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No one will be able to stand against you as long as you live. I will be with you, just as I was with Moses. I will not leave you or forsake you.

Verse ConceptsMidlife CrisisGod Of The FathersTemptation, Universality OfProtection, From GodInvincibilityAble To StandGod Not ForsakingGod With Specific PeoplePowerful Individuals

“Be strong and courageous, for you will distribute the land I swore to their fathers to give them as an inheritance.

Verse ConceptsGuidance, From Godly PeopleStrength Of PeopleGod Gave The LandBe Courageous!Be Strong!CourageCourage And Strength

“Go through the camp and tell the people, ‘Get provisions ready for yourselves, for within three days you will be crossing the Jordan to go in and take possession of the land the Lord your God is giving you to inherit.’”

Verse ConceptsCrossing Into The Promised LandRiver CrossingsPreparing Food

“Remember what Moses the Lord’s servant commanded you when he said, ‘The Lord your God will give you rest, and He will give you this land.’

Your wives, young children, and livestock may remain in the land Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan. But your fighting men must cross over in battle formation ahead of your brothers and help them

Verse ConceptsRiver CrossingsPeople HelpingBeyond JordanRules About Young People

until the Lord gives your brothers rest, as He has given you, and they too possess the land the Lord your God is giving them. You may then return to the land of your inheritance and take possession of what Moses the Lord’s servant gave you on the east side of the Jordan.”

Verse ConceptseastBeyond JordanTime Of PeaceRest

We will obey you, just as we obeyed Moses in everything. And may the Lord your God be with you, as He was with Moses.

Verse ConceptsGod Be With YouObeying People

Anyone who rebels against your order and does not obey your words in all that you command him, will be put to death. Above all, be strong and courageous!”

Verse ConceptsCourage, In Facing EnemiesRebellion, Against Human AuthorityRebellion Against God, Shown InBraveryStrength Of PeopleBe Courageous!Be Strong!Courage

At nightfall, when the gate was about to close, the men went out, and I don’t know where they were going. Chase after them quickly, and you can catch up with them!”

Verse ConceptsGatesShutting Gates

But she had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had arranged on the roof.

Verse ConceptsFlaxHousesStoringHousetopsRooftopPeople Hiding People

Before the men fell asleep, she went up on the roof

Verse ConceptsRoofRooftop

and said to them, “I know that the Lord has given you this land and that the terror of you has fallen on us, and everyone who lives in the land is panicking because of you.

Verse ConceptsPessimismEasy For PeopleLosing CourageWithout Strength

For we have heard how the Lord dried up the waters of the Red Sea before you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two Amorite kings you completely destroyed across the Jordan.

Verse ConceptsdrynessMoses, Life OfAnnihilationDry LandGod Drying Things UpA Way Through The Red SeaThe Sea DividedTwo Other Menrehabilitation

When we heard this, we lost heart, and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the Lord your God is God in heaven above and on earth below.

Verse ConceptsGod, Sovereignty OfHeart, HumanHuman EmotionBraveryLosing CourageThe Lord [Yahweh] Is GodCourageCourage And Strength

The men answered her, “We will give our lives for yours. If you don’t report our mission, we will show kindness and faithfulness to you when the Lord gives us the land.”

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsReward, HumanNegotiationDo Not TellExchange Of Individuals

Then she let them down by a rope through the window, since she lived in a house that was built into the wall of the city.

Verse ConceptsCityRopesWallsLowered From WindowsLowering People

“Go to the hill country so that the men pursuing you won’t find you,” she said to them. “Hide yourselves there for three days until they return; afterward, go on your way.”

Verse ConceptsHillsThree DaysEscaping To MountainsHiding From People

unless, when we enter the land, you tie this scarlet cord to the window through which you let us down. Bring your father, mother, brothers, and all your father’s family into your house.

Verse ConceptsCordsRed CordsGathering Friends

If anyone goes out the doors of your house, his blood will be on his own head, and we will be innocent. But if anyone with you in the house should be harmed, his blood will be on our heads.

Verse ConceptsHeadsRoadsStreetsGoing OutsideResponsibility

They told Joshua, “The Lord has handed over the entire land to us. Everyone who lives in the land is also panicking because of us.”

Verse ConceptsFaintingEasy For PeopleLosing CourageThose God Gave Into Their Hands

and commanded the people: “When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God carried by the Levitical priests, you must break camp and follow it.

Verse ConceptsThe Ark Moved AroundPriests In Action

Then he said to the priests, “Take the ark of the covenant and go on ahead of the people.” So they carried the ark of the covenant and went ahead of them.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, DescriptionThe Ark Moved AroundCrossing Into The Promised LandRiver CrossingsThings Going BeforePriests In ActionArk Of The Covenant

The Lord spoke to Joshua: “Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, so they will know that I will be with you just as I was with Moses.

