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 Chapter 1
1:1 And it came to pass after the death
of Moses, that the Lord spoke to Joshua the son of Naue, the minister of Moses,
saying, 2 Moses my servant is dead;
now then arise, go over Jordan, thou and all this people, into the land, which I
give them. 3 Every spot on which ye
shall tread I will give it to you, as I said to Moses. 4
The wilderness and Antilibanus, as far as the great river,
the river Euphrates, and as far as the extremity of the sea; your costs shall be
from the setting of the sun. 5 Not a
man shall stand against you all the days of thy life; and as I was with Moses,
so will I also be with thee, and I will not fail thee, or neglect thee.
6 Be strong and ‘quit thyself like a man,
for thou shalt divide the land to this people, which I sware to give to your
fathers. 7 Be strong, therefore, and
quit thyself like a man, to observe and do as Moses my servant commanded thee;
and thou shalt not turn therefrom to the right hand or to the left, that thou
mayest be wise in whatsoever thou mayest do. 8
And the book of this law shall not depart out of thy mouth, and
thou shalt meditate in it day and night, that thou mayest know how to do all the
things that are written in it; then shalt thou prosper, and make thy ways
prosperous, and then shalt thou be wise. 9
Lo! I have commanded thee; be strong and courageous, be not
cowardly nor fearful, for the Lord thy God is with thee in all places whither
thou goest. 10 And Joshua commanded
the scribes of the people, saying, 11
Go into the midst of the camp of the people, and command the
people, saying, Prepare provisions; for yet three days and ye shall go over this
Jordan, entering in to take possession of the land, which the Lord God of your
fathers gives to you. 12 And to
Ruben, and to Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasse, Joshua said,
13 Remember the word which Moses the
servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, the Lord your God has caused you to
rest, and has given you this land. 14
Let your wives and your children and your cattle dwell in the
land, which he has given you; and ye shall go over well armed before your
brethren, every one of you who is strong; and ye shall fight on their side;
15 until the Lord your God shall
have given your brethren rest, as also to you, and they also shall have
inherited the land, which the Lord your God gives them; then ye shall depart
each one to his inheritance, which Moses gave you beyond Jordan eastward.
16 And they answered Joshua and said, We
will do all things which thou commandest us, and we will go to every place
whither thou shalt send us. 17
Whereinsoever we hearkened to Moses we will hearken to thee; only let the Lord
our God be with thee, as he was with Moses. 18
And whosoever shall disobey thee, and whosoever shall not hearken
to thy words as thou shalt command him, let him die; but be thou strong and
courageous.
Chapter 2
2:1 And Joshua the son of Naue sent out
of Sattin two young men to spy the land, saying, Go up and view the land
and Jericho: and the two young men went and entered into Jericho; and they
entered into the house of a harlot, whose name was Raab, and lodged
there.
2 An it was reported to the king of
Jericho, saying, Men of the sons of Israel have come in hither to spy the land.
3 And the king of Jericho sent and
spoke to Raab, saying, Bring out the men that entered into thine house this
night; for they are come to spy out the land. 4
And the woman took the two men and hid them; and she spoke to the
messengers, saying, The men came in to me, 5
but when the gate was shut in the evening, the men went out; I
know not whither they are gone: follow after them, if ye may overtake them.
6 But she had brought them up
upon the house, and hid them in the flax-stalks that were spread by her on the
house. 7 And the men followed after
them in the way to Jordan to the fords; and the gate was shut.
8 And it came to pass when the men who
pursued after them were gone forth, and before the spies had lain down to sleep,
that she came up to them on the top of the house; 9
and she said to them, I know that the Lord has given you the
land; for the fear of you has fallen upon us. 10
For we have heard that the Lord God dried up the Red Sea before
you, when ye came out of the land of Egypt, and all that he did to the two kings
of the Amorites, who were beyond Jordan, to Seon and Og, whom ye utterly
destroyed. 11 And when we heard it
we were amazed in our heart, and there was no longer any spirit in any of us
because of you, for the Lord your god is God in heaven above, and on the
earth beneath. 12 And now swear to
me by the Lord God; since I deal mercifully with you, so do ye also deal
mercifully with the house of my father: 13
and save alive the house of my father, my mother, and my
brethren, and all my house, and all that they have, and ye shall rescue my soul
from death.
14 And the men said to her, Our life for
yours even to death: and she said, When the Lord shall have delivered the
city to you, ye shall deal mercifully and truly with me.
15 And she let them down by the window;
16 and she said to them, Depart into the
hill-country, lest the pursuers meet you, and ye shall be hidden there three
days until your pursuers return from after you, and afterwards ye shall depart
on your way.
17 And the men said to her, We are clear
of this thy oath. 18 Behold, we
shall enter into a part of the city, and thou shalt set a sign; thou shalt bind
this scarlet cord in the window, by which thou hast let us down, and thou shalt
bring in to thyself, into thy house, thy father, and thy mother, and thy
brethren, and all the family of thy father. 19
And it shall come to pass that whosoever shall go outside the
door of thy house, his guilt shall be upon him, and we shall be quit of this
thine oath; and we will be responsible for all that shall be found with thee in
thy house. 20 But if any one should
injure us, or betray these our matters, we shall be quit of this thine oath.
21 And she said to them, Let it be
according to your word; and she sent them out, and they departed.
22 And they came to the hill-country, and
remained there three days; and the pursuers searched all the roads, and found
them not.
23 And the two young men returned, and
came down out of the mountain; and they went over to Joshua the son of Naue, and
told him all things that had happened to them. 24
And they said to Joshua, The Lord has delivered all the land into
our power, and all the inhabitants of that land tremble because of us.
Chapter 3
3:1 And Joshua rose up early in the
morning, and departed from Sattin; and they came as far as Jordan, and lodged
there before they crossed over. 2
And it came to pass after three days, that the scribes went through the
camp; 3 and they charged the people,
saying, When ye shall see the ark of the covenant of the Lord our God, and our
priests and the Levites bearing it, ye shall depart from your places, and ye
shall go after it. 4 But let there
be a distance between you and it; ye shall stand as much as two thousand cubits
from it. Do not draw nigh to it, that ye may know the way which ye are to
go; for ye have not gone the way before.
5 And Joshua said to the people,
Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow, for to-morrow the Lord will do wonders
among you. 6 And Joshua said to the
priests, Take up the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and go before the people:
and the priests took up the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and went before the
people. 7 And the Lord said to
Joshua, This day do I begin to exalt thee before all the children of Israel,
that they may know that as I was with Moses, so will I also be with thee.
8 And now charge the priests that bear the
ark of the covenant, saying, As soon as ye shall enter on a part of the water of
Jordan, then ye shall stand in Jordan.
9 And Joshua said to the children of
Israel, Come hither, and hearken to the word of the Lord our God.
10 Hereby ye shall know that the living God
is among you, and will utterly destroy from before our face the Chananite,
and the Chettite and Pherezite, and the Evite, and the Amorite, and the
Gergesite, and the Jebusite. 11
Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over Jordan.
