Joshua 1:4

Joshua 1:4

2 ^a“Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore, arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I am giving to them—the children of Israel.

3 ^aEvery place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given you, as I said to Moses.

4 ^aFrom the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the River Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your territory.

5 ^aNo man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life; ^bas I was with Moses, so ^cI will be with you. ^dI will not leave you nor forsake you.

6 ^aBe strong and of good courage, for to this people you shall¹ divide as an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.

7 Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law ^awhich Moses My servant commanded you; ^bdo not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may¹ prosper wherever you go.

Commentaries:

Barnes' Notes

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Lebanon is spoken of as "this Lebanon," because visible from the neighborhood in which Israel was encamped. (Compare Deuteronomy 3:8-9.) "The wilderness" of the text is the Desert of Arabia, which forms the southern, as Lebanon does the northern, limit of the promised land. The boundaries on the east and west are likewise indicated; and the intervening territory is described generally as "all the land of the Hittites." The Hittites are properly the inhabitants of northern Canaan and Phoenicia (see Exodus 3:8 note), but the name appears to be used here for the Canaanites in general, as in I Kings 10:29. On the boundaries of the promised land compare Deuteronomy 11:24; Genesis 15:18.

**Other Barnes' Notes entries containing Joshua 1:4:**

Genesis 10:6-20
Exodus 23:31
Micah 7:11-12

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