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