\NormalFont\ShortTitle{Joshua}
{\MTB The Book of
\par }{\MT Joshua

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
after
the
death
of
Moses
the
servant
of
the
LORD,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 1:1 }
When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name.}
the
LORD
spoke
to
Joshua
the
son
of
Nun,
Moses’
servant,
saying,
\VS{2}“Moses
my
servant
is
dead.
Now
therefore
arise,
go
across
this
Jordan,
you
and
all
these
people,
to
the
land
which
I
am
giving
to
them,
even
to
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{3}I
have
given
you
every
place
that
the
sole
of
your
foot
will
tread
on,
as
I
told
Moses.
\VS{4}From
the
wilderness
and
this
Lebanon
even
to
the
great
river,
the
river
Euphrates,
all
the
land
of
the
Hittites,
and
to
the
great
sea towards
the going down
of
the
sun,
shall
be
your
border.
\VS{5}No
man
will
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.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}“Be
strong
and
courageous;
for
you
shall
cause
this
people
to
inherit
the
land
which
I
swore
to
their
fathers
to
give
them.
\VS{7}Only
be
strong
and
very
courageous.
Be
careful
to
observe
to
do
according
to
all
the
law
which
Moses
my
servant
commanded
you.
Don’t
turn
from
it
to
the
right
hand
or
to
the
left,
that
you
may
have good success
wherever
you
go.
\VS{8}This
scroll
of
the Torah
shall
not
depart
from
your
mouth,
but
you
shall
meditate
on
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.
\VS{9}Haven’t
I
commanded
you?
Be
strong
and
courageous.
Don’t
be afraid.
Don’t
be
dismayed,
for
the
LORD
your
God\FTNT{†}{{\FR 1:9 }
The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).}
is
with
you
wherever
you go.”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}Then
Joshua
commanded
the
officers
of
the
people,
saying,
\VS{11}“Pass
through
the
middle
of
the
camp,
and
command
the
people,
saying, ‘Prepare
food;
for
within
three
days
you
are
to
pass
over
this
Jordan,
to
go
in
to
possess
the
land
which
the
LORD
your
God
gives
you
to
possess.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Joshua
spoke
to
the
Reubenites,
and
to
the
Gadites,
and
to
the
half-tribe
of
Manasseh,
saying,
\VS{13}“Remember
the
word
which
Moses
the
servant
of
the
LORD
commanded
you,
saying, ‘The
LORD
your
God
gives
you
rest,
and
will
give
you
this
land.
\VS{14}Your
wives,
your
little
ones,
and
your
livestock
shall
live
in
the
land
which
Moses
gave
you
beyond
the
Jordan;
but
you
shall
pass
over
before
your
brothers armed,
all
the
mighty
men
of valour,
and
shall
help
them
\VS{15}until
the
LORD
has
given
your
brothers
rest,
as
he
has
given
you,
and
they
have
also
possessed
the
land
which
the
LORD
your
God
gives
them.
Then
you
shall
return
to
the
land
of
your
possession
and
possess
it,
which
Moses
the
servant
of
the
LORD
gave
you
beyond
the
Jordan towards
the
sunrise.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}They
answered
Joshua,
saying, “All
that
you
have
commanded
us
we
will
do,
and
wherever
you
send
us
we
will
go.
\VS{17}Just
as
we
listened
to
Moses
in
all
things,
so
will
we
listen
to
you.
Only
may
the
LORD
your
God
be
with
you,
as
he
was
with
Moses.
\VS{18}Whoever
rebels
against
your
commandment,
and
doesn’t
listen
to
your
words
in
all
that
you
command
him
shall
himself
be
put
to
death.
Only
be
strong
and
courageous.”

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Joshua
the
son
of
Nun
secretly
sent
two
men
out
of
Shittim
as
spies,
saying, “Go,
view
the
land,
including
Jericho.”
They
went
and
came
into
the
house
of
a
prostitute
whose
name
was
Rahab,
and
slept
there.
\par }{\PP \VS{2}The
king
of
Jericho
was
told, “Behold,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 2:2 }
“Behold”, from “הִנֵּה”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.}
men
of
the
children
of
Israel
came
in
here
tonight
to spy
out
the
land.”
\par }{\PP \VS{3}Jericho’s
king
sent
to
Rahab,
saying, “Bring
out
the
men
who
have
come
to
you,
who
have
entered
into
your
house;
for
they
have
come
to spy
out
all
the
land.”
\par }{\PP \VS{4}The
woman
took
the
two
men
and
hid
them.
Then
she
said, “Yes,
the
men
came
to
me,
but
I
didn’t
know
where
they
came
from.
\VS{5}About
the
time
of
the shutting
of
the
gate,
when
it
was
dark,
the
men
went
out.
Where
the
men
went,
I
don’t
know.
Pursue
them
quickly.
You
may
catch
up
with
them.”
\VS{6}But
she
had
brought
them
up
to
the
roof,
and
hidden
them
under
the
stalks
of
flax
which
she
had
laid
in order
on
the
roof.
\VS{7}The
men
pursued
them
along
the
way
to
the fords
of
the
Jordan River.
As soon
as
those
who
pursued
them
had
gone
out,
they
shut
the
gate.
\VS{8}Before
they
had
lain
down,
she
came
up
to
them
on
the
roof.
\VS{9}She
said
to
the
men, “I
know
that
the
LORD
has
given
you
the
land,
and
that
the
fear
of
you
has
fallen
upon
us,
and
that
all
the
inhabitants
of
the
land
melt
away
before
you.
\VS{10}For
we
have
heard
how
the
LORD
dried
up
the
water
of
the
Sea
of Suf
before
you,
when
you
came
out
of
Egypt;
and
what
you
did
to
the
two
kings
of
the
Amorites,
who
were
beyond
the
Jordan,
to
Sihon
and
to
Og,
whom
you utterly destroyed.
\VS{11}As
soon
as
we
had
heard
it,
our
hearts
melted,
and
there wasn’t
any
more
spirit
in
any
man,
because
of
you:
for
the
LORD
your
God,
he
is
God
in
heaven
above,
and
on
earth
beneath.
\VS{12}Now
therefore,
please
swear
to
me
by
the
LORD,
since
I
have dealt kindly
with
you,
that
you
also
will
deal kindly
with
my
father’s
house,
and
give
me
a
true
sign;
\VS{13}and
that
you
will
save
alive
my
father,
my
mother,
my
brothers,
and
my
sisters,
and
all
that
they
have,
and
will
deliver
our
lives
from
death.”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}The
men
said
to
her, “Our
life
for
yours,
if
you
don’t
talk
about
this
business
of ours;
and
it
shall
be,
when
the
LORD
gives
us
the
land,
that
we
will
deal kindly
and
truly
with
you.”
\par }{\PP \VS{15}Then
she
let
them
down
by
a
cord
through
the
window;
for
her
house
was
on
the
side
of
the
wall,
and
she
lived
on
the
wall.
\VS{16}She
said
to
them, “Go
to
the
mountain,
lest
the
pursuers find
you.
Hide
yourselves
there
three
days,
until
the
pursuers
have
returned.
Afterward,
you
may
go
your
way.”
\par }{\PP \VS{17}The
men
said
to
her, “We
will
be guiltless
of
this
your
oath
which you’ve
made
us
to
swear.
\VS{18}Behold,
when
we
come
into
the
land,
tie
this
line
of
scarlet
thread
in
the
window
which
you
used
to
let
us
down.
Gather
to
yourself
into
the
house
your
father,
your
mother,
your
brothers,
and
all
your
father’s
household.
\VS{19}It
shall
be
that
whoever
goes
out
of
the
doors
of
your
house
into
the
street,
his
blood
will
be
on
his
head,
and
we
will
be guiltless.
Whoever
is
with
you
in
the
house,
his
blood
shall
be
on
our
head,
if
any
hand
is
on
him.
\VS{20}But
if
you
talk
about
this
business
of ours,
then
we
shall
be guiltless
of
your
oath
which you’ve
made
us
to
swear.”
\par }{\PP \VS{21}She
said, “Let
it
be
as
you
have
said.”
She
sent
them
away,
and
they departed.
Then
she
tied
the
scarlet line
in
the
window.
\par }{\PP \VS{22}They
went
and
came
to
the
mountain,
and
stayed
there
three
days,
until
the
pursuers
had
returned.
The
pursuers
sought
them
all
along
the
way,
but
didn’t
find
them.
\VS{23}Then
the
two
men
returned,
descended
from
the
mountain,
crossed
the river,
and
came
to
Joshua
the
son
of
Nun.
They
told
him
all
that
had
happened
to
them.
\VS{24}They
said
to
Joshua, “Truly
the
LORD
has
delivered
all
the
land
into
our
hands.
Moreover,
all
the
inhabitants
of
the
land
melt
away
before
us.”

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Joshua
got
up
early
in
the
morning;
and
they
moved
from
Shittim
and
came
to
the
Jordan,
he
and
all
the
children
of
Israel.
They camped
there
before
they
crossed
over.
\VS{2}After
three
days,
the
officers
went
through
the
middle
of
the
camp;
\VS{3}and
they
commanded
the
people,
saying, “When
you
see
the
ark
of
the
LORD
your
God’s
covenant,
and
the
Levitical
priests
bearing
it,
then
leave
your
place
and
follow
it.
\VS{4}Yet
there
shall
be
a space
between
you
and
it
of
about
two
thousand
cubits\FTNT{*}{{\FR 3:4 }
A cubit is the length from the tip of the middle finger to the elbow on a man’s arm, or about 18 inches or 46 centimetres, so 2,000 cubits is about 920 metres.}
by
measure—don’t
come closer
to
it—that
you
may
know
the
way
by
which
you
must
go;
for
you
have
not
passed
this
way
before.”
\par }{\PP \VS{5}Joshua
said
to
the
people, “Sanctify
yourselves;
for
tomorrow
the
LORD
will
do
wonders amongst
you.”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}Joshua
spoke
to
the
priests,
saying, “Take
up
the
ark
of
the
covenant,
and
cross
over
before
the
people.”
They
took
up
the
ark
of
the
covenant,
and
went
before
the
people.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}The
LORD
said
to
Joshua, “Today
I
will
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.
\VS{8}You
shall
command
the
priests
who
bear
the
ark
of
the
covenant,
saying, ‘When
you
come
to
the brink
of
the
waters
of
the
Jordan,
you
shall
stand
still
in
the
Jordan.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}Joshua
said
to
the
children
of
Israel, “Come
here,
and
hear
the
words
of
the
LORD
your
God.”
\VS{10}Joshua
said, “By
this
you
shall
know
that
the
living
God
is amongst
you,
and
that
he
will without fail
drive
the
Canaanite,
the
Hittite,
the
Hivite,
the
Perizzite,
the
Girgashite,
the
Amorite,
and
the
Jebusite
out
from
before
you.
\VS{11}Behold,
the
ark
of
the
covenant
of
the
Lord\FTNT{†}{{\FR 3:11 }
The word translated “Lord” (mixed case) is “Adonai.”}
of
all
the
earth
passes
over
before
you
into
the
Jordan.
\VS{12}Now
therefore
take
twelve
men
out
of
the
tribes
of
Israel,
for
every
tribe
a
man.
\VS{13}It
shall
be
that
when
the
soles
of
the
feet
of
the
priests
who
bear
the
ark
of
the
LORD,
the
Lord
of
all
the
earth,
rest
in
the
waters
of
the
Jordan,
that
the
waters
of
the
Jordan
will
be
cut
off.
The
waters
that
come
down
from
above
shall
stand
in
one heap.”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}When
the
people
moved
from
their
tents
to
pass
over
the
Jordan,
the
priests
who
bore
the
ark
of
the
covenant
being
before
the
people,
\VS{15}and
when
those
who
bore
the
ark
had
come
to
the
Jordan,
and
the
feet
of
the
priests
who
bore
the
ark
had
dipped
in
the edge
of
the
water (for
the
Jordan overflows
all
its
banks
all
the
time
of
harvest),
\VS{16}the
waters
which
came
down
from
above
stood,
and
rose
up
in
one heap
a
great
way
off,
at
Adam,
the
city
that
is
beside
Zarethan;
and
those
that
went
down towards
the
sea
of
the
Arabah,
even
the
Salt
Sea,
were wholly
cut
off.
Then
the
people
passed
over
near
Jericho.
\VS{17}The
priests
who
bore
the
ark
of
the
LORD’s
covenant
stood
firm
on
dry
ground
in
the
middle
of
the
Jordan;
and
all
Israel
crossed
over
on
dry
ground,
until
all
the
nation
had
passed
completely
over
the
Jordan.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}When
all
the
nation
had
completely
crossed
over
the
Jordan,
the
LORD
spoke
to
Joshua,
saying,
\VS{2}“Take
twelve
men
out
of
the
people,
a
man
out
of
every
tribe,
\VS{3}and
command
them,
saying, ‘Take
from
out
of
the
middle
of
the
Jordan,
out
of
the
place
where
the
priests’
feet
stood
firm,
twelve
stones,
carry
them
over
with
you,
and lay
them
down
in
the
place
where you’ll camp
tonight.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{4}Then
Joshua
called
the
twelve
men
whom
he
had
prepared
of
the
children
of
Israel,
a
man
out
of
every
tribe.
\VS{5}Joshua
said
to
them, “Cross
before
the
ark
of
the
LORD
your
God
into
the
middle
of
the
Jordan,
and
each
of
you pick
up
a
stone
and put
it
on
your
shoulder,
according
to
the
number
of
the
tribes
of
the
children
of
Israel;
\VS{6}that
this
may
be
a
sign amongst
you,
that
when
your
children
ask
in
the future,
saying, ‘What
do
you mean
by
these
stones?’
\VS{7}then
you
shall
tell
them, ‘Because
the
waters
of
the
Jordan
were
cut
off
before
the
ark
of
the
LORD’s
covenant.
When
it
crossed
over
the
Jordan,
the
waters
of
the
Jordan
were
cut
off.
These
stones
shall
be
for
a
memorial
to
the
children
of
Israel
forever.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}The
children
of
Israel
did
as
Joshua
commanded,
and
took
up
twelve
stones
out
of
the
middle
of
the
Jordan,
as
the
LORD
spoke
to
Joshua,
according
to
the
number
of
the
tribes
of
the
children
of
Israel.
They
carried
them
over
with
them
to
the
place
where
they camped,
and
laid
them
down
there.
\VS{9}Joshua
set
up
twelve
stones
in
the
middle
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.
\VS{10}For
the
priests
who
bore
the
ark
stood
in
the
middle
of
the
Jordan
until
everything
was
finished
that
the
LORD
commanded
Joshua
to
speak
to
the
people,
according
to
all
that
Moses
commanded
Joshua;
and
the
people
hurried
and
passed
over.
\VS{11}When
all
the
people
had
completely
crossed
over,
the
LORD’s
ark
crossed
over
with
the
priests
in
the
presence
of
the
people.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}The
children
of
Reuben,
and
the
children
of
Gad,
and
the
half-tribe
of
Manasseh
crossed
over armed
before
the
children
of
Israel,
as
Moses
spoke
to
them.
\VS{13}About
forty
thousand
men, ready
and
armed
for
war,
passed
over
before
the
LORD
to
battle,
to
the
plains
of
Jericho.
\VS{14}On
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.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}The
LORD
spoke
to
Joshua,
saying,
\VS{16}“Command
the
priests
who
bear
the
ark
of
the covenant,
that
they
come
up
out
of
the
Jordan.”
\par }{\PP \VS{17}Joshua therefore
commanded
the
priests,
saying, “Come
up
out
of
the
Jordan!”
\VS{18}When
the
priests
who
bore
the
ark
of
the
LORD’s
covenant
had
come
up
out
of
the
middle
of
the
Jordan,
and
the
soles
of
the
priests’
feet
had
been
lifted
up
to
the
dry
ground,
the
waters
of
the
Jordan
returned
to
their
place,
and
went
over
all
its
banks,
as
before.
\VS{19}The
people
came
up
out
of
the
Jordan
on
the
tenth
day
of
the
first
month,
and
encamped
in
Gilgal,
on
the
east
border
of
Jericho.
\par }{\PP \VS{20}Joshua
set
up
those
twelve
stones,
which
they
took
out
of
the
Jordan,
in
Gilgal.
\VS{21}He
spoke
to
the
children
of
Israel,
saying, “When
your
children
ask
their
fathers
in
time
to
come,
saying, ‘What
do
these
stones mean?’
\VS{22}Then
you
shall let
your
children
know,
saying, ‘Israel
came
over
this
Jordan
on
dry
land.
\VS{23}For
the
LORD
your
God
dried
up
the
waters
of
the
Jordan
from
before
you
until
you
had
crossed
over,
as
the
LORD
your
God
did
to
the
Sea
of Suf,
which
he
dried
up
from
before
us,
until
we
had
crossed
over,
\VS{24}that
all
the
peoples
of
the
earth
may
know
that
the
LORD’s
hand
is
mighty,
and
that
you
may
fear
the
LORD
your
God
forever.’ ”

