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Joshua · read by Alden Gannett
119 verses, in order. Only the verses Alden read aloud are shown.
Joshua 1
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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 · Studies in Joshua 01 - Faith + Obedience = Success
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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 · Studies in Joshua 01 - Faith + Obedience = Success
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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 · Studies in Joshua 01 - Faith + Obedience = Success
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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 · Studies in Joshua 01 - Faith + Obedience = Success
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Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people:Read from NASB1995 · Studies in Joshua 01 - Faith + Obedience = Success
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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 · Studies in Joshua 01 - Faith + Obedience = Success
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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 · Studies in Joshua 01 - Faith + Obedience = Success
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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 · Studies in Joshua 01 - Faith + Obedience = Success
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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 · Studies in Joshua 01 - Faith + Obedience = Success
Joshua 2
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Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim, saying, "Go, inspect the land, especially Jericho." So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 02 - Entering the Land
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And it was reported to the king of Jericho: "Behold, some men of Israel have come here tonight to spy out the land."Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 02 - Entering the Land
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So the king of Jericho sent to Rahab and said, "Bring out the men who came to you and entered your house, for they have come to spy out the whole land."Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 02 - Entering the Land
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But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, "Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 02 - Entering the Land
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(But Rahab had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had laid out there.)Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 02 - Entering the Land
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When we heard this, our hearts melted and everyone's courage failed because of you, for the LORD your God is God in the heavens above and on the earth below.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 02 - Entering the Land
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that you will spare the lives of my father and mother, my brothers and sisters, and all who belong to them, and that you will deliver us from death."Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 02 - Entering the Land
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unless, when we enter the land, you have tied this scarlet cord in the window through which you let us down, and unless you have brought your father and mother and brothers and all your family into your house.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 02 - Entering the Land
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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 · Studies in Joshua 02 - Entering the Land
Joshua 3
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Early the next morning Joshua got up and left Shittim with all the Israelites. They went as far as the Jordan, where they camped before crossing over.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 02 - Entering the Land
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After three days the officers went through the campRead from KJV · Studies in Joshua 02 - Entering the Land
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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 · Studies in Joshua 02 - Entering the Land
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So Joshua told the Israelites, "Come here and listen to the words of the LORD your God."Read from NKJV · Studies in Joshua 02 - Entering the Land
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Now choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 02 - Entering the Land
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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 NKJV · Studies in Joshua 02 - Entering the Land
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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 · Studies in Joshua 02 - Entering the Land
Joshua 4
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"Choose twelve men from among the people, one from each tribe,Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 02 - Entering the Land
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Thus the Israelites did as Joshua had commanded them. They took up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, one for each tribe of Israel, just as the LORD had told Joshua; and they carried them to the camp, where they set them down.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 02 - Entering the Land
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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 · Studies in Joshua 02 - Entering the Land
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Then Joshua said to the Israelites, "In the future, when your children ask their fathers, 'What is the meaning of these stones?'Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 02 - Entering the Land
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you are to tell them, 'Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.'Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 02 - Entering the Land
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For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you until you had crossed over, just as He did to the Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had crossed over.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 02 - Entering the Land
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He did this so that all the peoples of the earth may know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, and so that you may always fear the LORD your God."Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 02 - Entering the Land
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 · Studies in Joshua 02 - Entering the Land
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Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in His hand. Joshua approached Him and asked, "Are You for us or for our enemies?"Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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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 · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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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 · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
Joshua 6
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Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the Israelites. No one went out and no one came in.Read from NKJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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Have seven priests carry seven rams' horns in front of the ark. Then on the seventh day, march around the city seven times, while the priests blow the horns.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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And when there is a long blast of the ram's horn and you hear its sound, have all the people give a mighty shout. Then the wall of the city will collapse and all your people will charge straight into the city."Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said, "Take up the ark of the covenant and have seven priests carry seven rams' horns in front of the ark of the LORD."Read from ESV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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After Joshua had spoken to the people, seven priests carrying seven rams' horns before the LORD advanced and blew the horns, and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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Then on the seventh day, they got up at dawn and marched around the city seven times in the same manner. That was the only day they circled the city seven times.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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After the seventh time around, the priests blew the horns, and Joshua commanded the people, "Shout! For the LORD has given you the city!Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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For all the silver and gold and all the articles of bronze and iron are holy to the LORD; they must go into His treasury."Read from NKJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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So when the rams' horns sounded, the people shouted. When they heard the blast of the horn, the people gave a great shout, and the wall collapsed. Then all the people charged straight into the city and captured it.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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At the edge of the sword they devoted to destruction everything in the city—man and woman, young and old, oxen, sheep, and donkeys.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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So the LORD was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout the land.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
Joshua 7
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The Israelites, however, acted unfaithfully regarding the things devoted to destruction. Achan son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of what was set apart. So the anger of the LORD burned against the Israelites.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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So about three thousand men went up, but they fled before the men of Ai.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of them, chasing them from the gate as far as the quarries and striking them down on the slopes. So the hearts of the people melted and became like water.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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So Joshua said to Achan, "My son, give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and make a confession to Him. I urge you to tell me what you have done; do not hide it from me."Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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"It is true," Achan replied, "I have sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel. This is what I did:Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
Joshua 8
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Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid or discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. See, I have delivered into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Hold out your battle lance toward Ai, for into your hand I will deliver the city." So Joshua held out his battle lance toward Ai,Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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At that time Joshua built an altar on Mount Ebal to the LORD, the God of Israel,Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: "an altar of uncut stones on which no iron tool has been used." And on it they offered burnt offerings to the LORD, and they sacrificed peace offerings.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
