Bible Cross References
Jehoshua
Numbers 11:28
Then Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses' helper since he was a young man, spoke up and said to Moses, "Stop them, sir!"
Numbers 27:18-22
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The LORD said to Moses, "Take Joshua son of Nun, a capable man, and place your hands on his head.
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Have him stand in front of Eleazar the priest and the whole community, and there before them all proclaim him as your successor.
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Give him some of your own authority, so that the whole community of Israel will obey him.
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He will depend on Eleazar the priest, who will learn my will by using the Urim and Thummim. In this way Eleazar will direct Joshua and the whole community of Israel in all their affairs."
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Moses did as the LORD had commanded him. He had Joshua stand before Eleazar the priest and the whole community.
Exodus 17:9-13
9
Moses said to Joshua, "Pick out some men to go and fight the Amalekites tomorrow. I will stand on top of the hill holding the stick that God told me to carry."
10
Joshua did as Moses commanded him and went out to fight the Amalekites, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.
11
As long as Moses held up his arms, the Israelites won, but when he put his arms down, the Amalekites started winning.
12
When Moses' arms grew tired, Aaron and Hur brought a stone for him to sit on, while they stood beside him and held up his arms, holding them steady until the sun went down.
13
In this way Joshua totally defeated the Amalekites.
Exodus 24:13
Moses and his helper Joshua got ready, and Moses began to go up the holy mountain.
Exodus 32:17
Joshua heard the people shouting and said to Moses, "I hear the sound of battle in the camp."
Deuteronomy 31:7
Then Moses called Joshua and said to him in the presence of all the people of Israel, "Be determined and confident; you are the one who will lead these people to occupy the land that the LORD promised to their ancestors.
Deuteronomy 31:8
The LORD himself will lead you and be with you. He will not fail you or abandon you, so do not lose courage or be afraid."
Deuteronomy 31:14
Then the LORD said to Moses, "You do not have much longer to live. Call Joshua and bring him to the Tent, so that I may give him his instructions." Moses and Joshua went to the Tent,
Deuteronomy 31:23
Then the LORD spoke to Joshua son of Nun and told him, "Be confident and determined. You will lead the people of Israel into the land that I promised them, and I will be with you."
Deuteronomy 34:9
Joshua son of Nun was filled with wisdom, because Moses had appointed him to be his successor. The people of Israel obeyed Joshua and kept the commands that the LORD had given them through Moses.
Joshua 1:1-9
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After the death of the LORD's servant Moses, the LORD spoke to Moses' helper, Joshua son of Nun.
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He said, "My servant Moses is dead. Get ready now, you and all the people of Israel, and cross the Jordan River into the land that I am giving them.
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As I told Moses, I have given you and all my people the entire land that you will be marching over.
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Your borders will reach from the desert in the south to the Lebanon Mountains in the north; from the great Euphrates River in the east, through the Hittite country, to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
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Joshua, no one will be able to defeat you as long as you live. I will be with you as I was with Moses. I will always be with you; I will never abandon you.
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Be determined and confident, for you will be the leader of these people as they occupy this land which I promised their ancestors.
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Just be determined, be confident; and make sure that you obey the whole Law that my servant Moses gave you. Do not neglect any part of it and you will succeed wherever you go.
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Be sure that the book of the Law is always read in your worship. Study it day and night, and make sure that you obey everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
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Remember that I have commanded you to be determined and confident! Do not be afraid or discouraged, for I, the LORD your God, am with you wherever you go."
Joshua 1:16-9
Joshua 24:1-33
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Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem. He called the elders, the leaders, the judges, and the officers of Israel, and they came into the presence of God.
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Joshua said to all the people, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, has to say: 'Long ago your ancestors lived on the other side of the Euphrates River and worshiped other gods. One of those ancestors was Terah, the father of Abraham and Nahor.
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Then I took Abraham, your ancestor, from the land across the Euphrates and led him through the whole land of Canaan. I gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac,
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and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau the hill country of Edom as his possession, but your ancestor Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.
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Later I sent Moses and Aaron, and I brought great trouble on Egypt. But I led you out;
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I brought your ancestors out of Egypt, and the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and cavalry. But when your ancestors got to the Red Sea
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they cried out to me for help, and I put darkness between them and the Egyptians. I made the sea come rolling over the Egyptians and drown them. You know what I did to Egypt. " 'You lived in the desert a long time.
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Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the east side of the Jordan. They fought you, but I gave you victory over them. You took their land, and I destroyed them as you advanced.
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Then the king of Moab, Balak son of Zippor, fought against you. He sent word to Balaam son of Beor and asked him to put a curse on you.
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But I would not listen to Balaam, so he blessed you, and in this way I rescued you from Balak.
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You crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought you, as did the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. But I gave you victory over them all.
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As you advanced, I threw them into panic in order to drive out the two Amorite kings. Your swords and bows had nothing to do with it.
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I gave you a land that you had never worked and cities that you had not built. Now you are living there and eating grapes from vines that you did not plant, and olives from trees that you did not plant.'
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"Now then," Joshua continued, "honor the LORD and serve him sincerely and faithfully. Get rid of the gods which your ancestors used to worship in Mesopotamia and in Egypt, and serve only the LORD.
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If you are not willing to serve him, decide today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors worshiped in Mesopotamia or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you are now living. As for my family and me, we will serve the LORD."
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The people replied, "We would never leave the LORD to serve other gods!
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The LORD our God brought our fathers and us out of slavery in Egypt, and we saw the miracles that he performed. He kept us safe wherever we went among all the nations through which we passed.
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As we advanced into this land, the LORD drove out all the Amorites who lived here. So we also will serve the LORD; he is our God."
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Joshua said to the people, "But you may not be able to serve the LORD. He is a holy God and will not forgive your sins. He will tolerate no rivals,
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and if you leave him to serve foreign gods, he will turn against you and punish you. He will destroy you, even though he was good to you before."
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The people said to Joshua, "No! We will serve the LORD."
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Joshua told them, "You are your own witnesses to the fact that you have chosen to serve the LORD." "Yes," they said, "we are witnesses."
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"Then get rid of those foreign gods that you have," he demanded, "and pledge your loyalty to the LORD, the God of Israel."
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The people then said to Joshua, "We will serve the LORD our God. We will obey his commands."
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So Joshua made a covenant for the people that day, and there at Shechem he gave them laws and rules to follow.
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Joshua wrote these commands in the book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up under the oak tree in the LORD's sanctuary.
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He said to all the people, "This stone will be our witness. It has heard all the words that the LORD has spoken to us. So it will be a witness against you, to keep you from rebelling against your God."
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Then Joshua sent the people away, and everyone returned to their own part of the land.
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After that, the LORD's servant Joshua son of Nun died at the age of a hundred and ten.
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They buried him on his own land at Timnath Serah in the hill country of Ephraim north of Mount Gaash.
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As long as Joshua lived, the people of Israel served the LORD, and after his death they continued to do so as long as those leaders were alive who had seen for themselves everything that the LORD had done for Israel.
32
The body of Joseph, which the people of Israel had brought from Egypt, was buried at Shechem, in the piece of land that Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred pieces of silver. This land was inherited by Joseph's descendants.
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Eleazar son of Aaron died and was buried at Gibeah, the town in the hill country of Ephraim which had been given to his son Phinehas.