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Joshua 1:11

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“Go through the camp and tell the people, ‘Prepare your provisions, for within three days you will cross the Jordan to go in and take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.’”

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which Jehovah your God giveth you to possess it.

KJV

Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the Lord your God giveth you to possess it.

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This verse in Joshua 1

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
Prepare you victuals - The order was probably given with the knowledge that the manna would cease when the host crossed the Jordan Exo 16:35, and possibly because amidst their preparations there might not be opportunity to gather it in sufficient quantity. Nor does it appear that manna ever formed the whole and sole sustenance of the people. (Compare Num 20:1 note.)

This site's exposition

Then Joshua commanded the officers

on Joshua 1:10-11

The officers are the shoterim, the same word used of the Israelite foremen under the Egyptian taskmasters at Exodus 5:14, and Clarke takes them here as heralds carrying orders through the camp rather than judges. Prepare you victuals occurs once in Scripture, and Barnes reads the order against Exodus 16:35, since the manna was to run until they came to an inhabited land and it stops four chapters later at 5:12. Whether these three days are the three days of 3:2, which follow the return of the spies in chapter 2, is disputed among the older commentators, some reading one span reported twice and others reading the three days the spies spend hidden in the hills as falling inside this count.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

And hence it comes, that these three days mentioned here below, after the history of the spies, are again repeated chap. iii, 2. Commanded you - His charge to you, and your promise to him. Rest - That is, a place of rest, as that word signifies.

How the passage was read

What the Jewish commentators add

Prepare your travel needs. [Prepare] everything necessary for (traveling) and weapons for the [upcoming] battle, he said to them. You cannot say the צֵדָה refers to food and drink.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Joshua 1:11:1, via Sefaria, The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997
1 more on this passage, in their own words ▾
And Yehoshua commanded. He did this on the day that completed the days of mourning for Moshe. 19 Moshe died on the seventh day of Adar and he was mourned for thirty days. See Devorim:8.
Rashi: France, 1040–1105 · Rashi on Joshua 1:10:1, via Sefaria, The Book of Joshua, Metsudah Publications, 1997

This section is reception history: how the passage was read and kept in the Jewish tradition. Where a reading parts from an essential of the Christian faith, the section says so at that point.

Texts and citation data: Sefaria; each excerpt follows its version’s licence. 4 further sources are cited on this chapter that carry no English text this site may quote or only restate the verse.

The words behind it

29 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • עִבְר֣וּ׀pass

    ʾivruH5674 →556 times

  • בְּקֶ֣רֶבin [the] midst of

    bekerevH7130 →227 times

  • הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֗הthe camp

    hamachanehH4264 →215 times

  • וְצַוּ֤וּand command

    vetzavuH6680 →494 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָעָם֙the people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • לֵאמֹ֔ר<to> saying

    lemorH559 →5305 times

  • הָכִ֥ינוּprepare

    hakhinuH3559 →217 times

  • לָכֶ֖םfor <the> yourselves

    lakhem

  • צֵידָ֑הfood

    tzeidahH6720 →

  • כִּ֞יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • בְּע֣וֹד׀in yet

    beodH5750 →490 times

  • שְׁלֹ֣שֶׁתthree

    sheloshetH7969 →432 times

  • יָמִ֗יםdays

    yamimH3117 →2304 times

  • אַתֶּם֙you

    ʾatemH859 →1094 times

  • עֹֽבְרִים֙[are] about to pass over

    ʾoerimH5674 →556 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הַיַּרְדֵּ֣ןthe Jordan

    haiyardenH3383 →182 times

  • הַזֶּ֔ה<the> this

    hazehH2088 →1180 times

  • לָבוֹא֙to go

    lavo'H935 →2568 times

  • לָרֶ֣שֶׁתto take possession of

    lareshetH3423 →231 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָאָ֔רֶץthe land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • אֲשֶׁר֙which

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • יְהוָ֣הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹֽהֵיכֶ֔םGod your

    ʾeloheikhemH430 →2601 times

  • נֹתֵ֥ן[is] about to give

    notenH5414 →2011 times

  • לָכֶ֖םto <the> you

    lakhem

  • לְרִשְׁתָּֽהּ׃ סto take possession of it

    lerishtahH3423 →231 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

11 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Deuteronomy 9:1Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.8 worksDeuteronomy 11:31For you are about to cross the Jordan to enter and possess the land that the LORD your God is giving you. When you take possession of it and settle in it,6 works2 Kings 20:5“Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I will surely heal you. On the third day from now you will go up to the house of the LORD.5 worksHosea 6:2After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.5 worksJoshua 3:2After three days the officers went through the camp4 worksExodus 19:11and be prepared by the third day, for on the third day the LORD will come down on Mount Sinai in the sight of all the people.3 works
The other 5 cross-references, with their words ▾
Joshua 1:2“Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore arise, you and all these people, and cross over the Jordan into the land that I am giving to the children of Israel.3 works1 Kings 20:27The Israelites also mobilized, gathered supplies, and marched out to meet them. The Israelites camped before them like two small flocks of goats, while the Arameans covered the countryside.2 worksJoshua 9:11So the elders and inhabitants of our land told us, ‘Take provisions for your journey; go to meet them and say to them: We are your servants. Please make a treaty with us.’2 worksDeuteronomy 27:2And on the day you cross the Jordan into the land that the LORD your God is giving you, set up large stones and coat them with plaster.2 worksGenesis 22:4On the third day Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.1 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    2 Kings 20:5

    “Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I…

    it leads to

    • Psalms 66:19–20

      But God has surely heard; He has attended to the sound of my prayer.

    • Isaiah 38:5

      “Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to…

    • 1 Samuel 9:16

      “At this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you are to anoint him leader over My people Israel; he will save them from the hand of…

    • 2 Kings 19:20

      Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria.

    • Psalms 39:12

      Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. For I am a foreigner dwelling with You, a stranger like all my fathers.

  • Through

    Hosea 6:2

    After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence.

    it leads to

    • 2 Kings 20:5

      “Go back and tell Hezekiah the leader of My people that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. I…

    • 1 Corinthians 15:4

      that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures,

    • Isaiah 26:19

      Your dead will live; their bodies will rise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust! For your dew is like the dew of the morning, and the earth will bring forth her…

Where this verse is studied

About Joshua

The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Walls of Jericho Fall Down, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
Joshua: the study guide →Read Joshua 1 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament and John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament.

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