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Joshua 24:30

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And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.

KJV

And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath–serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.

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This verse in Joshua 24

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

LETTER 39.4 · Written before 420.

I cannot adequately extol the mysteries of Scripture or sufficiently admire the spiritual meaning conveyed in its most simple words. We are told, for instance, that lamentation was made for Moses; yet when the funeral of Joshua is described no mention at all is made of weeping. The reason, of course, is that under Moses—that is, under the old law—all people were bound by the sentence passed on Adam's sin, and when they descended into hell were rightly accompanied with tears. For, as the apostle says, "death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned."

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

1 ) when mention was made of his death; for, though Joshua was in many respects inferior to Moses, yet in this he was equal to him, that, according as his work was, he approved himself a diligent and faithful servant of God. And he that traded with his two talents had the same approbation that he had who traded with his five. Well done, good and faithful servant.

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And they buried him in the border of his inheritance,.... In a field belonging to his estate; for they buried not in towns and cities in those times.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

And they buried him - in Timnath-serah - This was his own inheritance, as we have seen Jos 19:50. The Septuagint add here, “And they put with him there, in the tomb in which they buried him, the knives of stone with which he circumcised the children of Israel in Gilgal, according as the Lord commanded when he brought them out of Egypt; and there they are till this day.” St. Augustine quotes the same passage in his thirtieth question on the book of Joshua, which, in all probability, he took from some copy of the Septuagint.

The words behind it

12 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.

  • וַיִּקְבְּר֤וּand people buried

    vaiyikberuH6912 →133 times

  • אֹתוֹ֙<obj.> him

    ʾotoH853 →10935 times

  • בִּגְב֣וּלin [the] territory of

    bigvulH1366 →240 times

  • נַחֲלָת֔וֹinheritance his

    nachalatoH5159 →222 times

  • בְּתִמְנַת־at Timnath

    betimnat-H8556 →6 times

  • סֶ֖רַחSerah

    serachH8556 →6 times

  • אֲשֶׁ֣רwhich

    ʾasherH834 →5497 times

  • בְּהַר־[is] in [the] hill country of

    behar-H2022 →546 times

  • אֶפְרָ֑יִםEphraim

    ʾefrayimH669 →180 times

  • מִצְּפ֖וֹןfrom [the] north

    mitzefonH6828 →153 times

  • לְהַר־of [the] mountain of

    lehar-H2022 →546 times

  • גָּֽעַשׁ׃Gaash

    gaashH1608 →

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

Related verses

5 in all, six open

The walk

7 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 Samuel 23:30

    Benaiah the Pirathonite, Hiddai from the brooks of Gaash,

    it leads to

    • Judges 2:9

      They buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Judges 12:15

      Then Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, died, and he was buried at Pirathon in Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites.

    • 1 Chronicles 27:14

      The eleventh, for the eleventh month, was Benaiah the Pirathonite, an Ephraimite. There were 24,000 men in his division.

    • Judges 12:13

      After Elon, Abdon son of Hillel, from Pirathon, judged Israel.

    • Deuteronomy 1:24

      They left and went up into the hill country, and came to the Valley of Eshcol and spied out the land.

  • Through

    Judges 2:9

    They buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-heres in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 19:50

      as the LORD had commanded. They gave him the city of Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, as he requested. He rebuilt the city and settled in it.

  • Through

    Joshua 19:50

    as the LORD had commanded. They gave him the city of Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, as he requested. He rebuilt the city and settled in it.

    it leads to

    • 1 Chronicles 7:24

      His daughter was Sheerah, who built Lower and Upper Beth-horon, as well as Uzzen-sheerah.

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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jerome, LETTER 39.4; 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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