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}When
all
the
kings
of
the
Amorites,
who
were
beyond
the
Jordan
westward,
and
all
the
kings
of
the
Canaanites,
who
were
by
the
sea,
heard
how
the
LORD
had
dried
up
the
waters
of
the
Jordan
from
before
the
children
of
Israel
until
we
had
crossed
over,
their
heart
melted,
and
there
was
no
more
spirit
in
them,
because
of
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{2}At
that
time,
the
LORD
said
to
Joshua, “Make
flint
knives,
and
circumcise
again
the
sons
of
Israel
the
second
time.”
\VS{3}Joshua
made
himself
flint
knives,
and
circumcised
the
sons
of
Israel
at
the
hill
of
the
foreskins.
\VS{4}This
is
the
reason
Joshua
circumcised
them:
all
the
people
who
came
out
of
Egypt,
who
were
males,
even
all
the
men
of
war,
died
in
the
wilderness along
the
way,
after
they
came
out
of
Egypt.
\VS{5}For
all
the
people
who
came
out
were
circumcised;
but
all
the
people
who
were
born
in
the
wilderness
along
the
way
as
they
came
out
of
Egypt
had
not
been
circumcised.
\VS{6}For
the
children
of
Israel
walked
forty
years
in
the
wilderness
until
all
the
nation,
even
the
men
of
war
who
came
out
of
Egypt,
were
consumed,
because
they
didn’t
listen
to
the
LORD’s
voice.
The
LORD
swore
to
them
that
he wouldn’t
let
them
see
the
land
which
the
LORD
swore
to
their
fathers
that
he
would
give
us,
a
land
flowing
with
milk
and
honey.
\VS{7}Their
children, whom
he
raised
up
in
their
place,
were
circumcised
by
Joshua,
for
they
were
uncircumcised,
because
they
had
not
circumcised
them
on
the
way.
\VS{8}When
they
were
done
circumcising
the
whole
nation,
they
stayed
in
their
places
in
the
camp
until
they
were healed.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}The
LORD
said
to
Joshua, “Today
I
have
rolled
away
the
reproach
of
Egypt
from
you.”
Therefore
the
name
of
that
place
was
called
Gilgal\FTNT{*}{{\FR 5:9 }
“Gilgal” sounds like the Hebrew for “roll.”}
to
this
day.
\VS{10}The
children
of
Israel
encamped
in
Gilgal.
They
kept
the
Passover
on
the fourteenth
day
of
the
month
at
evening
in
the
plains
of
Jericho.
\VS{11}They
ate
unleavened
cakes
and
parched grain
of
the
produce
of
the
land
on
the
next
day
after
the
Passover,
in
the
same
day.
\VS{12}The
manna ceased
on
the
next
day,
after
they
had
eaten
of
the
produce
of
the
land.
The
children
of
Israel
didn’t
have
manna
any
more,
but
they
ate
of
the fruit
of
the
land
of
Canaan
that
year.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}When
Joshua
was
by
Jericho,
he
lifted
up
his
eyes
and
looked,
and
behold,
a
man
stood
in
front
of
him
with
his
sword
drawn
in
his
hand.
Joshua
went
to
him
and
said
to
him, “Are
you
for
us,
or
for
our enemies?”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}He
said, “No;
but
I
have
come
now
as
commander
of
the
LORD’s
army.”
\par }{\PP Joshua
fell
on
his
face
to
the
earth,
and worshipped,
and
asked
him, “What
does
my
lord
say
to
his
servant?”
\par }{\PP \VS{15}The
prince
of
the
LORD’s
army
said
to
Joshua, “Take
off
your
sandals,
for
the
place
on
which
you
stand
is
holy.”
Joshua
did
so.

\par }\Chap{6}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
Jericho
was
tightly
shut
up
because
of
the
children
of
Israel.
No
one
went
out,
and
no
one
came
in.
\VS{2}The
LORD
said
to
Joshua, “Behold,
I
have
given
Jericho
into
your
hand,
with
its
king
and
the
mighty
men
of valour.
\VS{3}All
of
your
men
of
war
shall
march
around
the
city, going
around
the
city
once.
You
shall
do
this
six
days.
\VS{4}Seven
priests
shall
bear
seven shofars\FTNT{*}{{\FR 6:4 }
or, trumpets}
of
rams’
horns
before
the
ark.
On
the
seventh
day,
you
shall
march
around
the
city
seven
times,
and
the
priests
shall
blow
the shofars\FTNT{†}{{\FR 6:4 }
or, trumpets}.
\VS{5}It
shall
be
that
when
they
make
a
long
blast
with
the
ram’s
horn,
and
when
you
hear
the
sound
of
the shofar,
all
the
people
shall
shout
with
a
great
shout;
then
the
city
wall
will
fall
down
flat,
and
the
people
shall
go
up,
every
man
straight
in
front
of
him.”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}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 shofars\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 6:6 }
or, trumpets}
of
rams’
horns
before
the
LORD’s
ark.”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}They
said
to
the
people, “Advance!
March
around
the
city,
and let
the
armed
men
pass
on
before
the
LORD’s
ark.”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}It
was
so,
that
when
Joshua
had
spoken
to
the
people,
the
seven
priests
bearing
the
seven shofars\FTNT{§}{{\FR 6:8 }
or, trumpets}
of
rams’
horns
before
the
LORD
advanced
and
blew
the shofars\FTNT{*}{{\FR 6:8 }
or, trumpets},
and
the
ark
of
the
LORD’s
covenant
followed
them.
\VS{9}The
armed
men
went
before
the
priests
who
blew
the shofars\FTNT{†}{{\FR 6:9 }
or, trumpets},
and
the
ark
went
after
them.
The shofars\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 6:9 }
or, trumpets}
sounded
as
they
went.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}Joshua
commanded
the
people,
saying, “You
shall
not
shout
nor
let
your
voice
be
heard,
neither
shall
any
word
proceed
out
of
your
mouth
until
the
day
I
tell
you
to
shout.
Then
you
shall
shout.”
\VS{11}So
he caused
the
LORD’s
ark
to
go
around
the
city,
circling
it
once.
Then
they
came
into
the
camp,
and
stayed
in
the
camp.
\VS{12}Joshua
rose
early
in
the
morning,
and
the
priests
took
up
the
LORD’s
ark.
\VS{13}The
seven
priests
bearing
the
seven shofars\FTNT{§}{{\FR 6:13 }
or, trumpets}
of
rams’
horns
in
front
of
the
LORD’s
ark
went
on
continually,
and
blew
the shofars\FTNT{*}{{\FR 6:13 }
or, trumpets}.
The
armed
men
went
in
front
of
them.
The
rear
guard
came
after
the
LORD’s
ark.
The shofars\FTNT{†}{{\FR 6:13 }
or, trumpets}
sounded
as
they
went.
\VS{14}The
second
day
they
marched
around
the
city
once,
and
returned
into
the
camp.
They
did
this
six
days.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}On
the
seventh
day,
they
rose
early
at
the
dawning
of
the
day,
and
marched
around
the
city
in
the
same
way
seven
times.
On
this
day
only
they
marched
around
the
city
seven
times.
\VS{16}At
the
seventh
time,
when
the
priests
blew
the shofars\FTNT{‡}{{\FR 6:16 }
or, trumpets},
Joshua
said
to
the
people, “Shout,
for
the
LORD
has
given
you
the
city!
\VS{17}The
city
shall
be
devoted,
even
it
and
all
that
is
in
it,
to
the
LORD.
Only
Rahab
the
prostitute
shall
live,
she
and
all
who
are
with
her
in
the
house,
because
she
hid
the
messengers
that
we
sent.
\VS{18}But
as
for
you,
only
keep
yourselves
from what
is
devoted
to destruction,
lest
when
you
have
devoted
it,
you
take
of
the
devoted thing;
so
you
would
make
the
camp
of
Israel accursed
and
trouble
it.
\VS{19}But
all
the
silver,
gold,
and
vessels
of
bronze
and
iron
are
holy
to
the
LORD.
They
shall
come
into
the
LORD’s
treasury.”
\par }{\PP \VS{20}So
the
people
shouted
and
the priests
blew
the shofars\FTNT{§}{{\FR 6:20 }
or, trumpets}.
When
the
people
heard
the
sound
of
the shofar,
the
people
shouted
with
a
great
shout,
and
the
wall
fell
down
flat,
so
that
the
people
went
up
into
the
city,
every
man
straight
in
front
of
him,
and
they
took
the
city.
\VS{21}They utterly destroyed
all
that
was
in
the
city,
both
man
and
woman,
both
young
and
old,
and
ox,
sheep,
and
donkey,
with
the
edge
of
the
sword.
\VS{22}Joshua
said
to
the
two
men
who
had
spied
out
the
land, “Go
into
the prostitute’s
house,
and
bring
the
woman
and
all
that
she
has
out
from
there,
as
you
swore
to
her.”
\VS{23}The
young
men
who
were
spies
went
in,
and
brought
out
Rahab
with
her
father,
her
mother,
her
brothers,
and
all
that
she
had.
They
also
brought
out
all
of
her
relatives,
and
they
set
them
outside
of
the
camp
of
Israel.
\VS{24}They
burnt
the
city
with
fire,
and
all
that
was
in
it.
Only
they
put
the
silver,
the
gold,
and
the
vessels
of
bronze
and
of
iron
into
the
treasury
of
the
LORD’s
house.
\VS{25}But
Rahab
the
prostitute,
her
father’s
household,
and
all
that
she
had,
Joshua saved
alive.
She
lives
in
the
middle
of
Israel
to
this
day,
because
she
hid
the
messengers
whom
Joshua
sent
to
spy
out
Jericho.
\par }{\PP \VS{26}Joshua
commanded
them
with
an
oath
at
that
time,
saying, “Cursed
is
the
man
before
the
LORD
who
rises
up
and
builds
this
city
Jericho.
With
the loss
of
his
firstborn
he
will
lay
its
foundation,
and
with
the loss
of
his
youngest
son
he
will
set
up
its
gates.”
\VS{27}So
the
LORD
was
with
Joshua;
and
his
fame
was
in
all
the
land.

\par }\Chap{7}{\PP \VerseOne{1}But
the
children
of
Israel
committed
a
trespass
in
the
devoted
things;
for
Achan,
the
son
of
Carmi,
the
son
of
Zabdi,
the
son
of
Zerah,
of
the
tribe
of
Judah,
took
some
of
the
devoted
things.
Therefore
the
LORD’s
anger burnt
against
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{2}Joshua
sent
men
from
Jericho
to
Ai,
which
is
beside Beth Aven,
on
the
east
side
of
Bethel,
and
spoke
to
them,
saying, “Go
up
and
spy
out
the
land.”
\par }{\PP The
men
went
up
and
spied
out
Ai.
\VS{3}They
returned
to
Joshua,
and
said
to
him, “Don’t
let
all
the
people
go
up,
but
let
about
two
or
three
thousand
men
go
up
and
strike
Ai.
Don’t
make
all
the
people
to
toil
there,
for
there
are
only
a
few
of
them.”
\VS{4}So
about
three
thousand
men
of
the
people
went
up
there,
and
they
fled
before
the
men
of
Ai.
\VS{5}The
men
of
Ai
struck
about thirty-six
men
of
them.
They
chased
them
from
before
the
gate
even
to
Shebarim,
and
struck
them
at
the
descent.
The
hearts
of
the
people
melted,
and
became
like
water.
\VS{6}Joshua
tore
his
clothes,
and
fell
to
the
earth
on
his
face
before
the
LORD’s
ark
until
the
evening,
he
and
the
elders
of
Israel;
and
they
put
dust
on
their
heads.
\VS{7}Joshua
said, “Alas,
Lord
GOD,
why
have
you
brought
this
people
over
the
Jordan
at all,
to
deliver
us
into
the
hand
of
the
Amorites,
to
cause
us
to
perish?
I wish
that we
had
been content
and
lived
beyond
the
Jordan!
\VS{8}Oh,
Lord,
what
shall
I
say,
after
Israel
has
turned
their
backs
before
their
enemies?
\VS{9}For
the
Canaanites
and
all
the
inhabitants
of
the
land
will
hear
of
it,
and
will
surround
us,
and
cut
off
our
name
from
the
earth.
What
will
you
do
for
your
great
name?”
\par }{\PP \VS{10}The
LORD
said
to
Joshua, “Get
up!
Why
have
you
fallen
on
your
face
like
that?
\VS{11}Israel
has
sinned.
Yes,
they
have
even transgressed
my
covenant
which
I
commanded
them.
Yes,
they
have
even
taken
some
of
the
devoted
things,
and
have
also
stolen,
and
also
deceived.
They
have
even
put
it amongst
their own stuff.
\VS{12}Therefore
the
children
of
Israel
can’t
stand
before
their
enemies.
They
turn
their
backs
before
their
enemies,
because
they
have
become
devoted
for
destruction.
I
will
not
be
with
you
any
more,
unless
you
destroy
the
devoted
things
from amongst
you.
\VS{13}Get
up!
Sanctify
the
people,
and
say, ‘Sanctify
yourselves
for
tomorrow,
for
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel,
says, “There
is
a
devoted
thing amongst
you,
Israel.
You
cannot
stand
before
your
enemies
until
you
take
away
the
devoted
thing
from amongst
you.”
\VS{14}In
the
morning
therefore
you
shall
be
brought
near
by
your
tribes.
It
shall
be
that
the
tribe
which
the
LORD
selects
shall
come
near
by
families.
The
family
which
the
LORD
selects
shall
come
near
by
households.
The
household
which
the
LORD
selects
shall
come
near
man
by
man.
\VS{15}It
shall
be,
that
he
who
is
taken
with
the
devoted
thing
shall
be
burnt
with
fire,
he
and
all
that
he
has,
because
he
has transgressed
the
LORD’s
covenant,
and
because
he
has
done
a
disgraceful
thing
in
Israel.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}So
Joshua
rose
up
early
in
the
morning
and
brought
Israel
near
by
their
tribes.
The
tribe
of
Judah
was selected.
\VS{17}He
brought
near
the
family
of
Judah,
and
he selected
the
family
of
the
Zerahites.
He
brought
near
the
family
of
the
Zerahites
man
by
man,
and
Zabdi
was selected.
\VS{18}He
brought
near
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 selected.
\VS{19}Joshua
said
to
Achan, “My
son,
please
give
glory
to
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel,
and
make
confession
to
him.
Tell
me
now
what
you
have
done!
Don’t
hide
it
from
me!”
\par }{\PP \VS{20}Achan
answered
Joshua,
and
said, “I
have
truly
sinned
against
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel,
and
this
is
what
I
have
done.
\VS{21}When
I
saw amongst
the
plunder
a beautiful Babylonian
robe,
two
hundred
shekels\FTNT{*}{{\FR 7:21 }
A shekel is about 10 grams or about 0.35 ounces.}
of
silver,
and
a wedge
of
gold
weighing
fifty
shekels,
then
I
coveted
them
and
took
them.
Behold,
they
are
hidden
in
the
ground
in
the
middle
of
my
tent,
with
the
silver
under
it.”
\par }{\PP \VS{22}So
Joshua
sent
messengers,
and
they
ran
to
the
tent.
Behold,
it
was
hidden
in
his
tent,
with
the
silver
under
it.
\VS{23}They
took
them
from
the
middle
of
the
tent,
and
brought
them
to
Joshua
and
to
all
the
children
of
Israel.
They
laid
them
down
before
the
LORD.
\VS{24}Joshua,
and
all
Israel
with
him,
took
Achan
the
son
of
Zerah,
the
silver,
the
robe,
the wedge
of
gold,
his
sons,
his
daughters,
his
cattle,
his
donkeys,
his
sheep,
his
tent,
and
all
that
he
had;
and
they
brought
them
up
to
the
valley
of
Achor.
\VS{25}Joshua
said, “Why
have
you
troubled
us?
The
LORD
will
trouble
you
today.”
All
Israel
stoned
him
with
stones,
and
they
burnt
them
with
fire
and
stoned
them
with
stones.
\VS{26}They
raised
over
him
a
great
heap
of
stones
that remains
to
this
day.
The
LORD
turned
from
the
fierceness
of
his
anger.
Therefore
the
name
of
that
place
was
called “The
valley
of
Achor”
to
this
day.

