The Lord told Joshua,

The Lord instructed Joshua:

After Moses the Lord’s servant died, the Lord said to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant:

He has done this so all the nations of the earth might recognize the Lord’s power and so you might always obey the Lord your God.”

There has not been a day like it before or since. The Lord obeyed a man, for the Lord fought for Israel!

Moses the Lord’s servant and the Israelites defeated them and Moses the Lord’s servant assigned their land to Reuben, Gad, and the half tribe of Manasseh.

You saw everything the Lord your God did to all these nations on your behalf, for the Lord your God fights for you.

The Lord drove out from before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. So we too will worship the Lord, for he is our God!”

Bright and early the next morning Joshua had the priests pick up the ark of the Lord.

The Lord was with Joshua and he became famous throughout the land.

The men examined some of their provisions, but they failed to ask the Lord’s advice.

Watch yourselves carefully! Love the Lord your God!

In the morning you must approach in tribal order. The tribe the Lord selects must approach by clans. The clan the Lord selects must approach by families. The family the Lord selects must approach man by man.

Now, assign me this hill country which the Lord promised me at that time! No doubt you heard at that time that the Anakites live there in large, fortified cities. But, assuming the Lord is with me, I will conquer them, as the Lord promised.”

until the Lord gives your brothers a place like yours to settle and they conquer the land the Lord your God is ready to hand over to them. Then you may go back to your allotted land and occupy the land Moses the Lord’s servant assigned you east of the Jordan.”

Indeed, for forty years the Israelites traveled through the desert until all the men old enough to fight when they left Egypt, the ones who had disobeyed the Lord, died off. For the Lord had sworn a solemn oath to them that he would not let them see the land he had sworn on oath to give them, a land rich in milk and honey.

But if your own land is impure, cross over to the Lord’s own land, where the Lord himself lives, and settle down among us. But don’t rebel against the Lord or us by building for yourselves an altar aside from the altar of the Lord our God.

But in the same way every faithful promise the Lord your God made to you has been realized, it is just as certain, if you disobey, that the Lord will bring on you every judgment until he destroys you from this good land which the Lord your God gave you.

Joshua told the people, “Ritually consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will perform miraculous deeds among you.”

Joshua told the Israelites, “Come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God!”