Joshua 17:15 BSB — MannaFest

Joshua 17:15

Joshua answered them, “If you have so many people that the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go to the forest and clear for yourself an area in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim.”

BSB

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ASV

And Joshua said unto them, If thou be a great people, get thee up to the forest, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill-country of Ephraim is too narrow for thee.

KJV

And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.

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Commentary

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Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Joshua was himself of the tribe of Ephraim, but far from supporting the demands of his kinsmen he reproves them, and calls upon them to make good their great words by corresponding deeds of valor. He bids them clear the country of its woods and thus make room for settling their people. The “wood country” means probably the range which runs along the northern border of Manasseh, and which connects the mountains of Gilboa with Carmel.

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Original language & word study

21 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר	vai.Yo.mer	and he said	H559 →
אֲלֵיהֶ֜ם	'a.lei.Hem	to them	H413 →
יְהוֹשֻׁ֗עַ	ye.ho.Shu.a'	Joshua	H3091 →
אִם־	'im-	if	H518 →
עַם־	'am-	[are] a people	H5971 →
רַ֤ב	rav	numerous	H7227 →
אַתָּה֙	'a.Tah	you	H859 →
עֲלֵ֣ה	'a.Leh	go up	H5927 →
לְךָ֣	le.Kha	for <the> yourself
הַיַּ֔עְרָה	hai.Ya'.rah	the forest towards	H3293 →
וּבֵרֵאתָ֤	u.ve.re.Ta	and you will cut down	H1254 →
לְךָ֙	le.Kha	for <the> yourself
שָׁ֔ם	Sham	there	H8033 →
בְּאֶ֥רֶץ	be.'E.retz	in [the] land of	H776 →
הַפְּרִזִּ֖י	ha.pe.ri.Zi	the Perizzite[s]	H6522 →
וְהָֽרְפָאִ֑ים	ve.ha.re.fa.'Im	and the Rephaites	H7497 →
כִּֽי־	ki-	that	H3588 →
אָ֥ץ	'atz	it is narrow	H213 →
לְךָ֖	le.Kha	for <the> you
הַר־	har-	[the] hill country of	H2022 →
אֶפְרָֽיִם׃	'ef.Ra.yim	Ephraim	H669 →

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

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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
2 Samuel 5:18
Now the Philistines had come and spread out in the Valley of Rephaim.
leads to
- Genesis 14:5
  In the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 17:5
  as the reaper gathers the standing grain and harvests the ears with his arm, as one gleans heads of grain in the Valley of Rephaim.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Joshua 15:8
  From there the border went up the Valley of Hinnom along the southern slope of the Jebusites (that is, Jerusalem) and ascended to the top of the hill that faces the Valley of Hinnom…
- 2 Samuel 23:13
  At harvest time, three of the thirty chief men went down to David at the cave of Adullam, while a company of Philistines was encamped in the Valley of Rephaim.
Through
Genesis 13:7
And there was discord between the herdsmen of Abram and the herdsmen of Lot. At that time the Canaanites and the Perizzites were also living in the land.
leads to
- Genesis 26:20
  But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.
- Genesis 12:6
  Abram traveled through the land as far as the site of the Oak of Moreh at Shechem. And at that time the Canaanites were in the land.
- James 3:16
  For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every evil practice.
Through
Genesis 14:5
In the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings allied with him went out and defeated the Rephaites in Ashteroth-karnaim, the Zuzites in Ham, the Emites in Shaveh-kiriathaim,
leads to
- Deuteronomy 3:11
  (For only Og king of Bashan had remained of the remnant of the Rephaim. His bed of iron, nine cubits long and four cubits wide, is still in Rabbah of the Ammonites.)

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Where the connections lead

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The walk

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