Joshua 23:1
After many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all their enemies that around them, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years.
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Deuteronomy 31:2He said to them, “I am now one hundred twenty years old; I can no more go out and come in; Yahweh has said to me, 'You will not go over this Jordan.'
Joshua 13:1Now Joshua was very old when Yahweh said to him, “You are very old, but there is still very much land to capture.
Joshua 22:4Now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, just as he promised them. Therefore turn and go to your tents in the land you own, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you on the other side of the Jordan.
1 Kings 1:1When King David was old and advanced in years, they covered him with blankets, but he could not keep warm.
1 Chronicles 27:1This is the list of the Israelite family leaders, commanders of thousands and hundreds, as well as army officers who served the king in various ways. Each military division served month by month throughout the year. Each division had twenty-four thousand men.
2 Chronicles 14:5Also he took away the high places and the incense altars from all the cities of Judah. The kingdom had rest under him.
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 →