Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for the LORD your God† is with you wherever you go.”
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Joshua 1:9 in context
Joshua 1:6–12
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“Be strong and courageous; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
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Only be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe to do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you. Don’t turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
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This book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it; for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success.
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Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for the LORD your God† is with you wherever you go.”
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Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,
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“Pass through the middle of the camp, and command the people, saying, ‘Prepare food; for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God gives you to possess.’”
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Joshua spoke to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, saying,
Source notes
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- The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).
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