When the Israelites, led by Joshua toward the Promised Land, arrived at the banks of the River Jordan, the Ark was carried in the lead preceding the people and was the signal for their advance ( Joshua 3: 3, 6 ).

The Ark was again set up by Joshua at Shiloh, but when the Israelites fought against Benjamin at Gibeah, they had the Ark with them and consulted it after their defeat.

Its 24 chapters tell of the entry of the Israelites into Canaan, their conquest and division of the land under the leadership of Joshua, and of serving God in the land.

Joshua forms part of the biblical history of the emergence of Israel which begins with the exodus of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, continues with their conquest of Canaan under their leader Joshua ( the subject matter of the book of Joshua ), and culminates in Judges with the settlement of the tribes in the land.

The book is structured in two roughly equal parts, the story of the campaigns of the Israelites in central, southern and northern Canaan and the destruction of their enemies, followed by the division of the conquered land among the twelve tribes ; the two parts are framed by set-piece speeches by God and Joshua commanding the conquest and at the end warning of the need for faithful obedience of the Law ( torah ) revealed to Moses.

Having described how the Israelites and Joshua have carried out the first of their God's commands, the story now turns to the second, to " put the people in possession of the land.

Joshua charges the leaders of the Israelites to remain faithful to Yahweh and the covenant, warning of judgement should Israel leave Yahweh and follow other gods ; Joshua meets with all the people and reminds them of Yahweh's great works for them, and of the need to love Yahweh alone.

The introduction to Deuteronomy recalled how Yahweh had given the land to the Israelites but then withdrew the gift when Israel showed fear and only Joshua and Caleb had trusted in God.

* Joshua led the Israelites out of the wilderness into the Promised Land, crossing the Jordan River as if on dry ground ( 3: 16 ), just as Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt through the Red Sea, which they crossed as if on dry land ( Ex.

* Joshua successfully intercedes on behalf of the Israelites when Yahweh is angry for their failure to fully observe the " ban " ( herem ), just as Moses frequently persuaded God not to punish the people ( Ex.

* Joshua and the Israelites were able to defeat the people at Ai because Joshua followed the divine instruction to extend his sword ( Josh 8: 18 ), just as the people were able to defeat the Amalekites as long as Moses extended his hand that held " the staff of God " ( Ex.

* Before his death Joshua delivered a farewell address to the Israelites ( 23 – 24 ), just as Moses had delivered his farewell address ( Deut.

Joshua and Caleb, two of the spies, tell that the land is abundant and is " flowing with milk and honey "; the other spies say that it is inhabited by giants, and the Israelites refuse to enter the land.

The two Books of Samuel () are part of a series of historical books ( Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings ) that make up a theological history of the Israelites and affirm and explain God's law for Israel under the guidance of the prophets.

It is known in Judeo-Christian tradition as the place of the Israelites ' return from bondage in Egypt, led by Joshua, the successor to Moses.

All Muslims also see Joshua as the leader of the Israelites, following the death of Moses.

Moses appointed Joshua, son of Nun, to succeed him as the leader of the Israelites.

Similar passages include, for example, Exodus 17: 14, " And YHWH said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua, that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven ;" Exodus 24: 4, " And Moses wrote all the words of YHWH, and rose up early in the morning, and built an altar under the mount, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel ;" Exodus 34: 27, " And Yahweh said unto Moses, Write thou these words, for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel ;" and " These are the decrees, the laws and the regulations that the LORD established on Mount Sinai between himself and the Israelites through Moses.

This was reminiscent of such a crossing of the Jordan after the Exodus ( see Book of Joshua ), leading into the promised land of their deliverance from oppression.

It was once thought that P and J extended into Joshua: the similarity between Joshua's crossing of the Jordan and Moses ' crossing of the Red Sea is especially striking, for example.

Sir Joshua has given it as a rule, that the proportion of warm to cold colour in a picture should be as two to one, although he has frequently deviated therefrom ; and Smith, in his " Remarks on Rural Scenery ," would extend a like rule to all the proportions of painting, begging for it the term of the " rule of thirds ," according to which, a landscape, having one third of land, should have two thirds of water, and these together, forming about one-third of the picture, the remaining two-thirds to be for air and sky ; and he applies the same rule to the crossing and breaking of lines and objects, & c.

( 1 ) Genesis 1: 1 -- 3: 24 ( the story of creation ); ( 2 ) Genesis 22: 1-18 ( the binding of Isaac ); ( 3 ) Exodus 12: 1-24 ( the Passover charter narrative ); ( 4 ) Jonah 1: 1 -- 4: 11 ( the story of Jonah ); ( 5 ) Exodus 14: 24 -- 15: 21 ( crossing of the Red Sea ); ( 6 ) Isaiah 60: 1-13 ( the promise to Jerusalem ); ( 7 ) Job 38: 2-28 ( the Lord's answer to Job ); ( 8 ) 2 Kings 2: 1-22 ( the assumption of Elijah ); ( 9 ) Jeremiah 31: 31-34 ( the new covenant ); ( 10 ) Joshua 1: 1-9 ( entry into the Promised Land ); ( 11 ) Ezekiel 37: 1-14 ( the valley of dry bones ); ( 12 ) Daniel 3: 1-29 ( the story of the three youths ).

In March 1853, Robert Hawkins and Joshua Jordan, both Methodist missionaries, petitioned the Assembly to be relieved on taxes.

In biblical history, the Jordan appears as the scene of several miracles, the first taking place when the Jordan, near Jericho, was crossed by the Israelites under Joshua ().

