15 (A)Just as the Lord had commanded Moses his servant, (B)so Moses commanded Joshua, (C)and so Joshua did. He left nothing undone of all that the Lord had commanded Moses.

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Only be strong and (A)very courageous, being careful to do according to all the law (B)that Moses my servant commanded you. (C)Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success[a] wherever you go.

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Footnotes

  1. Joshua 1:7 Or may act wisely

20 how I (A)did not shrink from declaring to you anything that was profitable, and (B)teaching you in public and from house to house,

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(A)and when the Lord your God gives them over to you, and you defeat them, then you must (B)devote them to complete destruction.[a] (C)You shall make no covenant with them and show no mercy to them.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 7:2 That is, set apart (devote) as an offering to the Lord (for destruction)

11 “Observe what I command you this day. Behold, (A)I will drive out before you the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 12 (B)Take care, lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which you go, lest it become a (C)snare in your midst. 13 You shall (D)tear down their altars and (E)break their pillars and cut down their (F)Asherim

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12 The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded (A)by the word of the Lord.

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Then (A)Moses summoned Joshua and said to him in the sight of all Israel, (B)“Be strong and courageous, for you shall go with this people into the land that the Lord has sworn to their fathers to give them, and you shall put them in possession of it.

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32 [a] “Everything that I command you, you shall be careful to do. (A)You shall not add to it or take from it.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 12:32 Ch 13:1 in Hebrew

See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.

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(A)You shall not add to the word that I command you, nor take from it, that you may keep the commandments of the Lord your God that I command you.

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11 (A)“I regret[a] that I have made Saul king, for he has turned back from following me and (B)has not performed my commandments.” And Samuel was angry, and he cried to the Lord all night.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 15:11 See also verses 29, 35

And he took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive (A)and devoted to destruction all the people with the edge of the sword. (B)But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep and of the oxen and of the fattened calves[a] and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them. All that was despised and worthless they devoted to destruction.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 15:9 The meaning of the Hebrew term is uncertain

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