Joshua 22:1 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

The events of this chap. are no doubt recorded in their proper historical order. The auxiliary forces of the trans-Jordanic tribes were not sent away immediately after the campaigns against the Canaanites were over. They set forth from Shiloh, Joshua 22:9, to which place the sanctuary had been removed Joshua 18:1 after the conquest and the settlement of the children of Judah and of Joseph in their possessions, and after the appointment of the Levitical cities.

Joshua 22:1

1 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh,