Matthew Poole and continuators on Joshua 22:31

31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD is among us , because ye have not committed this trespass against the LORD: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD▪ .

By his gracious presence, and preventing goodness, in keeping you from so great an offence, and all of us from those dismal calamities that would have followed upon it.

i. e. From the Wrath and dreadful Judgments of God, by avoiding that Sin which would have involved both you and us in a most Bloody War; you have delivered us from the evils we feared. He that prevents an unexpected or approaching Disease or Mischief, doth as truly deliver a man from it, as he that cures or removes it after it hath been inflicted.

Marginal references: Heb. then