Joshua 1:18 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Ver. 18. Whosoever he be that doth rebel, &c. he shall be put to death— He shall be treated as a criminal guilty of high treason: so the words are understood by Maimonides and most of the rabbis. We may further take notice, that Joshua was a king and a prophet, as Moses had been; and that, according to the law, he who transgressed the orders of Moses and of a prophet was worthy of death. The word only in the latter clause of the verse should rather be translated therefore, which is the plain signification of the particle רק rak. See chap. Joshua 13:6.