11<\/strong>. Prepare you victuals<\/em> ] The word denotes ( a<\/em>) food got in hunting;<\/em> ( b<\/em>) food of any kind<\/em>, especially provisions for a journey<\/em>. Comp. Exo 12:39<\/span>, “neither had they prepared for themselves any victual<\/em>;” Jos 9:11<\/span>; Jos 9:14<\/span>; Jdg 7:8<\/span>, “So the people took victuals<\/em> in their hands, and their trumpets;” 1Sa 22:10<\/span>, “And he inquired of the Lord for him, and gave him victuals<\/em>.” The need of the provision on this occasion is explained by the cessation of the Manna. See below, ch. Jos 5:12<\/span>.<\/p>\n within three days<\/em> ] Comp. ch. Jos 3:1-2<\/span>. The order appears to have been given on the 7th day of the month Nisan, for the people crossed the Jordan on the 10th. The expedition, therefore, of the spies occupied from the 5th to the 8th of the month, and the message to the eastern tribes was sent during the same interval.<\/p>\n Prepare you victuals – <\/B>The order was probably given with the knowledge that the manna would cease when the host crossed the Jordan Exo 16:35<\/span>, and possibly because amidst their preparations there might not be opportunity to gather it in sufficient quantity. Nor does it appear that manna ever formed the whole and sole sustenance of the people. (Compare Num 20:1<\/span> note.)<\/P> It is the view of the majority of commentators – Jewish and Christian, ancient and modern – that the three days here named are identical with those of Jos 3:2<\/span>; and that the command of Joshua in the text was not in fact given until after the return of the spies. Here, as elsewhere in the Hebrew historical books and frequently in the Gospels, the order of time is superseded by the order of thought. For the purpose if the writer was not historical merely; it was, on the contrary, mainly religious and theoretical. Intending, then, to exhibit God as accomplishing His promises to the covenant-people, he begins by informing us that God gave the word and set Joshua and the host actually in motion to take possession of their inheritance. Having placed this leading fact in the forefront, he returns to mention in Josh. 2<\/span> certain transactions closely relevant to the early stages of Joshuas conquests, but which had in fact happened before the camp was removed from the plains of Moab and immediately after the expiration of the thirty days mourning for Moses. Deu 34:8<\/span>. The order of events was probably the following – 3rd Nisan, the spies are sent out Jos 2:1<\/span>; 6th, the spies return Jos 2:23<\/span>; 7th, the camp is removed from Shittim to the bank of Jordan Jos 3:1<\/span>, and the command Jos 1:11<\/span> is issued; 10th, the river is crossed Jos 4:19<\/span>.<\/P> <\/p>\n Verse 11<\/span>. Prepare you victuals<\/B><\/I>] tsedah<\/I>, such prey<\/I> or provisions<\/I> as they had taken<\/I> from the conquered countries<\/I>, such as corn, oxen, sheep, c. for the word signifies prey<\/I>, or what is taken by hunting<\/I>, c. This was necessary, as they were about to undergo considerable fatigue in marching, and in making preparations for the passage of the Jordan for although the manna had not ceased to fall, yet such other provisions as are mentioned above were necessary on this occasion.<\/P> <\/P> For within three days ye shall pass<\/B><\/I>] Calmet contends, with great appearance of truth, that these three days should be reckoned from the first day of their encamping at Jordan, three days after the return of the spies, i.e., on the eighth day of the first month, on the tenth<\/I> of which they passed over Jordan. The text therefore is supposed to mean, Prepare victuals for three days’ march<\/I>, for “on the third day after your decampment from Shittim<\/I> ye shall pass over this Jordan.”<\/P> <\/p>\n Prepare you victuals; <\/B>for although manna was given them to supply their want of ordinary provisions in the wilderness; yet they were allowed, when they had opportunity, to purchase other provisions, and did so, Deu 2:6<\/span>,28<\/span>. And now having been some time in the land of the Amorites, and together with manna used themselves to other food which that country plentifully supplied them with, they are warned to furnish themselves therewith for their approaching march. <\/P> Within three days.<\/B> <\/P> Quest.<\/B> How can this be, when the spies, who were not yet sent away, continued three days hid in the mountains, Jos 2:22<\/span>, and the people passed not over till three days after the spies returned? Jos 3:2<\/span>. <\/P> Answ.<\/B> These words, though placed here, seem not to have been delivered by Joshua till after the return of the spies; such transpositions being so frequent in Scripture, that interpreters have formed this general rule, that there is no certain order, no former nor latter<\/I>, in the histories of the Scripture. And hence it comes that these three days mentioned here below, after the history of the spies, are again repeated, Jos 3:2<\/span>. Besides, the Septuagint render the words yet three days<\/I>; and the Chaldee, in the end of three days<\/I>; others, after three days<\/I>, as it is Jos 3:2<\/span>. Or these three days may be the same with those Jos 2:22<\/span>, and the matter may be conceived thus: Joshua gives the people notice of their passage over Jordan within three days<\/I> here, and at the same time sends away the spies, who return ere those three days be ended. For the three days<\/I>, Jos 2:22<\/span>, may be understood of one whole day, and part of two other days, as it is in that famous instance, Mat 27:63<\/span>, of