Bible verses about "joshua" | MLV

⁸ of the tribe of Ephraim, Hoshea the son of Nun;

⁸ And it will be, when you* have seized upon the city, that you* will set the city on fire. According to the word of Jehovah will you* do. See, I have commanded you*.

¹ And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and called for the elders of Israel and for their heads and for their judges and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
² And Joshua said to all the people, Jehovah says thus, the God of Israel: Your* fathers dwelt of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor and they served other gods. ³ And I took your* father Abraham from beyond the River and led him throughout all the land of Canaan and multiplied his seed and gave him Isaac. ⁴ And I gave to Isaac, Jacob and Esau. And I gave to Esau Mount Seir to possess it. And Jacob and his sons went down into Egypt.
⁵ And I sent Moses and Aaron and I plagued Egypt, according to what I did in the midst of it and afterward I brought you* out. ⁶ And I brought your* fathers out of Egypt. And you* came to the sea and the Egyptians pursued after your* fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea. ⁷ And when they cried out to Jehovah, he put darkness between you* and the Egyptians and brought the sea upon them and covered them. And your* eyes saw what I did in Egypt and you* dwelt in the wilderness many days.
⁸ And I brought you* into the land of the Amorites, who dwelt beyond the Jordan. And they fought with you*. And I gave them into your* hand and you* possessed their land and I destroyed them from before you*.
⁹ Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. And he sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you*, ¹⁰ but I would not listen to Balaam. Therefore he blessed you* greatly. So I delivered you* out of his hand.
¹¹ And you* went over the Jordan and came to Jericho. And the men of Jericho fought against you*, the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Girgashite, the Hivite and the Jebusite. And I delivered them into your* hand. ¹² And I sent the hornet before you*, which drove them out from before you*, even the two kings of the Amorites, not with your sword, nor with your bow.
¹³ And I gave you* a land in which you had not labored and cities which you* did not build and you* dwell in it. You* eat of vineyards and olive-groves which you* did not plant.
¹⁴ Now therefore fear Jehovah and serve him in sincerity and in truth. And put away the gods which your* fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt and serve you* Jehovah.
¹⁵ And if it seems evil to you* to serve Jehovah, choose you* this day whom you* will serve: whether the gods which your* fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you* dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.
¹⁶ And the people answered and said, Far be it from us that we should forsake Jehovah, to serve other gods. ¹⁷ For Jehovah our God, he it is who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage and who did those great signs in our sight and preserved us in all the way in which we went and among all the peoples through the midst of whom we passed. ¹⁸ And Jehovah drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who dwelt in the land. Therefore we also will serve Jehovah, for he is our God.
¹⁹ And Joshua said to the people, You* cannot serve Jehovah, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your* transgression nor your* sins. ²⁰ If you* forsake Jehovah and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you* evil and consume you*, after he has done you* good. ²¹ And the people said to Joshua, No, but we will serve Jehovah.
²² And Joshua said to the people, You* are witnesses against yourselves that you* have chosen for you*, Jehovah, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses. ²³ Now therefore, he said, put away the foreign gods which are among you* and incline your* heart to Jehovah, the God of Israel. ²⁴ And the people said to Joshua, we will serve Jehovah our God and we will listen to his voice.
²⁵ So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
²⁶ And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God. And he took a great stone and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Jehovah.
²⁷ And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of Jehovah which he spoke to us. It will be therefore a witness against you*, lest you* deny your* God.
²⁸ So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.
²⁹ And it happened after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died, being a hundred and ten years old. ³⁰ And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-Serah, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
³¹ And Israel served Jehovah all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua and had known all the work of Jehovah that he had worked for Israel. ³² And they buried the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the portion of the land which Jacob bought from the Amorites who dwelt in Shechem for a hundred ewe-lambs. And he gave it to Joseph for a portion.
³³ And Eleazar the son of Aaron died. And they buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill-country of Ephraim.

