Joshua 22:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD. ”

• Joshua 22:25 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so shall your children make our children (o) cease from fearing the...

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• Joshua 22:25 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

  The Altar of Witness Erected by the E. Jordan Tribes. This narrative is clearly not historical, and the question arises, Why should it have been composed? The answer is that it is a Midrash (p. 314...

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• Joshua 22:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD...

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• Joshua 22:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 23-25. What have ye to do with the Lord God of Israel? &c.— Not satisfied with justifying themselves from the crime imputed to them, of having dared to erect a new altar, to rival, as...

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• Joshua 22:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the...

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• Joshua 22:25 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Dismissal of the Two and a Half Tribes. The Axtar set up at Ed, and the Controversy it Raised 1-9. The dismissal of the tribes. 10-34. The controversy at Ed. Here, as in Numbers 25:7-9 , we se...

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• Joshua 22:25 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XXX. THE ALTAR ED. Joshua 22:1-34 . THE two tribes and a half had behaved well. They had kept their word, remained with their brethren during all Joshua's campaign, and taken their part...

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• Joshua 22:25 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  the Altar of Witness Joshua 22:21-34 Phinehas and the ten princes did their work well. It was politic as well as true to remind the departing warriors that they could not rebel against God with...

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• Joshua 22:25 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  We now begin the third and last division of the Book, which tells the story of the final things circling around Joshua's farewell and passing. The first incident recorded is the return of the two and...

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• Joshua 22:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  I include all these verses in one point of view, because so delightful a passage of scripture, which takes in the whole of the meek and candid answer of the accused, ought not to be broken. The thing...

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• Joshua 22:25 - James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

  ONE THOUGH DIVIDED ‘The Lord hath made Jordan a border between us and you.’ Joshua 22:25 The special subject of the Lesson is the readiness with which the two-and-a-half tribes met and respo...

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• Joshua 22:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  For the Lord hath made Jordan a border between us and you ,.... And by it separated them from them, as if they were a distinct people; not that this was really the case, but so they feared it would...

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• Joshua 22:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD...

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• Joshua 22:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Let the Lord himself require it That is, call us to an account and punish us for it. What have you to do with the Lord You have no relation to him, nor interest in him, or his worship. The Lord...

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• Joshua 22:25 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  THE RETURN OF THE 2 ½ TRIBES (vs.1-9) To their credit, the warriors from Reuben, Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh had continued faithfully with the other tribes in conflict with the enemy until...

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• Joshua 22:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands of Israel,   22 The L ORD God of gods, the L ORD God...

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• Joshua 22:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  A border between us and you, to shut you out of the Land. of Promise, and consequently from thee covenant made, between God and our father. Ye have no part in the Lord; nothing to do with him; no...

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• Joshua 22:25 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  “ And if we have not rather done this out of deep concern and with a purpose, saying, ‘In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, “What have you to do with YHWH, the God of...

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• Joshua 22:25 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 22:10 . The borders of Jordan] Lit. = “the circles of the Jordan.” So, in chap. Joshua 13:2 , we have “the circles of the Philistines.” The immediate neighbourhood of th...

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• Joshua 22:25 - Scofield Reference Notes

  fearing ( See Scofield) - ( Psalms 19:9 ).

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• Joshua 22:25 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Joshua 22:10 . A great altar to see to. See on Numbers 32 . The object of this mount or tumulus was to show that they belonged to the Hebrew nation, and had hope in the Messiah. It was a sudden e...

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• Joshua 22:25 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Ye have not left your brethren. Helping one another I. These tribes helped their brethren to their own inconvenience and positive detriment. A narrow-minded, selfish race would have recognised...

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• Joshua 22:25 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION Joshua 22:1 The Reubenites and the Gadites. According to the Hebrew idiom, these are in the original in the singular, as in Genesis 12:6 . Thus a tribe, as has been before rem...

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• Joshua 22:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Explanation made and Accepted

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• Joshua 22:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 Kings 12:16 ; 1 Kings 12:27-30 ; 1 Kings 14:16 ; 1 Kings 15:30 ; 1 Samuel 26:19 ; 2 Samuel 20:1 ; Acts 8:21 ; Ezra 4:2 ; Ezra 4:3 ; Joshua 22:27 ; Nehemiah 2:20

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• Joshua 22:25 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  Home Again Joshua 22:1-34 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. The Heavenly warfare supersedes our duty at home. The two and a half tribes had left their homes to go over the Jordan in order to aid their bre...

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• Joshua 22:25 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  A border — To shut you out of the land of promise, and consequently from the covenant made between God and our fathers. No part — Nothing to do with him; no right to serve him or expect favour from...

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