Josué 1:17

Darby's French Translation

comme nous avons écouté Moïse en toute chose, ainsi nous t'écouterons; seulement, que l'Éternel, ton Dieu, soit avec toi, comme il a été avec Moïse.

Parallel Translations

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Nous t'obéirons comme nous avons obéi à Moïse; seulement que l'Éternel ton Dieu soit avec toi, comme il a été avec Moïse!

Louis Segond (1910)
Nous t'obéirons entièrement, comme nous avons obéi à Moïse. Veuille seulement l'Eternel, ton Dieu, être avec toi, comme il a été avec Moïse!

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Nous t'obéirons comme nous avons obéi à Moïse; seulement que l'Eternel ton Dieu soit avec toi, comme il a été avec Moïse.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

only the Lord: Joshua 1:5, 1 Samuel 20:13, 1 Kings 1:37, 1 Chronicles 28:20, Psalms 20:1, Psalms 20:4, Psalms 20:9, Psalms 118:25, Psalms 118:26, Matthew 21:9, 1 Timothy 2:1, 1 Timothy 2:2

Reciprocal: Exodus 3:18 - and they Joshua 3:7 - as I was

Gill's Notes on the Bible

According as we have hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee,.... Not right or wrong, but in all things that were according to the laws and will of God made known to them; and particularly it may refer to the above affair, which was settled between Moses and them, to whom they then hearkened, and now promise to confirm the same, and hearken to whatsoever orders and instructions Joshua should give them relative to it, according to the plan agreed upon:

only the Lord thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses; which is not mentioned as a condition of their obedience to him, but rather as a reason of it, and as an encouraging motive to it; for, according to Kimchi, the true sense and meaning is,

"for the Lord thy God will be with thee, as he was with Moses;''

so Noldius renders it,

"seeing the Lord thy God is with thee.''

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 1:17. Only the Lord thy God be with thee — Provided God be with thee, as he was with Moses, we will implicitly obey thee. The words however may mean no more than an earnest prayer for Joshua's prosperity: May God be with thee, as he was with Moses!