31 occurrences in 12 translations

'Happened' in the Bible

Now it happened after the death of Moses the servant of Yahweh, that Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' servant, saying,

Verse Conceptslosing a loved oneDeath Of A Family MemberDeath Of A ChildDeath Of Loved OneLoss Of A Loved Onebridges

It happened about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out. Where the men went, I don't know. Pursue them quickly; for you will overtake them."

Verse ConceptsGatesShutting Gates

Then the men returned, came down from the hill country, and crossed the Jordan. They went to Joshua son of Nun and reported everything that had happened to them.

Verse ConceptsTelling Of Happenings

It happened after three days, that the officers went through the midst of the camp;

And it happened, when the people set out from their tents to cross [over] the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant were {ahead of the people}.

Verse ConceptsThings Going BeforePriests In Action

It happened, when all the nation had completely passed over the Jordan, that Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

Verse ConceptsCrossing Into The Promised Land

And it happened, when all the people had finished crossing, the ark of Yahweh and the priests crossed [over] in front of the people.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, Names ForThe Ark Moved Around

And it happened that when the priests carrying the ark came up from the middle of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet {touched dry land}, the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and flowed over all its banks as before.

Verse ConceptsMiracles Of JoshuaPriests In Action

And it happened, when all the kings of the Amorites who [were] beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanites who [were] by the sea heard that Yahweh dried up the waters of the Jordan in front of the {Israelites} until they crossed [over], their hearts melted, and {there was no courage left in them} because of the presence of the {Israelites}.

Verse ConceptsIndependencedrynessWestMeltingDry LandBeyond JordanLosing CourageOvercoming Obstacles

And it happened, when all the nation had finished circumcising, they remained where they were in the camp until they recovered.

Verse ConceptsHope And Healing

Now it happened that while Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and much to his amazement, he saw a man standing in front of him, holding a drawn sword in his hand! Joshua approached him and asked him, "Are you one of us, or are you with our enemies?"

Verse ConceptsStandingGod's Sword

It happened on the seventh day, that they rose early at the dawning of the day, and marched around the city in the same way seven times. Only on this day they marched around the city seven times.

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

It happened at the seventh time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, "Shout, for Yahweh has given you the city!

Verse ConceptsBattle CriesTrumpets For BattleThose God Gave Into Their Hands

So the people shouted, and the priests blew the trumpets. It happened, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

Verse ConceptsFortificationsInvasionsShouting For JoyConquestChantingNot Turning AsidePeople TumblingBattle CriesTrumpets For BattleThings Fallingdrums

When the king of Ai saw what had happened, he and his army quickly got up early and went out to meet Israel in battle. He and all his people met at the place adjacent to the desert plain. But he didn't know about the ambush that had been set for him on the other side of the city.

Verse ConceptsNot Knowing The FutureThose Who Rose Early

It happened, when Israel had made an end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they had all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.

Verse ConceptsCarnageConquest

It happened, when 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 it

Verse ConceptsMediterranean SeaBeyond JordanGentile RulersThe Shephelah

And it happened that at the end of three days, after they made a covenant with them, they heard that {they were their neighbors} and living among them.

Verse ConceptsNeighbours

And it happened that when Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua captured Ai and had utterly destroyed it (just as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he did to Ai and its king) and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them,

Verse ConceptsAi, The CityTreatyAnnihilation

It happened, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, that Yahweh cast down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died. There were more who died from the hailstones than who the children of Israel killed with the sword.

Verse ConceptsHailSkyWeather, As God's JudgmentGod KillingIsrael FleeingGod Killed The Peoples

It happened, when Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

Verse ConceptsCityCarnageExterminationSurvivors Of The Nations

It happened, when they brought those kings out 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 on the necks of these kings." They came near, and put their feet on their necks.

Verse ConceptsFeetNecksSubjectionCare Of FeetThose Subjected To People

And it happened {at the time of sunset}, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden themselves, and they put large stones against the mouth of the cave, [which are there] to this very day.

Verse ConceptsSunsetsCaves For BuryingCorpses Of Other PeoplePlaces To This Day

And it happened, when Jabin king of Hazor heard [this], he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Acshaph,

As it happened, my fellow Israelis who went up with me terrified the people, but I fully followed the LORD my God.

Verse ConceptsCowardiceFollowing GodLosing Courage

It happened, when she came, that she had him ask her father fore a field. She got off of her donkey, and Caleb said, "What do you want?"

And it happened, when the {Israelites} grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor but never drove them out completely.

Verse ConceptsNot Driving Them OutForced Labour

Isn't the evil that happened at Peor enough for us, from which we have yet to be completely cleansed even to this point, and because of which a plague came upon the community of the LORD?

Verse ConceptsPurifying Oneself

And it happened, after {a long time}, after Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all their surrounding enemies, and [after] Joshua was old and {well-advanced in years},

Verse ConceptsTime Of Peace

"Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it.

Verse ConceptsGod, Faithfulness OfConfidence, In God's WordCertaintyAssurance in the life of faithGod's PromisesBible MemorizationPromises To Stand onNearness Of DeathDeath Will Soon HappenPromises concerning

It happened after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred and ten years old.

Verse ConceptsAge, Lived Over 100Servanthood, In Life Of BelieversDeath Of The Saints, Examples OfAge At Death

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