Verse ConceptsAssurance, nature ofGod With Specific PeopleSource Of Honour

Command the priests carrying the ark of the covenant: When you reach the edge of the waters, stand in the Jordan.”

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesStandingMotionlessnessComing To RestWalking Through WaterIn The JordanPriests In Actionpriests

when the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth goes ahead of you into the Jordan.

Verse ConceptsThe Ark Moved AroundIn The JordanNature Of GodThings Going Before

Now choose 12 men from the tribes of Israel, one man for each tribe.

Verse ConceptsThe Number TwelveTwelve Tribes

When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, come to rest in the Jordan’s waters, its waters will be cut off. The water flowing downstream will stand up in a mass.”

Verse ConceptsEarth, Belonging To GodBearingCessationDry LandFeet In ActionIn The JordanNature Of GodThings Stopping

When the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of the people.

Verse ConceptsThings Going BeforePriests In Action

and the water flowing downstream stood still, rising up in a mass that extended as far as Adam, a city next to Zarethan. The water flowing downstream into the Sea of the Arabah (the Dead Sea) was completely cut off, and the people crossed opposite Jericho.

Verse ConceptsDead SeaCrossing Into The Promised LandRoses

The priests carrying the ark of the Lord’s covenant stood firmly on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed on dry ground until the entire nation had finished crossing the Jordan.

Verse ConceptsDry LandIn The JordanPriests In Action

“Choose 12 men from the people, one man for each tribe,

Verse ConceptsTwelve Tribes

and command them: Take 12 stones from this place in the middle of the Jordan where the priests are standing, carry them with you, and set them down at the place where you spend the night.”

Verse ConceptsStones As MonumentsTwelve ThingsIn The Jordan

So Joshua summoned the 12 men he had selected from the Israelites, one man for each tribe,

Verse ConceptsTwelve Tribes

and said to them, “Go across to the ark of the Lord your God in the middle of the Jordan. Each of you lift a stone onto his shoulder, one for each of the Israelite tribes,

Verse ConceptsThe MiddleStones As MonumentsTwelve TribesTwelve ThingsIn The Jordan

so that this will be a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask you, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’

Verse ConceptsAskingMeaning

you should tell them, ‘The waters of the Jordan were cut off in front of the ark of the Lord’s covenant. When it crossed the Jordan, the Jordan’s waters were cut off.’ Therefore these stones will always be a memorial for the Israelites.”

Verse ConceptsCessationStones As MonumentsThings Stopping

The Israelites did just as Joshua had commanded them. The 12 men took stones from the middle of the Jordan, one for each of the Israelite tribes, just as the Lord had told Joshua. They carried them to the camp and set them down there.

Verse ConceptsThe MiddleStones As MonumentsTwelve TribesTwelve ThingsIn The Jordan

Joshua also set up 12 stones in the middle of the Jordan where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant were standing. The stones are there to this day.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesThe MiddleStones As MonumentsTwelve ThingsIn The JordanPlaces To This Day

The priests carrying the ark continued standing in the middle of the Jordan until everything was completed that the Lord had commanded Joshua to tell the people, in keeping with all that Moses had commanded Joshua. The people hurried across,

Verse ConceptsThe MiddleHasty ActionPriests In Action

and after everyone had finished crossing, the priests with the ark of the Lord crossed in the sight of the people.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, Names ForThe Ark Moved Around

The Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh went in battle formation in front of the Israelites, as Moses had instructed them.

About 40,000 equipped for war crossed to the plains of Jericho in the Lord’s presence.

Verse ConceptsMilitary Serviceequipping, physicalArmourWarriorsForty Thousand And Up

On that day the Lord exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they revered him throughout his life, as they had revered Moses.

Verse ConceptsReverence, And Social BehaviourSource Of Honourreverence

When the priests carrying the ark of the Lord’s covenant came up from the middle of the Jordan, and their feet stepped out on solid ground, the waters of the Jordan resumed their course, flowing over all the banks as before.

Verse ConceptsMiracles Of JoshuaPriests In Action

The people came up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and camped at Gilgal on the eastern limits of Jericho.

Verse ConceptsCamp, Of IsraelEastern Borders

Then Joshua set up in Gilgal the 12 stones they had taken from the Jordan,

Verse ConceptsStones As MonumentsTwelve ThingsIn The Jordan

and he said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’

Verse ConceptsAskingMeaning

you should tell your children, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’

When all the Amorite kings across the Jordan to the west and all the Canaanite kings near the sea heard how the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, they lost heart and their courage failed because of the Israelites.

Verse ConceptsIndependencedrynessWestMeltingDry LandBeyond JordanLosing CourageOvercoming Obstacles

This is the reason Joshua circumcised them: All the people who came out of Egypt who were males—all the men of war—had died in the wilderness along the way after they had come out of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsDying In The WildernessDeath As PunishmentDeath Of All Males

Though all the people who came out were circumcised, none of the people born in the wilderness along the way were circumcised after they had come out of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsIsrael In The Wilderness

For the Israelites wandered in the wilderness 40 years until all the nation’s men of war who came out of Egypt had died off because they did not obey the Lord. So the Lord vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Verse ConceptsFoodProperty, LandThe Number FortyDisobedience, To GodExclusionThe Promised Land40 To 50 YearsDeath As PunishmentMilk And Honeyconsequencesmovementwandering

Joshua raised up their sons in their place; it was these he circumcised. They were still uncircumcised, since they had not been circumcised along the way.

After the entire nation had been circumcised, they stayed where they were in the camp until they recovered.

Verse ConceptsHope And Healing

While the Israelites camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month.

Verse ConceptsPassoverThe Number Fourteen

When Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in His hand. Joshua approached Him and asked, “Are You for us or for our enemies?”

Verse ConceptsStandingGod's Sword

“Neither,” He replied. “I have now come as commander of the Lord’s army.”

Then Joshua bowed with his face to the ground in worship and asked Him, “What does my Lord want to say to His servant?”

Verse ConceptsGesturesAttitudes, in prayerProstrationGod As A WarriorDivinityServant LeadershipResolving Conflictarmyreverence

Now Jericho was strongly fortified because of the Israelites—no one leaving or entering.

Verse ConceptsShutting GatesGoing Out And Coming Innegativity

March around the city with all the men of war, circling the city one time. Do this for six days.

Verse ConceptsSix DaysOrder Of MarchFalling

Have seven priests carry seven ram’s-horn trumpets in front of the ark. But on the seventh day, march around the city seven times, while the priests blow the trumpets.

Verse Conceptsequipping, physicalHornsPriests, Function In Ot TimesRamsSevenSeven PeopleSeven ThingsSeven TimesThe Ark Moved AroundTrumpets For BattleSeven TrumpetsFalling

When there is a prolonged blast of the horn and you hear its sound, have all the people give a mighty shout. Then the city wall will collapse, and the people will advance, each man straight ahead.”

Verse ConceptsFortificationsShoutingWallsBattle CriesThings Falling

So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant and have seven priests carry seven trumpets in front of the ark of the Lord.”

Verse ConceptsSeven PeopleSeven ThingsThe Ark Moved AroundSeven Trumpets

While the trumpets were blowing, the armed troops went in front of the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard went behind the ark.

But Joshua had commanded the people: “Do not shout or let your voice be heard. Don’t let one word come out of your mouth until the time I say, ‘Shout!’ Then you are to shout.”

Verse ConceptsSilenceNo ShoutingCurbing SpeechSpiritual Warfare

and the seven priests carrying seven trumpets marched in front of the ark of the Lord. While the trumpets were blowing, the armed troops went in front of them, and the rear guard went behind the ark of the Lord.

Verse ConceptsSeven PeopleSeven ThingsTrumpets For BattleSeven Trumpets

On the second day they marched around the city once and returned to the camp. They did this for six days.

Verse ConceptsSix DaysFalling

Early on the seventh day, they started at dawn and marched around the city seven times in the same way. That was the only day they marched around the city seven times.

Verse ConceptsDawnRising EarlySeven TimesThe Seventh Day Of The WeekAt DaybreakThose Who Rose EarlyDay 7Falling

But the city and everything in it are set apart to the Lord for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and everyone with her in the house will live, because she hid the men we sent.

Verse ConceptsThe AccursedHelpfulnessKillingSpiesPeople Hiding PeopleUnder The Ban

But keep yourselves from the things set apart, or you will be set apart for destruction. If you take any of those things, you will set apart the camp of Israel for destruction and bring disaster on it.

Verse ConceptsCursing IsraelUnder The Ban

So the people shouted, and the trumpets sounded. When they heard the blast of the trumpet, the people gave a great shout, and the wall collapsed. The people advanced into the city, each man straight ahead, and they captured the city.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsInvasionsShouting For JoyConquestChantingNot Turning AsidePeople TumblingBattle CriesTrumpets For BattleThings Fallingdrums

They completely destroyed everything in the city with the sword—every man and woman, both young and old, and every ox, sheep, and donkey.

Verse ConceptsSheepSwordsAnnihilationExterminationBoth Men And Animals Killedgenocide

So the young men who had scouted went in and brought out Rahab and her father, mother, brothers, and all who belonged to her. They brought out her whole family and settled them outside the camp of Israel.

Verse ConceptsOpportunities, In LifeBringing People Out Of Other Places

They burned up the city and everything in it, but they put the silver and gold and the articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the Lord’s house.

