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Joshua 23:15

in Joshua 23

But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And it shall come to pass, that as all the good things are come upon you of which Jehovah your God spake unto you, so will Jehovah bring upon you all the evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which Jehovah your God hath given you.

KJV

Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the Lord your God promised you; so shall the Lord bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you.

This verse in Joshua 23

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

So shall the Lord bring upon you all evil things - His faithfulness in fulfilling his promises is a proof that he will as faithfully accomplish his threatenings, for the veracity of God is equally pledged for both.

This site's exposition

just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass

on Joshua 23:15-16

The address turns on one hinge: the faithfulness that brought the good things will bring the calamity, and Clarke says God's veracity is pledged equally for both. Verse 16 closes almost word for word with Deuteronomy 11:17. Henry counts the threat pressed three times, at verses 13, 15 and 16, and 2 Kings 17:7-23 and 25:21 record where it landed.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Evil things - The accomplishment of God's promise is a pledge that he will also fulfil his threatnings; both of them depending upon the same ground, the faithfulness of God.
Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all the good things are come upon you which the Lord hath promised you,....

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

As God's promises are not a fool's paradise, so his threatenings are not bugbears. (4.) That it would end in the utter ruin of their church and nation, as Moses had foretold. This is three times mentioned here.

The words behind it

32 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.

  • וְהָיָ֗הand it will be

    vehayahH1961 →3559 times

  • כַּאֲשֶׁר־just as

    kaasher-H834 →5497 times

  • בָּ֤אit has come

    ba'H935 →2568 times

  • עֲלֵיכֶם֙on you

    ʾaleikhemH5921 →5755 times

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַדָּבָ֣ר<the> word

    hadavarH1697 →1440 times

  • הַטּ֔וֹב<the> good

    hatovH2896 →538 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֥רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • דִּבֶּ֛רhe spoke

    diberH1696 →1141 times

  • יְהוָ֥הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֖םGod your

    ʾeloheikhemH430 →2601 times

  • אֲלֵיכֶ֑םto you

    ʾaleikhemH413 →5510 times

  • כֵּן֩so

    kenH3651 →771 times

  • יָבִ֨יאhe will bring

    yavi'H935 →2568 times

  • יְהוָ֜הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • עֲלֵיכֶ֗םon you

    ʾaleikhemH5921 →5755 times

  • אֵ֚ת<obj.>

    ʾetH853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־every

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הַדָּבָ֣ר<the> word

    hadavarH1697 →1440 times

  • הָרָ֔ע<the> bad

    hara'H7451 →

  • עַד־until

    ʾad-H5704 →1261 times

  • הַשְׁמִיד֣וֹhas destroyed he

    hashmidoH8045 →90 times

  • אוֹתְכֶ֗ם<obj.> you

    ʾotkhemH853 →10935 times

  • מֵ֠עַלfrom on

    mealH5921 →5755 times

  • הָאֲדָמָ֤הthe land

    haadamahH127 →

  • הַטּוֹבָה֙<the> good

    hatovahH2896 →538 times

  • הַזֹּ֔את<the> this

    hazotH2063 →603 times

  • אֲשֶׁר֙which

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • נָתַ֣ןhe has given

    natanH5414 →2011 times

  • לָכֶ֔םto <the> you

    lakhem

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃God your

    ʾeloheikhemH430 →2601 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

    1 Thessalonians 2:16

    hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they continue to heap up their sins to full capacity; the utmost wrath has come upon them.

    it leads to

    • Acts 17:13

      But when the Jews from Thessalonica learned that Paul was also proclaiming the word of God in Berea, they went there themselves to incite and agitate the crowds.

    • Acts 14:19

      Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won over the crowds. They stoned Paul and dragged him outside the city, presuming he was dead.

    • Matthew 23:32

      Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.

    • Malachi 4:1

      “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of…

    • Acts 14:5

      But when the Gentiles and Jews, together with their rulers, set out to mistreat and stone them,

  • Through

    Judges 6:1

    Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; so He delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years,

    it leads to

    • Nehemiah 9:26–29

      But they were disobedient and rebelled against You; they flung Your law behind their backs. They killed Your prophets, who had admonished them to return to You. They committed terrible blasphemies.

    • Judges 2:19–20

      But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and bow down to them. They would not give up their evil practices…

  • Through

    Judges 3:8

    Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram-naharaim, and the Israelites served him eight years.

    it leads to

    • Judges 2:14

      Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of those who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they…

About Joshua

Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, John Martin, 1816, National Gallery of Art. Public domain.
Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, John Martin, 1816, National Gallery of Art. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.