Joshua
1:1Now it happened after the death of
Moses the servant of Yahweh, that Yahweh spoke to Joshua the son of Nun,
Moses' minister, saying, 1:2Moses my servant is dead; now
therefore arise, go over this Jordan, you, and all this people, to the
land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel. 1:3Every place that the sole of your
foot shall tread on, to you have I given it, as I spoke to Moses. 1:4From the wilderness, and this
Lebanon, even to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the
Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be
your border. 1:5There 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. 1:6Be strong
and of good courage; for you shall cause this people to inherit the land
which I swore to their fathers to give them. 1:7Only be
strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law,
which Moses my servant commanded you: don't turn from it to the right hand
or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go. 1:8This book of the law shall not
depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate thereon 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. 1:9Haven't I commanded you? Be strong
and of good courage; don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your
God is with you wherever you go. 1:10Then Joshua
commanded the officers of the people, saying, 1:11Pass
through the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying, Prepare
food; for within three days you are to pass over this Jordan, to go in to
possess the land, which Yahweh your God gives you to possess it. 1:12To the Reubenites, and to the
Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, spoke Joshua, saying, 1:13Remember the word which Moses the
servant of Yahweh commanded you, saying, Yahweh your God gives you rest,
and will give you this land. 1:14Your wives, your little ones, and
your cattle, shall abide in the land which Moses gave you beyond the
Jordan; but you shall pass over before your brothers armed, all the mighty
men of valor, and shall help them; 1:15until
Yahweh have given your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they
also have possessed the land which Yahweh your God gives them: then you
shall return to the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moses
the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise. 1:16They answered Joshua, saying, All
that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will
go. 1:17According as we listened to Moses
in all things, so will we listen to you: only Yahweh your God be with you,
as he was with Moses. 1:18Whoever he be who shall rebel
against your commandment, and shall not listen to your words in all that
you command him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of good
courage.
2:1Joshua the son of Nun sent out of
Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, Go, view the land, and Jericho.
They went and came into the house of a prostitute whose name was Rahab,
and lay there. 2:2It was told the king of Jericho,
saying, Behold, there came men in here tonight of the children of Israel
to search out the land. 2:3The king of Jericho sent to Rahab,
saying, Bring forth the men who are come to you, who have entered into
your house; for they have come to search out all the land. 2:4The woman took the two men, and
hid them; and she said, Yes, the men came to me, but I didn't know whence
they were: 2:5and it happened about the time of
the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out; where
the men went I don't know: pursue after them quickly; for you will
overtake them. 2:6But she had brought them up to the
roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order on
the roof. 2:7The men pursued after them the way
to the Jordan to the fords: and as soon as those who pursued after them
were gone out, they shut the gate. 2:8Before they
were laid down, she came up to them on the roof; 2:9and she said
to the men, I know that Yahweh has given you the land, and that the fear
of you is fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melt away
before you. 2:10For we have heard how Yahweh
dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt;
and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the
Jordan, to Sihon and to Og, whom you utterly destroyed. 2:11As soon as we had heard it, our
hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more spirit in any man,
because of you: for Yahweh your God, he is God in heaven above, and on
earth beneath. 2:12Now therefore, please swear to me
by Yahweh, since I have dealt kindly with you, that you also will deal
kindly with my father's house, and give me a true token; 2:13and that you will save alive my
father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they
have, and will deliver our lives from death. 2:14The men
said to her, Our life for yours, if you don't utter this our business; and
it shall be, when Yahweh gives us the land, that we will deal kindly and
truly with you. 2:15Then she let them down by a cord
through the window: for her house was on the side of the wall, and she
lived on the wall. 2:16She said to them, Get you to the
mountain, lest the pursuers light on you; and hide yourselves there three
days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may you go your way.
2:17The men said to her, We will be
guiltless of this your oath which you have made us to swear. 2:18Behold, 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 gather to you into the house your
father, and your mother, and your brothers, and all your father's
household. 2:19It shall be, that whoever shall
go out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on
his head, and we shall be guiltless: and whoever shall be with you in the
house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be on him. 2:20But if you utter this our
business, then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you have made us
to swear. 2:21She said, According to your
words, so be it. She sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the
scarlet line in the window. 2:22They went, and came to the
mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned:
and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but didn't find them.
2:23Then the two men returned, and
descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son
of Nun; and they told him all that had happened to them. 2:24They said to Joshua, Truly Yahweh
has delivered into our hands all the land; and moreover all the
inhabitants of the land do melt away before us.
3:1Joshua rose up early in the
morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all
the children of Israel; and they lodged there before they passed over. 3:2It happened after three days, that
the officers went through the midst of the camp; 3:3and they
commanded the people, saying, When you see the ark of the covenant of
Yahweh your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then you shall
remove from your place, and go after it. 3:4Yet there
shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure:
don't come near to it, that you may know the way by which you must go; for
you have not passed this way heretofore. 3:5Joshua said
to the people, Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders
among you. 3:6Joshua spoke to the priests,
saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people.
They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people. 3:7Yahweh said to Joshua, This day
will I begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, that they may know
that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you. 3:8You shall
command the priests who bear the ark of the covenant, saying, When you are
come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, you shall stand still in
the Jordan. 3:9Joshua said to the children of
Israel, Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God. 3:10Joshua said, Hereby you shall
know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive
out from before you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and
the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite. 3:11Behold, the ark of the covenant
of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into the Jordan. 3:12Now therefore take twelve men out
of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man. 3:13It shall
come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark
of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the
Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, even the waters
that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap. 3:14It happened, when the people
removed from their tents, to pass over the Jordan, the priests who bore
the ark of the covenant being before the people; 3:15and when
those who bore the ark were come to the Jordan, and the feet of the
priests who bore the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (for the
Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest), 3:16that the waters which came down
from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the
city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of
the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off: and the people passed
over right against Jericho. 3:17The priests who bore the ark of
the covenant of Yahweh stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the
Jordan; and all Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the nation
were passed clean over the Jordan.
4:1It happened, when all the nation
were clean passed over the Jordan, that Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying, 4:2Take twelve men out of the people,
out of every tribe a man, 4:3and command you them, saying, Take
hence out of the midst of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests'
feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them
down in the lodging-place, where you shall lodge this night. 4:4Then Joshua called the twelve men,
whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:
4:5and Joshua said to them, Pass over
before the ark of Yahweh your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take
up every man of you a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of
the tribes of the children of Israel; 4:6that this
may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in time to come,
saying, What do you mean by these stones? 4:7then you
shall tell them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the
ark of the covenant of Yahweh; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters
of the Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial to
the children of Israel forever. 4:8The children of Israel did so as
Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the
Jordan, as Yahweh spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes
of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them to the
place where they lodged, and laid them down there. 4:9Joshua set
up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet
of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there
to this day. 4:10For the priests who bore the ark
stood in the midst of the Jordan, until everything was finished that
Yahweh commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that
Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hurried and passed over. 4:11It happened, when all the people
had completely passed over, that the ark of Yahweh passed over, with the
priests, in the presence of the people. 4:12The
children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of
Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke
to them: 4:13about forty thousand ready armed
for war passed over before Yahweh to battle, to the plains of Jericho. 4:14On that day Yahweh magnified
Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared
Moses, all the days of his life. 4:15Yahweh
spoke to Joshua, saying, 4:16Command the priests who bear the
ark of the testimony, that they come up out of the Jordan. 4:17Joshua therefore commanded the
priests, saying, Come up out of the Jordan. 4:18It
happened, when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of Yahweh were
come up out of the midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet
were lifted up to the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned
to their place, and went over all its banks, as before. 4:19The people came up out of the
Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the
east border of Jericho. 4:20Those twelve stones, which they
took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal. 4:21He spoke to
the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers
in time to come, saying, What mean these stones? 4:22Then you
shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry
land. 4:23For Yahweh your God dried up the
waters of the Jordan from before you, until you were passed over, as
Yahweh your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us,
until we were passed over; 4:24that all the peoples of the earth
may know the hand of Yahweh, that it is mighty; that you may fear Yahweh
your God forever.
