Online Resource Library
Commentary Index | Return to PrayerRequest.com | DownloadMatthew Poole Commentary - Joshua 24:26 - 24:26
(Show All Books | Show All Chapters)
This Chapter Verse Commentaries:
These words, i.e. this covenant or agreement of the people with the Lord. In the book of the law of God, i. e. in that volume which was kept in the ark, Deu_31:9,26, whence it was taken and put into this book of Joshua. This he did, partly, for the perpetual remembrance of this great and solemn action; partly, to lay the greater obligation upon the people to be true to their engagement; and partly, as a witness for God, and against the people, if afterwards he severely punished them for their detection from God, to whom they had so solemnly and freely obliged themselves.
Set it up there, as a witness and monument of this great transaction, according to the custom of those ancient times, as Gen_28:18 31:45 35:14 Exo_24:4 Deu_27:2 Jos_4:3 8:32. Possibly this agreement was written upon this stone, as was then usual.
Under an oak that was by the sanctuary of the Lord, i.e. near to the place where the ark and tabernacle then were; for though they were forbidden to plant a grove of trees near unto the altar, Deu_16:21, as the Gentiles did, yet they might for a time set up an altar, or the ark, near a great tree which had been planted there before.