Joshua 22:26 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice: ”

• Joshua 22:26 - 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 22:26 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  26. Therefore we said, etc The gross impiety of which they had been accused was now well refuted; and yet they seem not to have been in every respect free from blame, because the Law forbids...

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• Joshua 22:26 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice: An altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice - Because this would have been in flat oppos...

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• Joshua 22:26 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice: No JFB commentary on these verses.

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• Joshua 22:26 - 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 22:26 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  An altar. — Rather, the altar. It was not an altar ( Joshua 22:23 ), but the altar, i.e., the pattern or copy of the altar of Jehovah, to prove that the two and a half tribes had the same r...

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• Joshua 22:26 - 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 22:26 - 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 22:26 - 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 22:26 - 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 22:26 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Therefore we said ,.... One to another, in order to prevent the apostasy of our children from God, their departure from his worship, and going into idolatry: let us now prepare to build us an alta...

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• Joshua 22:26 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice: Ver. 26. To build us an altar, not for burnt offering, &c. ] This they often deny, and di...

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• Joshua 22:26 - 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 22:26 - 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 22:26 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  No text from Poole on this verse.

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• Joshua 22:26 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘ Therefore we said, “Let us now build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice, But it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we might do t...

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• Joshua 22:26 - 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 22:26 - 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 22:26 - 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 22:26 - 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 22:26 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Explanation made and Accepted

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• Joshua 22:26 - 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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