12 Choose for yourselves twelve men
of the sons of Israel, one of each tribe. 13
And it shall come to pass, when the feet of the priests that bear
the ark of the covenant of the Lord of the whole earth rest in the water of
Jordan, the water of Jordan below shall fail, and the water coming down
from above shall stop.
14 And the people removed from their
tents to cross over Jordan, and the priests bore the ark of the covenant of the
Lord before the people. 15 And when
the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord entered upon Jordan,
and the feet of the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord were
dipped in part of the water of Jordan; (now Jordan overflowed all its banks
about the time of wheat harvest:) 16
then the waters that came down from above stopped; there stood
one solid heap very far off, as far as the region of Kariathiarim, and the lower
part came down to the sea of Araba, the salt sea, till it completely failed; and
the people stood opposite Jericho. 17
And the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord
stood on dry land in the midst of Jordan; and all the children of Israel went
through on dry land, until all the people had completely gone over Jordan.
Chapter 4
4:1 And when the people had completely
passed over Jordan, the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying, 2
Take men from the people, one of each tribe,
3 and charge them; and ye shall take out of
the midst of Jordan twelve fit stones, and having carried them across together
with yourselves, place them in your camp, where ye shall encamp for the night.
4 And Joshua having called twelve men of
distinction among the children of Israel, one of each tribe,
5 said to them, Advance before me in the
presence of the Lord into the midst of Jordan, and each having taken up a stone
from thence, let him carry it on his shoulders, according to the number of the
twelve tribes of Israel: 6 that
these may be to you continually for an appointed sign, that when thy son asks
thee in future, saying, What are these stones to us? 7
then thou mayest explain to thy son, saying, The river
Jordan was dried up from before the ark of the covenant of the Lord of the whole
earth, when it passed it: and these stones shall be for a memorial for you for
the children of Israel for ever.
8 And the children of Israel did so, as
the Lord commanded Joshua; and they took up twelve stones out of the midst of
Jordan, (as the Lord commanded Joshua, when the children of Israel had
completely passed over,)and carried these stones with them into the camp, and
laid them down there. 9 And Joshua
set also other twelve stones in Jordan itself, in the place that was under the
feet of the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord; and there
they are to this day.
10 And the priests that bore the ark of
the covenant stood in Jordan, until Joshua had finished all that the Lord
commanded him to report to the people; and the people hasted and passed over.
11 And it came to pass when all the
people had passed over, that the ark of the covenant of the Lord passed over,
and the stones before them. 12 And
the sons of Ruben, and the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse passed
over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses commanded them.
13 Forty thousand armed for battle went
over before the Lord to war, to the city of Jericho. 14
In that day the Lord magnified Joshua before all the
people of Israel; and they feared him, as they did Moses, as long as he
lived.
15 And the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying,
16 Charge the priests that bear the
ark of the covenant of the testimony of the Lord, to go up out of Jordan.
17 And Joshua charged the priests, saying,
Go up out of Jordan. 18 And it came
to pass when the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord were gone
up out of Jordan, and set their feet upon the land, that the water of
Jordan returned impetuously to its place, and went as before over all its banks.
19 And the people went up out of Jordan
on the tenth day of the first month; and the children of Israel encamped in
Galgala in the region eastward from Jericho. 20
And Joshua set these twelve stones which he took out of Jordan,
in Galgala, 21 saying, When your
sons ask you, saying, What are these stones? 22
Tell your sons, that Israel went over this Jordan on dry land,
23 when the Lord our God had dried
up the water of Jordan from before them, until they had passed over; as the Lord
our God did to the Red Sea, which the Lord our God dried up from before us,
until we passed over. 24 That all
the nations of the earth might know, that the power of the Lord is mighty, and
that ye might worship the Lord our God in every work.
Chapter 5
5:1 And it came to pass when the kings
of the Amorites who were beyond Jordan heard, and the kings of Phoenicia by the
sea, that the Lord God had dried up the river Jordan from before the children of
Israel when they passed over, that their hearts failed, and they were
terror-stricken, and there was no sense in them because of the children of
Israel.
2 And about this time the Lord said to
Joshua, Make thee stone knives of sharp stone, and sit down and circumcise the
children of Israel the second time. 3
And Joshua made sharp knives of stone, and circumcised the
children of Israel at the place called the "Hill of Foreskins."
4 And this is the way in which
Joshua purified the children of Israel; as many as were born in the way, and as
many as were uncircumcised of them that came out of Egypt,
5 all these Joshua circumcised; for forty
and two years Israel wondered in the wilderness of Mabdaris—
6 Wherefore most of the fighting men that
came out of the land of Egypt, were uncircumcised, who disobeyed the commands of
God; concerning whom also he determined that they should not see the land, which
the Lord sware to give to their fathers, even a land flowing with milk
and honey. 7 And in their place he
raised up their sons, whom Joshua circumcised, because they were uncircumcised,
having been born by the way. 8 And
when they had been circumcised they rested continuing there in the camp till
they were healed. 9 And the Lord
said to Joshua the son of Naue, On this day have I removed the reproach of Egypt
from you: and he called the name of that place Galgala.
10 And the children of Israel kept the
passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, to the westward of
Jericho on the opposite side of the Jordan in the plain.
11 And they ate of the grain of the earth unleavened and
new corn. 12 In this day the
manna failed, after they had eaten of the corn of the land, and the children of
Israel no longer had manna: and they took the fruits of the land of the
Phoenicians in that year.
13 And it came to pass when Joshua was
in Jericho, that he looked up with his eyes and saw a man standing before him,
and there was a drawn sword in his hand; and Joshua drew near and said to
him, Art thou for us or on the side of our enemies? 14
And he said to him, I am now come, the chief captain of
the host of the Lord. 15 And Joshua
fell on his face upon the earth, and said to him, Lord, what commandest thou thy
servant? 16 And the captain of the
Lord’s host said to Joshua, Loose thy shoe off thy feet, for the place whereon
thou now standest is holy.
Chapter 6
6:1 Now Jericho was closely shut up and
besieged, and none went out of it, and none came in. 2
And the Lord said to Joshua, Behold, I deliver Jericho
into thy power, and its king in it, and its mighty men.
3 And do thou set the men of war round
about it. 4 And it shall be that
when ye shall sound with the trumpet, all the people shall shout together.
5 And when they have shouted, the
walls of the city shall fall of themselves; and all the people shall enter, each
one rushing direct into the city.
6 And Joshua the son of Naue went
in to the priests, and spoke to them, saying, 7
And let seven priests having seven sacred trumpets proceed thus before the Lord,
and let them sound loudly; and let the ark of the covenant of the Lord follow.
8 Charge the people to go round, and
encompass the city; and let your men of war pass on armed before the Lord.
9 And let the men of war proceed
before, and the priests bringing up the rear behind the ark of the covenant of
the Lord proceed sounding the trumpets. 10
And Joshua commanded the people, saying, Cry not out, nor let any
one hear your voice, until he himself declare to you the time to cry out, and
then ye shall cry out. 11 And the
ark of the covenant of God having gone round immediately returned into the camp,
and lodged there.
12 And on the second day Joshua rose up
in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the covenant of the Lord.
