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The NET Bible®

Joshua 22:3

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.

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.
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.
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

1 Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh 2 and told them: "You have carried out all the instructions of Moses the Lord 's servant, and you have obeyed all I have told you. 3 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. 4 Now the Lord your God has made your fellow Israelites secure, just as he promised them. So now you may turn around and go to your homes in your own land which Moses the Lord 's servant assigned to you east of the Jordan. 5 But carefully obey the commands and instructions Moses the Lord 's servant gave you. Love the Lord your God, follow all his instructions, obey his commands, be loyal to him, and serve him with all your heart and being!" 6 Joshua rewarded them and sent them on their way; they returned to their homes. 7 (Now to one half-tribe of Manasseh, Moses had assigned land in Bashan; and to the other half Joshua had assigned land on the west side of the Jordan with their fellow Israelites.) When Joshua sent them home, he rewarded them, 8 saying, "Take home great wealth, a lot of cattle, silver, gold, bronze, iron, and a lot of clothing. Divide up the goods captured from your enemies with your brothers." 9 So the Reubenites, Gadites, and half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites in Shiloh in the land of Canaan and headed home to their own land in Gilead, which they acquired by the Lord 's command 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
Abraham took his son Ishmael and every male in his household (whether born in his house or bought with money) and circumcised them on that very same day, just as God had told him to do.
Genesis 21:14
Early in the morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He put them on her shoulders, gave her the child, and sent her away. So she went wandering aimlessly through the wilderness of Beer Sheba.
Genesis 22:3
Early in the morning Abraham got up and saddled his donkey. He took two of his young servants with him, along with his son Isaac. When he had cut the wood for the burnt offering, he started out for the place God had spoken to him about.
Genesis 22:4
On the third day Abraham caught sight of the place in the distance.
Genesis 22:17
I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.
Genesis 22:19
Then Abraham returned to his servants, and they set out together for Beer Sheba where Abraham stayed.
Psalms 119:60
I keep your commands eagerly and without delay.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, because there is neither work nor planning nor knowledge nor wisdom in the grave, the place where you will eventually go.
Matthew 10:37
"Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever 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, and even his own life, 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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