the assistant and successor of Moses, was the son of Nun, of the tribe of Ephraim. According to the Tzemach David, he was born in Egypt, in the year of the Jewish era 2406 (A.D. 1537). In the Bible he is first mentioned as being the victorious commander of the Israelites in their battle against the Amalekites at Rephidim. He distinguished himself by his courage and intelligence during and after the exploration of the land of Canaan, on which occasion he represented his tribe, which was that of Ephraim (Num., xiii., xiv.). Moses, with the Divine sanction, appointed him to command the Israelites, even during his own lifetime. After the death of Moses he led the Israelites over the Jordan, fortified a camp at Gilgal, conquered the southern and middle portions of Canaan, and also some of the northern districts. But the hostile nations, although subdued, were not entirely driven out and destroyed. In the seventh year after entering the land, it was distributed among the various tribes, who then commenced individually to complete the conquest by separate warfare. Joshua died 110 years old (A.D. 1427), and was buried at Timnath-serah on Mount Ephraim. There occur some vestiges of the deeds of Joshua in other historians besides those of the Bible. Procopius mentions a Phoenician inscription near the city of Tingis in Mauritania, the sense of which was—“We are those who fled before the face of Joshua the robber, the son of Nun” (De Bell, Vandal. ii. 10). Suidas—“We are the Canaanites whom Joshua the robber persecuted.” Compare Fabricii Codex Pseudoepigraphus Veteris Testamenti, i. 889, sqq., and the doubts respecting this statement in Dale, De Origine et Progressu Idolatriae, p. 749, sqq.