5:1It happened, when all the kings of
the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of
the Canaanites, who were by the sea, heard how that Yahweh had dried up
the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were
passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any
more, because of the children of Israel. 5:2At that time
Yahweh said to Joshua, Make you flint knives, and circumcise again the
children of Israel the second time. 5:3Joshua made
himself flint knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill
of the foreskins. 5:4This is the cause why Joshua did
circumcise: all the people who came forth out of Egypt, who were males,
even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they
came forth out of Egypt. 5:5For all the people who came out
were circumcised; but all the people who were born in the wilderness by
the way as they came forth out of Egypt, they had not circumcised. 5:6For the children of Israel walked
forty years in the wilderness, until all the nation, even the men of war
who came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn't listen to
the voice of Yahweh: to whom Yahweh swore that he wouldn't let them see
the land which Yahweh swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land
flowing with milk and honey. 5:7Their children, whom he raised up
in their place, them did Joshua circumcise: for they were uncircumcised,
because they had not circumcised them by the way. 5:8It happened,
when they had done circumcising all the nation, that they abode in their
places in the camp, until they were whole. 5:9Yahweh said
to Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you.
Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal, to this day. 5:10The children of Israel encamped
in Gilgal; and they kept the Passover on the fourteenth day of the month
at even in the plains of Jericho. 5:11They ate of
the produce of the land on the next day after the Passover, unleavened
cakes and parched grain, in the same day. 5:12The manna
ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the land;
neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they ate of the
fruit of the land of Canaan that year. 5:13It
happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and
looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword
drawn in his hand: and Joshua went to him, and said to him, Are you for
us, or for our adversaries? 5:14He said, No; but as prince
of the host of Yahweh am I now come. Joshua fell on his face to the earth,
and did worship, and said to him, What says my lord to his servant? 5:15The prince of Yahweh's host said
to Joshua, Put off your shoe from off your foot; for the place whereon you
stand is holy. Joshua did so.
6:1Now Jericho was tightly shut up
because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in. 6:2Yahweh said to Joshua, Behold, I
have given into your hand Jericho, and the king of it, and the mighty men
of valor. 6:3You shall compass the city, all
the men of war, going about the city once. Thus shall you do six days. 6:4Seven priests shall bear seven
trumpets of rams' horns before the ark: and the seventh day you shall
compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets. 6:5It shall be that when they make a
long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear the sound of the
trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of
the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall go up every man
straight before him. 6:6Joshua the son of Nun called the
priests, and said to them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven
priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh. 6:7They said to the people, Pass on,
and compass the city, and let the armed men pass on before the ark of
Yahweh. 6:8It was so, that when Joshua had
spoken to the people, the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of
rams' horns before Yahweh passed on, and blew the trumpets: and the ark of
the covenant of Yahweh followed them. 6:9The armed
men went before the priests who blew the trumpets, and the rearward went
after the ark, the priests blowing the trumpets as they went. 6:10Joshua commanded the people,
saying, You shall not shout, nor let your voice be heard, neither shall
any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then
shall you shout. 6:11So he caused the ark of Yahweh to
compass the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and
lodged in the camp. 6:12Joshua rose early in the morning,
and the priests took up the ark of Yahweh. 6:13The seven
priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Yahweh
went on continually, and blew the trumpets: and the armed men went before
them; and the rearward came after the ark of Yahweh, the priests
blowing the trumpets as they went. 6:14The second
day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did
six days. 6:15It happened on the seventh day,
that they rose early at the dawning of the day, and compassed the city
after the same manner seven times: only on the day they compassed the city
seven times. 6:16It happened at the seventh time,
when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, Shout; for
Yahweh has given you the city. 6:17The city shall be devoted, even
it and all that is therein, to Yahweh: only Rahab the prostitute shall
live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the
messengers that we sent. 6:18But as for you, only keep
yourselves from the devoted thing, lest when you have devoted it, you take
of the devoted thing; so would you make the camp of Israel accursed, and
trouble it. 6:19But all the silver, and gold, and
vessels of brass and iron, are holy to Yahweh: they shall come into the
treasury of Yahweh. 6:20So the people shouted, and the
priests blew the trumpets; and it happened, when the people heard the
sound of the trumpet, that the people shouted with a great shout, and the
wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man
straight before him, and they took the city. 6:21They
utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young
and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword. 6:22Joshua said to the two men who
had spied out the land, Go into the prostitute's house, and bring out
there the woman, and all that she has, as you swore to her. 6:23The young men the spies went in,
and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brothers,
and all that she had; all her relatives also they brought out; and they
set them outside of the camp of Israel. 6:24They 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 Yahweh. 6:25But Rahab the prostitute, and her
father's household, and all that she had, did Joshua save alive; and she
lived in the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers,
whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. 6:26Joshua
charged them with an oath at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before
Yahweh, that rises up and builds this city Jericho: with the loss of his
firstborn shall he lay the foundation of it, and with the loss of his
youngest son shall he set up the gates of it. 6:27So Yahweh
was with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.
7:1But the children of Israel
committed a trespass in the devoted thing; for Achan, the son of Carmi,
the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the
devoted thing: and the anger of Yahweh was kindled against the children of
Israel. 7:2Joshua sent men from Jericho to
Ai, which is beside Beth Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to
them, saying, Go up and spy out the land. The men went up and spied out
Ai. 7:3They returned to Joshua, and said
to him, Don't let all the people go up; but let about two or three
thousand men go up and strike Ai; don't make all the people to toil there;
for they are but few. 7:4So there went up there of the
people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai. 7:5The men of Ai struck of them about
thirty-six men; and they chased them from before the gate even to
Shebarim, and struck them at the descent; and the hearts of the people
melted, and became as water. 7:6Joshua tore his clothes, and fell
to the earth on his face before the ark of Yahweh until the evening, he
and the elders of Israel; and they put dust on their heads. 7:7Joshua said, Alas, Lord Yahweh,
why have you at all brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us
into the hand of the Amorites, to cause us to perish? would that we had
been content and lived beyond the Jordan! 7:8Oh, Lord,
what shall I say, after that Israel has turned their backs before their
enemies! 7:9For the Canaanites and all the
inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will compass us round, and
cut off our name from the earth: and what will you do for your great name?
7:10Yahweh said to Joshua, Get you
up; why are you thus fallen on your face? 7:11Israel has
sinned; yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded
them: yes, they have even taken of the devoted thing, and have also
stolen, and dissembled also; and they have even put it among their own
stuff. 7:12Therefore the children of Israel
can't stand before their enemies; they turn their backs before their
enemies, because they are become accursed: I will not be with you any
more, except you destroy the devoted thing from among you. 7:13Up, sanctify the people, and say,
Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow: for thus says Yahweh, the God of
Israel, There is a devoted thing in the midst of you, Israel; you can not
stand before your enemies, until you take away the devoted thing from
among you. 7:14In the morning therefore you
shall be brought near by your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe
which Yahweh takes shall come near by families; and the family which
Yahweh shall take shall come near by households; and the household which
Yahweh shall take shall come near man by man. 7:15It shall
be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burnt with fire,
he and all that he has; because he has transgressed the covenant of
Yahweh, and because he has done folly in Israel. 7:16So Joshua
rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel near by their tribes; and
the tribe of Judah was taken: 7:17and he brought near the family of
Judah; and he took the family of the Zerahites: and he brought near the
family of the Zerahites man by man; and Zabdi was taken: 7:18and he brought near his household
man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of
Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken. 7:19Joshua said
to Achan, My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make
confession to him; and tell me now what you have done; don't hide it from
me. 7:20Achan answered Joshua, and said,
Of a truth I have sinned against Yahweh, the God of Israel, and thus and
thus have I done: 7:21when I saw among the spoil a
goodly Babylonian mantle, 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. 7:22So Joshua sent messengers, and
they ran to the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver
under it. 7:23They took them from the midst of
the tent, and brought them to Joshua, and to all the children of Israel;
and they laid them down before Yahweh. 7:24Joshua, and
all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the
mantle, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his
oxen, and his donkeys, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had:
and they brought them up to the valley of Achor. 7:25Joshua
said, Why have you troubled us? Yahweh shall trouble you this day. All
Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned
them with stones. 7:26They raised over him a great heap
of stones, to this day; and Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his
anger. Therefore the name of that place was called "The valley of
Achor" to this day.