\par }\Chap{8}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
LORD
said
to
Joshua, “Don’t
be
afraid,
and
don’t
be
dismayed.
Take
all
the
warriors
with
you,
and
arise,
go
up
to
Ai.
Behold,
I
have
given
into
your
hand
the
king
of
Ai,
with
his
people,
his
city,
and
his
land.
\VS{2}You
shall
do
to
Ai
and
her
king
as
you
did
to
Jericho
and
her
king,
except
you
shall
take
its goods
and
its
livestock
for yourselves.
Set
an
ambush
for
the
city
behind
it.”
\par }{\PP \VS{3}So
Joshua
arose,
with
all
the
warriors,
to
go
up
to
Ai.
Joshua
chose
thirty
thousand
men,
the
mighty
men
of valour,
and
sent
them
out
by
night.
\VS{4}He
commanded
them,
saying, “Behold,
you shall
lie
in
ambush
against
the
city,
behind
the
city.
Don’t
go
very
far
from
the
city,
but
all
of
you
be
ready.
\VS{5}I
and
all
the
people
who
are
with
me
will
approach
the
city.
It
shall
happen,
when
they
come
out
against
us,
as
at
the
first,
that
we
will
flee
before
them.
\VS{6}They
will
come
out
after
us
until
we
have
drawn
them
away
from
the
city;
for
they
will
say, ‘They
flee
before
us,
like
the
first
time.’
So
we
will
flee
before
them,
\VS{7}and
you
shall
rise
up
from
the
ambush,
and
take
possession
of
the
city;
for
the
LORD
your
God
will
deliver
it
into
your
hand.
\VS{8}It
shall
be,
when
you
have
seized
the
city,
that
you
shall
set
the
city
on
fire.
You
shall
do
this according
to
the
LORD’s
word.
Behold,
I
have
commanded
you.”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}Joshua
sent
them
out;
and
they
went
to
set
up
the
ambush,
and
stayed
between
Bethel
and
Ai
on
the
west
side
of
Ai;
but
Joshua
stayed amongst
the
people
that
night.
\VS{10}Joshua
rose
up
early
in
the
morning,
mustered
the
people,
and
went
up,
he
and
the
elders
of
Israel,
before
the
people
to
Ai.
\VS{11}All
the
people, even
the
men
of
war
who
were
with
him,
went
up
and
came
near,
and
came
before
the
city
and
encamped
on
the
north
side
of
Ai.
Now
there
was
a
valley
between
him
and
Ai.
\VS{12}He
took
about
five
thousand
men,
and
set
them
in
ambush
between
Bethel
and
Ai,
on
the
west
side
of
the
city.
\VS{13}So
they
set
the
people,
even
all
the
army
who
was
on
the
north
of
the
city,
and
their ambush
on
the
west
of
the
city;
and
Joshua went
that
night
into
the
middle
of
the
valley.
\VS{14}When
the
king
of
Ai
saw
it,
they
hurried
and
rose
up
early,
and
the
men
of
the
city
went
out
against
Israel
to
battle,
he
and
all
his
people,
at
the
time
appointed,
before
the
Arabah;
but
he
didn’t
know
that
there
was
an
ambush
against
him
behind
the
city.
\VS{15}Joshua
and
all
Israel
made
as if
they
were
beaten
before
them,
and
fled
by
the
way
of
the
wilderness.
\VS{16}All
the
people
who
were
in
the
city
were
called
together
to
pursue
after
them.
They
pursued
Joshua,
and
were
drawn
away
from
the
city.
\VS{17}There
was
not
a
man
left
in
Ai
or
Bethel
who
didn’t
go
out
after
Israel.
They
left
the
city
open,
and
pursued
Israel.
\par }{\PP \VS{18}The
LORD
said
to
Joshua, “Stretch
out
the
javelin
that
is
in
your
hand towards
Ai,
for
I
will
give
it
into
your
hand.”
\par }{\PP Joshua
stretched
out
the
javelin
that
was
in
his
hand towards
the
city.
\VS{19}The
ambush
arose
quickly
out
of
their
place,
and
they
ran
as
soon
as
he
had
stretched
out
his
hand
and
entered
into
the
city
and
took
it.
They
hurried
and
set
the
city
on
fire.
\VS{20}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.
The
people
who
fled
to
the
wilderness
turned
back
on
the
pursuers.
\VS{21}When
Joshua
and
all
Israel
saw
that
the
ambush
had
taken
the
city,
and
that
the
smoke
of
the
city
ascended,
then
they
turned
back
and
killed
the
men
of
Ai.
\VS{22}The
others
came
out
of
the
city
against
them,
so
they
were
in
the
middle
of
Israel,
some
on
this
side,
and
some
on
that
side.
They
struck
them,
so
that
they
let
none
of
them
remain
or
escape.
\VS{23}They
captured
the
king
of
Ai
alive,
and
brought
him
to
Joshua.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}When
Israel
had
finished
killing
all
the
inhabitants
of
Ai
in
the
field,
in
the
wilderness
in
which
they
pursued
them,
and
they
had
all
fallen
by
the
edge
of
the
sword
until
they
were
consumed,
all
Israel
returned
to
Ai
and
struck
it
with
the
edge
of
the
sword.
\VS{25}All
that
fell
that
day,
both
of
men
and
women,
were
twelve
thousand,
even
all
the
people
of
Ai.
\VS{26}For
Joshua
didn’t
draw
back
his
hand,
with
which
he
stretched
out
the
javelin,
until
he
had utterly destroyed
all
the
inhabitants
of
Ai.
\VS{27}Israel
took
for
themselves
only
the
livestock
and
the goods
of
that
city, according
to
the
LORD’s
word
which
he
commanded
Joshua.
\VS{28}So
Joshua
burnt
Ai
and
made
it
a
heap
forever,
even
a
desolation,
to
this
day.
\VS{29}He
hanged
the
king
of
Ai
on
a
tree
until
the
evening.
At
sundown,
Joshua
commanded,
and
they
took
his
body
down
from
the
tree
and
threw
it
at
the
entrance
of
the
gate
of
the
city,
and
raised
a
great
heap
of
stones
on
it
that remains
to
this
day.
\par }{\PP \VS{30}Then
Joshua
built
an
altar
to
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel,
on
Mount
Ebal,
\VS{31}as
Moses
the
servant
of
the
LORD
commanded
the
children
of
Israel,
as
it
is
written
in
the
scroll
of
the Torah
of
Moses:
an
altar
of
uncut
stones,
on
which
no
one
had
lifted
up
any
iron.
They
offered
burnt
offerings
on
it
to
the
LORD
and
sacrificed
peace
offerings.
\VS{32}He
wrote
there
on
the
stones
a
copy
of
Moses’
law,
which
he
wrote
in
the
presence
of
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{33}All
Israel,
with
their
elders,
officers,
and
judges,
stood
on
both
sides
of
the
ark
before
the
Levitical
priests,
who
carried
the
ark
of
the
LORD’s
covenant,
the
foreigner
as
well
as
the
native;
half
of
them
in
front
of
Mount
Gerizim,
and
half
of
them
in
front
of
Mount
Ebal,
as
Moses
the
servant
of
the
LORD
had
commanded
at
the
first,
that
they
should
bless
the
people
of
Israel.
\VS{34}Afterward
he
read
all
the
words
of
the
law,
the
blessing
and
the
curse,
according
to
all
that
is
written
in
the
scroll
of
the Torah.
\VS{35}There
was
not
a
word
of
all
that
Moses
commanded
which
Joshua
didn’t
read
before
all
the
assembly
of
Israel,
with
the
women,
the
little
ones,
and
the
foreigners
who
were amongst
them.

\par }\Chap{9}{\PP \VerseOne{1}When
all
the
kings
who
were
beyond
the
Jordan,
in
the
hill
country,
and
in
the
lowland,
and
on
all
the shore
of
the
great
sea
in
front
of
Lebanon,
the
Hittite,
the
Amorite,
the
Canaanite,
the
Perizzite,
the
Hivite,
and
the
Jebusite,
heard
of
it
\VS{2}they
gathered
themselves
together
to
fight
with
Joshua
and
with
Israel,
with
one
accord.
\VS{3}But
when
the
inhabitants
of
Gibeon
heard
what
Joshua
had
done
to
Jericho
and
to
Ai,
\VS{4}they
also resorted
to
a ruse,
and went
and
made
as if
they
had been ambassadors,
and
took old
sacks
on
their
donkeys,
and old, torn-up
and bound
up
wine skins,
\VS{5}and old
and
patched
sandals
on
their
feet,
and
wore old
garments.
All
the
bread
of
their
food supply
was
dry
and mouldy.
\VS{6}They
went
to
Joshua
at
the
camp
at
Gilgal,
and
said
to
him
and
to
the
men
of
Israel, “We
have
come
from
a
far
country.
Now
therefore
make
a
covenant
with
us.”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}The
men
of
Israel
said
to
the
Hivites, “What
if
you
live amongst
us?
How
could
we
make
a
covenant
with
you?”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}They
said
to
Joshua, “We
are
your
servants.”
\par }{\PP Joshua
said
to
them, “Who
are
you?
Where
do
you
come
from?”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}They
said
to
him, “Your
servants
have
come
from
a
very
far
country
because
of
the
name
of
the
LORD
your
God;
for
we
have
heard
of
his
fame,
all
that
he
did
in
Egypt,
\VS{10}and
all
that
he
did
to
the
two
kings
of
the
Amorites
who
were
beyond
the
Jordan,
to
Sihon
king
of
Heshbon
and
to
Og
king
of
Bashan,
who
was
at
Ashtaroth.
\VS{11}Our
elders
and
all
the
inhabitants
of
our
country
spoke
to
us,
saying, ‘Take
supplies
in
your
hand
for
the
journey,
and go
to
meet
them.
Tell
them, “We
are
your
servants.
Now
make
a
covenant
with
us.” ’
\VS{12}This
our
bread
we
took
hot
for
our supplies
out
of
our
houses
on
the
day
we
went
out
to
go
to
you;
but
now,
behold,
it
is
dry,
and
has
become mouldy.
\VS{13}These
wine skins,
which
we
filled,
were
new;
and
behold,
they
are
torn.
These
our
garments
and
our
sandals
have
become
old
because
of
the
very
long
journey.”
\par }{\PP \VS{14}The
men sampled
their provisions,
and
didn’t
ask
counsel
from
the
LORD’s
mouth.
\VS{15}Joshua
made
peace
with
them,
and
made
a
covenant
with
them,
to let
them
live.
The
princes
of
the
congregation
swore
to
them.
\VS{16}At
the
end
of
three
days
after
they
had
made
a
covenant
with
them,
they
heard
that
they
were
their neighbours,
and
that
they
lived amongst
them.
\VS{17}The
children
of
Israel travelled
and
came
to
their
cities
on
the
third
day.
Now
their
cities
were
Gibeon, Chephirah,
Beeroth,
and
Kiriath Jearim.
\VS{18}The
children
of
Israel
didn’t
strike
them,
because
the
princes
of
the
congregation
had
sworn
to
them
by
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel.
All
the
congregation
murmured
against
the
princes.
\VS{19}But
all
the
princes
said
to
all
the
congregation, “We
have
sworn
to
them
by
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel.
Now
therefore
we
may
not
touch
them.
\VS{20}We
will
do
this
to
them,
and
let
them
live; lest
wrath
be
on
us,
because
of
the
oath
which
we
swore
to
them.”
\VS{21}The
princes
said
to
them, “Let
them
live.”
So
they
became
wood cutters
and
drawers
of
water
for
all
the
congregation,
as
the
princes
had
spoken
to
them.
\par }{\PP \VS{22}Joshua
called
for
them,
and
he
spoke
to
them,
saying, “Why
have
you
deceived
us,
saying, ‘We
are
very
far
from
you,’
when
you
live amongst
us?
\VS{23}Now
therefore
you
are
cursed,
and
some
of
you
will
never
fail
to
be
slaves,
both
wood cutters
and
drawers
of
water
for
the
house
of
my
God.”
\par }{\PP \VS{24}They
answered
Joshua,
and
said, “Because
your
servants
were
certainly
told
how
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
very
afraid
for
our
lives
because
of
you,
and
have
done
this
thing.
\VS{25}Now,
behold,
we
are
in
your
hand.
Do
to
us
as
it
seems
good
and
right
to
you
to
do.”
\par }{\PP \VS{26}He
did
so
to
them,
and
delivered
them
out
of
the
hand
of
the
children
of
Israel,
so
that
they
didn’t
kill
them.
\VS{27}That
day
Joshua
made
them
wood cutters
and
drawers
of
water
for
the
congregation
and
for
the
LORD’s
altar
to
this
day,
in
the
place
which
he
should
choose.

