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Joshua 24:13

Joshua 24:13
And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

And I have given you a land for which you did not labour,.... Or, in which (z), by manuring and cultivating it, by dunging, and ploughing, and sowing:

and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Joshua 24:1-14

Joshua thought he had taken his last farewell of Israel in the solemn charge he gave them in the foregoing chapter, when he said, I go the way of all the earth; but God graciously continuing his life…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

cities which ye built not All this happened as Jehovah had promised, Deu 6:10.

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