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Joshua · read by Don Courville
59 verses, in order. Only the verses Don read aloud are shown.
Joshua 3
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But keep a distance of about two thousand cubits between yourselves and the ark. Do not go near it, so that you can see the way to go, since you have never traveled this way before."Read from NKJV · In His Presence
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Then Joshua told the people, "Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you."Read from NKJV · In His Presence
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And he said to the priests, "Take the ark of the covenant and go on ahead of the people." So they carried the ark of the covenant and went ahead of them.Read from NKJV · In His Presence
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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 NKJV · In His Presence
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Command the priests carrying the ark of the covenant: 'When you reach the edge of the waters, stand in the Jordan.'"Read from NKJV · In His Presence
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So Joshua told the Israelites, "Come here and listen to the words of the LORD your God."Read from NKJV · In His Presence
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Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth will go ahead of you into the Jordan.Read from NKJV · In His Presence
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Now choose twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one from each tribe.Read from NKJV · In His Presence
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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 · In His Presence
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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 · On Eagles' Wings Pt 505
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Now the Jordan overflows its banks throughout the harvest season. But as soon as the priests carrying the ark reached the Jordan and their feet touched the water's edge,Read from NKJV · In His Presence
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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 · On Eagles' Wings Pt 505
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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 NKJV · In His Presence
Joshua 4
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When the whole nation had finished crossing the Jordan, the LORD said to Joshua,Read from KJV · On Eagles' Wings Pt 505
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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 NKJV · Living Memorials
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So Joshua summoned the twelve men he had appointed from the Israelites, one from each tribe,Read from KJV · On Eagles' Wings Pt 505
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and said to them, "Cross over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of Israel,Read from NKJV · Living Memorials
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to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, 'What do these stones mean to you?'Read from NKJV · Living Memorials
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you are to tell them, 'The waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters were cut off.' Therefore these stones will be a memorial to the Israelites forever."Read from NKJV · Living Memorials
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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 · On Eagles' Wings Pt 505
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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 NKJV · Living Memorials
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Now the priests who carried the ark remained standing in the middle of the Jordan until the people had completed everything the LORD had commanded Joshua to tell them, just as Moses had directed Joshua. The people hurried across,Read from NKJV · Living Memorials
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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 NKJV · Living Memorials
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The Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over before the Israelites, armed for battle as Moses had instructed them.Read from KJV · On Eagles' Wings Pt 505
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About 40,000 troops armed for battle crossed over before the LORD into the plains of Jericho.Read from NKJV · Living Memorials
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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 NKJV · Living Memorials
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"Command the priests who carry the ark of the Testimony to come up from the Jordan."Read from KJV · On Eagles' Wings Pt 505
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So Joshua commanded the priests, "Come up from the Jordan."Read from KJV · On Eagles' Wings Pt 505
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When the priests carrying the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up out of the Jordan and their feet touched the dry land, the waters of the Jordan returned to their course and overflowed all the banks as before.Read from NKJV · Living Memorials
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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 · On Eagles' Wings Pt 505
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And there at Gilgal Joshua set up the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.Read from KJV · On Eagles' Wings Pt 505
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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 NKJV · Living Memorials
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you are to tell them, 'Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.'Read from NKJV · Living Memorials
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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 NKJV · Living Memorials
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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 NKJV · Living Memorials
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 · On Eagles' Wings Pt 505
Joshua 7
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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 KJV · On Eagles' Wings Pt 108
Joshua 9
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Now when news of this reached all the kings west of the Jordan—those in the hill country, the foothills, and all along the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon (the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites)—Read from KJV · On Eagles' Wings Pt 319
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But the people of Gibeon, having heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai,Read from KJV · On Eagles' Wings Pt 319
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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 · On Eagles' Wings Pt 319
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They put worn, patched sandals on their feet and threadbare clothing on their bodies, and their whole supply of bread was dry and moldy.Read from KJV · On Eagles' Wings Pt 319
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But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, "Perhaps you dwell near us. How can we make a treaty with you?"Read from KJV · On Eagles' Wings Pt 319
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"We are your servants," they said to Joshua. Then Joshua asked them, "Who are you and where have you come from?"Read from KJV · On Eagles' Wings Pt 319
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"Your servants have come from a very distant land," they replied, "because of the fame of the LORD your God. For we have heard the reports about Him: all that He did in Egypt,Read from KJV · On Eagles' Wings Pt 319
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Then the men of Israel sampled their provisions, but did not seek the counsel of the LORD.Read from KJV · On Eagles' Wings Pt 319
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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 · On Eagles' Wings Pt 319
Joshua 14
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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 · Climbing 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 KJV · On Eagles' Wings Pt 468
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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 KJV · Climbing 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 KJV · Climbing Mountains
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Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance.Read from KJV · Climbing 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 KJV · Climbing Mountains
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(Hebron used to be called Kiriath-arba, after Arba, the greatest man among the Anakim.) Then the land had rest from war.Read from KJV · Climbing Mountains
Joshua 15
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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 · Climbing Mountains