8:1Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't be
afraid, neither be dismayed: take all the people of war with you, and
arise, go up to Ai; behold, I have given into your hand the king of Ai,
and his people, and his city, and his land; 8:2You shall do
to Ai and her king as you did to Jericho and her king: only the spoil of
it, and the cattle of it, shall you take for a prey to yourselves: set you
an ambush for the city behind it. 8:3So Joshua
arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai: and Joshua chose out
thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them forth by
night. 8:4He commanded them, saying, Behold,
you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city; don't go very
far from the city, but be all ready: 8:5and I, and
all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. It shall
happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee
before them; 8:6and they will come out after us,
until we have drawn them away from the city; for they will say, They flee
before us, as at the first: so we will flee before them; 8:7and you shall rise up from the
ambush, and take possession of the city: for Yahweh your God will deliver
it into your hand. 8:8It shall be, when you have seized
on the city, that you shall set the city on fire; according to the word of
Yahweh shall you do: behold, I have commanded you. 8:9Joshua sent
them forth; and they went to set up the ambush, and stayed between Bethel
and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the
people. 8:10Joshua arose up early in the
morning, and mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of
Israel, before the people to Ai. 8:11All the
people, even the men of war who were with him, went up, and
drew near, and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of Ai:
now there was a valley between him and Ai. 8:12He took
about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on
the west side of the city. 8:13So they set the people, even all
the host who was on the north of the city, and their liers-in-wait who
were on the west of the city; and Joshua went that night into the midst of
the valley. 8:14It happened, when the king of Ai
saw it, that they hurried and rose up early, and the men of the city went
out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at the time
appointed, before the Arabah; but he didn't know that there was an ambush
against him behind the city. 8:15Joshua and all Israel made as if
they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. 8:16All the people who were in the
city were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after
Joshua, and were drawn away from the city. 8:17There was
not a man left in Ai or Beth El, who didn't go out after Israel: and they
left the city open, and pursued after Israel. 8:18Yahweh said
to Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward Ai; for I
will give it into your hand. Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in
his hand toward the city. 8:19The ambush arose quickly out of
their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and
entered into the city, and took it; and they hurried and set the city on
fire. 8:20When the men of Ai looked behind
them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven,
and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people who
fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers. 8:21When Joshua
and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke
of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men of Ai. 8:22The others came forth out of the
city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side,
and some on that side: and they struck them, so that they let none of them
remain or escape. 8:23The king of Ai they took alive,
and brought him to Joshua. 8:24It happened, when Israel had made
an end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the
wilderness in which they pursued them, and they were all fallen by the
edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all Israel returned to
Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword. 8:25All that
fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the
men of Ai. 8:26For Joshua didn't draw back his
hand, with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly
destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. 8:27Only the
cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey to themselves,
according to the word of Yahweh which he commanded Joshua. 8:28So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a
heap forever, even a desolation, to this day. 8:29The king of
Ai he hanged on a tree until the evening: and at the going down of the sun
Joshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it
at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap
of stones, to this day. 8:30Then Joshua built an altar to
Yahweh, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal, 8:31as Moses
the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written
in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, on which no man
had lifted up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings to
Yahweh, and sacrificed peace-offerings. 8:32He wrote
there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote, in the
presence of the children of Israel. 8:33All Israel,
and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the
ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who bore the ark of
the covenant of Yahweh, as well the foreigner as the native; half of them
in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of Mount Ebal; as
Moses the servant of Yahweh had commanded at the first, that they should
bless the people of Israel. 8:34Afterward he read all the words
of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written
in the book of the law. 8:35There was not a word of all that
Moses commanded, which Joshua didn't read before all the assembly of
Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the foreigners who were
among them.
9:1It happened, when all the kings
who were beyond the Jordan, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and
on all the shore of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, and
the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite,
heard of it; 9:2that they gathered themselves
together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord. 9:3But when the inhabitants of Gibeon
heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai, 9:4they also
resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and
took old sacks on their donkeys, and wine-skins, old and torn and bound
up, 9:5and old and patched shoes on their
feet, and old garments on them; and all the bread of their provision was
dry and was become moldy. 9:6They went to Joshua to the camp at
Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, We are come from a far
country: now therefore make you a covenant with us. 9:7The men of
Israel said to the Hivites, What if you dwell among us; and how shall we
make a covenant with you? 9:8They said to Joshua, We are your
servants. Joshua said to them, Who are you? and from whence come you? 9:9They said to him, From a very far
country your servants are come because of the name of Yahweh your God: for
we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt, 9:10and all that he did to the two
kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of
Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth. 9:11Our elders and all the
inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take provision in your
hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and tell them, We are your
servants: and now make you a covenant with us. 9:12This our
bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came
forth to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and is become moldy: 9:13and these wine-skins, which we
filled, were new; and, behold, they are torn: and these our garments and
our shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey. 9:14The men took of their provision,
and didn't ask counsel at the mouth of Yahweh. 9:15Joshua made
peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live: and the
princes of the congregation swore to them. 9:16It happened
at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them, that
they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.
9:17The children of Israel traveled,
and came to their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon,
and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim. 9:18The
children of Israel didn't strike them, because the princes of the
congregation had sworn to them by Yahweh, the God of Israel. All the
congregation murmured against the princes. 9:19But all the
princes said to all the congregation, We have sworn to them by Yahweh, the
God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them. 9:20This we
will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the
oath which we swore to them. 9:21The princes said to them, Let
them live: so they became wood cutters and drawers of water to all the
congregation, as the princes had spoken to them. 9:22Joshua
called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, Why have you deceived us,
saying, We are very far from you; when you dwell among us? 9:23Now therefore you are cursed, and
there shall never fail to be of you bondservants, both wood cutters and
drawers of water for the house of my God. 9:24They
answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told your servants,
how that Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the
land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you;
therefore we were sore afraid for our lives because of you, and have done
this thing. 9:25Now, behold, we are in your hand:
as it seems good and right to you to do to us, do. 9:26So did he
to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel,
that they didn't kill them. 9:27That day Joshua made those wood
cutters and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of
Yahweh, to this day, in the place which he should choose.
10:1Now it happened, when Adoni-zedek
king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed
it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her
king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and
were among them; 10:2that they feared greatly, because
Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was
greater than Ai, and all the men of it were mighty. 10:3Therefore
Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, and to Piram
king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of
Eglon, saying, 10:4Come up to me, and help me, and
let us strike Gibeon; for it has made peace with Joshua and with the
children of Israel. 10:5Therefore the five kings of the
Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth,
the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and
went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped against Gibeon, and made
war against it. 10:6The men of Gibeon sent to Joshua
to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Don't slack 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 hill-country are gathered together against us.
10:7So Joshua went up from Gilgal,
he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.
10:8Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't fear
them: for I have delivered them into your hands; there shall not a man of
them stand before you. 10:9Joshua therefore came on them
suddenly; for he went up from Gilgal all the night. 10:10Yahweh confused them before
Israel, and he killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased
them by the way of the ascent of Beth Horon, and struck them to Azekah,
and to Makkedah. 10:11It happened, as they fled from
before Israel, while they were at the descent of Beth Horon, that Yahweh
cast down great stones from the sky on them to Azekah, and they died: they
were more who died with the hailstones than they whom the children of
Israel killed with the sword. 10:12Then spoke Joshua to Yahweh in
the day when Yahweh delivered up the Amorites before the children of
Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand you still on
Gibeon; You, Moon, in the valley of Aijalon. 10:13The sun
stood still, and the moon stayed, Until the nation had avenged themselves
of their enemies. Isn't this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed
in the midst of the sky, and didn't hurry to go down about a whole day. 10:14There was no day like that
before it or after it, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man: for
Yahweh fought for Israel. 10:15Joshua returned, and all Israel
with him, to the camp to Gilgal. 10:16These five
kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah. 10:17It was told Joshua, saying, The
five kings are found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah. 10:18Joshua said, Roll great stones
to the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to keep them: 10:19but don't stay; pursue after
your enemies, and strike the hindmost of them; don't allow them to enter
into their cities: for Yahweh your God has delivered them into your hand.
