In the future, when your descendants ask their parents, ‘What do these stones mean?’ tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’ For the LORD your God dried up the Jordan before you until you had crossed over. The…
Joshua set up twelve stones that had been in the middle of the Jordan at the spot where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant had stood. And they are there to this day. — Joshua 4:9 As…
the water from upstream stopped flowing. It piled up in a heap a great distance away, at a town called Adam in the vicinity of Zarethan, while the water flowing down to the Sea of the Arabah (that is, the…
Joshua told the people, ‘Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do amazing things among you. — Joshua 3:5 As the Israelites prepared to cross the Jordan River and enter the Promised Land, Joshua issued a crucial command: “Consecrate yourselves.”…
hen you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the Levitical priests carrying it, you are to move out from your positions and follow it. — Joshua 3:3 In the journey to the Promised Land,…
Then she let them down by a rope through the window, for the house she lived in was part of the city wall. — Joshua 2:15 Rahab’s actions in the book of Joshua demonstrate a powerful truth: genuine faith always…
We have heard how the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea for you when you came out of Egypt, and what you did to Sihon and Og, the two kings of the Amorites east of the Jordan,…
I know that the Lord has given you this land and that a great fear of you has fallen on us, so that all who live in this country are melting in fear because of you.” Joshua 2:9 Rahab’s confession…
Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim. ‘Go, look over the land,’ he said, ‘especially Jericho.’ So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there. Joshua 2:1 Joshua’s approach to…
Then Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two spies from Shittim. ‘Go, look over the land,’ he said, ‘especially Jericho.’ So they went and entered the house of a prostitute named Rahab and stayed there. Joshua 2:1 Joshua’s decision to…