Joshua · Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
Joshua 5 Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Notes on this text (1)
- Includes the books not found in the Hebrew Bible (Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, Letter of Jeremiah, 1–3 Maccabees, 2 and 3 Esdras, Prayer of Manasseh), as in the Synodal editions.
Cross references (15)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Joshua 2:9–11; Numbers 13:29; 1 Kings 10:5; Ezekiel 16:3; Judges 11:23
- 2 Deuteronomy 30:6; Deuteronomy 10:16; Exodus 4:25; Genesis 17:10–14; Romans 4:11
- 3 Matthew 16:24; Genesis 17:23–27
- 4 1 Corinthians 10:5; Deuteronomy 2:16; Numbers 26:64–65; Deuteronomy 2:14; Numbers 14:22
- 5 Matthew 12:7; Hosea 6:6–7; Romans 2:26; 1 Corinthians 7:19; Galatians 6:15
- 6 Numbers 14:23; Deuteronomy 2:14; Hebrews 3:11; Deuteronomy 1:3; Exodus 3:8
- 7 Numbers 14:31; Deuteronomy 1:39
- 8 Genesis 34:25
- 9 1 Samuel 17:26; Joshua 4:19; Genesis 34:14; Joshua 24:14; Leviticus 24:14
- 10 Exodus 12:6; Numbers 9:1–5; Ezekiel 12:3; Ezekiel 12:6–16
- 11 Leviticus 23:14; Leviticus 23:6; Exodus 12:18–20; Exodus 13:6–7
- 12 Exodus 16:35; Deuteronomy 6:10–11; Nehemiah 9:20–21; Proverbs 13:22; Revelation 7:16–17
- 13 Genesis 18:2; Numbers 22:23; Numbers 22:31; 1 Chronicles 21:16–17; 1 Chronicles 21:30
- 14 Isaiah 55:4; Genesis 17:3; Exodus 23:20–22; Revelation 19:10–14; Acts 10:25–26
- 15 Exodus 3:5; Acts 7:32–33; 2 Peter 1:18
Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences
What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
How these were chosen
“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
… Moses should give manna as food to the fathers, but Joshua wheat; as the first-fruits of life, a type of the body of Christ, as also the Scripture declares that the manna of the Lord ceased when the people had eaten wheat from the land. XX.
"And Joshua took knives of flints, in which to circumcise," that is, by which to circumcise, "the children of Israel." But let those who on this account take from the Holy Spirit His proper power, look to that which we read to have been spoken by the Lord, "The Spirit bloweth where It listeth." And as to what the Apostle …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 6 (1888)
… crossing of Jordan, according as it is written in the book of Joshua, the son of Nun: At that time the Lord said unto Joshua, Make thee knives of stone from the sharp rock, and assemble and circumcise the sons of Israel a second time; and a little later: For the children of Israel walked forty and two years …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 9 (1899)