10:20It happened, when Joshua and the
children of Israel had made an end of killing them with a very great
slaughter, until they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of
them had entered into the fortified cities, 10:21that all
the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved
his tongue against any of the children of Israel. 10:22Then said
Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring forth those five kings to me
out of the cave. 10:23They did so, and brought forth
those five kings to him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king
of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon. 10:24It happened, when they brought
forth those kings to Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel,
and said to the chiefs of the men of war who went with him, Come near, put
your feet on the necks of these kings. They came near, and put their feet
on the necks of them. 10:25Joshua said to them, Don't be
afraid, nor be dismayed; be strong and of good courage: for thus shall
Yahweh do to all your enemies against whom you fight. 10:26Afterward Joshua struck them,
and put them to death, and hanged them on five trees: and they were
hanging on the trees until the evening. 10:27It
happened 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 in
which they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of
the cave, to this very day. 10:28Joshua took Makkedah on that
day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and the king of it: he
utterly destroyed them and all the souls who were therein; he left none
remaining; and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king
of Jericho. 10:29Joshua passed from Makkedah, and
all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against Libnah: 10:30and Yahweh delivered it also,
and the king of it, into the hand of Israel; and he struck it with the
edge of the sword, and all the souls who were therein; he left none
remaining in it; and he did to the king of it as he had done to the king
of Jericho. 10:31Joshua passed from Libnah, and
all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought
against it: 10:32and Yahweh delivered Lachish
into the hand of Israel; and he took it on the second day, and struck it
with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who were therein, according
to all that he had done to Libnah. 10:33Then Horam
king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua struck him and his
people, until he had left him none remaining. 10:34Joshua
passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him, to Eglon; and they encamped
against it, and fought against it; 10:35and they
took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword; and all the
souls who were therein he utterly destroyed that day, according to all
that he had done to Lachish. 10:36Joshua went up from Eglon, and
all Israel with him, to Hebron; and they fought against it: 10:37and they took it, and struck it
with the edge of the sword, and the king of it, and all the cities of it,
and all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining, according to
all that he had done to Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the
souls who were therein. 10:38Joshua returned, and all Israel
with him, to Debir, and fought against it: 10:39and he
took it, and the king of it, and all the cities of it; and they struck
them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who
were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did
to Debir, and to the king of it; as he had done also to Libnah, and to the
king of it. 10:40So Joshua struck all the land,
the hill-country, and the South, and the lowland, and the slopes, and all
their kings: he left none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that
breathed, as Yahweh, the God of Israel, commanded. 10:41Joshua
struck them from Kadesh-barnea even to Gaza, and all the country of
Goshen, even to Gibeon. 10:42All these kings and their land
did Joshua take at one time, because Yahweh, the God of Israel, fought for
Israel. 10:43Joshua returned, and all Israel
with him, to the camp to Gilgal.
11:1It happened, when Jabin king of
Hazor heard of it, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of
Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph, 11:2and to the
kings who were on the north, in the hill-country, and in the Arabah south
of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west,
11:3to the Canaanite on the east and
on the west, and the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the
Jebusite in the hill-country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of
Mizpah. 11:4They went out, they and all their
hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is on the sea-shore in
multitude, with horses and chariots very many. 11:5All these
kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of
Merom, to fight with Israel. 11:6Yahweh said to Joshua, Don't be
afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this time will I deliver them up
all slain before Israel: you shall hamstring their horses, and burn their
chariots with fire. 11:7So Joshua came, and all the
people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and
fell on them. 11:8Yahweh delivered them into the
hand of Israel, and they struck them, and chased them to great Sidon, and
to Misrephoth Maim, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they struck
them, until they left them none remaining. 11:9Joshua did
to them as Yahweh bade him: he hamstrung their horses, and burnt their
chariots with fire. 11:10Joshua turned back at that time,
and took Hazor, and struck the king of it with the sword: for Hazor before
was the head of all those kingdoms. 11:11They
struck all the souls who were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly
destroying them; there was none left who breathed: and he burnt Hazor with
fire. 11:12All the cities of those kings,
and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and he struck them with the
edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of
Yahweh commanded. 11:13But as for the cities that stood
on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did
Joshua burn. 11:14All the spoil of these cities,
and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey to themselves; but
every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed
them, neither left they any who breathed. 11:15As Yahweh
commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua: and so did
Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that Yahweh commanded Moses. 11:16So Joshua took all that land,
the hill-country, and all the South, and all the land of Goshen, and the
lowland, and the Arabah, and the hill-country of Israel, and the lowland
of the same; 11:17from Mount Halak, that goes up
to Seir, even to Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon: and
all their kings he took, and struck them, and put them to death. 11:18Joshua made war a long time with
all those kings. 11:19There was not a city that made
peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of
Gibeon: they took all in battle. 11:20For it was
of Yahweh to harden their hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that
he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor, but that he
might destroy them, as Yahweh commanded Moses. 11:21Joshua
came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from the hill-country, from
Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill-country of Judah, and
from all the hill-country of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with
their cities. 11:22There was none of the Anakim
left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in
Ashdod, did some remain. 11:23So Joshua took the whole land,
according to all that Yahweh spoke to Moses; and Joshua gave it for an
inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. The
land had rest from war.
12:1Now these are the kings of the
land, whom the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land beyond
the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount
Hermon, and all the Arabah eastward: 12:2Sihon king
of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on
the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the
middle of the valley, and half Gilead, even to the river Jabbok, the
border of the children of Ammon; 12:3and the
Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and to the sea of the Arabah,
even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and on the south,
under the slopes of Pisgah: 12:4and the border of Og king of
Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived at Ashtaroth and at
Edrei, 12:5and ruled in Mount Hermon, and in
Salecah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the
Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon. 12:6Moses the servant of Yahweh and
the children of Israel struck them: and Moses the servant of Yahweh gave
it for a possession to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe
of Manasseh. 12:7These are the kings of the land
whom Joshua and the children of Israel struck beyond the Jordan westward,
from Baal Gad in the valley of Lebanon even to Mount Halak, that goes up
to Seir; and Joshua gave it to the tribes of Israel for a possession
according to their divisions; 12:8in the hill-country, and in the
lowland, and in the Arabah, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and
in the South; the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite,
the Hivite, and the Jebusite: 12:9the king of Jericho, one; the
king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one; 12:10the king
of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one; 12:11the king
of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one; 12:12the king
of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one; 12:13the king
of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one; 12:14the king
of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; 12:15the king
of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one; 12:16the king
of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one; 12:17the king
of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one; 12:18the king
of Aphek, one; the king of Lassharon, one; 12:19the king
of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one; 12:20the king
of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one; 12:21the king
of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one; 12:22the king
of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one; 12:23the king
of Dor in the height of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one; 12:24the king of Tirzah, one: all the
kings thirty-one.
13:1Now Joshua was old and well
stricken in years; and Yahweh said to him, You are old and well stricken
in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed. 13:2This is the land that yet
remains: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites; 13:3from the Shihor, which is before
Egypt, even to the border of Ekron northward, which is reckoned to
the Canaanites; the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the
Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the
Avvim, 13:4on the south; all the land of the
Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the
border of the Amorites; 13:5and the land of the Gebalites,
and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from Baal Gad under Mount Hermon to
the entrance of Hamath; 13:6all the inhabitants of the
hill-country from Lebanon to Misrephoth Maim, even all the Sidonians; them
will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only allot you it to
Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded you. 13:7Now
therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes, and the
half-tribe of Manasseh. 13:8With him the Reubenites and the
Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the
Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them: 13:9from Aroer, that is on the edge
of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the
valley, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon; 13:10and all
the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, to the
border of the children of Ammon; 13:11and
Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount
Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah; 13:12all the
kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (the same
was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for these did Moses strike, and
drove them out. 13:13Nevertheless the children of
Israel didn't drive out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but Geshur
and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day. 13:14Only to the tribe of Levi he
gave no inheritance; the offerings of Yahweh, the God of Israel, made by
fire are his inheritance, as he spoke to him. 13:15Moses gave
to the tribe of the children of Reuben according to their families. 13:16Their border was from Aroer,
that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in
the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba; 13:17Heshbon, and all its cities that
are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth Baal, and Beth Baal Meon, 13:18and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and
Mephaath, 13:19and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and
Zereth-shahar in the mount of the valley, 13:20and Beth
Peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth, 13:21and all
the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the
Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the chiefs of
Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon,
who lived in the land. 13:22Balaam also the son of Beor, the
soothsayer, did the children of Israel kill with the sword among the rest
of their slain. 13:23The border of the children of
Reuben was the Jordan, and the border of it. This was the
inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the
cities and the villages of it. 13:24Moses gave
to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad, according to their families.
