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THE HOLY BIBLE
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT First Published by the English College at Douay A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT First Published by the English College at Rheims A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner A.D. 1749-1752
THE BOOK OF JOSUE
This Book is called JOSUE, because it contains the history of what passed under him, and according to the common opinion was written by him. The Greeks call him Jesus: for Josue and Jesus in the Hebrew, are the same name, and have the same signification, viz., A SAVIOUR. And it was not without a mystery that he who was to bring the people into the land of promise should have his name changed from OSEE to JOSUE or JESUS, to give us to understand, that Moses by his law could only bring the people within sight of the promised inheritance, but that our Saviour JESUS was to bring us into it.
Josue, encouraged by the Lord, admonisheth the people to prepare themselves to pass over the Jordan.
Two spies are sent to Jericho, who are received and concealed by Rahab.
The river Jordan is miraculously dried up for the passage of the children of Israel.
Twelve stones are taken out of the river to be set up for a monument of the miracle; and other twelve are placed in the midst of the river.
The people are circumcised: they keep the pasch. The manna ceaseth. An angel appeareth to Josue.
The second time... Not that such as had been circumcised before were to be circumcised again; but that they were now to renew, and take up again the practice of circumcision; which had been omitted during their forty years' sojourning in the wilderness; by reason of their being always uncertain when they should be obliged to march.
Prince of the host of the Lord, etc... St. Michael, who is called prince of the people of Israel, Dan. 10.21.
Worshipping... Not with divine honour, but with a religious veneration of an inferior kind, suitable to the dignity of his person.
After seven days' processions, the priests sounding the trumpets, the walls of Jericho fall down: and the city is taken and destroyed.
Cursed, etc... Jericho, in the mystical sense, signifies iniquity: the sounding of the trumpets by the priests, the preaching of the word of God; by which the walls of Jericho are thrown down, when sinners are converted; and a dreadful curse will light on them who build them up again.
For the sins of Achan, the Israelites are defeated at Hai. The offender is found out; and stoned to death, and God's wrath is turned from them.
His sons, etc... Probably conscious to, or accomplices of, the crime of their father.
Achor... That is, trouble.
Hai is taken and burnt, and all the inhabitants slain. An altar is built, and sacrifices offered. The law is written on stones, and the blessings and cursings are read before all the people.
Five thousand... These were part of the thirty thousand mentioned above, ver. 3.
Josue is deceived by the Gabaonites: who being detected are condemned to be perpetual servants.
Five kings war against Gabaon. Josue defeateth them: many are slain with hailstones. At the prayer of Josue the sun and moon stand still the space of one day. The five kings are hanged. Divers cities are taken.
The book of the just... In Hebrew Jasher: an ancient book long since lost.
The king... Viz., the new king, who succeeded him that was slain, ver. 26.
Any remains therein, but slew, etc... God ordered these people to be utterly destroyed, in punishment of their manifold abomination; and that they might not draw the Israelites into the like sins.
The kings of the north are overthrown: the whole country is taken.
Hamstring their horses, and burn their chariots with fire, etc... God so ordained, that his people might not trust in chariots and horses, but in him.
A long time... Seven years, as appears from chap. 14.10.
Hardened... This hardening of their hearts, was their having no thought of yielding or submitting: which was a sentence or judgment of God upon them in punishment of their enormous crimes.
A list of the kings slain by Moses and Josue,
God commandeth Josue to divide the land: the possessions of Ruben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasses, beyond the Jordan.
Josue was old, and far advanced in years... He was then about one hundred and one years old.-And their is a very large country left, which is not yet divided by lot... Not yet possessed by the children of Israel.
With whom... That is, with the other half of that same tribe.
The princes of Madian... It appears from hence that these were subjects of king Sehon: they are said to have been slain with him, that is, about the same time, but not in the same battle.
Caleb's petition; Hebron is given to him and to his seed.
Hebron belonged, etc... All the country thereabouts, depending on Hebron, was given to Caleb; but the city itself with the suburbs, was one of those that were given to the priests to dwell in.
The borders of the lot of Juda. Caleb's portion and conquest. The cities of Juda.
The lot of the sons of Joseph. The borders of the tribe of Ephraim.
Looketh to the north, etc... The meaning is, that the border went towards the north, by Machmethath; and then turned eastward to Thanath- selo.
The lot of the half tribe of Manasses.
Surveyors are sent to divide the rest of the land into seven tribes. The lot of Benjamin.
The land in the midst between these mark ye out into seven parts... That is to say, the rest of the land, which is not already assigned to Juda or Joseph.
The lots of the tribes of Simeon, Zabulon, Issachar, Aser, Nephtali and Dan. A city is given to Josue.
The cities of refuge are appointed for casual manslaughter.
Cities with their suburbs are assigned for the priests and Levites.
Four cities... There are no more, though there be five names: for Misor is the same city as Bosor, which is to be observed in some other places, where the number of names exceeds the number of cities.
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