And the LORD said unto Moses, Take thee Joshua the son of Nun, a man in whom is the spirit, and lay thine hand upon him;
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Gill's Exposition
And set him before Eleazar the priest, and before all the congregation,.... Declaring before them all that he was his successor, and that they might be witnesses of what was said and done unto him,…
Barnes' Notes
In whom is the spirit Compare Gen 41:38. Joshua was endowed by God with the requisite spiritual qualifications for the office. Moses howerer, was to lay his hands upon him, both in order to confer…
Here, I. Moses prays for a successor. When God had told him that he must die, though it appears elsewhere that he solicited for a reprieve for himself (Deu 3:24, Deu 3:25), yet, when this could not be…
Cambridge Bible
a man in whom is(om. -the") spirit An influence proceeding from God already dwells in him. This was not the frenzied spirit of prophecy (Num 11:25 f.) but as in Deu 34:9 -the spirit of wisdom,"…
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