JOSHUA

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JOSHUA

CHAPTERS: [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]

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Chapter 1

¹Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it was, that the LORD spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying, ²Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you and all this people, to the land which I give to them, even to the children of Israel. ³Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that I have given to you, as I said to Moses. ⁴From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast. ⁵No man shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with you: I will not fail you, nor forsake you. ⁶Be strong and of good courage: for you shall divide the land which I swore to their fathers to give to this people for an inheritance. ⁷Only be strong and very courageous, that you may observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded you: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that you may prosper wherever you go. ⁸This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall have good success. ⁹Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; Do not afraid, nor be dismayed: for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.
¹⁰Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying, ¹¹Pass through the host and command the people, saying, Prepare food; for within three days you shall pass over the Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God gives you to possess. ¹²And Joshua spoke to the Reubenites and to the Gadites and to half the tribe of Manasseh, saying, ¹³Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God has given you rest, and has given you this land. ¹⁴Your wives, your little ones and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan; but you shall pass before your brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor and help them; ¹⁵Until the LORD has given your brothers rest, as he has given you and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God gives them: then you shall return to the land of your possession and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD'S servant gave you on this side of the Jordan toward the sunrising.
¹⁶And they answered Joshua, saying, All that you command us we will do and wherever you send us, we will go. 7Just as we listened to Moses in all things, so we will listen to you: only the LORD your God be with you, as he was with Moses. 8Whoever rebels against your commandment and will not listen to your words in all that you command him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of good courage.
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Chapter 2
¹. And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went and came into a harlot's house, named Rahab and lodged there. ² And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, men came in here tonight from the children of Israel to search out the country. ³And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, Bring out the men who have come to you, who have entered into your house: for they have come to search out all the country. ⁴And the woman took the two men and hid them and said thus, Men came to me, but I did not know where they were from ⁵And it was about the time of shutting the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: where the men went I do not know: pursue after them quickly; for you shall overtake them. ⁶But she had brought them up to the roof of the house and hidden them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof. ⁷And the men pursued after them the way to the Jordan to the fords: and as soon as they who pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.
⁸And before they were laid down, she came up to them on the roof; ⁹And she said to the men, I know that the LORD has given you the land and that your terror has fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you. ¹⁰For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea for you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were on the other side the Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed. ¹¹And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts melted, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above and in earth beneath. ¹²Now therefore, I beseech you, swear to me by the LORD, since I have shown you kindness, that you will also show kindness to my father's house and give me a true token: ¹³And that you will save my father and my mother and my brothers and my sisters alive and deliver our lives from death, and all that they have. ¹⁴And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if you do not utter this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD has given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you. ¹⁵Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was on the town wall and she lived on the wall. ¹⁶And she said to them, Go to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers are returned: and afterward you may go your way. ¹⁷And the men said to her, We will be blameless of this your oath which you have made us swear. ¹⁸Behold, when we come into the land, you shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window by which you let us down: and you shall bring your father and your mother and your brothers and all your father's household, home to you. ¹⁹And it shall be, that whoever shall go out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his head and we will be guiltless: and whoever shall be with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be on him. ²⁰And if you utter this our business, then we will be released from your oath which you have made us swear. ²¹And she said, According to your words, so be it. And she sent them away and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.
²²And they went and came to the mountain and stayed there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them through all the way, but did not find them. ²³So the two men returned and descended from the mountain, and passed over and came to Joshua the son of Nun and told him all things that befell them: ²⁴And they said to Joshua, Truly the LORD has delivered all the land into our hands; for even all the inhabitants of the country faint because of us.
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Chapter 3
¹And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they moved from Shittim and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel and lodged there before they passed over. ²And after three days, the officers went through the host; ³And they commanded the people, saying, When you see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall move from your place and go after it. ⁴Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: do not come near to it, so that you may know the way by which you must go: for you have not passed this way before. ⁵And Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves: because tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you. ⁶And Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant and went before the people.
⁷And the LORD said to Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. ⁸And you shall command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When you are come to the brink of the water of the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan. ⁹And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come here and hear the words of the LORD your God. ¹⁰And Joshua said, Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you and that he will drive out from before you the Canaanites without fail and the Hittites and the Hivites and the Perizzites and the Girgashites, and the Amorites and the Jebusites. ¹¹Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan. ¹²Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, a man out of each tribe. ¹³And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand up in a heap.
¹⁴And it was when the people moved from their tents, to pass over the Jordan and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people; ¹⁵And as they who bore the ark were come to the Jordan and the feet of the priests who bore the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest,) ¹⁶That the waters which came down from above stood and rose up as a heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those which came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over opposite Jericho. ¹⁷And the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were completely passed over the Jordan.
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Chapter 4
¹And when all the people were completely passed over the Jordan, it happened that the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying, ²Take twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, ³And command them, saying, Take twelve stones from here out of the midst of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm and you shall carry them over with you and leave them in the lodging place, where you shall lodge this night. ⁴Then Joshua called the twelve men of the children of Israel, whom he had prepared out of every tribe a man: ⁵And Joshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of the Jordan and every man take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel: ⁶That this may be a sign among you, so that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What do you mean by these stones? ⁷Then you shall answer them, That the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be a memorial to the children of Israel for ever. ⁸And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as the LORD spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel and carried them over with them to the place where they lodged and laid them down there. ⁹And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there to this day.
¹⁰For the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan, until every thing was finished which the LORD commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hurried and passed over. ¹¹And it was when all the people were completely passed over, that the ark of the LORD and the priests passed over in the presence of the people. ¹²And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke to them: ¹³About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD to the plains of Jericho to battle, ¹⁴On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him as they feared Moses, all the days of his life. ¹⁵And the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying, ¹⁶Command the priests who bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of the Jordan. ¹⁷Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come up out of the Jordan. ¹⁸And when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up to the dry land, then the waters of the Jordan returned to their place and flowed over all its banks, as they did before. ¹⁹And the people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month and camped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.
²⁰And Joshua pitched those twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan in Gilgal. ²¹And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What do these stones mean? ²²Then you shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. ²³For the LORD your God dried up the waters of the Jordan before you, until you had passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up before us until we had gone over: ²⁴So that all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty: that you might fear the LORD your God for ever.
