Joshua 18:3

And Joshua said to the sons of Israel, How long will ye be slack to inherit the land, which the Lord our God has given you?

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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 the sons of Israel remained, even those who had not received their inheritance, seven tribes.

4Appoint of yourselves three men of each tribe, and let them rise up and go through the land, and let them describe it before me, as it will be proper to divide it.

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Cross References

Joshua 1:6Be strong and quit thyself like a man, for thou shalt divide the land to this people, which I swore to give to your fathers.

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, yet ye are still: delay not to go, and to enter in to possess the land.

Proverbs 10:4a A son who is instructed shall be wise, 1 And shall use the fool for a servant. 1

Proverbs 15:19The ways of sluggards are strewn with thorns; 1 But those of the diligent are made smooth. 1

Zephaniah 3:16At that time the Lord shall say to Jerusalem, Be of good courage, 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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