Josua 8:33

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Och Israels menighet, med dess äldste och tillsyningsmän och domare, stod på båda sidor om arken, så att de hade framför sig de levitiska prästerna som buro HERRENS förbundsark, menigheten, främlingar såväl som infödingar, den ena hälften vänd mot berget Gerissim och den andra hälften mot berget Ebal, i enlighet med vad HERRENS tjänare Mose hade bjudit, nämligen att man först skulle välsigna Israels folk.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

all Israel: Joshua 23:2, Joshua 24:1, Deuteronomy 27:12, Deuteronomy 27:13, Deuteronomy 29:10, Deuteronomy 29:11

priests: Joshua 3:3, Joshua 3:6, Joshua 3:14, Joshua 4:10, Joshua 4:18, Joshua 6:6, Deuteronomy 31:9, Deuteronomy 31:25, 1 Chronicles 15:11-15

stranger: Exodus 12:49, Leviticus 24:22, Numbers 15:16, Numbers 15:29, Deuteronomy 31:12

Moses: Joshua 8:30-32, Deuteronomy 11:29, Deuteronomy 27:12

Reciprocal: Exodus 5:6 - officers Numbers 6:23 - General Deuteronomy 27:14 - General Joshua 8:35 - strangers Judges 9:7 - mount Gerizim John 4:20 - fathers Hebrews 3:5 - as

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark, and on that side,.... Some on Ebal, and some on Gerizim:

before the priests and the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord; it being brought out of the tabernacle on this occasion, and bottle by the priests and Levites:

as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; that is, as well the proselytes as the native Israelites, both appeared and were in the same situation:

half of them over against Mount Gerizim; that is, half of the tribes, and these were Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin:

and half of them over against Mount Ebal; which were the tribes of Reuben, Gad, Asher, Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali; :- and :-;

as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel, as in Deuteronomy 27:12.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The account of this solemnity is very brief. An acquaintance with Deuteronomy 27:0 is evidently presupposed; and the three several acts of which the solemnity consisted are only so far distinctly named as is necessary to show that the commands of Moses there given were fully carried out by Joshua.

It is difficult to escape the conviction that these verses are here out of their proper and original place. The connection between Joshua 8:29, and Joshua 9:1, is natural and obvious; and in Joshua 9:3, the fraud of the Gibeonites is represented as growing out of the alarm caused by the fall of Jericho and Ai. It is, moreover, extremely unlikely that a solemnity of this nature in the very center of the country should be undertaken by Joshua while the whole surrounding district was in the hands of the enemy; or that, if undertaken, it would have been carried out unmolested. “And the strangers that were conversant among them” Joshua 8:35, were present at it. The distance fromm Gilgal in the Jordan valley to Mount Ebal is fully 30 miles, unless - as is unlikely - another Gilgal (Deuteronomy 11:29 note) be meant; and so vast a host, with its non-effective followers Joshua 8:35, could certainly not have accomplished a march like this through a difficult country and a hostile population in less than three days. Moreover in Joshua 9:6; Joshua 10:6, Joshua 10:15, Joshua 10:43, the Israelites are spoken of as still encamping at Gilgal.

It is on the whole likely that, for these and other reasons, this passage does not, in our present Bible, stand in its proper context; and it has been conjectured that the place from which these six verses have been transferred is the end of Joshua 11:0: The “then” with which Joshua 8:30 opens in our present text may well have served to introduce the account of the solemnity on Gerizim and Ebal at the end of the record of Joshua’s victories, to which indeed it forms a suitable climax.

Joshua 8:32

See the note marginal reference.

Joshua 8:34

All the words of the law - See Deuteronomy 31:11 ff It would seem that Joshua, on the present occasion, must have read at least all the legislative portion of the Pentateuch before the people (compare on Deuteronomy 27:3). The terms of this verse cannot be satisfactorily explained as importing only the blessings and curses of Deut. 27–28.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 8:33. Half of them over against Mount Gerizim — See the arrangement of the whole of this business in the note and observations on Deuteronomy 27:26. And see also the notes on Deuteronomy 28:1-68.