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Chapter 5
¹And when all the kings of the Amorites, who were on the westward side of Jordan and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel. ²At that time the LORD said to Joshua, Make sharp knives and circumcise the children of Israel the second time. ³And Joshua made sharp knives and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. ⁴And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised: All the people who came out of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt. ⁵Now all the people who came out were circumcised: but they had not circumcised all the people who were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt. ⁶For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people who were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD: to whom the LORD swore that he would not show them the land, which the LORD swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land that flows with milk and honey. ⁷And Joshua circumcised their children, whom he raised up in their place: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way. ⁸And it was when they had done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole. ⁹And the LORD said to Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you. Wherefore the name of the place is called Gilgal to this day.
¹⁰And the children of Israel camped in Gilgal and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho. ¹¹And they ate of the old corn of the land on the morning after the passover, unleavened cakes and parched corn in the selfsame day. ¹²And the manna ceased on the morning after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither did the children of Israel have manna any more; but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
¹³And it was when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked and, behold, a man stood opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went to him and said to him, are you for us, or for our adversaries? ¹⁴And he said, No; but I am now come. as captain of the host of the LORD And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped and said to him, What does my lord say to his servant? ¹⁵And the captain of the LORD'S host said to Joshua, Loose your shoe from off your foot; for the place on which you stand is holy. And Joshua did so.
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Chapter 6
¹Now Jericho was completely shut up because of the children of Israel: no one went out and no one came in. ²And the LORD said to Joshua, See, I have given Jericho and its king and the mighty men of valor into your hand. ³And you shall compass the city, all you men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shall you do six days. ⁴And seven priests shall bear the ark before you and seven rams' horn trumpets: and the seventh day you shall compass the city seven times and the priests shall blow the trumpets. ⁵And it shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city will fall down flat and the people shall go up every man straight before him.
⁶And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests and said to them, Take up the ark of the covenant and let seven priests bear seven rams' horn trumpets before the ark of the LORD. ⁷And he said to the people, Pass on and compass the city and let him who is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD. ⁸And it was, when Joshua had spoken to the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the LORD and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them. ⁹And the armed men went before the priests who blew the trumpets and those behind came after the ark, the priests going on and blowing the trumpets. ¹⁰And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, you shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you to shout; then you shall shout. ¹¹So the ark of the LORD surrounded the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp and lodged in the camp. ¹²And Joshua rose early in the morning and the priests took up the ark of the LORD. ¹³And seven priests bearing seven rams' horn trumpets before the ark of the LORD went on continually and blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; and those behind came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on and blowing with the trumpets. ^1>4And the second day they went around the city once and returned into the camp: so they did six days. ¹⁵And it was on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawning of the day and went around the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they went around the city seven times. ¹⁶And it was at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, Shout; for the LORD has given you the city.
¹⁷And the city shall be accursed, It and all who are in it, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers whom we sent. ¹⁸And in every way keep yourselves from the cursed thing, lest you make yourselves cursed, if you take of the cursed thing and make the camp of Israel a curse and trouble it. ¹⁹But all the silver and gold and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated to the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD. ²⁰So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it was, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him and they took the city. ²¹And they utterly destroyed all who were in the city with the edge of the sword, both man and woman, young and old and ox and sheep and ass. ²²But Joshua had said to the two men who had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house and bring out the woman from there and all who she has, as you swore to her. ²³And the young men who were spies went in and brought out Rahab and her father and her mother and her brothers and all who she had; and they brought out all her relatives and left them out side the camp of Israel. ²⁴And they burned the city with fire and all who were in it: only the silver and the gold and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD. ²⁵And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot and her father's household alive and all who she had and she dwells in Israel even to this day; because she hid the messengers, who Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. ²⁶And Joshua swore at that time, saying, Cursed is the man before the LORD, who rises up and builds this city Jericho: he shall lay its foundation in his firstborn and in his youngest son shall he set up its gates. ²⁷So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country.
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Chapter 7
¹But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel. ²And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel and spoke to them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai. ³And they returned to Joshua and said to him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai; do not make all the people to labor there; for they are few ⁴So there went up about three thousand men of the people: and they fled before the men of Ai. ⁵And the men of Ai struck of them about thirty six men: for they chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim and struck them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted and became as water.
⁶And Joshua tore his clothes and he and the elders of Israel fell to the earth upon their faces before the ark of the LORD until the evening and put dust upon their heads. ⁷And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, why have you at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content and dwelled on the other side the Jordan! ⁸O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turns their backs before their enemies! ⁹For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it and shall surround and cut off our name from the earth: and what will you do to your great name?
¹⁰And the LORD said to Joshua, Get up; why do you lie thus upon your face? ¹¹Israel has sinned and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing and have also stolen and deceived also and they have put it even among their own stuff. ¹²Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were cursed: neither will I be with you any more, except you destroy the cursed from among you. ¹³Get up, sanctify the people and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow: for thus says the LORD God of Israel, A cursed thing is in the midst of you, O Israel: you can not stand before your enemies, until you take away the cursed thing from among you. ¹⁴In the morning therefore you shall be brought according to your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD takes shall come according to its families; and the family which the LORD takes shall come by households; and the household which the LORD takes shall come man by man. ¹⁵And it shall be that he who is taken with the cursed thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he has: because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD and because he has worked folly in Israel.
¹⁶So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken: ¹⁷And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken: ¹⁸And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken. ¹⁹And Joshua said to Achan, My son, I ask of you give glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession to him; and tell me now what you have done; do not hide it from me. ²⁰And Achan answered Joshua and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel and thus and thus have I done: ²¹When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment and two hundred shekels of silver and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them and took them; and, behold, they are hidden in the earth in the midst of my tent and the silver under it. ²²So Joshua sent messengers and they ran to the tent; and, behold, it was hidden in his tent and the silver under it. ²³And they took them out of the midst of the tent and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel and laid them out before the LORD. ²⁴And Joshua and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah and the silver, and the garment and the wedge of gold and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and all that he had: and they brought them to the valley of Achor. ²⁵And Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? the LORD shall trouble you this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones and burned them with fire after they had stoned them with stones. 26And they raised over him a great heap of stones to this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, to this day.
