Josué 1:2

2 «Mi siervo Moisés ha muerto. Por lo tanto, ha llegado el momento de que guíes a este pueblo, a los israelitas, a cruzar el río Jordán y a entrar en la tierra que les doy.

Josué 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.

Josué 1:2 In-Context

1 Encargo del Señor
a Josué
Después de la muerte de Moisés, siervo del Señor
, el Señor
habló a Josué, hijo de Nun y ayudante de Moisés. Le dijo:

2 «Mi siervo Moisés ha muerto. Por lo tanto, ha llegado el momento de que guíes a este pueblo, a los israelitas, a cruzar el río Jordán y a entrar en la tierra que les doy.

3 Te prometo a ti lo mismo que le prometí a Moisés: “Dondequiera que pongan los pies los israelitas, estarán pisando la tierra que les he dado:

4 desde el desierto del Neguev, al sur, hasta las montañas del Líbano, al norte; desde el río Éufrates, al oriente, hasta el mar Mediterráneo,
al occidente, incluida toda la tierra de los hititas”.

5 Nadie podrá hacerte frente mientras vivas. Pues yo estaré contigo como estuve con Moisés. No te fallaré ni te abandonaré.