Joshua 1:2

Modern English Version

“Moses My servant is dead, so now get up and cross over the Jordan—you and all this people—to the land that I am giving to the Israelites.

Cross References

Genesis 17:8

All the land of Canaan, where you now live as strangers, I will give to you and to your descendants for an everlasting possession, and I will be their God.”

Nehemiah 9:23

Their descendants You increased like the stars of heaven, and You brought them into the land, which You had promised to their fathers that they would enter and possess it.

Job 1:8

And the Lord said to the Adversary, “Have you considered My servant Job, that there is none like him on the earth, a blameless and an upright man, who fears God, and avoids evil?”

Isaiah 42:1

Behold My servant, whom I uphold, My chosen one, in whom My soul delights. I have put My Spirit upon him; he shall bring forth justice to the nations.

Numbers 12:7

Not so with My servant Moses; he is entrusted with all My house.

Deuteronomy 3:28

But charge Joshua and encourage him and strengthen him, for he shall cross over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which you will see.”

Deuteronomy 31:7

Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, “Be strong and of good courage, for you must go with this people to the land which the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you will enable them to inherit it.

Deuteronomy 34:5

So Moses, the servant of the Lord, died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the Lord.

Joshua 1:1

Now after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord spoke to Joshua son of Nun, the assistant of Moses:

Joshua 1:11

“Pass through the midst of the camp and command the people, ‘Prepare food, for in three days you will cross the Jordan to go to take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving you to possess.’ ”