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Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long are you slack to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh, the God of your fathers, has given you?
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The Roots of Hesitation
Commentators suggest the Israelites' delay wasn't simple laziness. It stemmed from a mix of comfort with their current nomadic life, weariness from war, and a reluctance to engage in the future battles required to fully dispossess the Canaanites from the land they would be allotted.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
This backwardness probably arose from the people's unwillingness to abandon the nomadic life in which they had been born and raised, and to settle …
19th Century
Anglican
And Joshua said ... —Joshua, who took no inheritance for himself until all the tribes had received their portions, was free from t…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And Joshua said to the children of Israel To those of the seven tribes:
how long [are] you slack to go to posses…
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After a year or more, Joshua blamed their slackness and told them how to proceed. God, by his grace, has given us a title to a good land, the heave…
