“I will be with you” (Josh. 1:1-9)
Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still Upon Gibeon, by John Martin The Biblical book of Joshua picks up where Deuteronomy leaves off. Moses has died, just at the point when the nation of Israel is about to cross the Jordan and enter into combat with nations greater and mightier than they. This was the great man of God who had brought the children of Israel out of Egypt, who had been God’s instrument to bring ten mighty plagues on that land, who had led them through the Red Sea on dry ground, who had brought them through the wilderness, who had received God’s law from the very finger of God on Mount Sinai, and who had been with the Israelites for eighty years. This is the setting for the first two verses of this book: “Now after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord it came to pass, that the Lord spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister, saying, Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the...
