Joshua 22:8
New International Version
saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth—with large herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze and iron, and a great quantity of clothing—and divide the plunder from your enemies with your fellow Israelites.”

New Living Translation
he said to them, “Go back to your homes with the great wealth you have taken from your enemies—the vast herds of livestock, the silver, gold, bronze, and iron, and the large supply of clothing. Share the plunder with your relatives.”

English Standard Version
he said to them, “Go back to your tents with much wealth and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, and iron, and with much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.”

Berean Standard Bible
saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth, with immense herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and very many clothes. Divide with your brothers the spoil of your enemies.”

King James Bible
And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.

New King James Version
and spoke to them, saying, “Return with much riches to your tents, with very much livestock, with silver, with gold, with bronze, with iron, and with very much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.”

New American Standard Bible
and said to them, “Return to your tents with great riches and with very many livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and with very many clothes; divide the spoils of your enemies with your brothers.”

NASB 1995
and said to them, “Return to your tents with great riches and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and with very many clothes; divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.”

NASB 1977
and said to them, “Return to your tents with great riches and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and with very many clothes; divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.”

Legacy Standard Bible
and spoke to them, saying, “Return to your tents with great riches and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and with very many clothes; divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.”

Amplified Bible
and he said to them, “Return to your tents with great riches and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and with very many clothes; divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers (fellow tribesmen).”

Christian Standard Bible
he said, “Return to your homes with great wealth: a huge number of cattle, and silver, gold, bronze, iron, and a large quantity of clothing. Share the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
he said, “Return to your homes with great wealth: a huge number of cattle, and silver, gold, bronze, iron, and a large quantity of clothing. Share the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.”

American Standard Version
and spake unto them, saying, Return with much wealth unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.

English Revised Version
and spake unto them, saying, Return with much wealth unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
He also said to them, "Return to your homes with your vast wealth, large herds of livestock, silver, gold, bronze, iron, and loads of clothing. Divide the loot from your enemies with your relatives."

International Standard Version
"Return to your tents with great wealth, plenty of livestock, silver, gold, bronze, iron, and lots of clothing. Divide the spoil from your enemies among your relatives."

Majority Standard Bible
saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth, with immense herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and very many clothes. Divide with your brothers the spoil of your enemies.”

NET Bible
saying, "Take home great wealth, a lot of cattle, silver, gold, bronze, iron, and a lot of clothing. Divide up the goods captured from your enemies with your brothers."

New Heart English Bible
and spoke to them, saying, "Return with much wealth to your tents, with very much livestock, with silver, with gold, with bronze, with iron, and with very much clothing. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers."

Webster's Bible Translation
And he spoke to them, saying, Return with much riches to your tents, and with very many cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.

World English Bible
and spoke to them, saying, “Return with much wealth to your tents, with very much livestock, with silver, with gold, with bronze, with iron, and with very much clothing. Divide the plunder of your enemies with your brothers.”
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
and speaks to them, saying, “Turn back to your tents with great riches, and with very much livestock, with silver, and with gold, and with bronze, and with iron, and with very much raiment; divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.”

Young's Literal Translation
and speak unto them, saying, 'With great riches turn ye back unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment; divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.'

Smith's Literal Translation
And he will say to them, saying, With much riches turn back to your tents, and with exceeding many cattle, with silver and with gold and with brass and with iron and with exceeding many garments: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
He said to them : With much substance and riches, you return to your settlements, with silver and gold, brass and iron, and variety of raiment: divide the prey of your enemies with your brethren.

Catholic Public Domain Version
he said to them: “Return to your settlements with much substance and wealth, with silver and gold, brass and iron, and a multitude of garments. Divide the spoils of your enemies with your brothers.”

New American Bible
he said, “Now that you are returning to your own tents with great wealth, with abundant livestock, with silver, gold, bronze and iron, and with a very large supply of clothing, divide these spoils of your enemies with your allies there.”

