“Pass through the middle of the camp, and command the people, saying, ‘Prepare food; for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess.’”
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 11. Victuals. The manna still supplied the army after they had passed the Jordan. Calmet. 5:12. But Josue might fear lest the people might not have liberty to gather it in the midst of the enemy’s country, or he might perhaps suppose that this miraculous food would be withdrawn, as soon as they had entered Chanaan. He therefore takes all necessary precautions, and gets other sorts of provisions in the neighbourhood. Calmet.—This might foreshew, that in the primitive Church the ceremonies and privileges of the old law would not be abrogated immediately, but they might be used for a time along with the rites of the gospel, till the old law should be buried with honour. Worthington.—Third day, after their departure from Setim; or perhaps this order was only published when the Israelites were arrived on the banks of the Jordan. Calmet.