Joshua 18:3
And Joshua said to 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?
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Joshua 1:6Be strong and of a good courage: for to this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
Judges 18:9And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.
Proverbs 10:4He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Proverbs 15:19The way of the slothful man is as a hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
Zephaniah 3:16In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: and to Zion, Let not thy hands be slack.
John 6:27Labor not for the food which perisheth, but for that food which endureth to everlasting life, which the Son of man will give to you: for him hath God the Father sealed.
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 →