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Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Joshua 3:11

the Lord: Joshua 3:13, Psalms 24:1, Isaiah 54:5, Jeremiah 10:7, Micah 4:13, Zephaniah 2:11, Zechariah 4:14, Zechariah 6:5, Zechariah 14:9 passeth: Joshua 3:3-:, Isaiah 3:12 Reciprocal: Numbers 10:33 - went before Deuteronomy 9:3 - goeth over Acts 7:45 - Which read more

John Wesley

Wesley's Explanatory Notes - Joshua 3:10

And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.Ye shall know — By experience and sensible evidence.The living God — Not a dull, dead, senseless God, such as the gods of the nations are; but a God of life, and power, and activity to watch over you, and work for you.Among you — Is present... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 3:1-17

THE PASSAGE OF THE JORDAN. Joshua 3:1-17. Immediately after the return of the spies, or possibly before this event, the Israelites leave their long occupied camp at Shittim, and move to the banks of the Jordan. A nation moving toward a swollen and angry river with perfect confidence that they should cross it, and yet in perfect ignorance of the manner of such an achievement, is a spectacle of thrilling moral sublimity. Thus marched Moses with the Hebrew people to the Red Sea. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 3:10

10. The living God is among you The adjective living is here and elsewhere applied to God in the sense of true, in opposition to the false pagan gods; and also in the sense of efficient, in opposition to the dead idols of the heathen world. In Psalms 106:28, the heathen are spoken of as eating the sacrifices of the dead that is, dead idol gods. Jeremiah (Jeremiah 10:3-10) gives a detailed account of the process of manufacturing an idol, and then, in striking contrast, sets forth... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 3:11

11. The ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth Here are four words grammatically dependent on one another, though slightly separated by the disjunctive accent. But this Hebrew accent by no means requires so strange a translation as that adopted by some scholars, which makes Lord of all the earth in apposition with ark of the covenant. This would be to make the ark of Jehovah identical with Jehovah. This claim of universal dominion for Jehovah, in contrast with the limited... read more

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