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申命記 31:7
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from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Be strong: Deuteronomy 31:6, Deuteronomy 31:23, Deuteronomy 1:38, Deuteronomy 3:28, Joshua 1:6, Daniel 10:19, Ephesians 6:10
for thou must: Deuteronomy 31:3, Deuteronomy 1:38, Deuteronomy 3:28, John 1:17
Reciprocal: Numbers 13:6 - Caleb Numbers 13:8 - Oshea Numbers 20:28 - put them Numbers 27:18 - Take thee Numbers 27:19 - give him Numbers 27:23 - General Joshua 1:2 - arise Joshua 1:7 - which Moses Joshua 1:9 - Have Joshua 11:15 - so did Moses 1 Chronicles 19:13 - of good 1 Chronicles 22:13 - be strong 1 Chronicles 28:20 - Be strong 2 Chronicles 32:7 - strong
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Moses called unto Joshua,.... Who might be at some distance from him, with the tribe to which he belonged. The Targum of Jonathan adds,
"out of the midst of the people:''
and said unto him, in the sight of all Israel; now assembled together, and what follows was said in their hearing, to make him the more respectable to them:
be strong and of a good courage; the same that is said to the people in
Deuteronomy 31:6, and which was still more necessary in him, who was to be their general, and to go at the head of them, and lead them on to battle; and though Joshua was a man of courage and valour, as well as had military skill, as appears by his fight with Amalek, Exodus 17:9; yet such an exhortation was not needless, seeing he had so much work to do, and so many enemies to contend with:
for thou must go with this people unto the land which the Lord hath sworn unto their fathers to give them, and thou shalt cause them to inherit it; the Targum of Jonathan is,
"which the Word of the Lord hath sworn to give;''
the land of Canaan, thither he must go with them; this was the will and determination of God, and he must go alone without him, Moses, which would be a trial of his courage.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Moses hands over to Joshua that office as leader of the people, to which he had already been designated Deuteronomy 1:38; Numbers 27:23. He assigns also to the Levitical priests and the elders, as the ecclesiastical and civil heads of the nation, the responsibility of teaching the law and enforcing its observance Deuteronomy 31:10-13. Both these were symbolic acts, designed to mark the responsibility of the parties concerned after the death of Moses.