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Joshua 18:3 KJV
Joshua · chapter 18 · verse 3
And Joshua said unto 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?Joshua 18:3 · King James Version
Joshua 18:3 in context
1And 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.
2And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.
3And Joshua said unto 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?
4Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me.
5And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- childrenbêna son , in the widest sense , etc.)H1121 →
- possessyârashto occupyH3423 →
- JoshuaYᵉhôwshûwaʻJehoshua , the Jewish leaderH3091 →
- IsraelYisrâʼêlJisrael, a symbolical name of JacobH3478 →
- slackrâphâhto slackenH7503 →
- saidʼâmarto sayH559 →
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Here, I. Joshua reproves those tribes which were yet unsettled that they did not bestir themselves to gain a settlement in the land which God had given them. Seven tribes were yet unprovided for, though sure of an inheritance, yet uncertain where it should be, and it seems in no great care about it, Jos 18:2.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 2-10