Was Joshua from the Bible a judge?

Answer 1

Quite a few persons called Joshua are mentioned in The Bible.

The first and most famous Joshua is Joshua, the son of Nun, who led the Israelites into Canaan. The role of this Joshua is a little ambiguous, at times a tribal leader and then a young man, not yet old enough to be a tribal leader.This story occurs before the Israelite period of the Judges, so Joshua was not a judge.

Interestingly, Joshua, the son of Nun, is again mentioned again centuries later, in 1 Kings 16:34 during the reign of King Ahab,"In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun." He spoke "according to the word of the Lord" and instructed Hiel to sacrifice his two sons for the success of the project. Some modern apologists reinterpret this passage as meaning that Joshua had long ago specifically prophesied the death of the two boys, but that is not what the text says, nor is there evidence of such an amazing prophecy. Jericho was later known as a city associated with the sun god. So, whatever the role of Joshua, he was not a judge..