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Joshua 24:28

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Then Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

So Joshua sent the people away, every man unto his inheritance.

KJV

So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.

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This verse in Joshua 24

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

Joshua let the people depart

on Joshua 24:28-30

Judges 2:6-9 repeats these verses almost word for word, which is how the next book takes up the thread. Joshua is called the servant of the Lord here, and a query across the King James text shows the title belongs to Moses in every earlier place it occurs, from Deuteronomy 34:5 through Joshua 22:5; it comes to Joshua in this verse and once more at Judges 2:8. He dies at a hundred and ten, the age Joseph reached at Genesis 50:26, and those two men are the only ones in Scripture given that number. Timnath-serah is the city he asked for and received at Joshua 19:50.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim. This book, which began with triumphs, here ends with funerals, by which all the glory of man is stained.

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So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance. Dismissed them, and took his final leave and farewell of them, dying soon after; upon which they returned to the possessions and inheritances assigned by lot to the several tribes, of which they were the heads and princes.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth--After having enumerated so many grounds for national gratitude, Joshua calls on them to declare, in a public and solemn manner, whether they will be faithful and obedient to the God of Israel.

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

So Joshua - After this verse the Septuagint insert Jos 24:31.

The words behind it

6 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.

  • וַיְשַׁלַּ֤חand he sent away

    vayshalachH7971 →845 times

  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֙עַ֙Joshua

    yehoshua'H3091 →218 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • הָעָ֔םthe people

    haamH5971 →1873 times

  • אִ֖ישׁeveryone

    ʾishH376 →1663 times

  • לְנַחֲלָתֽוֹ׃ פto own inheritance his

    lenachalatoH5159 →222 times

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

Related verses

1 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.

Judges 2:6After Joshua had dismissed the people, the Israelites went out to take possession of the land, each to his own inheritance.3 works

The walk

2 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

    Judges 2:6

    After Joshua had dismissed the people, the Israelites went out to take possession of the land, each to his own inheritance.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 24:28–31

      Then Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.

    • Joshua 22:6

      So Joshua blessed them and sent them on their way, and they went to their homes.

Where this verse is studied

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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 24 →

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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