Deuteronomy 3:20

3:20 You must fight ¹  until the Lord gives your countrymen victory ²  as he did you and they take possession of the land that the Lord your God is giving them on the other side of the Jordan River. Then each of you may return to his own territory that I have given you.”

Joshua 21:44

21:44 The Lord made them secure, ³  in fulfillment of all he had solemnly promised their ancestors. ⁴  None of their enemies could resist them. ⁵ 

Joshua 22:4

22:4 Now the Lord your God has made your fellow Israelites secure, ⁶  just as he promised them. So now you may turn around and go to your homes ⁷  in your own land ⁸  which Moses the Lord’s servant assigned to you east of the Jordan.

Joshua 23:1

Joshua Challenges Israel to be Faithful

23:1 A long time ⁹  passed after the Lord made Israel secure from all their enemies, ¹⁰  and Joshua was very old. ¹¹ 

Psalms 95:11

95:11 So I made a vow in my anger,

‘They will never enter into the resting place I had set aside for them.’” ¹² 

Jeremiah 6:16

6:16 The Lord said to his people: ¹³ 

“You are standing at the crossroads. So consider your path. ¹⁴ 

Ask where the old, reliable paths ¹⁵  are.

Ask where the path is that leads to blessing ¹⁶  and follow it.

If you do, you will find rest for your souls.”

But they said, “We will not follow it!”

Matthew 11:28

11:28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Hebrews 4:8-9

4:8 For if Joshua had given them rest, God ¹⁷  would not have spoken afterward about another day. 4:9 Consequently a Sabbath rest remains for the people of God.

¹ tn The words “you must fight” are not present in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “gives your brothers rest.”

³ tn Heb “gave them rest all around.”

⁴ tn Heb “according to all he swore to their fathers.”

⁵ tn Heb “not a man stood from before them from all their enemies.”

⁶ tn Heb “has given rest to your brothers.”

⁷ tn Heb “tents.”

⁸ tn Heb “the land of your possession.”

⁹ tn Heb “many days.”

¹⁰ tn Heb “the Lord had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around.”

¹¹ tn Heb “was old, coming into the days.” This expression, referring to advancing in years, also occurs in the following verse.

¹² tn Heb “my resting place.” The promised land of Canaan is here viewed metaphorically as a place of rest for God’s people, who are compared to sheep (see v. 7).

¹³ tn The words, “to his people” are not in the text but are implicit in the interchange of pronouns in the Hebrew of vv. 16-17. They are supplied in the translation here for clarity.

¹⁴ tn Heb “Stand at the crossroads and look.”

¹⁵ tn Heb “the ancient path,” i.e., the path the Lord set out in ancient times (cf. Deut 32:7).

¹⁶ tn Heb “the way of/to the good.”

¹⁷ tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.