THE BOOK OF JOSHUA |
For the LORD your God, He is God in heaven above and on earth beneath. -- 2:11 When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout and the wall fell down flat... -- 6:20 And the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day. There was no day like that before it or after it, when the LORD listened to the voice of a man; for the LORD fought for Israel. -- 10:14 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had spoken to Moses, and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Thus the land had rest from war. -- 11:23 But to the tribe of Levi, Moses did not give an inheritance; the LORD, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as He had promised to them. -- 13:33 Not one of the good promises which the LORD had made to the house of Israel failed; all came to pass. -- 21:45 Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, to love the LORD your God and walk in all His ways and keep His commandments and hold fast to Him and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul. -- 22:5 Choose for yourselves today whom you will serve ... but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. -- 24:15 The people said to Joshua,
"We will serve the LORD our God and we will obey His voice." -- 24:24
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THE LORD YOUR GOD IS WITH YOU This book of the law shall
not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night,
so that you may be careful to do according to all that is written in it;
for then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have success.
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be
dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go. -- 1:8-9
CROSSING THE JORDAN RIVER And the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan while all Israel crossed on dry ground, until all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan. -- 3:17 So Joshua called the twelve men whom he had appointed from the sons of Israel, one man from each tribe; and Joshua said to them, "Cross again to the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel. Let this be a sign among you, so that when your children ask later, saying, "What do these stones mean to you?" then you shall say to them, "Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it crossed the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off." So these stones shall become a memorial to the sons of Israel forever. -- 4:4-7 Then Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan at the place where the feet of the priests who carried the ark of the covenant were standing, and they are there to this day. -- 4:9 It came about when the priests
who carried the ark of the covenant of the LORD had come up from the middle
of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up to the
dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to their place, and
went over all its banks as before. Now the people came up from the
Jordan on the tenth of the first month and camped at Gilgal on the eastern
edge of Jericho. Those twelve stones which they had taken from the
Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal. He said to the sons of Israel, "When
your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, 'What are these
stones?' then you shall inform your children, saying, 'Israel crossed this
Jordan on dry ground.' For the LORD your God dried up the waters
of the Jordan before you until you had crossed, just as the LORD your God
had done to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed;
that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is
mighty, so that you may fear the LORD your God forever." -- 4:18-24
GILGAL Then the LORD said to Joshua,
"Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." So the name
of that place is called Gilgal to this day. While the sons of Israel
camped at Gilgal they observed the Passover on the evening of the fourteenth
THE LORD OF HOSTS Now it came about when Joshua
was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man
was standing opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand, and Joshua
went to him and said to him, "Are you for us or for our adversaries?"
He said, "No; rather I indeed come now as captain of the host of the LORD."
And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and bowed down, and said to him,
"What has my lord to say to his servant?" The captain of the LORD'S
host said to Joshua, "Remove your sandals from your feet, for the place
where you are standing is holy." And Joshua did so. -- 5:13-15
THE CITY OF JERICHO The LORD said to Joshua, "See,
I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the valiant warriors.
You shall march around the city, all the men of war circling the city once.
You shall do so for six days. Also seven priests shall carry seven
trumpets of rams' horns before the ark; then on the seventh day you shall
march around the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
It shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when
you hear the sound of the
The seven priests carrying
the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually,
and blew the trumpets; and the armed men went before them and the rear
guard came after the ark of the LORD, while they continued to blow the
trumpets. Thus the second day they marched around the city once and
returned to the camp; they did so for six days.
So the people shouted, and priests blew the trumpets; and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great shout and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight ahead, and they took the city. -- 6:20 Then Joshua made them take
an oath at that time, saying, "Cursed before the LORD is the man who rises
up and builds this city Jericho; with the loss of his firstborn he shall
lay its foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son he shall set
up its gates." -- 6:26
THE ALTAR AT MOUNT EBAL Then Joshua built an altar
to the LORD, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant
of the LORD had commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book
of
THE SUN STOOD STILL And the LORD confounded them
before Israel, and He slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and pursued
them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and struck them as far as Azekah
and Makkedah. As they fled from before Israel, while they were at
the descent of Beth-horon, the LORD threw large
THE DIVISION OF THE LAND So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD had spoken to Moses, and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Thus the land had rest from war. -- 11:23 But to the tribe of Levi, Moses did not give an inheritance; the LORD, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as He had promised to them. -- 13:33 Now as for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could not drive them out; so the Jebusites live with the sons of Judah at Jerusalem until this day. -- 15:63 It came about when the sons of Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but they did not drive them out completely. -- 17:13 Then the whole congregation of the sons of Israel assembled themselves at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting there; and the land was subdued before them. -- 18:1 So the LORD gave Israel all
the land which He had sworn to give to their fathers, and they possessed
it and lived in it. And the LORD gave them rest on every side, according
to all that He had sworn to their fathers, and no one of all their enemies
stood before them; the LORD gave all their enemies into their hand.
Not one of the good promises which the LORD had made to the house of Israel
failed; all came to pass. -- 21:43-45
THE ALTAR BY THE JORDAN But truly we have done this
out of concern, for a reason, saying, "In time to come your sons may say
to our sons, 'What have you to do with the LORD, the God of Israel?
For the LORD has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you sons
of Reuben and sons of Gad; you have no portion in the LORD.'" So your sons
may make our sons stop fearing the LORD. Therefore we said, "Let
us build an altar, not for burnt offering or for sacrifice; rather it shall
be a witness between us and you and between our generations after us, that
we are to perform the service of the LORD before Him with our burnt offerings,
and with our sacrifices and with our peace offerings, so that your sons
will not say to our sons in time to come, 'You have no portion in the LORD.'"
Therefore we said, "It shall also come about if they say this to us or
to our generations in time to come,
The sons of Reuben and the
sons of Gad called the altar Witness; "For," they said, "it is a witness
between us that the LORD is God." -- 22:34
JOSHUA'S MESSAGE TO ISRAEL: CHOOSE TODAY Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, 'From ancient times your fathers lived beyond the River, namely, Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods. Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants and gave him Isaac. "To Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau, and to Esau I gave Mount Seir to possess it; but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt. Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt by what I did in its midst; and afterward I brought you out. I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea; and Egypt pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. But when they cried out to the LORD, He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them and covered them; and your own eyes saw what I did in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness for a long time. -- 24:2-7 ... You crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho; and the citizens of Jericho fought against you, and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Girgashite, the Hivite and the Jebusite. Thus I gave them into your hand. -- 24:22 ... I gave you a land on which
you had not labored, and cities which you had not built, and you have lived
in them; you are eating of vineyards and olive groves which you did not
plant.'
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