Teks -- Joshua 23:4 (NET)

23:4 See, I have parceled out to your tribes these remaining nations, from the Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea in the west, including all the nations I defeated.

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per frasa)

Wesley: Jos 23:4 - That remain

Not yet conquered.

Wesley: Jos 23:4 - An inheritance

You shall certainly subdue them, and inherit their hand, as you have done the rest, if you be not wanting to yourselves.

Wesley: Jos 23:4 - All the nations

That is, with the land of those nations; the people put for their land, as we have seen before; and as sometimes on the contrary, the land is put for the people.

Wesley: Jos 23:4 - The great sea

Where the Philistines, your most formidable adversaries yet survive; but them also and their land I have given to you, and you shall undoubtedly destroy them, if you will proceed vigorously in your work.

Clarke: Jos 23:4 - I have divided - these nations that remain

I have divided - these nations that remain - The whole of the promised land had been portioned out, as well those parts which had not yet been conquered, as those from which the ancient inhabitants had been expelled. The Canaanitish armies had long ago been broken in pieces, so that they could make no head against the Israelites, but in many districts the old inhabitants remained, more through the supineness of the Israelites, than through their own bravery

Clarke: Jos 23:4 - From Jordan - unto the great sea

From Jordan - unto the great sea - All the land that lay between the river Jordan, from Phiala, where it rose, to the southern extremity of the Dead Sea, and to the Mediterranean Sea, through the whole extent of its coast, opposite to Jordan.

TSK: Jos 23:4 - Behold // westward

Behold : Jos 13:2, Jos 13:6, Jos 13:7, Jos 18:10

westward : Heb. at the sunset

Tafsiran/Catatan -- Catatan Kata/Frasa (per Ayat)

Poole: Jos 23:4 - These nations that remain // to be an inheritance for your tribes // With all the nations that I have cut off // Westward

These nations that remain not yet conquered.

to be an inheritance for your tribes you shall certainly subdue them, and inherit their land, as you have done the rest, if you be not wanting to yourselves.

With all the nations that I have cut off i.e. with the land of those nations; the people put for their land, as we have seen before; and as sometimes, on the contrary, the land is put for the people.

Westward where the Philistines, your most formidable adversaries, yet survive; but them also and their land I have given to you, and you shall undoubtedly destroy them, if you will proceed vigorously in your work.

Haydock: Jos 23:4 - And now

And now. Hebrew, "Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations, which remain to be subdued, to be an inheritance for your tribes from the Jordan, (these two words are transposed, and should come after; Calmet) with all the nations that I have cut off---even unto the great sea westward." He mildly expostulates with them for not following up his victories, by reducing the few scattered nations whom he had abandoned to them as a prey. (Haydock) ---

They ought to be considered not only as the enemies of God, but also as unjust detainers of another's right, and Josue promises that nothing will be wanting on the part of God to render their reduction easy, if they will but do their duty to Him and to themselves. (Haydock)

Gill: Jos 23:4 - Behold, I have divided to you by lot these nations that remain // to be an inheritance for your tribes // from Jordan, with all the nations I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward

Behold, I have divided to you by lot these nations that remain,.... Who are unsubdued, not yet conquered, as well as those that are

to be an inheritance for your tribes; to be possessed by them and their children for ever:

from Jordan, with all the nations I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward; the phrase, "with all the nations I have cut off", is to be read in connection with "those nations that remain"; both those that were cut off by the sword of Joshua, and those that remained unconquered, being divided by lot to the tribes of Israel; and which reached from Jordan eastward, where Joshua and Israel entered into the land, to the Mediterranean sea, called the great sea in comparison of little ones in Canaan, as the Dead sea, and the sea of Tiberias; and which great sea lay west to the land of Israel, or where the sun sets, as the phrase in the Hebrew text is.