Joshua 23:1

CONTENTS

In this chapter we are drawing towards the close of Joshua's ministry. Like all the other servants of the Lord, his work being finished, his death succeeds. He is represented here as convening the Lord's heritage together, to make his farewell discourse to them. This chapter hath the leading heads of his sermon; and it should seem by what follows in the next chapter, that this is closed before that he ends his discourse.

Joshua 23:1

There is somewhat very interesting in the close of life, of the more immediate servants of the Lord. The dying frames of faithful ministers are of singular use to be recorded for the comfort and encouragement of living members of Christ's mystical body. Hence it should seem, that the Holy Ghost hath been pleased to have his servants held forth to view in the church in their last hours. The representation here made of Joshua, is truly engaging. We are not told of the precise time when it was, but only it is in general said, to have been a long time after Joshua ' s victories were ended. Probably as Joshua died at the age of one hundred and ten years (see Joshua 24:29.) it was just before his death.