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Joshua 22:3

"You have not deserted your brothers these many days to this day, but have [carefully] kept the obligation of the commandment of the LORD your God.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Gad;   Obedience;   Reubenites;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Obedience to God;   Reuben, the Tribe of;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Reuben;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Ed;   Manasseh;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Gad (1);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Joshua, the Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Joshua;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Day;   Joshua, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You have not deserted your brothers even once this whole time but have carried out the requirement of the command of the Lord your God.
Hebrew Names Version
you have not left your brothers these many days to this day, but have kept the charge of the mitzvah of the LORD your God.
King James Version
Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the Lord your God.
Lexham English Bible
you have not forsaken your kinsmen these many days, up to this day, and you have observed the obligation of the command of Yahweh your God.
English Standard Version
You have not forsaken your brothers these many days, down to this day, but have been careful to keep the charge of the Lord your God.
New Century Version
For a long time you have supported the other Israelites. You have been careful to obey the commands the Lord your God gave you.
New English Translation
You have not abandoned your fellow Israelites this entire time, right up to this very day. You have completed the task given you by the Lord your God.
New American Standard Bible
"You have not abandoned your brothers these many days to this day, but have fulfilled the obligation of the commandment of the LORD your God.
Geneva Bible (1587)
You haue not forsaken your brethren this long season vnto this day, but haue diligently kept the commandement of the Lord your God.
Legacy Standard Bible
You have not forsaken your brothers these many days to this day, but have kept the responsibility of the commandment of Yahweh your God.
Complete Jewish Bible
All this time you have not abandoned your kinsmen but have obeyed your commission, as Adonai your God ordered.
Darby Translation
Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, and ye have kept the charge of the commandment of Jehovah your God.
Easy-to-Read Version
All this time you have supported all the other Israelites. You carefully obeyed all the commands that the Lord your God gave you.
George Lamsa Translation
You have not deserted your brethren these many days even to this time, but have kept the commandments of the LORD your God.
Good News Translation
All this time you have never once deserted the other Israelites. You have been careful to obey the commands of the Lord your God.
Literal Translation
You have not left your brothers these many days until today, and have kept the observance of the command of Jehovah your God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye haue not forsaken youre brethre a longe season, vnto this daye, and haue wayted vpon the commaundement of the LORDE youre God.
American Standard Version
ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of Jehovah your God.
Bible in Basic English
You have now been with your brothers for a long time; till this day you have been doing the orders of the Lord your God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye haue not lefte your brethren of a long season vnto this day, but haue kept the commaundement of the Lorde your God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.
King James Version (1611)
Yee haue not left your brethren these many dayes vnto this day, but haue kept the charge of the commandement of the Lord your God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Ye have not deserted your brethren these many days: until this day ye have kept the commandment of the Lord your God.
English Revised Version
ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.
Berean Standard Bible
All this time you have not deserted your brothers, up to this very day, but have kept the charge given you by the LORD your God.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
nether ye han lefte youre britheren in mych tyme til in to present dai, and ye kepten the comaundement of youre Lord God.
Young's Literal Translation
ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, and have kept the charge -- the command of Jehovah your God.
Update Bible Version
you haven't left your brothers these many days to this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of Yahweh your God.
Webster's Bible Translation
Ye have not left your brethren these many days to this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.
World English Bible
you have not left your brothers these many days to this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of Yahweh your God.
New King James Version
You have not left your brethren these many days, up to this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.
New Living Translation
During all this time you have not deserted the other tribes. You have been careful to obey the commands of the Lord your God right up to the present day.
New Life Bible
You have not left your brothers alone even to this day. But you have been careful to do what the Lord your God has told you.
New Revised Standard
you have not forsaken your kindred these many days, down to this day, but have been careful to keep the charge of the Lord your God.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
ye have not forsaken your brethren, these many days, unto this day, - but have kept the charge of the commandment of Yahweh your God.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Neither have you left your brethren this long time, until this present day, keeping the commandment of the Lord your God.
Revised Standard Version
you have not forsaken your brethren these many days, down to this day, but have been careful to keep the charge of the LORD your God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You have not forsaken your brothers these many days to this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.

Contextual Overview

1Then Joshua called the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, 2and said to them, "You have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and have listened to and obeyed my voice in everything that I commanded you. 3"You have not deserted your brothers these many days to this day, but have [carefully] kept the obligation of the commandment of the LORD your God.4"And now the LORD your God has given rest to your brothers, as He has promised them; so turn now and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you beyond the [east side of the] Jordan. 5"Only be very careful and diligently observe the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the LORD has commanded you to love the LORD your God and walk in all His ways and keep His commandments and hold fast to Him and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul [your very life]." 6So Joshua blessed them and sent them away, and they went to their tents. 7Now to the one-half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given a possession in Bashan, but to the other half Joshua gave a possession on the west side of the Jordan among their brothers. So when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them, 8and he said to them, "Return to your tents with great riches and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and with very many clothes; divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers (fellow tribesmen)." 9So the sons (descendants) of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned home and departed from the [other] sons (western tribes) of Israel at Shiloh which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their own which they had possessed, in accordance with the command of the LORD through Moses.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Philippians 1:23-27

Reciprocal: Numbers 9:23 - they kept

Cross-References

Genesis 17:23
Then Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all the servants who were born in his house and all who were purchased with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's household, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin the very same day, as God had said to him.
Genesis 21:14
So Abraham got up early in the morning and took bread and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and gave her the boy, and sent her away. And she left [but lost her way] and wandered [aimlessly] in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
Genesis 22:3
So Abraham got up early in the morning, saddled his donkey, and took two of his young men with him and his son Isaac; and he split the wood for the burnt offering, and then he got up and went to the place of which God had told him.
Genesis 22:4
On the third day [of travel] Abraham looked up and saw the place in the distance.
Genesis 22:17
indeed I will greatly bless you, and I will greatly multiply your seed like the stars of the heavens and like the sand on the seashore; and your seed shall possess the gate of their enemies [by conquering them].
Genesis 22:19
So Abraham returned to his servants, and they got up and went with him to Beersheba; and Abraham settled in Beersheba.
Psalms 119:60
I hurried and did not delay To keep Your commandments.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no activity or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol (the nether world, the place of the dead) where you are going.
Matthew 10:37
"He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me; and he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.
Luke 14:26
"If anyone comes to Me, and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life [in the sense of indifference to or relative disregard for them in comparison with his attitude toward God]—he cannot be My disciple.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day,.... For the space of fourteen years, which is the commonly received notion of the Jews f; seven years according to them the land was subduing, and seven more spent in dividing it, and then these tribes were sent for and dismissed; all this time they stayed close by their brethren, and assisted them in their wars, and never offered to return to their wives and children, until they had an order from their general:

but have kept the charge of the commandment of the Lord your God; for what both Moses and Joshua commanded them was from the mouth of the Lord; so that, in obeying them, they obeyed him.

f Seder Olam Rabba, c. 11. p. 32.


 
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