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Joshua 10:15

in Joshua 10

Then Joshua returned with all Israel to the camp at Gilgal.

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ASV

And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.

KJV

And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.

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This verse in Joshua 10

Commentary

5 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

And Joshua returned - unto the camp to Gilgal - That the Israelitish army did not return to the camp at Gilgal till after the hanging of the five kings and the destruction of their cities, is sufficiently evident from the subsequent parts of this chapter. When all this business was done, and not before, they returned unto the camp to Gilgal; see Jos 10:

This site's exposition

Joshua returned with all Israel

Verse 15 sends Joshua back to Gilgal, yet verse 16 has him still in the field at Makkedah. Two old answers stand: it closes the extract from the Book of Jashar, or the writer gives the outcome first and fills in the day. Nothing in the chapter settles between them.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices

A commentator

John Wesley

1703–1791

Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament (1765)

proposed

Joshua returned - Not upon the same day, but after he had dispatched the matter which here follows; as appears by ver. 43, where the very same words are repeated. And they are put here to close the general discourse of the fight which begun ver. 10, and ends here; which being done he particularly describes some remarkable passages, and closeth them with the same words.

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And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

It would seem, from Jos 10:14, that the command of Joshua was in reality a prayer to God for the performance of this miracle; and that, although the prayers of eminently good men like Moses often prevailed with God, never was there on any other occasion so astonishing a display of divine power made in behalf of His people, as in answer to the prayer of Joshua.

The words behind it

8 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.

  • וַיָּ֤שָׁבand he returned

    vaiyashovH7725 →1056 times

  • יְהוֹשֻׁ֙עַ֙Joshua

    yehoshua'H3091 →218 times

  • וְכָל־and all

    vekholH3605 →5413 times

  • יִשְׂרָאֵ֣לIsrael

    yisraelH3478 →2507 times

  • עִמּ֔וֹwith him

    imoH5973 →1050 times

  • אֶל־to

    ʾel-H413 →5510 times

  • הַֽמַּחֲנֶ֖הthe camp

    hamachanehH4264 →215 times

  • הַגִּלְגָּֽלָה׃<the> Gilgal towards

    hagilgalahH1537 →41 times

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

Related verses

2 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

    Joshua 10:6

    Then the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal: “Do not abandon your servants. Come quickly and save us! Help us, because all the kings of the Amorites from…

    it leads to

    • Joshua 9:6

      They went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land; please make a treaty with us.”

    • Joshua 5:10

      On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover.

    • Joshua 9:24–25

      The Gibeonites answered, “Your servants were told clearly that the LORD your God had commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land and wipe out all its inhabitants before you. So we…

    • Joshua 9:15

      And Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.

    • Luke 1:39

      In those days Mary got ready and hurried to a town in the hill country of Judah,

  • Through

    Joshua 10:43

    Then Joshua returned with all Israel to the camp at Gilgal.

    it leads to

    • Joshua 4:19

      On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.

    • 1 Samuel 11:14

      Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and renew the kingship there.”

Where this verse is studied

About Joshua

Joshua Commands the Sun to Stand Still — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Joshua Commands the Sun to Stand Still — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes on the Old Testament; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Wesley, Explanatory Notes upon the Old Testament and Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth.

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