Joshua 1
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Encouragement of Joshua
1After the death of Moses # Dt 34:5 the Lord’s servant, the Lord spoke to Joshua # = The Lord Will Save, or The Lord Is Salvation; Joshua is related to the name Jesus. son of Nun, # Ex 17:8-13; 33:11; Nm 13:8,16; 14:6-9; 27:18-23; Dt 31:2-8; 1Ch 7:20,27 who had served Moses: 2“Moses My servant is dead. # Dt 34:5-8 Now you and all the people prepare to cross over the Jordan # Jos 1:11 to the land I am giving the Israelites. 3I have given you every place where the sole of your foot treads, # Dt 11:24-25 just as I promised Moses. 4Your territory will be from the wilderness and Lebanon # Gn 15:18; Nm 34:3 to the great Euphrates River — all the land of the Hittites # Gn 10:15; 15:19-21 — and west to the Mediterranean Sea. # Lit and to the Great Sea, the going down of the sun # Dt 11:24; 1Kg 4:21,24-25; 8:65 5No one will be able to stand against you as long as you live. # Dt 7:24 I will be with you, just as I was with Moses. I will not leave you or forsake you. # Dt 31:6-8; Heb 13:5
6“Be strong and courageous, # Jos 1:18; 10:25; 1Kg 2:2-3; 1Ch 22:13; 28:20; Ps 27:14; 31:24 for you will distribute the land I swore to their fathers to give them as an inheritance. # Gn 15:18; Ex 32:13; Dt 15:4 7Above all, be strong and very courageous to carefully observe the whole instruction My servant Moses commanded you. # Dt 5:32; 20:1-2; 21:1-3 Do not turn from it to the right or the left, so that you will have success wherever you go. 8This book of instruction must not depart from your mouth; # Dt 31:24; Jos 8:34 you are to recite # Or meditate on it day and night so that you may carefully observe everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in whatever you do. # Dt 29:9; Ps 1:1-3 9Haven’t I commanded you: be strong and courageous? # Dt 31:7-8; Jos 10:25 Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Joshua Prepares the People
10Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people: 11“Go through the camp and tell the people, ‘Get provisions ready for yourselves, for within three days you will be crossing the Jordan to go in and take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving you to inherit.’ ” # Jos 3:2
12Joshua said to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh: # Nm 32:20-22 13“Remember what Moses the Lord’s servant commanded you when he said, ‘The Lord your God will give you rest, and He will give you this land.’ # Dt 3:18-20 14Your wives, young children, and livestock may remain in the land Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan. # = east of the Jordan River But your fighting men must cross over in battle formation # Or over armed ahead of your brothers # = fellow Israelites and help them 15until the Lord gives your brothers rest, as He has given you, and they too possess the land the Lord your God is giving them. You may then return to the land of your inheritance # Jos 22:4 and take possession of what Moses the Lord’s servant # Jos 1:1 gave you on the east side of the Jordan.”
16They answered Joshua, “Everything you have commanded us we will do, and everywhere you send us we will go. 17We will obey you, just as we obeyed Moses in everything. And may the Lord your God be with you, as He was with Moses. # Jos 1:5,9 18Anyone who rebels against your order and does not obey your words in all that you command him, will be put to death. Above all, be strong and courageous! ” # Dt 31:7; Jos 1:6-7,9; 10:25
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Joshua 1
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1And it came to pass after the death of Moses the servant of Jehovah, that Jehovah spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' attendant, saying, 2Moses my servant is dead; and now, rise up, go over this Jordan, thou and all this people, into the land which I give unto them, to the children of Israel. 3Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread have I given to you, as I said unto Moses. 4From the wilderness and this Lebanon to the great river, the river Euphrates, the whole land of the Hittites, to the great sea, toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border. 5None shall be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so will I be with thee; I will not leave thee, neither will I forsake thee. 6Be strong and courageous, for thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land which I have sworn unto their fathers to give them. 7Only be strong and very courageous, that thou mayest take heed to do according to all the law that Moses my servant commanded thee. Turn not from it to the right or to the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest. 8This book of the law shall not depart from thy mouth; and thou shalt meditate upon it day and night, that thou mayest take heed to do according to all that is written therein; for then shalt thou have good success in thy ways, and then shalt thou prosper. 9Have I not commanded thee: Be strong and courageous? Be not afraid, neither be dismayed; for Jehovah thy God#GodHebrew: Elohim is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
10And Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying, 11Go through the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying, Prepare yourselves victuals, for in three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, that ye may enter in to take possession of the land which Jehovah your God#GodHebrew: Elohim giveth you to possess it. 12And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to half the tribe of Manasseh spoke Joshua, saying, 13Remember the word that Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, saying, Jehovah your God#GodHebrew: Elohim has given you rest and has given you this land. 14Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle shall abide in the land that Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan, but ye, all the valiant men, shall go over in array before your brethren and help them, 15until Jehovah give your brethren rest as to you, and they also take possession of the land which Jehovah your God#GodHebrew: Elohim giveth them; then shall ye return into the land of your possession and possess it, which Moses the servant of Jehovah gave you on this side of the Jordan toward the sun-rising.
16And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou hast commanded us will we do, and whither thou shalt send us will we go. 17According as we hearkened to Moses in all things, so will we hearken to thee; only may Jehovah thy God#GodHebrew: Elohim be with thee as he was with Moses. 18Every one that is rebellious against thy commandment and hearkeneth not to thy words in everything that thou commandest us, shall be put to death. Only be strong and courageous.
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First published in 1890. This edition is maintained by the British and Foreign Bible Society.