Joshua 21:45

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Joshua 21:45

"Handfuls of Purpose" For All Gleaners "There failed not ought of any good thing which the Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass." Jos 21:45 Personal testimony is better than literary argument. Of this testimony Biblical religion can always avail itself. Of this testimony Christianity can still more pointedly make account It is no mean indication of the power of Christianity, that it constrains its disciples to bear witness to the power of Christ in the soul. The Bible... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Joshua 21:43-45

These verses contain a beautiful summary of God's faithfulness to his people. He had now accomplished what he had said. He had given them Canaan, brought them to his holy mountain, divided to them their several portions, driven out all their enemies before them, and now appeals, as it were, to their own consciences, whether that precious character, in which he had revealed himself to them, and in which Jehovah himself seemed to glory, in that of a faithful God, was not most fully confirmed.... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Joshua 21:45

REFLECTIONS DEAREST Jesus! cause me to, learn from hence thy tender care of thy more immediate servants. Thy Levites shall be well provided for, whom thou hast set apart to thy service. And if they have no portion among their brethren, is it not, because thou thyself art their portion? And though to the eyes of an unfeeling world, some of thy most faithful labourers are sent without scrip or shoes as thy first disciples, yet having thee for their portion, they lack nothing, but are full and... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 21:43-45

43-45 God promised to give to the seed of Abraham the land of Canaan for a possession, and now they possessed it, and dwelt therein. And the promise of the heavenly Canaan is as sure to all God's spiritual Israel; for it is the promise of Him that cannot lie. There stood not a man before them. The after-prevalence of the Canaanites was the effect of Israel's slothfulness, and the punishment of their sinful inclination to the idolatries and abominations of the heathen whom they harboured and... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Joshua 21:20-45

The Cities of the Kohathites, the Gershonites, and the Merabites v. 20. And the families of the children of Kohath, the descendants of Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, and of Moses, the Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, namely, after the priests, the children of Aaron, had received their allotment, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim. v. 21. For they gave them, the Levites, Shechem with her suburbs in Mount Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Joshua 21:1-45

5. Appointment of the Cities for the Priests and LevitesJoshua 21:0a. Demand of the Levites that Cities should be given themJoshua 21:1-31Then [And] came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of the fathers of the 2tribes of the children [sons] of Israel; And they [omit: they] spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The Lord [Jehovah] commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in,... read more

Alexander MacLaren

Alexander MacLaren's Expositions of Holy Scripture - Joshua 21:43-45

Joshua THE END OF THE WAR Jos_21:43 - Jos_21:45 ; Jos_22:1 - Jos_22:9 . ‘The old order changeth, giving place to new.’ In this passage we have the breaking up of the congregation and the disbanding of the victorious army. The seven years of fighting had come to an end. The swords were to be ‘beaten into plowshares,’ and the comrades who had marched shoulder to shoulder, and shared the fierce excitement of many a bloody field, were to be scattered, each becoming a peaceful farmer or... read more

G. Campbell Morgan

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible - Joshua 21:1-45

Jacob's prophecy concerning Simeon and Levi: I will divide them in Jacob, And scatter them in Israel, was fulfilled in the case of Levi in the distribution of the tribe through all the other tribes. What sounded like a curse thus proved to be a blessing. The presence of the Levites everywhere was intended to serve as a perpetual witness to the relation of the nation to God. This second division of the Book of Joshua dealing with the settlement of the people ends with a statement that Jehovah... read more

Peter Pett

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 21:43-45

A Summary of the Situation Preparatory to Releasing the Transjordan Contingents (Joshua 21:43-45 ). This summary assesses the situation at the end of Joshua’s successful campaign, as he was preparing to release the Transjordan contingents from Reuben, Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh. Canaan was being divided up between the tribes and all looked rosy. They saw the land as given to them, as indeed it was. They did not consider the problems that lay ahead, or if they did they were content... read more

Arthur Peake

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 21:43-45

Joshua 21:43 to Joshua 22:8 . Yahweh’ s Promise of Conquest Completely Fulfilled, so that the E. Jordan Tribes are Set Free to Return Home.— We have here the introduction to the last section of our book. The land has now, according to the Deuteronomist, been conquered and divided amongst the 9½ tribes; consequently the 2½ tribes, having fulfilled their duty, are dismissed with thanks to their own possessions on the other side of the Jordan. read more

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