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The Darby Translation

Joshua 22:3

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.

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.
Amplified Bible
"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.
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.
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

1 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, 2 and said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, and have hearkened to my voice in all that I commanded you. 3 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. 4 And now Jehovah your God hath given rest to your brethren, as he said unto them; and now return, and get you unto your tents, unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Jehovah gave you beyond the Jordan. 5 Only, take great heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, to love Jehovah your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. 6 And Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went to their tents. 7 And to half the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given [inheritance] in Bashan, and to the other half thereof had Joshua given among their brethren on this side the Jordan westward. And when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed them also, 8 and spoke to them, saying, Return unto your tents with much wealth and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with copper, and with iron, and with clothing, in very great quantity; divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren. 9 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the country of Gilead, into the land of their possession, of which they had become possessed, according to the word of Jehovah 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
And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all who were born in his house, and all who were bought with his money—every male among the people of Abraham's house—and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on that same day, as God had said to him.
Genesis 21:14
And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a flask of water, and gave [it] to Hagar, putting [it] on her shoulder—and the child, and sent her away. And she departed, and wandered about in the wilderness of Beer-sheba.
Genesis 22:3
And Abraham rose early in the morning, and saddled his ass, and took two of his young men with him, and Isaac his son; and he clave the wood for the burnt-offering, and rose up and went to the place that God had told him of.
Genesis 22:4
On the third day Abraham lifted up his eyes and saw the place from afar.
Genesis 22:17
I will richly bless thee, and greatly multiply thy seed, as the stars of heaven, and as the sand that is on the sea-shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Genesis 22:19
And Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose up and went together to Beer-sheba. And Abraham dwelt at Beer-sheba.
Psalms 119:60
I have made haste, and not delayed, to keep thy commandments.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.
Matthew 10:37
He who loves father or mother above me is not worthy of me; and he who loves son or daughter above me is not worthy of me.
Luke 14:26
If any man come to me, and shall not hate his own father and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, yea, and his own life too, 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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