Joshua 1:17
As we obeyed all that Moses told us to do, we will obey all that you tell us to do. We pray that Yahweh will ◄be with/help► you as he ◄was with/helped► Moses.
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Numbers 27:20Give to him some of the authority that you now have, in order that all the Israeli people will know that they must obey him.
Joshua 1:5No group will be able to oppose and defeat you during your life. I will help you as I helped Moses. I will always be with [LIT] you; I will never forsake you.
Joshua 4:14On that day, all the people of Israel saw that Yahweh had caused Joshua to be a great leader. And they honored Joshua for the rest of his life, just as they had honored Moses.
1 Samuel 20:13But if he is planning to hurt/kill you, I will enable you to know [IDM] that, and enable you to go away safely. I desire that Yahweh will punish me severely if I do not do that for you. I desire/hope that Yahweh will be with you and help you like he has helped my father.
1 Kings 1:37King David, Yahweh has helped you; we hope/wish that he will also help Solomon and enable him to become a greater king than you have been.”
Psalms 20:1I desire that Yahweh will answer you when you call out to him when you have troubles! God is the one whom ◄ our ancestor Jacob/the Israeli people► worshiped; I desire that he will protect you [MTY] from being harmed by your enemies.
Matthew Henry on Joshua 1:17-18
The Reubenites' Answer. ( b. c. 1451.) 16 And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go. 17 According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee: only the Lord thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses. 18 Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage. This answer was… Read the whole commentary →