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circa 1406–1380 BC

Conquest of Canaan

Joshua leads Israel across the Jordan into the promised land, defeating the Canaanite kingdoms one by one.

658 verses · 1 book covered

Verses from This Period

  1. Joshua 24:26c. 1427 BC

    Y'hoshua wrote these words in the book of the Torah of God. Then he took a big stone and set it up there under the oak next to the sanctuary of ADONAI.

  2. Joshua 24:27c. 1427 BC

    Y'hoshua said to all the people, "See, this stone will be a witness against us; because it has heard all the words of ADONAI which he said to us; therefore it will be a witness against you, in case you deny your God."

  3. Joshua 24:28c. 1427 BC

    Then Y'hoshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.

  4. Joshua 24:29c. 1427 BC

    After this, Y'hoshua the son of Nun, the servant of ADONAI, died; he was 110 years old.

  5. Joshua 24:30c. 1427 BC

    They buried him on his property in Timnat-Serach, which is in the hills of Efrayim, north of Mount Ga'ash.

  6. Joshua 24:31c. 1427 BC

    Isra'el served ADONAI throughout Y'hoshua's lifetime and throughout the lifetimes of the leaders who outlived Y'hoshua and had known all the deeds that ADONAI had done on behalf of Isra'el.

  7. Joshua 24:32c. 1427 BC

    The bones of Yosef, which the people of Isra'el had brought up from Egypt, they buried in Sh'khem, in the parcel of ground which Ya'akov had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Sh'khem for a hundred pieces of silver; and they became a possession of the descendants of Yosef.

  8. Joshua 24:33c. 1427 BC

    Finally, El'azar the son of Aharon died; and they buried him on the hill belonging to Pinchas his son, which had been given to him in the hills of Efrayim.