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Joshua · read by David Roper
57 verses, in order. Only the verses David read aloud are shown.
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 NASB1995 · Guilt and Freedom
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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 NASB1995 · Guilt and Freedom
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So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the sons of Israel at Gibeath-haaraloth.Read from NASB1995 · Guilt and Freedom
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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 NASB1995 · Guilt and Freedom
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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 NASB1995 · Guilt and Freedom
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For the Israelites had wandered in the wilderness forty years, until all the nation's men of war who had come out of Egypt had died, since they did not obey the LORD. So the LORD vowed never to let them see the land He had sworn to their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.Read from NASB1995 · Guilt and Freedom
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And Joshua raised up their sons in their place, and these were the ones he circumcised. Until this time they were still uncircumcised, since they had not been circumcised along the way.Read from NASB1995 · Guilt and Freedom
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And after all the nation had been circumcised, they stayed there in the camp until they were healed.Read from NASB1995 · Guilt and Freedom
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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 NASB1995 · Guilt and Freedom
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 NASB1995 · Guilt and Freedom
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And the LORD said to Joshua, "Behold, I have delivered Jericho into your hand, along with its king and its mighty men of valor.Read from NASB1995 · Guilt and Freedom
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March around the city with all the men of war, circling the city one time. Do this for six days.Read from NASB1995 · Guilt and Freedom
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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 NASB1995 · Guilt and Freedom
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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 NASB1995 · Guilt and Freedom
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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 NASB1995 · Guilt and Freedom
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Meanwhile, Joshua told the two men who had spied out the land, "Go into the house of the prostitute and bring out the woman and all who are with her, just as you promised her."Read from NASB1995 · Guilt and Freedom
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Then the Israelites burned up the city and everything in it. However, they put the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD's house.Read from NASB1995 · Guilt and Freedom
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And Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her father's household and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho. So she has lived among the Israelites to this day.Read from NASB1995 · Guilt and Freedom
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 NASB1995 · Learning From Losing
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Meanwhile, Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven to the east of Bethel, and told them, "Go up and spy out the land." So the men went up and spied out Ai.Read from NASB1995 · Learning From Losing
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On returning to Joshua, they reported, "There is no need to send all the people; two or three thousand men are enough to go up and attack Ai. Since the people of Ai are so few, you need not wear out all our people there."Read from NASB1995 · Learning From Losing
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So about three thousand men went up, but they fled before the men of Ai.Read from NASB1995 · Learning From Losing
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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 NASB1995 · Learning From Losing
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Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell facedown before the ark of the LORD until evening, as did the elders of Israel; and they all sprinkled dust on their heads.Read from NASB1995 · Learning From Losing
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"O, Lord GOD," Joshua said, "why did You ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be destroyed? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!Read from NASB1995 · Learning From Losing
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O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?Read from NASB1995 · Learning From Losing
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When the Canaanites and all who live in the land hear about this, they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. Then what will You do for Your great name?"Read from NASB1995 · Learning From Losing
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But the LORD said to Joshua, "Stand up! Why have you fallen on your face?Read from NASB1995 · Learning From Losing
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Israel has sinned; they have transgressed My covenant that I commanded them, and they have taken some of what was devoted to destruction. Indeed, they have stolen and lied, and they have put these things with their own possessions.Read from NASB1995 · Learning From Losing
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This is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies. They will turn their backs and run from their enemies, because they themselves have been set apart for destruction. I will no longer be with you unless you remove from among you whatever is devoted to destruction.Read from NASB1995 · Learning From Losing
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Get up and consecrate the people, saying, 'Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Among you, O Israel, there are things devoted to destruction. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove them.Read from NASB1995 · Learning From Losing
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In the morning you must present yourselves tribe by tribe. The tribe that the LORD selects shall come forward clan by clan, and the clan that the LORD selects shall come forward family by family, and the family that the LORD selects shall come forward man by man.Read from NASB1995 · Learning From Losing
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The one who is caught with the things devoted to destruction must be burned, along with all that belongs to him, because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD and committed an outrage in Israel.'"Read from NASB1995 · Learning From Losing
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And he had the family of Zabdi come forward man by man, and Achan son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was selected.Read from NASB1995 · Learning From Losing
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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 NASB1995 · Learning From Losing
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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 NASB1995 · Learning From Losing
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When I saw among the spoils a beautiful cloak from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath."Read from NASB1995 · Learning From Losing
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So Joshua sent messengers who ran to the tent, and there it all was, hidden in his tent, with the silver underneath.Read from NASB1995 · Learning From Losing
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They took the things from inside the tent, brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites, and spread them out before the LORD.Read from NASB1995 · Learning From Losing
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Then Joshua, together with all Israel, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the cloak, the bar of gold, his sons and daughters, his oxen and donkeys and sheep, his tent, and everything else he owned, and brought them to the Valley of Achor.Read from NASB1995 · Learning From Losing
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And they heaped over Achan a large pile of rocks that remains to this day. So the LORD turned from His burning anger. Therefore that place is called the Valley of Achor to this day.Read from NASB1995 · Learning From Losing
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 NASB1995 · A Man to Match the Mountains
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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 NASB1995 · A Man to Match the Mountains
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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 NASB1995 · A Man to Match the Mountains
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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 NASB1995 · A Man to Match the Mountains
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Now behold, as the LORD promised, He has kept me alive these forty-five years since He spoke this word to Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old,Read from NASB1995 · A Man to Match the Mountains
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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 NASB1995 · A Man to Match the Mountains
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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 NASB1995 · A Man to Match the Mountains
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Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance.Read from NASB1995 · A Man to Match the Mountains
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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 NASB1995 · A Man to Match the Mountains
Joshua 15
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According to the LORD's command to him, Joshua gave Caleb son of Jephunneh a portion among the sons of Judah—Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron. (Arba was the forefather of Anak.)Read from NASB1995 · A Man to Match the Mountains
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And Caleb drove out from there the three sons of Anak—the descendants of Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.Read from NASB1995 · A Man to Match the Mountains
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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 NASB1995 · A Man to Match the Mountains
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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 NASB1995 · A Man to Match the Mountains
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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 NASB1995 · A Man to Match the Mountains
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"Give me a blessing," she answered. "Since you have given me land in the Negev, give me springs of water as well." So Caleb gave her both the upper and lower springs.Read from NASB1995 · A Man to Match the Mountains