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Exodus and the Promised Land

Israel Enters the Promised Land

Conquest era Jordan River and CanaanOld Testament

WHAT HAPPENED

The event

Under Joshua, Israel crossed the Jordan and began entering the land God had promised to Abraham’s descendants.

WHY IT MATTERS

Its place in the story

The crossing marks a new generation receiving God’s promise through courage, obedience, and dependence.

RELATED SCRIPTURE · KJV

Read it in the Bible

“So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.”

Joshua 6:20

“And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”

Joshua 24:15

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