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How many Israelites did Joshua lead across the Jordan River into the Promised Land?
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∙ 14y ago
The Israelites were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho. (Numbers 26:63)
This was a few months before Joshua led them across the Jordan river.
In Numbers 26:51 the Jewish adult males numbered 601,730:
These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.
Double it to include the women and you have 1,203,460 adults. Since we don't know how many children there were, we could be talking anywhere from 2 million people and up.
This is ignoring verse 62 regarding the 23,000 Levites: And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward:
I think God Himself gives a much better clue:
"Say to them, 'As I live,' says The Lord, 'what you have said in My hearing I will do to you: your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and of all your number, numbered from twenty years old and upward, who have murmured against Me, not one shall come into the land where I swore that I would make you dwell, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh and Joshua the son of Nun. But your little ones, who you said would become a prey, I will bring in, and they shall know the land which you have despised. But as for you, your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness. And your children shall be shepherds in the wilderness forty years, and shall suffer for your faithlessness, until the last of your dead bodies lies in the wilderness. According to the number of the days in which you spied out the land, forty days, for every day a year, you shall bear your iniquity, forty years, and you shall know My displeasure.'" (Numbers 14:28-34 RSV)
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∙ 6y agoThe Bible says that there were 600,000 fighting men. Scholars calculate that this would mean at least 2.5 million Israelites, including women, children, priests and the elderly. The Bible also says that the Israelites had cattle, which were also driven across.
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∙ 9y agoThe book of Numbers (26:51) says there were 601 thousand seven hundred and thirty mature Israelite males. To this must be added an equal number of women, plus children, for a total of around two million.
Of those who had left Egypt, Joshua and Caleb were the only men over the age of 20 years old that actually entered the Promised Land. The rest disobeyed God and did not live wholeheartedly for God, whereas Joshua and Caleb did. Those who disobeyed died off gradually in the wilderness, allowing enough time for them to have children (Numbers ch.14).
"Surely none of the men who came up from Egypt, from twenty years old and above, shall see the land of which I swore to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, because they have not wholly followed Me, except Caleb the son of Jephunneh, the Kenizzite, and Joshua the son of Nun, for they have wholly followed the Lord." (Numbers 32:11-12) NKJV
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∙ 7y agoThe mature men were about 600,000 (Exodus 12:37), plus the 23,000 Levites (Numbers 3:39). To this must be added the converts (Exodus 12:38), and the women and children. Based on the ratio of firstborn to younger children (Numbers ch.3), it can be seen that the children were numerous. Estimates for the total number are usually given at two million or more.
Who survived the entire time in the wilderness?
All of the Levites survived, as did all of the women and children. Plus Joshua and Calev.
The Levites survived: Talmud, Bava Bathra 121.
The women survived: Rashi commentary, Numbers 26:64.
The children survived: because the decree of dying in the wilderness applied only to men aged twenty and over (Rashi, Numbers 14:29).
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∙ 12y ago40 people were with joshua
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Who led the Israelites across the The Red Sea andThe Jordan River?
According to the Bible, Joshua led the Israelites across the River Jordan.
Whom did God appoint to be the leader of Israel after Moses?
Joshua was the leader of the Israelites after the death of Moses. It was him that led them across the Jordan River into the promised land (Canaan.)
What part of the promised Land did Joshua capture?
God told Moses to prepare a young Hebrew, Joshua, to assume the leadership of the Israelites upon Moses' death. Forty years later, the Israelites were camped on the eastern side of the Dead Sea when Moses died. God told Joshua it was time to lead the people across the Jordan River into the Promised Land. In the Hebrew Bible, the "Land of Canaan" extends from Lebanon southward across Gaza to the "Brook of Egypt" and eastward to the Jordan River Valley, thus including modern Israel and the Palestinian Territories. The Lord helped Joshua lead the Hebrew people into the Promised Land. When they entered this land, the Israelites had to cross the Jordan River. At God's command, Joshua told the priests to take the Ark of the Covenant into the river. A great battle with the people of the land of Canaan took place by the city of Gabaon. The Israelites defeated their enemies and put them to flight while God rained stones from heaven on those who were fleeing, so that more perished from the stones than from the swords of the Israelites. The day was coming to an end, but the Israelites had not yet routed their enemies. Joshua then prayed to God and cried out aloud before the people, "Sun, stand still, and moon, do not move..." And the sun did stand still, and night did not come until the Israelites had defeated their enemies.
