And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
Shechem As it is immediately added, that `they presented themselves before God,' which is supposed to mean at the tabernacle; some are of opinion that Joshua caused it to be conveyed from Shiloh to Shechem on this occasion, to give the greater solemnity to his last meeting with the people. The Vatican and Alexandrian copies of the Septuagint, however, read (), both here and in verse
Joshua 24:25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them …
Genesis 12:6 And Abram passed through the land to the place of Sichem, to the …
Genesis 33:18,19 And Jacob came to Shalem, a city of Shechem, which is in the land …
Genesis 35:4 And they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, …
Judges 9:51-3 But there was a strong tower within the city, and thither fled all …
1 Kings 12:1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem: for all Israel were come to Shechem …
called
Joshua 23:2 And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their …
Exodus 18:25,26 And Moses chose able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over …
presented
1 Samuel 10:19 And you have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out …
Acts 10:33 Immediately therefore I sent to you; and you have well done that …
And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.
Your fathers
Genesis 11:26,31 And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran…
Genesis 12:1 Now the LORD had said to Abram, Get you out of your country, and …
Genesis 31:53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, …
Deuteronomy 26:5 And you shall speak and say before the LORD your God, A Syrian ready …
Isaiah 51:2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah that bore you: for I called …
Ezekiel 16:3 And say, Thus said the Lord GOD to Jerusalem; Your birth and your …
served other gods. In the case of Abraham this was probably the case, till he was called to the knowledge of God, when above
Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil to you to serve the LORD, choose you this day …
Genesis 31:19,30,32,53 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images …
Genesis 35:4 And they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, …
And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
I took
Genesis 12:1-4 Now the LORD had said to Abram, Get you out of your country, and …
Nehemiah 9:7,8 You are the LORD the God, who did choose Abram, and brought him forth …
Acts 7:2,3 And he said, Men, brothers, and fathers, listen; The God of glory …
gave
Genesis 21:2,3 For Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the …
Psalm 127:3 See, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb …
And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
unto Isaac
Genesis 25:24-26 And when her days to be delivered were fulfilled, behold, there were …
unto Esau
Genesis 32:3 And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother to the land …
Genesis 36:8 Thus dwelled Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.
Deuteronomy 2:5 Meddle not with them; for I will not give you of their land, no, …
Jacob
Genesis 46:1-7 And Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, …
Psalm 105:23 Israel also came into Egypt; and Jacob sojourned in the land of Ham.
Acts 7:15 So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,
I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.
sent
Exodus 3:10 Come now therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh, that you may …
Exodus 4:12,13 Now therefore go, and I will be with your mouth, and teach you what …
Psalm 105:26 He sent Moses his servant; and Aaron whom he had chosen.
plagued
Exodus 7:1-13:1 And the LORD said to Moses, See, I have made you a god to Pharaoh: …
Psalm 78:43-51 How he had worked his signs in Egypt, and his wonders in the field of Zoan…
Psalm 105:27-36 They showed his signs among them, and wonders in the land of Ham…
Psalm 135:8,9 Who smote the firstborn of Egypt, both of man and beast…
Psalm 136:10 To him that smote Egypt in their firstborn: for his mercy endures for ever:
And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.
I brought
Exodus 12:37,51 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about …
Micah 6:4 For I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out …
Egyptians
Exodus 14:1-16:1 And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying…
Nehemiah 9:11 And you did divide the sea before them, so that they went through …
Psalm 77:15-20 You have with your arm redeemed your people, the sons of Jacob and …
Psalm 78:13 He divided the sea, and caused them to pass through; and he made …
Psalm 136:13-15 To him which divided the Red sea into parts: for his mercy endures for ever…
Isaiah 63:12,13 That led them by the right hand of Moses with his glorious arm, dividing …
Acts 7:36 He brought them out, after that he had showed wonders and signs in …
Hebrews 11:29 By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land: which the …
And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.
And when
Exodus 14:10 And when Pharaoh drew near, the children of Israel lifted up their …
he put
Exodus 14:20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; …
brought
Exodus 14:27,28 And Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned …
your eyes
Exodus 14:31 And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did on the Egyptians: …
Deuteronomy 4:34 Or has God assayed to go and take him a nation from the middle of …
Deuteronomy 29:2 And Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all …
he dwelt
Joshua 5:6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, …
Numbers 14:33,34 And your children shall wander in the wilderness forty years, and …
Nehemiah 9:12-21 Moreover you led them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night …
Psalm 95:9 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work.
