Joshua 18:3

Modern English Version

So Joshua said to the Israelites, “How long will you delay going in to possess the land that the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?

Cross References

Proverbs 13:4

The soul of the sluggard desires and gets nothing, but the soul of the diligent will be made fat.

Judges 18:9

They said, “Arise, and let us go up against them, for we have seen the land, and behold, it is very good. Do you stand still? Do not be slow to go, to enter and possess the land.

Matthew 20:6

“About the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing idle, and said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’

Proverbs 15:19

The road of the sluggard is like a hedge of thorns, but the path of the righteous is a highway.

Proverbs 10:4

He who has an idle hand becomes poor, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

Zephaniah 3:16

On that day it will be said to Jerusalem: Fear not, O Zion; let not your hands be slack.

John 6:27

Do not work for the food which perishes, but for that food which endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For God the Father has set His seal on Him.”

Ecclesiastes 9:10

Whatever your hands find to do, do with your strength; for there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol where you are going.

Joshua 18:2

Yet seven tribes among the Israelites remained who had not yet received their inheritance.

Joshua 18:4

Select three men from each tribe, and I will send them out; and they will rise and go throughout the land, and describe it according to their inheritance, and they will come back to me.

Joshua 1:6

“Be strong and courageous, for you shall provide the land that I swore to their fathers to give them as an inheritance for this people.

Joshua 13:1

Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. The Lord said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, but very much of the land still remains to be possessed.