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You shall command the priests who carry the ark of the covenant, saying, ‘When you come to the edge of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.’”

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

When the soles of the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD, the Lord of the whole earth, touch the water in the Jordan River, the water that feeds the Jordan will be cut off from above and they'll stand still in a single location."

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

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

And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood still upon dry land, until all the people were clean over Jordan.

Verse ConceptsDry LandIn The JordanPriests In Action

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.

And when all the people were full circumcised, they abode still in their places in the host till they were whole.

Verse ConceptsHope And Healing

Look at our bread: it was still warm when we took it from our houses as our food for our journey on the very day we set out to come to you. But now, look how it's dry and moldy.

Verse ConceptsRepulsive FoodBreadmold

Then Joshua spoke to the Lord on the day when the Lord handed over the Amorites to the sons of Israel, and Joshua said in the sight of Israel,

“Sun, stand still at Gibeon,
And moon, in the Valley of Aijalon.”

Verse ConceptsThe SunEclipseSolar EclipseSunshine


So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped,
Until the nation [of Israel] took vengeance upon their enemies.


Is it not written in the Book of Jashar? So the sun stood still in the middle of the sky and was in no hurry to go down for about a whole day.

Verse ConceptsBooksBooks, Not PreservedSkyOne DayHistorical BooksSunSunshineThe Moonmovement

And stand ye not still, but follow after your enemies and smite the hindmost of them. And suffer them not to enter into their cities, for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hands.

Verse ConceptsPursuing PeopleSmitingThose God Gave Into Their HandsEnemy Attacks

But as for the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.

Verse ConceptsArchaeologyConflagrationsBurning Cities

Not one of the Anakim was to be seen in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, some were still living.

Verse ConceptsSurvivors Of The Nations

Now Joshua was old and advanced in years, and the Lord said to him, “You have grown old and advanced in years, and very substantial portions of the land remain to be possessed.

Verse ConceptsLand, As A Divine GiftInfirmitiesGradual Conquest Of The Land

This is the land which is still to be taken: all the country of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;

Verse Conceptsborders

But the sons of Israel did not dispossess the Geshurites or the Maacathites; for Geshur and Maacath live among Israel to this day.

Verse ConceptsNot Driving Them OutWhere People Live To This Day

I am still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. My strength for battle and for daily tasks is now as it was then.

Verse ConceptsInfirmitiesStrong IndividualsStrength In Battlefaith and strengthWarBattleAgeenergystrengh

But there were still seven tribes among the children of Israel who had not taken up their heritage.

Verse ConceptsSeven People

Now I have given to you, as the heritage of your tribes, all these nations which are still in the land, together with those cut off by me, from Jordan as far as the Great Sea on the west

Verse ConceptsMediterranean Sea

Have nothing to do with these nations who still are living among you; let not their gods be named by you or used in your oaths; do not be their servants or give them worship:

Verse ConceptsExclusivenessParticipation, In SinServanthood, And Worship Of GodSteadfastnessNot Swearing OathsAvoiding ForeignersDo Not Have Other gods

For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you:

Verse ConceptsClinging To PeopleSurvivors Of The NationsRelations With ForeignersIntermarriage

But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.

And Israel was true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the older men who were still living after Joshua's death, and had seen what the Lord had done for Israel.

Verse ConceptsExperience, of GodThe Elderlymovement