13:25Their border was Jazer, and all
the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer
that is before Rabbah; 13:26and from Heshbon to Ramath
Mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir; 13:27and in the valley, Beth Haram,
and Beth Nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon
king of Heshbon, the Jordan and the border of it, to the uttermost
part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward. 13:28This is the inheritance of the
children of Gad according to their families, the cities and the villages
of it. 13:29Moses gave inheritance to
the half-tribe of Manasseh: and it was for the half-tribe of the children
of Manasseh according to their families. 13:30Their
border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of
Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities: 13:31and half Gilead, and Ashtaroth,
and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the
children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children
of Machir according to their families. 13:32These are
the inheritances which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the
Jordan at Jericho, eastward. 13:33But to the tribe of Levi Moses
gave no inheritance: Yahweh, the God of Israel, is their inheritance, as
he spoke to them.
14:1These are the inheritances which
the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the
priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers'
houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, distributed to
them, 14:2by the lot of their inheritance,
as Yahweh commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.
14:3For Moses had given the
inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan: but to
the Levites he gave no inheritance among them. 14:4For the
children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: and they gave no
portion to the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with the
suburbs of it for their cattle and for their substance. 14:5As Yahweh commanded Moses, so the
children of Israel did; and they divided the land. 14:6Then the
children of Judah drew near to Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of
Jephunneh the Kenizzite said to him, You know the thing that Yahweh spoke
to Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh-barnea.
14:7Forty years old was I when Moses
the servant of Yahweh sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land; and
I brought him word again as it was in my heart. 14:8Nevertheless my brothers who went
up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Yahweh
my God. 14:9Moses swore on that day, saying,
Surely the land whereon your foot has trodden shall be an inheritance to
you and to your children forever, because you have wholly followed Yahweh
my God. 14:10Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me
alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh
spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness: and now,
behold, I am this day eighty-five years old. 14:11As yet I
am as strong this day as I as in the day that Moses sent me: as my
strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, and to go out and
to come in. 14:12Now therefore give me this
hill-country, of which Yahweh spoke in that day; for you heard in that day
how the Anakim were there, and cities great and fortified: it may be that
Yahweh will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Yahweh spoke. 14:13Joshua blessed him; and he gave
Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. 14:14Therefore Hebron became the
inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this day;
because that he wholly followed Yahweh, the God of Israel. 14:15Now the name of Hebron before
was Kiriath Arba; which Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim.
The land had rest from war.
15:1The lot for the tribe of the
children of Judah according to their families was to the border of Edom,
even to the wilderness of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the
south. 15:2Their south border was from the
uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that looks southward; 15:3and it went out southward of the
ascent of Akrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and went up by the south of
Kadesh-barnea, and passed along by Hezron, and went up to Addar, and
turned about to Karka; 15:4and it passed along to Azmon, and
went out at the brook of Egypt; and the goings out of the border were at
the sea: this shall be your south border. 15:5The east
border was the Salt Sea, even to the end of the Jordan. The border of the
north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan; 15:6and the border went up to Beth
Hoglah, and passed along by the north of Beth Arabah; and the border went
up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben; 15:7and the
border went up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so northward,
looking toward Gilgal, that is over against the ascent of Adummim, which
is on the south side of the river; and the border passed along to the
waters of En Shemesh, and the goings out of it were at En Rogel; 15:8and the border went up by the
valley of the son of Hinnom to the side of the Jebusite southward (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 uttermost part
of the valley of Rephaim northward; 15:9and the
border extended from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters
of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of Mount Ephron; and the border
extended to Baalah (the same is Kiriath Jearim); 15:10and the
border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along
to the side of Mount Jearim on the north (the same is Chesalon), and went
down to Beth-shemesh, and passed along by Timnah; 15:11and the
border went out to the side of Ekron northward; and the border extended to
Shikkeron, and passed along to Mount Baalah, and went out at Jabneel; and
the goings out of the border were at the sea. 15:12The west
border was to the great sea, and the border of it. This is the
border of the children of Judah round about according to their families.
15:13To Caleb the son of Jephunneh he
gave a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment
of Yahweh to Joshua, even Kiriath Arba, which Arba was the father
of Anak (the same is Hebron). 15:14Caleb drove out there the three
sons of Anak: Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak. 15:15He went up there against the
inhabitants of Debir: now the name of Debir before was Kiriath Sepher. 15:16Caleb said, He who strikes
Kiriath Sepher, and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter as
wife. 15:17Othniel the son of Kenaz, the
brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife. 15:18It happened, when she came to
him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she alighted
from off her donkey; and Caleb said, What would you? 15:19She said, Give me a blessing;
for that you have set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of
water. He gave her the upper springs and the lower springs. 15:20This is the inheritance of the
tribe of the children of Judah according to their families. 15:21The uttermost cities of the
tribe of the children of Judah toward the border of Edom in the South were
Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur, 15:22and Kinah, and Dimonah, and
Adadah, 15:23and Kedesh, and Hazor, and
Ithnan, 15:24Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth, 15:25Hazor Hadattah, Kerioth, Hezron
(the same is Hazor), 15:26Amam, and Shema, and Moladah, 15:27and Hazar Gaddah, and Heshmon,
and Beth Pelet, 15:28and Hazar Shual, and Beersheba,
and Biziothiah, 15:29Baalah, and Iim, and Ezem, 15:30and Eltolad, and Chesil, and
Hormah, 15:31and Ziklag, and Madmannah, and
Sansannah, 15:32and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and
Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty-nine, with their villages. 15:33In the lowland, Eshtaol, and
Zorah, and Ashnah, 15:34and Zanoah, and En Gannim,
Tappuah, and Enam, 15:35Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and
Azekah, 15:36and Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and
Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages. 15:37Zenan, and Hadashah, and
Migdal-gad, 15:38and Dilean, and Mizpeh, and
Joktheel, 15:39Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,
15:40and Cabbon, and Lahmam, and
Chitlish, 15:41and Gederoth, Beth Dagon, and
Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages. 15:42Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan, 15:43and Iphtah, and Ashnah, and
Nezib, 15:44and Keilah, and Achzib, and
Mareshah; nine cities with their villages. 15:45Ekron,
with its towns and its villages; 15:46from Ekron
even to the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their villages.
15:47Ashdod, its towns and its
villages; Gaza, its towns and its villages; to the brook of Egypt, and the
great sea, and the border of it. 15:48In the
hill-country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh, 15:49and
Dannah, and Kiriath Sannah (the same is Debir), 15:50and Anab,
and Eshtemoh, and Anim, 15:51and Goshen, and Holon, and
Giloh; eleven cities with their villages. 15:52Arab, and
Dumah, and Eshan, 15:53and Janim, and Beth Tappuah, and
Aphekah, 15:54and Humtah, and Kiriath Arba
(the same is Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages. 15:55Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and
Jutah, 15:56and Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and
Zanoah, 15:57Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten
cities with their villages. 15:58Halhul, Beth Zur, and Gedor, 15:59and Maarath, and Beth Anoth, and
Eltekon; six cities with their villages. 15:60Kiriath
Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), and Rabbah; two cities with their
villages. 15:61In the wilderness, Beth Arabah,
Middin, and Secacah, 15:62and Nibshan, and the City of
Salt, and En Gedi; six cities with their villages. 15:63As for the
Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah couldn't
drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at
Jerusalem to this day.
16:1The lot came out for the children
of Joseph from the Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the
east, even the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill-country
to Bethel; 16:2and it went out from Bethel to
Luz, and passed along to the border of the Archites to Ataroth; 16:3and it went down westward to the
border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, even to
Gezer; and the goings out of it were at the sea. 16:4The
children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their inheritance. 16:5The border of the children of
Ephraim according to their families was thus: the border of their
inheritance eastward was Ataroth Addar, to Beth Horon the upper; 16:6and the border went out westward
at Michmethath on the north; and the border turned about eastward to
Taanath Shiloh, and passed along it on the east of Janoah; 16:7and it went down from Janoah to
Ataroth, and to Naarah, and reached to Jericho, and went out at the
Jordan. 16:8From Tappuah the border went
along westward to the brook of Kanah; and the goings out of it were at the
sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim
according to their families; 16:9together with the cities which
were set apart for the children of Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance
of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages. 16:10They didn't drive out the
Canaanites who lived in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of
Ephraim to this day, and are become servants to do forced labor.
17:1This was the lot for the
tribe of Manasseh; for he was the firstborn of Joseph. As for Machir the
firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war,
therefore he had Gilead and Bashan. 17:2So the
lot was for the rest of the children of Manasseh according to 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 according to their families. 17:3But Zelophehad, the son of
Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no
sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, and
Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 17:4They came
near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and
before the princes, saying, Yahweh commanded Moses to give us an
inheritance among our brothers: therefore according to the commandment of
Yahweh he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father. 17:5There fell ten parts to Manasseh,
besides the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan; 17:6because the daughters of Manasseh
had an inheritance among his sons. The land of Gilead belonged to the rest
of the sons of Manasseh. 17:7The border of Manasseh was from
Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem; and the border went along
to the right hand, to the inhabitants of En Tappuah. 17:8The land of
Tappuah belonged to Manasseh; but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh
belonged to the children of Ephraim. 17:9The border
went down to the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook: these cities
belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh: and the border of
Manasseh was on the north side of the brook, and the goings out of it were
at the sea: 17:10southward it was Ephraim's, and
northward it was Manasseh's, and the sea was his border; and they reached
to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east. 17:11Manasseh
had in Issachar and in Asher Beth-shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its
towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of
En-dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and
the inhabitants of Megiddo and its towns, even the three heights. 17:12Yet the children of Manasseh
couldn't drive out the inhabitants of those cities; but the
Canaanites would dwell in that land. 17:13It
happened, when the children of Israel had grown strong, that they put the
Canaanites to forced labor, and didn't utterly drive them out. 17:14The children of Joseph spoke to
Joshua, saying, Why have you given me but one lot and one part for an
inheritance, seeing I am a great people, because hitherto Yahweh has
blessed me? 17:15Joshua said to them, If you are
a great people, go up to the forest, and cut down for yourself there in
the land of the Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill-country of
Ephraim is too narrow for you. 17:16The
children of Joseph said, The hill-country is not enough for us: and all
the Canaanites who dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron,
both they who are in Beth-shean and its towns, and they who are in the
valley of Jezreel. 17:17Joshua spoke to the house of
Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, You are a great people,
and have great power; you shall not have one lot only: 17:18but the hill-country shall be
yours; for though it is a forest, you shall cut it down, and the goings
out of it shall be yours; for you shall drive out the Canaanites, though
they have chariots of iron, and though they are strong.
18:1The whole congregation of the
children of Israel assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the
tent of meeting there: and the land was subdued before them. 18:2There remained among the children
of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet divided their inheritance. 18:3Joshua said to the children of
Israel, How long are you slack to go in to possess the land, which Yahweh,
the God of your fathers, has given you? 18:4Appoint for
you three men of each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall arise,
and walk through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance;
and they shall come to me. 18:5They shall divide it into seven
portions: Judah shall abide in his border on the south, and the house of
Joseph shall abide in their border on the north. 18:6You shall
describe the land into seven portions, and bring the description
here to me; and I will cast lots for you here before Yahweh our God. 18:7For the Levites have no portion
among you; for the priesthood of Yahweh is their inheritance: and Gad and
Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have received their inheritance
beyond the Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave them.
18:8The men arose, and went: and
Joshua charged those who went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk
through the land, and describe it, and come again to me; and I will cast
lots for you here before Yahweh in Shiloh. 18:9The men
went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven
portions in a book; and they came to Joshua to the camp at Shiloh. 18:10Joshua cast lots for them in
Shiloh before Yahweh: and there Joshua divided the land to the children of
Israel according to their divisions. 18:11The lot of
the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up according to their families:
and the border of their lot went out between the children of Judah and the
children of Joseph. 18:12Their border on the north
quarter was from the Jordan; and the border went up to the side of Jericho
on the north, and went up through the hill-country westward; and the
goings out of it were at the wilderness of Beth Aven. 18:13The border passed along from
there to Luz, to the side of Luz (the same is Bethel), southward; and the
border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south
of Beth Horon the lower. 18:14The border extended
there, and turned about on the west quarter southward, from the
mountain that lies before Beth Horon southward; and the goings out of it
were at Kiriath Baal (the same is Kiriath Jearim), a city of the children
of Judah: this was the west quarter. 18:15The south
quarter was from the uttermost part of Kiriath Jearim; and the border went
out westward, and went out to the spring of the waters of Nephtoah; 18:16and the border went down to the
uttermost part of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of
Hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim northward; and it went down to
the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down
to En Rogel; 18:17and it extended northward, and
went out at En Shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is over against
the ascent of Adummim; and it went down to the stone of Bohan the son of
Reuben; 18:18and it passed along to the side
over against the Arabah northward, and went down to the Arabah; 18:19and the border passed along to
the side of Beth Hoglah northward; and the goings out of the border were
at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the Jordan: this was
the south border. 18:20The Jordan was the border of it
on the east quarter. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin,
by the borders of it round about, according to their families. 18:21Now the cities of the tribe of
the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and
Beth Hoglah, and Emek Keziz, 18:22and Beth Arabah, and Zemaraim,
and Bethel, 18:23and Avvim, and Parah, and
Ophrah, 18:24and Chephar Ammoni, and Ophni,
and Geba; twelve cities with their villages: 18:25Gibeon,
and Ramah, and Beeroth, 18:26and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and
Mozah, 18:27and Rekem, and Irpeel, and
Taralah, 18:28and Zelah, Eleph, and the
Jebusite (the same is Jerusalem), Gibeath, and Kiriath; fourteen
cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the children of
Benjamin according to their families.
19:1The second lot came out for
Simeon, even for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their
families: and their inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the
children of Judah. 19:2They had for their inheritance
Beersheba, or Sheba, and Moladah, 19:3and Hazar
Shual, and Balah, and Ezem, 19:4and Eltolad, and Bethul, and
Hormah, 19:5and Ziklag, and Beth Marcaboth,
and Hazar Susah, 19:6and Beth Lebaoth, and Sharuhen;
thirteen cities with their villages: 19:7Ain,
Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities with their villages: 19:8and all the villages that were
round about these cities to Baalath Beer, Ramah of the South. This is the
inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their
families. 19:9Out of the part of the children
of Judah was the inheritance of the children of Simeon; for the portion of
the children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of
Simeon had inheritance in the midst of their inheritance. 19:10The third lot came up for the
children of Zebulun according to their families; and the border of their
inheritance was to Sarid; 19:11and their border went up
westward, even to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth; and it reached to
the brook that is before Jokneam; 19:12and it
turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrise to the border of Chisloth
Tabor; and it went out to Daberath, and went up to Japhia; 19:13and from there it passed along
eastward to Gath Hepher, to Eth-kazin; and it went out at Rimmon which
stretches to Neah; 19:14and the border turned about it
on the north to Hannathon; and the goings out of it were at the valley of
Iphtah El; 19:15and Kattath, and Nahalal, and
Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages. 19:16This is the inheritance of the
children of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their
villages. 19:17The fourth lot came out for
Issachar, even for the children of Issachar according to their families.
