Josh 24:1

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Josh 24:1 Joshua assembles the tribes at Shechem.

Josh 24:2 A brief history of God's benefits, from Terah.

Josh 24:14 He renews the covenant between them and God.

Josh 24:26 A stone the witness of the covenant.

Josh 24:29 Joshua's age, death, and burial.

Josh 24:32 Joseph's bones are buried.

Josh 24:33 Eleazar dies.

Joshua.

This must have been a different assembly from that mentioned in the preceding chapter, though probably held not long after the former.

Shechem.

As it is immediately added, that "they presented themselves before God," which is supposed to mean at the tabernacle; some are of opinion that Joshua caused it to be conveyed from Shiloh to Shechem on this occasion, to give the greater solemnity to his last meeting with the people.

The Vatican and Alexandrian copies of the Septuagint, however, read [Selo,] both here and in Josh 24:25; which many suppose to have been the original reading. Dr. Shuckford supposes that the covenant was made at Shechem, and that the people went to Shiloh to confirm it.

But the most probable opinion seems to be that of Dr. Kennicott, that when all the tribes were assembled as Shechem, Joshua called the chiefs to him on that mount, which had before been consecrated by the law, and by the altar which he had erected.

Gen 12:6; Gen 33:18; Gen 33:19; Gen 35:4; Judg 9:1-3; 1Kgs 12:1

called.

Josh 23:2; Exod 18:25; Exod 18:26

presented.

1Sam 10:19; Acts 10:33