Commentary on Joshua - Keil & Delitzsch - David Cox

Keil and Delitzsch <strong>Commentary</strong> on the Old Testament
made at Sinai, like that which took place under Moses in the steppes of Moab (Deut.
28:69 ). "And set them a statute and right at Shechem," sc., through the renewal of
the covenant. These words recall Ex 15:25, where the guidance of Israel to bitter
water, and the sweetening of that water by the means which the Lord pointed out to
Moses, are described as setting a statute and right for Israel, and then explained by
the promise, that if they would hearken to the voice of Jehovah, He would keep them
from all the diseases of Egypt. And in accordance with this, by the renewal of the
covenant at Shechem, there were set for Israel, a choq (OT:2706), i.e., a statute ,
which bound the people to a renewed and conscientious maintenance of the covenant,
and a mishªpaaT (OT:4941), or right , by virtue of which they might expect on this
condition the fulfilment of all the covenant mercies of the Lord.
Joshua 24:26-27
And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great
stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
All these things ( haa'eeleh (OT:428) hadªbaariym (OT:1697) are not merely the
words spoken on both sides, but the whole ceremony of renewing the covenant)
Joshua wrote in the law-book of God, i.e., he wrote them in a document which he
placed in the law-book of Moses, and then set up a large stone, as a permanent
memorial of
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