In Biblical usage, the name was confined to the country West of the Jordan, the Canaanites being described as dwelling " by the sea, and along by the side of the Jordan ," ( Numbers 33: 51 ; Joshua 22: 9 )

It is supposed by some to be the same as the " Adam " of Joshua 3: 16, the name of which still lingers in Damieh, a ford of the Jordan river.

When the Israelites entered the land, Zelophehad's daughters appeared before Eleazer the priest, Joshua ( who by then had assumed leadership from Moses ), and the chieftains, reminding them that God had commanded Moses to grant them a portion among their kinsmen, and Zelophehad's daughters received a portion in the holdings of Manasseh on the west side of the Jordan River.

In the biblical account, Reuben is portrayed as having arrived east of the Jordan after leaving Egypt, but rather than taking land on the west of the Jordan, after conquering it under Joshua, instead took land on the east, as they owned a large number of cattle, and the territory seemed suitable for pasture.

Ramoth-Gilead, ( Hebrew: ; Douay-Rheims: Ramoth Galaad ; meaning " Heights of Gilead "), is a city of refuge east of the Jordan river ; called " Ramoth in Gilead " ( Deuteronomy 4: 43 ; Joshua 20: 8 ; 21: 38 ).

According to the book of Joshua (), when the Hebrews were encamped at Shittim, in the " Arabah " or Jordan valley opposite Jericho, ready to cross the river, Joshua, as a final preparation, sent out two spies to investigate the military strength of Jericho.

Men in the Hanson family are usually called by their middle names-most notably band members Isaac and Taylor, along with brother Joshua (" Mac " Mackenzie ), father Clarke (" Walker "), Isaac's sons Clarke (" Everett ") and James (" Monroe "), Taylor's son Jordan (" Ezra "), and Zac's son John (" Shepherd ").

In December 2001, Kerik and his daughter, now Lisa Marie Jordan ( married to Joshua Jordan with two children ), re-united after 26 years of separation.

In the biblical account, Gad's presence on the east of the Jordan is explained as a matter of the tribe desiring the land as soon as they saw it, before they had even crossed the Jordan under Joshua, and conquered Canaan.

The main mention of Gilgal is when the Book of Joshua states that the Israelites first encamped there after having crossed the Jordan River.

Theudas beheaded by Procurator Cuspius Fadus for saying he would part the Jordan river ( like Moses and the Red Sea or Joshua and the Jordan ) ( JA20. 5. 1, places it before the Census of Quirinius )

Gustave Doré, Joshua Burns the Town of Ai, 1866.

She owned numerous pieces including those by James McNeill Whistler, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Gustave Courbet, Maurice Prendergast, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres, Honoré Daumier, Joshua Reynolds, Claude Monet, Henri Rousseau, Jan Provost, Édouard Manet, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, and Alfred Sisley.

* After crossing the Jordan River, the Israelites celebrated the Passover ( 5: 10 – 12 ) just as they did immediately before the Exodus ( Ex.

The book ends with the new generation of Israelites in the plain of Moab ready for the crossing of the Jordan River.

Yahweh causes Pharaoh to change his mind about allowing the Israelites to depart ; he pursues them, but God destroys the Egyptian army at the crossing of the Red Sea ( Yam Suf ) and the Israelites celebrate Yahweh's victory.

According to the Bible, after crossing the Red Sea and leading the Israelites towards the desert, Moses was summoned by God to Mount Sinai, also referred to as Mount Horeb, the same place where Moses had first talked to the Burning Bush, tended the flocks of Jethro his father-in-law, and later produced water by striking the rock with his staff and directed the battle with the Amalekites.

Why do the Israelites sing at the crossing of the Red Sea that " there is no god like you, O Yahweh ", implying that other gods exist?

The main story of Balaam occurs during the sojourn of the Israelites in the plains of Midian, east of the Jordan River, at the close of forty years of wandering, shortly before the death of Moses, and the crossing of the Jordan.

The biblical books Exodus and Numeri refer to Pi-hahiroth as the place where the Israelites encamped between Baal-zephon and Migdol while awaiting an attack by Pharaoh, prior to crossing the Red Sea.

When the Israelites see the power of Yahweh they put their faith in Yahweh and in Moses, and sing a song of praise to the Lord for the crossing of the sea and the destruction of their enemies.

Following the crossing, the Israelites were in the wilderness of Shur ( Exodus 15: 22 ) which is identified as lying west of the Wadi El-Arish.

Among the subjects treated in this sura are God's call of Moses (), the Exodus of the Israelites and the crossing of the Red Sea (), the worship of the Golden Calf () and the Fall of Man ().

While the crossing of the Jordan has extremely Priestly elements ( the Israelites need the presence of the Levites, holding the ark of the covenant, in order to cross ), it is more probable that the Deuteronomist knew a " priestly " tradition of the Exodus separate from the one that produced the Pentateuch.

The account of the Israelites ' crossing of the Red Sea is given particular attention in the readings since this event is at the centre of the Jewish Passover, which Christians believe Christ's death and resurrection is the fulfillment of.

The Egyptian records themselves have no mention of anything recorded in Exodus, the wilderness of the southern Sinai peninsula shows no traces of a mass-migration such as Exodus describes, and virtually all the place-names mentioned, including Goshen ( the area within Egypt where the Israelites supposedly lived ), the store-cities of Pithom and Rameses, the site of the crossing of the Red Sea ( or, more commonly among modern Biblical scholars, the Sea of Reeds ), and even Mt Sinai itself, have resisted identification.

* The site of the Israelites ' crossing of the Red Sea ( located in the Gulf of Aqaba )