New Revised Standard Version
he said to them, “Go back to your tents with much wealth, and with very much livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, and iron, and with a great quantity of clothing; divide the spoil of your enemies with your kindred.”
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
And he spoke to them, saying, Return to your towns and to the land of your inheritance with much wealth and with very many cattle, with silver, with gold, with brass, with iron, and with very much clothing; divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
And he said to them: “Return to your cities and the land of your inheritance with many riches and with very abundant property in silver and in gold, and in brass and in iron, and with very abundant clothing, and divide the loot of your enemies with your brethren”
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
and spoke unto them, saying: 'Return with much wealth unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment; divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.'

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And they departed with much wealth to their houses, and they divided the spoil of their enemies with their brethren; very much cattle, and silver, and gold, and iron, and much raiment.

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Context
The Eastern Tribes Return Home
7(To the half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given land in Bashan, and to the other half Joshua gave land on the west side of the Jordan among their brothers.) When Joshua sent them to their homes he blessed them, 8saying, “Return to your homes with your great wealth, with immense herds of livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and very many clothes. Divide with your brothers the spoil of your enemies.”

Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:10-12
And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build, / with houses full of every good thing with which you did not fill them, with wells that you did not dig, and with vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant—and when you eat and are satisfied, / be careful not to forget the LORD who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

Deuteronomy 8:18
But remember that it is the LORD your God who gives you the power to gain wealth, in order to confirm His covenant that He swore to your fathers even to this day.

Deuteronomy 28:1-14
“Now if you faithfully obey the voice of the LORD your God and are careful to follow all His commandments I am giving you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations of the earth. / And all these blessings will come upon you and overtake you, if you will obey the voice of the LORD your God: / You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country. ...

Numbers 31:27
Then divide the captives between the troops who went out to battle and the rest of the congregation.

1 Samuel 30:24-25
Who will listen to your proposal? The share of the one who went to battle will match the share of the one who stayed with the supplies. They will share alike.” / And so it has been from that day forward. David established this statute and ordinance for Israel to this very day.

1 Kings 8:56
“Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to His people Israel according to all that He promised. Not one word has failed of all the good promises He made through His servant Moses.

2 Chronicles 31:21
He acted with all his heart in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law and the commandments, in order to seek his God. And so he prospered.

Proverbs 3:9-10
Honor the LORD with your wealth and with the firstfruits of all your crops; / then your barns will be filled with plenty, and your vats will overflow with new wine.

Isaiah 1:19
If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land.

Malachi 3:10
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house. Test Me in this,” says the LORD of Hosts. “See if I will not open the windows of heaven and pour out for you blessing without measure.

Matthew 6:33
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.

Luke 6:38
Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”

Luke 12:33-34
Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide yourselves with purses that will not wear out, an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys. / For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.

John 14:27
Peace I leave with you; My peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled; do not be afraid.

Acts 20:35
In everything, I showed you that by this kind of hard work we must help the weak, remembering the words of the Lord Jesus Himself: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”


Treasury of Scripture

And he spoke to them, saying, Return with much riches to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.

Return

Deuteronomy 8:9-14,17,18
A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass…

2 Chronicles 17:5
Therefore the LORD stablished the kingdom in his hand; and all Judah brought to Jehoshaphat presents; and he had riches and honour in abundance.

2 Chronicles 32:27
And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honour: and he made himself treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of pleasant jewels;

divide

Numbers 31:27
And divide the prey into two parts; between them that took the war upon them, who went out to battle, and between all the congregation:

1 Samuel 30:24
For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.

Psalm 68:12
Kings of armies did flee apace: and she that tarried at home divided the spoil.

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Joshua 22
1. The two tribes and a half with a blessing are sent home,
10. They build the altar of testimony in their journey
11. The Israelites are offended thereat
21. They vindicate their conduct, and give them good satisfaction














saying
The word "saying" introduces a direct command or instruction, emphasizing the authority and importance of the message. In the Hebrew context, this word often signifies a formal declaration, underscoring the weight of Joshua's words as a leader appointed by God. It reflects the continuity of God's promises and commands through His chosen leaders.

