to say (used with great latitude) · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Joshua
יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַye.ho.Shu.a'
H3091
Jehoshua (i.e. Joshua) · proper noun, a man's name
saying
לֵאמֹֽרle.Mor
H559
to say (used with great latitude) · preposition + verb, qal infinitive construct
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Cross-references
Numbers 32:20-22 And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war,
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Commentary
Matthew Henry on Joshua 1:10-15
Joshua, being settled in the government, immediately applies himself to business; not to take state or to take his pleasure, but to further the work of God among, the people over whom God had set him. As he that desires the office of a minister (Ti1 3:1), so he that desires the office of a magistrate, desires a work, a good work; neither is preferred to be idle.
I. He issues out orders to the people to provide for a march; and they had been so long encamped in their present post that it would be a work of some difficulty to decamp. The officers of the people that commanded under Joshua in their respective tribes and families attended him for orders, which they were to transmit to the people.…
command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals--not manna, which, though it still fell, would not keep; but corn, sheep, and articles of food procurable in the conquered countries.
for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan--that is, the third day, according to Hebrew idiom--the time allotted for getting ready before the encampment in Abel-Shittim broke up and they removed to the desert bank of the river where no victuals were available. At the same time Joshua himself convened the two and a half tribes which had settled east of Jordan, to remind them of their promise (Num. 32:1-42) to assist their brethren in the conquest of western Canaan. Their readiness to redeem their pled…
Prepare you victuals - צדה tsedah, such prey or provisions as they had taken from the conquered countries, such as corn, oxen, sheep, etc.; for the word signifies prey, or what is taken by hunting, etc. 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.
For within three days ye shall pass - 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., o…
The Church Fathers
Moses distributed the inheritance of the land across the Jordan to two and a half tribes, that is, to "the tribe of Reuben" and "the tribe of Gad" and "the half-tribe of Manasseh." But to the remaining tribes it was not Moses but Jesus who divided the land. Nevertheless a covenant was struck with those "two and a half tribes" who had received land across the Jordan, that, leaving their "women" and their "little ones" in that land across the Jordan, they themselves should fight alongside their brothers until they too should obtain their inheritance. It was necessary, therefore, after the death of Moses, who had entered into this covenant, that Jesus should demand what was promised and remind them to bring aid to their brothers who were about to fight. This indeed the text of the narrative sets forth; but since we "have now turned to the Lord," who "takes away the veil from the reading of the Old Testament" and grants to his servants who believe in him that "with unveiled face they may behold the glory of the Lord," let us perceive that all these things, which "happened to them in a figure, were written for our sake," "upon whom the ends of the ages have come." And therefore, as we have already said before, let us attempt to ascend from the letter to the spirit, from the figures to the truth, and let us consider what pattern these "two and a half tribes" hold, which receive the land of inheritance through Moses, and what pattern the remaining "nine and a half tribes" hold, which receive the promise of the holy land through Jesus. And first of all I think that it could not have happened by chance that those who receive their portion through Moses were all firstborn. For Reuben is the firstborn from Leah, Gad the firstborn from Zilpah, and Manasseh the firstborn from Asenath the Egyptian, "the daughter of Potiphar the priest of Heliopolis," whom Joseph took to wife. I can never persuade myself that it happened by chance that all those were firstborn to whom the inheritance was decreed through Moses, but rather I judge that in these there was even then foreshadowed the pattern of two peoples: of the one, indeed, which would appear to be firstborn according to the order of nature, and of the other, which through faith and grace would receive the blessing of the inheritance.
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Dictionary and topics
Manasseh · of the Jordan River — of the Jordan River
Reubenites · Jordan River — Jordan River
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh,.... Who were settled on that side Jordan where Israel now were:
spake Joshua, saying; as follows.
John Calvin on Joshua 1:10–end
Joshua 1:10-18
10. Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,
10. Tunc praecepit Josue praefectis populi dicendo,
11. Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days you shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God give you to possess it.
11. Transite per medium castrorum et praecipite populo, dicendo, Parate vobis annonam: quia post tres dies transibitis Jordanem hunc, ut intretis et possideatis terram, quam Jehova Deus vester dat vobis possidendam.
12. And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, spoke Joshua, saying,
12. Ad Reubenitas vero et Gadit…
Jos 1:10-11
Preparations for Crossing the Jordan. - Jos 1:10-11. For the purpose of carrying out the commands of the Lord, Joshua first of all directed the officers of the people (shoterim: see at Ex 5-6), whose duty it was, as the keepers of the family registers, to attend not only to the levying of the men who were bound to serve in the army, but also to the circulation of the commands of the general, to issue orders to the people in the camp to provide themselves with food, so that they might cross the Jordan within three days, and take the land that was promised them by God. By zedah, provision for a journey (Gen 42:25, etc.), we are not to understand manna, for that had already ceased (…
Reuben, Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh had requested and received from Moses the conquered land east of the Jordan (Num 32:33).
Rashi on Joshua 1:11
Prepare your travel needs. [Prepare] everything necessary for (traveling) and weapons for the [upcoming] battle, he said to them. You cannot say the צֵדָה refers to food and drink20Metsudas Dovid maintains that while they still ate of the manna, they bought other varieties of food from the non-Jewish merchants, and it was these foods that they were commanded to prepare. for they had sufficient manna in their vessels to last them untill the sixteenth of Nissan, and so it is said:21Chapter 5:12. ‘The manna ceased on the morrow.’
After three days. At the end of three days. When you will have been here three days; then you will cross [the Jordan].
