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Joshua: An Expositional Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

"The secret of success is to know God's Word, speak about it, meditate on it, and then, above all, do it. In God's world there is no substitute for full obedience." Joshua was a soldier. According to James Montgomery Boice, he was "one of the most extraordinary military commanders of all time." But what sets Joshua apart from his predecessors and successors, says Boice, is his obedience to the...

the land. Leaders change: Joshua replaced Moses. But God does not change. God is the same, and so are the purposes that he has established for his redeemed people. The Written Word The continuity between the patriarchal period and the period of Jewish settlement, based on the character and will of God, is focused on the written Word of God, which in this period was the Pentateuch, or first five books of our Bible. This is the second major point of Joshua. In Joshua 1:1–9, there are two paragraphs.
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