13 And the seven priests bearing the
seven trumpets went on before the Lord; and afterwards the men of war went on,
and the remainder of the multitude went after the ark of the covenant of the
Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets. 14
And all the rest of the multitude compassed the city six times
from within a short distance, and went back again into the camp; this they did
six days.
15 And on the seventh day they rose up
early, and compassed the city on that day seven times. 16
And it came to pass at the seventh circuit the priests
blew the trumpets; and Joshua said to the children of Israel, Shout, for the
Lord has given you the city. 17 And
the city shall be devoted, it and all things that are in it, to the Lord of
Hosts: only do ye save Raab the harlot, and all things in her house.
18 But keep yourselves strictly from the
accursed thing, lest ye set your mind upon and take of the accursed thing, and
ye make the camp of the children of Israel and accursed thing, and destroy us.
19 And all the silver, or gold, or
brass, or iron, shall be holy to the Lord; it shall be carried into the treasury
of the Lord.
20 And the priests sounded with the
trumpets: and when the people heard the trumpets, all the people shouted at once
with a loud and strong shout; and all the wall fell round about, and all the
people went up into the city: 21 and
Joshua devoted it to destruction, and all things that were in the city, man and
woman, young man and old, and calf and ass, with the edge of the sword.
22 And Joshua said to the two young men
who had acted a spies, Go into the house of the woman, and bring her out thence,
and all that she has. 23 And the two
young men who had spied out the city entered into the house of the woman, and
brought out Raab the harlot, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren,
and her kindred, and all that she had; and they set her without the camp of
Israel. 24 And the city was burnt
with fire with all things that were in it; only of the silver, and gold, and
brass, and iron, they gave to be brought into the treasury of the Lord.
25 And Joshua saved alive Raab the
harlot, and all the house of her father, and caused her to dwell in Israel until
this day, because she hid the spies which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
26 And Joshua adjured them on that
day before the Lord, saying, Cursed be the man who shall build that city:
he shall lay the foundation of it in his first-born, and he shall set up the
gates of it in his youngest son. And so did Hozan of Baethel; he laid the
foundation in Abiron his first-born, and set up the gates of it in his youngest
surviving son.
27 And the Lord was with Joshua, and his
name was in all the land.
Chapter 7
7:1 But the children of Israel committed
a great trespass, and purloined part of the accursed thing; and Achar the
son of Charmi, the son of Zambri, the son of Zara, of the tribe of Juda, took of
the accursed thing; and the Lord was very angry with the children of Israel.
2 And Joshua sent men to Gai, which is
by Baethel, saying, Spy out Gai: and the men went up and spied Gai.
3 And they returned to Joshua, and said to
him, Let not all the people go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up
and take the city by siege: carry not up thither the whole people, for the
enemy are few. 4 And there went
up about three thousand men, and they fled from before the men of Gai.
5 And the men of Gai slew of them to the
number of thirty-six men, and they pursued them from the gate, and destroyed
them from the steep hill; and the heart of the people was alarmed and became as
water.
6 And Joshua tore his garments; and
Joshua fell on the earth on his face before the Lord until evening, he and the
elders of Israel; and they cast dust on their heads. 7
And Joshua said, I pray, Lord, wherefore has thy servant
brought this people over Jordan to deliver them to the Amorite to destroy us?
would we had remained and settled ourselves beyond Jordan.
8 And what shall I say since Israel has
turned his back before his enemy? 9
And when the Chananite and all the inhabitants of the land hear it, they shall
compass us round and destroy us from off the land: and what wilt thou do for
thy great name?
10 And the Lord said to Joshua, Rise up;
why hast thou fallen upon thy face? 11
The people has sinned, and transgressed the covenant which I made
with them; they have stolen from the cursed thing, and put it into their store.
12 And the children of Israel will
not be able to stand before their enemies; they will turn their back before
their enemies, for they have become an accursed thing: I will not any longer be
with you, unless ye remove the cursed thing from yourselves.
13 Rise, sanctify the people and tell them
to sanctify themselves for the morrow: thus says the Lord God of Israel, The
accursed thing is among you; ye shall not be able to stand before your enemies,
until ye shall have removed the cursed thing from among you.
14 And ye shall all be gathered together by
your tribes in the morning, and it shall come to pass that the tribe which the
Lord shall shew, ye shall bring by families; and the family which the Lord shall
shew, ye shall bring by households; and the household which the Lord shall shew,
ye shall bring man by man. 15 And
the man who shall be pointed out, shall be burnt with fire, and all that he has;
because he has transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and has wrought wickedness
in Israel.
16 And Joshua rose up early, and brought
the people by their tribes; and the tribe of Juda was pointed out.
17 And it was brought by their families,
and family of the Zaraites was pointed out. 18
And it was brought man by man, and Achar the son of Zambri the
son of Zara was pointed out.
19 And Joshua said to Achar, Give glory
this day to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession; and tell me what thou
hast done, and hide it not from me. 20
And Achar answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against
the Lord God of Israel: thus and thus have I done: 21
I saw in the spoil an embroidered mantle, and two hundred
didrachms of silver, and one golden wedge of fifty didrachms, and I desired them
and took them; and, behold, they are hid in my tent, and the silver is hid under
them. 22 And Joshua sent messengers,
and they ran to the tent into the camp; and these things were hidden in his
tent, and the silver under them. 23
And they brought them out of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and the elders
of Israel, and they laid them before the Lord.
24 And Joshua took Achar the son of Zara,
and brought him to the valley of Achor, and his sons, and his daughters, and his
calves, and his asses, and all his sheep, and his tent, and all his property,
and all the people were with him; and he brought them to Emec Achor.
25 And Joshua said to Achar, Why
hast thou destroyed us? the Lord destroy thee as at this day. And all Israel
stoned him with stones. 26 And they
set up over him a great heap of stones; and the Lord ceased from his fierce
anger. Therefore he called the place Emecachor until this day.
Chapter 8
8:1 And the Lord said to Joshua, Fear
not, nor be timorous: take with thee all the men of war, and arise, go up to Gai;
behold, I have given into thy hands the king of Gai, and his land.
2 And thou shalt do to Gai, as thou didst
to Jericho and its king; and thou shalt take to thyself the spoil of its cattle;
set now for thyself an ambush for the city behind. 3
And Joshua and all the men of war rose to go up to Gai;
and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men, and he sent them away by night.
4 And he charged them, saying, Do ye
lie in ambush behind the city: do not go far from the city, and ye shall all be
ready. 5 Land I and all with me will
draw near to the city: and it shall come to pass when the inhabitants of Gai
shall come forth to meet us, as before, that we will flee from before them.
6 And when they shall come out after
us, we will draw them away from the city; and they will say, These men flee from
before us, as also before. 7 And ye
shall rise up out of the ambuscade, and go into the city.
8 Ye shall do according to this word, lo! I have commanded
you. 9 And Joshua sent them, and
they went to lie in ambush; and they lay between Baethel and Gai, westward of
Gai.
