Joshua 22:1
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
American King James Version (AKJV)
Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
American Standard Version (ASV)
Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh,
Basic English Translation (BBE)
Then Joshua sent for the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh,
Webster's Revision
Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh,
World English Bible
Then Joshua called the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh,
English Revised Version (ERV)
Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
Clarke's Joshua 22:1 Bible Commentary
Then Joshua called the Reubenites, etc. - We have already seen that 40,000 men of the tribes of Reuben and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh, had passed over Jordan armed, with their brethren, according to their stipulation with Moses. The war being now concluded, Joshua assembles these warriors, and with commendations for their services and fidelity, he dismisses them, having first given them the most pious and suitable advices. They had now been about seven years absent from their respective families; and though there was only the river Jordan between the camp at Gilgal and their own inheritance, yet it does not appear that they had during that time ever revisited their own home, which they might have done any time in the year, the harvest excepted, as at all other times that river was easily fordable.
Barnes's Joshua 22:1 Bible Commentary
The events of this chap. are no doubt recorded in their proper historical order. The auxiliary forces of the trans-Jordanic tribes were not sent away immediately after the campaigns against the Canaanites were over. They set forth from Shiloh, Joshua 22:9, to which place the sanctuary had been removed Joshua 18:1 after the conquest and the settlement of the children of Judah and of Joseph in their possessions, and after the appointment of the Levitical cities.