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Chapter 8
¹And the LORD said to Joshua, Fear not, neither be dismayed: take all the people of war with you and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given the king of Ai and his people and his city and his land into your hand: ²And you shall do to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king: except you shall take for a prey its spoil and the cattle to yourselves. Lay an ambush for the city behind it.
³So Joshua arose and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valor and sent them away by night. ⁴And he commanded them, saying, Behold, you shall lie in wait opposite the city, even behind the city: Do not go very far from the city, but all be ready: ⁵And I and all the people who are with me will approach the city: and it shall be when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them, ⁶(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them. ⁷Then you shall rise up from the ambush and seize the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand. ⁸And it shall be, when you have taken the city, that you shall set the city on fire: you shall do according to the commandment of the LORD. See, I have commanded you. ⁹Joshua therefore sent them out: and they went to lie in ambush and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people. ¹⁰And Joshua rose up early in the morning and numbered the people and he and the elders of Israel went up before the people to Ai. ¹¹And all the people, even the people of war who were with him went up and drew near and came before the city and pitched on the north side of Ai. Now there was a valley between them and Ai. ¹²And he took about five thousand men and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city. ¹³And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley. ¹⁴And it was when the king of Ai saw it, that they hurried and rose up early and he and all his people, the men of the city went out against Israel to battle at a time appointed, before the plain; but he did not know that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city. ¹⁵And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them and fled by the way of the wilderness. ¹⁶And all the people who were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua and were drawn away from the city. ¹⁷And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel: and they left the city open and pursued after Israel. ¹⁸And the LORD said to Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in your hand toward Ai; for I will give it into your hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city. ¹⁹And the ambush arose quickly out of their place and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city and took it and hurried and set the city on fire. ²⁰And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw and, behold the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people who fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers. ²¹And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again and killed the men of Ai. ²²And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side and some on that side: and they struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
²³And they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua. ²⁴And it was when Israel had finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they chased them and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword. ²⁵And so it was, that all who fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai. ²⁶For Joshua did not draw his hand back, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. ²⁷Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey to themselves, according to the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua. ²⁸And Joshua burnt Ai and made it a heap for ever, even a desolation to this day. ²⁹And he hanged the king of Ai on a tree until eventide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city and raise on it a great heap of stones, that remains to this day.
³⁰Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD God of Israel in Mount Ebal, ³¹As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man had lifted up any iron: and they offered on it burnt offerings to the LORD and sacrificed peace offerings. ³²And he wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel. ³³And all Israel and their elders and officers and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, the stranger, as well as he who was born among them; half of them opposite Mount Gerizim and half of them opposite Mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel. ³⁴And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law. ³⁵There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua did not read before all the congregation of Israel, with the women and the little ones and the strangers who walked among them.
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Chapter 9
¹And it was, when all the kings heard of it who were on this side the Jordan, in the hills and in the valleys and in all the coasts of the great sea opposite Lebanon, the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite; ²That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
³And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai, ⁴They worked craftfully and went and made as if they had been ambassadors and took old sacks upon their asses and wine bottles, old and torn and bound up; ⁵And old shoes and clouted upon their feet and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and moldy. ⁶And they went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal and said to him and to the men of Israel, We are come from a far country: now therefore make a league with us. ⁷And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, Perhaps you dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you? ⁸And they said to Joshua, We are your servants. And Joshua said to them, Who are you? and from where do you come? ⁹And they said to him, Your servants are come from a very far country because of the name of the LORD your God: for we have heard the fame of him and all that he did in Egypt, ¹⁰And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth. ¹¹Therefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take provisions with you for the journey and go to meet them and say to them, We are your servants: therefore now make a league with us. ¹²This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry and it is moldy: ¹³And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they are torn: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey. ¹⁴And the men took of their provisions and did not ask counsel at the mouth of the LORD.
¹⁵And Joshua made peace with them and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation swore to them. ¹⁶And it was at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbors and that they dwelled among them. ¹⁷And the children of Israel journeyed and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth and Kirjathjearim. ¹⁸And the children of Israel did not strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes. ¹⁹But all the princes said to all the congregation, We have sworn to them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them. ²⁰This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest anger come on us, because of the oath which we swore to them. ²¹And the princes said to them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood and drawers of water to all the congregation; as the princes had promised them.
²²And Joshua called for them and he spoke to them, saying, Why have you deceived us, saying, We are very far from you; when you dwell among us? ²³Now therefore you are cursed and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God. ²⁴And they answered Joshua and said, Because it was certainly told your servants, how that the LORD your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid for our lives because of you and have done this thing. ²⁵And now, behold, we are in your hand: do to us as it seems good and right to you to do. ²⁶And so he did to them and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, so that they did not kill them. ²⁷And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of the LORD, even to this day, in the place which he should choose.
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Chapter 10
¹Now it was, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them; ²That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities and because it was greater than Ai and all the men of it were mighty. ³Therefore Adonizedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron and to Piram king of Jarmuth and to Japhia king of Lachish and to Debir king of Eglon, saying, ⁴Come up to me and help me, that we may strike Gibeon: for it has made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel. ⁵Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together and went up, they and all their hosts and camped before Gibeon and made war against it. ⁶And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not your hand from your servants; come up to us quickly and save us and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites who dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.
⁷So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he and all the people of war with him and all the mighty men of valor. ⁸And the LORD said to Joshua, Do not fear them: for I have delivered them into your hand; there shall not a man of them stand before you. ⁹Joshua therefore came to them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night. ¹⁰And the LORD confused them before Israel and killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon and chased them along the way that goes up to Bethhoron and struck them to Azekah and to Makkedah. ¹¹And it was as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them to Azekah and they died: they were more who died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel killed with the sword. ¹²Then Joshua spoke to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, you stand still on Gibeon; and you, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. ¹³And the sun stood still and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven and hurried not to go down about a whole day. ¹⁴And there was no day like that before it or after it, when the LORD listened to the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.
