LXX Concordance for Ἰησοῦς

Joshua did as Moses had told him, and fought against Amalek, while Moses, Aaron, and Hur went up to the top of the hill.

So Joshua defeated Amalek and his army[fn] with the sword.

So Moses arose with his assistant Joshua and went up the mountain of God.

When Moses went up the mountain, the cloud covered it.

When Joshua heard the sound of the people as they shouted, he said to Moses, “There is a sound of war in the camp.”

The LORD would speak with Moses face to face, just as a man speaks with his friend, then Moses would return to the camp. His assistant, the young man Joshua son of Nun, would not leave the inside of the tent.

Joshua son of Nun, assistant to Moses since his youth,[fn] responded, “Moses, my lord, stop them! ”

Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who scouted out the land, tore their clothes

“I swear that none of you will enter the land I promised[fn] to settle you in, except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

Only Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh remained alive of those men who went to scout out the land.

For the LORD had said to them that they would all die in the wilderness. None of them was left except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.

“none except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of Nun, because they did remain loyal to the LORD.'

“These are the names of the men who are to distribute the land as an inheritance for you: the priest Eleazar and Joshua son of Nun.

“Joshua son of Nun, who attends you, will enter it. Encourage him, for he will enable Israel to inherit it.

“The LORD your God is the one who will cross ahead of you. He will destroy these nations before you, and you will drive them out. Joshua is the one who will cross ahead of you, as the LORD has said.

The LORD said to Moses, “The time of your death is now approaching. Call Joshua and present yourselves at the tent of meeting so that I may commission him.” When Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves at the tent of meeting,

Moses came with Joshua[fn] son of Nun and recited all the words of this song in the presence of the people.

Joshua son of Nun was filled with the spirit of wisdom because Moses had laid his hands on him. So the Israelites obeyed him and did as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people,

Joshua said to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh,

Joshua son of Nun secretly sent two men as spies from the Acacia Grove,[fn] saying, “Go and scout the land, especially Jericho.” So they left, and they came to the house of a prostitute named Rahab, and stayed there.

Joshua started early the next morning and left the Acacia Grove[fn] with all the Israelites. They went as far as the Jordan and stayed there before crossing.

Joshua told the people, “Consecrate yourselves, because the LORD will do wonders among you tomorrow.”

Then Joshua told the Israelites, “Come closer and listen to the words of the LORD your God.”

So Joshua summoned the twelve men he had selected from the Israelites, one man for each tribe,

Joshua also set up twelve stones in the middle[fn] of the Jordan where the priests who carried the ark of the covenant were standing. The stones are still there today.

So Joshua commanded the priests, “Come up from the Jordan.”

Then Joshua set up in Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan,

So Joshua made flint knives and circumcised the Israelite men at Gibeath-haaraloth.[fn]

He raised up their sons in their place; it was these Joshua circumcised. They were still uncircumcised, since they had not been circumcised along the way.

When Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua approached him and asked, “Are you for us or for our enemies? ”

So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said to them, “Take up the ark of the covenant and have seven priests carry seven rams' horns in front of the ark of the LORD.”

But Joshua had commanded the troops, “Do not shout or let your voice be heard. Don't let one word come out of your mouth until the time I say, ‘Shout! ' Then you are to shout.”

Joshua got up early the next morning. The priests took the ark of the LORD,

After the seventh time, the priests blew the rams' horns, and Joshua said to the troops, “Shout! For the LORD has given you the city.

They completely destroyed everything in the city with the sword ​— ​every man and woman, both young and old, and every ox, sheep, and donkey.

However, Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, her father's family, and all who belonged to her, because she hid the messengers Joshua had sent to spy on Jericho, and she still lives in Israel today.

Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and told them, “Go up and scout the land.” So the men went up and scouted Ai.

Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell facedown to the ground before the ark of the LORD until evening, as did the elders of Israel; they all put dust on their heads.

Joshua got up early the next morning. He had Israel come forward tribe by tribe, and the tribe of Judah was selected.

So Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and make a confession to him.[fn] I urge you, tell me what you have done. Don't hide anything from me.”

So Joshua sent messengers who ran to the tent, and there was the cloak, concealed in his tent, with the silver underneath.

Then Joshua and all Israel with him took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the cloak, and the bar of gold, his sons and daughters, his ox, donkey, and sheep, his tent, and all that he had, and brought them up to the Valley of Achor.

So Joshua and all the troops set out to attack Ai. Joshua selected thirty thousand of his best soldiers and sent them out at night.

So Joshua sent them out, and they went to the ambush site and waited between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But he spent that night with the troops.

Joshua and all Israel pretended to be beaten back by them and fled toward the wilderness.

Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Hold out the javelin in your hand toward Ai, for I will hand the city over to you.” So Joshua held out his javelin toward it.

When Joshua and all Israel saw that the men in ambush had captured the city and that smoke was rising from it, they turned back and struck down the men of Ai.

When Israel had finished killing everyone living in Ai who had pursued them into the open country, and when every last one of them had fallen by the sword, all Israel returned to Ai and struck it down with the sword.

Joshua burned Ai and left it a permanent ruin, still desolate today.

There on the stones, Joshua copied the law of Moses, which he had written in the presence of the Israelites.

Afterward, Joshua read aloud all the words of the law ​— ​the blessings as well as the curses ​— ​according to all that is written in the book of the law.

They said to Joshua, “We are your servants.”

Then Joshua asked them, “Who are you and where do you come from? ”

So Joshua established peace with them and made a treaty to let them live, and the leaders of the community swore an oath to them.

Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said to them, “Why did you deceive us by telling us you live far away from us, when in fact you live among us?

This is what Joshua did to them: he rescued them from the Israelites, and they did not kill them.

Now King Adoni-zedek of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had captured Ai and completely destroyed it, treating Ai and its king as he had Jericho and its king, and that the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were living among them.

So Joshua and all his troops, including all his best soldiers, came from Gilgal.

So Joshua caught them by surprise, after marching all night from Gilgal.

On the day the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel:

“Sun, stand still over Gibeon,

and moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”

Joshua said, “Roll large stones against the mouth of the cave, and station men by it to guard the kings.

So Joshua and the Israelites finished inflicting a terrible slaughter on them until they were destroyed, although a few survivors ran away to the fortified cities.

Then Joshua said, “Open the mouth of the cave, and bring those five kings to me out of there.”

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

Joshua and all Israel with him crossed from Makkedah to Libnah and fought against Libnah.

From Libnah, Joshua and all Israel with him crossed to Lachish. They laid siege to it and attacked it.

At that time King Horam of Gezer went to help Lachish, but Joshua struck him down along with his people, leaving no survivors.

Next, Joshua and all Israel with him went up from Eglon to Hebron and attacked it.

Finally, Joshua turned toward Debir and attacked it. And all Israel was with him.

So Joshua conquered the whole region ​— ​the hill country, the Negev, the Judean foothills,[fn] and the slopes ​— ​with all their kings, leaving no survivors. He completely destroyed every living being, as the LORD, the God of Israel, had commanded.

Joshua captured all these kings and their land in one campaign, because the LORD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.

So Joshua and all his troops surprised them at the Waters of Merom and attacked them.

Joshua treated them as the LORD had told him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots.

Joshua captured all these kings and their cities and struck them down with the sword. He completely destroyed them, as Moses the LORD's servant had commanded.

Just as the LORD had commanded his servant Moses, Moses commanded Joshua. That is what Joshua did, leaving nothing undone of all that the LORD had commanded Moses.

Joshua waged war with all these kings for a long time.

At that time Joshua proceeded to exterminate the Anakim from the hill country ​— ​Hebron, Debir, Anab ​— ​all the hill country of Judah and of Israel. Joshua completely destroyed them with their cities.

So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had told Moses. Joshua then gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their tribal allotments. After this, the land had rest from war.

