Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall
remain
in the land which Moses gave you on this side
Jordan
This was what they themselves proposed, agreed unto, and
confirmed, ( Numbers
32:16 Numbers
32:17 Numbers
32:26 Numbers
32:27 ) ;
but ye shall pass over before your brethren
armed;
bearing arms, to fight for them; for none but such that were fit
to bear arms were obliged to go; and these were to go "harnessed"
F15, as some render the word, or in a
military order, in rank and file, by fives, five in a row; not at
the front of the army, for the standard of Judah went first, but
along with them; for "before them" signifies no other than in the
presence of them, and in company with them:
all the mighty men of valour, and help them;
to obtain a conquest over the Canaanites; all, according to the
order of Moses, and by their agreement, were to go, all that were
able to bear arms; but Joshua did not take them all, only a
select company of strong and valiant for, out of an hundred
thirty thousand, but forty thousand went with him, ( Joshua 4:13 ) .