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.
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Joshua 1:2
Joshua 1:2
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him that is the fountain of honour and power, and by whom kings reign.
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