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Joshua · read by A.J. Higgins
67 verses, in order. Only the verses A.J. read aloud are shown.
Joshua 1
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Now after the death of His servant Moses, the LORD spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Moses' assistant, saying,Read from KJV · Joshua: God Prepares His Servant
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"Moses My servant is dead. Now therefore arise, you and all these people, and cross over the Jordan into the land that I am giving to the children of Israel.Read from KJV · Joshua: God Prepares His Servant
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I have given you every place where the sole of your foot will tread, just as I promised to Moses.Read from KJV · Joshua: God Prepares His Servant
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Your territory shall extend from the wilderness and Lebanon to the great River Euphrates—all the land of the Hittites—and west as far as the Great Sea.Read from KJV · Joshua: God Prepares His Servant
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No one shall stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you.Read from KJV · Joshua: God Prepares His Servant
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Be strong and courageous, for you shall give these people the inheritance of the land that I swore to their fathers I would give them.Read from KJV · Joshua: God Prepares His Servant
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Above all, be strong and very courageous. Be careful to observe all the law that My servant Moses commanded you. Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, so that you may prosper wherever you go.Read from KJV · Joshua: God Prepares His Servant
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This Book of the Law must not depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. For then you will prosper and succeed in all you do.Read from KJV · Joshua: God Prepares His Servant
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Have I not commanded you to be strong and courageous? Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go."Read from KJV · Joshua: God Prepares His Servant
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Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people:Read from NASB1995 · Joshua: God Prepares His Servant
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"Go through the camp and tell the people, 'Prepare your provisions, for within three days you will cross the Jordan to go in and take possession of the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess.'"Read from KJV · Joshua: God Prepares His Servant
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"Remember what Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you when he said, 'The LORD your God will give you rest, and He will give you this land.'Read from KJV · Joshua: God Prepares His Servant
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Your wives, your young children, and your livestock may remain in the land that Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan. But all your mighty men of valor must be armed for battle to cross over ahead of your brothers and help them,Read from KJV · Joshua: God Prepares His Servant
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until the LORD gives them rest as He has done for you, and your brothers also possess the land that the LORD your God is giving them. Then you may return to the land of your inheritance and take possession of that which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the east side of the Jordan."Read from KJV · Joshua: God Prepares His Servant
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So they answered Joshua, "Everything you have commanded us we will do, and everywhere you send us we will go.Read from KJV · Joshua: God Prepares His Servant
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Just as we obeyed Moses in all things, so we will obey you. And may the LORD your God be with you, as He was with Moses.Read from KJV · Joshua: God Prepares His Servant
Joshua 2
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Then the two men started back, came down from the hill country, and crossed the river. So they came to Joshua son of Nun and reported all that had happened to them.Read from KJV · Joshua: God Prepares His Servant
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"The LORD has surely delivered the entire land into our hands," they said to Joshua. "Indeed, all who dwell in the land are melting in fear of us."Read from KJV · Joshua: God Prepares His Servant
Joshua 3
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Now the LORD said to Joshua, "Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, so they may know that I am with you just as I was with Moses.Read from KJV · Joshua: Entering the Land: Its basis, bounty, breath, blessings
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When the feet of the priests who carry the ark of the LORD—the Lord of all the earth—touch down in the waters of the Jordan, its flowing waters will be cut off and will stand up in a heap."Read from KJV · Joshua: Watch the Feet
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So when the people broke camp to cross the Jordan, the priests carried the ark of the covenant ahead of them.Read from KJV · Joshua: Entering the Land: Its basis, bounty, breath, blessings
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the flowing water stood still. It backed up as far upstream as Adam, a city in the area of Zarethan, while the water flowing toward the Sea of the Arabah (the Salt Sea ) was completely cut off. So the people crossed over opposite Jericho.Read from KJV · Joshua: Entering the Land: Its basis, bounty, breath, blessings
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The priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, while all Israel crossed over the dry ground, until the entire nation had crossed the Jordan.Read from KJV · Joshua: Entering the Land: Its basis, bounty, breath, blessings
Joshua 4
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and command them: 'Take up for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests were standing, carry them with you, and set them down in the place where you spend the night.'"Read from KJV · Joshua: Watch the Feet
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Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant stood. And the stones are there to this day.Read from KJV · Joshua: Watch the Feet
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and after everyone had finished crossing, the priests with the ark of the LORD crossed in the sight of the people.Read from KJV · Joshua: Entering the Land: Its basis, bounty, breath, blessings
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On that day the LORD exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they revered him all the days of his life, just as they had revered Moses.Read from KJV · Joshua: Entering the Land: Its basis, bounty, breath, blessings
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On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.Read from KJV · Joshua: Entering the Land: Its basis, bounty, breath, blessings
Joshua 5
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Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and their spirits failed for fear of the Israelites.Read from KJV · Joshua: Entering the Land: Its basis, bounty, breath, blessings
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At that time the LORD said to Joshua, "Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel once again."Read from KJV · Joshua: Entering the Land: Its basis, bounty, breath, blessings
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Now this is why Joshua circumcised them: All those who came out of Egypt—all the men of war—had died on the journey in the wilderness after they had left Egypt.Read from KJV · Joshua: Entering the Land: Its basis, bounty, breath, blessings
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Though all who had come out were circumcised, none of those born in the wilderness on the journey from Egypt had been circumcised.Read from KJV · Joshua: Entering the Land: Its basis, bounty, breath, blessings
