Discovery Box| (0.38) | Jos 6:25 |
| Yet Joshua spared 1 Rahab the prostitute, her father’s family, 2 and all who belonged to her. She lives in Israel 3 to this very day because she hid the messengers Joshua sent to spy on Jericho. 4 |
| (0.38) | Jos 7:5 |
| The men of Ai killed about thirty-six of them and chased them from in front of the city gate all the way to the fissures 1 and defeated them on the steep slope. 2 The people’s 3 courage melted away like water. 4 |
| (0.38) | Jos 7:6 |
| Joshua tore his clothes; 1 he and the leaders 2 of Israel lay face down on the ground before the ark of the Lord until evening 3 and threw dirt on their heads. 4 |
| (0.38) | Jos 7:13 |
| Get up! Ritually consecrate the people and tell them this: ‘Ritually consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, because the Lord God of Israel says, “You are contaminated, 1 O Israel! You will not be able to stand before your enemies until you remove what is contaminating you.” 2 |
| (0.38) | Jos 8:22 |
| At the same time the men who had taken the city came out to fight, and the men of Ai were trapped in the middle. 1 The Israelites struck them down, leaving no survivors or refugees. |
| (0.38) | Jos 8:24 |
| When Israel had finished killing all the men 1 of Ai who had chased them toward the desert 2 (they all fell by the sword), 3 all Israel returned to Ai and put the sword to it. |
| (0.38) | Jos 10:11 |
| As they fled from Israel on the slope leading down from 1 Beth Horon, the Lord threw down on them large hailstones from the sky, 2 all the way to Azekah. They died – in fact, more died from the hailstones than the Israelites killed with the sword. |
| (0.38) | Jos 10:13 |
| The sun stood still and the moon stood motionless while the nation took vengeance on its enemies. The event is recorded in the Scroll of the Upright One. 1 The sun stood motionless in the middle of the sky and did not set for about a full day. 2 |
| (0.38) | Jos 10:27 |
| At sunset Joshua ordered his men to take them down from the trees. 1 They threw them into the cave where they had hidden and piled large stones over the mouth of the cave. (They remain to this very day.) 2 |
| (0.38) | Jos 11:14 |
| The Israelites plundered all the goods of these cities and the cattle, but they totally destroyed all the people 1 and allowed no one who breathed to live. |
| (0.38) | Jos 12:1 |
| Now these are the kings of the land whom the Israelites defeated and drove from their land 1 on the east side of the Jordan, 2 from the Arnon Valley to Mount Hermon, including all the eastern Arabah: |
| (0.38) | Jos 13:6 |
| I will drive out before the Israelites all who live in the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, 1 all the Sidonians; you be sure to parcel it out to Israel as I instructed you.” 2 |
| (0.38) | Jos 13:27 |
| It included the valley of Beth Haram, 1 Beth Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, and the rest of the realm of King Sihon of Heshbon, the area east of the Jordan to the end of the Sea of Kinnereth. 2 |
| (0.38) | Jos 14:9 |
| That day Moses made this solemn promise: 1 ‘Surely the land on which you walked 2 will belong to you and your descendants permanently, 3 for you remained loyal to the Lord your God.’ |
| (0.38) | Jos 14:14 |
| So Hebron remains the assigned land of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this very day 1 because he remained loyal to the Lord God of Israel. |
| (0.38) | Jos 15:63 |
| The men of Judah were unable to conquer the Jebusites living in Jerusalem. 1 The Jebusites live with the people of Judah in Jerusalem to this very day. 2 |
| (0.38) | Jos 18:3 |
| So Joshua said to the Israelites: “How long do you intend to put off occupying 1 the land the Lord God of your ancestors 2 has given you? |
| (0.38) | Jos 20:9 |
| These were the cities of refuge 1 appointed for all the Israelites and for resident foreigners living among them. Anyone who accidentally killed someone could escape there and not be executed by 2 the avenger of blood, at least until his case was reviewed by the assembly. 3 |
| (0.38) | Jos 22:27 |
| but as a reminder to us and you, 1 and to our descendants who follow us, that we will honor the Lord in his very presence 2 with burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace. 3 Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to our descendants, ‘You have no right to worship the Lord.’ 4 |
| (0.38) | Jos 22:28 |
| We said, ‘If in the future they say such a thing 1 to us or to our descendants, we will reply, “See the model of the Lord’s altar that our ancestors 2 made, not for burnt offerings or sacrifices, but as a reminder to us and you.”’ 3 |
