Joshua 24:32

And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had taken up from Egypt, they put in the earth in Shechem, in the property which Jacob had got from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred shekels: and they became the heritage of the children of Joseph.

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In The King James Version

And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

In Context

31And Israel was true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the older men who were still living after Joshua's death, and had seen what the Lord had done for Israel.

33Then the death of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, took place; and his body was put in the earth in the hill of Phinehas his son, which had been given to him in the hill-country of Ephraim.

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Cross References

Genesis 33:19And for a hundred bits of money he got from the children of Hamor, the builder of Shechem, the field in which he had put up his tents.

Genesis 50:25Then Joseph made the children of Israel take an oath, saying, God will certainly give effect to his word, and you are to take my bones away from here.

John 4:5So he came to a town of Samaria which was named Sychar, near to the bit of land which Jacob gave to his son Joseph:

Hebrews 11:22By faith Joseph, when his end was near, said that the children of Israel would go out of Egypt; and gave orders about his bones.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 24:30-33

The Death of Joshua. ( b. c. 1427.) 29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord , died, being a hundred and ten years old. 30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash. 31 And Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the Lord , that he had done for Israel. 32 And the bones of… Read the whole commentary →

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