Joshua
Joshua, also known as Yehoshua, Jehoshua, or Josue, functioned as Moses' assistant in the books of Exodus and Numbers, and later succeeded Moses as leader of the Israelite tribes in the Book of Joshua of the Hebrew Bible. His name was Hoshea, the son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim, but Moses called him "Yehoshua", the name by which he is commonly known in English. According to the Bible, he was born in Egypt prior to the Exodus.
Quotes
[edit]- Now the city shall be doomed by the Lord to destruction, it (Jericho) and all who are in it. Only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
- Joshua 6,17 (NKJV).
- Therefore take careful heed to yourselves, that you love the Lord your God. Or else, if indeed you do go back, and cling to the remnant of these nations—these that remain among you—and make marriages with them, and go in to them and they to you, know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations from before you. But they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the Lord your God has given you.
- Joshua 23,11-13 (NKJV).
- Now therefore, fear the Lord, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River (Euprates) and in Egypt. Serve the Lord! And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
- Joshua 24,14-15 (NKJV).
Quotes about Joshua
[edit]- In him, the Fathers recognised a prefiguration of Jesus: not only does he bear the same salvific name, but his crossing of the Jordan, which introduces him into the promised land, is the type of Christian baptism that brings people into the community of God, and the conquest and division of the territory have become the image of the victories and expansion of the Church throughout the world.
- Jerusalem Bible. As quoted in La Bibbia di Gerusalemme, Edizioni Dehoniane, Bologna, 1999. ISBN 88-10-80526-7, p. 398
Old Testament
[edit]- And the Lord said to Moses: “Take Joshua the son of Nun with you, a man in whom is the Spirit, and lay your hand on him; set him before Eleazar the priest and before all the congregation, and inaugurate him in their sight. And you shall give some of your authority to him, that all the congregation of the children of Israel may be obedient.
- Numbers 27, 18-20 (NKJV).
- Now Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom, for Moses had laid his hands on him; so the children of Israel heeded him, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses.
- Deuteronomy 34,9 (NKJV).
- Joshua the son of Nun was mighty in war,
and was the successor of Moses in prophesying.
He became, in accordance with his name,
a great savior of God’s[a] elect,
to take vengeance on the enemies that rose against them,
so that he might give Israel its inheritance.
How glorious he was when he lifted his hands
and stretched out his sword against the cities!
Who before him ever stood so firm?
For he waged the wars of the Lord.- Sirach 46,1-3 (NKJV).
- And in the days of Moses he did a loyal deed,
he and Caleb the son of Jephun′neh:
they withstood the congregation,
restrained the people from sin,
and stilled their wicked murmuring.
And these two alone were preserved
out of six hundred thousand people on foot,
to bring them into their inheritance,
into a land flowing with milk and honey.- Sirach 46,7-8 (NKJV).