19:18Their border was to Jezreel, and
Chesulloth, and Shunem, 19:19and Hapharaim, and Shion, and
Anaharath, 19:20and Rabbith, and Kishion, and
Ebez, 19:21and Remeth, and Engannim, and En
Haddah, and Beth Pazzez, 19:22and the border reached to Tabor,
and Shahazumah, and Beth-shemesh; and the goings out of their border were
at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages. 19:23This is
the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar according to
their families, the cities with their villages. 19:24The fifth
lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher according to their
families. 19:25Their border was Helkath, and
Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph, 19:26and
Allammelech, and Amad, and Mishal; and it reached to Carmel westward, and
to Shihorlibnath; 19:27and it turned toward the sunrise
to Beth Dagon, and reached to Zebulun, and to the valley of Iphtah El
northward to Beth Emek and Neiel; and it went out to Cabul on the left
hand, 19:28and Ebron, and Rehob, and
Hammon, and Kanah, even to great Sidon; 19:29and the
border turned to Ramah, and to the fortified city of Tyre; and the border
turned to Hosah; and the goings out of it were at the sea by the region of
Achzib; 19:30Ummah also, and Aphek, and
Rehob: twenty-two cities with their villages. 19:31This is
the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their
families, these cities with their villages. 19:32The sixth
lot came out for the children of Naphtali, even for the children of
Naphtali according to their families. 19:33Their
border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, and Adaminekeb, and
Jabneel, to Lakkum; and the goings out of it were at the Jordan; 19:34and the border turned westward
to Aznoth Tabor, and went out from there to Hukkok; and it reached to
Zebulun on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah at
the Jordan toward the sunrise. 19:35The
fortified cities were Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,
19:36and Adamah, and Ramah, and
Hazor, 19:37and Kedesh, and Edrei, and En
Hazor, 19:38Iron, and Migdal-el, Horem, and
Beth Anath, and Beth-shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages. 19:39This is the inheritance of the
tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities
with their villages. 19:40The seventh lot came out for the
tribe of the children of Dan according to their families. 19:41The border of their inheritance
was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Irshemesh, 19:42and
Shaalabbin, and Aijalon, and Ithlah, 19:43and Elon,
and Timnah, and Ekron, 19:44and Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and
Baalath, 19:45and Jehud, and Bene-berak, and
Gath-rimmon, 19:46and Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, with
the border over against Joppa. 19:47The border
of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went
up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and struck it with the edge of
the sword, and possessed it, and lived therein, and called Leshem, Dan,
after the name of Dan their father. 19:48This is
the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their
families, these cities with their villages. 19:49So they
made an end of distributing the land for inheritance by the borders of it;
and the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun in
the midst of them: 19:50according to the commandment of
Yahweh they gave him the city which he asked, even Timnathserah in the
hill-country of Ephraim; and he built the city, and lived therein. 19:51These are the inheritances,
which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the
fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel,
distributed for inheritance by lot in Shiloh before Yahweh, at the door of
the tent of meeting. So they made an end of dividing the land.
20:1Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,
20:2Speak to the children of Israel,
saying, Assign you the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by Moses,
20:3that the manslayer who kills any
person unwittingly and unawares may flee there: and they shall be
to you for a refuge from the avenger of blood. 20:4He shall
flee to one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate
of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city;
and they shall take him into the city to them, and give him a place, that
he may dwell among them. 20:5If the avenger of blood pursue
after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand;
because he struck his neighbor unawares, and didn't hate him before. 20:6He shall dwell in that city,
until he stand before the congregation for judgment, until the death of
the high priest that shall be in those days: then shall the manslayer
return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city from
whence he fled. 20:7They set apart Kedesh in Galilee
in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of
Ephraim, and Kiriath Arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill-country of
Judah. 20:8Beyond the Jordan at Jericho
eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness in 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. 20:9These were
the appointed cities for all the children of Israel, and for the stranger
who sojourns among them, that whoever kills any person unwittingly might
flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he
stood before the congregation.
21:1Then came near the heads of
fathers' houses of the Levites to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua
the son of Nun, and to the heads of fathers' houses of the tribes
of the children of Israel; 21:2and they spoke to them at Shiloh
in the land of Canaan, saying, Yahweh commanded Moses to give us cities to
dwell in, with the suburbs of it for our cattle. 21:3The
children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their inheritance, according
to the commandment of Yahweh, these cities with their suburbs. 21:4The lot came out for the families
of the Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the
Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of the
Simeonites, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities. 21:5The 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. 21:6The 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. 21:7The
children of Merari according to 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. 21:8The children of Israel gave by
lot to the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as Yahweh commanded by
Moses. 21:9They 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: 21:10and they
were for the children of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, who
were of the children of Levi; for theirs was the first lot. 21:11They gave them Kiriath Arba,
which Arba was the father of Anak (the same is Hebron), in the
hill-country of Judah, with the suburbs of it round about it. 21:12But the fields of the city, and
the villages of it, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his
possession. 21:13To the children of Aaron the
priest they gave Hebron with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the
manslayer, and Libnah with its suburbs, 21:14and Jattir
with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs, 21:15and Holon
with its suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs, 21:16and Ain
with its suburbs, and Juttah with its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh
with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes. 21:17Out of the tribe of Benjamin,
Gibeon with its suburbs, Geba with its suburbs, 21:18Anathoth
with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs; four cities. 21:19All the cities of the children
of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs. 21:20The families of the children of
Kohath, the Levites, even the rest of the children of Kohath, they had the
cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim. 21:21They gave
them Shechem with its suburbs in the hill-country of Ephraim, the city of
refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer with its suburbs, 21:22and Kibzaim with its suburbs,
and Beth Horon with its suburbs; four cities. 21:23Out of the
tribe of Dan, Elteke with its suburbs, Gibbethon with its suburbs, 21:24Aijalon with its suburbs,
Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; four cities. 21:25Out of the
half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with its
suburbs; two cities. 21:26All the cities of the families
of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with their suburbs. 21:27To the children of Gershon, of
the families of the Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh they
gave Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the
manslayer, and Be-eshterah with its suburbs; two cities. 21:28Out of the tribe of Issachar,
Kishion with its suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs, 21:29Jarmuth with its suburbs, En
Gannim with its suburbs; four cities. 21:30Out of the
tribe of Asher, Mishal with its suburbs, Abdon with its suburbs, 21:31Helkath with its suburbs, and
Rehob with its suburbs; four cities. 21:32Out of the
tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, the city of refuge
for the manslayer, and Hammothdor with its suburbs, and Kartan with its
suburbs; three cities. 21:33All the cities of the
Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their
suburbs. 21:34To the families of the children
of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam
with its suburbs, and Kartah with its suburbs, 21:35Dimnah
with its suburbs, Nahalal with its suburbs; four cities. 21:36Out of the tribe of Reuben,
Bezer with its suburbs, and Jahaz with its suburbs, 21:37Kedemoth
with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities. 21:38Out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth
in Gilead with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and
Mahanaim with its suburbs, 21:39Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer
with its suburbs; four cities in all. 21:40All
these were the cities of the children of Merari according to their
families, even the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot was
twelve cities. 21:41All the cities of the Levites in
the midst of the possession of the children of Israel were forty-eight
cities with their suburbs. 21:42These cities were every one with
their suburbs round about them: thus it was with all these cities. 21:43So Yahweh gave to Israel all the
land which he swore to give to their fathers; and they possessed it, and
lived therein. 21:44Yahweh gave them rest round
about, according to all that he swore to their fathers: and there stood
not a man of all their enemies before them; Yahweh delivered all their
enemies into their hand. 21:45There failed not anything of any
good thing which Yahweh had spoken to the house of Israel; all came to
pass.