Joshua and the Israelites struck down the following kings of the land beyond the Jordan to the west, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which ascends toward Seir (Joshua gave their land as an inheritance to the tribes of Israel according to their allotments:

Joshua was now old, advanced in age, and the LORD said to him, “You have become old, advanced in age, but a great deal of the land remains to be possessed.

The Israelites received these portions that the priest Eleazar, Joshua son of Nun, and the family heads of the Israelite tribes gave them in the land of Canaan.

Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as an inheritance.

He gave Caleb son of Jephunneh the following portion among the descendants of Judah based on the LORD's instruction to Joshua: Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron; Arba was the father of Anak).

“If you have so many people,” Joshua replied to them, “go to the forest and clear an area for yourselves there in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, because Ephraim's hill country is too small for you.”

So Joshua replied to Joseph's family (that is, Ephraim and Manasseh), “You have many people and great strength. You will not have just one allotment,

So Joshua asked the Israelites, “How long will you delay going out to take possession of the land that the LORD, the God of your ancestors, gave you?

As the men prepared to go, Joshua commanded them[fn] to write down a description of the land, saying, “Go and survey the land, write a description of it, and return to me. I will then cast lots for you here in Shiloh in the presence of the LORD.”

Joshua cast lots for them at Shiloh in the presence of the LORD where he distributed the land to the Israelites according to their divisions.

These were the portions that the priest Eleazar, Joshua son of Nun, and the family heads distributed to the Israelite tribes by lot at Shiloh in the LORD's presence at the entrance to the tent of meeting. So they finished dividing up the land.

But they gave the fields and settlements of the city to Caleb son of Jephunneh as his possession.

Each of these cities had its own surrounding pasturelands; this was true for all the cities.

Joshua summoned the Reubenites, Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh

Joshua blessed them and sent them on their way, and they went to their homes.

So the Reubenites and Gadites named the altar: It[fn] is a witness between us that the LORD is God.

A long time after the LORD had given Israel rest from all the enemies around them, Joshua was old, advanced in age.

Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem and summoned Israel's elders, leaders, judges, and officers, and they presented themselves before God.

But Joshua told the people, “You will not be able to worship the LORD, because he is a holy God. He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions and sins.

Joshua then told the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you yourselves have chosen to worship the LORD.”

“We are witnesses,” they said.

On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people at Shechem and established a statute and ordinance for them.

Previously, when Joshua had sent the people away, the Israelites had gone to take possession of the land, each to his own inheritance.

Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110.

“I will no longer drive out before them any of the nations Joshua left when he died.

These are the nations the LORD left in order to test all those in Israel who had experienced none of the wars in Canaan.

Eden, Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah in the cities of the priests were to distribute it faithfully under his authority to their brothers by divisions, whether large or small.

They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah.

The number of the Israelite men included[fn]

Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers the priests along with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his brothers began to build the altar of Israel's God in order to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the law of Moses, the man of God.

In the second month of the second year after they arrived at God's house in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Jeshua son of Jozadak, and the rest of their brothers, including the priests, the Levites, and all who had returned to Jerusalem from the captivity, began to build. They appointed the Levites who were twenty years old or more to supervise the work on the LORD's house.

But Zerubbabel, Jeshua, and the other heads of Israel's families answered them, “You may have no part with us in building a house for our God, since we alone will build it for the LORD, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus, the king of Persia has commanded us.”

Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Jeshua son of Jozadak began to rebuild God's house in Jerusalem. The prophets of God were with them, helping them.

Jeshua, Bani, Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, and Pelaiah, who were Levites,[fn] explained the law to the people as they stood in their places.

Jeshua, Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani stood on the raised platform built for the Levites and cried out loudly to the LORD their God.

The Levites were

Jeshua son of Azaniah,

Binnui of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel,

Jeshua fathered Joiakim,

Joiakim fathered Eliashib,

Eliashib fathered Joiada,

Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, the high priest Joshua son of Jehozadak, and the entire remnant of the people obeyed the LORD their God and the words of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God had sent him. So the people feared the LORD.

Now Joshua was dressed with filthy[fn] clothes as he stood before the angel.