\par }\Chap{10}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
when
Adoni-Zedek
king
of
Jerusalem
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 amongst
them,
\VS{2}they
were
very
afraid,
because
Gibeon
was
a
great
city,
as
one
of
the
royal
cities,
and
because
it
was
greater
than
Ai,
and
all
its
men
were
mighty.
\VS{3}Therefore
Adoni-Zedek
king
of
Jerusalem
sent
to
Hoham
king
of
Hebron,
Piram
king
of
Jarmuth,
Japhia
king
of
Lachish,
and
Debir
king
of
Eglon,
saying,
\VS{4}“Come
up
to
me
and
help
me.
Let’s
strike
Gibeon;
for
they
have
made peace
with
Joshua
and
with
the
children
of
Israel.”
\VS{5}Therefore
the
five
kings
of
the
Amorites,
the
king
of
Jerusalem,
the
king
of
Hebron,
the
king
of
Jarmuth,
the
king
of
Lachish,
and
the
king
of
Eglon,
gathered
themselves
together
and
went
up,
they
and
all
their
armies,
and
encamped
against
Gibeon,
and
made war
against
it.
\VS{6}The
men
of
Gibeon
sent
to
Joshua
at
the
camp
at
Gilgal,
saying, “Don’t
abandon
your
servants!
Come
up
to
us
quickly
and
save
us!
Help
us;
for
all
the
kings
of
the
Amorites
that
dwell
in
the
hill
country
have
gathered
together
against
us.”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}So
Joshua
went
up
from
Gilgal,
he
and
the
whole
army
with
him,
including
all
the
mighty
men
of valour.
\VS{8}The
LORD
said
to
Joshua, “Don’t
fear
them,
for
I
have
delivered
them
into
your
hands.
Not
a
man
of
them
will
stand
before
you.”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}Joshua therefore
came
to
them
suddenly.
He
marched
from
Gilgal
all
night.
\VS{10}The
LORD
confused
them
before
Israel.
He
killed
them
with
a
great
slaughter
at
Gibeon,
and
chased
them
by
the
way
of
the ascent
of Beth Horon,
and
struck
them
to
Azekah
and
to
Makkedah.
\VS{11}As
they
fled
from
before
Israel,
while
they
were
at
the
descent
of Beth Horon,
the
LORD
hurled
down
great
stones
from
the
sky
on
them
to
Azekah,
and
they
died.
There
were
more
who
died
from
the
hailstones
than
those
whom
the
children
of
Israel
killed
with
the
sword.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}Then
Joshua
spoke
to
the
LORD
in
the
day
when
the
LORD
delivered
up
the
Amorites
before
the
children
of
Israel.
He
said
in
the
sight
of
Israel, “Sun, stand
still
on
Gibeon!
You,
moon, stop
in
the
valley
of
Aijalon!”
\par }{\PP \VS{13}The
sun
stood
still,
and
the
moon
stayed,
until
the
nation
had
avenged
themselves
of
their
enemies.
Isn’t
this
written
in
the
book
of
Jashar?
The
sun
stayed
in
the
middle
of
the
sky,
and
didn’t hurry
to
go
down
about
a
whole
day.
\VS{14}There
was
no
day
like
that
before
it
or
after
it,
that
the
LORD
listened
to
the
voice
of
a
man;
for
the
LORD
fought
for
Israel.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}Joshua
returned,
and
all
Israel
with
him,
to
the
camp
to
Gilgal.
\VS{16}These
five
kings
fled,
and
hid
themselves
in
the
cave
at
Makkedah.
\VS{17}Joshua
was
told,
saying, “The
five
kings
have been
found,
hidden
in
the
cave
at
Makkedah.”
\par }{\PP \VS{18}Joshua
said, “Roll
large
stones
to
cover
the cave’s entrance,
and set
men
by
it
to
guard
them;
\VS{19}but
don’t
stay
there.
Pursue
your
enemies,
and
attack
them
from
the
rear.
Don’t
allow
them
to
enter
into
their
cities;
for
the
LORD
your
God
has
delivered
them
into
your
hand.”
\par }{\PP \VS{20}When
Joshua
and
the
children
of
Israel
had
finished
killing
them
with
a
very
great
slaughter
until
they
were
consumed,
and
the
remnant which
remained
of
them
had
entered
into
the
fortified
cities,
\VS{21}all
the
people
returned
to
the
camp
to
Joshua
at
Makkedah
in
peace.
None moved
his
tongue
against
any
of
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{22}Then
Joshua
said, “Open
the
cave entrance,
and
bring
those
five
kings
out
of
the
cave
to
me.”
\par }{\PP \VS{23}They
did
so,
and
brought
those
five
kings
out
of
the
cave
to
him:
the
king
of
Jerusalem,
the
king
of
Hebron,
the
king
of
Jarmuth,
the
king
of
Lachish,
and
the
king
of
Eglon.
\VS{24}When
they
brought
those
kings
out
to
Joshua,
Joshua
called
for
all
the
men
of
Israel,
and
said
to
the
chiefs
of
the
men
of
war
who
went
with
him, “Come
near.
Put
your
feet
on
the
necks
of
these
kings.”
\par }{\PP They
came
near,
and
put
their
feet
on
their
necks.
\par }{\PP \VS{25}Joshua
said
to
them, “Don’t
be
afraid,
nor
be
dismayed.
Be
strong
and
courageous,
for
the
LORD
will
do
this
to
all
your
enemies
against
whom
you
fight.”
\par }{\PP \VS{26}Afterward
Joshua
struck
them,
put
them
to
death,
and
hanged
them
on
five
trees.
They
were
hanging
on
the
trees
until
the
evening.
\VS{27}At
the
time
of
the
going
down
of
the
sun,
Joshua
commanded,
and
they
took
them
down
off
the
trees,
and
threw
them
into
the
cave
in
which
they
had
hidden
themselves,
and
laid
great
stones
on
the
mouth
of
the
cave,
which
remain
to
this
very
day.
\par }{\PP \VS{28}Joshua
took
Makkedah
on
that
day,
and
struck
it
with
the
edge
of
the
sword,
with
its
king.
He utterly
destroyed
it
and
all
the
souls
who
were
in
it.
He
left
no
one
remaining.
He
did
to
the
king
of
Makkedah
as
he
had
done
to
the
king
of
Jericho.
\par }{\PP \VS{29}Joshua
passed
from
Makkedah,
and
all
Israel
with
him,
to
Libnah,
and
fought
against
Libnah.
\VS{30}The
LORD
delivered
it
also,
with
its
king,
into
the
hand
of
Israel.
He
struck
it
with
the
edge
of
the
sword,
and
all
the
souls
who
were
in
it.
He
left
no
one
remaining
in
it.
He
did
to
its
king
as
he
had
done
to
the
king
of
Jericho.
\par }{\PP \VS{31}Joshua
passed
from
Libnah,
and
all
Israel
with
him,
to
Lachish,
and
encamped
against
it,
and
fought
against
it.
\VS{32}The
LORD
delivered
Lachish
into
the
hand
of
Israel.
He
took
it
on
the
second
day,
and
struck
it
with
the
edge
of
the
sword,
with
all
the
souls
who
were
in
it,
according
to
all
that
he
had
done
to
Libnah.
\VS{33}Then
Horam
king
of
Gezer
came
up
to
help
Lachish;
and
Joshua
struck
him
and
his
people,
until
he
had
left
him
no
one
remaining.
\par }{\PP \VS{34}Joshua
passed
from
Lachish,
and
all
Israel
with
him,
to
Eglon;
and
they
encamped
against
it
and
fought
against
it.
\VS{35}They
took
it
on
that
day,
and
struck
it
with
the
edge
of
the
sword.
He utterly
destroyed
all
the
souls
who
were
in
it
that
day,
according
to
all
that
he
had
done
to
Lachish.
\par }{\PP \VS{36}Joshua
went
up
from
Eglon,
and
all
Israel
with
him,
to
Hebron;
and
they
fought
against
it.
\VS{37}They
took
it,
and
struck
it
with
the
edge
of
the
sword,
with
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
he utterly
destroyed
it,
and
all
the
souls
who
were
in
it.
\par }{\PP \VS{38}Joshua
returned,
and
all
Israel
with
him,
to
Debir,
and
fought
against
it.
\VS{39}He
took
it,
with
its
king
and
all
its
cities.
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
its
king.
\VS{40}So
Joshua
struck
all
the
land,
the
hill
country,
the
South,
the
lowland,
the
slopes,
and
all
their
kings.
He
left
no
one
remaining,
but
he utterly
destroyed
all
that
breathed,
as
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel,
commanded.
\VS{41}Joshua
struck
them
from Kadesh Barnea
even
to
Gaza,
and
all
the
country
of
Goshen,
even
to
Gibeon.
\VS{42}Joshua
took
all
these
kings
and
their
land
at
one
time
because
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel,
fought
for
Israel.
\VS{43}Joshua
returned,
and
all
Israel
with
him,
to
the
camp
to
Gilgal.

\par }\Chap{11}{\PP \VerseOne{1}When
Jabin
king
of
Hazor
heard
of
it,
he
sent
to
Jobab
king
of
Madon,
to
the
king
of
Shimron,
to
the
king
of
Achshaph,
\VS{2}and
to
the
kings
who
were
on
the
north,
in
the
hill
country,
in
the
Arabah
south
of
Chinneroth,
in
the
lowland,
and
in
the heights
of
Dor
on
the
west,
\VS{3}to
the
Canaanite
on
the
east
and
on
the
west,
the
Amorite,
the
Hittite,
the
Perizzite,
the
Jebusite
in
the
hill
country,
and
the
Hivite
under
Hermon
in
the
land
of
Mizpah.
\VS{4}They
went
out,
they
and
all
their
armies
with
them,
many
people,
even
as
the
sand
that
is
on
the
seashore
in
multitude,
with
very
many
horses
and
chariots.
\VS{5}All
these
kings met
together;
and
they
came
and
encamped
together
at
the
waters
of
Merom,
to
fight
with
Israel.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}The
LORD
said
to
Joshua, “Don’t
be
afraid
because
of
them;
for
tomorrow
at
this
time,
I
will
deliver
them
up
all
slain
before
Israel.
You
shall
hamstring
their
horses
and
burn
their
chariots
with
fire.”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}So
Joshua
came
suddenly,
with
all
the
warriors,
against
them
by
the
waters
of
Merom,
and
attacked
them.
\VS{8}The
LORD
delivered
them
into
the
hand
of
Israel,
and
they
struck
them,
and
chased
them
to
great
Sidon,
and
to
Misrephoth Maim,
and
to
the
valley
of
Mizpah
eastward.
They
struck
them
until
they
left
them
no
one
remaining.
\VS{9}Joshua
did
to
them
as
the
LORD
told
him.
He hamstrung
their
horses
and
burnt
their
chariots
with
fire.
\VS{10}Joshua
turned
back
at
that
time,
and
took
Hazor,
and
struck
its
king
with
the
sword;
for
Hazor
used
to
be
the
head
of
all
those
kingdoms.
\VS{11}They
struck
all
the
souls
who
were
in
it
with
the
edge
of
the
sword, utterly destroying
them.
There
was
no
one
left
who
breathed.
He
burnt
Hazor
with
fire.
\VS{12}Joshua
captured
all
the
cities
of
those
kings,
with
their
kings,
and
he
struck
them
with
the
edge
of
the
sword,
and utterly
destroyed
them,
as
Moses
the
servant
of
the
LORD
commanded.
\VS{13}But
as
for
the
cities
that
stood
on
their
mounds,
Israel
burnt
none
of
them,
except
Hazor
only.
Joshua
burnt
that.
\VS{14}The
children
of
Israel
took
all
the
plunder
of
these
cities,
with
the
livestock,
as
plunder
for
themselves;
but
every
man
they
struck
with
the
edge
of
the
sword,
until
they
had
destroyed
them.
They
didn’t
leave
any
who
breathed.
\par }{\PP \VS{15}As
the
LORD
commanded
Moses
his
servant,
so
Moses
commanded
Joshua.
Joshua
did
so.
He
left
nothing undone
of
all
that
the
LORD
commanded
Moses.
\VS{16}So
Joshua
captured
all
that
land,
the
hill
country,
all
the
South,
all
the
land
of
Goshen,
the
lowland,
the
Arabah,
the
hill
country
of
Israel,
and
the
lowland
of
the
same,
\VS{17}from
Mount
Halak,
that
goes
up
to
Seir,
even
to Baal Gad
in
the
valley
of
Lebanon
under
Mount
Hermon.
He
took
all
their
kings,
struck
them,
and
put
them
to
death.
\VS{18}Joshua
made
war
a
long
time
with
all
those
kings.
\VS{19}There
was
not
a
city
that
made peace
with
the
children
of
Israel,
except
the
Hivites,
the
inhabitants
of
Gibeon.
They
took
all
in
battle.
\VS{20}For
it
was
of
the
LORD
to
harden
their
hearts,
to
come
against
Israel
in
battle,
that
he
might
utterly
destroy
them,
that
they
might
have
no favour,
but
that
he
might
destroy
them,
as
the
LORD
commanded
Moses.
\VS{21}Joshua
came
at
that
time,
and
cut
off
the
Anakim
from
the
hill
country,
from
Hebron,
from
Debir,
from
Anab,
and
from
all
the
hill
country
of
Judah,
and
from
all
the
hill
country
of
Israel.
Joshua utterly
destroyed
them
with
their
cities.
\VS{22}There
were
none
of
the
Anakim
left
in
the
land
of
the
children
of
Israel.
Only
in
Gaza,
in
Gath,
and
in
Ashdod,
did
some
remain.
\VS{23}So
Joshua
took
the
whole
land,
according
to
all
that
the
LORD
spoke
to
Moses;
and
Joshua
gave
it
for
an
inheritance
to
Israel
according
to
their
divisions
by
their
tribes.
Then
the
land
had
rest
from
war.

\par }\Chap{12}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
these
are
the
kings
of
the
land,
whom
the
children
of
Israel
struck,
and
possessed
their
land
beyond
the
Jordan towards
the
sunrise,
from
the
valley
of
the
Arnon
to
Mount
Hermon,
and
all
the
Arabah
eastward:
\VS{2}Sihon
king
of
the
Amorites,
who
lived
in
Heshbon,
and
ruled
from
Aroer,
which
is
on
the
edge
of
the
valley
of
the
Arnon,
and
the
middle
of
the
valley,
and
half
Gilead,
even
to
the
river
Jabbok,
the
border
of
the
children
of
Ammon;
\VS{3}and
the
Arabah
to
the
sea
of
Chinneroth,
eastward,
and
to
the
sea
of
the
Arabah,
even
the
Salt
Sea,
eastward,
the
way
to Beth Jeshimoth;
and
on
the
south,
under
the
slopes
of
Pisgah:
\VS{4}and
the
border
of
Og
king
of
Bashan,
of
the remnant
of
the
Rephaim,
who
lived
at
Ashtaroth
and
at
Edrei,
\VS{5}and
ruled
in
Mount
Hermon,
and
in
Salecah,
and
in
all
Bashan,
to
the
border
of
the
Geshurites
and
the
Maacathites,
and
half
Gilead,
the
border
of
Sihon
king
of
Heshbon.
\VS{6}Moses
the
servant
of
the
LORD
and
the
children
of
Israel
struck
them.
Moses
the
servant
of
the
LORD
gave
it
for
a
possession
to
the
Reubenites,
and
the
Gadites,
and
the
half-tribe
of
Manasseh.
\par }{\PP \VS{7}These
are
the
kings
of
the
land
whom
Joshua
and
the
children
of
Israel
struck
beyond
the
Jordan
westward,
from Baal Gad
in
the
valley
of
Lebanon
even
to
Mount
Halak,
that
goes
up
to
Seir.
Joshua
gave
it
to
the
tribes
of
Israel
for
a
possession according
to
their
divisions;
\VS{8}in
the
hill
country,
and
in
the
lowland,
and
in
the
Arabah,
and
in
the
slopes,
and
in
the
wilderness,
and
in
the
South;
the
Hittite,
the
Amorite,
and
the
Canaanite,
the
Perizzite,
the
Hivite,
and
the
Jebusite:
\par }{\MM \VS{9}the
king
of
Jericho,
one;
\par }{\MM the
king
of
Ai,
which
is
beside
Bethel,
one;
\par }{\MM \VS{10}the
king
of
Jerusalem,
one;
\par }{\MM the
king
of
Hebron,
one;
\par }{\MM \VS{11}the
king
of
Jarmuth,
one;
\par }{\MM the
king
of
Lachish,
one;
\par }{\MM \VS{12}the
king
of
Eglon,
one;
\par }{\MM the
king
of
Gezer,
one;
\par }{\MM \VS{13}the
king
of
Debir,
one;
\par }{\MM the
king
of
Geder,
one;
\par }{\MM \VS{14}the
king
of
Hormah,
one;
\par }{\MM the
king
of
Arad,
one;
\par }{\MM \VS{15}the
king
of
Libnah,
one;
\par }{\MM the
king
of
Adullam,
one;
\par }{\MM \VS{16}the
king
of
Makkedah,
one;
\par }{\MM the
king
of
Bethel,
one;
\par }{\MM \VS{17}the
king
of
Tappuah,
one;
\par }{\MM the
king
of
Hepher,
one;
\par }{\MM \VS{18}the
king
of
Aphek,
one;
\par }{\MM the
king
of Lassharon,
one;
\par }{\MM \VS{19}the
king
of
Madon,
one;
\par }{\MM the
king
of
Hazor,
one;
\par }{\MM \VS{20}the
king
of Shimron Meron,
one;
\par }{\MM the
king
of
Achshaph,
one;
\par }{\MM \VS{21}the
king
of
Taanach,
one;
\par }{\MM the
king
of
Megiddo,
one;
\par }{\MM \VS{22}the
king
of
Kedesh,
one;
\par }{\MM the
king
of
Jokneam
in
Carmel,
one;
\par }{\MM \VS{23}the
king
of
Dor
in
the height
of
Dor,
one;
\par }{\MM the
king
of
Goiim
in
Gilgal,
one;
\par }{\MM \VS{24}the
king
of
Tirzah,
one:
\par }{\MM all
the
kings thirty-one.

