So Joshua took the whole land, in accordance with everything that the Lord had spoken to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. So the land was at rest from war.
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- WEB So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that Yahweh spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. The land had rest from war.
- KJV So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.
- BSB So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the LORD had spoken to Moses. And Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the allotments to their tribes. Then the land had rest from war.
- NKJV So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land rested from war.
- NLT So Joshua took control of the entire land, just as the Lord had instructed Moses. He gave it to the people of Israel as their special possession, dividing the land among the tribes. So the land finally had rest from war.
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Quick answer
Joshua takes the whole land as God promised Moses and distributes it as Israel's inheritance, and the land has rest. The conquest reaches its goal and Israel enjoys peace.
Overview
This climactic summary declares the conquest complete, the land allotted, and rest achieved according to God's word. The 'rest' Israel enjoys foreshadows the greater rest God provides His people, ultimately fulfilled in Christ (Hebrews 4). The verse celebrates God's faithfulness in giving the promised inheritance.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 17
- Josh 21:44–45Yahweh gave them rest all around, according to all that he swore to their fathers. Not a man of all their enemies stood before them. Yahweh delivered all their enemies into their hand.
- Num 26:52–55Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Ps 46:9He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear. He burns the chariots in the fire.
- Josh 14:1–15These are the inheritances which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed to them,
- Exod 23:27–31I will send my terror before you, and will confuse all the people to whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.
- Deut 12:9–10for you haven’t yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which Yahweh your God gives you.
- Deut 25:19Therefore it shall be, when Yahweh your God has given you rest from all your enemies all around, in the land which Yahweh your God gives you for an inheritance to possess it, that you shall blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky. You shall not forget.
- Deut 1:38Joshua the son of Nun, who stands before you, shall go in there. Encourage him, for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.
- Josh 11:18Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
- Exod 34:11Observe that which I command you today. Behold, I drive out before you the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- Josh 23:1After many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,
- Josh 22:4Now Yahweh your God has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them. Therefore now return and go to your tents, to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan.
- Josh 18:10Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before Yahweh. There Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.
- 2 Tim 4:7–8I have fought the good fight. I have finished the course. I have kept the faith.
- Heb 4:8–9For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day.
- Num 34:2–13“Command the children of Israel, and tell them, ‘When you come into the land of Canaan (this is the land that shall fall to you for an inheritance, even the land of Canaan according to its borders),
- Deut 11:23–25then will Yahweh drive out all these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves.
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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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