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New Defender's Study Bible Notes
22:5 take diligent heed. Although it had been appropriate for some of the tribes to occupy the lands which the Lord had given Israel east of the Jordan (the promised inheritance had never been bounded by the Jordan River), and although the two and one half had fulfilled all their obligations as they had promised, Joshua realized there was a potential danger in this geographical separation. Consequently, he gave them this urgent admonition before sending them home.