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Joshua
Joshua
1:1 Now after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, it came to
pass that the Lord spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses'
minister, saying,
Joshua 1:2 Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore
arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, unto the land which
I do give to them, even to the children of Israel.
Joshua
1:2 Moses my servant is dead.(Moses
and his generation with him, who all came out of oppression by the Egyptians,
couldn't go over the Jordan river to the promised land of Canaan, because
of what Moses did and those with him did:.Numbers
14:22,23). Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan.(the
Jordan river), you and all this people, unto the land.(Deuteronomy
34:1-5).which I do give to them,
even to the children of Israel.
Joshua 1:3,4 Every place that the sole of your foot
shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses. From
the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates,
all the land of the Hittites and unto the great sea.(the
Mediterranean).toward the
going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
Joshua
1:3,4 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon.(and
this was the whole land {Deuteronomy
34:1-5} occupied by the seven Canaanitish
nations), that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.(Numbers
20:12). From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great
river, the river Euphrates,
all the land of the Hittites and
unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
Joshua
1:5 There shall not any man be able to stand before you all the days
of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail
you, nor forsake you.
Hebrews
13:5.
Joshua 1:7 Only be you strong and very courageous,
that you may observe to do according to all the
law, which Moses my servant commanded you. Turn not from it to the
right hand or to the left, that you may prosper whithersoever uou go.
Joshua
1:7 Only be you strong and very courageous, that you may observe to
do according to all the law.(way
back then it was the law Moses got from God
to give to the people, today that
law is gone and it's the law of love:.Romans
13:10), which Moses my servant commanded you. Turn not from
it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper whithersoever
uou go.
Joshua
1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you
shall meditate therein day and
night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written therein.
For then you shall make
your way prosperous and then you shall have good success.
Today
this applies to the law which superseded
the Mosaic Law, which is the
law of love.
Joshua
1:9 Have not I commanded you? Be strong and of a good courage. Be not
afraid, neither be you dismayed,
for the Lord your God is with ypu whithersoever you go.
Joshua
2:1 And Joshua
the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go
view the land, even Jericho. And they went and came into an harlot's
house, named Rahab and lodged there.
Joshua
2:2-8 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came
men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the country.
And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that
are come to you, which are entered into your house. For they be come to
search out all the country. And the woman took the two men and hid them
and said thus, There came men unto me, but I do not know where they went.
And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was
dark, that the men went out. Where the men went I wot not.(don't
know). Pursue after them quickly, for you shall overtake
them. But she had brought them up to the roof of the house and hid them
with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof. And
the king's men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords.
And as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the
gate. And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;
Joshua
2:9 And she said unto the men, I know that the Lord has given
you the land and that your terror is fallen upon us and that all the inhabitants
of the land faint because of you.
Joshua
2:10 For we have heard how the Lord dried
up the water of the Red sea for you when you came out of Egypt and
what you did unto the two kings of the Amorites.(Genesis
15:16), that were on the other side of the Jordan
river, named
Sihon and Og,
whom you utterly destroyed.
Joshua
2:11-24.And as soon as we had heard
these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage
in any man, because of you. For the Lord your God, he is God in heaven
above and in Earth beneath. Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by
the Lord, since I have showed you kindness, that you will also show kindness
unto my father's house and give me a true token. And that you will save
alive my father and my mother and my brethren and my sisters and all that
they have and deliver our lives from death. And the men answered her, Our
life for yours, if you utter not this our business. And it shall be, when
the Lord has given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly.(no
deceit).with
you. Then she let them down by a cord through the window. For her house
was upon the town wall and she dwelt upon the wall. And she said unto them,
Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you and hide yourselves
there three days until the pursuers be returned. And afterward may you
go your way. And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this thine
oath which thou hast made us swear. Behold, when we come into the land,
thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst
let us down by. And thou shalt bring thy father and thy mother and thy
brethren and all thy father's household, home unto thee. And it shall be,
that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street,
his blood shall be upon his head and we will be guiltless. And whosoever
shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any
hand be upon him. And if thou utter this our business, then we will be
quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear. And she said, According
unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away and they departed. And
she bound the scarlet line in the window. And they went and came unto the
mountain and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned.
And the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not.
So the two men returned and descended from the mountain and passed over
and came to Joshua the son of Nun and told him all things that befell them.
And they said unto Joshua, Truly the Lord has delivered into our hands
all the land, for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because
of us.
Joshua
3:5 And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for tomorrow
the Lord will do wonders among you.
Joshua
3:6 And Joshua
spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark
of the covenant and pass over before the people. And they took up the
ark of the covenant and went before the people.
Joshua
3:7-9 And the Lord said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify
you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with
Moses, so I will be with you. And you shall command the priests that bear
the ark of the covenant, saying, When you are come to the brink of the
water of Jordan, you shall stand still in Jordan. And Joshua said unto
the children of Israel, Come hither and hear the words of the Lord your
God.
Joshua
3:10 And Joshua said, Hereby you shall know that the living God is
among you and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites
and the Hittites and the Hivites and the Perizzites and the Girgashites
and the Amorites and the Jebusites.