¹⁵And Joshua returned and all Israel with him, to the camp at Gilgal. ¹⁶But these five kings fled and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah. ¹⁷And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hidden in a cave at Makkedah. ¹⁸And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave and set men by it to keep them: ¹⁹And do not stay, but pursue after your enemies and strike the rearmost of them; do not suffer them to enter into their cities: for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand. ²⁰And it was, when Joshua and the children of Israel had finished killing them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest who remained of them entered into fenced cities. ²¹And all the people returned in peace to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel. ²²Then Joshua said, Open the mouth of the cave and bring those five kings out of the cave to me. ²³And they did so, and brought forth to him those five kings out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon. ²⁴And when they brought out those kings to Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel and said to the captains of the men of war who went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near and put their feet upon their necks. ²⁵And Joshua said to them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom you fight. ²⁶And afterward Joshua struck them and killed them and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening. ²⁷And at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded and they took them down from the trees and cast them into the cave in which they had been hidden and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day.
²⁸And that day Joshua took Makkedah and struck it with the edge of the sword, and its king. He utterly destroyed them and all the souls who were in it; he let none remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did to the king of Jericho. ²⁹Then Joshua and all Israel with him passed from Makkedah to Libnah and fought against Libnah: ³⁰And the LORD delivered it also and its king into the hand of Israel; and he struck it with the edge of the sword and all the souls who were in it; he let none remain in it; but did to its king as he did to the king of Jericho. ³¹And Joshua and all Israel with him passed from Libnah to Lachish and camped against it and fought against it: ³²And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, who took it on the second day and struck it with the edge of the sword and all the souls who were in it, according to all that he had done to Libnah. ³³Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his people, until he had left him no one remaining. ³⁴And from Lachish Joshua and all Israel with him passed to Eglon,; and they camped against it and fought against it: ³⁵And they took it on that day and struck it with the edge of the sword and all the souls who were in it he utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish. ³⁶And Joshua and all Israel with him went up from Eglon to Hebron; and they fought against it: ³⁷And they took it and struck it with the edge of the sword and its king and all its cities and all the souls who were in it; he left no one remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but utterly destroyed it and all the souls who were in it. ³⁸And Joshua and all Israel with him returned to Debir; and fought against it: ³⁹And he took it and its king and all its cities; and they struck them with the edge of the sword and utterly destroyed all the souls who were in it; he left no one remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and to its king; as he had done also to Libnah and to her king. ⁴⁰So Joshua struck all the country of the hills and of the south and of the vale and of the springs and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all who breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded. ⁴¹And Joshua struck them from Kadeshbarnea even to Gaza and all the country of Goshen, even to Gibeon. ⁴²And all these kings and their land Joshua took at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel. ⁴3And Joshua and all Israel with him returned to the camp at Gilgal.
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Chapter 11
¹And when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon and to the king of Shimron and to the king of Achshaph, ²And to the kings who were on the north of the mountains and of the plains south of Chinneroth and in the valley and in the borders of Dor on the west, ³And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west and to the Amorite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Jebusite in the mountains and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh. ⁴And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, many people, even as the sand that is on the sea shore in multitude, with horses and very many chariots. ⁵And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched together to fight against Israel at the waters of Merom. ⁶And the LORD said to Joshua, Do not be afraid because of them: for tomorrow about this time I will deliver them up all slain before Israel: you shall hough their horses and burn their chariots with fire. ⁷So Joshua and all the people of war with him came against them suddenly by the waters of Merom; and they fell upon them. ⁸And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who struck them and chased them to great Zidon and to Misrephothmaim and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they struck them, until they left them no one remaining. ⁹And Joshua did to them as the LORD asked him: he houghed their horses and burnt their chariots with fire.
¹⁰And Joshua turned back at that time and took Hazor and struck its king with the sword: for Hazor previously was the head of all those kingdoms. ¹¹And they struck all the souls who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burned Hazor with fire. ¹²And all the cities of those kings and Joshua took all their kings and struck them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded. ¹³But as for the cities that still stood in their strength, Israel burned none of them, except Joshua burned Hazor only. ¹⁴And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey to themselves; but they struck every man with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither did they leave any to breathe.
¹⁵As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did; he left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded Moses. ¹⁶So Joshua took all that land, the hills and all the south country and all the land of Goshen and the valley and the plain and the mountain of Israel and the valley of the same; ¹⁷Even from the Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, even to Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon: and he took all their kings and struck them and killed them. ¹⁸Joshua made war a long time with all those kings. ¹⁹There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all others they took in battle. ²⁰For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favor, but he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses. ²¹And at that time Joshua came and cut off the Anakims from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab and from all the mountains of Judah and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities. ²²There was none of the Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel: they remained only in Gaza, in Gath and in Ashdod. ²³So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.
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Chapter 12
¹Now these are the kings of the land, who the children of Israel struck and possessed their land on the other side of the Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon to Mount Hermon and all the plain on the east: ²Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelled in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the bank of the river Arnon and from the middle of the river and from half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; ³And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east and to the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Bethjeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdothpisgah: ⁴And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, who dwelled at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, ⁵And reigned in Mount Hermon and in Salcah and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon. ⁶Them Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel struck: and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh.
⁷And these are the kings of the country who Joshua and the children of Israel struck on this side of the Jordan on the west, from Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon even to the Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir; which Joshua gave to the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions; ⁸In the mountains and in the valleys and in the plains and in the springs and in the wilderness and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: ⁹The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one; ¹⁰The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one; ¹¹The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one; ¹²The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one; ¹³The king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one; ¹⁴The king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; ¹⁵The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one; ¹⁶The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one; ¹⁷The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one; ¹⁸The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one; ¹⁹The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one; ²⁰The king of Shimronmeron, one; the king of Achshaph, one; ²¹The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one; ²²The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel, one; ²³The king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the nations of Gilgal, one; ²⁴The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.
