Joshua 8:1-35

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 8:24

i.e. The inhabitants of it, the men, who through age or infirmity were unfit for war, and the women, Joshua 8:25. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 8:25

Not strictly, but largely so called, who were now in Ai, either as constant and settled inhabitants, or as sojourners, and such as came to them for their help, such as being confederate with them are esteemed as one with them; for it is evident that the men of Beth-el are included in this number, Joshua 8:17, the Israelites who took this number being unable to distinguish who belonged to the one city, and who to the other. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 8:26

Either, 1. He ceased not to fight with that hand. Or, 2. He kept his hand and spear in the same posture, both stretched out and lifted up, as a sign both to encourage them, and to direct them to go on in the work. See Poole "Joshua 8:18". read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 8:28

For ever, or, for a long time, as that word oft signifies, as Genesis 6:3; Isaiah 42:14; for that it was after some ages rebuilt, may seem from Nehemiah 11:31, unless that were another city built near the former, there being some little difference in the name also. read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 8:29

He dealt more severely with the kings of Canaan than with the people, partly because the abominable wickedness of that people was not restrained and punished, (as it should have been,) but countenanced and encouraged by their evil examples and administrations; and partly because they were the principal authors of the destruction of their own people, by engaging them in an obstinate opposition against the Israelites. That they should take his carcass down from the tree, according to God’s... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 8:30

Then, to wit, after the taking of Ai. For they were obliged to do this when they were brought over Jordan into the land of Canaan, Deuteronomy 11:29; Deuteronomy 27:2,Deuteronomy 27:3, which is not to be understood strictly, as if it were to be done the same moment or day; for it is manifest they were first to be circumcised, and to eat the passover, which they did, and which was the work of some days; but as soon as they had opportunity to do it, which was now when these two great frontier... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 8:32

Not upon the stones of the altar, which were to be rough and unpolished, Joshua 8:31, but upon other stones, smooth and plastered, as is manifest from Deuteronomy 27:2. A copy of the law of Moses; not certainly the whole five books of Moses, for what stones and time would have sufficed for this! nor the blessings and the curses here following, which never are nor can without great impropriety be called the law of Moses, seeing they presuppose the law, and the observation or transgression... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 8:33

All Israel, i.e. the whole congregation, old and young, male and female, as it follows, Joshua 8:35. On this side the ark, and on that side, i.e. some on one side of it, and some on the other. Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal were in the tribe of Ephraim, not far from Shechem, as appears both from Scripture, Deuteronomy 11:29,Deuteronomy 11:30; Deuteronomy 27:12; Judges 9:7, and from other authors who lived in those parts, as Josephus and the Jewish doctors. That they should bless, or curse, which... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 8:34

Afterward; after the altar was built, and the stones plastered and writ upon. He read, i.e. he commanded the priests or Levites to read, Deuteronomy 27:14. The blessings and cursings; which words come in not by way of explication, as if the words of the law were nothing else besides the blessings and curses; but by way of addition, to note that these were read over and above the words of the law. He saith not, according to all that was written upon those stones, but in the book of the law,... read more

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Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 8:35

There was not a word which Joshua read not; therefore he read not the blessings and curses only, as some think, but the whole law, as the manner was when all Israel, men and women, were assembled together, as we read, Deuteronomy 31:10-12. That were conversant among them, i.e. who were proselytes, for no others can be supposed to be with them at this time. read more

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