Now it happened after the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, that Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,
Not only that, this expression, `Jehovah spake unto Joshua,' is the equivalent in the earlier books of the O.T. of the constantly recurring expression in the later prophets, `thus saith the Lord.' This distinguishes the literature of the Hebrews from that of all other nations, and marks out the Jewish claim of having in their possession in a very special way the true will of Almighty God.  As Dummelow said, "This is one of the most obvious indications of what we call inspiration  ... the importance of this does not derive from any knowledge of how God spoke to Joshua, but in its testimony to the fact of it."[5]