Civil Engineering

How Nave’s arranged it

• General scriptures concerningJoshua 18:9Job 28:9–11

The passages, in Bible order (2)

The same references, sorted Genesis to Revelation. The first 2 are quoted in full; the rest are one click beneath them, book by book.

1. Joshua 18:9

   So the men departed and went throughout the land, mapping it city by city into seven portions. Then they returned with the document to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh.

   ›Commentary on Joshua 18:92 voices

   “This was no light task to undertake. It required learning and intelligence which they or their instructors had, in all probability, brought with them out of Egypt. Accordingly, JOSEPHUS says that the survey was performed by men expert in geometry.

   “For this purpose a commission was given to twenty-one persons--three chosen from each of the seven tribes which had not yet received their inheritance, to make an accurate survey of the country.

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2. Job 28:9–11

   The miner strikes the flint; he overturns mountains at their base.

   ›Commentary on Job 28:9–112 voices

   “He stretcheth out his hand to the flint; He overturneth the mountains by the roots. For 'he stretched out his hand to the flint,' because He put forth the arm of His preaching to the hardness of the Gentiles. Hence the same blessed Job, forewarned of the history of his suffering being destined to be made known to the Gentiles, says, Let these things be graven with an iron pen in a plate of lead, or hewn in the flint.

   “He putteth forth his hand upon the rock,....

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