Joshua 5:15 BSB — MannaFest

Joshua 5:15

The Commander of the LORD’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

And the prince of Jehovah’s host said unto Joshua, Put off thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.

KJV

And the captain of the Lord’s host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.

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Commentary

2 voices

Jerome

HOMILY ON THE EXODUS 91 (420)

Now, grasp the mystical meaning of Holy Writ. As long as we are walking through the wilderness, it is necessary that we wear sandals to cover and protect our feet, but when we shall have entered the Land of Promise, we shall hear with Jesus [Joshua], the son of Nave [Nun]: "Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place upon which you are standing is holy."

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

Loose thy shoe from off thy foot, etc. - These were the same words which the angel, on Mount Sinai, spoke to Moses; (see Exo 3:5-8); and from this it seems likely that it was the same person that appeared in both places: in the first, to encourage Moses to deliver the oppressed Israelites, and bring them to the promised land; in the second, to encourage Joshua in his arduous labor in expelling the ancient inhabitants, and establishing the people in the inheritance promised to their fathers.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּאמֶר֩	vai.yo.Mer	and he said	H559 →
שַׂר־	sar-	[the] commander of	H8269 →
צְבָ֨א	tze.Va'	[the] army of	H6635 →
יְהוָ֜ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
יְהוֹשֻׁ֗עַ	ye.ho.Shu.a'	Joshua	H3091 →
שַׁל־	shal-	take off	H5394 →
נַֽעַלְךָ֙	na.'al.Kha	sandal your	H5275 →
מֵעַ֣ל	me.'Al	from on	H5921 →
רַגְלֶ֔ךָ	rag.Le.kha	foot your	H7272 →
כִּ֣י	ki	for	H3588 →
הַמָּק֗וֹם	ha.ma.Kom	the place	H4725 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
אַתָּ֛ה	'a.Tah	you	H859 →
עֹמֵ֥ד	'o.Med	[are] standing	H5975 →
עָלָ֖יו	'a.Lav	on it	H5921 →
קֹ֣דֶשׁ	Ko.desh	[is] a holy place	H6944 →
ה֑וּא	Hu'	it	H1931 →
וַיַּ֥עַשׂ	vai.Ya.'as	and he did	H6213 →
יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ	ye.ho.Shu.a'	Joshua	H3091 →
כֵּֽן׃	Ken	thus	H3651 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Exodus 3:5
“Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
leads to
- Genesis 28:16–17
  When Jacob woke up, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Acts 7:33
  Then the Lord said to him, ‘Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.
- Exodus 19:12
  And you are to set up a boundary for the people around the mountain and tell them, ‘Be careful not to go up on the mountain or touch its base. Whoever touches the mountain…
- Ecclesiastes 5:1
  Guard your steps when you go to the house of God. Draw near to listen rather than to offer the sacrifice of fools, who do not know that they do wrong.
- Hebrews 12:20
  For they could not bear what was commanded: “If even an animal touches the mountain, it must be stoned.”
Through
2 Peter 1:18
And we ourselves heard this voice from heaven when we were with Him on the holy mountain.
leads to
- Matthew 17:6
  When the disciples heard this, they fell facedown in terror.
- Exodus 3:5
  “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
- Isaiah 11:9
  They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain, for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the LORD as the sea is full of water.

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