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Joshua 22:9

in Joshua 22

So the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in the land of Canaan to return to their own land of Gilead, which they had acquired according to the command of the LORD through Moses.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the commandment of Jehovah by Moses.

KJV

And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

This verse in Joshua 22

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

left the Israelites at Shiloh

on Joshua 22:9-10

They leave from Shiloh, where the tabernacle stood from 18:1 until the ark was taken in 1 Samuel 4. Readers have placed the altar on the western bank and on the eastern, since verse 10 says "in the land of Canaan" and verse 11 "on the border" of it. It is called an imposing altar, built to be seen from afar, which becomes the argument of verse 28.

The record, by era

The Church Fathers1 voice

A commentator

Origen of Alexandria

HOMILIES ON JOSHUA 26.2 · Written before 253.

proposed

After these things Jesus [Joshua] assembles the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, who had served as soldiers with him to overcome the foes of the Israelites, and he dismisses them to go to their inheritance with certain gifts given to them, as it is written.

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), ferry-boats being, it is likely, provided for their repassing Jordan. Though masters of families may sometimes have occasion to be absent, long absent, from their families, yet, when their business abroad is finished, they must remember home is their place, from which they ought not to wander as a bird from her nest.

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And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, returned,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Gilead - Here used in the widest sense for the whole trans-Jordanic district.

The words behind it

31 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.

  • וַיָּשֻׁ֣בוּand they returned

    vaiyashuvuH7725 →1056 times

  • וַיֵּלְכ֡וּand they went

    vaiyelekhuH1980 →1546 times

  • בְּנֵי־[the] descendants of

    benei-H1121 →4930 times

  • רְאוּבֵ֨ןReuben

    reuvenH7205 →72 times

  • וּבְנֵי־and [the] descendants of

    uvenei-H1121 →4930 times

  • גָ֜דGad

    gadH1410 →72 times

  • וַחֲצִ֣י׀and [the] half of

    vachatziH2677 →125 times

  • שֵׁ֣בֶט[the] tribe of

    shevetH7626 →190 times

  • הַֽמְנַשֶּׁ֗ה<the> Manasseh

    hamnashehH4519 →146 times

  • מֵאֵת֙from with

    meetH854 →929 times

  • בְּנֵ֣י[the] people of

    beneiH1121 →4930 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֔לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • מִשִּׁלֹ֖הfrom Shiloh

    mishilohH7887 →32 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • בְּאֶֽרֶץ־[is] in [the] land of

    beeretz-H776 →2504 times

  • כְּנָ֑עַןCanaan

    kenaanH3667 →94 times

  • לָלֶ֜כֶתto go

    lalekhetH1980 →1546 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • אֶ֣רֶץ[the] land of

    ʾeretzH776 →2504 times

  • הַגִּלְעָ֗ד<the> Gilead

    hagiladH1568 →134 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • אֶ֤רֶץ[the] land of

    ʾeretzH776 →2504 times

  • אֲחֻזָּתָם֙possession their

    ʾachuzatamH272 →66 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • נֹֽאחֲזוּ־they had possessions

    nochazu-H270 →

  • בָ֔הּin <the> it

    vah

  • עַל־on

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • פִּ֥י[the] mouth of

    piH6310 →498 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • בְּיַד־by [the] hand of

    beyad-H3027 →1618 times

  • מֹשֶֽׁה׃Moses

    moshehH4872 →765 times

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

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

    Joshua 13:25

    The territory of Jazer, all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites as far as Aroer, near Rabbah;

    it leads to

    • Numbers 32:35

      Atroth-shophan, Jazer, Jogbehah,

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • 2 Samuel 12:26

      Meanwhile, Joab fought against Rabbah of the Ammonites and captured the royal fortress.

    • 2 Samuel 11:1

      In the spring, at the time when kings march out to war, David sent out Joab and his servants with the whole army of Israel. They destroyed the Ammonites and besieged Rabbah, but David…

    • Deuteronomy 3:11

      (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

  • Through

    Numbers 32:1

    Now the Reubenites and Gadites, who had very large herds and flocks, surveyed the lands of Jazer and Gilead, and they saw that the region was suitable for livestock.

    it leads to

    • Numbers 21:32

      After Moses had sent spies to Jazer, Israel captured its villages and drove out the Amorites who were there.

    • Genesis 13:10–11

      And Lot looked out and saw that the whole plain of the Jordan, all the way to Zoar, was well watered like the garden of the LORD, like the land of Egypt. (This was…

    • Numbers 32:3

      “Ataroth, Dibon, Jazer, Nimrah, Heshbon, Elealeh, Sebam, Nebo, and Beon,

    • Genesis 13:2

      And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.

About Joshua

This page draws on Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth; Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible and Origen of Alexandria, HOMILIES ON JOSHUA 26.2.