Joshua 9
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they came together to wage war against Joshua and Israel.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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Then the men of Israel sampled their provisions, but did not seek the counsel of the LORD.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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And Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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Three days after they had made the treaty with the Gibeonites, the Israelites learned that they were neighbors, living among them.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities—Gibeon, Chephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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But the Israelites did not attack them, because the leaders of the congregation had sworn an oath to them by the LORD, the God of Israel. And the whole congregation grumbled against the leaders.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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All the leaders answered, "We have sworn an oath to them by the LORD, the God of Israel, and now we cannot touch them.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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On that day he made them woodcutters and water carriers, as they are to this day for the congregation of the LORD and for the altar at the place He would choose.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
Joshua 10
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Now Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and devoted it to destruction —doing to Ai and its king as he had done to Jericho and its king—and that the people of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living near them.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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So Adoni-zedek and his people were greatly alarmed, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities; it was larger than Ai, and all its men were mighty.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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So Joshua and his whole army, including all the mighty men of valor, came from Gilgal.Read from NKJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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The LORD said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid of them, for I have delivered them into your hand. Not one of them shall stand against you."Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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So Joshua conquered the whole region—the hill country, the Negev, the foothills, and the slopes, together with all their kings—leaving no survivors. He devoted to destruction everything that breathed, just as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
Joshua 11
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Now when Jabin king of Hazor heard about these things, he sent word to Jobab king of Madon; to the kings of Shimron and Achshaph;Read from NKJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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So by the waters of Merom, Joshua and his whole army came upon them suddenly and attacked them,Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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As the LORD had commanded His servant Moses, so Moses commanded Joshua. That is what Joshua did, leaving nothing undone of all that the LORD had commanded Moses.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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Joshua waged war against all these kings for a long period of time.Read from ESV · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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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 · Studies in Joshua 03 - Conquering the Land
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 · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
Joshua 14
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Now these are the portions that the Israelites inherited in the land of Canaan, as distributed by Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the families of the tribes of Israel.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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Their inheritance was assigned by lot for the nine and a half tribes, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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For Moses had given the inheritance east of the Jordan to the other two and a half tribes. But he granted no inheritance among them to the Levites.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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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 · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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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 · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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Therefore Hebron belongs to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite as an inheritance to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
Joshua 18
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Then the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh and set up the Tent of Meeting there. And though the land was subdued before them,Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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there were still seven tribes of Israel who had not yet received their inheritance.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
Joshua 20
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When someone flees to one of these cities, stands at the entrance of the city gate, and states his case before its elders, they are to bring him into the city and give him a place to live among them.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the manslayer into his hand, because that man killed his neighbor accidentally without prior malice.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
Joshua 21
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Now the family heads of the Levites approached Eleazar the priest, Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the other tribes of IsraelRead from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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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 · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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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 · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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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 · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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Each of these cities had its own surrounding pasturelands; this was true for all the cities.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
Joshua 22
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and told them, "You have done all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, and you have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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All this time you have not deserted your brothers, up to this very day, but have kept the charge given you by the LORD your God.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul."Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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So Joshua blessed them and sent them on their way, and they went to their homes.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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And when they came to Geliloth near the Jordan in the land of Canaan, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh built an imposing altar there by the Jordan.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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And when they heard this, the whole congregation of Israel assembled at Shiloh to go to war against them.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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"This is what the whole congregation of the LORD says: 'What is this breach of faith you have committed today against the God of Israel by turning away from the LORD and building for yourselves an altar, that you might rebel against the LORD this day?Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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Then the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered the leaders of the clans of Israel:Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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"The LORD, the Mighty One, is God! The LORD, the Mighty One, is God! He knows, and may Israel also know. If this was in rebellion or breach of faith against the LORD, do not spare us today.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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If we have built for ourselves an altar to turn away from Him and to offer burnt offerings and grain offerings on it, or to sacrifice fellowship offerings on it, may the LORD Himself hold us accountable.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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But in fact we have done this for fear that in the future your descendants might say to ours, 'What have you to do with the LORD, the God of Israel?Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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That is why we said, 'Let us take action and build an altar for ourselves, but not for burnt offerings or sacrifices.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
Joshua 23
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Instead, you shall hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
Joshua 24
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Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.Read from NKJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!"Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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The people replied, "Far be it from us to forsake the LORD to serve other gods!Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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But Joshua said to the people, "You are not able to serve the LORD, for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, He will turn and bring disaster on you and consume you, even after He has been good to you."Read from NKJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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"No!" replied the people. "We will serve the LORD!"Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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Then Joshua told them, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD." "We are witnesses!" they said.Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land
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So the people said to Joshua, "We will serve the LORD our God and obey His voice."Read from KJV · Studies in Joshua 04 - Dividing the Land