey, a journey to our long home. And Joshua himself, tho' he could so ill be spared, cannot be exempted from this common lot. He takes notice of it, that they... [ Continue Reading ]
Evil things — The accomplishment of God's promise is a pledge that he will also fulfil his threatnings; both of them depending upon the same ground, the faithfulness of God.... [ Continue Reading ]
It will aggravate their perdition, that the land from which they shall perish is a good land, and a land which God himself had given them: and which therefore he would have secured to them, if they had not thrown themselves out of it. "Thus the goodness of the heavenly Canaan, says Mr. Henry, and th... [ Continue Reading ]