¹ And it happened, when 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 that Jehovah had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the sons of Israel until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the sons of Israel.
² At that time Jehovah said to Joshua, Make for you knives of flint and circumcise again the sons of Israel the second time. ³ And Joshua made him knives of flint and circumcised the sons of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
⁴ And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised: All the people who came forth out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way after they came forth out of Egypt. ⁵ For all the people who came out were circumcised, but all the people who were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, they had not circumcised.
⁶ For the sons of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness till all the nation, even the men of war who came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not listen to the voice of Jehovah, to whom Jehovah swore that he would not let them see the land which Jehovah swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey. ⁷ And their sons, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised, for they were uncircumcised because they had not circumcised them by the way.
⁸ And it happened, when they had done circumcising all the nation, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were recovered. ⁹ And Jehovah said to Joshua, This day I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you*. Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal, to this day.
¹⁰ And the sons of Israel encamped in Gilgal. And they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho. ¹¹ And they ate of the produce of the land on the morrow after the Passover, unleavened cakes and parched grain, in the same day. ¹² And the manna ceased on the morrow, after they had eaten of the produce of the land. Neither had the sons of Israel manna any more, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
¹³ And it happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there stood a man 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?
¹⁴ And he said, No, but as captain of the army of Jehovah I have now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said to him, What does my lord say to his servant? ¹⁵ And the captain of Jehovah's army said to Joshua, Put off your shoe from your foot, for the place on which you stand is holy. And Joshua did so.

¹ Now it happened, when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken 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 how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them, ² that they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities and because it was greater than Ai and all the men of it were mighty.
³ Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hoham king of Hebron and to Piram king of Jarmuth and to Japhia king of Lachish and to Debir king of Eglon, saying, ⁴ Come up to me and help me and let us kill* Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and with the sons of Israel.
⁵ Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together and went up, they and all their armies and encamped against Gibeon and made war against it. ⁶ And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not your hand from your servants. Come up to us quickly and save us and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the hill-country are gathered together against us.
⁷ So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him and all the mighty men of valor. ⁸ And Jehovah said to Joshua, Fear them not, for I have delivered them into your hands. There will not a man of them stand before you.
⁹ Joshua therefore came upon them suddenly, for he went up from Gilgal all the night. ¹⁰ And Jehovah confused them before Israel and he killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon and killed* them to Azekah and to Makkedah.
¹¹ And it happened, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth-horon, that Jehovah cast down great stones from heaven upon them to Azekah and they died. More died with the hailstones than those whom the sons of Israel killed with the sword.
¹² Then Joshua spoke to Jehovah in the day when Jehovah delivered up the Amorites before the sons of Israel. And he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand still upon Gibeon and you, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon.
¹³ And the sun stood still and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Is this not written in the book of Jashar? And the sun stayed in the midst of heaven and hastened not to go down about a whole day. ¹⁴ And there was no day like that before it or after it, that Jehovah listened to the voice of a man, for Jehovah fought for Israel.
¹⁵ And Joshua returned and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal. ¹⁶ And these five kings fled and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah. ¹⁷ And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hidden in the cave at Makkedah. ¹⁸ And Joshua said, Roll great stones to the mouth of the cave and set men by it to keep them, ¹⁹ but stay you* not. Pursue after your* enemies and kill* the hindmost of them. Do not allow them to enter into their cities, for Jehovah your* God has delivered them into your* hand.
²⁰ And it happened, when Joshua and the sons of Israel had made an end of killing them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities, ²¹ that all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace. No man moved his tongue against any of the sons of Israel.
²² Then Joshua said, Open the mouth of the cave and bring forth those five kings to me out of the cave. ²³ And they did so and brought out those five kings to him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon.
²⁴ And it happened, when they brought out those kings to Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, Come near, put your* feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near and put their feet upon the necks of them.
²⁵ And Joshua said to them, Do not fear, nor be dismayed. Be strong and of good courage, for thus will Jehovah do to all your* enemies against whom you* fight. ²⁶ And afterward Joshua killed* them and put them to death and hanged them on five trees. And they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.
²⁷ And it happened at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded and they took them down off the trees and cast them into the cave in which they had hidden themselves and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, to this very day.
²⁸ And Joshua took Makkedah on that day and killed* it with the edge of the sword and the king of it. He utterly destroyed them and all the souls that were in it. He left none remaining and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
²⁹ And Joshua passed from Makkedah and all Israel with him, to Libnah and fought against Libnah. ³⁰ And Jehovah delivered it also and the king of it, into the hand of Israel. And he killed* it with the edge of the sword and all the souls that were in it. He left none remaining in it and he did to the king of it as he had done to the king of Jericho.
³¹ And Joshua passed from Libnah and all Israel with him, to Lachish and encamped against it and fought against it. ³² And Jehovah delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel. And he took it on the second day and killed* it with the edge of the sword and all the souls that were in it, according to all that he had done to Libnah. ³³ Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish. And Joshua killed* him and his people until he had left him none remaining.
³⁴ And Joshua passed from Lachish and all Israel with him, to Eglon. And they encamped against it and fought against it. ³⁵ And they took it on that day and killed* it with the edge of the sword. And all the souls that were in it he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.
³⁶ And Joshua went up from Eglon and all Israel with him, to Hebron. And they fought against it, ³⁷ and they took it and killed* it with the edge of the sword and the king of it and all the cities of it and all the souls that were in it. He left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon, but he utterly destroyed it and all the souls that were in it.
³⁸ And Joshua returned and all Israel with him, to Debir and fought against it. ³⁹ And he took it and the king of it and all the cities of it. And they killed* them with the edge of the sword and utterly destroyed all the souls that were in it. He left none remaining. As he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and to the king of it, as he had done also to Libnah and to the king of it.
⁴⁰ So Joshua killed* all the land, the hill-country and the South and the lowland and the slopes and all their kings. He left none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Jehovah, the God of Israel, commanded. ⁴¹ And Joshua killed* them from Kadesh-barnea even to Gaza and all the country of Goshen, even to Gibeon. ⁴² And all these kings and their land Joshua took at one time, because Jehovah, the God of Israel, fought for Israel. ⁴³ And Joshua returned and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.

