Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
terminus a quo being mentioned in the first clause, and the terminus ad quem (though
without the preposition `ad (OT:5704)) in the second; and through the parallelism
which exists between the clauses, each clause is left to be completed from the other.
So that the whole sentence would read thus: "All these nations which remain...from
Jordan to the great sea, also all the nations which I have cut off from Jordan, and
to the great sea westward."
Joshua 23:5
And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them
from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the LORD your God hath
promised unto you.
For the Lord would drive all these still remaining nations before the Israelites, and cut
them off, and give the Israelites their land for a possession, as He had promised (Josh
13:6; cf. Ex 23:23ff.). haadap (OT:1920), as in Deut 6:19; 9:4; and the form
yehªdaapeem (OT:1920), with Chateph-kametz , on account of the weakness of the h
, as in Num 35:20. yªrishªtem (OT:3423), as in Josh 1:15.
Joshua 23:6-8
Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of
the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;
Only let them be strong, i.e., be brave, to keep the law of Moses without fail (cf. Josh
1:7), to enter into no fellowship with these remaining nations ( bow' (OT:935), to
enter into close intimacy with a person; see v. 12), and not to pay reverence to their
gods in any way, but to adhere stedfastly to the Lord their God as they had hitherto
done. To make mention of the names of the idols (Ex 23:13), to swear by them, to
serve them (by sacrifices), and to bow down to them (to invoke them in prayer), are
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