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That is, a witness; so (Joshua 24:27).
The word עד ‛ êd is not found after “altar” in the text of most manuscripts, nor is it represented in the Septuagint or Vulgate. The passage...
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 co...
Ed. Hebrew "a witness. "This, and the verb "shall be", not in the received Hebrew text. (Some codices have it.) Literally "called the altar.. witne...
And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed : for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is God. Called the a...
Ver. 34. And the children of Reuben, and—Gad, called the altar Ed — The word עד ad, is evidently wanting in the Hebrew, which only says the c...
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 cont...
That the Lord ( i.e., Jehovah) is God (of all the twelve tribes alike).
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...
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 w...
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 fi...
The word Ed signifies witness. Oh! that there may be many memorandums, as witnesses for me, of my interest in a covenant God in Christ. And, yet abun...
And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, called the altar [Ed] ,.... Which signifies a "witness"; they caused such an inscription to be...
They called the altar Ed That is, a witness; a witness of the relation they stood in to God and Israel, and of their concurrence with the other tri...
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...
30 And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the wo...
No text from Poole on this verse.
‘ And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, called the altar [Ed], for ‘it is a witness between us that YHWH is God'.' The actual name...
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 t...
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 nati...
Ye have not left your brethren. Helping one another I. These tribes helped their brethren to their own inconvenience and positive detriment. A...
EXPOSITION Joshua 22:1 The Reubenites and the Gadites. According to the Hebrew idiom, these are in the original in the singular, as in G...
The Explanation made and Accepted
And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed; for it shall be a witness between us that the Lord is God. The entire sentenc...
1 Kings 18:39 ; Isaiah 43:10 ; Joshua 22:27 ; Joshua 24:27 ; Matthew 4:10
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 hom...
The altar Ed — That is, a witness: a witness of the relation they stood in to God and Israel, and of their concurrence with the other tribes in the...
34 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is God.