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Joshua 23:1

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Joshua Challenges Israel to be Faithful

23:1A long time1 passed after the Lord made Israel secure from all their enemies,2 and Joshua was very old.3

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Heb “many days.”
  2. 2 Heb “the Lord had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around.”
  3. 3 Heb “was old, coming into the days.” This expression, referring to advancing in years, also occurs in the following verse.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

A long time afterward, when the Lord had given rest to Israel from all their surrounding enemies, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,

NIVNew International Version (2011)

After a long time had passed and the Lord had given Israel rest from all their enemies around them, Joshua, by then a very old man,

CSBChristian Standard Bible

A long time after the Lord had given Israel rest from all the enemies around them, Joshua was old, advanced in age.

NLTNew Living Translation

The years passed, and the Lord had given the people of Israel rest from all their enemies. Joshua, who was now very old,

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And it happened, after a long time, after Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all their surrounding enemies, and after Joshua was old and well-advanced in years,

KJV 1900King James Version

And it came to pass a long time after that the Lord had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age.