Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
This arrangement was adopted by the author for the purpose of bringing distinctly out
to view, not only the miracle itself, but also the means with which God associated the
performance of the miracle, and also of impressing deeply upon the memory of the
people both the divine act and the end secured. In doing this, however, some
repetitions were inevitable, in consequence of the endeavour, so peculiar to the
Hebrew mode of writing history to mark and round off the several points in the
occurrences described, by such comprehensive statements as anticipate the actual
course of events. It is to this arrangement and dovetailing of the differing points that
we must attribute the distribution of the revelation and commands which Joshua
received from God, over the several portions of the history; and consequently we are
not to suppose, that at each separate point during the passage God revealed to Joshua
what he was to do, but must rather assume that He actually revealed and commanded
whatever was requisite all at once, on the day before the miraculous passage.
(Note: The assertion made by Paulus, Eichhorn, Bleek, Knobel , and others, that the account is
compounded from two different document, is founded upon nothing else than a total oversight of the
arrangement explained above and doctrinal objections to its miraculous contents. The supposed
contradictions, which are cited as proofs, have been introduced into the text, as even Hauff acknowledges
( Offenbarungsgl. pp. 209,
210).)
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