Joshua chapter 1

After reading chapter 1:

*Moses has died. Now Yahweh talks to Joshua and no one else. He tells Joshua to get ready to cross the Jordan with the Israelites so that they can take over the promised land from the people who live there. Yahweh will be with them and no one will be able to stand against them. They are to be strong, courageous and obedient to "this book of the law." Is Joshua a book of the law? How can they be obedient to it before it is written, because it surely wasn't written until after all the events in it had already happened.

*Joshua tells the officers to tell the people to get ready to cross the Jordan in three days. The wives, children and livestock of the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half tribe of Mannasseh get to stay behind, because land on that side of the Jordon was given to them as their inheritance. The men of those tribes must go with the other Israelites and help them fight to tak possession of the land of Canaan. Then they can go back to their own land.

*The people agreed to do whatever Joshua commanded and declared that whoever disobeyed Joshua should be put to death.