Joshua 1:11

Prepare you victuals The word denotes (a) food got in hunting;(b) food of any kind, especially provisions for a journey. Comp. Exodus 12:39, "neither had they prepared for themselves any victual;" Joshua 9:11; Joshua 9:14; Judges 7:8, "So the people took victualsin their hands, and their trumpets;" 1 Samuel 22:10, "And he inquired of the Lord for him, and gave him victuals." The need of the provision on this occasion is explained by the cessation of the Manna. See below, ch. Joshua 5:12.

within three days Comp. ch. Joshua 3:1-2. The order appears to have been given on the 7th day of the month Nisan, for the people crossed the Jordan on the 10th. The expedition, therefore, of the spies occupied from the 5th to the 8th of the month, and the message to the eastern tribes was sent during the same interval.