Joshua
Moses’ successor
Who was Joshua?
- Moses’ aide from his youth. His name was Hoshea, and Moses changed it to Joshua. Numbers 11:28; Numbers 13:16
- With Caleb, he encouraged the people to enter the promised land. Of their generation, only the two of them entered. Numbers 14:6-9, 30
- He led Israel across the Jordan. At the end of his life, he renewed the covenant at Shechem. Joshua 3:17; Joshua 24:25
What the Bible says
Numbers 11:28; Numbers 13:16
Forthwith Josue the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, and chosen out of many, said: My lord Moses forbid them.
Numbers 14:6-9, 30
6But Josue the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephone, who themselves also had viewed the land, rent their garments, 7And said to all the multitude of the children of Israel: The land which we have gone round is very good: 8If the Lord be favourable, he will bring us into it, and give us a land flowing with milk and honey. 9Be not rebellious against the Lord: and fear ye not the people of this land, for we are able to eat them up as bread. All aid is gone from them: the Lord is with us, fear ye not. 30Shall not enter into the land, over which I lifted up my bend to make you dwell therein, except Caleb the son of Jephone, and Josue the son of Nun.
Joshua 3:17; Joshua 24:25
And the people marched over against Jericho: and the priests that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, stood girded upon the dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all the people passed over through the channel that was dried up.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
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