Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
through the zeal of Phinehas for the honour of the Lord (Num 25:4-9,11). The guilt
connected with the worship of Peor had thereby been avenged upon the congregation,
and the congregation itself had been saved from any further punishment in
consequence of the sin. When Phinehas, therefore, affirmed that the congregation had
not yet been cleansed from the crime, he did not mean that they were still bearing or
suffering from the punishment of that crime, but that they were not yet cleansed from
that sin, inasmuch as many of them were still attached to idolatry in their hearts, even
if they had hitherto desisted from it outwardly from fear of the infliction of fresh
judgment.
Joshua 22:18
But that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD? and it will be,
seeing ye rebel to day against the LORD, that to morrow he will be wroth with the
whole congregation of Israel.
"And to-day ye turn away from the Lord again," and are about to bring His wrath
upon the whole congregation again through a fresh rebellion.
Joshua 22:19
Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto
the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD's tabernacle dwelleth,
and take possession among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against
us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God.
"And truly," the speaker continued, "if the land of your possession should be
unclean," sc., so that you think it necessary to have an altar in the neighbourhood to
expiate your sins and wipe away your uncleanness, "pass over into the land of
Jehovah's possession, where His dwelling-place stands, and settle in the midst of us
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