Joshua · Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
Joshua 24 Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
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1 Josué reunió a todas las tribus de Israel en Siquem. Llamó a los ancianos, jefes, jueces y oficiales de Israel, y todos se presentaron delante de Dios.
1 Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
2 Josué dijo a todo el pueblo: «Así dice el Señor, Dios de Israel: “Hace mucho tiempo sus antepasados, entre ellos Taré, padre de Abraham y de Nacor, vivían al otro lado del río Éufrates y servían a otros dioses.
2 Joshua said to all the people, “Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor. They served other gods.
3 Pero yo tomé a Abraham, padre de ustedes, de la tierra al otro lado del río y lo guié por toda la tierra de Canaán. Multipliqué sus descendientes y le di a Isaac.
3 I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his offspring, and gave him Isaac.
4 A Isaac le di a Jacob y Esaú. A Esaú le di el monte Seír como herencia, pero Jacob y sus hijos bajaron a Egipto.
4 I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
5 Después envié a Moisés y Aarón, y castigué a Egipto con las señales que hice en medio de ellos. Luego los saqué de allí.
5 “‘I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.
6 Saqué a sus padres de Egipto, y llegaron al mar Rojo. Los egipcios persiguieron a sus padres hasta el mar Rojo con carros de guerra y jinetes.
6 I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea. The Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea.
7 Entonces sus padres clamaron al Señor. Él puso oscuridad entre ustedes y los egipcios e hizo que el mar los cubriera. Ustedes vieron con sus propios ojos lo que hice en Egipto. Después vivieron mucho tiempo en el desierto.
7 When they cried out to Yahweh, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness many days.
8 Los llevé a la tierra de los amorreos que vivían al este del Jordán. Ellos lucharon contra ustedes, pero yo los entregué en sus manos. Ustedes tomaron su tierra, y yo los destruí delante de ustedes.
8 “‘I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that lived beyond the Jordan. They fought with you, and I gave them into your hand. You possessed their land, and I destroyed them from before you.
9 Entonces Balac hijo de Zipor, rey de Moab, se levantó para luchar contra Israel. Mandó llamar a Balaam hijo de Beor para que los maldijera.
9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you,
10 Pero yo no quise escuchar a Balaam. En cambio, él los bendijo, y yo los libré de sus manos.
10 but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand.
11 Después cruzaron el Jordán y llegaron a Jericó. Los habitantes de Jericó lucharon contra ustedes, junto con los amorreos, ferezeos, cananeos, hititas, gergeseos, heveos y jebuseos. Pero yo los entregué en sus manos.
11 “‘You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.
12 Envié delante de ustedes el avispón, que expulsó a los dos reyes amorreos. No fue la espada ni el arco de ustedes lo que logró esto.
12 I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow.
13 Les di una tierra que ustedes no habían trabajado y ciudades que no habían construido. Ahora viven en ellas y comen de viñedos y olivares que no plantaron”.
13 I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities which you didn’t build, and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you didn’t plant.’
14 Ahora, pues, teman al Señor y sírvanle con sinceridad y fidelidad. Quiten los dioses que sus antepasados servían al otro lado del río y en Egipto, y sirvan al Señor.
14 “Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.
15 Pero si no quieren servir al Señor, elijan hoy a quién van a servir: a los dioses que sirvieron sus antepasados al otro lado del río, o a los dioses de los amorreos en cuya tierra viven. Pero yo y mi familia serviremos al Señor».
15 If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
16 El pueblo respondió: «¡Jamás abandonaremos al Señor para servir a otros dioses!
16 The people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;
17 El Señor nuestro Dios fue quien nos sacó a nosotros y a nuestros padres de Egipto, de la tierra donde éramos esclavos. Él hizo aquellas grandes señales delante de nuestros ojos y nos protegió durante todo nuestro viaje y entre todos los pueblos por donde pasamos.
17 for it is Yahweh our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the middle of whom we passed.
18 El Señor expulsó delante de nosotros a todos esos pueblos, incluyendo a los amorreos que vivían en esta tierra. Por eso nosotros también serviremos al Señor, porque él es nuestro Dios».