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Chapter 13
¹Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the LORD said to him, You are old and stricken in years and there remains yet very much land to be possessed. ²This is the land that yet remains: all the borders of the Philistines and all Geshuri, ³From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even to the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites and the Ekronites; also the Avites: ⁴From the south, all the land of the Canaanites and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites: ⁵And the land of the Giblites and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under Mount Hermon to the entering into Hamath. ⁶All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only divide it by lot to the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
⁷Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and the half tribe of Manasseh, ⁸With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordam eastward, even as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them; ⁹From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon and the city that is in the midst of the river and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon; ¹⁰And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon; ¹¹And Gilead and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites and all Mount Hermon and all Bashan to Salcah; ¹²All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these Moses struck and cast them out. ¹³But the children of Israel did nor expel the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day. ¹⁴Only he gave no inheritance to the tribe of Levi; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he said to them. ¹⁵And Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families. ¹⁶And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon and the city that is in the midst of the river and all the plain by Medeba; ¹⁷Heshbon and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon and Bamothbaal and Bethbaalmeon, ¹⁸And Jahazah and Kedemoth and Mephaath, ¹⁹And Kirjathaim and Sibmah and Zarethshahar in the Mount of the valley, ²⁰And Bethpeor and Ashdothpisgah and Bethjeshimoth, ²¹And all the cities of the plain and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the princes of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, who were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country. ²² Also Balaam the son of Beor the soothsayer, was among those who were slain by the children of Israel who were killed with the sword. ²³And the border of the children of Reuben was the Jordan and the border of it. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the villages of it. ²⁴And Moses gave inheritance to the tribe of Gad, even to the children of Gad according to their families. ²⁵And their coast was Jazer and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that is before Rabbah; ²⁶And from Heshbon to Ramathmizpeh and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir; ²⁷And in the valley, Betharam and Bethnimrah and Succoth and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan and his border, even to the edge of the sea of Chinners on the other side the Jordan eastward. ²⁸This is the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities and their villages. ²⁹And Moses gave inheritance to the half tribe of Manasseh: and this was the possession of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh by their families. ³⁰And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities: ³¹And half Gilead and Ashtaroth and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining to the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families. ³²These are the countries which Moses distributed for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side the Jordan, by Jericho, eastward. ³³But Moses did not give an inheritance to the tribe of Levi: the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said to them.
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Chapter 14
¹And these are the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to them. ²Their inheritance was by lot, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes and for the half tribe. ³For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and a half tribe on the other side the Jordan: but he gave no inheritance among the Levites. ⁴For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part in the land to the Levites, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance. ⁵As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did and they divided the land.
⁶Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said to him, You know the thing that the LORD said to Moses the man of God concerning me and you in Kadeshbarnea. ⁷I wasForty years old when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to spy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in my heart. ⁸But my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God. ⁹And Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land on which your feet have trodden shall be your inheritance and your children's for ever, because you have wholly followed the LORD my God. ¹⁰And now, behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spoke this word to Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day eighty five years old. ¹¹As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength for war now,, both to go out and to come in. ¹²Now therefore give me this mountain, which the LORD spoke of in that day; for you heard in that day how the Anakims were there and that the cities were great and fenced: if the LORD will be with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said. ¹³And Joshua blessed him and gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance. ¹⁴Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel. ¹⁵And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.
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Chapter 15
¹This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast. ²And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the bay that looks southward: ³And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim and passed along to Zin and ascended up on the south side to Kadeshbarnea and passed along to Hezron and went up to Adar and went around to Karkaa: ⁴From there it passed toward Azmon and went out to the river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your south coast. ⁵And the east border was the salt sea, even to the end of the Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of the Jordan: ⁶And the border went up to Bethhogla and passed along by the north of Betharabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben: ⁷And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is before the going up to Adummim, which is on the south side of the river: and the border passed toward the waters of Enshemesh and the goings out of it were at Enrogel: ⁸And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is northward at the end of the valley of the giants: ⁹And the border was drawn from the top of the hill to the fountain of the water of Nephtoah and went out to the cities of Mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjathjearim: ¹⁰And the border went round from Baalah westward to Mount Seir and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side and went down to Bethshemesh and passed on to Timnah: ¹¹And the border went out to the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron and passed along to Mount Baalah and went out to Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea. ¹²And the west border was to the great sea and its coast. This is the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their families.
¹³And he gave a part among the children of Judah to Caleb the son of Jephunneh, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron. ¹⁴And Caleb drove out the three sons of Anak, Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the children of Anak. ¹⁵And he went up there to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher. ¹⁶And Caleb said, He who strikes Kirjathsepher and takes it, I will give Achsah my daughter to him for a wife. ¹⁷And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife. ¹⁸And it was, as she came to him, that she moved him to ask a field: of her father and she lighted off her ass; and Caleb said to her, What do you want? ¹⁹Who answered, Give me a blessing; for you have given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.
²⁰This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families. ²¹And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel and Eder and Jagur, ²²And Kinah and Dimonah and Adadah, ²³And Kedesh and Hazor and Ithnan, ²⁴Ziph and Telem, and Bealoth, ²⁵And Hazor, Hadattah and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is Hazor, ²⁶Amam and Shema and Moladah, ²⁷And Hazargaddah and Heshmon and Bethpalet, ²⁸And Hazarshual and Beersheba and Bizjothjah, ²⁹Baalah and Iim and Azem, ³⁰And Eltolad and Chesil and Hormah, ³¹And Ziklag and Madmannah and Sansannah, ³²And Lebaoth and Shilhim and Ain and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages: ³³And in the valley, Eshtaol and Zoreah and Ashnah, ³⁴And Zanoah and Engannim, Tappuah and Enam, ³⁵Jarmuth and Adullam, Socoh and Azekah, ³⁶And Sharaim and Adithaim and Gederah and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages: ³⁷Zenan and Hadashah and Migdalgad, ³⁸And Dilean and Mizpeh and Joktheel, ³⁹Lachish and Bozkath and Eglon, ⁴⁰And Cabbon and Lahmam and Kithlish, ⁴¹And Gederoth, Bethdagon and Naamah and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages: ⁴²Libnah and Ether and Ashan, ⁴³And Jiphtah and Ashnah and Nezib, ⁴⁴And Keilah and Achzib and Mareshah; nine cities with their villages: ⁴⁵Ekron, with her towns and her villages: ⁴⁶From Ekron even to the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their villages: ⁴⁷Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, to the river of Egypt and the great sea and the its border: ⁴⁸And in the mountains, Shamir and Jattir and Socoh, ⁴⁹And Dannah and Kirjathsannah, which is Debir, ⁵⁰And Anab and Eshtemoh and Anim, ⁵¹And Goshen and Holon and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages: ⁵²Arab and Dumah and Eshean, ⁵³And Janum and Bethtappuah and Aphekah, ⁵⁴And Humtah and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron and Zior; nine cities with their villages: ⁵⁵Maon, Carmel and Ziph and Juttah, ⁵⁶And Jezreel and Jokdeam and Zanoah, ⁵⁷Cain, Gibeah and Timnah; ten cities with their villages: ⁵⁸Halhul, Bethzur and Gedor, ⁵⁹And Maarath and Bethanoth and Eltekon; six cities with their villages: ⁶⁰Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim and Rabbah; two cities with their villages: ⁶¹In the wilderness, Betharabah, Middin and Secacah, ⁶²And Nibshan and the city of Salt and Engedi; six cities with their villages. ⁶³As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
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Chapter 16
¹And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from the Jordan by Jericho, to the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goes up from Jericho throughout Mount Bethel, ²And goes out from Bethel to Luz and passes along to the borders of Archi to Ataroth, ³And goes down westward to the coast of Japhleti, to the coast of Bethhoron the nether and to Gezer: and the goings out of it are at the sea. ⁴So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance.
