"Be strong and of good courage."--_Joshua 1:6_
AFTER Moses had gone out of sight on the mountain, God Himself told
Joshua that Moses was dead, and that he must lead the children of
Israel into the good land God had promised them. Moses had laid his
hands on Joshua's head, and God's Holy Spirit had come to help him
to see what was right, and to lead the people. He must be strong and
brave, and do all that God commanded, and then he would be quite sure
to be able to drive away all the strange people out of the land, and to
make a home for the people in the land that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,
had loved so well.
All the people promised they would do as Joshua bade them. So he was
their captain instead of Moses.