Joshua proceeded immediately to carry out Moses’ program. He did not feel it necessary to alter the general plan and initiate a new program of his own, to make a name for himself, as so often happens today in both the political and the religious world. He did not, for instance, seek to win friends for himself by releasing the two and one half tribes from their obligation. Rather, he reminded them of their promise. They kept their word at no small cost of toil and danger, and furnished thereby a perpetual lesson for those, who, having made a promise under great pressure, are tempted to retire from it when the pressure is removed.