Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

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Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament Verse 3-4. After his call, God conducted Abraham through all the land of Canaan (see Gen 12), protecting and shielding him, and multiplied his seed, giving him Isaac, and giving to Isaac Jacob and Esau, the ancestors of two nations. To the latter He gave the mountains of Seir for a possession (Gen 36:6ff.), that Jacob might receive Canaan for his descendants as a sole possession. But instead of mentioning this, Joshua took for granted that his hearers were well acquainted with the history of the patriarchs, and satisfied himself with mentioning the migration of Jacob and his sons to Egypt, that he might pass at once to the second great practical proof of the mercy of God in the guidance of Israel, the miraculous deliverance of Israel out of the bondage and oppression of Egypt. Verse 5-7. Of this also he merely mentions the leading points, viz., first of all, the sending of Moses and Aaron (Ex 3:10ff., Josh 4:14ff.), and then the plagues inflicted upon Egypt. "I smote Egypt," i.e., both land and people. naagap (OT:5062) is used in Ex. 7:27 and 12:23,27, in connection with the plague of frogs and the slaying of the first-born in Egypt. The words which follow, "according to that which I did among them, and afterward I brought you out," point back to Ex 3:20, and show that the Lord had fulfilled the promise given to Moses at his call. He then refers (vv. 6, 7) to the miraculous deliverance of the Israelites, as they came out of Egypt, from Pharaoh who pursued them with his army, giving especial prominence to the crying of the Israelites to the Lord in their distress (Ex 14:10), and the relief of that distress by the angel of the Lord (Ex 14:19-20). And lastly, he notices their dwelling in the wilderness "many days," i.e., forty years (Num 14:33). Verse 8-10. The third great act of God for Israel was his giving up the Amorites into the hands of the Israelites, http://207.44.232.113/~bible/comment/ot/k&d/josh/jos143.html (2 of 2) [13/08/2004 01:19:44 p.m.]
Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament Verse 8-10. The third great act of God for Israel was his giving up the Amorites into the hands of the Israelites, so that they were able to conquer their land (Num 21:21- 35), and the frustration of the attack made by Balak king of the Moabites, through the instrumentality of Balaam, when the Lord did not allow him to curse Israel, but compelled him to bless (Num 22-24). Balak "warred against Israel," not with the sword, but with the weapons of the curse, or animo et voluntate ( Vatabl. ). "I would not hearken unto Balaam," i.e., would not comply with his wish, but compelled him to submit to my will, and to bless you; "and delivered you out of his (Balak's) hand," when he sought to destroy Israel through the medium of Balaam (Num 22:6,11). Verse 11-13. The last and greatest benefit which the Lord conferred upon the Israelites, was His leading them by miracles of His omnipotence across the Jordan into Canaan, delivering the Lords (or possessors) of Jericho," not "the rulers, i.e., the king and his heroes," as Knobel maintains (see 2 Sam 21:12; 1 Sam 23:11-12; and the commentary on Judg 9:6), "and all the tribes of Canaan into their hand," and sending hornets before them , so that they were able to drive out the Canaanites, particularly the two kings of the Amorites, Sihon and Og, though "not with their sword and their bow" (vid., Ps 44:4); i.e., it was not with the weapons at their command that they were able to take the lands of these two kings. On the sending of hornets, as a figure used to represent peculiarly effective terrors, see at Ex 23:28; Deut 7:20. In this way the Lord gave the land to the Israelites, with its towns and its rich productions (vineyards and olive trees), without any trouble on their part of wearisome cultivation or planting, as Moses himself had promised them (Deut 6:10-11). Verse 14,15. These overwhelming manifestations of grace on the part of the Lord laid Israel under obligations to serve the Lord with gratitude and sincerity. "Now therefore fear the Lord ( yªr'uw (OT:3372) for yirª'uw (OT:7200), pointed like a verb l''h , as in 1 Sam 12:24; Ps 34:10), and serve Him in sincerity and in truth," i.e., without hypocrisy, or the show of piety, in simplicity and truth of heart (vid., Judg 9:16,19). "Put away the gods ( Elohim = the strange gods in v. 23) which your fathers served on the other side of the Euphrates and in Egypt." This appeal does not presuppose any gross idolatry on the part of the existing generation, which would have been at http://207.44.232.113/~bible/comment/ot/k&d/josh/jos144.html (1 of 3) [13/08/2004 01:19:45 p.m.]
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