Then Joshua returned with all Israel to the camp at Gilgal.
Parallel translations
- WEB Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.
- KJV And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.
- NKJV Then Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal.
- NASB So Joshua and all Israel with him returned to the camp at Gilgal.
- NLT Then Joshua and the Israelite army returned to their camp at Gilgal.
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Quick answer
Joshua and all Israel return to their camp at Gilgal. The southern campaign concludes with a return to base.
Overview
Having completed the conquest of the south, Israel withdraws once more to Gilgal. The return marks the close of one phase before the northern campaign begins. Gilgal remains the center to which God's people come back in rest after His victories.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 3
- Josh 10:15Then Joshua returned with all Israel to the camp at Gilgal.
- Josh 4:19On the tenth day of the first month the people went up from the Jordan and camped at Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.
- 1 Sam 11:14Then Samuel said to the people, “Come, let us go to Gilgal and renew the kingship there.”
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Joshua — the same name as Jesus, 'the LORD saves' — leads God's people into their inheritance, a shadow of the greater Joshua who brings us into the true rest and the promised land that remains.
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