⁵And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was Atarothaddar, to Bethhoron the upper; ⁶And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side; and the border went about eastward to Taanathshiloh and passed by it on the east to Janohah; ⁷And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth and to Naarath and came to Jericho and went out at the Jordan. ⁸The border went out from Tappuah westward to the river Kanah; and the goings out of it were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families. ⁹And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim were among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages. ¹⁰And they did not drive out the Canaanites who dwelled in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day and serve under tribute.
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Chapter 17
¹There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan. ²There was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek and for the children of Asriel and for the children of Shechem and for the children of Hepher and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families. ³But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah. ⁴And they came near before Eleazar the priest and before Joshua the son of Nun and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers. Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father. ⁵And ten portions fell to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and Bashan, which were on the other side of the Jordan; ⁶Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons: and the rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of Gilead.
⁷And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that lies before Shechem; and the border went along on the right hand to the inhabitants of Entappuah. ⁸Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim; ⁹And the coast descended to the river Kanah, southward of the river: these cities of Ephraim are among the cities of Manasseh: the coast of Manasseh also was on the north side of the river and its borders were at the sea: ¹⁰Southward it was Ephraim's and northward it was Manasseh's and the sea is its border; and they met together in Asher on the north, and in Issachar on the east. ¹¹And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Bethshean and her towns and Ibleam and her towns and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, even three countries. ¹²Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites dwelled in that land. ¹³Yet it was when the children of Israel had grown strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute; but did not utterly drive them out.
^¹⁴And the children of Joseph spoke to Joshua, saying, Why have you given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am a great people, forasmuch as the LORD has blessed me until now? ¹⁵And Joshua answered them, If you are a great people, if Mount Ephraim is too narrow for you thengo up to the wood country, and cut down for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants. ¹⁶And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both they who are of Bethshean and her towns and they who are of the valley of Jezreel. ¹⁷And Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, You are a great people and have great power: you shall not have only one lot: ¹⁸But the mountain shall be yours; for it is a wood and you shall cut it down: and its borders shall be yours: for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they are strong.
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Chapter 18
¹And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.
²And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, who had not yet received their inheritance. ³And Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long are you slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers has given you? ⁴Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will send them and they shall rise and go through the land and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to me. ⁵And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their coast on the south and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the north. ⁶ Therefore you shall devide the land into seven parts and bring the devision here to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the LORD our God. ⁷But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the LORD is their inheritance: and Gad and Reuben and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them. ^8And the men arose and went away: and Joshua charged them who went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land and devide it and come again to me, that I may cast lots here for you before the LORD in Shiloh. ⁹And the men went and passed through the land and devided it by cities into seven parts in a book and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh. ¹⁰And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel according to their divisions.
¹¹And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph. ¹²And their border on the north side was from the Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out of it were at the wilderness of Bethaven. ¹³And the border went over from there toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that lies on the south side of the nether Bethhoron. ¹⁴And the border was drawn there and surrounded the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lies before Bethhoron southward; and the goings out of it were at Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter. ¹⁵And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjathjearim and the border went out on the west and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah: ¹⁶And the border came down to the end of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the valley of the giants on the north and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south and descended to Enrogel, ¹⁷And was drawn from the north, and went forth to Enshemesh and went forth toward Geliloth, which is opposite the going up of Adummim and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben, ¹⁸And passed along toward the side opposite Arabah northward and went down to Arabah: ¹⁹And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward: and the edge of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south end of the Jordan: this was the south coast. ²⁰And the Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts of it round about, according to their families. ²¹Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho and Bethhoglah and the valley of Keziz, ²²And Betharabah and Zemaraim and Bethel, ²³And Avim and Parah and Ophrah, ²⁴And Chepharhaammonai and Ophni and Gaba; twelve cities with their villages: ²⁵Gibeon and Ramah and Beeroth, ²⁶And Mizpeh and Chephirah and Mozah, ²⁷And Rekem and Irpeel and Taralah, 28And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.
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Chapter 19
¹And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah. ²And they had in their inheritance Beersheba, or Sheba, and Moladah, ³And Hazarshual and Balah and Azem, ⁴And Eltolad and Bethul, and Hormah, ⁵And Ziklag and Bethmarcaboth and Hazarsusah, ⁶And Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages: ⁷Ain, Remmon and Ether and Ashan; four cities and their villages: ⁸And all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalathbeer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families. ⁹Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.
¹⁰And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families: and the border of their inheritance was to Sarid: ¹¹And their border went up toward the sea and Maralah and reached to Dabbasheth and reached to the river that is before Jokneam; ¹²And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising to the border of Chislothtabor and then goes out to Daberath and goes up to Japhia, ¹³And from there passes on along on the east to Gittahhepher, to Ittahkazin, and goes out to Remmonmethoar to Neah; ¹⁴And the border compasses it on the north side to Hannathon: and the borders of it are in the valley of Jiphthahel: ¹And Kattath and Nahallal and Shimron and Idalah and Bethlehem: twelve cities with t5heir villages. ¹⁶This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages.