\par }\Chap{13}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Now
Joshua
was
old
and
well
advanced
in
years.
The
LORD
said
to
him, “You
are
old
and
advanced
in
years,
and
there
remains
yet
very
much
land
to
be
possessed.
\par }{\PP \VS{2}“This
is
the
land
that still
remains:
all
the
regions
of
the
Philistines,
and
all
the
Geshurites;
\VS{3}from
the
Shihor,
which
is
before
Egypt,
even
to
the
border
of
Ekron
northward,
which
is
counted
as
Canaanite;
the
five
lords
of
the
Philistines;
the
Gazites,
and
the
Ashdodites,
the Ashkelonites,
the
Gittites,
and
the
Ekronites;
also
the Avvim,
\VS{4}on
the
south;
all
the
land
of
the
Canaanites,
and
Mearah
that belongs
to
the
Sidonians,
to
Aphek,
to
the
border
of
the
Amorites;
\VS{5}and
the
land
of
the
Gebalites,
and
all
Lebanon, towards
the
sunrise,
from Baal Gad
under
Mount
Hermon
to
the
entrance
of
Hamath;
\VS{6}all
the
inhabitants
of
the
hill
country
from
Lebanon
to
Misrephoth Maim,
even
all
the
Sidonians.
I
will
drive
them
out
from
before
the
children
of
Israel.
Just allocate
it
to
Israel
for
an
inheritance,
as
I
have
commanded
you.
\VS{7}Now
therefore
divide
this
land
for an
inheritance
to
the
nine
tribes
and
the
half-tribe
of
Manasseh.”
\VS{8}With
him
the
Reubenites
and
the
Gadites
received
their
inheritance,
which
Moses
gave
them,
beyond
the
Jordan
eastward, even
as
Moses
the
servant
of
the
LORD
gave
them:
\VS{9}from
Aroer,
that
is
on
the
edge
of
the
valley
of
the
Arnon,
and
the
city
that
is
in
the
middle
of
the
valley,
and
all
the
plain
of
Medeba
to
Dibon;
\VS{10}and
all
the
cities
of
Sihon
king
of
the
Amorites,
who
reigned
in
Heshbon,
to
the
border
of
the
children
of
Ammon;
\VS{11}and
Gilead,
and
the
border
of
the
Geshurites
and
Maacathites,
and
all
Mount
Hermon,
and
all
Bashan
to
Salecah;
\VS{12}all
the
kingdom
of
Og
in
Bashan,
who
reigned
in
Ashtaroth
and
in
Edrei (who
was
left
of
the
remnant
of
the
Rephaim);
for
Moses
attacked
these,
and
drove
them
out.
\VS{13}Nevertheless
the
children
of
Israel
didn’t
drive
out
the
Geshurites,
nor
the
Maacathites:
but
Geshur
and
Maacath
live
within
Israel
to
this
day.
\VS{14}Only
he
gave
no
inheritance
to
the
tribe
of
Levi.
The
offerings
of
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel,
made
by
fire
are
his
inheritance,
as
he
spoke
to
him.
\VS{15}Moses
gave
to
the
tribe
of
the
children
of
Reuben according
to
their
families.
\VS{16}Their
border
was
from
Aroer,
that
is
on
the
edge
of
the
valley
of
the
Arnon,
and
the
city
that
is
in
the
middle
of
the
valley,
and
all
the
plain
by
Medeba;
\VS{17}Heshbon,
and
all
its
cities
that
are
in
the
plain;
Dibon,
Bamoth Baal, Beth Baal Meon,
\VS{18}Jahaz,
Kedemoth,
Mephaath,
\VS{19}Kiriathaim,
Sibmah, Zereth Shahar
in
the
mount
of
the
valley,
\VS{20}Beth Peor, the
slopes
of
Pisgah, Beth Jeshimoth,
\VS{21}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
chiefs
of
Midian,
Evi,
Rekem,
Zur,
Hur,
and
Reba,
the
princes
of
Sihon,
who
lived
in
the
land.
\VS{22}The
children
of
Israel
also
killed
Balaam
the
son
of
Beor,
the soothsayer,
with
the
sword, amongst
the rest
of
their
slain.
\par }{\PP \VS{23}The
border
of
the
children
of
Reuben
was
the bank
of
the
Jordan.
This
was
the
inheritance
of
the
children
of
Reuben according
to
their
families,
the
cities
and
its villages.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}Moses
gave
to
the
tribe
of
Gad,
to
the
children
of
Gad, according
to
their
families.
\VS{25}Their
border
was
Jazer,
and
all
the
cities
of
Gilead,
and
half
the
land
of
the
children
of
Ammon,
to
Aroer
that
is
near
Rabbah;
\VS{26}and
from
Heshbon
to Ramath Mizpeh,
and
Betonim;
and
from
Mahanaim
to
the
border
of
Debir;
\VS{27}and
in
the
valley, Beth Haram, Beth Nimrah,
Succoth,
and
Zaphon,
the
rest
of
the
kingdom
of
Sihon
king
of
Heshbon,
the Jordan’s bank,
to
the uttermost part
of
the
sea
of
Chinnereth
beyond
the
Jordan
eastward.
\VS{28}This
is
the
inheritance
of
the
children
of
Gad according
to their
families,
the
cities
and
its villages.
\par }{\PP \VS{29}Moses
gave
an inheritance
to
the
half-tribe
of
Manasseh.
It
was
for
the
half-tribe
of
the
children
of
Manasseh according
to
their
families.
\VS{30}Their
border
was
from
Mahanaim,
all
Bashan,
all
the
kingdom
of
Og
king
of
Bashan,
and
all
the villages
of
Jair,
which
are
in
Bashan,
sixty
cities.
\VS{31}Half
Gilead,
Ashtaroth,
and
Edrei,
the
cities
of
the
kingdom
of
Og
in
Bashan,
were
for
the
children
of
Machir
the
son
of
Manasseh,
even
for
the
half
of
the
children
of
Machir according
to their
families.
\par }{\PP \VS{32}These
are
the inheritances
which
Moses
distributed
in
the
plains
of
Moab,
beyond
the
Jordan
at
Jericho,
eastward.
\VS{33}But
Moses
gave
no
inheritance
to
the
tribe
of
Levi.
The
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel,
is
their
inheritance,
as
he
spoke
to
them.

\par }\Chap{14}{\PP \VerseOne{1}These
are
the inheritances
which
the
children
of
Israel
took
in
the
land
of
Canaan,
which
Eleazar
the
priest,
Joshua
the
son
of
Nun,
and
the
heads
of
the
fathers’ houses
of
the
tribes
of
the
children
of
Israel,
distributed
to
them,
\VS{2}by
the
lot
of
their
inheritance,
as
the
LORD
commanded
by
Moses,
for
the
nine
tribes,
and
for
the
half-tribe.
\VS{3}For
Moses
had
given
the
inheritance
of
the
two
tribes
and
the
half-tribe
beyond
the
Jordan;
but
to
the
Levites
he
gave
no
inheritance amongst
them.
\VS{4}For
the
children
of
Joseph
were
two
tribes,
Manasseh
and
Ephraim.
They
gave
no
portion
to
the
Levites
in
the
land,
except
cities
to
dwell
in,
with
their
pasture
lands
for
their
livestock
and
for
their
property.
\VS{5}The
children
of
Israel
did
as
the
LORD
commanded
Moses,
and
they
divided
the
land.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}Then
the
children
of
Judah
came
near
to
Joshua
in
Gilgal.
Caleb
the
son
of
Jephunneh
the
Kenizzite
said
to
him, “You
know
the
thing
that
the
LORD
spoke
to
Moses
the
man
of
God
concerning
me
and
concerning
you
in Kadesh Barnea.
\VS{7}I
was
forty
years
old
when
Moses
the
servant
of
the
LORD
sent
me
from Kadesh Barnea
to
spy
out
the
land.
I
brought
him
word
again
as
it
was
in
my
heart.
\VS{8}Nevertheless,
my
brothers
who
went
up
with
me
made
the
heart
of
the
people
melt;
but
I wholly
followed
the
LORD
my
God.
\VS{9}Moses
swore
on
that
day,
saying, ‘Surely
the
land
where
you
walked
shall
be
an
inheritance
to
you
and
to
your
children
forever,
because
you
have wholly
followed
the
LORD
my
God.’
\par }{\PP \VS{10}“Now,
behold,
the
LORD
has kept
me
alive,
as
he
spoke,
these
forty-five
years,
from
the
time
that
the
LORD
spoke
this
word
to
Moses,
while
Israel
walked
in
the
wilderness.
Now,
behold,
I
am
eighty-five
years
old,
today.
\VS{11}As
yet
I am
as
strong
today
as
I
was
in
the
day
that
Moses
sent
me.
As
my
strength
was
then,
even
so
is
my
strength
now
for
war,
to
go
out
and
to
come
in.
\VS{12}Now
therefore
give
me
this
hill
country,
of
which
the
LORD
spoke
in
that
day;
for
you
heard
in
that
day
how
the
Anakim
were
there,
and
great
and
fortified
cities.
It
may
be
that
the
LORD
will
be
with
me,
and
I
shall
drive
them
out,
as
the
LORD
said.”
\par }{\PP \VS{13}Joshua
blessed
him;
and
he
gave
Hebron
to
Caleb
the
son
of
Jephunneh
for
an
inheritance.
\VS{14}Therefore
Hebron
became
the
inheritance
of
Caleb
the
son
of
Jephunneh
the
Kenizzite
to
this
day,
because
he
followed
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel
wholeheartedly.
\VS{15}Now
the
name
of
Hebron
before
was Kiriath Arba,
after
the
greatest
man amongst
the
Anakim.
Then
the
land
had
rest
from
war.

\par }\Chap{15}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
lot
for
the
tribe
of
the
children
of
Judah
according
to
their
families
was
to
the
border
of
Edom, even
to
the
wilderness
of
Zin
southward,
at
the uttermost part
of
the
south.
\VS{2}Their
south
border
was
from
the uttermost
part
of
the
Salt
Sea,
from
the
bay
that looks
southward;
\VS{3}and
it
went
out
southward
of
the
ascent
of
Akrabbim,
and
passed
along
to
Zin,
and
went
up
by
the
south
of Kadesh Barnea,
and
passed
along
by
Hezron,
went
up
to
Addar,
and
turned towards
Karka;
\VS{4}and
it
passed along
to
Azmon,
went
out
at
the
brook
of
Egypt;
and
the
border ended
at
the
sea.
This
shall
be
your
south
border.
\VS{5}The
east
border
was
the
Salt
Sea,
even
to
the
end
of
the
Jordan.
The
border
of
the
north quarter
was
from
the
bay
of
the
sea
at
the
end
of
the
Jordan.
\VS{6}The
border
went
up
to Beth Hoglah,
and
passed along
by
the
north
of Beth Arabah;
and
the
border
went
up
to
the
stone
of
Bohan
the
son
of
Reuben.
\VS{7}The
border
went
up
to
Debir
from
the
valley
of
Achor,
and
so
northward,
looking towards
Gilgal,
that
faces
the
ascent
of
Adummim,
which
is
on
the
south
side
of
the
river.
The
border
passed
along
to
the
waters
of En Shemesh,
and ended
at En Rogel.
\VS{8}The
border
went
up
by
the
valley
of
the
son
of
Hinnom
to
the
side
of
the
Jebusite (also called
Jerusalem)
southward;
and
the
border
went
up
to
the
top
of
the
mountain
that
lies
before
the
valley
of
Hinnom
westward,
which
is
at
the farthest
part
of
the
valley
of
Rephaim
northward.
\VS{9}The
border
extended
from
the
top
of
the
mountain
to
the
spring
of
the
waters
of
Nephtoah,
and
went
out
to
the
cities
of
Mount
Ephron;
and
the
border
extended
to
Baalah (also called
Kiriath Jearim);
\VS{10}and
the
border
turned
about
from
Baalah
westward
to
Mount
Seir,
and
passed
along
to
the
side
of
Mount
Jearim (also called
Chesalon)
on
the
north,
and
went
down
to Beth Shemesh,
and
passed
along
by
Timnah;
\VS{11}and
the
border
went
out
to
the
side
of
Ekron
northward;
and
the
border
extended
to
Shikkeron,
and
passed
along
to
Mount
Baalah,
and
went
out
at
Jabneel;
and
the goings
out
of
the
border
were
at
the
sea.
\VS{12}The
west
border
was
to
the shore
of
the
great
sea.
This
is
the
border
of
the
children
of
Judah according
to
their
families.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}He
gave
to
Caleb
the
son
of
Jephunneh
a
portion amongst
the
children
of
Judah,
according
to
the
commandment
of
the
LORD
to
Joshua,
even Kiriath Arba, named
after
the
father
of
Anak (also called
Hebron).
\VS{14}Caleb
drove
out
the
three
sons
of
Anak:
Sheshai,
and
Ahiman,
and
Talmai,
the
children
of
Anak.
\VS{15}He
went
up
against
the
inhabitants
of
Debir: now
the
name
of
Debir
before
was Kiriath Sepher.
\VS{16}Caleb
said, “He
who
strikes Kiriath Sepher,
and
takes
it,
to
him
I
will
give
Achsah
my
daughter
as
wife.”
\VS{17}Othniel
the
son
of
Kenaz,
the
brother
of
Caleb,
took
it:
and
he
gave
him
Achsah
his
daughter
as
wife.
\VS{18}When
she
came,
she
had
him
ask
her
father
for
a
field.
She got
off
her
donkey,
and
Caleb
said, “What
do
you want?”
\par }{\PP \VS{19}She
said, “Give
me
a
blessing.
Because
you
have
set
me
in
the
land
of
the
South,
give
me
also
springs
of
water.”
\par }{\PP So
he
gave
her
the
upper
springs
and
the
lower
springs.
\par }{\PP \VS{20}This
is
the
inheritance
of
the
tribe
of
the
children
of
Judah according
to their
families.
\VS{21}The farthest
cities
of
the
tribe
of
the
children
of
Judah towards
the
border
of
Edom
in
the
South
were
Kabzeel,
Eder,
Jagur,
\VS{22}Kinah,
Dimonah,
Adadah,
\VS{23}Kedesh,
Hazor,
Ithnan,
\VS{24}Ziph,
Telem,
Bealoth,
\VS{25}Hazor Hadattah,
Kerioth
Hezron (also called
Hazor),
\VS{26}Amam,
Shema,
Moladah,
\VS{27}Hazar Gaddah,
Heshmon, Beth Pelet,
\VS{28}Hazar Shual,
Beersheba,
Biziothiah,
\VS{29}Baalah,
Iim,
Ezem,
\VS{30}Eltolad,
Chesil,
Hormah,
\VS{31}Ziklag,
Madmannah,
Sansannah,
\VS{32}Lebaoth,
Shilhim,
Ain,
and
Rimmon.
All
the
cities
are
twenty-nine,
with
their villages.
\par }{\MM \VS{33}In
the
lowland,
Eshtaol,
Zorah,
Ashnah,
\VS{34}Zanoah, En Gannim,
Tappuah,
Enam,
\VS{35}Jarmuth,
Adullam,
Socoh,
Azekah,
\VS{36}Shaaraim,
Adithaim
and
Gederah (or
Gederothaim);
fourteen
cities with their villages.
\par }{\MM \VS{37}Zenan,
Hadashah, Migdal Gad,
\VS{38}Dilean,
Mizpah,
Joktheel,
\VS{39}Lachish,
Bozkath,
Eglon,
\VS{40}Cabbon, Lahmam,
Chitlish,
\VS{41}Gederoth, Beth Dagon,
Naamah,
and
Makkedah;
sixteen
cities with their villages.
\par }{\MM \VS{42}Libnah,
Ether,
Ashan,
\VS{43}Iphtah,
Ashnah,
Nezib,
\VS{44}Keilah,
Achzib,
and
Mareshah;
nine
cities with their villages.
\par }{\MM \VS{45}Ekron, with its
towns
and its
villages;
\VS{46}from
Ekron
even
to
the
sea,
all
that
were
by
the
side
of
Ashdod,
with
their villages.
\VS{47}Ashdod,
its
towns
and
its
villages;
Gaza,
its
towns
and
its
villages;
to
the
brook
of
Egypt,
and
the great
sea
with
its
coastline.
\par }{\MM \VS{48}In
the
hill
country, Shamir,
Jattir,
Socoh,
\VS{49}Dannah, Kiriath Sannah (which
is
Debir),
\VS{50}Anab,
Eshtemoh,
Anim,
\VS{51}Goshen,
Holon,
and
Giloh;
eleven
cities with their villages.
\par }{\MM \VS{52}Arab,
Dumah,
Eshan,
\VS{53}Janim, Beth Tappuah,
Aphekah,
\VS{54}Humtah, Kiriath Arba (also called
Hebron),
and
Zior;
nine
cities
with their villages.
\par }{\MM \VS{55}Maon,
Carmel,
Ziph, Jutah,
\VS{56}Jezreel,
Jokdeam,
Zanoah,
\VS{57}Kain,
Gibeah,
and
Timnah;
ten
cities
with their villages.
\par }{\MM \VS{58}Halhul, Beth Zur,
Gedor,
\VS{59}Maarath, Beth Anoth,
and
Eltekon;
six
cities with their villages.
\VS{60}Kiriath Baal (also called
Kiriath Jearim),
and
Rabbah;
two
cities
with
their villages.
\par }{\MM \VS{61}In the
wilderness, Beth Arabah,
Middin,
Secacah,
\VS{62}Nibshan,
the
City
of
Salt,
and En Gedi;
six
cities with their villages.
\par }{\PP \VS{63}As
for
the
Jebusites,
the
inhabitants
of
Jerusalem,
the
children
of
Judah
couldn’t
drive
them
out;
but
the
Jebusites
live
with
the
children
of
Judah
at
Jerusalem
to
this
day.

