Genesis 12:7; Genesis 12:8; Genesis 8:20; Joshua 8:33
The account of this solemnity is very brief. An acquaintance with Deuteronomy 27 is evidently presupposed; and the three several acts of which th...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
As the result of the severity of the discipline exercised in the case of Achan, the nation returned to obedience, and consequently Jehovah immediatel...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Sacrifice Offered on Mount Ebal; The Reading of the Law. B. C. 1451....
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...
‘ 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...
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...
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 t...
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...
EXPOSITION THE COPY OF THE LAW .— Joshua 8:30 Then Joshua built an altar unto the Lord God of Israel in Mount Ebal. This passag...
Then Joshua built an altar unto the Lord God of Israel in Mount Ebal, as the Lord had commanded, Deuteronomy 27:4-5 ,
Blessing and Curse Proclaimed
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...
30 Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal,