COMMENTARY from David Guzik @ blueletterbible.org: "I will be with you: Victory is assured not because Joshua is a great leader, or because Israel is a great nation, but because God is a great God, and He says to Joshua, I will be with you. This is enough for any man seeking to do God's will."
COMMENTARY from Jamieson, Faussett and Brown @ blueletterbible.org: "Canaan was theirs 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 on his firm and inflexible adherence to the law of God, not only that regarding the extirpation of the Canaanites, but the whole divine code."
A PERSONAL OBSERVATION: This is another important verse that doesn't contain the words "Fear not," but it is definitely understood to be a FACT that Joshua has no need to fear what he might be coming up against because it is God, the God of the universe, the God who had performed many miracles on their behalf who was speaking those very comforting and encouraging words to him!!
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