3And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?
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And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are ye still? be not slothful to go, and to enter to possess the land.
The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.
The way of the slothful man is as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous is made plain.
He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 2-10)Here, I. Joshua reproves those tribes which were yet unsettled that they did not bestir themselves to gain a settlement in the land which God had given them. Seven tribes were yet unprovided for, though sure of an inheritance, yet uncertain where it should be, and it seems in no great care about it, Josh. 18:2. And with them Joshua reasons (Josh. 18:3): How long are you slack ? 1. They were too we…
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