1-3 When the whole nation was finally across,Godspoke to Joshua: “Select twelve men from the people, a man from each tribe, and tell them, ‘From right here, the middle of…

1 When all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and the Canaanite kings along the seacoast heard howGodhad stopped the Jordan River before the People of Israel until they…

Jericho 1 Jericho was shut up tight as a drum because of the People of Israel: no one going in, no one coming out. 2-5 Godspoke to Joshua, “Look sharp…

Achan 1 Then the People of Israel violated the holy curse. Achan son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah of the tribe of Judah, took some…

Ai 1 Godsaid to Joshua, “Don’t be timid and don’t so much as hesitate. Take all your soldiers with you and go back to Ai. I have turned the king…

Gibeon 1-2 All the kings west of the Jordan in the hills and foothills and along the Mediterranean seacoast north toward Lebanon—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, Girgashites, and Jebusites—got…

The Five Kings 1-2 It wasn’t long before My-Master-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Ai and destroyed it and its king under a holy curse, just as…

1-3 When Jabin king of Hazor heard of all this, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon; to the king of Shimron; to the king of Acshaph; to all…

The Defeated Kings 1 These are the kings that the People of Israel defeated and whose land they took on the east of the Jordan, from the Arnon Gorge to…

The Receiving of the Land 1-6 When Joshua had reached a venerable age,Godsaid to him, “You’ve had a good, long life, but there is a lot of land still to…