Thus, the male leadership established by the Book of the Law is evident throughout Joshua. Here are a few examples:
- Officers organize the people for entering Canaan (Joshua 1:10; 3:2).
- Men go to war, leaving the women and children (Joshua 1:14-15; 7:2, 4; 14:13).
- Priests are prominent in marches (Joshua 3:3-6; 6:4-16).
- God has twelve men build the Jordan monument (Joshua 4:1-9).
- Children will ask their fathers about the monument (Joshua 4:21).
- Joshua publicly reads the law to elders, officers, judges and all the people (Joshua 8:33-35).
- “Heads of the fathers’ houses” receive cities (Joshua 21:1-3).
- Joshua summons elders, heads, judges and officers (Joshua 23:1-2; 24:1).
- A review lists fathers: Terah, Abraham, Nahor, Isaac, Jacob, Esau, Moses and Aaron (Joshua 24:2-5).
- An angel appears in the form of a man (Joshua 5:13-15).