Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. The LORD said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.
ExplanationCommentary
Verse 1. Age. Josue was now 100 years old. He lived ten more, ( Calmet.) having governed the people in all 17. Bible.—During the first seven years, he had performed all that could be expected from an able general, and he probably designed to conquer the whole country before he divided it. But God, who chose to leave some of the ancient inhabitants in the country, to try the fidelity of his people, and so forth ordered him to proceed to the distribution, that the different tribes might take care to exterminate those idolaters, who might be found in their territory.—Lot. Hebrew “to be possessed.” Only the country east of the Jordan was yet divided.