Joshua 1:1-6; 11:16-23

Before us are the very words which God spoke to Joshua following the death of Moses. Joshua was in the presence of Moses on Mount Sinai when God spoke to Moses forty years earlier, but there is no record that God directed any instruction to Joshua at that time.

God chose Joshua as the successor of Moses long before Moses died (Deut. 1:38), but God did not speak to Joshua until after…