Joshua 24:2-4

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

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:2

On the other side of the flood - The river Euphrates. They served other gods - Probably Abraham as well as Terah his father was an idolater, till he received the call of God to leave that land. See on Genesis 11:31 ; (note); Genesis 12:1 ; (note). read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:2

Verse 2 2.Your fathers dwelt on the other side, etc He begins his address by referring to their gratuitous adoption by which God had anticipated any application on their part, so that they could not boast of any peculiar excellence or merit. For God had bound them to himself by a closer tie, having, while they were no better than others, gathered them together to be his peculiar people, from no respect to anything but his mere good pleasure. Moreover, to make it clearly appear that there was... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:3

Verse 3 3.And I took your father Abraham, etc This expression gives additional confirmation to what I lately showed, that Abraham did not emerge from profound ignorance and the abyss of error by his own virtue, but was drawn out by the hand of God. For it is not said that he sought God of his own accord, but that he was taken by God and transported elsewhere. Joshua then enlarges on the divine kindness in miraculously preserving Abraham safe during his long pilgrimage. What follows, however,... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:4

Verse 4 4.But Jacob and his children went down, etc After mentioning the rejection of Esau, he proceeds to state how Jacob went down into Egypt, and though he confines himself to a single expression, it is one which indicates the large and exuberant and clear manifestation of the paternal favor of God. It cannot be doubted, that although the sacred historian does not speak in lofty terms of each miracle performed, Joshua gave the people such a summary exposition of their deliverance as might... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 24:1-13

Review of Providence. I. IT IS WELL TO REVIEW THE PAST . (a) grateful for the goofiness of God, (b) humble in the consciousness of our own failings, (c) wise from the lessons of experience, and (d) diligent to redeem the time which yet remains. II. NO REVIEW OF THE PAST IS COMPLETE WHICH DOES NOT RECOGNISE THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE . The chief value of biblical history is in the fact that it clearly indicates the action of... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Joshua 24:1-13

Review of Providence. I. IT IS WELL TO REVIEW THE PAST . (a) grateful for the goofiness of God, (b) humble in the consciousness of our own failings, (c) wise from the lessons of experience, and (d) diligent to redeem the time which yet remains. II. NO REVIEW OF THE PAST IS COMPLETE WHICH DOES NOT RECOGNISE THE DIVINE PROVIDENCE . The chief value of biblical history is in the fact that it clearly indicates the action of... read more

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