And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you: (Joshua 22:2)
The words of vs. 2 and 3 recall the promise of ch. 1:16, and Joshua’s charge in v. 5 recalls that which he himself had at first received (ch. 1:7), and finds a further parallel in what he said to Israel before his death as recorded in chs. 23 and 24.