28 And commission+ Joshua and encourage him and strengthen him, because he is the one to pass over+ before this people and he is the one to cause them to inherit the land that you will see.’+
2 “Moses my servant is dead;+ and now get up, cross this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the sons of Israel.+
14 On that day Jehovah made Joshua great in the eyes of all Israel,+ and they began to fear him just as they had feared Moses all the days of his life.+
45 And our forefathers who succeeded to it also brought it in with Joshua*+ into the land possessed by the nations,+ whom God thrust out from before our forefathers.+ Here it remained until the days of David.