18 Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God.”
19 Pero Josué dijo al pueblo: «Ustedes no pueden servir al Señor, porque él es un Dios santo y no permite que su honor se dé a otro. No pasará por alto la rebelión ni los pecados de ustedes.
19 Joshua said to the people, “You can’t serve Yahweh, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.
20 Si abandonan al Señor y sirven a dioses extranjeros, él se volverá contra ustedes y les hará mal hasta destruirlos, después de haberles hecho bien».
20 If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.”
21 El pueblo respondió a Josué: «¡No! Nosotros serviremos al Señor».
21 The people said to Joshua, “No, but we will serve Yahweh.”
22 Josué les dijo: «Ustedes son testigos contra ustedes mismos de que han elegido servir al Señor». Ellos respondieron: «Somos testigos».
22 Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him.” They said, “We are witnesses.”
23 Josué dijo: «Entonces quiten los dioses extranjeros que hay entre ustedes y entreguen su corazón al Señor, Dios de Israel».
23 “Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.”
24 El pueblo respondió a Josué: «Serviremos al Señor nuestro Dios y obedeceremos su voz».
24 The people said to Joshua, “We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice.”
25 Aquel día Josué hizo un pacto con el pueblo y estableció para ellos leyes y normas en Siquem.
25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
26 Josué escribió estas palabras en el libro de la ley de Dios. Después tomó una gran piedra y la levantó allí, debajo de la encina que estaba junto al santuario del Señor.
26 Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh.
27 Josué dijo a todo el pueblo: «Miren, esta piedra será testigo contra nosotros, porque ha oído todas las palabras que el Señor nos ha dicho. Será testigo contra ustedes si son infieles a su Dios».
27 Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all Yahweh’s words which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.”
28 Entonces Josué despidió al pueblo, y cada uno regresó a su herencia.
28 So Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.
29 Después de estas cosas murió Josué hijo de Nun, siervo del Señor, a la edad de ciento diez años.
29 After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred ten years old.
30 Lo enterraron en el territorio de su herencia, en Timnat-sera, en la región montañosa de Efraín, al norte del monte Gaas.
30 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.
31 Israel sirvió al Señor durante toda la vida de Josué y durante la vida de los ancianos que sobrevivieron a Josué y que conocían todo lo que el Señor había hecho por Israel.
31 Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that he had worked for Israel.
32 Los huesos de José, que los hijos de Israel habían traído de Egipto, fueron enterrados en Siquem, en la parte del campo que Jacob había comprado a los hijos de Hamor, padre de Siquem, por cien piezas de plata. Esa tierra pasó a ser herencia de los descendientes de José.
32 They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
33 También murió Eleazar hijo de Aarón. Lo enterraron en la colina que había sido dada a su hijo Finees, en la región montañosa de Efraín.
33 Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
People & places in this chapter
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People
Zippor
The father of Balak, king of Moab.
Cited in the guide: Numbers 22:2; Numbers 22:4; Joshua 24:9
Places
Shechem
Shechem lay between Mount Gerizim and Mount Ebal. Abram built an altar here, Joshua gathered Israel for covenant renewal, and Jacob's well stands nearby.