\par }\Chap{16}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
lot
came
out
for
the
children
of
Joseph
from
the
Jordan
at
Jericho,
at
the
waters
of
Jericho
on
the
east, even
the
wilderness,
going
up
from
Jericho
through
the
hill
country
to
Bethel.
\VS{2}It
went
out
from
Bethel
to
Luz,
and
passed
along
to
the
border
of
the
Archites
to
Ataroth;
\VS{3}and
it
went
down
westward
to
the
border
of
the
Japhletites,
to
the
border
of Beth Horon
the
lower,
and
on
to
Gezer;
and ended
at
the
sea.
\par }{\PP \VS{4}The
children
of
Joseph,
Manasseh
and
Ephraim, took
their
inheritance.
\VS{5}This
was
the
border
of
the
children
of
Ephraim according
to
their
families.
The
border
of
their
inheritance
eastward
was Ataroth Addar,
to Beth Horon
the
upper.
\VS{6}The
border
went
out
westward
at
Michmethath
on
the
north.
The
border
turned
about
eastward
to Taanath Shiloh,
and
passed
along
it
on
the
east
of
Janoah.
\VS{7}It
went
down
from
Janoah
to
Ataroth,
to
Naarah,
reached
to
Jericho,
and
went
out
at
the
Jordan.
\VS{8}From
Tappuah
the
border
went along
westward
to
the
brook
of
Kanah;
and ended
at
the
sea.
This
is
the
inheritance
of
the
tribe
of
the
children
of
Ephraim according
to
their
families;
\VS{9}together
with
the
cities which
were
set
apart
for
the
children
of
Ephraim
in
the
middle
of
the
inheritance
of
the
children
of
Manasseh,
all
the
cities
with
their villages.
\VS{10}They
didn’t
drive
out
the
Canaanites
who
lived
in
Gezer;
but
the
Canaanites
dwell
in
the territory
of
Ephraim
to
this
day,
and
have
become
servants
to
do
forced labour.

\par }\Chap{17}{\PP \VerseOne{1}This
was
the
lot
for
the
tribe
of
Manasseh,
for
he
was
the
firstborn
of
Joseph.
As
for
Machir
the
firstborn
of
Manasseh,
the
father
of
Gilead,
because
he
was
a
man
of
war,
therefore
he
had
Gilead
and
Bashan.
\VS{2}So
this
was
for
the
rest
of
the
children
of
Manasseh according
to
their
families:
for
the
children
of
Abiezer,
for
the
children
of
Helek,
for
the
children
of
Asriel,
for
the
children
of
Shechem,
for
the
children
of
Hepher,
and
for
the
children
of
Shemida.
These
were
the
male
children
of
Manasseh
the
son
of
Joseph according
to
their
families.
\VS{3}But
Zelophehad,
the
son
of
Hepher,
the
son
of
Gilead,
the
son
of
Machir,
the
son
of
Manasseh,
had
no
sons,
but
daughters.
These
are
the
names
of
his
daughters:
Mahlah,
Noah,
Hoglah,
Milcah,
and
Tirzah.
\VS{4}They
came
to
Eleazar
the
priest,
and
to
Joshua
the
son
of
Nun,
and
to
the
princes,
saying, “The
LORD
commanded
Moses
to
give
us
an
inheritance amongst
our
brothers.”
Therefore
according
to
the
commandment
of
the
LORD
he
gave
them
an
inheritance amongst
the
brothers
of
their
father.
\VS{5}Ten parts
fell
to
Manasseh,
in addition
to
the
land
of
Gilead
and
Bashan,
which
is
beyond
the
Jordan;
\VS{6}because
the
daughters
of
Manasseh
had
an
inheritance amongst
his
sons.
The
land
of
Gilead
belonged
to
the
rest
of
the
sons
of
Manasseh.
\VS{7}The
border
of
Manasseh
was
from
Asher
to
Michmethath,
which
is
before
Shechem.
The
border
went
along
to
the
right
hand,
to
the
inhabitants
of En Tappuah.
\VS{8}The
land
of
Tappuah
belonged
to
Manasseh;
but
Tappuah
on
the
border
of
Manasseh
belonged
to
the
children
of
Ephraim.
\VS{9}The
border
went
down
to
the
brook
of
Kanah,
southward
of
the
brook.
These
cities
belonged
to
Ephraim amongst
the
cities
of
Manasseh.
The
border
of
Manasseh
was
on
the
north
side
of
the
brook,
and ended
at
the
sea.
\VS{10}Southward
it
was
Ephraim’s,
and
northward
it
was
Manasseh’s,
and
the
sea
was
his
border. They
reached
to
Asher
on
the
north,
and
to
Issachar
on
the
east.
\VS{11}Manasseh
had
three heights
in
Issachar,
in
Asher Beth Shean
and
its
towns,
and
Ibleam
and
its
towns,
and
the
inhabitants
of
Dor
and
its
towns,
and
the
inhabitants
of Endor
and
its
towns,
and
the
inhabitants
of
Taanach
and
its
towns,
and
the
inhabitants
of
Megiddo
and
its
towns.
\VS{12}Yet
the
children
of
Manasseh
couldn’t
drive
out
the
inhabitants
of
those
cities;
but
the
Canaanites would
dwell
in
that
land.
\par }{\PP \VS{13}When
the
children
of
Israel
had
grown
strong,
they
put
the
Canaanites
to
forced labour,
and
didn’t utterly
drive
them
out.
\VS{14}The
children
of
Joseph
spoke
to
Joshua,
saying, “Why
have
you
given
me
just
one
lot
and
one part
for
an
inheritance,
since
we
are
a
numerous
people,
because
the
LORD
has
blessed
us
so
far?”
\par }{\PP \VS{15}Joshua
said
to
them, “If
you
are
a
numerous
people,
go
up
to
the
forest,
and clear
land
for
yourself
there
in
the
land
of
the
Perizzites
and
of
the
Rephaim,
since
the
hill
country
of
Ephraim
is
too
narrow
for
you.”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}The
children
of
Joseph
said, “The
hill
country
is
not
enough
for
us.
All
the
Canaanites
who
dwell
in
the
land
of
the
valley
have
chariots
of
iron,
both
those
who
are
in Beth Shean
and
its
towns,
and
those
who
are
in
the
valley
of
Jezreel.”
\par }{\PP \VS{17}Joshua
spoke
to
the
house
of
Joseph,
that
is,
to
Ephraim
and
to
Manasseh,
saying, “You
are
a
numerous
people,
and
have
great
power.
You
shall
not
have
one
lot
only;
\VS{18}but
the
hill
country
shall
be yours.
Although
it
is
a
forest,
you
shall cut
it
down,
and it’s
farthest extent
shall
be yours;
for
you
shall
drive
out
the
Canaanites,
though
they
have
chariots
of
iron,
and
though
they
are
strong.”

\par }\Chap{18}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
whole
congregation
of
the
children
of
Israel
assembled
themselves
together
at
Shiloh,
and
set
up
the
Tent
of
Meeting
there.
The
land
was
subdued
before
them.
\VS{2}Seven
tribes
remained amongst
the
children
of
Israel,
which
had
not
yet
divided
their
inheritance.
\VS{3}Joshua
said
to
the
children
of
Israel, “How
long
will
you neglect
to
go
in
to
possess
the
land,
which
the
LORD,
the
God
of
your
fathers,
has
given
you?
\VS{4}Appoint
for yourselves
three
men
from
each
tribe.
I
will
send
them,
and
they
shall
arise,
walk
through
the
land,
and
describe
it
according
to
their
inheritance;
then
they
shall
come
to
me.
\VS{5}They
shall
divide
it
into
seven
portions.
Judah
shall live
in
his
borders
on
the
south,
and
the
house
of
Joseph
shall live
in
their
borders
on
the
north.
\VS{6}You
shall
survey
the
land
into
seven parts,
and
bring
the description
here
to
me;
and
I
will
cast
lots
for
you
here
before
the
LORD
our
God.
\VS{7}However,
the
Levites
have
no
portion amongst
you;
for
the
priesthood
of
the
LORD
is
their
inheritance.
Gad,
Reuben,
and
the
half-tribe
of
Manasseh
have
received
their
inheritance
east
of
the
Jordan,
which
Moses
the
servant
of
the
LORD
gave
them.”
\par }{\PP \VS{8}The
men
arose
and
went.
Joshua
commanded
those
who
went
to
survey
the
land,
saying, “Go
walk
through
the
land,
survey
it,
and
come
again
to
me.
I
will
cast
lots
for
you
here
before
the
LORD
in
Shiloh.”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}The
men
went
and
passed
through
the
land,
and surveyed
it
by
cities
into
seven
portions
in
a
book.
They
came
to
Joshua
to
the
camp
at
Shiloh.
\VS{10}Joshua
cast
lots
for
them
in
Shiloh
before
the
LORD.
There
Joshua
divided
the
land
to
the
children
of
Israel according
to
their
divisions.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}The
lot
of
the
tribe
of
the
children
of
Benjamin
came
up according
to
their
families.
The
border
of
their
lot
went
out
between
the
children
of
Judah
and
the
children
of
Joseph.
\VS{12}Their
border
on
the
north quarter
was
from
the
Jordan.
The
border
went
up
to
the
side
of
Jericho
on
the
north,
and
went
up
through
the
hill
country
westward.
It ended
at
the
wilderness
of Beth Aven.
\VS{13}The
border
passed
along
from
there
to
Luz,
to
the
side
of
Luz (also
called
Bethel),
southward.
The
border
went
down
to Ataroth Addar,
by
the
mountain
that
lies
on
the
south
of Beth Horon
the
lower.
\VS{14}The
border
extended,
and
turned
around
on
the
west quarter
southward,
from
the
mountain
that
lies
before Beth Horon
southward;
and ended
at
Kiriath Baal (also called
Kiriath Jearim),
a
city
of
the
children
of
Judah.
This
was
the
west quarter.
\VS{15}The
south quarter
was
from
the farthest part
of
Kiriath Jearim.
The
border
went
out
westward,
and
went
out
to
the
spring
of
the
waters
of
Nephtoah.
\VS{16}The
border
went
down
to
the farthest
part
of
the
mountain
that
lies
before
the
valley
of
the
son
of
Hinnom,
which
is
in
the
valley
of
Rephaim
northward.
It
went
down
to
the
valley
of
Hinnom,
to
the
side
of
the
Jebusite
southward,
and
went
down
to En Rogel.
\VS{17}It
extended
northward,
went
out
at En Shemesh,
and
went
out
to
Geliloth,
which
is
opposite
the
ascent
of
Adummim.
It
went
down
to
the
stone
of
Bohan
the
son
of
Reuben.
\VS{18}It
passed
along
to
the
side
opposite
the
Arabah
northward,
and
went
down
to
the
Arabah.
\VS{19}The
border
passed
along
to
the
side
of Beth Hoglah
northward;
and
the
border ended
at
the
north
bay
of
the
Salt
Sea,
at
the
south
end
of
the
Jordan.
This
was
the
south
border.
\VS{20}The
Jordan
was
its
border
on
the
east quarter.
This
was
the
inheritance
of
the
children
of
Benjamin,
by
the
borders
around
it, according
to
their
families.
\VS{21}Now
the
cities
of
the
tribe
of
the
children
of
Benjamin according
to
their
families
were
Jericho, Beth Hoglah,
Emek
Keziz,
\VS{22}Beth Arabah,
Zemaraim,
Bethel,
\VS{23}Avvim,
Parah,
Ophrah,
\VS{24}Chephar Ammoni,
Ophni,
and
Geba;
twelve
cities
with
their villages.
\VS{25}Gibeon,
Ramah,
Beeroth,
\VS{26}Mizpeh, Chephirah,
Mozah,
\VS{27}Rekem,
Irpeel,
Taralah,
\VS{28}Zelah, Eleph,
the
Jebusite (also called
Jerusalem), Gibeath,
and
Kiriath;
fourteen
cities
with their villages.
This
is
the
inheritance
of
the
children
of
Benjamin according
to their
families.

\par }\Chap{19}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
second
lot
came
out
for
Simeon, even
for
the
tribe
of
the
children
of
Simeon according
to
their
families.
Their
inheritance
was
in
the
middle
of
the
inheritance
of
the
children
of
Judah.
\VS{2}They
had
for
their
inheritance
Beersheba (or
Sheba),
Moladah,
\VS{3}Hazar Shual,
Balah,
Ezem,
\VS{4}Eltolad,
Bethul,
Hormah,
\VS{5}Ziklag, Beth Marcaboth, Hazar Susah,
\VS{6}Beth Lebaoth,
and
Sharuhen;
thirteen
cities
with their villages;
\VS{7}Ain,
Rimmon,
Ether,
and
Ashan;
four
cities with their villages;
\VS{8}and
all
the villages
that
were
around
these
cities
to Baalath Beer,
Ramah
of
the
South.
This
is
the
inheritance
of
the
tribe
of
the
children
of
Simeon according
to
their
families.
\VS{9}Out
of
the
part
of
the
children
of
Judah
was
the
inheritance
of
the
children
of
Simeon;
for
the
portion
of
the
children
of
Judah
was
too
much
for
them.
Therefore
the
children
of
Simeon
had
inheritance
in
the
middle
of
their
inheritance.
\par }{\PP \VS{10}The
third
lot
came
up
for
the
children
of
Zebulun according
to
their
families.
The
border
of
their
inheritance
was
to Sarid.
\VS{11}Their
border
went
up
westward,
even
to
Maralah,
and
reached
to
Dabbesheth.
It
reached
to
the
brook
that
is
before
Jokneam.
\VS{12}It
turned
from Sarid
eastward towards
the
sunrise
to
the
border
of Chisloth Tabor.
It
went
out
to
Daberath,
and
went
up
to
Japhia.
\VS{13}From
there
it
passed along
eastward
to Gath Hepher,
to Ethkazin;
and
it
went
out
at
Rimmon
which stretches
to
Neah.
\VS{14}The
border
turned
around
it
on
the
north
to
Hannathon;
and
it ended
at
the
valley
of Iphtah El;
\VS{15}Kattath,
Nahalal,
Shimron,
Idalah,
and
Bethlehem:
twelve
cities
with
their villages.
\VS{16}This
is
the
inheritance
of
the
children
of
Zebulun according
to their
families,
these
cities
with their villages.
\par }{\PP \VS{17}The
fourth
lot
came
out
for
Issachar, even
for
the
children
of
Issachar according
to
their
families.
\VS{18}Their
border
was
to
Jezreel,
Chesulloth,
Shunem,
\VS{19}Hapharaim,
Shion,
Anaharath,
\VS{20}Rabbith,
Kishion,
Ebez,
\VS{21}Remeth, Engannim, En Haddah,
and Beth Pazzez.
\VS{22}The
border
reached
to
Tabor,
Shahazumah,
and Beth Shemesh.
Their
border ended
at
the
Jordan:
sixteen
cities
with
their villages.
\VS{23}This
is
the
inheritance
of
the
tribe
of
the
children
of
Issachar according
to their
families,
the
cities
with their villages.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}The
fifth
lot
came
out
for
the
tribe
of
the
children
of
Asher according
to
their
families.
\VS{25}Their
border
was
Helkath,
Hali,
Beten,
Achshaph,
\VS{26}Allammelech,
Amad,
Mishal. It
reached
to
Carmel
westward,
and
to Shihorlibnath.
\VS{27}It
turned towards
the
sunrise
to Beth Dagon,
and
reached
to
Zebulun,
and
to
the
valley
of Iphtah El
northward
to Beth Emek
and Neiel.
It
went
out
to
Cabul
on
the
left
hand,
\VS{28}and
Ebron,
Rehob,
Hammon,
and
Kanah,
even
to
great
Sidon.
\VS{29}The
border
turned
to
Ramah,
to
the
fortified
city
of
Tyre;
and
the
border
turned
to
Hosah.
It ended
at
the
sea
by
the region
of
Achzib;
\VS{30}Ummah also,
and
Aphek,
and
Rehob:
twenty-two
cities
with
their villages.
\VS{31}This
is
the
inheritance
of
the
tribe
of
the
children
of
Asher according
to their
families,
these
cities
with their villages.
\par }{\PP \VS{32}The
sixth
lot
came
out
for
the
children
of
Naphtali, even
for
the
children
of
Naphtali according
to
their
families.
\VS{33}Their
border
was
from
Heleph,
from
the oak
in
Zaanannim,
Adami-nekeb,
and
Jabneel,
to
Lakkum.
It ended
at
the
Jordan.
\VS{34}The
border
turned
westward
to Aznoth Tabor,
and
went
out
from
there
to
Hukkok.
It
reached
to
Zebulun
on
the
south,
and
reached
to
Asher
on
the
west,
and
to
Judah
at
the
Jordan towards
the
sunrise.
\VS{35}The
fortified
cities were
Ziddim,
Zer,
Hammath,
Rakkath,
Chinnereth,
\VS{36}Adamah,
Ramah,
Hazor,
\VS{37}Kedesh,
Edrei, En Hazor,
\VS{38}Iron, Migdal El,
Horem, Beth Anath,
and Beth Shemesh;
nineteen
cities with their villages.
\VS{39}This
is
the
inheritance
of
the
tribe
of
the
children
of
Naphtali according
to their
families,
the
cities
with their villages.
\par }{\PP \VS{40}The
seventh
lot
came
out
for
the
tribe
of
the
children
of
Dan according
to
their
families.
\VS{41}The
border
of
their
inheritance
was
Zorah,
Eshtaol, Irshemesh,
\VS{42}Shaalabbin,
Aijalon,
Ithlah,
\VS{43}Elon,
Timnah,
Ekron,
\VS{44}Eltekeh,
Gibbethon,
Baalath,
\VS{45}Jehud, Bene Berak, Gath Rimmon,
\VS{46}Me Jarkon,
and
Rakkon,
with
the
border
opposite
Joppa.
\VS{47}The
border
of
the
children
of
Dan
went
out
beyond
them;
for
the
children
of
Dan
went
up
and
fought
against
Leshem,
and
took
it,
and
struck
it
with
the
edge
of
the
sword,
and
possessed
it,
and
lived therein,
and
called
Leshem,
Dan,
after
the
name
of
Dan
their
forefather.
\VS{48}This
is
the
inheritance
of
the
tribe
of
the
children
of
Dan according
to
their
families,
these
cities
with
their villages.
\par }{\PP \VS{49}So
they
finished distributing
the
land
for
inheritance
by
its
borders.
The
children
of
Israel
gave
an
inheritance
to
Joshua
the
son
of
Nun amongst
them.
\VS{50}According
to
the
LORD’s
commandment,
they
gave
him
the
city
which
he
asked,
even Timnathserah
in
the
hill
country
of
Ephraim;
and
he
built
the
city,
and
lived
there.
\VS{51}These
are
the
inheritances,
which
Eleazar
the
priest,
Joshua
the
son
of
Nun,
and
the
heads
of
the
fathers’ houses
of
the
tribes
of
the
children
of
Israel,
distributed
for
inheritance
by
lot
in
Shiloh
before
the
LORD,
at
the
door
of
the
Tent
of
Meeting.
So
they
finished
dividing
the
land.

