Joshua 22:3 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God. ”

Joshua 22:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 21:43 to Joshua 22:8 . Yahweh's Promise of Conquest Completely Fulfilled, so that the E. Jordan Tribes are Set Free to Return Home. We have here the introduction to the last section of ou...
Joshua 22:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

God. Hebrew. Elohim . App-4.
Joshua 22:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.
Joshua 22:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ver. 1-4. Then Joshua called the Reubenites, &c.— The war against the Canaanites being happily concluded, the conquered country divided, and the priests and people settled in the peaceable...
Joshua 22:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God. Ye have not left your brethren these many days - for the space...
Joshua 22:3 - 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...
Joshua 22:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

XXII. DISMISSAL OF THE TWO AND A HALF TRIBES TO THEIR INHERITANCE ON THE EAST OF JORDAN. (1-6) Charge to the two and a half tribes by Joshua. The words of Joshua 22:2-3 recall the promise of J...
Joshua 22:3 - 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...
Joshua 22:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Averting War between Brethren Joshua 22:1-20 There was generous appreciation of services rendered as Joshua dismissed the warriors. Something like “Well-done, good and faithful servant,” rings...
Joshua 22:3 - 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...
Joshua 22:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

There is somewhat very striking in the history of the Reubenites, and Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, in their choosing to set up their rest on the other side of Jordan. No doubt, as it is t...
Joshua 22:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day ,.... For the space of fourteen years, which is the commonly received notion of the Jews f; seven years according to them the land was su...
Joshua 22:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God. Ver. 3. Ye have not left your brethren these many days. ] Seven year...
Joshua 22:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ye have kept all that Moses commanded , &c. Thus he dismisses them with a very honourable character. When Moses was gone, they remembered and observed the charge he had given them; and all the o...
Joshua 22:3 - 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...
Joshua 22:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Reubenites, Gadites, and Half Tribe of Manasseh Dismissed. B. C. 1444. 1 Then Joshua...
Joshua 22:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

These many days, i.e. for divers years together, so long as the war lasted. See Joshua 11:18 , Joshua 14:10 .
Joshua 22:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Chapter 22 The Transjordan Contingents Return Home - The Memorial Altar. The initial war with the Canaanites being over, Joshua called to him the warriors from the two tribes of Reuben and Gad, an...
Joshua 22:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

THE GOING HOME OF THE EASTERN TRIBES CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 22:1 . Then Joshua called] “As the return of the armed men belonging to the two tribes and a half is only described in general term...
Joshua 22:3 - 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...
Joshua 22:3 - 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...
Joshua 22:3 - 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...
Joshua 22:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Dismissal
Joshua 22:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Philippians 1:23-27
Joshua 22:3 - 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...

Joshua 22:3 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 22:3 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Joshua 22:3 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Joshua 22:3 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Joshua 22:3 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Joshua 22:3 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 22:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Joshua 22:3 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Joshua 22:3 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Joshua 22:3 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Joshua 22:3 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Joshua 22:3 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Joshua 22:3 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joshua 22:3 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joshua 22:3 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 22:3 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Joshua 22:3 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Joshua 22:3 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Joshua 22:3 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Joshua 22:3 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Joshua 22:3 - The Biblical Illustrator

Joshua 22:3 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Joshua 22:3 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Joshua 22:3 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Joshua 22:3 - Wells of Living Water Commentary