Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things
which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you,
and not one thing hath failed thereof.
In the second part of his address, Joshua sums up briefly and concisely the leading
thoughts of the first part, giving greater prominence, however, to the curse which
would follow apostasy from the Lord.
Verse 14-16. Now that Joshua was going the way of all the earth (all the inhabitants
of the earth), i.e., going to die (1 Kings 2:2), the Israelites knew with all the heart and
all the soul, i.e., were fully convinced, that of all the good words (gracious promises)
of God not one had failed, but all had come to pass (vid., Josh 21:45). But it was just
as certain that the Lord would bring upon them every evil word that He spake through
Moses (Lev 26:14-33; Deut 28:15-68, and 29:14-28), if they transgressed His
covenant. "The evil word" is the curse of rejection (Deut 30:1,15). "Until He have
destroyed:" see Deut 7:24, and 28:48. The other words as in v. 13b. If they went after
other gods and served them, the wrath of the Lord would burn against them, and they
would be quickly destroyed from the good land which He had given them (vid., Deut
11:17).
Joshua 24:1-18
And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders
of Israel, and for their
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