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The people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.
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A Divinely Timed Arrival
Commentators emphasize the profound significance of the date. The Israelites entered Canaan on the 'tenth day of the first month,' the very same day that, forty years earlier, their parents were commanded to select the Passover lamb before the Exodus. This timing frames the entry into the Promised Land as the direct fulfillment of the deliverance that began in Egypt.
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Joshua
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Gilgal, mentioned here by anticipation (), the modern Jiljulieh (Conder), was on rising ground (), and, according to Josephus, was nearly five mile…
19th Century
Anglican
EVENTS AT GILGAL (Joshua 4:19 to Joshua 5:12).
On the tenth day of the first month. —Of the for…
16th Century
Protestant
And the people came up, etc. We will see in the next chapter why the day on which they entered the land, and first encamped in it, is note…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the people came up out of Jordan The channel of it, to the shore:
on the tenth [day] of the f…
The priests with the ark did not stir until ordered to move. Let no one be weary of waiting while they have the tokens of God's presence with them,…
