drought · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
bow
בְקַשְׁתֶּֽךָve.kash.Te.cha
H7198
a bow · preposition + noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
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Cross-references
Exodus 23:28 And I will send hornets before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.
Deuteronomy 7:20 Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
Psalms 44:3-6 For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the…
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Commentary
Matthew Henry on Joshua 24:1-14
Joshua thought he had taken his last farewell of Israel in the solemn charge he gave them in the foregoing chapter, when he said, I go the way of all the earth; but God graciously continuing his life longer than expected, and renewing his strength, he was desirous to improve it for the good of Israel. He did not say, "I have taken my leave of them once, and let that serve;" but, having yet a longer space given him, he summons them together again, that he might try what more he could do to engage them for God. Note, We must never think our work for God done till our life is done; and, if he lengthen out our days beyond what we thought, we must conclude it is because he has some further servic…
I sent the hornet before you--a particular species of wasp which swarms in warm countries and sometimes assumes the scourging character of a plague; or, as many think, it is a figurative expression for uncontrollable terror (see on Exo 23:28).
Adam Clarke on Joshua 24:12
I sent the hornet before you - See the note on Exo 23:28.
John Gill on Joshua 24:12
And I sent the hornet before you,.... Of which See Gill on Exodus 23:28,
which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; who were Sihon and Og, and not only them, and the Amorites under them, but the other nations, Hivites, Hittites, &c.
but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow; but by insects of the Lord's sending to them, which, as Kimchi says, so blinded their eyes, that they could not see to fight, and so Israel came upon them, and slew them; in which the hand of the Lord was manifestly seen, and to whose power, and not, their own, the destruction of their enemies was to be ascribed.
John Calvin on Joshua 24:1-14
Joshua 24:1-14
1. And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
1. Congregavit itaque [194] Josue omnes tribus Israel in Sichem, vocavitque seniores Israel, et capita ejus, judicesque ejus, ac praefectos ejus: steteruntque coram Deo.
2. And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.
2. Dixitque Josue ad universum populum, Sic dicit Jehova Deus Israel, Trans fl…
The Church Fathers
What does this mean that Joshua Nave remembers that the Lord did, among other things, in favor of the Israelites: He sent before you wasps and expelled them from your presence? For this is read in the book of Wisdom (Cf Sab 12,8) and, nevertheless, it does not appear that this has happened in any other place among historical events. Has the author wanted to use perhaps the word wasps in a metaphorical sense to indicate the great stings of fear, which stung them in a certain way with the rumors that spread so that they fled or to point out the hidden spirits of the air, hinted at by the psalm when it says: by the evil angels? (Ps.77,49) Unless one says that not everything that has happened is written and that this happened visibly and, therefore, it is true wasps.
What does it mean when Joshua, the son of Nun, says among other things which he recalls that the Lord had done for the Israelites: "He sent wasps before you and drove out the Canaanites from your face"? One also finds that statement in the book of Wisdom, but nonetheless one cannot find any account of such a thing taking place. But perhaps "wasps" ought to be understood in a metaphorical sense to mean the sharp stings of fear, by which they were stung in a way as rumors flew about, so that they fled. Or wasps may refer to the invisible spirits of the air, as it says in the psalm, "through wicked angels." Perhaps someone will say that not everything which took place has been written down and that the incident with the wasps also took place in a visible manner, so that this passage should be understood to refer to real wasps.
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Dictionary and topics
Burial — The first burial we have an account of is that of Sarah (Gen. 23). The first commercial transaction recorded is that of the purchase of a burial-place, for which Abraham weighed to Ephron “four…
Hornet — Heb. tsir’ah, “stinging”, (Ex. 23:28; Deut. 7:20; Josh. 24:12). The word is used in these passages as referring to some means by which the Canaanites were to be driven out from before the Israelites.…
Joshua — Jehovah is his help, or Jehovah the Saviour. The son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim, the successor of Moses as the leader of Israel. He is called Jehoshua in Num. 13:16 (A.V.), and Jesus in Acts…
Shechem — Shoulder. (1.) The son of Hamor the Hivite (Gen. 33:19; 34). (2.) A descendant of Manasseh (Num. 26:31; Josh. 17:2). (3.) A city in Samaria (Gen. 33:18), called also Sichem (12:6), Sychem (Acts…
Amorites · Hornets sent among — Hornets sent among
Animals · Instruments of God’s willEx 8;9;10:1-20; — Instruments of God’s willEx 8;9;10:1-20;
Hornet · Or wasp — Or wasp
Shechem · chiefs, and — chiefs, and
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).
Renewal of the Covenant at the National Assembly in Shechem. - Jos 24:1. Joshua brought his public ministry to a close, as Moses had done before him, with a solemn renewal of the covenant with the Lord. For this solemn act he did not choose Shiloh, the site of the national sanctuary, as some MSS of the lxx read, but Shechem, a place which was sanctified as no other was for such a purpose as this by the most sacred reminiscences from the times of the patriarchs. He therefore summoned all the tribes of Israel, in their representatives (their elders, etc., as in Jos 23:2), to Shechem, not merely because it was at Shechem, i.e., on Gerizim and Ebal, that the solemn establishment of the law in th…
Israel’s successes were not because of their swords or bows or other military advantage; all were God’s doing.
Rashi on Joshua 24:11
The people of Yericho went to war against you. As did the Emorites, the Perezites etc.5Why were these nations involved in the battle of Yericho? All these seven nations are mentioned here because Yericho is on the border, and was the bolt and lock of Eretz Yisroel. Therefore, all these seven nations were gathered there, represented by their elite soldiers.