10 And Joshua rose up early in the
morning, and numbered the people; and he went up, he and the elders before the
people to Gai. 11 And all the men of
war went up with him, and they went forward and came over against the city
eastward. 12 And the ambuscade
was on the west side of the city. 13 14
And it came to pass when the king of Gai saw it, he hasted
and went out to meet them direct to the battle, he and all the people that
were with him: and he knew not that there was an ambuscade formed
against him behind the city. 15 And
Joshua and Israel saw, and retreated from before them. 16
And they pursued after the children of Israel, and they
themselves went to a distance from the city. 17
There was no one left in Gai who did not pursue after Israel; and
they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
18 And the Lord said to Joshua, Stretch
forth thy hand with the spear that is in thy hand toward the city, for I have
delivered it into thy hands; and the liers in wait shall rise up quickly out of
their place. 19 And Joshua stretched
out his hand and his spear toward the city, and the ambuscade rose up
quickly out of their place; and they came forth when he stretched out his hand;
and they entered into the city, and took it; and they hasted and burnt the city
with fire.
20 And when the inhabitants of Gai
looked round behind them, then they saw the smoke going up out of the city to
heaven, and they were no longer able to flee this way or that way.
21 And Joshua and all Israel saw that the
ambuscade had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city went up to heaven;
and they turned and smote the men of Gai. 22
And these came forth out of the city to meet them; and they were
in the midst of the army, some being on this side, and some on that; and
they smote them until there was not left of them one who survived and escaped.
23 And they took the king of Gai
alive, and brought him to Joshua.
24 And when the children of Israel had
ceased slaying all that were in Gai, and in the fields, and in the mountain on
the descent, from whence they pursued them even to the end, then Joshua
returned to Gai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.
25 And they that fell in that day, men and women, were
twelve thousand: they slew all the inhabitants of Gai.
26 27 Beside the spoils that were in the
city, all things which the children of Israel took as spoil for themselves
according to the command of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Joshua.
28 And Joshua burnt the city with fire:
he made it an uninhabited heap for ever, even to this day.
29 And he hanged the king of Gai on a
gallows; and he remained on the tree till evening: and when the sun went down,
Joshua gave charge, and they took down his body from the tree, and cast it into
a pit, and they set over him a heap of stones until this day.
Chapter 9
9:1 And when the kings of the Amorites
on the other side of Jordan, who were in the mountain country, and in the plain,
and in all the coast of the great sea, and those who were near Antilibanus, and
the Chettites, and the Chananites, and the Pherezites, and the Evites, and the
Amorites, and the Gergesites, and the Jebusites, heard of it,
2 they came all together at the same time
to make war against Joshua and Israel.
3 And the inhabitants of Gabaon heard of
all that the Lord did to Jericho and Gai. 4
And they also wrought craftily, and they went and made provision
and prepared themselves; and having taken old sacks on their shoulders, and old
and rent and patched bottles of wine, 5
and the upper part of their shoes and their sandals old and
clouted on their feet, and their garments old upon them—and the bread of their
provision was dry and mouldy and corrupt.
6 And they came to Joshua into the camp
of Israel to Galgala, and said to Joshua and Israel, We are come from a far
land: now then make a covenant with us. 7
And the children of Israel said to the Chorrhaean, Peradventure
thou dwellest amongst us; and how should I make a covenant with thee?
8 And they said to Joshua, We are thy
servants: and Joshua said to them, Whence are ye, and whence have ye come?
9 And they said, Thy servants are
come from a very far country in the name of the Lord thy God: for we have heard
his name, and all that he did in Egypt, 10
and all that he did to the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond
Jordan, to Seon king of the Amorites, and Og king of Basan, who dwelt in
Astaroth and in Edrain. 11 And our
elders and all that inhabit our land when they heard spoke to us, saying, Take
to yourselves provision for the way, and go to meet them; and ye shall say to
them, We are thy servants, and now make a covenant with us.
12 These are the loaves—we took them
hot for our journey on the day on which we came out to come to you; and now they
are dried and become mouldy. 13 And
these are the skins of wine which we filled when new, and they are rent;
and our garments and our shoes are worn out because of the very long journey.
14 And the chiefs took of their
provision, and asked not counsel of the Lord. 15
And Joshua made peace with them, and they made a covenant
with them to preserve them; and the princes of the congregation sware to them.
16 And it came to pass three days after
they had made a covenant with them, they heard that they were near neighbours,
and that they dwelt among them. 17
And the children of Israel departed and came to their cities; and their cities
were Gabaon, and Kephira, and Berot, and the cities of Jarin.
18 Land the children of Israel fought not
with them, because all the princes sware to them by the Lord God of Israel; and
all the congregation murmured at the princes.
19 And the princes said to all the
congregation: We have sworn to them by the Lord God of Israel, and now we shall
not be able to touch them. 20 This
we will do; take them alive, and we will preserve them: so there shall not be
wrath against us by reason of the oath which we swore to them.
21 They shall live, and shall be hewers of
wood and drawers of water to all the congregation, as the princes said to them.
22 And Joshua called them together and
said to them, Why have ye deceived me, saying, We live very far from you;
whereas ye are fellow-countrymen of those who dwell among us?
23 And now ye are cursed: there shall not
fail of you a slave, or a hewer of wood, or a drawer of water to me and my God.
24 And they answered Joshua, saying,
It was reported to us what the Lord thy God charged his servant Moses, to give
you this land, and to destroy us and all that dwelt on it from before you; and
we feared very much for our lives because of you, and therefore we did
this thing. 25 And now, behold, we
are in your power; do to us as it is pleasing to you, and as it seems
good to you.
26 Aand they did so to them; and Joshua
rescued them in that day out of the hands of the children of Israel, and they
did not slay them. 27 And Joshua
made them in that day hewers of wood and drawers of water to the whole
congregation, and for the altar of God: therefore the inhabitants of Gabaon
became hewers of wood and drawers of water for the altar of God until this day,
even for the place which the Lord should choose.
30 Then Joshua built an alter to the Lord God of Israel
in mount Gebal, 31 as Moses the servant of the Lord
commanded the children of Israel, as it was written in the law of Moses, an
alter of unhewn stones, on which iron had not been lifted up: and he offered
there whole-burnt-offerings to the Lord, and a piece offering. And Joshua wrote
upon the stones a copy of the law, even the law of Moses, before the
children of Israel. 33 And all Israel, and their elders,
and their judges, and their scribes, passed on one side and on the other, before
the ark; and the priests and the levites took up the ark of the covenant of the
Lord; and the stranger and the native were there, who were half of them
near mount Gebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord commanded at first, to bless
the people.
34 And afterwards Joshua read accordingly all the words
of this law, the blessings and the curses, according to all things written in
the law of Moses. 35 There was not a word of all that
Moses charged Joshua, which Joshua read not in the ears of all men, and the
women, and the children of Israel, and the strangers that joined themselves to
Israel.
Chapter 10
10:1 And when Adoni-bezec king of
Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Gai, and had destroyed it, as he did to
Jericho and its king, even so they did to Gai and its king, and that the
inhabitants of Gabaon had gone over to Joshua and Israel;
2 then they were greatly terrified by them, for the
king knew that Gabaon was a great city, as one of the chief cities,
and all its men were mighty. 3
So Adoni-bezec king of Jerusalem sent to Elam king of Hebron, and
to Phidon king of Jerimuth, and to Jephtha king of Lachis, and to Dabin king of
Odollam, saying, 4 Come up hither to
me, and help me, and let us take Gabaon; for the Gabaonites have gone over to
Joshua and to the children of Israel. 5
And the five kings of the Jebusites went up, the king of
Jerusalem, and the king of Chebron, and the king of Jerimuth, and the king of
Lachis, and the king of Odollam, they and all their people; and encamped around
Gabaon, and besieged it.