which see more on that place, and on Mat 12:40<\/span>. The spies came to Jericho in the evening of the first day, and intended to lie there, Jos 2:8<\/span>; but being disturbed and affrighted by the search made after them, they go away that night into the mountains, and there abide the time mentioned. Joshua having delivered this message from God to the Israelites, and sent away the spies, removes from Shittim to Jordan, Jos 3:1<\/span>, being sufficiently assured of his safe passage over Jordan, whatsoever became of the spies; and after those three days mentioned here were past, Jos 3:2<\/span>, he sends the officers to the people with a second message about the manner of their actual passing over. <\/P> <\/p>\n 11-13. command the people, saying,Prepare you victuals<\/B>not manna, which, though it still fell,would not keep; but corn, sheep, and articles of food procurable inthe conquered countries. <\/P> for within three days yeshall pass over this Jordan<\/B>that is, the third day, accordingto Hebrew<\/I> idiomthe time allotted for getting ready beforethe encampment in Abel-Shittim broke up and they removed to thedesert bank of the river where no victuals were available. At thesame time Joshua himself convened the two and a half tribes which hadsettled east of Jordan, to remind them of their promise (Nu32:1-42<\/span>) to assist their brethren in the conquest of westernCanaan. Their readiness to redeem their pledge and the terms in whichthey answered the appeal of Joshua displayed to great advantage theirpatriotic and pious feelings at so interesting a crisis.<\/P><\/p>\n Pass through the host<\/strong>,…. The whole camp of Israel, consisting of six hundred thousand fighting men:<\/p>\n and command the people<\/strong>; even all the people of Israel; this includes women as well as men, for the one, as well as the other, were to do what follows, and especially it may seem the business of the former:<\/p>\n saying, prepare ye victuals<\/strong>; this must be understood; as Kimchi observes, of other sorts of food besides bread; for they had manna, the bread of heaven, which fell about their tents every morning, so that they were sufficiently provided with that always, and which did not cease until they had entered the land, even until the sixteenth of Nisan, Jos 5:12<\/span>; though indeed, as Abendana observes, that might be said to be prepared, it being ground in mills, and beat in mortars, and made cakes of, Nu 11:8<\/span>; but rather this designs meat and other provisions, which being upon the borders of Moab and Midian, they could furnish themselves with for their money; and besides, they were in the possession of a fine country, of Bashan and Gilead, they had taken from Sihon and Og. Jarchi interprets it of everything fit for journeying, and arms for war, with which they were supplied from the spoils of their enemies, the Egyptians at the Red sea, Amalek at Rephidim, and the Amorites and Midianites lately smitten by them; and to this sense Josephus m seems to agree:<\/p>\n for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan<\/strong>: or at the end of three days, as the Targum of Jonathan; and so Jarchi, while there are yet three days, after that ye shall pass over: but here arises a difficulty to be reconciled, how this could be done three days after, when the spies, which Joshua is afterward said to send into the land, stayed three days in the mountains, besides the time of their going, and returning, and stay at Rahab’s house; and it was not till after their return that the camp began to move; to which it may be observed, that though the affair of the spies is afterward related, they might have been sent by Joshua before this order was given to prepare for the journey, and of this opinion are several of the Jewish writers n: this being the case, they might return before the expiration of these three days, at the end of which Joshua, with the whole host, moved, agreeably to these orders:<\/p>\n to go in to possess the land which the Lord your God giveth you to possess it<\/strong>; which must be a great inducement and encouragement to them to observe his instructions, and go over with him.<\/p>\n m Antiqu. l. 5. c. 1. sect. 1. n Jarchi, Ben Gersom, & Abarbinel in loc.<\/p>\n (11) Prepare you victuals.<\/strong>The question may be asked, what preparation is intended, since they had the manna, which did not cease until several days after they passed the Jordan. But it does not seem possible to assign any other meaning to the word except that of provision for a journey or for a warlike expedition. Perhaps the order was intended to prepare the Israelites for the transition from the manna to other food. It may be also that the manna which supported them in their pilgrimage through the wilderness was not so fit to sustain them in the warfare which they were about to begin. For the phrase itself, compare Exo. 12:39<\/span> : They were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual. <\/em>When there was a difficulty in obtaining other provision, God gave His people manna. Now, when they could easily provide food for themselves, He would not support them in idleness; and perhaps this is the common-sense view of the order given in the text. If called to any expedition which would take them far from the camp, the manna would not be within reach of all.