¹⁵ And if it seems evil to you* to serve Jehovah, choose you* this day whom you* will serve: whether the gods which your* fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you* dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.

¹ And Joshua rose up early in the morning. And they moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the sons of Israel and they lodged there before they passed over. ² And it happened after three days, that the officers went through the midst of the camp, ³ and they commanded the people, saying, When you* see the ark of the covenant of Jehovah your* God and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you* will move from your* place and go after it.
⁴ Yet there will be a space between you* and it, about two thousand cubits by measure. Do not come near to it, that you* may know the way by which you* must go, for you* have not passed this way yesterday and the day before.
⁵ And Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow Jehovah will do wonders among you*. ⁶ And Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.
⁷ And Jehovah said to Joshua, This day I will begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. ⁸ And you will command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When you* have come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you* will stand still in the Jordan.
⁹ And Joshua said to the sons of Israel, Come here and hear the words of Jehovah your* God. ¹⁰ And Joshua said, Hereby you* will know that the living God is among you* and that he will without fail drive out from before you* the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Hivite and the Perizzite and the Girgashite and the Amorite and the Jebusite.
¹¹ Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you* into the Jordan. ¹² Now therefore take for you* twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man. ¹³ And it will happen, when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Jehovah, the Lord of all the earth, will rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan will be cut off, even the waters that come down from above and they will stand in one heap.
¹⁴ And it happened, when the people moved from their tents to pass over the Jordan–the priests who bore the ark of the covenant being before the people– ¹⁵ and when those who bore the ark came to the Jordan and the feet of the priests who bore the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest), ¹⁶ that the waters which came down from above, stood and rose up in one heap a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were entirely cut off. And the people passed over right against Jericho.
¹⁷ And the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Jehovah stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan and all Israel passed over on dry ground until all the nation were passed clean over the Jordan.

⁹ Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage. Do not be frightened, neither be dismayed, for Jehovah your God is with you wherever you go.

¹ The man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers is fortunate, ² because his delight is in the law of Jehovah and on his law he meditates day and night.
³ And he will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. And whatever he does will prosper.
⁴ The wicked are not so, because they are like the chaff which the wind drives away. ⁵ Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment, nor sinners in the congregation of the righteous.
⁶ Because Jehovah knows the way of the righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish.

¹⁸ There is no fear in love, but mature love casts out the fear, because the fear has punishment, and he who fears has not been matured in love.

⁶ And Joshua the son of Nun and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, who were of those who spied out the land, tore their clothes. ⁷ And they spoke to all the congregation of the sons of Israel, saying, The land, which we passed through to spy it out, is an exceedingly good land. ⁸ If Jehovah delights in us, then he will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land which flows with milk and honey. ⁹ Only do not rebel against Jehovah, neither fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their defense is removed from over them and Jehovah is with us. Fear them not. ¹⁰ But all the congregation commanded, stone them with stones. And the glory of Jehovah appeared in the tent of meeting to all the sons of Israel.

