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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Joshua 23:3. _FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD_ IS _HE THAT HATH FOUGHT FOR YOU._] There is much both of _piety_ and _modesty_ in this address. It was natural for the Israelites to look on their veteran,...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    2. JOSHUA'S TWO ADDRESSES The First Address CHAPTER 23 _ 1. The people gathered (Joshua 23:1)_ 2. God's faithfulness remembered (Joshua 23:3) 3. Exhortations to obedience (Joshua 23:6) 4. Warni

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim_. App-4...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _the Lord your God is he_ See Exodus 14:14. Of his own merits and exploits the modest hero makes no mention....

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    _A Review of Joshua's Work Joshua 23:1-5_ And it came to pass a long time after that the Lord had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age....

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _AND YE HAVE SEEN ALL THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD HATH DONE UNTO ALL THESE NATIONS BECAUSE OF YOU; FOR THE LORD YOUR GOD IS HE THAT HATH FOUGHT FOR YOU._ Ye have seen all that the Lord your God hath done...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FIRST FAREWELL ADDRESS OF JOSHUA This discourse was probably delivered at Shiloh or Timnath-Serah. Unlike the Second Discourse, which is mainly a historical retrospect, it dwells chiefly upon the...

  • 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 23 JOSHUA SAYS ‘GOODBYE’ TO HIS LEADERS – J...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ אַתֶּ֣ם רְאִיתֶ֗ם אֵת֩ כָּל ־אֲשֶׁ֨ר עָשָׂ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXXI. JEHOVAH THE CHAMPION OF ISRAEL. Joshua 23:1. THE last two Chapter s of Joshua are very like each other. Each professes to be a report of the aged leader's farewell meeting with the hea...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    JOSHUA'S FAREWELL ADDRESS Joshua 23:1 Joshua's anxiety for the welfare of his people after his death has New Testament parallels. See Acts 20:29; 2 Peter 1:13; and especially...

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

    As the time approached for Joshua's passing, he twice gathered the people together and delivered to them his farewell messages. The first of these is contained in this chapter. Its burden was of the...

  • Gary Hampton Commentaries

    As Joshua neared the end of his life, he called for all the leaders of the people to meet with him. He reminded them that it was God who fought for them in the conquest of the land. How else could the...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations (a) because of you; for the LORD your God [is] he that hath fought for you. (a) Your eyes bearing witness....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    For you. God fought for his people three ways: 1. By destroying their enemies himself in a miraculous manner, as he did the Egyptians; 2. By assisting their endeavours, as at Jericho, and in the victo...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Reader! do not fail to observe, how Joshua's dying sermon opens. It is all of God. God, as a covenant God, was Joshua ' s text, and the sum and substance of all his sermon. Not a word of himself. Not...

  • 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 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

    AND YE HAVE SEEN ALL THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD HATH DONE UNTO ALL THOSE NATIONS BECAUSE OF YOU,.... How he had destroyed them, and driven them out of their habitations to make room for them, meaning the...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the LORD your God [is] he that hath fought for you._ Ver. 3. _And ye have seen all that the Lord your...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _And ye have seen_ Or rather, _Behold ye have seen;_ for so the particle _ve_, which we translate _and_, sometimes signifies, as Genesis 24:31. _All that the Lord hath done because of you_ For your go...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 Ioshuas exhortation before his death, 3 by former benefits, 5 by promises, 11 and by threatnings. 1 AND it came to passe, a long time after that the LORD had giuen rest vnto Israel from all thei...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    and ye have seen all that the Lord, your God, hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the Lord, your God, is He that hath fought for you, for it had been evident throughout that the Lord...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE URGENT EXHORTATION TO BE FAITHFUL TO THE LORD...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    AN APPEAL ON THE BASIS OF GOD'S FAITHFULNESS (vs.1-16) Many years had passed now that Joshua calls for all Israel, elders, heads, judges and officers, and tells them he is old and advanced in age (vs...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-10 Joshua was old and dying, let them observe what he said now. He put them in mind of the great things God had done for them in his days. He exhorted them to be very courageous. Keep with care, do...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BECAUSE OF YOU; for your sake and good, that you might gain by their losses....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Joshua 23:3 seen H7200 (H8804) LORD H3068 God H430 done H6213 (H8804) nations H1471 because H6440 LORD...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    “ And you have seen all that YHWH your God has done to all these nations because of you, for YHWH your God, he it is who has fought for you.” Joshua then points back to the past, to all their victori...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Joshua 23:1. Joshua and St. John stand out as if in direct hostility to each other. We know that the Book of Joshua must have been read by the Apostle in his childhood, his manhood, his old age. Let...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Last counsels of Joshua. CHARACTERS: God, Joshua. CONCLUSION: As all good things come upon the believer according to the promise, so long as we have kept close to God, so all evil things w...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Joshua 23:7. _Neither make mention of the name of their gods._ This prohibition is often repeated, and it involves mythology in difficulties. The LXX had authorities for saying, Joshua 24:33, that the...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I am old and stricken in age: and ye have seen all that the Lord your God hath done._ OLD AGE As in the snowy realms of the Alps lovely flowers open their cheerful petals to the sky, so, notwithsta...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 23:1 The next generation of leaders is charged in terms echoing the charge to Joshua in ch. Joshua 1:1....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    _JOSHUA’S FIRST FAREWELL ADDRESS_ CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 23:1. A long time after that the Lord had given rest] Probably the beginning of this period is to be reckoned from the time indicated in chap...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION JOSHUA'S SOLEMN CHARGE.— JOSHUA 23:1 WAXED OLD AND STRICKEN IN AGE. Literally, _was old, advanced in days _(see Joshua 13:1). But this refers to a more advanced age still, when the patria...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    In chapter twenty-three, It came to pass a long time after that the Lord had given rest to Israel (Joshua 23:1) A long time, being about seventeen years. So from the time that they conquered the lan...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Deuteronomy 20:4; Deuteronomy 4:9; Exodus 14:14; Joshua 10:14; Jo

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    HALLOWED REMINISCENCES Joshua 23:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A glorious rest. Our study opens with very striking words: "And it came to pass a long time after that the Lord had given rest unto Israel f...

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