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On the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, while the Israelites were camped at Gilgal on the plains of Jericho, they kept the Passover.Read from KJV · Joshua: Entering the Land: Its basis, bounty, breath, blessings
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The day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.Read from KJV · Joshua: Entering the Land: Its basis, bounty, breath, blessings
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And the day after they had eaten from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. There was no more manna for the Israelites, so that year they began to eat the crops of the land of Canaan.Read from KJV · Joshua: Entering the Land: Its basis, bounty, breath, blessings
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"Neither," He replied. "I have now come as Commander of the LORD's army." Then Joshua fell facedown in reverence and asked Him, "What does my Lord have to say to His servant?"Read from KJV · Joshua: God Prepares His Servant
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The Commander of the LORD's army replied, "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy." And Joshua did so.Read from KJV · Joshua: Watch the Feet
Joshua 9
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acted deceptively and set out as envoys, carrying on their donkeys worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended.Read from KJV · Joshua: Watch the Feet
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These wineskins were new when we filled them, but look, they are cracked. And these clothes and sandals are worn out from our very long journey."Read from KJV · Joshua: Watch the Feet
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Then the men of Israel sampled their provisions, but did not seek the counsel of the LORD.Read from KJV · Joshua: Watch the Feet
Joshua 10
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Then Joshua said, "Open the mouth of the cave and bring those five kings out to me."Read from KJV · Joshua: Watch the Feet
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So they brought the five kings out of the cave—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon.Read from KJV · Joshua: Watch the Feet
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When they had brought the kings to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the army commanders who had accompanied him, "Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings." So the commanders came forward and put their feet on their necks.Read from KJV · Joshua: Watch the Feet
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After this, Joshua struck down and killed the kings, and he hung their bodies on five trees and left them there until evening.Read from KJV · Joshua: Watch the Feet
Joshua 11
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So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.Read from KJV · Joshua: Entering the Land: Its basis, bounty, breath, blessings
Joshua 13
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Now Joshua was old and well along in years, and the LORD said to him, "You are old and well along in years, but very much of the land remains to be possessed.Read from KJV · Joshua: Entering the Land: Its basis, bounty, breath, blessings
Joshua 14
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Then the sons of Judah approached Joshua at Gilgal, and Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, "You know what the LORD said to Moses the man of God at Kadesh-barnea about you and me.Read from KJV · Joshua: Five Requests
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I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land, and I brought back to him an honest report.Read from KJV · Joshua: Five Requests
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Although my brothers who went with me made the hearts of the people melt with fear, I remained loyal to the LORD my God.Read from KJV · Joshua: Watch the Feet
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On that day Moses swore to me, saying, 'Surely the land on which you have set foot will be an inheritance to you and your children forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God.'Read from KJV · Joshua: Five Requests
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still as strong today as I was the day Moses sent me out. As my strength was then, so it is now for war, for going out, and for coming in.Read from KJV · Joshua: Five Requests
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Now therefore give me this hill country that the LORD promised me on that day, for you yourself heard then that the Anakim were there, with great and fortified cities. Perhaps with the LORD's help I will drive them out, as the LORD has spoken."Read from KJV · Joshua: Five Requests
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Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance.Read from KJV · Joshua: Five Requests
Joshua 15
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And Caleb said, "To the man who strikes down Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give my daughter Acsah in marriage."Read from KJV · Joshua: Five Requests
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So Othniel son of Caleb's brother Kenaz captured the city, and Caleb gave his daughter Acsah to him in marriage.Read from KJV · Joshua: Five Requests
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One day Acsah came to Othniel and urged him to ask her father for a field. When she got off her donkey, Caleb asked her, "What do you desire?"Read from KJV · Joshua: Five Requests
Joshua 17
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They approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the leaders, and said, "The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers." So Joshua gave them an inheritance among their father's brothers, in keeping with the command of the LORD.Read from KJV · Joshua: Five Requests
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Then the sons of Joseph said to Joshua, "Why have you given us only one portion as an inheritance? We have many people, because the LORD has blessed us abundantly."Read from KJV · Joshua: Five Requests
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Joshua answered them, "If you have so many people that the hill country of Ephraim is too small for you, go to the forest and clear for yourself an area in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim."Read from KJV · Joshua: Five Requests
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"The hill country is not enough for us," they replied, "and all the Canaanites who live in the valley have iron chariots, both in Beth-shean with its towns and in the Valley of Jezreel."Read from KJV · Joshua: Five Requests
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because the hill country will be yours as well. It is a forest; clear it, and its farthest limits will be yours. Although the Canaanites have iron chariots and although they are strong, you can drive them out."Read from KJV · Joshua: Five Requests
Joshua 21
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at Shiloh in the land of Canaan and said to them, "The LORD commanded through Moses that we be given cities in which to live, together with pasturelands for our livestock."Read from KJV · Joshua: Five Requests
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So by the command of the LORD, the Israelites gave the Levites these cities and their pasturelands out of their own inheritance:Read from KJV · Joshua: Five Requests
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For the Levites, then, there were forty-eight cities in all, together with their pasturelands, within the territory of the Israelites.Read from KJV · Joshua: Five Requests
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And the LORD gave them rest on every side, just as He had sworn to their fathers. None of their enemies could stand against them, for the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.Read from KJV · Joshua: Five Requests
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Not one of all the LORD's good promises to the house of Israel had failed; everything was fulfilled.Read from KJV · Joshua: Five Requests
Joshua 23
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know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you.Read from KJV · Joshua: Entering the Land: Its basis, bounty, breath, blessings