Discovery Box| (0.28) | Jos 5:13 |
| When Joshua was near 1 Jericho, 2 he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him holding a drawn sword. 3 Joshua approached him and asked him, “Are you on our side or allied with our enemies?” 4 |
| (0.28) | Jos 5:14 |
| He answered, 1 “Truly I am the commander of the Lord’s army. 2 Now I have arrived!” 3 Joshua bowed down with his face to the ground 4 and asked, “What does my master want to say to his servant?” |
| (0.28) | Jos 6:18 |
| But be careful when you are setting apart the riches for the Lord. If you take any of it, you will make the Israelite camp subject to annihilation and cause a disaster. 1 |
| (0.28) | Jos 6:24 |
| But they burned 1 the city and all that was in it, except for the silver, gold, and bronze and iron items they put in the treasury of the Lord’s house. 2 |
| (0.28) | Jos 7:2 |
| Joshua sent men from Jericho 1 to Ai (which is located near Beth Aven, east of Bethel 2 ) and instructed them, “Go up and spy on the land.” So the men went up and spied on Ai. |
| (0.28) | Jos 7:8 |
| If only we had been satisfied to live on the other side of the Jordan! O Lord, what can I say now that Israel has retreated 1 before its enemies? |
| (0.28) | Jos 7:9 |
| When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will turn against us and destroy the very memory of us 1 from the earth. What will you do to protect your great reputation?” 2 |
| (0.28) | Jos 7:19 |
| So Joshua said to Achan, “My son, honor 1 the Lord God of Israel and give him praise! Tell me what you did; don’t hide anything from me!” |
| (0.28) | Jos 8:21 |
| When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that the city was going up in smoke, 1 they turned around and struck down the men of Ai. |
| (0.28) | 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. |
| (0.28) | 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. |
| (0.28) | Jos 9:1 |
| When the news reached all the kings on the west side of the Jordan 1 – in the hill country, the lowlands, 2 and all along the Mediterranean coast 3 as far as 4 Lebanon (including the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites) – |
| (0.28) | Jos 9:6 |
| They came to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land. Make a treaty with us.” |
| (0.28) | Jos 9:27 |
| and that day made them woodcutters and water carriers for the community and for the altar of the Lord at the divinely chosen site. (They continue in that capacity to this very day.) 1 |
| (0.28) | Jos 10:5 |
| So the five Amorite kings (the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon) and all their troops gathered together and advanced. They deployed their troops and fought against Gibeon. 1 |
| (0.28) | Jos 10:6 |
| The men of Gibeon sent this message to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal, “Do not abandon 1 your subjects! 2 Rescue us! Help us! For all the Amorite kings living in the hill country are attacking us.” 3 |
| (0.28) | Jos 10:10 |
| The Lord routed 1 them before Israel. Israel 2 thoroughly defeated them 3 at Gibeon. They chased them up the road to the pass 4 of Beth Horon and struck them down all the way to Azekah and Makkedah. |
| (0.28) | Jos 10:12 |
| The day the Lord delivered the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua prayed to the Lord before Israel: 1 “O sun, stand still over Gibeon! O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon!” |
| (0.28) | 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 |
| (0.28) | Jos 10:28 |
| That day Joshua captured Makkedah and put the sword to it and its king. He annihilated everyone who lived in it; he left no survivors. He did to its king what he had done to the king of Jericho. 1 |
