24Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges and officials of Israel, and they presented themselves before God. 2Joshua said to all the people, This is what the Lord , the God of Israel, says:...
23After a long time had passed and the Lord had given Israel rest from all their enemies around them, Joshua, by then old and well advanced in years, 2summoned all Israel-their elders, leaders, judges and officials-and said to them: I am old and well...
22Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites, the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh 2and said to them, You have done all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded, and you have obeyed me in everything I commanded. 3For a long time now-to this very...
21Now the family heads of the Levites approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the other tribal families of Israel 2at Shiloh in Canaan and said to them, The Lord commanded through Moses that you give us towns to live in, wi...
6Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in. 2Then the Lord said to Joshua, See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men. 3March around the city once with a...
5Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the Lord had dried up the Jordan before the Israelites until we had crossed over, their hearts melted and they no longer had the courage to face...
4When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua, 2Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe, 3and tell them to take up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan from right where the priests stood...
3Early in the morning Joshua and all the Israelites set out from Shittim and went to the Jordan, where they camped before crossing over. 2After three days the officers went throughout the camp, 3giving orders to the people: When you see the ark of th...
2Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim. Go, look over the land, he said, especially Jericho. So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there. 2The king of Jericho was told, Look! Some of the Israe...
1After the death of Moses the servant of the Lord , the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses' aide: 2Moses my servant is dead. Now then, you and all these people, get ready to cross the Jordan River into the land I am about to give to them-to the Is...
