YuēShūyàjì 22:25

25 Yīnwei Yēhéhuá bǎ Yuēdànhé déng wèi wǒmen hé nǐmen zhè Liúbiàn rén , Jiādé rén de jiāo jiè , nǐmen yǔ Yēhéhuá wú fēn le . zhèyàng , nǐmen de zǐsūn jiù shǐ wǒmen de zǐsūn bú zaì jìngwèi Yēhéhuá le .

YuēShūyàjì 22:25 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 22:25

For the Lord hath made Jordan a border between us and you,
&c.] And by it separated them from them, as if they were a distinct people; not that this was really the case, but so they feared it would be represented in time to come; for though Jordan was the border of the land of Canaan, strictly so called, eastward, ( Numbers 34:12 ) ; yet it did not exclude the land of the two tribes and a half from being part of the land of promise; for the Amorites, which before inhabited it, and were driven out of it, were Canaanites, and were one part of the people, whose land the Lord promised to Abraham, ( Genesis 15:18-21 ) ;

ye children of Reuben, and children of Gad, have no part in the Lord;
in his covenant and promises, in his worship, word, and ordinances; these are things you have nothing to do with, being separated from us his peculiar people; or "have no part in the Word of the Lord", as the Targum, the promised Messiah, being without, or separated from him, as the Gentiles are said to be, ( Ephesians 2:12 ) ;

so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the Lord;
from worshipping the Lord, the fear of the Lord being often put for the whole worship of God, external and internal, ( Ecclesiastes 12:13 ) ; by behaving in the above manner towards them, they would be the cause and occasion of their apostasy from the true God, and it would be in effect to say to them, "go, serve other gods", ( 1 Samuel 26:19 ) .

YuēShūyàjì 22:25 In-Context

23 Wèi zìjǐ zhú tán , yào zhuǎn qù bù gēn cóng Yēhéhuá , huò shì yào jiāng Fánjì , sù jì , píngān jì xiàn zaì tán shàng , yuàn Yēhéhuá qīnzì tǎo wǒmen de zuì .
24 Wǒmen xíng zhè shì bìng fēi wú gù , shì tèyì zuò de , shuō , kǒngpà rìhòu nǐmen de zǐsūn duì wǒmen de zǐsūn shuō , nǐmen yǔ Yēhéhuá Yǐsèliè de shén yǒu hé guān shè ne .
25 Yīnwei Yēhéhuá bǎ Yuēdànhé déng wèi wǒmen hé nǐmen zhè Liúbiàn rén , Jiādé rén de jiāo jiè , nǐmen yǔ Yēhéhuá wú fēn le . zhèyàng , nǐmen de zǐsūn jiù shǐ wǒmen de zǐsūn bú zaì jìngwèi Yēhéhuá le .
26 Yīncǐ wǒmen shuō , bù rú wèi zìjǐ zhú yī zuò tán , bú shì wèi xiàn Fánjì , yĕ bú shì wèi xiàn biéde jì ,
27 Nǎi shì wèi nǐ wǒ zhōngjiān hé nǐ wǒ hòurén zhōngjiān zuò zhèngjù , hǎo jiào wǒmen yĕ zaì Yēhéhuá miànqián xiàn Fánjì , píngān jì , hé biéde jì shìfèng tā , miǎndé nǐmen de zǐsūn rìhòu duì wǒmen de zǐsūn shuō , nǐmen yǔ Yēhéhuá wú fēn le .
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