Charles Ellicott Commentary Joshua 23:6

"Therefore be ye very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left;" — Joshua 23:6 (ASV)

Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses. —As Joshua was the servant of the law himself, so must his successors be. No higher position was attainable than this. It has been the same with the successors of the greater Joshua. With them, and with those who follow them, nothing can ever supersede the authority of the written word.