Joshua 18:3
And Joshua said to the sons of Israel, How long are ye slack to go in to possess the land, which LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2And seven tribes remained among the sons of Israel, which had not yet divided their inheritance.
Cross References
Joshua 1:6Be strong and of good courage, for thou shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
Judges 18:9And they said, Arise, and let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good, and are ye idle? Be not slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land.
Proverbs 10:4He who works with a slack hand becomes poor, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.
Proverbs 15:19The way of the sluggard is as a hedge of thorns, but the path of the upright is made a highway.
Zephaniah 3:16In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not, O Zion. Let not thy hands be slack.
John 6:27Work not for the food that perishes, but for the food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of man will give to you, for God the Father put a seal on this man.
Matthew Henry on Joshua 18:3-11
The Tabernacle at Shiloh. ( b. c. 1444.) 1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them. In the midst of the story of the dividing of the land comes in this account of the setting up of the tabernacle, which had hitherto continued in its old place in the centre of their camp; but now that three of the four squadrons that used to surround it in the wilderness were broken and diminished,… Read the whole commentary →