Joshua 18:3
And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long will ye show yourselves slack to go to take possession of the land, which the Lord the God of your fathers hath given to you!
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
Cross References
Joshua 1:6Be strong and of a good courage; for thou shalt divide for an inheritance unto this people the land, which I swore unto their fathers to give to 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 you keep still! be not slothful, to go, to enter to take possession of the land.
Proverbs 10:4He becometh poor that laboreth with an indolent hand, but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Proverbs 15:19The way of the slothful man is like a hedge of thorns; but the path of the upright is a levelled [road].
Zephaniah 3:16On that day shall it be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: [to] Zion, Let not thy hands become weak.
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 →