Joshua 18:3

And Joshua said unto the children of Israel: 'How long are ye slack to go in to possess the land, which the LORD, the God of your fathers, hath given you?

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?

In Context

2And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.

4Appoint for you three men for each tribe; and I will send them, and they shall arise, and walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; and they shall come unto me.

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Cross References

Joshua 1:6Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land which I swore unto 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 still? be not slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land.

Proverbs 10:4He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand; but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

Proverbs 15:19The way of the sluggard is as though hedged by thorns; but the path of the upright is even.

Zephaniah 3:16In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem: 'Fear thou not; O Zion, let not thy hands be slack.

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 →

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