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This handy resource allows the reader to quickly summarize or review all the pertinent details about any Old Testament book. More than a Bible handbook but less than a commentary, Nelson’s New Illustrated Old Testament Survey provides a section by section breakdown of issues and topics dealt with in the Hebrew Scriptures. It includes: Complete but concise outlines of every Old Testament book A...

A. The Command to Joshua (1:1–9) Almost without interruption the narrative of Joshua picks up from the end of Deuteronomy. Moses had died (Deut. 34:5–8) and the mantle of leadership had fallen on Joshua (Josh. 1:9; see also Num. 27:18–20, 23; Deut. 31:7–8, 14, 23). It was his task now to take the nation across the river, something that would be easily done, for the Lord would be with him as He had been with Moses (Josh. 1:5). The crossing would result in the inheritance of the land that God had promised
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