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