Quotes About Joshua

But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,

And Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.

So Joshua did this and delivered them from the hands of the Israelites, and they did not kill the Gibeonites.

“Come up and help me. We will attack Gibeon, because they have made peace with Joshua and the Israelites.”

Then the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal: “Do not abandon your servants. Come quickly and save us! Help us, because all the kings of the Amorites from the hill country have joined forces against us.”

So Joshua and his whole army, including all the mighty men of valor, came from Gilgal.

Then Joshua returned with all Israel to the camp at Gilgal.

And Joshua was informed: “The five kings have been found; they are hiding in the cave at Makkedah.”

So Joshua said, “Roll large stones against the mouth of the cave, and post men there to guard them.

Then Joshua returned with all Israel to the camp at Gilgal.

Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds, except Hazor, which Joshua burned.

So Joshua took this entire region: the hill country, all the Negev, all the land of Goshen, the western foothills, the Arabah, and the mountains of Israel and their foothills,

So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.

And these are the kings of the land that Joshua and the Israelites conquered beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which rises toward Seir (according to the allotments to the tribes of Israel, Joshua gave them as an inheritance

Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, “You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about you and me.

According to the LORDís command to him, Joshua gave Caleb son of Jephunneh a portion among the sons of Judah—Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron. (Arba was the forefather of Anak.)

So the men departed and went throughout the land, mapping it city by city into seven portions. Then they returned with the document to Joshua at the camp in Shiloh.

And Joshua cast lots for them in the presence of the LORD at Shiloh, where he distributed the land to the Israelites according to their divisions.

When they had finished distributing the land into its territories, the Israelites gave Joshua son of Nun an inheritance among them,

These are the inheritances that Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families distributed by lot to the tribes of Israel at Shiloh before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. So they finished dividing up the land.

Then the LORD said to Joshua,

(To the half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given land in Bashan, and to the other half Joshua gave land on the west side of the Jordan among their brothers.) When Joshua sent them to their homes he blessed them,

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,

On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance.