"And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long {are} ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of yo…" — Joshua 18:3

Joshua 18:3 · KJV

“And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long {are} ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?”

— Joshua 18:3

Verse 2

And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.

Verse 4

Give out from among you three men for {each} tribe: and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come {again} to me.

Joshua 18 — Context

And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.

And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.

And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long {are} ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?

And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north.

Cross References

Proverbs 13:4

The soul of the sluggard desireth, and {hath} nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

Judges 18:9

And they said, Arise, that we may go up against them: for we have seen the land, and, behold, it {is} very good: and {are} ye still? be not slothful to go, {and} to enter to possess the land.

Proverbs 15:19

The way of the slothful {man is} as an hedge of thorns: but the way of the righteous {is} made plain. {is made...: Heb. is raised up as a causey}

Proverbs 10:4

He becometh poor that dealeth {with} a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

Matthew 20:6

And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?

Philippians 3:13-14

Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but {this} one thing {I do}, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,

Zephaniah 3:16

In that day it shall be said to Jerusalem, Fear thou not: {and to} Zion, Let not thine hands be slack. {slack: or, faint}

John 6:27

Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed. {Labour not: or, Work not}