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

Watch yourselves carefully! Love the Lord your God!

“Go through the camp and command the people, ‘Prepare your supplies, for within three days you will cross the Jordan River and begin the conquest of the land the Lord your God is ready to hand over to you.’”

Moses the Lord’s servant passed on the Lord’s commands to Joshua, and Joshua did as he was told. He did not ignore any of the commands the Lord had given Moses.

for the Lord determined to make them obstinate so they would attack Israel. He wanted Israel to annihilate them without mercy, as he had instructed Moses.

As the Lord had instructed, they gave him the city he requested – Timnath Serah in the Ephraimite hill country. He built up the city and lived in it.

The Lord made the Jordan a boundary between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no right to worship the Lord.’ In this way your descendants might cause our descendants to stop obeying the Lord.

Now obey the Lord and worship him with integrity and loyalty. Put aside the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt and worship the Lord.

When they brought the kings out to Joshua, he summoned all the men of Israel and said to the commanders of the troops who accompanied him, “Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings.” So they came up and put their feet on their necks.

If you should report what we’ve been up to, we are not bound by this oath you made us swear.”

She said, “I agree to these conditions.” She sent them on their way and then tied the red rope in the window.

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

“Instruct the priests carrying the ark of the covenantal laws to come up from the Jordan.”

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelites on the Hill of the Foreskins.

And he told the army, “Move ahead and march around the city, with armed troops going ahead of the ark of the Lord.”

So Joshua made sure they marched the ark of the Lord around the city one time. Then they went back to the camp and spent the night there.

Bright and early the next morning Joshua made Israel approach in tribal order and the tribe of Judah was selected.

Then you rise up from your hiding place and seize the city. The Lord your God will hand it over to you.

Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanently uninhabited mound (it remains that way to this very day).

When the residents of Gibeon heard what Joshua did to Jericho and Ai,