Yahweh’s angel protested to Joshua, saying,
Parallel translations
- KJV And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua, saying,
- BSB Then the angel of the LORD gave this charge to Joshua:
- NKJV Then the Angel of the Lord admonished Joshua, saying,
- NASB And the angel of the Lord admonished Joshua, saying,
- NLT Then the angel of the Lord spoke very solemnly to Jeshua and said,
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Quick answer
The angel of Yahweh solemnly charges Joshua with a commission. Cleansing leads to renewed responsibility before God.
Overview
Having been cleansed and clothed, Joshua now receives a solemn exhortation, showing that grace is followed by a call to faithful obedience. The 'protest' or charge introduces the conditions and promises that follow. This order, grace first and then obedience, reflects the gospel pattern where new life produces a walk of faithfulness.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Jer 11:7For I earnestly protested to your fathers in the day that I brought them up out of the land of Egypt, even to this day, rising early and protesting, saying, “Obey my voice.”
- Exod 23:20–21“Behold, I send an angel before you, to keep you by the way, and to bring you into the place which I have prepared.
- Gen 48:15–16He blessed Joseph, and said, “The God before whom my fathers Abraham and Isaac walked, the God who has fed me all my life long to this day,
- Acts 7:35–38“This Moses, whom they refused, saying, ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ — God has sent him as both a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel who appeared to him in the bush.
- Isa 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.
- Gen 22:15–16Yahweh’s angel called to Abraham a second time out of the sky,
- Zech 3:1He showed me Joshua the high priest standing before Yahweh’s angel, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
- Hos 12:4Indeed, he struggled with the angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication to him. He found him at Bethel, and there he spoke with us,
- Gen 28:13–17Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, “I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your offspring.
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The Branch who is both priest and king, the shepherd struck and the flock scattered, the king coming humble on a donkey, the one they pierced, the fountain opened for sin — Zechariah is dense with Christ.
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