I have given you every place that the sole of your foot will tread on, as I told Moses.
Every place you tread upon in Canaan is already given to you, just as God promised Moses. The Jews stretch this much further than Scripture warrants; the actual boundaries are fixed in verse 4, not in their later conquests or exile lands.
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God speaks to Joshua directly, probably in vision or dream, because though He has bound us to instituted means, He has not bound Himself to them. He can speak to hearts by other ways than our ears, and He does so here to give Joshua the greatest encouragement.
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Commenting on Joshua 1:1-9
Not a single foot's breadth is excluded: the whole land is yours. The perfect tense, 'I have given,' means God's counsel was formed long ago and now moves toward execution. This echoes the promise to Moses in Exodus and Deuteronomy.
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