6 And the inhabitants of Gabaon sent to
Joshua into the camp to Galgala, saying, Slack not thy hands from thy servants:
come up quickly to us, and help us, and rescue us; for all the kings of the
Amorites who dwell in the hill country are gathered together against us.
7 And Joshua went up from Galgala, he and
all the people of war with him, every one mighty in strength.
8 And the Lord said to Joshua, Fear them
not, for I have delivered them into thy hands; there shall not one of them be
left before you.
9 And when Joshua came suddenly upon
them, he had advanced all the night out of Galgala.
10 And the Lord struck them with terror
before the children of Israel; and the Lord destroyed them with a great
slaughter at Gabaon; and they pursued them by the way of the going up of Oronin,
and they smote them to Azeca and to Makeda. 11
And when they fled from the face of the children of Israel at the
descent of Oronin, then the Lord cast upon them hailstones from heaven to Azeca;
and they were more that died by the hailstones, than those whom the children of
Israel slew with the sword in the battle.
12 Then Joshua spoke to the Lord, in the
day in which the Lord delivered the Amorite into the power of Israel, when he
destroyed them in Gabaon, and they were destroyed from before the children of
Israel: and Joshua said, Let the sun stand over against Gabaon, and the moon
over against the valley of Ælon. 13
And the sun and the moon stood still, until God executed vengeance on their
enemies; and the sun stood still in the midst of heaven; it did not proceed to
set till the end of one day. 14 And
there was not such a day either before or after, so that God should hearken to a
man, because the Lord fought on the side of Israel.
15 16 And these five kings fled, and hid
themselves in a cave that is in Makeda. 17
And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings have been found
hid in the cave that is in Makeda. 18
And Joshua said, Roll stones to the mouth of the cave, and set
men to watch over them. 19 But do
not ye stand, but pursue after your enemies, and attack the rear of them, and do
not suffer them to enter into their cities; for the Lord our God has delivered
them into our hands. 20 And it came
to pass when Joshua and all Israel ceased destroying them utterly with a very
great slaughter, that they that escaped took refuge in the strong cities.
21 And all the people returned safe to
Joshua to Makeda; and no one of the children of Israel murmured with his tongue.
22 And Joshua said, Open the cave, and
bring out these five kings out of the cave. 23
And they brought out the five kings out of the cave, the king of
Jerusalem, and the king of Chebron, and the king of Jerimuth, and the king of
Lachis, and the king of Odollam. 24
And when they brought them out to Joshua, then Joshua called together all
Israel, and the chiefs of the army that went with him, saying to them, Come
forward and set your feet on their necks; and they came and set their feet on
their necks. 25 And Joshua said to
them, Do not fear them, neither be cowardly; be courageous and strong, for thus
the Lord will do to all your enemies, against whom ye fight.
26 And Joshua slew them, and hanged them on
five trees; and they hung upon the trees until the evening.
27 And it came to pass toward the setting
of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the trees, and cast
them into the cave into which they had fled for refuge, and rolled stones
to the cave, which remain till this day.
28 And they took Makeda on that day, and
slew the inhabitants with the edge of the sword, and they utterly destroyed
every living thing that was in it; and there was none left in it that was
preserved and had escaped; and they did to the king of Makeda, as they did to
the king of Jericho.
29 And Joshua and all Israel with him
departed out of Makeda to Lebna, and besieged Lebna. 30
And the Lord delivered it into the hands of Israel: and
they took it, and its king, and slew the inhabitants with the edge of the sword,
and every thing breathing in it; and there was not left in it any that survived
and escaped; and they did to its king, as they did to the king of Jericho.
31 And Joshua and all Israel with him
departed from Lebna to Lachis, and he encamped about it, and besieged it.
32 And the Lord delivered Lachis into the
hands of Israel; and they took it on the second day, and they put the
inhabitants to death with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed it, as
they had done to Lebna. 33 Then Elam
the king of Gazer went up to help Lachis; and Joshua smote him and his people
with the edge of the sword, until there was not left to him one that was
preserved and escaped.
34 And Joshua and all Israel with him
departed from Lachis to Odollam, and he besieged it and took it.
35 And the Lord delivered it into the hand
of Israel; and he took it on that day, and slew the inhabitants with the edge of
the sword, and slew every thing breathing in it, as they did to Lachis.
36 And Joshua and all Israel with him
departed to Chebron, and encamped about it. 37
And he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the living
creatures that were in it; there was no one preserved: they destroyed it and all
things in it, as they did to Odollam.
38 And Joshua and all Israel returned to
Dabir; and they encamped about it; 39
and they took it, and its king, and its villages: and he smote it
with the edge of the sword, and they destroyed it, and every thing breathing in
it; and they did not leave in it any one that was preserved: as they did to
Chebron and her king, so they did to Dabir and her king.
40 And Joshua smote all the land of the
hill country, and Nageb and the plain country, and Asedoth, and her kings, they
did not leave of them one that was saved: and they utterly destroyed every thing
that had the breath of life, as the Lord God of Israel commanded,
41 from Cades Barne to Gaza, all Gosom, as
far as Gabaon. 42 And Joshua smote,
once for all, all their kings, and their land, because the Lord God of Israel
fought on the side of Israel.
Chapter 11
11:1 And when Jabis the king of Asor
heard, he sent to Jobab king of Maron, and to the king of Symoon, and to the
king of Aziph, 2 and to the kings
who were by the great Sidon, to the hill country and to Araba opposite Keneroth,
and to the plain, and to Phenaeddor, 3
and to the Chananites on the coast eastward, and to the Amorites
on the coast, and the Chettites, and the Pherezites, and the Jebusites in the
mountain, and the Evites, and those dwelling under mount Aermon in the
land Massyma. 4 And they and their
kings with them went forth, as the sand of the sea in multitude, and horses, and
very many chariots. 5 And all the
kings assembled in person, and came to the same place, and encamped at the
waters of Maron to war with Israel.
6 And the Lord said to Joshua, Be not
afraid of them, for to-morrow at this time I will put them to flight
before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire
7 And Joshua and all the men of war
came upon them at the water of Maron suddenly; and they attacked them in the
hill country. 8 And the Lord
delivered them into the power of Israel; and they smote them and pursued them to
great Sidon, and to Maseron, and to the plains of Massoch eastward; and they
destroyed them till there was not one of them left that survived.
9 And Joshua did to them, as the Lord
commanded him: he houghed their horses, and burned their chariots with fire.
10 And Joshua returned at that time, and
took Asor and her king; now Asor in former time was the chief of these kingdoms.
11 And they slew with the sword all
that breathed in it, and utterly destroyed them all, and there was no living
thing left in it; and they burnt Asor with fire. 12
And Joshua took all the cities of the kingdoms, and their kings,
and slew them with the edge of the sword; and utterly slew them, as Moses the
servant of the Lord commanded. 13
But all the walled cities Israel burnt not; but Israel burnt Asor only.
