The Pulpit Commentary on Joshua 23:2

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

All Israel. By their representatives, as subsequently mentioned. For their officers (see Joshua 1:10). In the original the pronoun is in the singular throughout (see note on Joshua 6:25). And said unto them.

This speech is not, as Calvin, Maurer, and others have suggested, the same as that in Joshua 24:1-33. (see notes there). Maurer believed that he was the first to entertain this idea, but he has been anticipated by Calvin.

It consists largely of quotations from Deuteronomy.

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