The exhortation, Be strong, and so forth, is added and indeed repeated, so that it may make a deeper impression. At the same time, the pro…

Be strong, and of good courage
The same exhortation Moses gave him, (Deuteronomy 31:7); and is afterward…

Joshua is to make the law of God his rule. He is charged to meditate on it day and night, that he might understand it. Whatever affairs of this wor…