Joshua 22:34

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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

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...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

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...
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 cont...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

That the Lord ( i.e., Jehovah) is God (of all the twelve tribes alike).
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...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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...
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 fi...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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

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

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...
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...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

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...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

‘ 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...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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...
Scofield Reference Notes

Ed That is, a witness; so ( Joshua 24:27 ).
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 nati...
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...
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 G...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Explanation made and Accepted
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Kings 18:39 ; Isaiah 43:10 ; Joshua 22:27 ; Joshua 24:27 ; Matthew 4:10
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 hom...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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.

Related Commentaries of Joshua 22:34

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the 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

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Scofield Reference Notes

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Joshua 22:34