Joshua 5:9   (Read all of Joshua 5)

Then the Lord said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you." So the place has been called Gilgal to this day.

Joshua 5:13   (Read all of Joshua 5)

Now 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 went up to him and asked, "Are you for us or for our enemies?"

Joshua 5:15   (Read all of Joshua 5)

The commander of the Lord's army replied, "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy." And Joshua did so.

Joshua 6:2   (Read all of Joshua 6)

Then the Lord said to Joshua, "See, I have delivered Jericho into your hands, along with its king and its fighting men.

Joshua 6:5   (Read all of Joshua 6)

When you hear them sound a long blast on the trumpets, have the whole army give a loud shout; then the wall of the city will collapse and the army will go up, everyone straight in."

Joshua 6:10   (Read all of Joshua 6)

But Joshua had commanded the army, "Do not give a war cry, do not raise your voices, do not say a word until the day I tell you to shout. Then shout!"

Joshua 6:16   (Read all of Joshua 6)

The seventh time around, when the priests sounded the trumpet blast, Joshua commanded the army, "Shout! For the Lord has given you the city!

Joshua 6:18   (Read all of Joshua 6)

But keep away from the devoted things, so that you will not bring about your own destruction by taking any of them. Otherwise you will make the camp of Israel liable to destruction and bring trouble on it.

Joshua 6:21   (Read all of Joshua 6)

They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it-men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.

Joshua 6:22   (Read all of Joshua 6)

Joshua said to the two men who had spied out the land, "Go into the prostitute's house and bring her out and all who belong to her, in accordance with your oath to her."

Joshua 6:23   (Read all of Joshua 6)

So the young men who had done the spying went in and brought out Rahab, her father and mother, her brothers and sisters and all who belonged to her. They brought out her entire family and put them in a place outside the camp of Israel.

Joshua 6:26   (Read all of Joshua 6)

At that time Joshua pronounced this solemn oath: "Cursed before the Lord is the one who undertakes to rebuild this city, Jericho: "At the cost of his firstborn son he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates."

Joshua 7:7   (Read all of Joshua 7)

And Joshua said, "Alas, Sovereign Lord, why did you ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!

Joshua 7:8   (Read all of Joshua 7)

Pardon your servant, Lord. What can I say, now that Israel has been routed by its enemies?

Joshua 7:9   (Read all of Joshua 7)

The Canaanites and the other people of the country will hear about this and they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. What then will you do for your own great name?"

Joshua 7:10   (Read all of Joshua 7)

The Lord said to Joshua, "Stand up! What are you doing down on your face?

Joshua 7:12   (Read all of Joshua 7)

That is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies; they turn their backs and run because they have been made liable to destruction. I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy whatever among you is devoted to destruction.

Joshua 7:13   (Read all of Joshua 7)

"Go, consecrate the people. Tell them, 'Consecrate yourselves in preparation for tomorrow; for this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: There are devoted things among you, Israel. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove them.

Joshua 7:14   (Read all of Joshua 7)

" 'In the morning, present yourselves tribe by tribe. The tribe the Lord chooses shall come forward clan by clan; the clan the Lord chooses shall come forward family by family; and the family the Lord chooses shall come forward man by man.

Joshua 7:19   (Read all of Joshua 7)

Then Joshua said to Achan, "My son, give glory to the Lord, the God of Israel, and honor him. Tell me what you have done; do not hide it from me."

Joshua 7:25   (Read all of Joshua 7)

Joshua said, "Why have you brought this trouble on us? The Lord will bring trouble on you today." Then all Israel stoned him, and after they had stoned the rest, they burned them.

Joshua 8:1   (Read all of Joshua 8)

Then the Lord said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. For I have delivered into your hands the king of Ai, his people, his city and his land.

Joshua 8:2   (Read all of Joshua 8)

You shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the city."

Joshua 8:4   (Read all of Joshua 8)

with these orders: "Listen carefully. You are to set an ambush behind the city. Don't go very far from it. All of you be on the alert.