Category Archives: JOSHUA

God’s Commission to Joshua 1 Now it happened after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, that the Lordspoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ servant (attendant), saying, 2 “Moses My servant is dead; now thereforearise [to take his place], cross over this Jordan, you and all this people, into the land […]

Rahab Shelters Spies 1 Joshua the son of Nun sent two men as scouts secretly from Shittim, saying, “Go, view the land, especiallyJericho [the walled city].” So they went and came to the house of a prostitute named Rahab, and lodged there. 2 Now the king of Jericho was told, “Behold, men from the sons […]

Israel Crosses the Jordan 1 Joshua got up early in the morning; then he and all the children of Israel set out from Shittim and came to the Jordan, and they spent the night there before they crossed [the river]. 2 And it happened at the end of three days that the officers went throughout […]

Memorial Stones from Jordan 1 So it was when all the nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the Lordsaid to Joshua, 2 “Take for yourselves the twelve men [chosen] from among the people, one man from each tribe, 3 and command them, ‘Pick up for yourselves twelve stones [one each] from here out of the […]

Israel Is Circumcised 1 Now it happened when all the kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard that the Lordhad dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their hearts […]

The Conquest of Jericho 1 Now Jericho [a fortified city with high walls] was tightly closed because [of the people’s fear] of the sons of Israel; no one went out or came in. 2 The Lordsaid to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty warriors. 3 Now […]

Israel Is Defeated at Ai 1 But the sons of Israel acted unfaithfullyandviolated their obligation in regard to the things [off limits] under the ban [those things belonging to the Lord], for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, took some of the things […]

The Conquest of Ai 1 Now the Lordsaid to Joshua, “Do not fear or be dismayed (intimidated). Take all the men of war with you and set out, go up to Ai; see, I have given the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land into your hand. 2 You shall do [the […]

Guile of the Gibeonites 1 Now when all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country and in the lowland [at the western edge of the hills of Judea], and all along the coast of the Great [Mediterranean] Sea toward Lebanon, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite […]

Five Kings Attack Gibeon 1 When Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai, and had utterly destroyed it–as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king–and that the residents of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were [living] among them, 2 he […]