Book of Joshua

All the Israelites passed over on dry ground.

The Book of Joshua is the sixth book in the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament, and is the first book of the Deuteronomistic history, the story of Israel from the conquest of Canaan to the Babylonian exile. It tells of the campaigns of the Israelites in central, southern and northern Canaan, the destruction of their enemies, and the division of the land among the Twelve Tribes, framed by two set-piece speeches, the first by God commanding the conquest of the land, and, at the end, the second by Joshua warning of the need for faithful observance of the Law (torah) revealed to Moses.

Quotes

• As I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
  • 1:5 (KJV)

• Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee, whithersoever thou goest.
  • 1:9 (KJV)

• This line of scarlet thread.
  • 2:18 (KJV)

• All the Israelites passed over on dry ground.
  • 3:17 (KJV)

• And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the Lord: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
  • 6:17 (KJV)

• When the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city.
  • 6:20 (KJV)

• Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation.
  • 9:21 (KJV)

• Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
  • 10:12 (KJV)

• Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God.
  Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
  Know for a certainty that the Lord your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the Lord your God hath given you.
  • 23:11-13 (KJV)

• I am going the way of all the earth.
  • 23:14 (KJV)

• Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the Lord.
  And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
  • 24:14-15 (KJV)

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Book of Joshua on Wikipedia