22:1Then Joshua called the
Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, 22:2and said to them, You have kept
all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, and have listened to
my voice in all that I commanded you: 22:3you have
not left your brothers these many days to this day, but have kept the
charge of the commandment of Yahweh your God. 22:4Now Yahweh
your God has given rest to your brothers, as he spoke to them: therefore
now turn you, and get you to your tents, to the land of your possession,
which Moses the servant of Yahweh gave you beyond the Jordan. 22:5Only take diligent heed to do the
commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you,
to love Yahweh your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his
commandments, and to cleave to him, and to serve him with all your heart
and with all your soul. 22:6So Joshua blessed them, and sent
them away; and they went to their tents. 22:7Now to the
one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given inheritance in Bashan;
but to the other half gave Joshua among their brothers beyond the Jordan
westward; moreover when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed
them, 22:8and spoke to them, saying, Return
with much wealth to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver,
and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much clothing:
divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers. 22:9The
children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh
returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is
in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their
possession, which they owned, according to the commandment of Yahweh by
Moses. 22:10When they came to the region
about the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben
and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an
altar by the Jordan, a great altar to look on. 22:11The
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 in the
forefront of the land of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the
side that pertains to the children of Israel. 22:12When the
children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of
Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to
war. 22:13The children of Israel sent to
the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe
of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the
priest, 22:14and with him ten princes, one
prince of a fathers' house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were
everyone of them head of their fathers' houses among the thousands of
Israel. 22:15They came to the children of
Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to
the land of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying, 22:16Thus says the whole congregation
of Yahweh, What trespass is this that you have committed against the God
of Israel, to turn away this day from following Yahweh, in that you have
built you an altar, to rebel this day against Yahweh? 22:17Is the iniquity of Peor too
little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to this day,
although there came a plague on the congregation of Yahweh, 22:18that you must turn away this day
from following Yahweh? and it will be, seeing you rebel today against
Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of
Israel. 22:19However, if the land of your
possession be unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of
Yahweh, in which Yahweh's tent dwells, and take possession among us: but
don't rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar
besides the altar of Yahweh our God. 22:20Didn't
Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath
fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man didn't perish alone
in his iniquity. 22:21Then the children of Reuben and
the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spoke to
the heads of the thousands of Israel, 22:22The Mighty
One, God, Yahweh, the Mighty One, God, Yahweh, he knows; and Israel he
shall know: if it be in rebellion, or if in trespass against Yahweh (don't
save us this day), 22:23that we have built us an altar
to turn away from following Yahweh; or if to offer thereon burnt offering
or meal-offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace-offerings thereon,
let Yahweh himself require it; 22:24and if we
have not rather out of carefulness done this, and of
purpose, saying, In time to come your children might speak to our
children, saying, What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel? 22:25for Yahweh has made the Jordan a
border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad; you
have no portion in Yahweh: so might your children make our children cease
from fearing Yahweh. 22:26Therefore we said, Let us now
prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:
22:27but it shall be a witness
between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may do
the service of Yahweh before him with our burnt offerings, and with our
sacrifices, and with our peace-offerings; that your children may not tell
our children in time to come, You have no portion in Yahweh. 22:28Therefore said we, It shall be,
when they so tell us or to our generations in time to come, that we shall
say, Behold the pattern of the altar of Yahweh, which our fathers made,
not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us
and you. 22:29Far be it from us that we should
rebel against Yahweh, and turn away this day from following Yahweh, to
build an altar for burnt-offering, for meal-offering, or for sacrifice,
besides the altar of Yahweh our God that is before his tent. 22:30When Phinehas the priest, and
the princes of the congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel
that were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the
children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them well.
22:31Phinehas the son of Eleazar the
priest said to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to
the children of Manasseh, This day we know that Yahweh is in the midst of
us, because you have not committed this trespass against Yahweh: now have
you delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of Yahweh. 22:32Phinehas the son of Eleazar the
priest, and the princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from
the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to
the children of Israel, and brought them word again. 22:33The thing pleased the children
of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and spoke no more of
going up against them to war, to destroy the land in which the children of
Reuben and the children of Gad lived. 22:34The
children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed:
For, said they, it is a witness between us that Yahweh is God.
23:1It happened after many days, when
Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all their enemies round about, and
Joshua was old and well stricken in years; 23:2that Joshua
called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their
judges and for their officers, and said to them, I am old and well
stricken in years: 23:3and you have seen all that Yahweh
your God has done to all these nations because of you; for Yahweh your
God, he it is that has fought for you. 23:4Behold, I
have allotted to you these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for
your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off,
even to the great sea toward the going down of the sun. 23:5Yahweh your God, he will thrust
them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and you
shall possess their land, as Yahweh your God spoke to you. 23:6Therefore be you very courageous
to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses,
that you not turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left; 23:7that you not come among these
nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of
their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow
down yourselves to them; 23:8but cleave to Yahweh your God, as
you have done to this day. 23:9For Yahweh has driven out from
before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man has stood
before you to this day. 23:10One man of you shall chase a
thousand; for Yahweh your God, he it is who fights for you, as he spoke to
you. 23:11Take good heed therefore to
yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God. 23:12Else if
you do at all go back, and cleave to the remnant of these nations, even
these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to
them, and they to you; 23:13know for a certainty that Yahweh
your God will no more drive these nations from out of your sight; but they
shall be a snare and a trap to you, and a scourge in your sides, and
thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh
your God has given you. 23:14Behold, this day I am going the
way of all the earth: and you know in all your hearts and in all your
souls, that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh
your God spoke concerning you; all are happen to you, not one thing has
failed of it. 23:15It shall happen, that as all the
good things are come on you of which Yahweh your God spoke to you, so will
Yahweh bring on you all the evil things, until he have destroyed you from
off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you. 23:16When you disobey the covenant of
Yahweh your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and
bow down yourselves to them; then will the anger of Yahweh be kindled
against you, and you shall perish quickly from off the good land which he
has given to you.
24:1Joshua 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. 24:2Joshua said to all the people,
Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Your fathers lived of old time beyond
the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and
they served other gods. 24:3I took your father Abraham from
beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and
multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac. 24:4I gave to
Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it: and
Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. 24:5I sent
Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did in the
midst of it: and afterward I brought you out. 24:6I brought
your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea; and the Egyptians
pursued after your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea.
24:7When they cried out to Yahweh, he
put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them,
and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and you lived in
the wilderness many days. 24:8I brought you into the land of
the Amorites, that lived beyond the Jordan: and they fought with you; and
I gave them into your hand, and you possessed their land; and I destroyed
them from before you. 24:9Then Balak the son of Zippor,
king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel: and he sent and called
Balaam the son of Beor to curse you; 24:10but I
would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered
you out of his hand. 24:11You went over the Jordan, and
came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite,
and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite,
the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand. 24:12I sent the hornet before you,
which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites;
not with your sword, nor with your bow. 24:13I gave you
a land whereon you had not labored, and cities which you didn't build, and
you dwell therein; of vineyards and olive groves which you didn't plant do
you eat. 24:14Now therefore fear Yahweh, and
serve him in sincerity and in truth; and put away the gods which your
fathers served beyond the River, and in Egypt; and serve you Yahweh. 24:15If it seem evil to you to serve
Yahweh, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which
your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the
Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will
serve Yahweh. 24:16The people answered, Far be it
from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods; 24:17for Yahweh our God, he it is who
brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of
bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in
all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the midst
of whom we passed; 24:18and Yahweh drove out from before
us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land: therefore we
also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God. 24:19Joshua
said to the people, You can't serve Yahweh; for he is a holy God; he is a
jealous God; he will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins. 24:20If you forsake Yahweh, and serve
foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after
that he has done you good. 24:21The people said to Joshua, No;
but we will serve Yahweh. 24:22Joshua said to the people, You
are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen you Yahweh, to serve
him. They said, We are witnesses. 24:23Now
therefore put away, said he, the foreign gods which are among you,
and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel. 24:24The people said to Joshua,
Yahweh our God will we serve, and to his voice will we listen. 24:25So Joshua made a covenant with
the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
24:26Joshua wrote these words in the
book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there
under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh. 24:27Joshua
said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us;
for it has heard all the words of Yahweh which he spoke to us: it shall be
therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God. 24:28So Joshua sent the people away,
every man to his inheritance. 24:29It happened after these things,
that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred
ten years old. 24:30They buried him in the border of
his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim,
on the north of the mountain of Gaash. 24:31Israel
served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who
outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that he had worked
for Israel. 24:32The bones of Joseph, which the
children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in the
parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of
Shechem for a hundred pieces of money: and they became the inheritance of
the children of Joseph. 24:33Eleazar the son of Aaron died;
and they buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him
in the hill-country of Ephraim.
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