There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
There shall not any man be able to stand before thee. Canaan had been promised to Israel by a divine grant; and the renewed confirmation of that grant to Joshua, when about to lead the people into it, intimated not only a certain, but an easy, conquest. It is remarkable, however, that his courage and hope of victory were made to depend (like those of the future king: see the note at Deuteronomy 17:19) on his firm and inflexible adherence to the law of God; not only to that regarding the extirpation of the Canaanites, but to the whole precepts of the divine code.