Joshua 1

Joshua Installed as Leader

1 After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ aide:
2 “Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them—to the Israelites.
3 I will give you every place where you set your foot, as I promised Moses.
4 Your territory will extend from the desert to Lebanon, and from the great river, the Euphrates—all the Hittite country—to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
5 No one will be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.
6 Be strong and courageous, because you will lead these people to inherit the land I swore to their ancestors to give them.
7 “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.
8 Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.”
10 So Joshua ordered the officers of the people:
11 “Go through the camp and tell the people, ‘Get your provisions ready. Three days from now you will cross the Jordan here to go in and take possession of the land the LORD your God is giving you for your own.’ ”
12 But to the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua said,
13 “Remember the command that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you after he said, ‘The LORD your God will give you rest by giving you this land.’
14 Your wives, your children and your livestock may stay in the land that Moses gave you east of the Jordan, but all your fighting men, ready for battle, must cross over ahead of your fellow Israelites. You are to help them
15 until the LORD gives them rest, as he has done for you, and until they too have taken possession of the land the LORD your God is giving them. After that, you may go back and occupy your own land, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you east of the Jordan toward the sunrise.”
16 Then they answered Joshua, “Whatever you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.
17 Just as we fully obeyed Moses, so we will obey you. Only may the LORD your God be with you as he was with Moses.
18 Whoever rebels against your word and does not obey it, whatever you may command them, will be put to death. Only be strong and courageous!”

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Cross References 47

  • 1. Exodus 14:31; Numbers 12:7; Deuteronomy 34:5; Revelation 15:3
  • 2. S Exodus 17:9; Exodus 24:13; Deuteronomy 1:38
  • 3. S Numbers 13:29; ver 11
  • 4. S Numbers 35:10
  • 5. S Genesis 15:14
  • 6. Genesis 12:7; Deuteronomy 1:25
  • 7. S Deuteronomy 11:24
  • 8. Genesis 50:24; Numbers 13:2; Deuteronomy 1:8
  • 9. S Deuteronomy 3:25
  • 10. S Genesis 2:14; Genesis 15:18
  • 11. S Genesis 10:15; Genesis 23:10; Exodus 3:8
  • 12. Numbers 34:2-12; Ezra 4:20
  • 13. S Deuteronomy 7:24
  • 14. ver 17; S Genesis 26:3; S Genesis 39:2; Judges 6:12; 1 Samuel 10:7; Jeremiah 1:8; Jeremiah 30:11; Joshua 3:7; Joshua 6:27
  • 15. S Genesis 28:15; S Deuteronomy 4:31; Deuteronomy 31:6-8
  • 16. 2 Samuel 2:7; 1 Kings 2:2; Isaiah 41:6; Joel 3:9-10
  • 17. S Deuteronomy 1:21; S Deuteronomy 31:6; S Judges 5:21
  • 18. Jeremiah 3:18; Jeremiah 7:7; Deuteronomy 31:23
  • 19. Deuteronomy 29:9; 1 Kings 2:3; 1 Kings 3:3
  • 20. Ezra 7:26; Psalms 78:10; Psalms 119:136; Isaiah 42:24; Jeremiah 26:4-6; Jeremiah 32:23; Jeremiah 44:10
  • 21. ver 2,15; S Numbers 12:7; Job 1:8; Job 42:7
  • 22. S Deuteronomy 5:32; Deuteronomy 28:14; Joshua 23:6
  • 23. ver 9; S Deuteronomy 4:2; Deuteronomy 5:33; S Deuteronomy 11:8; Joshua 11:15
  • 24. S Deuteronomy 28:61; S Psalms 147:19
  • 25. S Exodus 4:15; Isaiah 59:21
  • 26. S Genesis 24:63
  • 27. Deuteronomy 29:9; 1 Samuel 18:14; Psalms 1:1-3; Isaiah 52:13; Isaiah 53:10; Jeremiah 23:5
  • 28. S Deuteronomy 31:6; Joshua 10:8; 2 Kings 19:6; Isaiah 35:4; Isaiah 37:6; Psalms 27:1
  • 29. S Deuteronomy 1:21; Job 4:5
  • 30. S ver 7; Deuteronomy 31:7-8; Jeremiah 1:8
  • 31. S Deuteronomy 1:15
  • 32. Joshua 3:2
  • 33. 1 Samuel 17:22; Isaiah 10:28
  • 34. S Genesis 40:13
  • 35. S Numbers 35:10
  • 36. S Numbers 33:53; Joel 3:2
  • 37. Numbers 32:33; Numbers 32:20-22
  • 38. S Exodus 33:14; Psalms 55:6; Isaiah 11:10; Isaiah 28:12; Isaiah 30:15; Isaiah 32:18; Isaiah 40:31; Jeremiah 6:16; Jeremiah 45:3; Lamentations 5:5; Deuteronomy 3:18-20
  • 39. Deuteronomy 3:19
  • 40. S Numbers 32:26
  • 41. S Exodus 13:18
  • 42. Joshua 4:12
  • 43. Numbers 32:20-22; Joshua 22:1-4
  • 44. S Numbers 27:20; S Numbers 32:25
  • 45. S Numbers 27:20; ver 5,9
  • 46. S Numbers 32:25
  • 47. S Deuteronomy 1:21; S Deuteronomy 31:6

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