Joshua 22:6

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

JPS TaNaKH 1917

In The King James Version

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

In Context

5Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments, and to cleave unto Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.'

7Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given inheritance in Bashan; but unto the other half gave Joshua among their brethren beyond the Jordan westward. Moreover when Joshua sent them away unto their tents, he blessed them,

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Cross References

Genesis 14:19And he blessed him, and said: 'Blessed be Abram of God Most High, Maker of heaven and earth;

Genesis 47:10And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

Joshua 14:13And Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance.

Joshua 24:28So Joshua sent the people away, every man unto his inheritance.

1 Samuel 10:25Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the LORD. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.

2 Samuel 6:18And when David had made an end of offering the burnt-offering and the 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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