Joshua
Joshua 1
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ servant, saying,“Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go across this Jordan, you and all these people, to the land which I am giving to them, even to the children of Israel.I have...
Joshua 2
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Joshua the son of Nun secretly sent two men out of Shittim as spies, saying, “Go, view the land, including Jericho.” They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab, and slept there.The king of Jericho was told, “Behold, men of the children of Israel came in here tonight to...
Joshua 3
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Joshua got up early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel. They camped there before they crossed over.After three days, the officers went through the middle of the camp;and they commanded the people, saying, “When you see the ark of the LORD...
Joshua 4
Last Updated: October 10, 2026When all the nation had completely crossed over the Jordan, the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,“Take twelve men out of the people, a man out of every tribe,and command them, saying, ‘Take from out of the middle of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests’ feet stood firm, twelve stones, carry them over...
Joshua 5
Last Updated: October 10, 2026When all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel until we had crossed over, their heart melted, and there was no...
Joshua 6
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel. No one went out, and no one came in.The LORD said to Joshua, “Behold, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the mighty men of valor.All of your men of war shall march around the city, going around the...
Joshua 7
Last Updated: October 10, 2026But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore the LORD’s anger burned against the children of Israel.Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is...
Joshua 8
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD said to Joshua, “Don’t be afraid, and don’t be dismayed. Take all the warriors with you, and arise, go up to Ai. Behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, with his people, his city, and his land.You shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho...
Joshua 9
Last Updated: October 10, 2026When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of itthey gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua and with...
Joshua 10
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them,they were very afraid, because Gibeon...
Joshua 11
Last Updated: October 10, 2026When Jabin king of Hazor heard of it, he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph,and to the kings who were on the north, in the hill country, in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west,to...
Joshua 12
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward:Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge...
Joshua 13
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. The LORD said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.“This is the land that still remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even to...
Joshua 14
Last Updated: October 10, 2026These are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed to them,by the lot of their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by Moses, for the...
Joshua 15
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was to the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south.Their south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looks southward;and it went out southward...
Joshua 16
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The lot came out for the children of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill country to Bethel.It went out from Bethel to Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth;and it went down...
Joshua 17
Last Updated: October 10, 2026This was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.So this was for the rest of the children of Manasseh according to their families: for...
Joshua 18
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the Tent of Meeting there. The land was subdued before them.Seven tribes remained among the children of Israel, which had not yet divided their inheritance.Joshua said to the children of Israel, “How long will you neglect to go in...
Joshua 19
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. Their inheritance was in the middle of the inheritance of the children of Judah.They had for their inheritance Beersheba (or Sheba), Moladah,Hazar Shual, Balah, Ezem,Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah,Ziklag, Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susah,Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen...
Joshua 20
Last Updated: October 10, 2026The LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,“Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,that the man slayer who kills any person accidentally or unintentionally may flee there. They shall be to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.He shall flee to one...
Joshua 21
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then the heads of fathers’ houses of the Levites came near to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel.They spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, “The LORD commanded through Moses to give...
Joshua 22
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Then Joshua called the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh,and said to them, “You have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you.You have not left your brothers these many days to this day, but have performed the...
Joshua 23
Last Updated: October 10, 2026After many days, when the LORD had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, “I am old and well advanced in...
Joshua 24
Last Updated: October 10, 2026Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.Joshua said to all the people, “The LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah,...