Now Joshua was old [and] (a) stricken in years; and the LORD said unto
him, Thou art old [and] stricken in years, and there remaineth yet
very much land to be (b) possessed.
(a) Being almost a hundred and ten years old.
(b) After the enemies are overcome.... [ Continue Reading ]
All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto (c)
Misrephothmaim, [and] all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from
before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the
Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.
(c) Read (Joshua 11:8).... [ Continue Reading ]
Nevertheless the children of Israel (d) expelled not the Geshurites,
nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell
among the Israelites until this day.
(d) Because they had not destroyed all as God had commanded they that
remainder were snares and pricks to hurt them, (Numbers... [ Continue Reading ]
Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices
of the LORD God of Israel made by fire [are] (e) their inheritance, as
he said unto them.
(e) Levi will live by the sacrifices, (Numbers 18:21).... [ Continue Reading ]
(f) Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of
Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.
(f) So that both they who obeyed wicked counsel and the wicked
counsellor perished by the just judgment of God.... [ Continue Reading ]
And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon,
the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and [his]
border, [even] unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the (g) other
side Jordan eastward.
(g) That is, in the land of Moab.... [ Continue Reading ]
And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og
in Bashan, [were pertaining] unto the (h) children of Machir the son
of Manasseh, [even] to the one half of the children of Machir by their
families.
(h) Meaning, his nephews and posterity.... [ Continue Reading ]