Characters & Episodes in Joshua
Swipe chapter-by-chapter across Joshua (24 chapters total).
Joshua 1
Joshua 2
Joshua 3
Joshua, Son of Nun
Moses' faithful successor who commanded the priests to step into the flood-stage Jordan with the Ark, celebrated the Passover at Gilgal when the forty-year manna ceased, and led Israel's conquest of Canaan.
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The Ark of the Covenant
The gold-overlaid chest of God's throne presence — carried into the flood-stage Jordan to part the waters in Joshua 3, and placed inside Dagon's temple in 1 Samuel 5 where the idol fell headless before it.
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The People of Israel
The covenant nation delivered from Egypt — who drank from the smitten Rock at Rephidim, trembled before the fire of Sinai, reaped Canaan's first grain at Gilgal, and fell on their faces on Mount Carmel crying, 'The LORD, He is God!'
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The Priests Who Carried the Ark
The consecrated Levitical priests who hoisted the golden poles of the Ark onto their shoulders, stepped barefoot into the flood-stage Jordan River first, and stood firm on dry ground in the middle of the riverbed until every Israelite had crossed.
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Joshua 5
Joshua, Son of Nun
Moses' faithful successor who commanded the priests to step into the flood-stage Jordan with the Ark, celebrated the Passover at Gilgal when the forty-year manna ceased, and led Israel's conquest of Canaan.
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Moses
The prophet and lawgiver who commanded the Passover blood on Egypt's doors, struck the Rock at Rephidim so rivers gushed for a rebellious camp, and ascended smoking Mount Sinai.
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The People of Israel
The covenant nation delivered from Egypt — who drank from the smitten Rock at Rephidim, trembled before the fire of Sinai, reaped Canaan's first grain at Gilgal, and fell on their faces on Mount Carmel crying, 'The LORD, He is God!'
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Joshua, Son of Nun
Moses' faithful successor who commanded the priests to step into the flood-stage Jordan with the Ark, celebrated the Passover at Gilgal when the forty-year manna ceased, and led Israel's conquest of Canaan.
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Rahab
The Canaanite woman of Jericho who hid Israel's spies under stalks of flax, hung the scarlet cord from her window in the city wall, and was grafted into the Messianic line as mother of Boaz.
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Joshua, Son of Nun
Moses' faithful successor who commanded the priests to step into the flood-stage Jordan with the Ark, celebrated the Passover at Gilgal when the forty-year manna ceased, and led Israel's conquest of Canaan.
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The Amorite remnant bound to Israel by Joshua's 400-year-old covenant oath — whose unlawful slaughter by King Saul triggered a three-year famine in David's reign.
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