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Joshua 1:3

in Joshua 1

I have given you every place where the sole of your foot will tread, just as I promised to Moses.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, to you have I given it, as I spake unto Moses.

KJV

Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.

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This verse in Joshua 1

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
Every place that the sole of your feet shall tread upon,.... That is, in the land of Canaan: that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses: See Gill on Deu 11:24; though the Jews extend this to all without the land subdued by them, and even to all the countries they now tread on, and are exiles in; but the limits of what the Lord gave them are fixed in Jos 1:4.

This site's exposition

the sole of your foot

on Joshua 1:3-4

The grant repeats Deuteronomy 11:24 nearly word for word, with tread and coast and the Euphrates in both. Israel reaches that eastern line only under David and Solomon, at 2 Samuel 8:3 and 1 Kings 4:21, and never holds it long. The same book says at 13:1 that there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed, so the border promised in this verse is wider than the conquest the book goes on to record. Clarke reads the grant as a limit touched later in the monarchy and no further, and Henry reads the remainder as pointing past the letter to the kingdom of the Messiah.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

The sole of your foot shalt tread upon - That is, the whole land occupied by the seven Canaanitish nations, and as far as the Euphrates on the east; for this was certainly the utmost of the grant now made to them; and all that was included in what is termed the promised land, the boundaries of which have already been defined. See Deu 34:1-4, and see Jos 1:4 (note) below.

The words behind it

13 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.

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • מָק֗וֹםplace

    makomH4725 →401 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֨רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • תִּדְרֹ֧ךְit will tread

    tidrokhH1869 →

  • כַּֽף־[the] sole of

    kaf-H3709 →192 times

  • רַגְלְכֶ֛םfoot your

    raglekhemH7272 →247 times

  • בּ֖וֹon <the> it

    bo

  • לָכֶ֣םto <the> you

    lakhem

  • נְתַתִּ֑יוI have given it

    netativH5414 →2011 times

  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֥רjust as

    kaasherH834 →5497 times

  • דִּבַּ֖רְתִּיI spoke

    dibartiH1696 →1141 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • מֹשֶֽׁה׃Moses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

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

Related verses

3 in all, six open

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

    Titus 1:2

    in the hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before time began.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 23:19

      God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?

    • 2 Timothy 1:9

      He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.

    • 1 John 2:25

      And this is the promise that He Himself made to us: eternal life.

    • Hebrews 6:17–18

      So when God wanted to make the unchanging nature of His purpose very clear to the heirs of the promise, He guaranteed it with an oath.

    • 2 Timothy 1:1

      Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, according to the promise of life in Christ Jesus,

  • Through

    Deuteronomy 11:24

    Every place where the sole of your foot treads will be yours. Your territory will extend from the wilderness to Lebanon, and from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 14:9

      On that day Moses swore to me, saying, ‘Surely the land on which you have set foot will be an inheritance to you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD…

    • Genesis 15:18–21

      On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—

    • Exodus 23:31

      And I will establish your borders from the Red Sea to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the desert to the Euphrates. For I will deliver the inhabitants into your hand, and you…

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; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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