Matthew Poole and continuators on Joshua 1:6

6 Be strong, and of a good courage : for † unto this people shalt thou divide for an Inheritance, the land which I sware unto their fathers to give them.

Ioshua, though a person of great Courage and Resolution, whereof he had given sufficient Proof, yet needs these Exhortations, partly because his work was great, and difficult, and long, and in a great measure new; partly because he had a very mean opinion of himself, especially if compared with Moses; and remembring how perverse and ungovernable that people were, even under Moses, he might very well suspect the burden of ruling them would be too heavy for his shoulders.

Which supposeth the full Conquest of the land. That Honour and Assistance which I deriv[illegible: 1+ letters] to Moses, I will give to thee.

Marginal references: Deut. 31. 23.; ‡ Or, thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land, &c.