Is it true or false that Joshua led Israel across the Red Sea and into Canaan as God had commanded?
False. According to the Biblical narrative, Moses led the Israelites across the Sea of Reeds, and Joshua later led them across the Jordan River.According to archaeologists, there is no evidence to suggest that Joshua lived at all. (Though absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.)
How old was Joshua when he led the Israelites across the Jordan River?
The biblical account is a little confusing when it comes to the age and status of Joshua. For example, the Book of Numbers identifies Joshua in quick succession as the young man and servant of Moses, then as a ruler of the tribe of Ephraim. In any event, his early appearance in the Exodus means he must have been a relatively old man by the time he led the Israelites across the Jordan. To have achieved all that he is credited with, he must have remained a strong and active leader until his death at the age of 110 years.
Who was chosen to lead the israelites after moses death?
Moses picked Joshua to lead the people after his death as commanded by the LORD. Deut 3:28 But commission Joshua, and encourage and strengthen him, for he will lead this people across and will cause them to inherit the land that you will see. See also last chapter in Deuteronomy followed by the book of Joshua.
How are Joshua leading the Israelites across the Jordan River and Moses leading them across the Red Sea the same?
Some of the key biblical events around Moses had quite close parallels in the story of Joshua. In the Exodus story, Joshua accompanied Moses onto the mountain, and was the only person other than Moses who could enter the tabernacle. In the Book of Exodus, Moses held out his rod and parted the Red Sea. The importance of the priests was given greater emphasis in the Book of Joshua, and as soon as their feet touched the waters of the Jordan, the waters stopped flowing and the people could cross. In the first case, parting the water allowed the Israelites to cross over and defeat the Egyptians who were pursuing them; in the second case, parting the water allowed the Israelites to cross over and defeat the Canaanites who were before them.
Who was the military leader that led the Israelites into the promised land?
According to the Book of Joshua, the brilliant military commander, Joshua, led the Israelites to conquer Canaan, with the help of God.The strong consensus of modern historians is that the Israelites never conquered Canaan, that they were themselves rural Canaanites who migrated peacefully from the region of the rich coastal cities into the hitherto sparsely populated hinterland. Lawrence E. Stager says ('Forging an Identity', in The Oxford History of the Biblical World) of the thirty one cities said to be taken by Joshua and the Israelites, twenty have been plausibly identified with excavation sites. Of these, only Bethel and Hazor show evidence of cultural discontinuity consistent with an invasion, and it is even debated whether the destruction of Hazor XIII was as late as that of Late Bronze Age Bethel. There was no conquest of Canaan - the story of Joshua and his military genius evolved centuries later, to provide the Hebrew people with a glorious past.For more information, please visit: http://christianity.answers.com/bible/the-book-of-joshua-explained
How wide was the Jordan river where Joshua led the people across?
The Bible does not explicitly mention the width of the Jordan River at that point. Currently the Jordan River is rather weak, but at that time, several meters wide.
Why did the Israelites need Jericho?
According to Joshua, Jericho was the first city to be conquered in order to allow access to the promised land. Also, it was an important location for the local religions, and so the destruction would have been a psychological attack on the region as well.
Can Joshua of the Bible be verified as historical?
The Book of Joshua describes how Joshua led the Israelites across the River Jordan and conquered the entire land of the Canaanites. Whether Joshua is historical depends first of all on whether that conquest is verified as historical, and it fails this first test. In the last quarter of a century, archaeological evidence has been the prime factor in finally disproving the conquest of the Canaanites, in addition to critical study of the biblical texts.The conquest model described in the Bible had strong support among historians and scholars until around the middle part of the twentieth century, but has since been all but abandoned by mainstream scholars and continues to be pressed by only a few conservative scholars (Lester L Grabbe, Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It?, P102).
Is Deuteronomy in the dead sea scrolls?
Thirty-two Deuteronomy scrolls were discovered at Qumran-the text is second only to Psalms in its popularity. The biblical book of Deuteronomy contains Moses' farewell speech to the Israelites, chronicling their history and journey from Egypt to the Promised Land. The text includes teachings of the law and emphasizes God's "covenant" with Israel, a common theme in the Qumran community's writing. This text celebrates the success of some Israelite tribes in occupying territories east of the Jordan river, including the famous passage where God tells Moses to look across the river to see the Promised Land that he will not be permitted to enter.