14 And the children of Israel took all its
spoils to themselves; and they slew all the men with the edge of the sword,
until he destroyed them; they left not one of them breathing.
15 As the Lord commanded his servant Moses,
even so Moses commanded Joshua; and so Joshua did, he transgressed no precept of
all that Moses commanded him.
16 And Joshua took all the hill country,
and all the land of Nageb, and all the land of Gosom, and the plain country, and
that toward the west, and the mountain of Israel and the low country by the
mountain; 17 from the mountain of
Chelcha, and that which goes up to Seir, and as far as Balagad, and the plains
of Libanus, under mount Aermon; and he took all their kings, and destroyed, and
slew them. 18 And for many days
Joshua waged war with these kings.
19 And there was no city which Israel
took not; they took all in war. 20
For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts to go forth to war against Israel,
that they might be utterly destroyed, that mercy should not be granted to them,
but that they should be utterly destroyed, as the Lord said to Moses.
21 And Joshua came at that time, and
utterly destroyed the Enakim out of the hill country, from Chebron and from
Dabir, and from Anaboth, and from all the race of Israel, and from all the
mountain of Juda with their cities; and Joshua utterly destroyed them.
22 There was not any one left of the
Enakim by the children of Israel, only there was left of them in Gaza, and in
Gath, and in Aseldo.
23 And Joshua took all the land, as the
Lord commanded Moses; and Joshua gave them for an inheritance to Israel by
division according to their tribes; and the land ceased from war.
Chapter 12
12:1 And these are the kings of
the land, whom the children of Israel slew, and inherited their land beyond
Jordan from the east, from the valley of Arnon to the mount of Aermon, and all
the land of Araba on the east. 2
Seon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Esebon, ruling from Arnon, which is in
the valley, on the side of the valley, and half of Galaad as far as Jaboc, the
borders of the children of Ammon. 3
And Araba as far as the sea of Chenereth eastward, and as far as the sea of
Araba; the salt sea eastward by the way to Asimoth, from Thaeman under
Asedoth Phasga. 4 And Og king of
Basan, who dwelt in Astaroth and in Edrain, was left of the giants
5 ruling from mount Aermon and from Secchai,
and over all the land of Basan to the borders of Gergesi, and Machi, and
the half of Galaad of the borders of Seon king of Esebon.
6 Moses the servant of the Lord and the children of Israel
smote them; and Moses gave them by way of inheritance to Ruben, and Gad, and to
the half tribe of Manasse. 7 And
these are the kings of the Amorites, whom Joshua and the children of
Israel slew beyond Jordan by the sea of Balagad in the plain of Libanus, and as
far as the mountain of Chelcha, as men go up to Seir: and Joshua gave it to the
tribes of Israel to inherit according to their portion; 8
in the mountain, and in the plain, and in Araba, and in
Asedoth, and in the wilderness, and Nageb; the Chettite, and the Amorite, and
the Chananite, and the Pherezite, and the Evite, and the Jebusite.
9 The king of Jericho, and the king of
Gai, which is near Baethel; 10 the
king of Jerusalem, the king of Chebron, 11
the king of Jerimuth, the king of Lachis;
12 the king of Ælam, the king of Gazer;
13 the king of Dabir, the king of Gader:
14 the king of Hermath, the king of
Ader; 15 the king of Lebna, the king
of Odollam, 16 the king of Elath, 17 the king of Taphut, the king of Opher, 18
the king of Ophec of Aroc, 19
the king of Asom, 20
the king of Symoon, the king of Mambroth, the king of
Aziph, 21 the king of
Cades, the king of Zachac, 22
the king of Maredoth, the king of Jecom of Chermel,
23 the king of Odollam belonging to
Phennealdor, the king of Gei of Galilee: 24
the king of Thersa: all these were twenty-nine kings.
Chapter 13
13:1 And Joshua was old and very
advanced in years; and the Lord said to Joshua, Thou art advanced in years, and
there is much land left to inherit. 2
And this is the land that is left: the borders of the
Phylistines, the Gesirite, and the Chananite, 3
from the wilderness before Egypt, as far as the borders of
Accaron on the left of the Chananites the land is reckoned to the five
principalities of the Phylistines, to the inhabitant of Gaza, and of Azotus, and
of Ascalon, and of Geth, and of Accaron, and to the Evite;
4 from Thaeman even to all the land of
Chanaan before Gaza, and the Sidonians as far as Aphec, as far as the borders of
the Amorites. 5 And all the land of
Galiath of the Phylistines, and all Libanus eastward from Galgal, under the
mountain Aermon as far as the entering in of Emath; 6
every one that inhabits the hill country from Libanus as
far as Masereth Memphomaim. All the Sidonians, I will destroy them from before
Israel; but do thou give them by inheritance to Israel, as I charged thee.
7 And now divide this land by lot to the
nine tribes, and to the half tribe of Manasse. 8
From Jordan to the great sea westward thou shalt give it them:
the great sea shall be the boundary. But to the two tribes and to the
half tribe of Manasse, to Ruben and to Gad Moses gave an inheritance
beyond Jordan: Moses the servant of the Lord gave it to them eastward,
9 from Aroer, which is on the bank
of the brook of Arnon, and the city in the midst of the valley, and all Misor
from Maedaban. 10 All the cities of
Seon king of the Amorites, who reigned from Esebon to the coasts of the children
of Ammon; 11 and the region of
Galaad, and the borders of the Gesirites and the Machatites, the whole mount of
Aermon, and all the land of Basan to Acha. 12
All the kingdom of Og in the region of Basan, who reigned in
Astaroth and in Edrain: he was left of the giants; and Moses smote him, and
destroyed him. 13 But the children
of Israel destroyed not the Gesirite and the Machatite and the Chananite; and
the king of the Gesiri and the Machatite dwelt among the children of Israel
until this day.
14 Only no inheritance was given to the
tribe of Levi: the Lord God of Israel, he is their inheritance, as the
Lord said to them; and this is the division which Moses made to the
children of Israel in Araboth Moab, on the other side of Jordan, by Jericho.
15 And Moses gave the land to the tribe
of Ruben according to their families. 16
And their borders were from Aroer, which is opposite the brook of
Arnon, and theirs is the city that is in the valley of Arnon; and all
Misor, 17 to Esebon, and all the
cities in Misor, and Daebon, and Baemon-Baal, and the house of Meelboth;
18 and Basan, and Bakedmoth, and Maephaad,
19 and Kariathaim, and Sebama, and
Serada, and Sion in mount Enab; 20
and Baethphogor, and Asedoth Phasga, and Baetthasinoth, 21
and all the cities of Misor, and all the kingdom of Seon
king of the Amorites, whom Moses smote, even him and the princes of Madian, and
Evi, and Roboc, and Sur, and Ur, and Robe prince of the spoils of Sion, and the
inhabitants of Sion.
22 And Balaam the son of Baeor the
prophet they slew in the battle.
23 And the borders of Ruben were—even
Jordan was the boundary; this is the inheritance of the children
of Ruben according to their families, these were their cities and their
villages.
