Joshua 23:1
After many days, when the LORD had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,
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Deuteronomy 31:2He said to them, “I am one hundred twenty years old today. I can no more go out and come in. The LORD has said to me, ‘You shall not go over this Jordan.’
Joshua 13:1Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. The LORD said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.
Joshua 22:4Now the LORD your God has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them. Therefore now return and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you beyond the Jordan.
1 Kings 1:1Now King David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm.
1 Chronicles 27:1Now the children of Israel after their number, the heads of fathers’ households and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and their officers who served the king in any matter of the divisions which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year—of every division were twenty-four thousand.
2 Chronicles 14:5Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun images; and the kingdom was quiet before 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 →