Psalm 95:9,10 When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my work…
Acts 13:17,18 The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the …
Hebrews 3:17 But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that …
And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.
Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:
But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.
Numbers 22:11,12,18-20,35 Behold, there is a people come out of Egypt, which covers the face …
Numbers 23:3-12,15-26 And Balaam said to Balak, Stand by your burnt offering, and I will …
Numbers 24:5-10 How goodly are your tents, O Jacob, and your tabernacles, O Israel!…
Isaiah 54:17 No weapon that is formed against you shall prosper; and every tongue …
And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
And ye
Joshua 3:14-17 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to …
Joshua 4:10-12,23 For the priests which bore the ark stood in the middle of Jordan…
Psalm 114:3,5 The sea saw it, and fled: Jordan was driven back…
the men
Joshua 6:1-27 Now Jericho was straightly shut up because of the children of Israel: …
Joshua 10:1-11:23 Now it came to pass, when Adonizedec king of Jerusalem had heard …
Nehemiah 9:24,25 So the children went in and possessed the land, and you subdued before …
Psalm 78:54,55 And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, even to this …
Psalm 105:44 And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labor …
Acts 7:45 Which also our fathers that came after brought in with Jesus into …
Acts 13:19 And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he …
And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.
And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
fear
Deuteronomy 10:12 And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but …
1 Samuel 12:24 Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for …
Job 1:1 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man …
Job 28:28 And to man he said, Behold, the fear of the LORD, that is wisdom; …
Psalm 111:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding …
Psalm 130:4 But there is forgiveness with you, that you may be feared.
Hosea 3:5 Afterward shall the children of Israel return, and seek the LORD …
Acts 9:31 Then had the churches rest throughout all Judaea and Galilee and …
serve
Joshua 24:23 Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among …
Genesis 17:1 And when Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to …
Genesis 20:5,6 Said he not to me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, …
Deuteronomy 18:13 You shall be perfect with the LORD your God.
2 Kings 20:3 I beseech you, O LORD, remember now how I have walked before you …
Psalm 119:1,80 Blessed are the undefiled in the way, who walk in the law of the LORD…
Luke 8:15 But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good …
John 4:23,24 But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshippers shall worship …
2 Corinthians 1:12 For our rejoicing is this, the testimony of our conscience, that …
Ephesians 6:24 Grace be with all them that love our Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. Amen.
Philippians 1:10 That you may approve things that are excellent; that you may be sincere …
put From this exhortation of Joshua, we not only learn that the Israelites still retained some relics of idolatry, but to what gods they were attached.
Joshua 24:23 Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among …
Genesis 35:2 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, …
Exodus 20:3,4 You shall have no other gods before me…
Leviticus 17:7 And they shall no more offer their sacrifices to devils, after whom …
Ezra 9:11 Which you have commanded by your servants the prophets, saying, The …
Ezekiel 20:18 But I said to their children in the wilderness, Walk you not in the …
Amos 5:25 Have you offered to me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness …
Amos 5:26 But you have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, …
in Egypt
Ezekiel 20:7,8 Then said I to them, Cast you away every man the abominations of …
Ezekiel 23:3 And they committed prostitutions in Egypt; they committed prostitutions …
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
choose
Ruth 1:15,16 And she said, Behold, your sister in law is gone back to her people, …
1 Kings 18:21 And Elijah came to all the people, and said, How long halt you between …
Ezekiel 20:39 As for you, O house of Israel, thus said the Lord GOD; Go you, serve …
John 6:67 Then said Jesus to the twelve, Will you also go away?
whether the gods
Joshua 24:14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth…
or the gods
Exodus 23:24,32,33 You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do after …
Exodus 34:15 Lest you make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they …
Deuteronomy 13:7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, near …
Deuteronomy 29:18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, …
Judges 6:10 And I said to you, I am the LORD your God; fear not the gods of the …
as for me
Genesis 18:19 For I know him, that he will command his children and his household …
Psalm 101:2 I will behave myself wisely in a perfect way. O when will you come …
Psalm 119:106,111,112 I have sworn, and I will perform it, that I will keep your righteous …
John 6:68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? you have …
Acts 11:23 Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted …
And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:
And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God.