24 And Moses gave inheritance to the
sons of Gad according to their families. 25
And their borders were Jazer, all the cities of Galaad, and half
the land of the children of Ammon to Araba, which is before Arad.
26 And from Esebon to Araboth by Massepha,
and Botanim, and Maan to the borders of Daebon, 27
and Enadom, and Othargai, and Baenthanabra, and Soccotha, and
Saphan, and the rest of the kingdom of Sean king of Esebon: and Jordan shall be
the boundary as far as part of the sea of Chenereth beyond Jordan eastward.
28 This is the inheritance of
the children of Gad according to their families and according to their cities:
according to their families they will turn their backs before their enemies,
because their cities and their villages were according to their families.
29 And Moses gave to half the tribe of
Manasse according to their families. 30
And their borders were from Maan, and all the kingdom of Basan,
and all the kingdom of Og king of Basan, and all the villages of Jair, which are
in the region of Basan, sixty cities: 31
and the half of Galaad, and in Astaroth, and in Edrain, royal
cities of Og in the land of Basan, Moses gave to the sons of Machir the
sons of Manasse, even to the half-tribe sons of Machir the sons of Manasse,
according to their families. 32
These are they whom Moses caused to inherit beyond Jordan in Araboth
Moab, beyond Jordan by Jericho eastward.
Chapter 14
14:1 And these are they of the
children of Israel that received their inheritance in the land of Chanaan, to
whom Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the sonof Naue, and the heads of the
families of the tribes of the children of Israel, gave inheritance.
2 They inherited according to their lots,
as the Lord commanded by the hand of Joshua to the nine tribes and the half
tribe, on the other side of Jordan. 3
But to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.
4 For the sons of Joseph were two tribes,
Manasse and Ephraim; and there was none inheritance in the land given to the
Levites, only cities to dwell in, and their suburbs separated for the cattle,
and their cattle. 5 As the Lord
commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel; and they divided the land.
6 And the children of Juda came to
Joshua in Galgal, and Chaleb the son of Jephone the Kenezite said to him,
Thou knowest the word that the Lord spoke to Moses the man of God concerning me
and thee in Cades Barne. 7 For I was
forty years old when Moses the servant of God sent me out of Cades Barne to spy
out the land; and I returned him an answer according to his mind.
8 My brethren that went up with me turned
away the heart of the people, but I applied my self to follow the Lord my God.
9 And Moses sware on that day,
saying, The land on which thou art gone up, it shall be thy inheritance and thy
children’s for ever, because thou hast applied thyself to follow the Lord our
God. 10 And now the Lord has kept me
alive as he said: this is the forty-fifth year since the Lord spoke that
word to Moses; and Israel journeyed in the wilderness; and now, behold, I am
this day eighty-five years old. 11 I
am still strong this day, as when the Lord sent me: just so strong am I now to
go out and to come in for war. 12
And now I ask of thee this mountain, as the Lord said in that day; for thou
heardest this word on that day; and now the Enakim are there, cities great and
strong: if then the Lord should be with me, I will utterly destroy them, as the
Lord said to me.
13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave
Chebron to Chaleb the son of Jephone the son of Kenez for an inheritance.
14 Therefore Chebron became the inheritance
of Chaleb the son of Jephone the Kenezite until this day, because he
followed the commandment of the Lord God of Israel. 15
And the name of Chebron before was the city Argob, it
is the metropolis of the Enakim: and the land rested from war.
Chapter 15
15:1 And the borders of the tribe of
Juda according to their families were from the borders of Idumea from the
wilderness of sin, as far as Cades southward.
2 And their borders were from the south
as far as a part of the salt sea from the high country that extends southward.
3 And they proceed before the ascent
of Acrabin, and go out round Sena, and go up from the south to Cades Barne; and
go out to Asoron, and proceed up to Sarada, and go out by the way that is west
of Cades. 4 And they go out to
Selmona, and issue at the valley of Egypt; and the termination of its boundaries
shall be at the sea: these are their boundaries southward.
5 And their boundaries eastward are
all the salt sea as far as Jordan; and their borders from the north, and from
the border of the sea, and from part of Jordan— 6
the borders go up to Baethaglaam, and they go along from the
north to Baetharaba, and the borders go on up to the stone of Baeon the son of
Ruben. 7 And the borders continue on
to the fourth part of the valley of Achor, and go down to Galgal, which is
before the approach of Adammin, which is southward in the valley, and terminate
at the water of the fountain of the sun; and their going forth shall be the
fountain of Rogel. 8 And the borders
go up to the valley of Ennom, behind Jebus southward; this is Jerusalem: and the
borders terminate at the top of the mountain, which is before the valley of
Ennom toward the sea, which is by the side of the land of Raphain northward.
9 And the border going forth
from the top of the mountain terminates at the fountain of the water of Naphtho,
and terminates at mount Ephron; and the border will lead to Baal; this is the
city of Jarim. 10 And the border
will go round from Baal to the sea, and will go on to the mount of Assar behind
the city of Jarin northwards; this is Chaslon: and it will come down to the city
of Sun, and will go on to the south. 11
And the border terminates behind Accaron northward, and the
borders will terminate at Socchoth, and the borders will go on to the south, and
will terminate at Lebna, and the issue of the borders will be at the sea; and
their borders shall be toward the sea, the great sea shall be the
boundary. 12 These are the
borders of the children of Juda round about according to their families.
13 And to Chaleb the son of Jephone he
gave a portion in the midst of the children of Juda by the command of God; and
Joshua gave him the city of Arboc the metropolis of Enac; this is Chebron.
14 And Chaleb the son of Jephone
destroyed thence the three sons of Enac, Susi, and Tholami, and Achima.
15 And Chaleb went up thence to the
inhabitants of Dabir; and the name of Dabir before was the city of Letters.
16 And Chaleb said, Whosoever shall take
and destroy the city of Letters, and master it, to him will I give my daughter
Ascha to wife. 17 And Gothoniel the
son of Chenez the brother of Chaleb took it; and he gave him Ascha his daughter
to wife. 18 And it came to pass as
she went out that she counselled him, saying, I will ask of my father a field;
and she cried from off her ass; and Chaleb said to her, What is it?
19 And she said to him, Give me a blessing,
for thou hast set me in the land of Nageb; give me Botthanis: and he gave her
Gonaethla the upper, and Gonaethla the lower.
20 This is the inheritance of the
tribe of the children of Juda. 21
And their cities were cities belonging to the tribe of the children of Juda on
the borders of Edom by the wilderness, and Baeseleel, and Ara, and Asor,
22 and Icam, and Regma, and Aruel,
23 and Cades, and Asorionain, and Maenam,
24 and Balmaenan, and their
villages, 25 and the cities of
Aseron, this is Asor, 26 and
Sen, and Salmaa, and Molada, 27 and
Seri, and Baephalath, 28 and
Cholaseola, and Beersabee; and their villages, and their hamlets,
29 Bala and Bacoc, and Asom,
30 and Elboudad, and Baethel, and Herma,
31 and Sekelac, and Macharim, and
Sethennac, 32 and Labos, and Sale,
and Eromoth; twenty-nine cities, and their villages.
