Joshua 8:30

Then Joshua built an altar unto the Lord God of Israel in Mount Ebal, as the Lord had commanded, Deuteronomy 27:4-5,

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The account of this solemnity is very brief. An acquaintance with Deuteronomy 27 is evidently presupposed; and the three several acts of which th...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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 p...
Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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 nothi...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 Deuter...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

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...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

An altar... in mount Ebal... — This was explicitly commanded in Deuteronomy. The blessing was put on mount Gerizim, the altar and the curse on moun...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER XVII. EBAL AND GERIZIM. Joshua 8:30-35 . COMMENTATORS on Joshua have been greatly perplexed by the place which this narrative has in ou...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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 f...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

As the result of the severity of the discipline exercised in the case of Achan, the nation returned to obedience, and consequently Jehovah immediatel...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 bu...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Deutero...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 Can...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

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 Joshu...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Sacrifice Offered on Mount Ebal; The Reading of the Law. B. C. 1451....
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ 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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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The Biblical Illustrator

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 o...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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 1...

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Related Commentaries of Joshua 8:30

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Joshua 8:30