Giosué 1:2

2 Mosè, mio servitore, è morto; ora dunque, levati, passa questo Giordano, tu, e tutto questo popolo, per entrar nel paese che io do loro, cioè a’ figli d’Israele.

Giosué 1:2 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 1:2

Moses my servant is dead
Which was said not for the information of Joshua, but to lead on to, and show the cause and reason of what he was about to say to him:

now therefore arise, go over this Jordan;
near to which the whole body of the people of Israel were, and very probably were in sight of it:

thou, and all this people:
which were very numerous, six hundred thousand men or more, besides a great number of women and children, and no boats to carry them over, or pontoons to put across the river:

unto the land which I give unto them, [even] to the children of
Israel;
and therefore it could be no case of conscience with Joshua, to go and take it out of the hands of the present inhabitants, since the Lord, who had a right to dispose of it, gave it to them. As this land was a type of heaven, and eternal life, which is the free gift of God through Christ, passing over the river of Jordan to it may be an emblem of the passage through death to the heavenly state; both of the death of Christ, the antitypical Joshua, who passed through it, as a surety to make satisfaction for sin, and as a forerunner to set an example, to sanctify death, to open a way into the holiest of holies, and prepare a place for his people; and of the death of the saints, which is necessary to their enjoyment of perfect rest and happiness.

Giosué 1:2 In-Context

1 OR avvenne dopo la morte di Mosè, servitor del Signore, che il Signore parlò a Giosuè, figliuolo di Nun, ministro di Mosè, dicendo:

2 Mosè, mio servitore, è morto; ora dunque, levati, passa questo Giordano, tu, e tutto questo popolo, per entrar nel paese che io do loro, cioè a’ figli d’Israele.

3 Io vi ho dato ogni luogo, il quale la pianta del vostro piè calcherà, come io ne ho parlato a Mosè.

4 I vostri confini saranno dal deserto fino a quel Libano; e dal gran fiume, il fiume Eufrate, tutto il paese degli Hittei, infino al mar grande, dal Ponente.

5 Niuno potrà starti a fronte tutti i giorni della tua vita; come io sono stato con Mosè, così sarò teco; io non ti lascerò, e non ti abbandonerò.