And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
Ye cannot
Joshua 24:23 Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among …
Ruth 1:15 And she said, Behold, your sister in law is gone back to her people, …
Matthew 6:24 No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and …
Luke 14:25-33 And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said to them…
holy
Leviticus 10:3 Then Moses said to Aaron, This is it that the LORD spoke, saying, …
Leviticus 19:2 Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say …
1 Samuel 6:20 And the men of Bethshemesh said, Who is able to stand before this …
Psalm 99:5,9 Exalt you the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy…
Isaiah 5:16 But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that …
Isaiah 6:3-5 And one cried to another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is the LORD …
Isaiah 30:11,15 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy …
Habakkuk 1:12 Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? we shall …
a jealous
Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the …
Exodus 34:14 For you shall worship no other god: for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, …
1 Corinthians 10:20-22 But I say, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice …
he will not
Exodus 23:21 Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not …
Exodus 34:7 Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression …
1 Samuel 3:14 And therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli…
2 Chronicles 36:16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and …
Isaiah 27:11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the …
If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
he will turn
Joshua 23:12-15 Else if you do in any wise go back, and join to the remnant of these …
1 Chronicles 28:9 And you, Solomon my son, know you the God of your father, and serve …
2 Chronicles 15:2 And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear you me, Asa, and …
Ezra 8:22 For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen …
Isaiah 1:28 And the destruction of the transgressors and of the sinners shall …
Isaiah 63:10 But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned …
Isaiah 65:11,12 But you are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, …
Jeremiah 17:13 O LORD, the hope of Israel, all that forsake you shall be ashamed, …
Ezekiel 18:24 But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits …
Acts 7:42 Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; …
Hebrews 10:26,27,38 For if we sin willfully after that we have received the knowledge …
And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD.
Nay
Exodus 19:8 And all the people answered together, and said, All that the LORD …
Exodus 20:19 And they said to Moses, Speak you with us, and we will hear: but …
Exodus 24:3,7 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and …
Deuteronomy 5:27,28 Go you near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak …
Deuteronomy 26:17 You have avouched the LORD this day to be your God, and to walk in …
Isaiah 44:5 One shall say, I am the LORD's; and another shall call himself by …
And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.
Ye are witnesses Ye have been sufficiently apprised of the difficulties in your way of God's holiness, and the nature of his service--your own weakness and inconstancy, and insufficiency--your need of the Divine help, and the hope of assistance held out in the law-- and the awful consequences of apostasy: and now ye make your choice. Remember then that ye are witnesses against yourselves; and your own conscience will be witness, judge, and executioner.
Deuteronomy 26:17 You have avouched the LORD this day to be your God, and to walk in …
Joshua 15:6 And the border went up to Bethhogla, and passed along by the north …
Luke 19:22 And he said to him, Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked …
ye have
Psalm 119:11,173 Your word have I hid in my heart, that I might not sin against you…
Luke 10:42 But one thing is needful: and Mary has chosen that good part, which …
Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.
put away
Joshua 24:14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth…
Genesis 35:2-4 Then Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, …
Exodus 20:23 You shall not make with me gods of silver, neither shall you make …
Judges 10:15,16 And the children of Israel said to the LORD, We have sinned: do you …
1 Samuel 7:3,4 And Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you do return …
Hosea 14:2,3,8 Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say to him, Take away …
1 Corinthians 10:19-21 What say I then? that the idol is any thing, or that which is offered …
2 Corinthians 6:18-16 And will be a Father to you, and you shall be my sons and daughters, …
incline
Proverbs 2:2 So that you incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding;
Hebrews 12:28,29 Why we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, …
And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
made
Exodus 15:25 And he cried to the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, which when …
Exodus 24:3,7,8 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and …
Deuteronomy 5:2,3 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb…
Deuteronomy 29:1,10-15 These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses …
2 Kings 11:17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the …
2 Chronicles 15:12,15 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers …
2 Chronicles 23:16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, …
2 Chronicles 29:10 Now it is in my heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, …
2 Chronicles 34:29-32 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah …
Nehemiah 9:38 And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and …
Nehemiah 10:28,29 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, …
in Shechem
Joshua 24:1,26 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called …
And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
Joshua
Exodus 24:4 And Moses wrote all the words of the LORD, and rose up early in the …
Deuteronomy 31:24-26 And it came to pass, when Moses had made an end of writing the words …
took
Judges 9:6 And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of …
set it
Joshua 4:3-9,20-24 And command you them, saying, Take you hence out of the middle of …
Genesis 28:18-22 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he …
under
Genesis 35:4,8 And they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, …
Judges 9:6 And all the men of Shechem gathered together, and all the house of …
And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.
