# Joshua is charged to lead Conquest & Judges · Draft · BSB Content revision: 5ff4c527c554e2a5 · No editorial review date recorded [Citation / readable page](https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/joshua-commissioned/) [Open interactive map](https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?event=joshua-commissioned) [Markdown](https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/joshua-commissioned/index.md) [JSON](https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/joshua-commissioned/index.json) Date: After Moses’ death · Before the Jordan crossing After Moses dies, the LORD commands Joshua to lead Israel across the Jordan and to keep the law Moses gave. Joshua prepares the camp and reminds the eastern tribes that their fighting men must help their brothers before returning home. Joshua 1 links courage to obedience and meditation on the law. The eastern tribes’ commitment recalls Moses’ instruction in Deuteronomy 3; their families remain east of the Jordan. The exact place where Joshua receives this charge is not named. ## Primary Scripture [Joshua 1:1–18 (BSB)](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua%201%3A1%E2%80%9318&version=BSB) 1:1 Now after the death of His servant Moses, the LORD spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, saying, 1:2 “Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore arise, you and all these people, and cross over the Jordan into the land that I am giving to the children of Israel. 1:3 I have given you every place where the sole of your foot will tread, just as I promised to Moses. 1:4 Your territory shall extend from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great River Euphrates—all the land of the Hittites—and west as far as the Great Sea. 1:5 No one shall stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you. 1:6 Be strong and courageous, for you shall give these people the inheritance of the land that I swore to their fathers I would give them. 1:7 Above all, be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe all the law that My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may prosper wherever you go. 1:8 This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do. 1:9 Have I not commanded you to be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.” 1:10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people: 1:11 “Go through the camp and tell the people, ‘Prepare your provisions, for within three days you will cross the Jordan to go in and take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.’” 1:12 But to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua said, 1:13 “Remember what Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you when he said, ‘The LORD your God will give you rest, and He will give you this land.’ 1:14 Your wives, your young children, and your livestock may remain in the land that Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan. But all your mighty men of valor must be armed for battle to cross over ahead of your brothers and help them, 1:15 until the LORD gives them rest as He has done for you, and your brothers also possess the land that the LORD your God is giving them. Then you may return to the land of your inheritance and take possession of that which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the east side of the Jordan.” 1:16 So they answered Joshua, “Everything you have commanded us we will do, and everywhere you send us we will go. 1:17 Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. And may the LORD your God be with you, as He was with Moses. 1:18 Anyone who rebels against your order and does not obey your words, all that you command him, will be put to death. Above all, be strong and courageous!” ## Related Scripture [Deuteronomy 3:18–22 · recollection](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%203%3A18%E2%80%9322&version=BSB) Joshua renews Moses’ requirement that the eastern tribes help their brothers. [Deuteronomy 31:7–8 · teaching](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2031%3A7%E2%80%938&version=BSB) Moses had already encouraged Joshua to lead Israel into the land. ## Location evidence The plains of Moab provide the wider camp setting before the crossing, not a located site of the commissioning. Event map marker: Approximate region; \[longitude, latitude\] = \[35.64, 31.85\]. This is a teaching marker, not an exact event venue. Plains of Moab: Approximate region. Coordinates \[longitude, latitude\]: \[35.64, 31.85\]. Classification source: editorial. Illustrative regional extent: \[\[35.56,31.77\],\[35.7,31.91\]\]; not a measured confidence interval. [Numbers 33:48–49 · extent of the camp](https://ebible.org/eng-web/NUM33.htm) [Numbers 33:48–49 · extent of the camp](https://ebible.org/eng-web/NUM33.htm) ## For the class How does Joshua’s charge connect courage with listening to God? ## Interpretation and reuse Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review. Record source: editorial (content/authored/conquest-judges.json) Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0. Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas. Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm [Use this atlas with AI / data documentation](https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/ai/)