Joshua 23:1
Now after a long time, when the Lord had given Israel rest from wars on every side, and Joshua was old and full of years,
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Deuteronomy 31:2Then he said to them, I am now a hundred and twenty years old; I am no longer able to go out and come in: and the Lord has said to me, You are not to go over Jordan.
Joshua 13:1Now Joshua was old and full of years; and the Lord said to him, You are old and full of years, and there is still very much land to be taken.
Joshua 22:4And now the Lord your God has given your brothers rest, as he said: so now you may go back to your tents, to the land of your heritage, which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave to you on the other side of Jordan.
1 Kings 1:1Now King David was old and far on in years; and though they put covers over him, his body was cold.
1 Chronicles 27:1Now the number of the children of Israel, that is, the heads of families, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and the men in authority who were servants of the king in anything to do with the divisions which came in and went out month by month through all the months of the year, in every division were twenty-four thousand.
2 Chronicles 14:5And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.
Matthew Henry on Joshua 23:1
In this and the following chapter we have two farewell sermons, which Joshua preached to the people of Israel a little before his death. Had he designed to gratify the curiosity of succeeding ages, he would rather have recorded the method of Israel's settlement in their new conquests, their husbandry, manufacturers, trade, customs, courts of justice, and the constitutions of their infant commonwealth, which one would wish to be informed of; but that which he intended in the registers of this book was to entail on… Read the whole commentary →