“ Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal, ”
The account of this solemnity is very brief. An acquaintance with Deuteronomy 27 is evidently presupposed; and the three several acts of which the solemnity consisted are only so far distinctly n...
Altar Erected on Ebal, the Law Inscribed and Read. This comes in a strange place. The middle of Canaan has not yet been conquered, so that such a proceeding was impossible if our narrative is compl...
30. Then Joshua built an altar, etc God had been pleased that this should be the first extraordinary sacrifice offered to him in the land of Canaan, that thus the people might attest their g...
Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal, Then Joshua built an altar - This was done in obedience to the express command of God, Deuteronomy 27:4-8 (note).
Ver. 30. Then Joshua built an altar—in mount Ebal — This should be rendered, as we have observed on Deuteronomy 27 . BY mount Ebal; and nothing can more clearly prove the truth of the interpr...
Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal, Then Joshua built an altar ... in mount Ebal - (see the note at Deuteronomy 27:1-26 .) This spot was little short of twe...
The Conquest of Ai. The Covenant confirmed upon Mt. Ebal 1-29. The Taking of Ai. Edersheim explains that Joshua detailed a corps of 30,000 men, of whom 5,000 were placed W. of Ai in a wood. The 25...
THE LAW SET UP IN THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY. (30) Then Joshua built. — The word then is not “and” in the Hebrew; as is too often the case where “then” occurs in our English Old Testament. It is...
CHAPTER XVII. EBAL AND GERIZIM. Joshua 8:30-35 . COMMENTATORS on Joshua have been greatly perplexed by the place which this narrative has in our Bibles. No one can study the map, and take into...
Recording and Reading the Law Joshua 8:30-35 After the fall of Ai the war was suspended for a time. The divine hand restrained the Canaanites from interfering with Israel's obedience to the Mos...
As the result of the severity of the discipline exercised in the case of Achan, the nation returned to obedience, and consequently Jehovah immediately uttered the word of reassurance to Joshua and th...
Observe, how lovely it is, when even war is not suffered to interrupt religious services to God. Though Joshua was now getting more and more into the heart of the enemies' country, yet he will pause...
Then Joshua built an altar unto the Lord God of Israel in Mount Ebal. As was commanded, Deuteronomy 27:5 . The Samaritan Chronicle says, it was built in Mount Gerizim; but there is a difficulty ar...
Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal, Ver. 30. Then Joshua built an altar. ] According to Moses's charge. Deuteronomy 11:29 ; Deu 27:5-6 to mount Ebal. ] Wh...
Then Joshua built an altar Namely, after the taking of Ai. For they were obliged to do this when they were brought over Jordan into the land of Canaan, Deuteronomy 11:29 ; Deuteronomy 27:2-3 . Bu...
AI TOTALLY DESTROYED (vs.1-29) Now the Lord gives explicit instructions to Joshua as to attacking Ai. How different these were to the plans Joshua used at first! God tells Joshua not to be afraid...
Sacrifice Offered on Mount Ebal; The Reading of the Law. B. C. 1451. 30 Then Joshua buil...
Then, to wit, after the taking of Ai. For they were obliged to do this when they were brought over Jordan into the land of Canaan, Deuteronomy 11:29 , Deuteronomy 27:2,3 , which is not to be un...
‘ Then Joshua built an altar to YHWH, the God of Israel in Mount Ebal.' The next act of Joshua was to fulfil the command of Moses as expressed in Deuteronomy 11:29 ; Deuteronomy 27:2-3 where G...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 8:30 . Then Joshua built an altar] Those who regard this section of the chapter as misplaced in the book have surely not sufficiently considered the command given in Deut...
Joshua 8:4 . Ye shall lie in wait: la ruse du guerre. The craft of war is lawful, if war itself be lawful; and experience is often of more avail than strength. Joshua 8:25 . Twelve thousand. H...
Then Joshua built . .. an altar of whole stones. The plastered altar Let us behold in the story of Joshua’s altar in Mount Ebal the mirror of an honest Christian life. 1. It is well to re...
EXPOSITION THE COPY OF THE LAW .— Joshua 8:30 Then Joshua built an altar unto the Lord God of Israel in Mount Ebal. This passage has been pronounced to be an interpolation by Me...
Then Joshua built an altar unto the Lord God of Israel in Mount Ebal, as the Lord had commanded, Deuteronomy 27:4-5 ,
Genesis 12:7 ; Genesis 12:8 ; Genesis 8:20 ; Joshua 8:33
Then — Namely, after the taking of Ai. For they were obliged to do this, when they were brought over Jordan into the land of Canaan, Deuteronomy 11:29 , Deuteronomy 27:2-3 , which is not to be un...