约书亚记 8:31

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

是照著耶和華的僕人摩西吩咐以色列人的，照著摩西律法書上所寫的，用未經過鐵器打鑿的整塊石塊築成的一座祭壇；在這祭壇之上，眾人向耶和華獻燔祭，也獻平安祭。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
是 用 没 有 动 过 铁 器 的 整 石 头 筑 的 ， 照 着 耶 和 华 仆 人 摩 西 所 吩 咐 以 色 列 人 的 话 ， 正 如 摩 西 律 法 书 上 所 写 的 。 众 人 在 这 坛 上 给 耶 和 华 奉 献 燔 祭 和 平 安 祭 。

Contextual Overview

³⁰ Joshua built an altar for the Lord , the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal, as ³¹ Moses, the Lord 's servant, had commanded. Joshua built the altar as it was explained in the Book of the Teachings of Moses. It was made from uncut stones; no tool was ever used on them. On that altar the Israelites offered burnt offerings to the Lord and fellowship offerings. ³² There Joshua wrote the teachings of Moses on stones for all the people of Israel to see. ³³ The elders, officers, judges, and all the Israelites were there; Israelites and non-Israelites were all standing around the Ark of the Agreement with the Lord in front of the priests, the Levites who had carried the Ark. Half of the people stood in front of Mount Ebal, and half stood in front of Mount Gerizim. This was the way the Lord 's servant Moses had earlier commanded the people to be blessed. ³⁴ Then Joshua read all the words of the teachings, the blessings and the curses, exactly as they were written in the Book of the Teachings. ³⁵ All the Israelites were gathered together—men, women, and children—along with the non-Israelites who lived among them. Joshua read every command that Moses had given.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

as it is: Joshua 8:34, Joshua 8:35, Joshua 1:8, 2 Kings 14:6, 2 Kings 22:8, 2 Chronicles 25:4, 2 Chronicles 35:12, Ezra 6:18, Nehemiah 13:1, Matthew 12:26

altar: Exodus 20:24, Exodus 20:25, Deuteronomy 27:5, Deuteronomy 27:6, 1 Kings 18:31, 1 Kings 18:32

and they offered: Exodus 18:12, Exodus 24:5, Deuteronomy 27:6, Deuteronomy 27:7

Reciprocal: Joshua 11:12 - as Moses Hebrews 3:5 - as

Gill's Notes on the Bible

As Moses the servant of the Lord commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses,....

Deuteronomy 27:5;

an altar of whole stones, on which no man hath lift up [any] iron;

Deuteronomy 27:5- :,

Deuteronomy 27:5- :, and,

Deuteronomy 27:5- ::

and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings; by way of thanksgiving for the good land they were introduced into, and this was what they were ordered to do by Moses,

Deuteronomy 27:6.

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.