 It begins with Joshua, son of Nun, being described according to the criteria of the Deuteronomist, meditating on the law of Moses day and night and refusing to turn either to the right or to the left. He leads an unusually obedient nation of Israel in a brutal holy war against the indigenous peoples of the land they believe God has set aside for them, culminating in Joshua distributing the land and renewing the covenant like an idealized king, the mythic model for the sions of the House of David.