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Jamieson, Fausset & Brown on Deuteronomy 34:9

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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown · 19th-century historical commentary
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Joshua . . . was full of the spirit of wisdom--He was appointed to a peculiar and extraordinary office. He was not the successor of Moses, for he was not a prophet or civil ruler, but the general or leader, called to head the people in the war of invasion and the subsequent allocation of the tribes.
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