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Joshua 1:1-2:24

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This song belongs to the Joshua collection. One recording is available to play here, with the complete lyrics below.

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[Intro] Thirty days of mourning. The tents are pitched on sand. The old man climbed the mountain and left it in my hand. [Verse 1] I was his servant from a boy. I kept the tent door day and night. I fought below at Rephidim while his arms held up the fight. Now the Jordan's over every bank and every eye has turned to see, and the voice I only heard through him is calling out to me. [Pre-Chorus] He said, each step your sandal takes, from the desert to the sea, is ground I gave you long ago. Keep the Book. Keep close to Me. [Chorus] Be strong and very courageous, the river doesn't care. The God who walked with Moses is already standing there. He won't drop your hand, so get up and take the land. [Verse 2] Two men slipped into Jericho with the road still on their feet. They found a door inside the wall, a woman's house above the street. When the king's men beat upon her door she sent them running for the ford. Up on the roof beneath the flax two spies lay flat and said no word. [Chorus] Be strong and very courageous, the river doesn't care. The God who walked with Moses is already standing there. He won't drop your hand, so get up and take the land. [Verse 3] She climbed to where they lay and said, we heard about the sea. The whole town's heart has turned to water. Your God is God. Remember me. She let them down the wall by cord and they swore it on their lives. Tie this scarlet in your window, and whoever's in your house survives. [Bridge] Three days they hid out in the hills, then crossed back soaked and cold. They said, the land is faint with fear. They said, it's ours to hold. So fold the tents and fill the skins. In three days we go down. The water's high, the ark goes first, and nobody turns around. [Final Chorus] Be strong and very courageous, the river doesn't care. The God who walked with Moses is already standing there. He won't drop your hand, so get up and take the land. There's a scarlet cord in a window. Get up. We're going through.

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About the passage

Joshua 1: The servant changes; the commission holds

The Book of Joshua opens with a death that does not cancel a commission. Moses is gone, but the promise, the law, and the work of bringing Israel into the land continue under Joshua. God gives him real authority while binding that authority to what Moses commanded, so courage is required as much for obedience as for conflict. The chapter then turns immediately from great promises to provisions, officers, and obligations. Reuben, Gad, and half Manasseh already possess land east of Jordan, yet they must cross and help their brethren until the others receive rest too. Their answer publicly accepts Joshua's leadership and repeats the central condition of the chapter: the LORD must be with him as he was with Moses. The final command of courage therefore comes back to Joshua from the very people he is preparing to lead.

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Joshua 2: The woman inside Jericho who knows what is coming

Two unnamed spies enter Jericho, but Rahab becomes the chapter's central figure. She hides them when the king's agents arrive, redirects the search, and then supplies the intelligence that matters most. Jericho has heard of the Red Sea and the defeats of Sihon and Og, and fear has already hollowed out the city's confidence. Rahab interprets those events by confessing that Israel's God rules heaven and earth, then asks protection for her entire household. The escape through her wall-window becomes the place where a carefully defined oath is marked by a scarlet line. When the spies finally return to Joshua, they do not bring back a technical survey of Jericho's defences. Their conclusion largely echoes Rahab: the LORD has given the land, and its inhabitants are fainting. The woman inside the threatened city has effectively written the scouts' most important report.

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