<\/p>\n 11. <\/strong> Prepare you victuals <\/strong> Provision for a journey; natural produce; not manna, for this became putrid on the second day. The manna did not cease to fall till they had entered Canaan and eaten of the corn of the land. Jos 5:12<\/span>. But it was in harmony with the divine economy that the supernatural supply should diminish as the natural supply increased in the fertile trans-Jordanic region. God never works miracles as a premium to indolence. <\/p>\n Within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan <\/strong> If we follow the order of the narrative, and allow that the spies were sent out after this proclamation to the officers, we shall find that the Israelites did not cross the Jordan within three days. The spies were gone three days, and the people paused on the river’s bank three days more, so that the crossing could not have taken place till the seventh day. To meet this difficulty some suppose that the spies had been sent out previous to Joshua’s proclamation to the officers; see note on Jos 2:1<\/span>. [But it is not necessary to understand these words of Joshua as a positive prediction that all the people would actually cross over the Jordan and be in the Promised Land within these three days. The words are literally ye crossing, <\/em> that is, ye will be on your march to cross. He proposed within three days to break up the camp at Shittim and be on his way over the Jordan, and this is all the words can necessarily be made to mean. Keil supposes that because the two spies were detained, and obliged to hide three days in the mountain, (Jos 2:22<\/span>,) Joshua was thereby hindered from carrying out his purpose as he at first designed. But why is it necessary to maintain that the spies returned to Joshua at the camp at Shittim? It is not so written, (see Jos 2:23<\/span>,) and we may possibly suppose that when they returned to Joshua they found him arrived at the Jordan. But even granting that they returned to the camp at Shittim, as the history most naturally implies, the three days they hid in the mountain may have been only parts of three days. See note on Jos 2:22<\/span>.] The inspired writers directed their attention more to facts <\/em> than to chronological order. <\/em> In this command Joshua displays a remarkable degree of that faith and courage to which he had just been exhorted. The rapid Jordan, at its flood, is before him, and he has no boats, no bridge, no pontoon train, but he assures that vast host that they and their wives and children and flocks shall, within a few days, safely cross that angry torrent.<\/p>\n Ver. <\/em><\/strong>11. <\/strong>Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals<\/em><\/strong><\/strong> They were to make proclamation throughout the several tribes, in all the camps of Israel, to provide themselves with such victuals as the countries of Sihon and Og, which they had lately conquered, afforded. But to what purpose is this precaution, since the Israelites every morning found manna from heaven for their food? Without quoting all the answers given by interpreters to this question, we shall content ourselves with pointing out two or three. 1st, Joshua’s order may be founded on his foreseeing that the Israelites would be obliged to decamp too early in the morning, to allow time for collecting manna, as usual; and therefore he judged it prudent to supply them with provisions before they began their march. 2nd, Though the manna daily fell for the accommodation of the poor, the feeble, and all who had no means of procuring themselves other food; yet those who could purchase flour and meat were not forbidden to use it. The Israelites actually had found great store of provisions in the land of the Amorites, which they had now for some time subdued. Calmet prefers this opinion. Le Clerc thinks, that Joshua issued this order, as conjecturing, or being miraculously informed, that the manna would cease so soon as they had passed the Jordan. 3rdly, Nothing hinders our translating the words, Prepare all necessary provisions, <\/em>without restraining them to victuals only. The expression, for within three days, <\/em>occasions new difficulties, which will be removed by a reference to chap. Jos 3:1-2<\/span>. Joshua says, ye shall pass over <\/em>this Jordan; <\/em>as it was not so far from Shittim, where they now lay encamped, but that they could see it. <\/p>\n Jos 1:11 Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it.<\/p>\n Ver. 11. Prepare you victuals.<\/strong> ] Beside the manna, that cibus praeparatus,<\/em> a<\/em> as the word man signifieth; food prepared for them by God. See Deu 2:6<\/span> . <\/p>\n<\/p>\n a<\/em> Paratum aliquid ad edendum.<\/em> – Martinius, in Lexico.<\/p>\n within three days = after three days. Spoken 6th or 7th of Abib. Compare Jos 4:19. Spies probably already sent (Jos 2:16, Jos 2:22; Jos 3:1, Jos 3:2.) <\/p>\n three days: Jos 3:2, Exo 19:11, 2Ki 20:5, Hos 6:2 <\/p>\n ye shall: Deu 9:1, Deu 11:31 <\/p>\n Reciprocal: Gen 22:4 – third Deu 2:29 – into the land Deu 27:2 – on the day Jos 9:11 – Take 1Ki 20:27 – were all present<\/p>\n 1:11 Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for {g} within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it.<\/p>\n (g) Meaning, from the day that this was proclaimed, Jos 3:2.<\/p>\n Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it. 11. Prepare you victuals ] The word denotes ( a) food got in hunting; ( b) … Continue reading “Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Joshua 1:11”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/bible-commentary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible <\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n
Fuente: Geneva Bible Notes<\/b><\/i><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"