Joshua 22:6

And Josue blessed them, and sent them away, and they returned to their dwellings.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents.

In Context

5Yet so that you observe attentively, and in work fulfil the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you: that you love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, and keep all his commandments, and cleave to him, and serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul.

7Now to half the tribe of Manasses, Moses had given a possession in Basan: and therefore to the half that remained, Josue gave a lot among the rest of their brethren beyond the Jordan to the west. And when he sent them away to their dwellings and had blessed them,

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Cross References

Genesis 14:19Blessed him, and said: Blessed be Abram by the most high God, who created heaven and earth.

Genesis 47:10And blessing the king, he went out.

Joshua 14:13And Josue blessed him, and gave him Hebron in possession.

Joshua 24:28And he sent the people away every one to their own possession.

1 Samuel 10:25And Samuel told the people the law of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the Lord: and Samuel sent away all the people, every one to his own house.

2 Samuel 6:18And when he had made an end of offering holocausts and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 22:2-10

The Reubenites, Gadites, and Half Tribe of Manasseh Dismissed. ( b. c. 1444.) 1 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, 2 And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you: 3 Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the Lord your God. 4 And now the Lord your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he promised… Read the whole commentary →

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