Difference between revisions of "Book of Joshua"

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Joshua is the sixth book of the Old Testament, immediately following the Pentateuch.

It describes the Israelite conquest of Canaan by its eponymous hero.

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	It describes the [[Israelite]] conquest of [[Canaan]] by its eponymous [[Joshua (Biblical leader)\|hero]].		It describes the [[Israelite]] conquest of [[Canaan]] by its eponymous [[Joshua (Biblical leader)\|hero]].
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−	It is considered one the more troubling books of the [[Bible]] due to its unambiguous exhortations to [[genocide]] - for example, after Joshua has massacred the entire population of [[Jericho]] (Joshua 6:20), God instructs him to 'Do to Ai what you did to Jericho' (Joshua 8:1).