Joshua 24:1-15

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 24:1-14

Joshua thought he had taken his last farewell of Israel in the solemn charge he gave them in the foregoing chapter, when he said, I go the way of all the earth; but God graciously continuing his life longer than expected, and renewing his strength, he was desirous to improve it for the good of Israel. He did not say, ?I have taken my leave of them once, and let that serve;? but, having yet a longer space given him, he summons them together again, that he might try what more he could do to... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 24:15-28

Never was any treaty carried on with better management, nor brought to a better issue, than this of Joshua with the people, to engage them to serve God. The manner of his dealing with them shows him to have been in earnest, and that his heart was much upon it, to leave them under all possible obligations to cleave to him, particularly the obligation of a choice and of a covenant. I. Would it be any obligation upon them if they made the service of God their choice?--he here puts them to their... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:1

And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem ,.... The nine tribes and a half; not all the individuals of them, but the chief among them, their representatives, as afterwards explained, whom he gathered together a second time, being willing, as long as he was among them, to improve his time for their spiritual as well as civil good; to impress their minds with a sense of religion, and to strengthen, enlarge, and enforce the exhortations he had given them to serve the Lord; and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:2

And Joshua said unto all the people ,.... Then present, or to all Israel by their representatives: thus saith the Lord God of Israel ; he spoke to them in the name of the Lord, as the prophet did, being himself a prophet, and at this time under a divine impulse, and spirit of prophecy. According to an Arabic writer F23 Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. p. 35. : the Angel of God appeared in the form of a man, and with a loud voice delivered the following, though they are expressed by him in... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:3

And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood ,.... The river Euphrates, as before: or "your father, to wit, Abraham", as Noldius F24 Concord. Ebr. Part. p. 119. ; he took him not only in a providential way, and brought him from the other side of the Euphrates, out of an idolatrous country and family, but he apprehended him by his grace, and called and converted him by it, and brought him to a spiritual knowledge of himself, and of the Messiah that should spring from... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:4

And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau ,.... When Rebekah was barren, so that the children appeared the more to be the gift of God; though Esau perhaps is mentioned, for the sake of what follows: and I gave unto Esau Mount Seir to possess it ; that Jacob and his posterity alone might inherit Canaan, and Esau and his seed make no pretension to it: but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt ; where they continued many years, and great part of the time in bondage and misery, which is... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:5

I sent Moses also and Aaron ,.... To demand Israel's dismission of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and to be the deliverers of them: and I plagued Egypt according to that which I did amongst them ; inflicting ten plagues upon them for refusing to let Israel go: and afterwards I brought you out ; that is, out of Egypt, with an high hand, and outstretched arm. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:6

And I brought your fathers out of Egypt ,.... Which more fully expresses the sense of the last clause of Joshua 24:5 , and you came unto the sea ; which respects some senior persons then present; for, besides Caleb and Joshua, there were many at this time alive who came to and passed through the Red sea, at their coming out of Egypt; for those whose carcasses fell in the wilderness were such as were mere than twenty years of age at their coming out from Egypt, and who were the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:7

And when they cried unto the Lord ,.... That is, the Israelites, being in the utmost distress, the sea before them, Pharaoh's large host behind them, and the rocks on each side of them; see Exodus 14:10 , he put darkness between you and the Egyptians ; the pillar of cloud, the dark side of which was turned to the Egyptians, and which was the reason of their following the Israelites into the sea; for not being able to see their way, knew not where they were; see Exodus 14:20 , and... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:8

And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan ,.... The kingdoms of Sihon and Og, and they fought with you; the two kings of them, and their armies: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land ; and which was now possessed by the two tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh: and I destroyed them from before you ; the kings, their forces, and the inhabitants of their countries; the history of which see in ... read more

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