6And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.
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So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance. …
So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto their tents.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-23)The beginning of this paragraph is only a repetition of what account we had before of the people’s good character during the government of Joshua, and of his death and burial ( Josh. 24:29 , 30 ), which comes in here again only to make way for the following account, which this chapter gives, of their degeneracy and apostasy. The angel had foretold that the Canaanites and their idols would be a sna…
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