And Moses called unto Joshua, and said unto him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of a good courage: for thou must go with this people unto the land which the LORD hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.
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Gill's Exposition
And the Lord, he it is that doth go before thee,.... The Word of the Lord, his Shechinah, according to the above Targum, and so in the next clause; the same that brought Israel out of Egypt, had gone…
Moses hands over to Joshua that office as leader of the people, to which he had already been designated Deu 1:38; Num 27:23. He assigns also to the Levitical priests and the elders, as the…
Loth to part (we say) bids oft farewell. Moses does so to the children of Israel: not because he was loth to go to God, but because he was loth to leave them, fearing that when he had left them they…
Cambridge Bible
in the sight of all Israel Deu 34:12.
Be strong and of a good courage As in Deu 31:31 but Sg.; cp. Deu 3:28. LXX: ἀνδρίζου καὶ ἴσχυε.
go with Rather bring, as in some Heb. MSS, Sam. Vulg. and Deu…
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