Joshua 8:1
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4. SAID. See note on Joshua 3:7. SEE. Figure of speech _Asterienios_ (App-6). AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6) emphasising each particular.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah_. App-4. SAID. See note on Joshua 3:7. SEE. Figure of speech _Asterienios_ (App-6). AND. Note the Figure of speech _Polysyndeton_ (App-6) emphasising each particular.... [ Continue Reading ]
JERICHO. Compare Joshua 6:21. THE CATTLE. Compare Deuteronomy 20:14.... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asteriaaeos._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim_. App-4. HAND. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause) for the power which is in it (App-6). Compare Joshua 8:20, where it is rendered "power.... [ Continue Reading ]
SEE. Figure of speech _Aeteriemos._ App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
BETWEEN BETH-EL AND AI. The place of Abraham's altar, Genesis 12:8 _:_ so that the place where the promise of the Land was made, is the place where it began to be fulfilled. Abraham had come down from Sichem: Joshua goes up to Sichem, and builds his altar on the same spot where Abraham had built his... [ Continue Reading ]
NUMBERED. inspected or mustered.... [ Continue Reading ]
OF THE CITY. Another school of Massorites read "of Ai", with many codices and Aramaic.... [ Continue Reading ]
WENT. Some codices, with three early printed editions, read "lodged in".... [ Continue Reading ]
MEN. Hebrew, plural of _ish_ or _'enosh_. App-14. WIST NOT. knew not. Anglo-Saxon _witan_, to know,... [ Continue Reading ]
MADE AS IF THEY WERE BEATEN. The only form of the verb in the Hebrew Bible.... [ Continue Reading ]
IN AI. Some codices read "in the city",... [ Continue Reading ]
MAN. Hebrew. _ish_. App-14.... [ Continue Reading ]
SPEAR. a short javelin. First occurrence of Hebrew. _kidon._... [ Continue Reading ]
BEHOLD. Figure of speech _Asterismos._ App-6. POWER. Hebrew hands. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause). for the power put forth by them (App-6). PURSUERS. the pursuing force (singular)... [ Continue Reading ]
LET NONE. Compare Deuteronomy 7:2. OF THEM. One Massoretic reading is remain "to him... [ Continue Reading ]
CONSUMED. spent.... [ Continue Reading ]
DESTROYED. devoted.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CATTLE. Compare Numbers 31:22. COMMANDED JOSHUA. Compare Joshua 8:2.... [ Continue Reading ]
HEAP. Its only name to-day is "Tell". the Heap.... [ Continue Reading ]
AS SOON AS. Compare Deuteronomy 21:22; Deuteronomy 21:23 and Joshua 10:27, that remaineth. Figure of speech _Parenthesis_ (relative). App-6.... [ Continue Reading ]
MOSES THE SERVANT OF THE LORD. See note on Deuteronomy 34:5. CHILDREN. sons. AS. according as. BOOK OF THE LAW. See note on Exodus 17:14; Exodus 24:4. and App-47. So that Joshua had. copy of Deuteronomy. WHOLE STONES. Compare Exodus 20:25.Deuteronomy 27:5.... [ Continue Reading ]
HE WROTE. See note on Exodus 17:14. A COPY. duplicate.... [ Continue Reading ]
AND OFFICERS. Some codices, with Aramaean and Syriac, read "and their officers". BEFORE. at the first.... [ Continue Reading ]
THE CONGREGATION. assembly (as mustered). WERE CONVERSANT. Hebrew walked.... [ Continue Reading ]