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Joshua said to them, If you be a great people, get you up to the forest, and cut down for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill-country of Ephraim is too narrow for you.
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Leadership Without Favoritism
Commentators highlight Joshua's exemplary leadership. Despite being from the tribe of Ephraim, he showed no favoritism. Instead of simply granting his kinsmen's request, he held them to the same standard as every other tribe, providing a powerful model for all leaders to govern impartially and without personal bias.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Joshua was himself of the tribe of Ephraim, but far from supporting the demands of his kinsmen, he reproves them and calls upon them to make good t…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Joshua answered them By retorting their own argument upon them:
if you are a great people
Joshua, as a public person, had no more regard for his own tribe than for any other, but would govern without favoritism or partiality; in this, he…
