Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Joshua 22:3
Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.
3. the charge of the commandment ] They had kept their obligations to Moses, to Joshua, and to Jehovah.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
These many days, i.e. for divers years together, so long as the war lasted. See Jos 11:18; 14:10.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
3. Ye have not left your brethrenthese many days unto this dayfor the space of seven years.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day,…. For the space of fourteen years, which is the commonly received notion of the Jews f; seven years according to them the land was subduing, and seven more spent in dividing it, and then these tribes were sent for and dismissed; all this time they stayed close by their brethren, and assisted them in their wars, and never offered to return to their wives and children, until they had an order from their general:
but have kept the charge of the commandment of the Lord your God; for what both Moses and Joshua commanded them was from the mouth of the Lord; so that, in obeying them, they obeyed him.
f Seder Olam Rabba, c. 11. p. 32.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
3. Ye have not left your brethren Ye have not permanently abandoned them during seven years of war. It is not to be supposed that in the long intervals between the military campaigns they had not been permitted to visit on furloughs their families only a few miles distant beyond the Jordan. Such frequent permissions to visit their homes had kept them from murmuring at the long delay in the division of Canaan. For the provision made for the protection of their homes, and the maintenance of their families during their absence, see Jos 1:14, note.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Jos 22:3 Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.
Ver. 3. Ye have not left your brethren these many days. ] Seven years at least; some say more, even twice seven: which long absence from their own families, friends, and estates, left in a land so lately conquered, and that upon such a difficult and dangerous undertaking, was an undoubted evidence of their singular constancy and fidelity toward their brethren.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
God. Hebrew. Elohim. App-4.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
Phi 1:23-27
Reciprocal: Num 9:23 – they kept