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e ſhall paſs over this Jordan, to go in to poſſeſs the land which the LORD your God giveth you co poſlels it. .
@ For although Manna was given them to ſupply their want of ordinary Proviſions in the Wilderneſs; yet they were allowed, when they had opportunity, to purchaſe other Proviſions, and did ſo, Deut. 2. 6, 28. And now having been ſome time in the land of the Amorites, and together with Mama uſed themſelves to other food, which that Countrey plentifully ſupplyed them with ; they
H D A I Not repugnaht to God's commands ; for none can be ſo fooliſh | to think, that if he had commanded the people to blaſpheme God, or worſhip Idols, the people were obliged to obey him therein, 9 . - II.
Joſhua ſends two Spies to Jericho; they are ſought after ; Rahab hide: them ; deceivves the Meſſengers, x —— 7. She acknowledges that God had given them the Land ; her Reaſons, 8 —— 11. The Covenant between hey and them, 12===—=21> Their Return and Relation, 22==24.
are warned ro furniſh themſelves therewith for their approaching march. b Qz:e#: How can this be, when the Spies, who were not | yet ſent away, continued three days hid inthe Mountains, 7oſb. 2. 22. and the people paſſed nor over till three dayes after the Spies returned, Joſb. 3. 2? Anſw: Theſe words, though placed here, | ſeem not to have been delivered byjJoſhua till after the return ofthe | Spies ; Such Tranſpoſitions being ſo frequent in Scripture, that Interpreters have formed this general Rule, That there 75 no certain Order, no former nor latter in the Hiftories of the Scripture. And hence 1t comes, that theſe rhree days mentioned here below,after the Hiſtory of the Spies, are again repeated, Joſh. 3. 2. Beſides, the Sept.ogint render the words, et three days; and the Chald:e, In the end of three days ; others, After three days, as it is, Joſh, 3. 2. Or, theſe three days may be the ſame with thoſe, Joſh. 2, 22. and the matter may be conceived thus, Joſbuz gives the people notice of their paſſage 0- ver Jordan within three days, here, and at the ſame time, ſends away the Spies, who refurn e're thoſe three days be ended. For the three days, Joſh. 2. 22. may be underſtood of one whole day, and part of two other days, as it is in that famous inſtance, Mat 27. 63. of which ſee more on that place, and on Matth. 12. 40» The Spies came to Jericho in the evening of the firſt day, and intended to lie there, Joſb. 2. 8. but being diſturbed and affrighted by the ſearch made after them, they go away that night into the Mountains,and there abide the time mentioned. Joſhua having deliverec this meſ- ſage from God to the {#azltes, and ſent away the Spies, removes
from Shittim to Jordan, Joſh. 3. 1. being ſufficiently aſſured of his
ſafe paſſage over Jordan, whatſoever became of the Spies; and af- ter thoſe three days mentioned here were paſt, Joſh. 3. 2. he ſends the Officers to the people with a ſecond meſſage, about the manner of their aCtual paſſing over.
12 And to the Reubenites,and to the Gadites,and to
half the tribe of Manaſſeh, ſpake Joſbua, ſaying,
13 Remember * the words which Moſes the ſervant of the LORD commanded you c, ſaying, The LORD your God hath given you reſt 4, and hath given you this land.
c His charge to you, and your promiſe to him, which they were obliged to keep ; and Joſhua was to ſce that they did fo. d (i. ec.) A place of reſt, as that word ſignifies ; See on Gen. 49. 15.
14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattel ſhall
remain in the land which Moſes gave you on this ſide Jordan : but ye ſhall paſs e before your brethrenf jarm-
ed g, allthe mighty men of valour þ, and help them:
e To wit, over Jordan. f Either 1. In their preſence. Or, 2. In the front of all of them; which was but reaſonable ; Partly, becauie they had the advantage of their brethren, having aCtually received their portion, which rcheir Brethren bad only in hope, and there- fore were obliged to more ſervice, the rather to prevent the envy of the other Tribes ;:; Partly becauſe they were freed from thoſe Impediments which the rett were expoſed to, their Wives, and Children, and Eſtates being ſafely lodged ; And partly to prevent their retreat and withdrawing themſelves from the preſent ſervice, which they otherwiſe ſhould have had opportunity and temprati- on to do, becauſe of the nearneſs of their Habitations. g For by this time they were well furniſhed with Arms, which they had either from the Egyptians, or Amalekites, or Amorites, from whom they had taken them ; Or by purchaſe from thoſe people by whoſe borders they oallel. Or, zn military order : See on Exod. 13. i8. hþ All ſuch were obliged to go over if occaſion required ir, but Jo- ſhua took only ſome of them, partly becauſe they were ſufficient for his purpoſe, and partly becauſe ſome were fit to be left, both to ſecure their own Wives,Children,and Poſleſſions,and to prevent their enemies on that ſide from giving them diſturbance or hin- drance in their enterprize upon Canaan.
Is Until the LORD have given. your brethren reft.