Quotes About Wisdom

On returning to Joshua, they reported, “There is no need to send all the people; two or three thousand men are enough to go up and attack Ai. Since the people of Ai are so few, you need not wear out all our people there.”

They will pursue us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ëThe Israelites are running away from us as they did before.í So as we flee from them,

They put worn, patched sandals on their feet and threadbare clothing on their bodies, and their whole supply of bread was dry and moldy.

But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you dwell near us. How can we make a treaty with you?”

“We are your servants,” they said to Joshua. Then Joshua asked them, “Who are you and where have you come from?”

Then the men of Israel sampled their provisions, but did not seek the counsel of the LORD.

Then Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said, “Why did you deceive us by telling us you live far away from us, when in fact you live among us?

Now we are in your hands. Do to us whatever seems good and right to you.”

Now behold, as the LORD promised, He has kept me alive these forty-five years since He spoke this word to Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old,

still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. As my strength was then, so it is now for war, for going out, and for coming in.

When you have mapped out the seven portions of land and brought it to me, I will cast lots for you here in the presence of the LORD our God.

A long time after the LORD had given Israel rest from all the enemies around them, when Joshua was old and well along in years,

he summoned all Israel, including its elders, leaders, judges, and officers. “I am old and well along in years,” he said,

Be very strong, then, so that you can keep and obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, not turning aside from it to the right or to the left.

Some time later, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110.

One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, “What do you desire?”

And Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110.

Now Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was judging Israel at that time.

And she would sit under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, where the Israelites would go up to her for judgment.

“Stand at the entrance to the tent,” he said, “and if anyone comes and asks you, ëIs there a man here?í say, ëNo.í”

You who ride white donkeys, who sit on saddle blankets, and you who travel the road, ponder

Her wisest ladies answer; indeed she keeps telling herself,

Then he took the elders of the city, and using the thorns and briers of the wilderness, he disciplined the men of Succoth.

Gideon had seventy sons of his own, since he had many wives.