\par }\Chap{20}{\PP \VerseOne{1}The
LORD
spoke
to
Joshua,
saying,
\VS{2}“Speak
to
the
children
of
Israel,
saying, ‘Assign
the
cities
of
refuge,
of
which
I
spoke
to
you
by
Moses,
\VS{3}that
the
man
slayer
who
kills
any
person
accidentally
or
unintentionally
may
flee
there.
They
shall
be
to
you
for
a
refuge
from
the
avenger
of
blood.
\VS{4}He
shall
flee
to
one
of
those
cities,
and
shall
stand
at
the
entrance
of
the
gate
of
the
city,
and
declare
his
case
in
the
ears
of
the
elders
of
that
city.
They
shall
take
him
into
the
city
with
them,
and
give
him
a
place,
that
he
may
live amongst
them.
\VS{5}If
the
avenger
of
blood
pursues
him,
then
they
shall
not
deliver
up
the man
slayer
into
his
hand;
because
he
struck
his neighbour unintentionally,
and
didn’t
hate
him
before.
\VS{6}He
shall
dwell
in
that
city
until
he
stands
before
the
congregation
for judgement,
until
the
death
of
the
high
priest
that
shall
be
in
those
days.
Then
the
man slayer
shall
return,
and
come
to
his
own
city,
and
to
his
own
house,
to
the
city
he
fled
from.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{7}They
set
apart
Kedesh
in
Galilee
in
the
hill
country
of
Naphtali,
Shechem
in
the
hill
country
of
Ephraim,
and Kiriath Arba (also called
Hebron)
in
the
hill
country
of
Judah.
\VS{8}Beyond
the
Jordan
at
Jericho
eastward, they
assigned
Bezer
in
the
wilderness
in
the
plain
out
of
the
tribe
of
Reuben,
Ramoth
in
Gilead
out
of
the
tribe
of
Gad,
and
Golan
in
Bashan
out
of
the
tribe
of
Manasseh.
\VS{9}These
were
the
appointed
cities
for
all
the
children
of
Israel,
and
for
the
alien
who
lives amongst
them,
that
whoever
kills
any
person
unintentionally
might
flee
there,
and
not
die
by
the
hand
of
the
avenger
of
blood,
until
he
stands trial
before
the
congregation.

\par }\Chap{21}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
the
heads
of
fathers’ houses
of
the
Levites
came
near
to
Eleazar
the
priest,
and
to
Joshua
the
son
of
Nun,
and
to
the
heads
of
fathers’ houses
of
the
tribes
of
the
children
of
Israel.
\VS{2}They
spoke
to
them
at
Shiloh
in
the
land
of
Canaan,
saying, “The
LORD
commanded
through
Moses
to
give
us
cities
to
dwell
in,
with
their
pasture
lands
for
our
livestock.”
\par }{\PP \VS{3}The
children
of
Israel
gave
to
the
Levites
out
of
their
inheritance,
according
to
the
commandment
of
the
LORD,
these
cities
with
their
pasture
lands.
\VS{4}The
lot
came
out
for
the
families
of
the
Kohathites.
The
children
of
Aaron
the
priest,
who
were
of
the
Levites,
had
thirteen
cities
by
lot
out
of
the
tribe
of
Judah,
out
of
the
tribe
of
the
Simeonites,
and
out
of
the
tribe
of
Benjamin.
\VS{5}The
rest
of
the
children
of
Kohath
had
ten
cities
by
lot out
of
the
families
of
the
tribe
of
Ephraim, out
of
the
tribe
of
Dan,
and out
of
the
half-tribe
of
Manasseh.
\VS{6}The
children
of
Gershon
had
thirteen
cities
by
lot out
of
the
families
of
the
tribe
of
Issachar, out
of
the
tribe
of
Asher, out
of
the
tribe
of
Naphtali,
and out
of
the
half-tribe
of
Manasseh
in
Bashan.
\VS{7}The
children
of
Merari according
to
their
families
had
twelve
cities
out
of
the
tribe
of
Reuben,
out
of
the
tribe
of
Gad,
and
out
of
the
tribe
of
Zebulun.
\VS{8}The
children
of
Israel
gave
these
cities
with
their
pasture
lands
by
lot
to
the
Levites,
as
the
LORD
commanded
by
Moses.
\VS{9}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
mentioned
by
name:
\VS{10}and
they
were
for
the
children
of
Aaron,
of
the
families
of
the
Kohathites,
who
were
of
the
children
of
Levi;
for
theirs
was
the
first
lot.
\VS{11}They
gave
them Kiriath Arba, named
after
the
father
of
Anak (also called
Hebron),
in
the
hill
country
of
Judah,
with
its
pasture
lands
around
it.
\VS{12}But they
gave
the
fields
of
the
city
and
its villages
to
Caleb
the
son
of
Jephunneh
for
his
possession.
\VS{13}To
the
children
of
Aaron
the
priest
they
gave
Hebron
with
its
pasture
lands,
the
city
of
refuge
for
the
man slayer,
Libnah
with
its
pasture
lands,
\VS{14}Jattir
with
its
pasture
lands,
Eshtemoa
with
its
pasture
lands,
\VS{15}Holon
with
its
pasture
lands,
Debir
with
its
pasture
lands,
\VS{16}Ain
with
its
pasture
lands,
Juttah
with
its
pasture
lands,
and Beth Shemesh
with
its
pasture
lands:
nine
cities
out
of
those
two
tribes.
\VS{17}Out
of
the
tribe
of
Benjamin,
Gibeon
with
its
pasture
lands,
Geba
with
its
pasture
lands,
\VS{18}Anathoth
with
its
pasture
lands,
and
Almon
with
its
pasture
lands:
four
cities.
\VS{19}All
the
cities
of
the
children
of
Aaron,
the
priests,
were
thirteen
cities
with
their
pasture
lands.
\par }{\PP \VS{20}The
families
of
the
children
of
Kohath,
the
Levites, even
the
rest
of
the
children
of
Kohath,
had
the
cities
of
their
lot out
of
the
tribe
of
Ephraim.
\VS{21}They
gave
them
Shechem
with
its
pasture
lands
in
the
hill
country
of
Ephraim,
the
city
of
refuge
for
the man slayer,
and
Gezer
with
its
pasture
lands,
\VS{22}Kibzaim
with
its
pasture
lands,
and Beth Horon
with
its
pasture
lands:
four
cities.
\VS{23}Out
of
the
tribe
of
Dan,
Elteke
with
its
pasture
lands,
Gibbethon
with
its
pasture
lands,
\VS{24}Aijalon
with
its
pasture
lands, Gath Rimmon
with
its
pasture
lands:
four
cities.
\VS{25}Out
of
the half-tribe
of
Manasseh,
Taanach
with
its
pasture
lands,
and Gath Rimmon
with
its
pasture
lands:
two
cities.
\VS{26}All
the
cities
of
the
families
of
the
rest
of
the
children
of
Kohath
were
ten
with
their
pasture
lands.
\par }{\PP \VS{27}They gave
to
the
children
of
Gershon,
of
the
families
of
the
Levites,
out
of
the
half-tribe
of
Manasseh
Golan
in
Bashan
with
its
pasture
lands,
the
city
of
refuge
for
the
man slayer,
and
Be Eshterah
with
its
pasture
lands:
two
cities.
\VS{28}Out
of
the
tribe
of
Issachar,
Kishion
with
its
pasture
lands,
Daberath
with
its
pasture
lands,
\VS{29}Jarmuth
with
its
pasture
lands, En Gannim
with
its
pasture
lands:
four
cities.
\VS{30}Out
of
the
tribe
of
Asher,
Mishal
with
its
pasture
lands,
Abdon
with
its
pasture
lands,
\VS{31}Helkath
with
its
pasture
lands,
and
Rehob
with
its
pasture
lands:
four
cities.
\VS{32}Out
of
the
tribe
of
Naphtali,
Kedesh
in
Galilee
with
its
pasture
lands,
the
city
of
refuge for
the man slayer, Hammothdor
with
its
pasture
lands,
and
Kartan
with
its
pasture
lands:
three
cities.
\VS{33}All
the
cities
of
the
Gershonites according
to
their
families
were
thirteen
cities
with
their
pasture
lands.
\par }{\PP \VS{34}To
the
families
of
the
children
of
Merari,
the
rest
of
the
Levites,
out
of
the
tribe
of
Zebulun,
Jokneam
with
its
pasture
lands,
Kartah
with
its
pasture
lands,
\VS{35}Dimnah
with
its
pasture
lands,
and
Nahalal
with
its
pasture
lands:
four
cities.
\VS{36}Out
of
the
tribe
of
Reuben,
Bezer
with
its
pasture
lands,
Jahaz
with
its
pasture
lands,
\VS{37}Kedemoth
with
its
pasture
lands,
and
Mephaath
with
its
pasture
lands:
four
cities.
\VS{38}Out
of
the
tribe
of
Gad,
Ramoth
in
Gilead
with
its
pasture
lands,
the
city
of
refuge for
the man slayer,
and
Mahanaim
with
its
pasture
lands,
\VS{39}Heshbon
with
its
pasture
lands,
Jazer
with
its
pasture
lands:
four
cities
in
all.
\VS{40}All
these
were
the
cities
of
the
children
of
Merari according
to
their
families, even
the
rest
of
the
families
of
the
Levites.
Their
lot
was
twelve
cities.
\par }{\PP \VS{41}All
the
cities
of
the
Levites amongst
the
possessions
of
the
children
of
Israel
were
forty-eight
cities
with
their
pasture
lands.
\VS{42}Each
of
these
cities
included
their
pasture
lands
around
them.
It
was
this
way
with
all
these
cities.
\par }{\PP \VS{43}So
the
LORD
gave
to
Israel
all
the
land
which
he
swore
to
give
to
their
fathers.
They
possessed
it,
and
lived
in
it.
\VS{44}The
LORD
gave
them
rest
all
around,
according
to
all
that
he
swore
to
their
fathers.
Not
a
man
of
all
their
enemies
stood
before
them.
The
LORD
delivered
all
their
enemies
into
their
hand.
\VS{45}Nothing
failed
of
any
good
thing
which
the
LORD
had
spoken
to
the
house
of
Israel.
All
came
to
pass.

