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Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 1:6

Joshua 1:6. Be strong and of a good courage Joshua, though a person of great courage and resolution, whereof he had given sufficient proof, yet needed these exhortations, partly because his work was great, and difficult, and long, and in a great measure new; partly because he had a very mean opinion of himself, especially if compared with Moses: and remembering how perverse and ungovernable that people were, even under Moses, he might very well suspect the burden of ruling them would be too... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Joshua 1:1-18

1:1-5:15 ENTRY INTO CANAANPreparations (1:1-2:24)God’s command to Joshua was brief and straightforward: he was to take the land of Canaan. (The region in which Canaan was situated was occupied by various tribal peoples, the most important of whom were the Hittites and the Amorites.) Israel would not win the land without a fight, but the people had God’s assurance that wherever they advanced they would gain possession (1:1-5). As leader of the people, Joshua had the assurance of God’s presence,... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Joshua 1:4

From. For these boundaries, compare Genesis 15:18 , Exodus 23:31 .Numbers 34:3-12 , Deuteronomy 11:24 . coast = border or boundary. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Joshua 1:5

man. Hebrew. 'ish . See App-14 . I will be. Hebrew. 'ehyeh. Compare Exodus 3:14 , part of title Jehovah. not fail thee. This promise first made to. Jacob, Genesis 28:11 . Passed on by Moses, Deuteronomy 31:6 . See note on Deuteronomy 4:31 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Joshua 1:6

thou. Emphatic. This is the great subject of the book. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Joshua 1:3-4

"Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, to you have I given it, as I spake unto Moses. From the wilderness and this Lebanon, even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border."A number of scholars make something big out of the fact that the Septuagint (LXX) omits here in Joshua 1:4 the words "all the land of the Hittites," affirming on that basis that, the words "are... read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Joshua 1:5-9

"There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee; I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land which I sware unto their fathers to give them. Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it, to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest have good... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Joshua 1:4

Ver. 4. From the wilderness and this Lebanon—shall be your coast— That is, from all that desart which lies south of the place where you now are, to mount Lebanon, fronting you on the north; and from the Euphrates on the east, to the Mediterranean sea on the west. See Genesis 25:18. Deuteronomy 1:7. The Hittites, part of whom were of the race of the giants, inhabited, with the Amorites, the mountainous country to the south of the land of Canaan, and were famous for their valour. To promise... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Joshua 1:6

Ver. 6. Be strong and of a good courage— However courageous and valiant Joshua might be, it was, nevertheless, very necessary to animate him to the undertaking of so difficult an enterprize as was here entrusted to him; nothing less than such a divine assurance could indeed have supported his courage in so arduous a talk. 'Tis true, he was now ninety-three years of age, and had been trained up under Moses at least one third part of that time; so that he wanted neither the experience nor the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Joshua 1:4

4. all the land of the Hittites—These occupied the southern extremities and were the dominant tribe of Canaan. Their superior power and the extent of their dominions are attested by the mention of them under the name of Khita, on the Assyrian inscriptions, and still more frequently on the Egyptian inscriptions of the eighteenth and nineteenth Dynasties. What life and encouragement must have been imparted to Joshua by the assurance that his people, who had been overwhelmed with fear of that... read more

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