Joshua 3:1
EARLY IN THE MORNING: i.e. after the command in Joshua 1:2. CHILDREN. sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
EARLY IN THE MORNING: i.e. after the command in Joshua 1:2. CHILDREN. sons.... [ Continue Reading ]
AFTER. at the end of. HOST. camp.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE ARK. Not the cloud, but the ark; as from Sinai. Compare Numbers 10:33. THE LORD YOUR GOD. _Jehovah your Elohim_. App-4. THE LEVITES. Some codices, with three early printed editions, Septuagint, and Syriac, reed "and the Levites". bearing it. Supply the Ellipsis (App-6.) by adding "[going befor... [ Continue Reading ]
A SPACE. This is very significant. Compare Exodus 19:12; Exodus 13:22.Leviticus 10:3. CUBITS. See App-51. About Joshua 1:5 miles.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD (Hebrew. _Jehovah._ said unto Joshua (or him), at nine sundry times: Joshua 3:7; Joshua 5:2; Joshua 6:2; Joshua 7:10; Joshua 8:1; Joshua 8:18; Joshua 10:8; Joshua 11:6; Joshua 13:1. AS. according as.... [ Continue Reading ]
LIVING. This title always has. latent reference to idols. Here, to the gods of the idolatrous nations named. GOD. Hebrew. _'el._ App-4. AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysendeton_ (App-6), to emphasise the seven nations.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. THE LORD OF ALL THE EARTH. Hebrew the _Adon._ of all the earth.. title connected with sovereignty in the earth. Compare Joshua 3:11; Joshua 3:13.Zechariah 6:5, the only three occurrences of this full title. See App-4.; and compare Psalms 97:5.Micah 4:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
TWELVE. The number of governmental perfection See App-10. MEN. Hebrew. _'ish._ See App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4. CUT OFF. Three times here, for Israel; 2 Kings 2:8, for Elijah; and 2 Kings 2:14, for Elisha. AN HEAP one heap. Compare Psalms 114:3.... [ Continue Reading ]
FOR. Note the parenthesis. OVERFLOWETH. So to the present day. BANKS. Hebrew found only four times in O.T.; here, Jos 4:18. 1 Chronicles 12:15.Isaiah 8:7. All but the last, of the Jordan. HARVEST. barley harvest. Compare note on Joshua 2:6.... [ Continue Reading ]
ADAM. The waters were divided at (or near) the city "Adam", and they were heaped up at (or near) "Zaretun", another city far off from "Adam". ZARETAN in the land of Manasseh. Called Zartanah in 1 Kings 4:12. The brazen vessels of the temple were cast there in the plain of Jordan (1 Kings 7:46. SEA... [ Continue Reading ]
ALL THE ISRAELITES: better. all Israel. WERE PASSED CLEAN OVER. finished passing over.... [ Continue Reading ]