Joshua 22:6

So Joshua blessed them and sent them away home.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

5Only be most careful to obey the commands and laws laid down for you by Moses the servant of the Lord, mindful to love the Lord your God, always to live his life, to obey his commands, to be loyal to him, and to serve him with all your heart and mind.”

7To the one half tribe of Manasseh Moses had assigned territory in Bashan, but Joshua assigned the other half territory near the fellow Israelites to the west of the Jordan. When Joshua sent them home he blessed them,

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Cross References

Genesis 14:19He blessed him saying: Blessed be Abram before God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth.

Genesis 47:10After Jacob had blessed Pharaoh, he went out from Pharaoh’s presence.

Joshua 14:13So Joshua blessed him, and gave Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as his property.

Joshua 24:28Then Joshua sent the people away home, every man to his own inheritance.

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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