Cited in the guide: Genesis 12:6; Joshua 24:1; John 4:5
Cross references (33)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Joshua 23:2; 1 Samuel 10:19; Exodus 18:25–26; Genesis 33:18–19; Genesis 12:6
- 2 Joshua 24:15; Genesis 31:30; Ezekiel 16:3; Isaiah 51:2; Genesis 31:53
- 3 Genesis 12:1–4; Genesis 21:2–3; Acts 7:2–3; Genesis 15:5; Psalm 127:3
- 4 Genesis 36:8; Deuteronomy 2:5; Genesis 25:24–26; Acts 7:15; Psalm 105:23
- 5 Exodus 3:10; Exodus 7:1–12; Psalm 78:43–51; Exodus 12:51; Psalm 105:26–36
- 6 Acts 7:36; Hebrews 11:29; Isaiah 63:12–13; Exodus 12:37; Psalm 136:13–15
- 7 Deuteronomy 4:34; Exodus 14:20; Exodus 14:10; Nehemiah 9:12–21; Exodus 14:31
- 8 Numbers 21:21–35; Psalm 136:17–22; Deuteronomy 2:32–3:7; Nehemiah 9:22; Psalm 135:10–11
- 9 Judges 11:25; Micah 6:5; Numbers 22:2; Deuteronomy 23:4–5; Numbers 22:5–21
- 10 Deuteronomy 23:5; Isaiah 54:17; Numbers 24:5–10; Numbers 22:35; Numbers 22:11–12
- 11 Joshua 3:14–17; Joshua 4:10–12; Deuteronomy 7:1; Psalm 105:44; Psalm 78:54–55
- 12 Exodus 23:28; Deuteronomy 7:20; Psalm 44:3–6
- 13 Deuteronomy 6:10–12; Deuteronomy 8:7; Joshua 21:45; Proverbs 13:22; Joshua 11:13
- 14 1 Samuel 12:24; Deuteronomy 10:12; Genesis 35:2; Joshua 24:23; 2 Corinthians 1:12
- 15 1 Kings 18:21; John 6:67–68; Ruth 1:15–16; Deuteronomy 29:18; Ezekiel 20:39
- 16 Hebrews 10:38–39; 1 Samuel 12:23; Romans 6:2; Romans 3:6
- 17 Exodus 19:4; Isaiah 63:7–14; Amos 2:9–10; Deuteronomy 32:11–12; Isaiah 46:4
- 18 Psalm 116:16; Micah 4:2; Exodus 10:2; Zechariah 8:23; Luke 1:73–75
- 19 Exodus 23:21; Isaiah 5:16; Exodus 20:5; Psalm 99:5; Psalm 99:9
- 20 Hebrews 10:26–27; Acts 7:42; Ezekiel 18:24; 1 Chronicles 28:9; Jeremiah 17:13
- 21 Exodus 20:19; Deuteronomy 5:27–28; Exodus 19:8; Isaiah 44:5; Exodus 24:7
- 22 Psalm 119:173; Psalm 119:11; Job 15:6; Luke 10:42; Deuteronomy 26:17
- 23 Joshua 24:14; 2 Corinthians 6:16–18; 1 Samuel 7:3–4; Judges 10:15–16; Hebrews 12:28–29
- 24 Exodus 24:7; Exodus 24:3; Deuteronomy 5:27–29
- 25 Nehemiah 9:38; Exodus 15:25; 2 Chronicles 23:16; 2 Kings 11:17; Joshua 24:26
- 26 Judges 9:6; Genesis 35:4; Joshua 4:20–24; Deuteronomy 31:24–26; Exodus 24:4
- 27 Luke 19:40; Joshua 22:34; Deuteronomy 31:26; Matthew 10:33; Joshua 22:27–28
- 28 Judges 2:6
- 29 Judges 2:8; Genesis 50:22; Genesis 50:26; Psalm 115:17; Deuteronomy 34:5
- 30 Joshua 19:50; Judges 2:9; 2 Samuel 23:30
- 31 Judges 2:7; Deuteronomy 31:13; Deuteronomy 11:2; Deuteronomy 31:29; 2 Chronicles 24:2
- 32 Genesis 50:25; Genesis 33:19; Exodus 13:19; Acts 7:16; John 4:5
- 33 Exodus 6:25; Joshua 22:13; Exodus 6:23; Job 30:23; Numbers 3:32
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… belonged, was the only one in which the worship of the true God survived, and the only one, we may suppose, in which the Hebrew language was preserved; although Joshua the son of Nun tells us that even this family served other gods in Mesopotamia. The other descendants of Heber gradually became absorbed in other races and other languages.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
… a stone as witness of his words (already a heap somewhere had been called a witness by Jacob), for he says, "Behold this stone shall be a witness unto you this day to the end of days, when ye lie to the Lord our God," perhaps believing that by God's power even the stones would speak to the conviction of …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)