Joshua 22:10-33 NIV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 22:10-20

Here is, I. The pious care of the separated tribes to keep their hold of Canaan's religion, even when they were leaving Canaan's land, that they might not be as the sons of the stranger, utterly separated from God's people, Isa. 56:3. In order to this, they built a great altar on the borders of Jordan, to be a witness for them that they were Israelites, and as such partakers of the altar of the Lord, 1 Cor. 10:18. When they came to Jordan (Josh. 21:10) they did not consult how to preserve the... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 22:21-29

We may suppose there was a general convention called of the princes and great men of the separate tribes, to give audience to these ambassadors; or perhaps the army, as it came home, was still encamped in a body, and not yet dispersed; however it was, there were enough to represent the two tribes and a half, and to give their sense. Their reply to the warm remonstrance of the ten tribes is very fair and ingenuous. They do not retort their charge, upbraid them with the injustice and unkindness... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 22:30-34

We have here the good issue of this controversy, which, if there had not been on both sides a disposition to peace, as there was on both sides a zeal for God, might have been of ill consequence; for quarrels about religion, for want of wisdom and love, often prove the most fierce and most difficult to be accommodated. But these contending parties, when the matter was fairly stated and argued, were so happy as to understand one another very well, and so the difference was presently compromised.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 22:10

And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that are in the land of Canaan ,.... To the banks of it, or the sand heaps, some take the word to signify, which were thrown up to restrain the waters from overflowing; some by Geliloth understand a place so called; and Jerom F7 De loc. Heb. fol. 92. C. says it was near Jordan in the tribe of Benjamin: but rather the word signifies the meanders, windings, and turnings, of the river F8 Vid. Gusset. Ebr. Comment. p. 170, 573. Reland.... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 22:11

And the children of Israel heard say ,.... Those that dwelt in the land of Canaan, for otherwise, as before observed, the two tribes and a half on the other side Jordan were Israelites also; and this is a further proof that the altar was built on their side, or those in the land of Canaan would have known of the building of it, and have seen them at it, and not come at the knowledge of it by hearsay only, as it seems they did, it being reported to them by some who had been in those parts,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 22:12

And when the children of Israel heard of it ,.... Of the building the altar in the above place, namely, the nine tribes and a half settled in the land of Canaan: the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh ; where the tabernacle and altar of the Lord were, whose cause they undertook to avenge, being injured as they imagined by the altar the other tribes had built, and where they could consult the Lord by Urim and Thummim, if needful; hither... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 22:13

And the children of Israel ,.... In the land of Canaan: sent unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead ; they were possessed of, and had now returned unto and dwelt in; hither they sent an embassy to them, to inquire into the truth of what they had heard, and the reason of it, before they went to war with them, or proclaimed it, or took any further steps towards it; and which they were obliged to do by the above... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 22:14

And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince , throughout all the tribes of Israel ,.... The nine tribes and a half, so that the half tribe of Manasseh sent a prince, as well as the whole tribes: and each one was an head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel ; that is, among the rulers of the thousands of Israel; and so the Greek version calls them Chiliarchs, rulers of thousands; for the people were divided into tens, fifties, hundreds, and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 22:15

And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead ,.... The deputation came thither; they either sent for the chiefs among the two tribes and a half, to meet them at some place, or they, having a notion of their coming, assembled together to receive them, and hear what they had to say to them: and they spake with them, saying ; as follows; very probably Phinehas was the mouth of the whole, for there could be... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 22:16

Thus saith the whole congregation of the Lord ,.... By whom they were sent, and whom they represented; and they do not call them the congregation of Israel, but of the Lord, because it was not on a civil but religious account they were come, and not to plead their own cause, but the cause of God; and not so much to show a concern for their own honour and interest as for the glory of God: what trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel ; they took it for granted... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 22:10-20

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 22:21-29

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 22:30-34

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 22:10

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 22:11

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 22:12

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 22:13

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 22:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 22:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 22:16

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