Verse ConceptsGod, As JudgeFireIronTreasureConflagrationsTreasuriesBurning Cities

However, Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, her father’s household, and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent to spy on Jericho, and she lives in Israel to this day.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsSpyingPeople Hiding PeopleWhere People Live To This Daywhores

The men of Ai struck down about 36 of them and chased them from outside the gate to the quarries, striking them down on the descent. As a result, the people’s hearts melted and became like water.

Verse ConceptsHuman EmotionHeart, HumanMeltingThirty SomeLosing Courage

Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell before the ark of the Lord with his face to the ground until evening, as did the elders of Israel; they all put dust on their heads.

Verse ConceptsTearing Of ClothesArk Of The Covenant, FunctionEveningClothing, Tearing OfHeadsProstrationSprinklingHumility, Examples OfDust On The HeadThose Who Tore Clothes

“Oh, Lord God,” Joshua said, “why did You ever bring these people across the Jordan to hand us over to the Amorites for our destruction? If only we had been content to remain on the other side of the Jordan!

Verse ConceptsSadnessCrossing Into The Promised LandGod Will Cause DefeatWhy Does God Do This?

When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. Then what will You do about Your great name?”

Verse ConceptsGod, Greatness OfGod, The LordEnemies SurroundingNames Blotted OutFor The Sake Of His Name

The Lord then said to Joshua, “Stand up! Why are you on the ground?

Verse ConceptsIndecisionGet Up!

Israel has sinned. They have violated My covenant that I appointed for them. They have taken some of what was set apart. They have stolen, deceived, and put the things with their own belongings.

Verse ConceptsRiches, Dangers OfStealingDishonesty, Examples OfBreaking The CovenantIndividuals Who LiedUnder The Ban

In the morning you must present yourselves tribe by tribe. The tribe the Lord selects is to come forward clan by clan. The clan the Lord selects is to come forward family by family. The family the Lord selects is to come forward man by man.

Verse ConceptsMorningAdministration

The one who is caught with the things set apart must be burned, along with everything he has, because he has violated the Lord’s covenant and committed an outrage in Israel.”

Verse ConceptsCremationFireDeath penaltyBurning PeopleBreaking The CovenantUnder The Ban

So Joshua sent messengers who ran to the tent, and there was the cloak, concealed in his tent, with the money underneath.

Verse ConceptsThings Under

They took the things from inside the tent, brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites, and spread them out in the Lord’s presence.

Verse ConceptsPutting Things Down

Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? Today the Lord will trouble you!” So all Israel stoned them to death. They burned their bodies, threw stones on them,

Verse ConceptsThe DeadTrouble, Causes OfDeath penaltyPunishment, Legal Aspects OfRetributionBurning PeopleTroubling Groups Of PeopleFamily Death

Treat Ai and its king as you did Jericho and its king; you may plunder its spoil and livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the city.”

Verse ConceptsCattle

He commanded them: “Pay attention. Lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it, and all of you be ready.

Verse ConceptsPeople Not Far Away

Then I and all the people who are with me will approach the city. When they come out against us as they did the first time, we will flee from them.

Verse ConceptsWarfare, Strategies In

After taking the city, set it on fire. Follow the Lord’s command—see that you do as I have ordered you.”

Verse ConceptsBurning Cities

Now Joshua had taken about 5,000 men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.

Verse ConceptsFive ThousandWest Sides

The military force was stationed in this way: the main camp to the north of the city and its rear guard to the west of the city. And that night Joshua went into the valley.

Verse ConceptsWest Sides

When the king of Ai saw the Israelites, the men of the city hurried and went out early in the morning so that he and all his people could engage Israel in battle at a suitable place facing the Arabah. But he did not know there was an ambush waiting for him behind the city.

Verse ConceptsNot Knowing The FutureThose Who Rose Early

Not a man was left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel, leaving the city exposed while they pursued Israel.

Verse ConceptsEmpty CitiesUnguarded

Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Hold out the sword in your hand toward Ai, for I will hand the city over to you.” So Joshua held out his sword toward it.

Verse ConceptsSpearsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

When he held out his hand, the men in ambush rose quickly from their position. They ran, entered the city, captured it, and immediately set it on fire.

Verse ConceptsSpearsGroups RunningBurning Cities

The men of Ai turned and looked back, and smoke from the city was rising to the sky! They could not escape in any direction, and the troops who had fled to the wilderness now became the pursuers.

Verse ConceptsFugitivesConflagrations

When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that smoke was rising from it, they turned back and struck down the men of Ai.

Then men in ambush came out of the city against them, and the men of Ai were trapped between the Israelite forces, some on one side and some on the other. They struck them down until no survivor or fugitive remained,

Verse ConceptsThe Middle