13Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land.
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And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the LORD to war, …
And I commanded you at that time, saying, The LORD your God hath given you this land to possess it: ye shall pass over armed before your brethren the children of Israel, all that are meet for the war. …
Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-13)Joshua, being settled in the government, immediately applies himself to business; not to take state or to take his pleasure, but to further the work of God among, the people over whom God had set him. As he that desires the office of a minister (1 Tim. 3:1), so he that desires the office of a magistrate, desires a work, a good work; neither is preferred to be idle. I. He issues out orders to the p…
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