Judge living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness and Conquest

Joshua

Exodus 17:9–14; 33:11; Numbers 13–14; Joshua 24:29

Nun’s son, first called Hoshea, whom Moses renamed Joshua (Numbers 13:8, 16). He led Israel’s fighters against Amalek, served as Moses’ assistant on Mount Sinai, and stayed in the tent of meeting when Moses left it (Exodus 17:9–14; 24:13; 33:11). As one of the twelve spies he and Caleb urged the people to enter the land, and so alone of their generation they lived to enter it (Numbers 14:6–9, 30). Moses laid hands on him as his successor (Numbers 27:18–23; Deuteronomy 34:9).

God told him, “Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid” (Joshua 1:9). He led Israel across the Jordan, saw Jericho fall, and led the conquest and the division of the land (Joshua 3–21). At Shechem he told the people, “choose today whom you will serve,” and declared, “as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh” (Joshua 24:15). He died at 110 and was buried in Timnath Serah (Joshua 24:29–30). His name is the Hebrew form of Jesus.

Moses' assistant, one of the two faithful spies, and leader of the conquest; died at 110 (Joshua 24:29). Scripture doesn't give his birth year. This bar ends in 1443 BC, the year under which Ussher's Annals mention his death, and counts back 110 years. That makes him about 62 at the Exodus, although Exodus 33:11 calls him a young man; if he died later (some suggest about 1426 BC or after), the bar would shift later. Treat both ends as approximate.

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