A curious coincidence of circumstances is related by Livy, the Roman historian: he writes that `when three ambassadors were sent from Rome to complain of the perfidious conduct of the AEqui, the General informed them, that they might deliver their message to an oak which shaded his tent.' On this one of the ambassadors turning away, said, `This venerable oak, and all the gods, shall know that you have violated the peace; they shall now hear our complaints; and may they also soon be witnesses, when we revenge with our arms the violation of divine and human rights.' It is worthy of remark that Joshua merely set up a pillar under an oak, - the one, perhaps, to protect the other; while the General directed the ambassadors to address the oak, perhaps with an idolatrous feeling that they were addressing one of the gods, who would aid his cause; while the Roman ambassadors caught the feeling, and really invoked the aid of the oak and the gods.
Joshua 22:27,28,34 But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations …
Genesis 31:44-52 Now therefore come you, let us make a covenant, I and you; and let …
Deuteronomy 4:26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day…
Deuteronomy 30:19 I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have …
Deuteronomy 31:19,21,26 Now therefore write you this song for you, and teach it the children …
1 Samuel 7:12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpeh and Shen, and …
it hath
Deuteronomy 32:1 Give ear, O you heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the …
Isaiah 1:2 Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, …
Habakkuk 2:11 For the stone shall cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the …
Luke 19:40 And he answered and said to them, I tell you that, if these should …
deny
Job 31:23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his …
Proverbs 30:9 Lest I be full, and deny you, and say, Who is the LORD? or lest I …
Matthew 10:33 But whoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before …
2 Timothy 2:12,13 If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also …
Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being …
Revelation 3:8 I know your works: behold, I have set before you an open door, and …
So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.
And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old.
after these
Deuteronomy 34:5 So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, …
Judges 2:8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an …
Psalm 115:17 The dead praise not the LORD, neither any that go down into silence.
2 Timothy 4:7,8 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith…
Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying to me, Write, Blessed are …
an hundred
Genesis 50:22,26 And Joseph dwelled in Egypt, he, and his father's house: and Joseph …
And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.
And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
served
Deuteronomy 31:29 For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves, …
Judges 2:7 And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the …
2 Chronicles 24:2,17,18 And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the LORD all the …
Acts 20:29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter …
Philippians 2:12 Why, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence …
overlived Joshua [heb] prolonged their days after Joshua
which had
Deuteronomy 11:2,7 And know you this day: for I speak not with your children which have …
Deuteronomy 31:13 And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, …
And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.
Eleazar
Joshua 14:1 And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited …
Exodus 6:23,25 And Aaron took him Elisheba, daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, …
Numbers 3:32 And Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be chief over the chief …
Numbers 20:26-28 And strip Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son: …
died
Job 30:23 For I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed …
Psalm 49:10 For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish …
Isaiah 57:1,2 The righteous perishes, and no man lays it to heart: and merciful …
Zechariah 1:5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Acts 13:36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of …
Hebrews 7:24 But this man, because he continues ever, has an unchangeable priesthood.
Hebrews 9:26,27 For then must he often have suffered since the foundation of the world…
Phinehas
Judges 20:28 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before …
CONCLUDING REMARKS ON JOSHUA
The book of Joshua is one of the most important documents in the Old Testament. The rapid conquest of the Promised Land, and the actual settlement of the Israelites in it, afford a striking accomplishment of the Divine predictions to Abraham and the succeeding patriarchs; and at the same time bear the most unequivocal and simple testimony to the authenticity of this sacred book. Several of the transactions related in it are confirmed in a very extraordinary manner, by the traditions current among heathen nations, and preserved by ancient profane historians of undoubted character. Thus there are monuments still in existence, which prove that the Carthaginians were a colony of Syrians that escaped from Joshua; as also that the inhabitants of Leptis, in Africa, can originally from the Sidonians, who abandoned their country on account of the calamities with which it was overwhelmed. Procopius relates that the Phoenicians fled before the Hebrews in Africa, and spread themselves abroad as far as the pillars of Hercules; and adds, In Numida, where now stands the city Tigisis (Tangiers), they have erected two columns, on which, in Phoenician characters, is the following inscription:--We are the Phoenicians who fled from the face of Jesus (Joshua) the son of Naue (Nun).