Joshua 14:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them. ”

• Joshua 14:3 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  For Moses had given the inheritance of (a) two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them. (a) As Reuben and Gad and half the tribe o...

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• Joshua 14:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  Joshua 14-19. The Division of the Land on the W. of Jordan. Joshua 14:1-5 is P's introduction to the division of the land by lot, but instead of going on at once with his account of the inherita...

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• Joshua 14:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them.

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• Joshua 14:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe. No JFB commentary on these verses.

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• Joshua 14:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Territories of the Western Tribes Chs. 14-19 inclusive describe the allotment of territories to the Western Tribes. There are two assignments. The first, embracing Judah and Joseph, is described a...

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• Joshua 14:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  XIV. FOURTH DIVISION OF THE BOOK. DIVISION OF THE TEBBITORY ON THE WEST OF JORDAN TO NINE TRIBES AND A HALF (Joshua 14-19, inclusive). (1) And these are the countries which... Eleazar... and Jos...

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• Joshua 14:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XXI. JOSHUA'S OLD AGE- DIVISION FOR THE EASTERN TRIBES. Joshua Ch. 13, 14:1-5. "THE Lord said unto Joshua, Thou art old and stricken in years." To many men and women this would not be a...

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• Joshua 14:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Man Who Wholly Followed His God Joshua 14:1-15 The lot was doubtless adopted to obviate cause for jealousy or charges of favoritism. It denoted God's choice, Proverbs 16:33 ; Proverbs 18:...

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• Joshua 14:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  The matter of supreme interest here is, of course, the story of Caleb, who, after forty-five years of waiting, claimed and obtained a definite possession in the land. His claim was made while there...

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• Joshua 14:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  The two branches of Joseph's house, Manasseh and Ephraim, forming each a tribe, would have made Israel's family to have been thirteen to have divided Canaan, had not Levi been separated to the Lord;...

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• Joshua 14:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  And Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes, and an half tribe, on the other side Jordan ,.... The two tribes of Gad and Reuben, and the half tribe of Manasseh, whose inheritance is described...

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• Joshua 14:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among them. Ver. 3. But unto the Levites. ] See Joshua...

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• Joshua 14:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  WEST OF JORDAN: THE LAND DIVIDED BY LOT (vv. 1-5) The land west of the Jordan River was divided by Joshua and Eleazar the priest. It was not their discretion that decided this, however, for as t...

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• Joshua 14:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  The Distribution of Canaan. B. C. 1444.       1 And these are the countries which the childr...

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• Joshua 14:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Joshua 14:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘ And Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes, and the half tribe Beyond Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.' The repetition of this for the third time in a sh...

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• Joshua 14:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  DIVISION OF THE LAND WEST OF JORDAN.—THE INHERITANCE OF CALEB CRITICAL NOTES .—The section of the history which is introduced in the first five verses of this chapter terminates with chap. 19., a...

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• Joshua 14:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Joshua 14:12 . Give me this mountain, said Caleb; not the city; that was given to the levites with the suburbs, chap. 21.; but the country seat, once occupied by the giants, and all the land. The...

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• Joshua 14:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

  By lot was their inheritance. The tribes apportioned As the whole inheritance was the gift of God, so each one’s share was assigned to him by His appointment. Not even Joshua himself in a displ...

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• Joshua 14:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Joshua 14:1 Tribes . The word here for "tribes," in connection with the word "fathers," is the one which implies genealogical descent (see note on Joshua 13:29 ). Eleazar the...

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• Joshua 14:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Beginning of the Distribution

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• Joshua 14:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  Deuteronomy 3:12-17 ; Joshua 13:14 ; Joshua 13:32 ; Joshua 13:33 ; Joshua 13:8 ; Numbers 32:29-42

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