The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Vol. 2: The Text Carefully Printed From the Most Correct Copies of the Present Authorized ... With a Commentary and Critical Notes; The Old - Softcover

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Excerpt from The Holy Bible, Containing the Old and New Testaments, Vol. 2: The Text Carefully Printed From the Most Correct Copies of the Present Authorized Translation, Including the Marginal Readings and Parallel Texts, With a Commentary and Critical Notes; The Old Testament, Joshua to Esther

Commentators and critics are divided in opinion whether the book that goes under his name was actually compiled by him.

It is argued by those who deny Joshua to be the author, that there are both names and transactions in it which did not exist till considerably after Joshua's time. The account we have, chap. Iv. 9, of the twelve stones set up by Joshua in the midst of Jordan remaining to the present day, seems to prove that the book, at least this verse, was not written till after Joshua's time; the same may be said of the account of Ai, that Joshua made it a heap for ever, even a desolation to the present day, chap. Viii. 28, which is a proof, however, that the book was not written after the time bf the kings, as Ai subsisted after the return from the captivity; see Ezra ii. 28 The men of Beth-el and Ai, two hundred twenty and three. It is supposed also, that the relation of the marriage of Achsah, daughter of Caleb, with Othniel the son of Kenaz, necessarily belongs to the time of the Judges; Josh. Xv. 16 - 19 as also the account of the capture of Leshem by the Danites; chap. Xix. 47, compared with Judges xviii. 7, 29.

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