Return to your homes
This phrase signifies a transition from a period of warfare and conquest to one of peace and settlement. The Hebrew root for "return" (שׁוּב, shuv) often implies repentance or turning back, suggesting a restoration to a state of normalcy and blessing. The directive to return home highlights the fulfillment of God's promise to give the Israelites rest in the land He had promised their ancestors.

with great wealth
The mention of "great wealth" indicates the material blessings that accompany obedience to God's commands. In the ancient Near Eastern context, wealth was often seen as a sign of divine favor. This wealth was not just for personal gain but was to be shared, reflecting the communal nature of Israelite society and the importance of supporting one another.

with very much livestock
Livestock was a primary measure of wealth and prosperity in ancient times. The abundance of livestock signifies God's provision and the successful conquest of the land. It also points to the agrarian lifestyle of the Israelites, where livestock played a crucial role in their economy and daily life.

with silver, gold, bronze, and iron
These metals were valuable commodities in the ancient world, used for trade, crafting, and as symbols of wealth and power. Their mention here underscores the tangible rewards of faithfulness and the spoils of victory that God provided. Each metal had its own significance, with gold and silver often associated with wealth and divinity, while bronze and iron were linked to strength and durability.

and with a great quantity of clothing
Clothing in the ancient world was a significant asset, often representing status and wealth. The "great quantity" suggests abundance and God's provision beyond mere survival. It also reflects the cultural importance of garments, which could be used for trade or as gifts to solidify alliances and relationships.

Divide the spoil of your enemies
This command to "divide the spoil" emphasizes fairness and the importance of community. The spoils of war were not to be hoarded by a few but shared among all, reflecting the biblical principle of justice and equity. It also serves as a reminder of the collective effort in achieving victory and the shared blessings that result from obedience to God.

with your brothers
The phrase "with your brothers" highlights the unity and familial bonds within the Israelite community. It underscores the importance of sharing blessings with fellow believers, fostering a sense of solidarity and mutual support. This reflects the broader biblical theme of community and the call to love and care for one another as members of God's family.

Verse 8. - Riches. The word here used is an uncommon one, and occurs only here and in the later Hebrew. Divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren. This was the just reward for their toils. And here, as elsewhere, we may observe the strict and scrupulous integrity of Joshua. The division of the spoil by other leaders has often been the cause of heart burnings and even of mutiny. Here each man has his due, and no room is left for reproach or dissatisfaction.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
saying,
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (way·yō·mer)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

“Return
שׁ֤וּבוּ (šū·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 7725: To turn back, in, to retreat, again

to
אֲלֵיהֶ֜ם (’ă·lê·hem)
Preposition | third person masculine plural
Strong's 413: Near, with, among, to

your homes
אָֽהֳלֵיכֶם֙ (’ā·ho·lê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 168: A tent

with your great
רַבִּ֜ים (rab·bîm)
Adjective - masculine plural
Strong's 7227: Much, many, great

wealth,
בִּנְכָסִ֨ים (bin·ḵā·sîm)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 5233: Riches, treasures

with immense
רַב־ (raḇ-)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7227: Much, many, great

herds of livestock,
וּבְמִקְנֶ֣ה (ū·ḇə·miq·neh)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4735: Something bought, property, livestock, acquisition

with silver,
בְּכֶ֨סֶף (bə·ḵe·sep̄)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3701: Silver, money

gold,
וּבְזָהָ֜ב (ū·ḇə·zā·hāḇ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2091: Gold, something gold-colored, as oil, a clear sky

bronze,
וּבִנְחֹ֧שֶׁת (ū·ḇin·ḥō·šeṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 5178: Copper, something made of that metal, coin, a fetter, base

iron,
וּבְבַרְזֶ֛ל (ū·ḇə·ḇar·zel)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1270: Iron, an iron implement

and very many
הַרְבֵּ֣ה (har·bêh)
Verb - Hifil - Infinitive absolute
Strong's 7235: To be or become much, many or great

clothes.
וּבִשְׂלָמ֖וֹת (ū·ḇiś·lā·mō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 8008: A wrapper, mantle

Divide
חִלְק֥וּ (ḥil·qū)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural
Strong's 2505: To be smooth, to apportion, separate

with
עִם־ (‘im-)
Preposition
Strong's 5973: With, equally with

your brothers
אֲחֵיכֶֽם׃ (’ă·ḥê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 251: A brother, )

the spoil
שְׁלַל־ (šə·lal-)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7998: A prey, spoil, plunder, booty

of your enemies.”
אֹיְבֵיכֶ֖ם (’ō·yə·ḇê·ḵem)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 341: Hating, an adversary


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