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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

    Joshua wrote these words in the scroll of the Torah of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.

  2. Joshua 24:27c. 1427 BC

    Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the LORD’s words which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.”

  3. Joshua 24:28c. 1427 BC

    So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.

  4. Joshua 24:29c. 1427 BC

    After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred and ten years old.

  5. Joshua 24:30c. 1427 BC

    They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.

  6. Joshua 24:31c. 1427 BC

    Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of the LORD, that he had worked for Israel.

  7. Joshua 24:32c. 1427 BC

    They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

  8. Joshua 24:33c. 1427 BC

    Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.