¹⁷And the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of Issachar according to their families. ¹⁸And their border was toward Jezreel and Chesulloth and Shunem, ¹⁹And Hapharaim and Shion and Anaharath, ²⁰And Rabbith and Kishion and Abez, ²¹And Remeth and Engannim and Enhaddah and Bethpazzez; ²²And the coast reaches to Tabor and Shahazimah and Bethshemesh; and the edge of their borders were at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages. ²³This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages.
²⁴And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families. ²⁵And their border was Helkath and Hali and Beten and Achshaph, ²⁶And Alammelech and Amad and Misheal; and reaches to Carmel westward and to Shihorlibnath; ²⁷And turns toward the sunrising to Bethdagon and reaches to Zebulun and to the valley of Jiphthahel toward the north side of Bethemek and Neiel and goes out to Cabul on the left hand, ²⁸And Hebron and Rehob and Hammon and Kanah, even to great Zidon; ²⁹And then the coast turns to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre; and the coast turns to Hosah; its borders are at the sea from the coast to Achzib: ³⁰Ummah also and Aphek and Rehob: twenty two cities with their villages. ³¹This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.
³²The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families. ³³And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim and Adami, Nekeb and Jabneel, to Lakum; and the borders of it were at the Jordan: ³⁴And then the coast turns westward to Aznothtabor and goes out from there to Hukkok and reaches to Zebulun on the south side and reaches to Asher on the west side and to Judah upon the Jordan toward the sunrising. ³⁵And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer and Hammath, Rakkath and Chinnereth, ³⁶And Adamah and Ramah and Hazor, ³⁷And Kedesh and Edrei and Enhazor, ³⁸And Iron and Migdalel, Horem and Bethanath and Bethshemesh; nineteen cities with their villages. ³⁹This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages.
⁴⁰And the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families. ⁴¹And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah and Eshtaol and Irshemesh, ⁴²And Shaalabbin and Ajalon and Jethlah, ⁴³And Elon and Thimnathah and Ekron, ⁴⁴And Eltekeh and Gibbethon and Baalath, ⁴⁵And Jehud, and Beneberak and Gathrimmon, ⁴⁶And Mejarkon and Rakkon, with the border before Japho. ⁴⁷And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem and took it and struck it with the edge of the sword and possessed it and dwelled in it and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father. ⁴⁸This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families, these cities with their villages.
⁴⁹When they had finished dividing the land for inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them: ⁵⁰According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in Mount Ephraim: and he built the city and dwelled in it. ⁵¹These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they finished dividing the country.
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Chapter 20
¹The LORD also spoke to Joshua, saying, ²Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by the hand of Moses: ³That the killer who kills any person unaware and unwittingly may flee there: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood. ⁴And when he who flees to one of those cities shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city and shall declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into their city and give him a place, that he may dwell among them. ⁵And if the avenger of blood pursues after him, then they shall not deliver the killer up into his hand; because he struck his neighbor unwittingly and did not hate him previously. ⁶And he shall dwell in that city, until he stands before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest who shall be in those days: then shall the killer return and come to his own city and to his own house, to the city from where he fled.
⁷And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in Mount Naphtali and Shechem in Mount Ephraim and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah. ⁸And on the other side the Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh. ⁹These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel and for the stranger who sojourns among them, that whoever kills any person unaware might flee there and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
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Chapter 21
¹Then the heads of the fathers of the Levites came near to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua the son of Nun and to the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel; ²And they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs of it for our cattle. ³And the children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and their suburbs. ⁴And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites had thirteen cities by lot out of the tribe of Judah and out of the tribe of Simeon and out of the tribe of Benjamin. ⁵And the rest of the children of Kohath had ten cities by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim and out of the tribe of Dan and out of the half tribe of Manasseh. ⁶And the children of Gershon had thirteen cities by lot out of the families of the tribe of Issachar and out of the tribe of Asher and out of the tribe of Naphtali and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan. ⁷The children of Merari by their families had twelve cities out of the tribe of Reuben and out of the tribe of Gad and out of the tribe of Zebulun. ⁸And the children of Israel gave to the Levites these cities by lot with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
⁹And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here mentioned by name, ¹⁰Which the children of Aaron, being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi had: for theirs was the first lot. ¹¹And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with its suburbs round about it. ¹²But they gave the fields of the city and its villages to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession. ¹³Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the killer; and Libnah with her suburbs, ^¹⁴And Jattir with her suburbs and Eshtemoa with her suburbs, ¹⁵And Holon with her suburbs and Debir with her suburbs, ¹⁶And Ain with her suburbs and Juttah with her suburbs, and Bethshemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes. ¹⁷And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs, ¹⁸Anathoth with her suburbs and Almon with her suburbs; four cities. ¹⁹All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs. ²⁰And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites who remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim. ²¹For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in Mount Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the killer; and Gezer with her suburbs, ²²And Kibzaim with her suburbs and Bethhoron with her suburbs; four cities. ²³And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs, Gibbethon with her suburbs, ²⁴Aijalon with her suburbs, Gathrimmon with her suburbs; four cities. ²⁵And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her suburbs and Gathrimmon with her suburbs; two cities. ²⁶All the cities were ten with their suburbs for the families of the children of Kohath who remained. ²⁷And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the other half tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the killer; and Beeshterah with her suburbs; two cities. ²⁸And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs, Dabareh with her suburbs, ²⁹Jarmuth with her suburbs, Engannim with her suburbs; four cities. ³⁰And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her suburbs, Abdon with her suburbs, ³¹Helkath with her suburbs and Rehob with her suburbs; four cities. ³²And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the killer; and Hammothdor with her suburbs and Kartan with her suburbs; three cities. ³³All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs. ³⁴And to the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs and Kartah with her suburbs, ³⁵Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs; four cities. ³⁶And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahazah with her suburbs, ³⁷Kedemoth with her suburbs and Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities. ³⁸And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the killer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs, ³⁹Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in all. ⁴⁰So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, who were remaining of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities. ⁴¹All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children of Israel were forty eight cities with their suburbs. ⁴²These cities had every one their suburbs round about them: thus were all these cities.
⁴³And the LORD gave to Israel all the land which he swore to give to their fathers; and they possessed it and dwelled in it. ⁴⁴And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that he swore to their fathers: and there did not stand a man of all their enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand. ⁴⁵There did not fail any of any good things which the LORD had spoken to the house of Israel; all came to pass.
