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So the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame was in all the land.
Joshua 6:27 · New American Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB So Yahweh was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.
  • KJV So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country.
  • BSB So the LORD was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout the land.
  • NKJV So the Lord was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout all the country.
  • NLT So the Lord was with Joshua, and his reputation spread throughout the land.

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Quick answer

Yahweh was with Joshua, and his fame spread throughout the land. God's presence brought success and confirmed Joshua's God-given leadership.

Overview

The chapter closes by attributing Joshua's victory and renown to the Lord's presence with him, just as God had promised (Joshua 1:5). His fame served God's larger purpose of making His own power known among the nations. The true source of every triumph is God's faithful presence with His servant.

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 18

  • Josh 9:3But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
  • Josh 1:5No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you. I will not fail you nor forsake you.
  • Matt 28:20teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
  • Josh 9:1When all the kings who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard of it
  • Matt 18:20For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there I am in the middle of them.”
  • 2 Tim 4:22The Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.
  • Josh 9:9They said to him, “Your servants have come from a very far country because of the name of Yahweh your God; for we have heard of his fame, all that he did in Egypt,
  • Matt 14:1At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,
  • Acts 18:9–10The Lord said to Paul in the night by a vision, “Don’t be afraid, but speak and don’t be silent;
  • 2 Tim 4:17But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me, that through me the message might be fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear; and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
  • Deut 31:6Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”
  • Josh 1:9Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be dismayed, for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”
  • 1 Sam 2:30“Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever.’ But now Yahweh says, ‘Far be it from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me will be lightly esteemed.
  • Gen 39:21But Yahweh was with Joseph, and showed kindness to him, and gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.
  • Gen 39:2–3Yahweh was with Joseph, and he was a prosperous man. He was in the house of his master the Egyptian.
  • Matt 4:24The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.
  • 2 Cor 13:14The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, God’s love, and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit, be with you all. Amen.
  • 2 Sam 7:9I have been with you wherever you went, and have cut off all your enemies from before you. I will make you a great name, like the name of the great ones who are in the earth.

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Christ at the center

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.

How Joshua 6:27 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

Original language

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