Joshua 24
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Summary
Joshua recalls how the Lord has blessed Israel throughout history. The children of Israel covenant with the Lord and promise to serve Him and not other gods. Joshua dies and is buried in Timnath-serah. Eleazar the Priest is buried on the side of the hill on mount Ephraim. The bones of Joseph that were taken from Egypt are buried in Shechem.
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Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, “Did Joshua ‘Utterly Destroy’ the Canaanites?” Interpreter Foundation, May 10, 2018.
Book of Mormon Central, “Why Does the Book of Mosiah Refer to the Exodus Narrative? (Mosiah 11:27),” KnoWhy 516 (May 16, 2019).
David Rolph Seely, “The Restoration as Covenant Renewal” in Sperry Symposium Classics: The Old Testament, ed. Paul Y. Hoskisson (Provo and Salt Lake City: Religious Studies Center, Brigham Young University, and Deseret Book, 2005), 311–336.
Complete Commentary on the Whole Bible
Matthew Henry (1706)
Commentary on the Bible
Adam Clarke (1831)
Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable
Thomas Constable
Rashi’s Commentary
Rashi (Shlomo Yitzchaki)
Notes on the Bible
Albert Barnes (1834)
Exposition of the Entire Bible
John Gill (1746–63)
Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament
Carl Friedrich Keil and Franz Delitzsch (1857–78)
Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible
John Wesley (1754–65)