¹ And the whole congregation of the sons of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh and set up the tent of meeting there and the land was subdued before them. ² And seven tribes remained among the sons of Israel, which had not yet divided their inheritance.
³ And Joshua said to the sons of Israel, How long are you* slack to go in to possess the land, which Jehovah, the God of your* fathers, has given you*? ⁴ Appoint for you* three men of each tribe. And I will send them and they will arise and walk through the land and describe it according to their inheritance and they will come to me.
⁵ And they will divide it into seven portions: Judah will abide in his border on the south and the house of Joseph will abide in their border on the north. ⁶ And you* will describe the land into seven portions and bring it here to me. And I will cast lots for you* here before Jehovah our God. ⁷ For the Levites have no portion among you*, for the priesthood of Jehovah is their inheritance and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of Jehovah gave them.
⁸ And the men arose and went. And Joshua charged those who went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land and describe it and come again to me. And I will cast lots for you* here before Jehovah in Shiloh. ⁹ And the men went and passed through the land and described it by cities into seven portions in a book. And they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh.
¹⁰ And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Jehovah. And there Joshua divided the land to the sons of Israel according to their divisions.
¹¹ And the lot of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin came up according to their families and the border of their lot went out between the sons of Judah and the sons of Joseph.
¹² And their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north and went up through the hill-country westward. And the goings out of it were at the wilderness of Beth-aven. ¹³ And the border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (what is Bethel), southward and the border went down to Ataroth-addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth-horon the nether.
¹⁴ And the border extended and turned around on the west quarter southward, from the mountain that lies before Beth-horon southward. And the goings out of it were at Kiriath-baal (what is Kiriath-jearim), a city of the sons of Judah. This was the west quarter.
¹⁵ And the south quarter was from the uttermost part of Kiriath-jearim and the border went out westward and went out to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah, ¹⁶ and the border went down to the uttermost part of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the vale of Rephaim northward and it went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward and went down to En-rogel, ¹⁷ and it extended northward and went out at En-shemesh and went out to Geliloth, which is opposite the ascent of Adummim and it went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben, ¹⁸ and it passed along to the side opposite the Arabah northward and went down to the Arabah, ¹⁹ and the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward. And the goings out of the border were at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan. This was the south border.
²⁰ And the Jordan was the border of it on the east quarter. This was the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin, by the borders of it all around, according to their families.
²¹ Now the cities of the tribe of the sons of Benjamin according to their families were: Jericho and Beth-hoglah and Emek-keziz, ²² and Beth-arabah and Zemaraim and Bethel, ²³ and Avvim and Parah and Ophrah, ²⁴ and Chephar-ammoni and Ophni and Geba; twelve cities with their villages. ²⁵ Gibeon and Ramah and Beeroth, ²⁶ and Mizpeh and Chephirah and Mozah, ²⁷ and Rekem and Irpeel and Taralah, ²⁸ and Zelah, Eleph and the Jebusite (what is Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kiriath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin according to their families.

¹ Now it happened after the death of Moses the servant of Jehovah, that Jehovah spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying, ² Moses my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I give to them, even to the sons of Israel.
³ Every place that the sole of your* foot will tread upon, to you* I have given it, as I spoke to Moses. ⁴ From the wilderness and this Lebanon, even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, will be your* border.
⁵ There will not any man be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you, nor forsake you. ⁶ Be strong and of good courage, for you will cause this people to inherit the land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
⁷ Only be strong and very courageous to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you. Turn not from it, neither to the right hand or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
⁸ This book of the law will not depart out of your mouth, but you will meditate on it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then you will make your way prosperous and then you will have good success.
⁹ Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage. Do not be frightened, neither be dismayed, for Jehovah your God is with you wherever you go.
¹⁰ Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying, ¹¹ Pass through the midst of the camp and command the people, saying, Prepare food for you*, for within three days you* are to pass over this Jordan to go in to possess the land, which Jehovah your* God gives you* to possess it.
¹² And to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua spoke, saying, ¹³ Remember the word which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you*, saying, Jehovah your* God gives you* rest and will give you* this land. ¹⁴ Your* wives, your* little ones and your* cattle, will abide in the land which Moses gave you* beyond the Jordan, but you* will pass over before your* brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor and will help them ¹⁵ until Jehovah has given your* brothers rest, as you* and they also have possessed the land which Jehovah your* God gives them. Then you* will return to the land of your* possession and possess it, which Moses the servant of Jehovah gave you* beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise.
¹⁶ And they answered Joshua, saying, All that you have commanded us we will do and wherever you send us we will go. ¹⁷ Just-as we listened to Moses in all things, so will we listen to you. Only Jehovah your God be with you, as he was with Moses. ¹⁸ Whoever he is who will rebel against your commandment and will not listen to your words in all that you command him, he will be put to death. Only be strong and of good courage.