Hebrews 4:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For if Joshua had given them rest, God would not have spoken later about another day. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For if Jesus had given them rest, then would he not afterward have spoken of another day. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition [This mention of a rest was not a reference to their entering into Canaan.] For if Joshua had given them rest, He [God] would not speak afterward about another day. American Standard Version (1901) For if Joshua had given them rest, he would not have spoken afterward of another day. Common English Bible If Joshua gave the Israelites rest, God wouldn’t have spoken about another day later on. Catholic Public Domain Version For if Jesus had offered them rest, he would never have spoken, afterward, about another day. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For if Jesus had given them rest, he would never have afterwards spoken of another day. |
Our ancestors in turn received it and with Joshua brought it in when they dispossessed the nations that God drove out before them, until the days of David.
Indeed, you have not yet come into the resting place and the inheritance the Lord your God is giving you.
When the Lord your God gives you rest from all the enemies around you in the land the Lord your God is giving you to possess as an inheritance, blot out the memory of Amalek under heaven. Do not forget.
Long ago God spoke to our ancestors by the prophets at different times and in different ways.
until the Lord gives your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they too possess the land the Lord your God is giving them. You may then return to the land of your inheritance and take possession of what Moses the Lord’s servant gave you on the east side of the Jordan.’
So Joshua took the entire land, in keeping with all that the Lord had told Moses. Joshua then gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to the land allotted to each tribe. After this, the land had rest from war.
Now that he has given your brothers rest, just as he promised them, return to your homes in your own land that Moses the Lord’s servant gave you across the Jordan.
A long time after the Lord had given Israel rest from all the enemies around them, Joshua was old, advanced in age.