SEV Biblia, Chapter 1:11
Pasad por en medio del campamento, y mandad al pueblo, diciendo: Preveníos de comida; porque dentro de tres días pasaréis el Jordán, para que entréis a heredar la tierra que el SEÑOR vuestro Dios os da para que la heredéis.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Joshua 1:11
Verse 11. Prepare you victuals] hdx tsedah, such prey or provisions as they had taken from the conquered countries, such as corn, oxen, sheep, &c.; for the word signifies prey, or what is taken by hunting, &c. This was necessary, as they were about to undergo considerable fatigue in marching, and in making preparations for the passage of the Jordan; for although the manna had not ceased to fall, yet such other provisions as are mentioned above were necessary on this occasion. For within three days ye shall pass] Calmet contends, with great appearance of truth, that these three days should be reckoned from the first day of their encamping at Jordan, three days after the return of the spies, i.e., on the eighth day of the first month, on the tenth of which they passed over Jordan. The text therefore is supposed to mean, Prepare victuals for three days' march, for "on the third day after your decampment from Shittim ye shall pass over this Jordan."
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 11. Pass through the host , etc.] The whole camp of Israel, consisting of six hundred thousand fighting men: and command the people ; even all the people of Israel; this includes women as well as men, for the one, as well as the other, were to do what follows, and especially it may seem the business of the former: saying, prepare ye victuals ; this must be understood; as Kimchi observes, of other sorts of food besides bread; for they had manna, the bread of heaven, which fell about their tents every morning, so that they were sufficiently provided with that always, and which did not cease until they had entered the land, even until the sixteenth of Nisan, ( Joshua 5:12); though indeed, as Abendana observes, that might be said to be prepared, it being ground in mills, and beat in mortars, and made cakes of, ( Numbers 11:8); but rather this designs meat and other provisions, which being upon the borders of Moab and Midian, they could furnish themselves with for their money; and besides, they were in the possession of a fine country, of Bashan and Gilead, they had taken from Sihon and Og. Jarchi interprets it of everything fit for journeying, and arms for war, with which they were supplied from the spoils of their enemies, the Egyptians at the Red sea, Amalek at Rephidim, and the Amorites and Midianites lately smitten by them; and to this sense Josephus seems to agree: for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan : or at the end of three days, as the Targum of Jonathan; and so Jarchi, while there are yet three days, after that ye shall pass over: but here arises a difficulty to be reconciled, how this could be done three days after, when the spies, which Joshua is afterward said to send into the land, stayed three days in the mountains, besides the time of their going, and returning, and stay at Rahab’s house; and it was not till after their return that the camp began to move; to which it may be observed, that though the affair of the spies is afterward related, they might have been sent by Joshua before this order was given to prepare for the journey, and of this opinion are several of the Jewish writers f13 : this being the case, they might return before the expiration of these three days, at the end of which Joshua, with the whole host, moved, agreeably to these orders: to go in to possess the land which the Lord your God giveth you to possess it ; which must be a great inducement and encouragement to them to observe his instructions, and go over with him.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 10-15 - Joshua says to the people, Ye shall pass over Jordan, and shall posses the land; because God had said so to him. We honour the truth of God when we stagger not at the promise of God. The two tribes and a hal were to go over Jordan with their brethren. When God, by his providence, has given us rest, we ought to consider what service we ma do to our brethren.
Original Hebrew
עברו 5674 בקרב 7130 המחנה 4264 וצוו 6680 את 853 העם 5971 לאמר 559 הכינו 3559 לכם צידה 6720 כי 3588 בעוד 5750 שׁלשׁת 7969 ימים 3117 אתם 859 עברים 5674 את 853 הירדן 3383 הזה 2088 לבוא 935 לרשׁת 3423 את 853 הארץ 776 אשׁר 834 יהוה 3068 אלהיכם 430 נתן 5414 לכם לרשׁתה׃ 3423