The
various '...ites':.Genesis
15:19-21.
Joshua
3:11,12 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the Earth
passes over before you into Jordan. Now therefore take you twelve men out
of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.
Joshua
3:13 And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of
the priests that bear the
ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the Earth, shall rest in the waters
of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that
come down from above and they shall stand upon an heap.(some
dry place).
Joshua
3:14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents,
to pass over Jordan and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before
the people;
Joshua
3:15 And as they that bare the ark were come unto the Jordan
river and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in
the brim of the water, for Jordan overflowed all its banks all the time
of harvest,
Joshua
3:16 That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon
an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan and those that
came down toward the sea of the plain, the salt sea, failed and were cut
off and the people passed over right against Jericho.(Judges
1:16).
Adam
Clarke's Commentary:."Where
these places were it is difficult to say. The city Adam is wholly unknown,
but from.1Kings
4:12.we learn
that Zartanah was below Jezreel near Bethshean or Scythopolis and not far
from Succoth:.1Kings
7:46. And it appears from.Genesis
33:17.and.Joshua
13:27.that
Succoth lay on the east side of Jordan, not far from the lake of Gennesareth
and probably this city of Adam was on the same side to the north of Succoth.
It is probable that the Israelites crossed the Jordan near Bethabara, where
John later baptized.(John
1:28).and
which probably had its name 'the house of passage' from this very circumstance.
After all, it is extremely difficult to ascertain
the exact situation of these places, as in the lapse of upwards of 3,000
years the face of the country must have been materially changed. Seas,
rivers and mountains change not and though we cannot ascertain the spot,
it is sufficiently evident that we can come near to the place. It has been
considered a lame objection against the truth of the.Iliad.that
the situation of Troy cannot now be exactly ascertained. There are even
many ancient cities and considerable towns in Europe that, though they
still bear their former names, do not occupy the same spot. There are not
a few of those even in England, among such Norwich, Salisbury, etc., may
be ranked, neither of which is in its primitive situation."
Joshua
3:17 And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord
stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the river Jordan and all the Israelites
passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over
Jordan.
This
was the second crossing of water, similar to the first Red
Sea crossing when the Israelites came out of Egypt with the Egyptians
on chariots hot on their tail.
Joshua
4:9-11 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the
place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant
stood and they are there unto this day.(JFB
Commentary:."the
day this was written, which was at least twenty years after the event,
if we reckon by the date of this history":.Joshua
24:26). For the priests which bare
the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until everything was finished that
the Lord commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that
Moses commanded Joshua and the people hasted and passed over. And it came
to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the
Lord passed over and the priests, in the presence of the people.
Joshua
4:17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come you up out
of Jordan.
Joshua
4:18 And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the
covenant of the Lord were come up out of the midst of Jordan and the soles
of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters
of Jordan returned unto their place and flowed over all his banks as they
did before.
Joshua
4:19 And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first
month and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.
Joshua
4:20-22 And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did
Joshua pitch in Gilgal. And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying,
When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What
mean these stones? Then you shall let your children know, saying, Israel
came over this Jordan on dry land.
Joshua
4:23 For the Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before
you, until you were passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red sea,
which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over.
Joshua
4:24 That all the people of the Earth might know the hand of the Lord,
that it is mighty and that you might fear the Lord
your God for ever.
Joshua
5:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites,
which were on the side of Jordan westward and all the kings of the Canaanites,
which were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of Jordan
from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their
heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the
children of Israel. At that time the Lord said unto Joshua, Make sharp
knives and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time
JFB
Commentary: The command did not require him to repeat the operation
on those who had undergone it, but to resume the observance of the rite,
which had been long discontinued (*).
Joshua
5:2-5 And Joshua made him sharp knives and circumcised
the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. And this is the cause
why Joshua did circumcise. All the people that came out of Egypt, that
were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way,
after they came out of Egypt. Now all the people that came out were circumcised,
but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they
came forth out of Egypt, them they had not circumcised.
Joshua
5:6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness,
till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt.(Joshua
2:10).were consumed, because
they obeyed not the voice of the Lord, unto whom the Lord sware that he
would not show them the land.(Numbers
13:17-27), which the Lord sware unto their fathers that
he would give us, a land that flows with milk and honey.
Joshua
5:7-9 And their children, whom he raised up in their stead,
them Joshua.circumcised.
For they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the
way. And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people,
that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole. And
the Lord said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of
Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto
this day.
Joshua
5:12 And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the
old corn of the land, neither had the children of Israel manna any more,
but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
Joshua
5:13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted
up his eyes and looked and behold, there stood a man over against him with
his sword drawn in his hand.(an
angel).
And Joshua went unto him and said unto him Are you for us or for our adversaries?
Joshua
5:14 And he said Nay, but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now
come. And Joshua fell on his face to the Earth and did worship
and said unto him What says my lord unto his servant?
Joshua
5:15 And the captain of the Lord's host said unto Joshua, Loose your
shoe from off thy foot, for the place whereon thou stand is holy. And Joshua
did so.
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