 The characterization of Joshua as Moses's "assistant" (, "mesharet") in echoes ("his assistant," , "mesharto"), ("his assistant," , "mesharto"), and (Moses's "assistant," , "mesharet").God charged Moses to commission Joshua in 

God's reference to Moses as "my servant" (, "avdi") in and echoes God's application of the same term to Abraham, Moses, and Caleb.And later, God used the term to refer to Moses David, Isaiah, Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, Israel, Nebuchadnezzar, Zerubbabel, the Branch, and Job,

God's promise in to give Joshua "every spot on which your foot treads" echoes the same promise by Moses to the Israelites in And God's promise to Joshua in that "no man shall be able to stand before you" echoes the same promise by Moses to the Israelites in 
God's encouragement to Joshua to be "strong and resolute" (, "chazak ve-ematz") in is repeated by God to Joshua in and and by the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh to Joshua in These exhortations echo the same encouragement that Moses gave the Israelites (in the plural) in and that Moses gave Joshua in and Note also God's instruction to Moses to "charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him" in And later Joshua exhorted the Israelites to be "strong and resolute" (in the plural) in and David encouraged his son and successor Solomon with the same words in and 

God's admonishes Joshua in "to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses My servant commanded you; turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.