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Verse Joshua 22:34. _CALLED THE ALTAR_ ED] The word עד _ED_, which
signifies _witness_ or _testimony_, is not found in the common
editions of the Hebrew Bible, and is supplied in Italics by our
trans...
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The word עד _‛__êd_ is not found after “altar” in the text
of most manuscripts, nor is it represented in the Septuagint or
Vulgate. The passage should probably run: “the children of Reuben
and the ch...
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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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_called the altar Ed_ The word _Ed_is not found after altar in the
Hebrew, nor is it represented in the LXX. or Vulgate, nor are the
words in the next clause, "shall be," in the original. The words
in...
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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._ 34. _AND THE CHILDREN OF REUBEN, AND—GAD, CALLED THE ALTAR
ED_— The word עד _ad,_ is evidently wanting in the Hebrew, which
only says _the children of Reuben,_ &c. _called the altar; for it is,...
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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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22:34 witness (b-21) Heb. _ Ed_ ....
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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
_BRIAN ROWLANDS_
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CHAPTER 22
4. ACCEPT GOD’S *BLESSING
The *tribes...
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THAT THE LORD (_i.e.,_ Jehovah) is God (of all the twelve tribes
alike)....
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וַֽ יִּקְרְא֛וּ בְּנֵי ־רְאוּבֵ֥ן וּ
בְנֵי ־ג
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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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God. Hebrew seems rather defective; (Calmet) "called the altar,
(Syriac supplies the altar of witness) for it shall be a witness
between us, that the Lord he is the God. Ed, "witness," is placed in
th...
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The word Ed signifies witness. Oh! that there may be many memorandums,
as witnesses for me, of my interest in a covenant God in Christ. And,
yet abundantly more and above all, do thou, blessed Spirit,...
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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 CHILDREN OF REUBEN, AND THE CHILDREN OF GAD, CALLED THE ALTAR
[ED],.... Which signifies a "witness"; they caused such an inscription
to be put upon it, or this word to be engraved on it, that...
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_They called the altar Ed_ That is, a witness; a witness of the
relation they stood in to God and Israel, and of their concurrence
with the other tribes in the common faith, that Jehovah he is God. It...
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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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And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar
Ed; for it shall be a witness between us that the Lord is God. The
entire sentence served as the name of the altar, for it should be...
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THE EXPLANATION MADE AND ACCEPTED...
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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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ED:
That is, a witness...
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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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No text from Poole on this verse....
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Joshua 22:34 children H1121 Reuben H7205 children H1121 Gad H1410
called H7121 (H8799) altar H4196 witness H5707
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‘ And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, called the
altar [Ed], for ‘it is a witness between us that YHWH is God'.'
The actual name is not in the Massoretic Text. However it is found in...
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ED
That is, a witness; so (Joshua 24:27)....
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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 22:34 CALLED THE ALTAR WITNESS. This sixth
monument in the land (see note on 4:20) bears witness to the unity of
the Israelite tribes on both sides of the Jordan....
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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 Kings 18:39; Isaiah 43:10; Joshua 22:27; Joshua 24:27; Matthew 4:10
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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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The altar Ed — That is, a witness: a witness of the relation they
stood in to God and Israel, and of their concurrence with the other
tribes in the common faith, that Jehovah he is God. It was a witne...