\par }\Chap{22}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Then
Joshua
called
the
Reubenites,
the
Gadites,
and
the
half-tribe
of
Manasseh,
\VS{2}and
said
to
them, “You
have
kept
all
that
Moses
the
servant
of
the
LORD
commanded
you,
and
have
listened
to
my
voice
in
all
that
I
commanded
you.
\VS{3}You
have
not
left
your
brothers
these
many
days
to
this
day,
but
have
performed
the
duty
of
the
commandment
of
the
LORD
your
God.
\VS{4}Now
the
LORD
your
God
has
given
rest
to
your
brothers,
as
he
spoke
to
them.
Therefore
now return
and go
to
your
tents,
to
the
land
of
your
possession,
which
Moses
the
servant
of
the
LORD
gave
you
beyond
the
Jordan.
\VS{5}Only
take
diligent
heed
to
do
the
commandment
and
the
law
which
Moses
the
servant
of
the
LORD
commanded
you,
to
love
the
LORD
your
God,
to
walk
in
all
his
ways,
to
keep
his
commandments,
to
hold
fast
to
him,
and
to
serve
him
with
all
your
heart
and
with
all
your
soul.”
\par }{\PP \VS{6}So
Joshua
blessed
them,
and
sent
them
away;
and they
went
to
their
tents.
\VS{7}Now
to
the
one
half-tribe
of
Manasseh
Moses
had
given inheritance
in
Bashan;
but
Joshua
gave
to
the
other
half amongst
their
brothers
beyond
the
Jordan
westward.
Moreover
when
Joshua
sent
them
away
to
their
tents,
he
blessed
them,
\VS{8}and
spoke
to
them,
saying, “Return
with
much
wealth
to
your
tents,
with
very
much
livestock,
with
silver,
with
gold,
with
bronze,
with
iron,
and
with
very
much
clothing.
Divide
the
plunder
of
your
enemies
with
your
brothers.”
\par }{\PP \VS{9}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
land
of
Gilead,
to
the
land
of
their
possession,
which
they
owned,
according
to
the
commandment
of
the
LORD
by
Moses.
\VS{10}When
they
came
to
the
region
near
the
Jordan,
that
is
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 look
at.
\VS{11}The
children
of
Israel
heard
this, “Behold,
the
children
of
Reuben
and
the
children
of
Gad
and
the
half-tribe
of
Manasseh
have
built
an
altar
along
the border
of
the
land
of
Canaan,
in
the
region around
the
Jordan,
on
the
side
that belongs
to
the
children
of
Israel.”
\VS{12}When
the
children
of
Israel
heard
of
it,
the
whole
congregation
of
the
children
of
Israel
gathered
themselves
together
at
Shiloh,
to
go
up
against
them
to
war.
\VS{13}The
children
of
Israel
sent
to
the
children
of
Reuben,
and
to
the
children
of
Gad,
and
to
the
half-tribe
of
Manasseh,
into
the
land
of
Gilead,
Phinehas
the
son
of
Eleazar
the
priest.
\VS{14}With
him
were
ten
princes,
one
prince
of
a
fathers’
house
for
each
of
the
tribes
of
Israel;
and
they
were
each
head
of
their
fathers’
houses amongst
the
thousands
of
Israel.
\VS{15}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,
\VS{16}“The
whole
congregation
of
the
LORD
says, ‘What
trespass
is
this
that
you
have
committed
against
the
God
of
Israel,
to
turn
away
today
from
following
the
LORD,
in
that
you
have
built
yourselves
an
altar,
to
rebel
today
against
the
LORD?
\VS{17}Is
the
iniquity
of
Peor
too
little
for
us,
from
which
we
have
not
cleansed
ourselves
to
this
day,
although
there
came
a
plague
on
the
congregation
of
the
LORD,
\VS{18}that
you must
turn
away
today
from
following
the
LORD?
It
will
be,
since
you
rebel
today
against
the
LORD,
that
tomorrow
he
will
be
angry
with
the
whole
congregation
of
Israel.
\VS{19}However,
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 amongst
us;
but
don’t
rebel
against
the
LORD,
nor
rebel
against
us,
in
building
an
altar
other
than
the
LORD
our
God’s
altar.
\VS{20}Didn’t
Achan
the
son
of
Zerah commit
a
trespass
in
the
devoted
thing,
and
wrath
fell
on
all
the
congregation
of
Israel?
That
man
didn’t
perish
alone
in
his
iniquity.’ ”
\par }{\PP \VS{21}Then
the
children
of
Reuben
and
the
children
of
Gad
and
the
half-tribe
of
Manasseh
answered,
and
spoke
to
the
heads
of
the
thousands
of
Israel,
\VS{22}“The
Mighty
One,
God,
the
LORD,
the
Mighty
One,
God,
the
LORD,
he
knows;
and
Israel
shall
know:
if
it
was
in
rebellion,
or
if
in
trespass
against
the
LORD (don’t
save
us
today),
\VS{23}that
we
have
built
us
an
altar
to
turn
away
from
following
the
LORD;
or
if
to
offer
burnt
offering
or
meal
offering,
or
if
to
offer
sacrifices
of
peace
offerings, let
the
LORD
himself
require
it.
\par }{\PP \VS{24}“If
we
have
not
out
of
concern
done
this,
and
for
a
reason,
saying, ‘In
time
to
come
your
children
might
speak
to
our
children,
saying, “What
have
you
to
do
with
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel?
\VS{25}For
the
LORD
has
made
the
Jordan
a
border
between
us
and
you,
you
children
of
Reuben
and
children
of
Gad.
You
have
no
portion
in
the
LORD.” ’
So
your
children
might
make
our
children
cease
from fearing
the
LORD.
\par }{\PP \VS{26}“Therefore
we
said, ‘Let’s
now
prepare
to
build
ourselves
an
altar,
not
for
burnt offering,
nor
for
sacrifice;
\VS{27}but
it
will
be
a
witness
between
us
and
you,
and
between
our
generations
after
us,
that
we
may
perform
the
service
of
the
LORD
before
him
with
our
burnt
offerings,
with
our
sacrifices,
and
with
our
peace
offerings;’
that
your
children
may
not
tell
our
children
in
time
to
come, ‘You
have
no
portion
in
the
LORD.’
\par }{\PP \VS{28}“Therefore
we
said, ‘It
shall
be,
when
they
tell
us
or
our
generations
this
in
time
to
come,
that
we
shall
say, “Behold
the
pattern
of
the
LORD’s
altar,
which
our
fathers
made,
not
for
burnt
offering,
nor
for
sacrifice;
but
it
is
a
witness
between
us
and
you.” ’
\par }{\PP \VS{29}“Far
be
it
from
us
that
we
should
rebel
against
the
LORD,
and
turn
away
today
from
following
the
LORD,
to
build
an
altar
for
burnt
offering,
for
meal
offering,
or
for
sacrifice,
besides
the
LORD
our
God’s
altar
that
is
before
his
tabernacle!”
\par }{\PP \VS{30}When
Phinehas
the
priest,
and
the
princes
of
the
congregation,
even
the
heads
of
the
thousands
of
Israel
that
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
well.
\VS{31}Phinehas
the
son
of
Eleazar
the
priest
said
to
the
children
of
Reuben,
to
the
children
of
Gad,
and
to
the
children
of
Manasseh, “Today
we
know
that
the
LORD
is amongst
us,
because
you
have
not
committed
this
trespass
against
the
LORD.
Now
you
have
delivered
the
children
of
Israel
out
of
the
LORD’s
hand.”
\VS{32}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.
\VS{33}The
thing
pleased
the
children
of
Israel;
and
the
children
of
Israel
blessed
God,
and
spoke
no
more
of
going
up
against
them
to
war,
to
destroy
the
land
in
which
the
children
of
Reuben
and
the
children
of
Gad
lived.
\VS{34}The
children
of
Reuben
and
the
children
of
Gad
named
the
altar “A
Witness
Between
Us
that
the
LORD
is
God.”

\par }\Chap{23}{\PP \VerseOne{1}After
many
days,
when
the
LORD
had
given
rest
to
Israel
from
their
enemies
all
around,
and
Joshua
was
old
and
well
advanced
in
years,
\VS{2}Joshua
called
for
all
Israel,
for
their
elders
and
for
their
heads,
and
for
their
judges
and
for
their
officers,
and
said
to
them, “I
am
old
and well
advanced
in
years.
\VS{3}You
have
seen
all
that
the
LORD
your
God
has
done
to
all
these
nations
because
of
you;
for
it
is
the
LORD
your
God
who
has
fought
for
you.
\VS{4}Behold,
I
have
allotted
to
you
these
nations
that
remain,
to
be
an
inheritance
for
your
tribes,
from
the
Jordan,
with
all
the
nations
that
I
have
cut
off,
even
to
the
great
sea towards
the
going
down
of
the
sun.
\VS{5}The
LORD
your
God
will
thrust
them
out
from
before
you,
and
drive
them
from
out
of
your
sight.
You
shall
possess
their
land,
as
the
LORD
your
God
spoke
to
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{6}“Therefore
be
very
courageous
to
keep
and
to
do
all
that
is
written
in
the
scroll
of
the Torah
of
Moses,
that
you
not
turn
away
from
it
to
the
right
hand
or
to
the
left;
\VS{7}that
you
not
come amongst
these
nations,
these
that
remain amongst
you;
neither
make
mention
of
the
name
of
their
gods,
nor cause
to
swear
by
them,
neither
serve
them,
nor
bow
down
yourselves
to
them;
\VS{8}but
hold
fast
to
the
LORD
your
God,
as
you
have
done
to
this
day.
\par }{\PP \VS{9}“For
the
LORD
has
driven
great
and
strong
nations
out
from
before
you.
But
as
for
you,
no
man
has
stood
before
you
to
this
day.
\VS{10}One
man
of
you
shall
chase
a
thousand;
for
it
is
the
LORD
your
God
who
fights
for
you,
as
he
spoke
to
you.
\VS{11}Take good
heed
therefore
to
yourselves,
that
you
love
the
LORD
your
God.
\par }{\PP \VS{12}“But
if
you
do
at all
go
back,
and
hold
fast
to
the
remnant
of
these
nations,
even
these
who
remain amongst
you,
and
make marriages
with
them,
and
go
in
to
them,
and
they
to
you;
\VS{13}know
for
a
certainty
that
the
LORD
your
God
will
no
longer
drive
these
nations
from
out
of
your
sight;
but
they
shall
be
a
snare
and
a
trap
to
you,
a scourge
in
your
sides,
and
thorns
in
your
eyes,
until
you
perish
from
off
this
good
land
which
the
LORD
your
God
has
given
you.
\par }{\PP \VS{14}“Behold,
today
I
am
going
the
way
of
all
the
earth.
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
happened
to
you.
Not
one
thing
has
failed
of
it.
\VS{15}It
shall
happen
that
as
all
the
good
things
have
come
on
you
of
which
the
LORD
your
God
spoke
to
you,
so
the
LORD
will
bring
on
you
all
the
evil
things,
until
he
has
destroyed
you
from
off
this
good
land
which
the
LORD
your
God
has
given
you,
\VS{16}when
you disobey
the
covenant
of
the
LORD
your
God,
which
he
commanded
you,
and
go
and
serve
other
gods,
and
bow
down
yourselves
to
them.
Then
the
LORD’s
anger
will
be
kindled
against
you,
and
you
will
perish
quickly
from
off
the
good
land
which
he
has
given
to
you.”

\par }\Chap{24}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Joshua
gathered
all
the
tribes
of
Israel
to
Shechem,
and
called
for
the
elders
of
Israel,
for
their
heads,
for
their
judges,
and
for
their
officers;
and
they
presented
themselves
before
God.
\VS{2}Joshua
said
to
all
the
people, “The
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel,
says, ‘Your
fathers
lived
of
old
time
beyond
the
River,
even
Terah,
the
father
of
Abraham,
and
the
father
of
Nahor.
They
served
other
gods.
\VS{3}I
took
your
father
Abraham
from
beyond
the
River,
and led
him
throughout
all
the
land
of
Canaan,
and
multiplied
his
offspring,\FTNT{*}{{\FR 24:3 }
or, seed}
and
gave
him
Isaac.
\VS{4}I
gave
to
Isaac
Jacob
and
Esau:
and
I
gave
to
Esau
Mount
Seir,
to
possess
it.
Jacob
and
his
children
went
down
into
Egypt.
\par }{\PP \VS{5}“ ‘I
sent
Moses
and
Aaron,
and
I
plagued
Egypt,
according
to
that
which
I
did amongst
them:
and
afterward
I
brought
you
out.
\VS{6}I
brought
your
fathers
out
of
Egypt:
and
you
came
to
the
sea.
The
Egyptians
pursued
your
fathers
with
chariots
and
with
horsemen
to
the
Sea
of Suf.
\VS{7}When
they
cried
out
to
the
LORD,
he
put
darkness
between
you
and
the
Egyptians,
and
brought
the
sea
on
them,
and
covered
them;
and
your
eyes
saw
what
I
did
in
Egypt.
You
lived
in
the
wilderness
many
days.
\par }{\PP \VS{8}“ ‘I
brought
you
into
the
land
of
the
Amorites,
that
lived
beyond
the
Jordan.
They
fought
with
you,
and
I
gave
them
into
your
hand.
You
possessed
their
land,
and
I
destroyed
them
from
before
you.
\VS{9}Then
Balak
the
son
of
Zippor,
king
of
Moab,
arose
and
fought
against
Israel.
He
sent
and
called
Balaam
the
son
of
Beor
to
curse
you,
\VS{10}but
I
would
not
listen
to
Balaam; therefore
he
blessed
you still.
So
I
delivered
you
out
of
his
hand.
\par }{\PP \VS{11}“ ‘You
went
over
the
Jordan,
and
came
to
Jericho.
The
men
of
Jericho
fought
against
you,
the
Amorite,
the
Perizzite,
the
Canaanite,
the
Hittite,
the
Girgashite,
the
Hivite,
and
the
Jebusite;
and
I
delivered
them
into
your
hand.
\VS{12}I
sent
the
hornet
before
you,
which
drove
them
out
from
before
you,
even
the
two
kings
of
the
Amorites;
not
with
your
sword,
nor
with
your
bow.
\VS{13}I
gave
you
a
land
on
which
you
had
not laboured,
and
cities
which
you
didn’t
build,
and
you
live
in
them.
You
eat
of
vineyards
and
olive
groves
which
you
didn’t
plant.’
\par }{\PP \VS{14}“Now
therefore
fear
the
LORD,
and
serve
him
in
sincerity
and
in
truth.
Put
away
the
gods
which
your
fathers
served
beyond
the
River,
in
Egypt;
and
serve
the
LORD.
\VS{15}If
it
seems
evil
to
you
to
serve
the
LORD,
choose
today
whom
you
will
serve;
whether
the
gods
which
your
fathers
served
that
were
beyond
the
River,
or
the
gods
of
the
Amorites,
in
whose
land
you
dwell;
but
as
for
me
and
my
house,
we
will
serve
the
LORD.”
\par }{\PP \VS{16}The
people
answered, “Far
be
it
from
us
that we
should
forsake
the
LORD,
to
serve
other
gods;
\VS{17}for
it
is
the
LORD
our
God
who
brought
us
and
our
fathers
up
out
of
the
land
of
Egypt,
from
the
house
of
bondage,
and
who
did
those
great
signs
in
our
sight,
and
preserved
us
in
all
the
way
in
which
we
went,
and amongst
all
the
peoples
through
the
middle
of
whom
we
passed.
\VS{18}The
LORD
drove
out
from
before
us
all
the
peoples,
even
the
Amorites
who
lived
in
the
land.
Therefore
we
also
will
serve
the
LORD;
for
he
is
our
God.”
\par }{\PP \VS{19}Joshua
said
to
the
people, “You
can’t
serve
the
LORD,
for
he
is
a
holy
God.
He
is
a
jealous
God.
He
will
not
forgive
your disobedience
nor
your
sins.
\VS{20}If
you
forsake
the
LORD,
and
serve
foreign
gods,
then
he
will
turn
and
do
you
evil,
and
consume
you,
after
he
has
done
you
good.”
\par }{\PP \VS{21}The
people
said
to
Joshua, “No,
but
we
will
serve
the
LORD.”
\VS{22}Joshua
said
to
the
people, “You
are
witnesses
against
yourselves
that
you
have
chosen
the
LORD
yourselves,
to
serve
him.”
\par }{\PP They
said, “We
are
witnesses.”
\par }{\PP \VS{23}“Now
therefore
put
away
the
foreign
gods
which
are amongst
you,
and
incline
your
heart
to
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel.”
\par }{\PP \VS{24}The
people
said
to
Joshua, “We
will
serve
the
LORD
our
God,
and
we
will
listen
to
his
voice.”
\par }{\PP \VS{25}So
Joshua
made
a
covenant
with
the
people
that
day,
and
made
for
them
a
statute
and
an
ordinance
in
Shechem.
\VS{26}Joshua
wrote
these
words
in
the
scroll
of
the Torah
of
God;
and
he
took
a
great
stone,
and
set
it
up
there
under
the
oak
that
was
by
the
sanctuary
of
the
LORD.
\VS{27}Joshua
said
to
all
the
people, “Behold,
this
stone
shall
be
a
witness
against
us,
for
it
has
heard
all
the
LORD’s
words
which
he
spoke
to
us.
It
shall
be
therefore
a
witness
against
you,
lest
you
deny
your
God.”
\VS{28}So
Joshua
sent
the
people
away,
each
to
his
own
inheritance.
\par }{\PP \VS{29}After
these
things,
Joshua
the
son
of
Nun,
the
servant
of
the
LORD,
died,
being
one
hundred
and
ten
years
old.
\VS{30}They
buried
him
in
the
border
of
his
inheritance
in Timnathserah,
which
is
in
the
hill
country
of
Ephraim,
on
the
north
of
the
mountain
of
Gaash.
\VS{31}Israel
served
the
LORD
all
the
days
of
Joshua,
and
all
the
days
of
the
elders
who
outlived
Joshua,
and
had
known
all
the
work
of
the
LORD,
that
he
had
worked
for
Israel.
\VS{32}They
buried
the
bones
of
Joseph,
which
the
children
of
Israel
brought
up
out
of
Egypt,
in
Shechem,
in
the parcel
of
ground
which
Jacob
bought
from
the
sons
of
Hamor
the
father
of
Shechem
for
a
hundred
pieces
of silver.\FTNT{†}{{\FR 24:32 }
Hebrew: kesitahs. A kesitah was a kind of silver coin.}
They
became
the
inheritance
of
the
children
of
Joseph.
\VS{33}Eleazar
the
son
of
Aaron
died.
They
buried
him
in
the
hill
of
Phinehas
his
son,
which
was
given
him
in
the
hill
country
of
Ephraim.
\par }