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Chapter 22
¹Then Joshua called the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half tribe of Manasseh, ²And said to them, you have kept all that Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you: ³You have not left your brothers these many days to this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God. ⁴And now the LORD your God has given rest to your brothers, as he promised them: therefore now return and go to your tents, and to the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side the Jordan. ⁵But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God and to walk in all his ways and to keep his commandments and to cleave to him and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. ⁶So Joshua blessed them and sent them away: and they went to their tents. ⁷Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given possession in Bashan: but to the other half of it Joshua gave a portion among their brothers on this side of the Jordan westward. And when Joshua sent them away also to their tents, then he blessed them, ⁸And he spoke to them, saying, Return with much riches to your tents and with very much cattle, with silver and with gold and with brass and with iron and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers. ⁹And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go to the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they possessed, according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
¹⁰And when they came to the borders of the Jordan, that are in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built an altar there by the Jordan, a great altar to see. ¹¹And the children of Israel heard it said, Behold, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar opposite the and of Canaan, in the borders of the Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel. ¹²And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them. ¹³And the children of Israel sent Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest into the land of Gilead to the children of Reuben and to the children of Gad and to the half tribe of Manasseh, ¹⁴And ten princes with him, of each chief house a prince throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one was a head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel. ¹⁵And they came to the children of Reuben and to the children of Gad and to the half tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead and they spoke with them, saying, ¹⁶Thus says the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass is this that you have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that you have built an altar, that you might rebel this day against the LORD? ¹⁷ Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the LORD, ¹⁸That you must turn away this day from following the LORD? and it will be, seeing you rebel today against the LORD, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel. ¹⁹But, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of the LORD, in which the LORD'S tabernacle dwells and take possession among us: but do not rebel against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God. ²⁰Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing and anger fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man did not perish alone in his iniquity.
²¹Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered and said to the heads of the thousands of Israel, ²²The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knows and Israel he shall know. If it is in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD, do not save us this day, ²³If we have built an altar to turn from following the LORD, or if to offer burnt offerings or meat offerings on it, or if to offer peace offerings on it, let the LORD himself require it; ²⁴And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, What have you to do with the LORD God of Israel? ²⁵For the LORD has made the Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad; you have no part in the LORD: so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD. ²⁶Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice: ²⁷But that it may be a witness between us, and you and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before him with our burnt offerings and with our sacrifices and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, you have no part in the LORD. ²⁸Therefore we said, that it shall be, when they should say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again, Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you. ²⁹God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD and turn this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD our God that is before his tabernacle.
³⁰And when Phinehas the priest and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel who were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them. ³¹And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD is among us, because you have not committed this trespass against the LORD: now you have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD. ³²And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel and brought them word again. ³³And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land in which the children of Reuben and Gad dwelled. ³⁴And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is God.
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Chapter 23
¹And after a long time after that the LORD had given rest to Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua grew old and stricken in age. ²And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders and for their heads and for their judges and for their officers and said to them, I am old and stricken in age: ³And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations because of you; for the LORD your God is he who has fought for you. ⁴Behold, I have divided to you by lot these nations who remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations whom I have cut off, even westward to the great sea. ⁵And the LORD your God shall expel them from before you and drive them out of your sight; and you shall possess their land, as the LORD your God has promised to you. ⁶Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you turn not aside from it to the right hand or to the left; ⁷So that you do not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves to them: ⁸But cleave to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day. ⁹For the LORD has driven out great and strong nations from before you: but as for you, no man has been able to stand before you to this day. ¹⁰One man of you shall chase a thousand: for it is the LORD your God, who fights for you, as he has promised you.
¹¹Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love the LORD your God. ¹²Or else if you in any way go back and cleave to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you and shall make marriages with them and go in to them and they to you: ¹³Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps to you and scourges in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you. ¹⁴And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spoke concerning you; all have come to you, and not one thing has failed of it. ¹⁵Therefore it shall be that as all good things are come to you which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring to you all evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God has given you. ¹⁶When you have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you and have gone and served other gods and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you and you shall perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you.
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Chapter 24
¹And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and called for the elders of Israel and for their heads and for their judges and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. ²And Joshua said to all the people, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelled on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods. ³And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood and led him throughout all the land of Canaan and multiplied his seed and gave him Isaac. ⁴And I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. ⁵I sent Moses also and Aaron and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out. ⁶And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. ⁷And when they cried to the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians and brought the sea upon them and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and you dwelled in the wilderness a long season. ⁸And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, who dwelled on the other side the Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that you might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you. ⁹Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you: ¹⁰But I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he still blessed you: so I delivered you out of his hand. ¹¹And you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Girgashites, the Hivites and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand. ¹²And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with your sword, nor with your bow. ¹³And I have given you a land for which you did not labor and cities which you did not build and you dwell in them; you eat of the vineyards and olive yards which you did not plant. ¹⁴Now therefore fear the LORD and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood and in Egypt; and serve the LORD.
¹⁵And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served who were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. ¹⁶And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods; ¹⁷For the LORD our God, is he 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 people through whom we passed: ¹⁸And the LORD drove out from before us all the people, even the Amorites who dwelled in the land: therefore we will also serve the LORD; for he is our God. ¹⁹And Joshua said to the people, you cannot serve the LORD: for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. ²⁰If you forsake the LORD and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt and consume you, after that he has done you good. ²¹And the people said to Joshua, No; but we will serve the LORD. ²²And Joshua said to the people, you are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses. ²³Now therefore, he said, put away the strange gods which are among you and incline your heart to the LORD God of Israel. ²⁴And the people said to Joshua, We will serve the LORD our God and his voice we will obey. ²⁵So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day and set a statute and an ordinance for them in Shechem. ²⁶And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God and took a great stone and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. ²⁷And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness to us; for it has heard all the words of the LORD which he spoke to us: therefore it shall be a witness to you, lest you deny your God. ²⁸So Joshua let the people depart, every man to his inheritance.
²⁹And after these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred ten years old. ³⁰And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in Mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash. ³¹And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua and who had known all the works of the LORD that he had done for Israel. ³²And they buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. ³³And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in Mount Ephraim.

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