Joshua 23:1

A long time afterwards, when the Lord had given Israel rest from all its surrounding enemies, and when Joshua was old, far advanced in years,

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And it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age.

In Context

2he summoned all Israel, their elders, their leaders, their judges, and their officers. “I am an old man,” he said, “well advanced in years.

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Cross References

Joshua 13:1When Joshua was old, well advanced in years, the Lord said to him, “You are old, well advanced in years, and yet much land still remains to be occupied.

Joshua 22:4Now that the Lord your God has granted rest to your fellow Israelites, as he promised, you may go home to your tents in the land of your holdings, assigned to you by Moses the servant of the Lord on the east of the Jordan.

Matthew Henry on Joshua 23:1

In this and the following chapter we have two farewell sermons, which Joshua preached to the people of Israel a little before his death. Had he designed to gratify the curiosity of succeeding ages, he would rather have recorded the method of Israel's settlement in their new conquests, their husbandry, manufacturers, trade, customs, courts of justice, and the constitutions of their infant commonwealth, which one would wish to be informed of; but that which he intended in the registers of this book was to entail on… Read the whole commentary →

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