33 In the plain country Astaol, and Raa,
and Assa, 34 and Ramen, and Tano,
and Iluthoth, and Maeani, 35 and
Jermuth, and Odollam, and Membra, and Saocho, and Jazeca.
36 And Sacarim and Gadera, and its villages; fourteen
cities, and their villages; 37 Senna,
and Adasan, and Magadalgad, 38 and
Dalad, and Maspha, and Jachareel, 39
and Basedoth, and Ideadalea; 40
and Chabra, and Maches, and Maachos, 41
and Geddor, and Bagadiel, and Noman, and Machedan: sixteen
cities, and their villages; 42 Lebna,
and Ithac, and Anoch, 43 and Jana,
and Nasib, 44 and Keilam, and Akiezi,
and Kezib, and Bathesar, and Ælom: ten cities, and their villages;
45 Accaron and her villages, and their
hamlets: 46 from Accaron, Gemna, and
all the cities that are near Asedoth; and their villages.
47 Asiedoth, and her villages, and her hamlets; Gaza, and
its villages and its hamlets as far as the river of Egypt, and the great sea is
the boundary.
48 And in the hill country Samir, and
Jether, and Socha, 49 and Renna and
the city of Letters, this is Dabir; 50
and Anon, and Es, and Man, and Æsam, 51
and Gosom, and Chalu, and Channa, and Gelom: eleven
cities, and their villages; 52 Ærem,
and Remna, and Soma, 53 and Jemain,
and Baethachu, and Phacua, 54 and
Euma, and the city Arboc, this is Chebron, and Soraith: nine cities and their
villages: 55 Maor, and Chermel, and
Ozib, and Itan, 56 and Jariel, and
Aricam, and Zacanaim, 57 and Gabaa,
and Thamnatha; nine cities, and their villages; 58
Ælua, and Bethsur, and Geddon, 59
and Magaroth, and Baethanam, and Thecum; six cities, and their
villages; Theco, and Ephratha, this is Baethleem, and Phagor, and Ætan,
and Culon, and Tatam, and Thobes, and Carem, and Galem, and Thether, and Manocho:
eleven cities, and their villages, 60
Cariathbaal, this is the city of Jarim, and Sotheba: two
cities, and their villages: 61 and
Baddargeis, and Tharabaam, and Ænon; 62
and Æochioza, and Naphlazon, and the cities of Sadon, and Ancades;
seven cities, and their villages.
63 And the Jebusite dwelt in Jerusalem,
and the children of Juda could not destroy them; and the Jebusites dwelt in
Jerusalem to this day.
Chapter 16
16:1 And the borders of the children of
Joseph were from Jordan by Jericho eastward; and they will go up from Jericho to
the hill country, to the wilderness, to Baethel Luza. 2
And they will go out to Baethel, and will proceed to the
borders of Achatarothi. 3 And they
will go across to the sea to the borders of Aptalim, as far as the borders of
Baethoron the lower, and the going forth of them shall be to the sea.
4 And the sons of Joseph, Ephraim and
Manasse, took their inheritance.
5 And the borders of the children of
Ephraim were according to their families, and the borders of their inheritance
were eastward to Ataroth, and Eroc as far as Baethoron the upper, and Gazara.
6 And the borders will proceed to
the sea to Icasmon north of Therma; they will go round eastward to Thenasa, and
Selles, and will pass on eastward to Janoca, 7
and to Macho, and Ataroth, and these are their villages;
and they will come to Jericho, and will issue at Jordan. 8
And the borders will proceed from Tapho to the sea to
Chelcana; and their termination will be at the sea; this is the
inheritance of the tribe of Ephraim according to their families.
9 And the cities separated to the sons
of Ephraim were in the midst of the inheritance of the sons of Manasse,
all the cities and their villages. 10
And Ephraim did not destroy the Chananite who dwelt in Gazer; and
the Chananite dwelt in Ephraim until this day, until Pharao the king of Egypt
went up and took it, and burnt it with fire; and the Chananites, and Pherezites,
and the dwellers in Gaza they destroyed, and Pharao gave them for a dowry to his
daughter.
Chapter 17
17:1 And the borders of the tribe of the
children of Manasse, (for he was the first-born of Joseph,) assigned
to Machir the first-born of Manasse the father of Galaad, for he was a warrior,
were in the land of Galaad and of Basan. 2
And there was land assigned to the other sons of Manasse
according to their families; to the sons of Jezi, and to the sons of Kelez, and
to the sons of Jeziel, and to the sons of Sychem, and to the sons of Symarim,
and to the sons of Opher: these are the males according to their
families.
3 And Salpaad the sons of Opher had no
sons but daughters: and these are the names of the daughters of Salpaad;
Maala, and Nua, and Egla, and Melcha, and Thersa. 4
And they stood before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua, and
before the rulers, saying, God gave a charge by the hand of Moses, to give us an
inheritance in the midst of our brethren: so there was given to them by the
command of the Lord an inheritance among the brethren of their father.
5 And their lot fell to them from
Anassa, and to the plain of Labec of the land of Galaad, which is beyond
Jordan. 6 For the daughters of the
sons of Manasse inherited a portion in the midst of their brethren, and the land
of Galaad was assigned to the remainder of the sons of Manasse.
7 And the borders of the sons of Manasse
were Delanath, which is before the sons of Anath, and it proceeds to the borders
even to Jamin and Jassib to the fountain of Thaphthoth.
8 It shall belong to Manasse, and Thapheth
on the borders of Manasse shall belong to the sons of Ephraim.
9 And the borders shall go down to the
valley of Carana southward by the valley of Jariel, (there is a
turpentine tree belonging to Ephraim between that and the city of
Manasse:) and the borders of Manasse are northward to the brook; and the
sea shall be its termination. 10
Southward the land belongs to Ephraim, and northward to Manasse; and the
sea shall be their cost; and northward they shall border upon Aseb, and eastward
upon Issachar. 11 And Manasses shall
have in the portion of Issachar and Aser Baethsan and their villages, and
the inhabitants of Dor, and its villages, and the inhabitants of Mageddo, and
its villages, and the third part of Mapheta, and its villages.
12 And the sons of Manasse were not able
to destroy these cities; and the Chananite began to dwell in that land.
13 And it came to pass that when the
children of Israel were strong, they made the Chananites subject, but they did
not utterly destroy them.
14 And the sons of Joseph answered
Joshua, saying, Wherefore hast thou caused us to inherit one inheritance, and
one line? whereas I am a great people, and God has blessed me.
15 And Joshua said to them, If thou be a
great people, go up to the forest, and clear the land for thyself, If
mount Ephraim be too little for thee. 16
And they said, The mount of Ephraim does not please us, and the
Chananite dwelling in it in Baethsan, and in its villages, and in the
valley of Jezrael, has choice cavalry and iron. 17
And Joshua said to the sons of Joseph, If thou art a great
people, and hast great strength, thou shalt not have only one
inheritance. 18 For thou shalt have
the wood, for there is a wood, and thou shalt clear it, and the land
shall be thine; even when thou shalt have utterly destroyed the Chananite, for
he has chosen cavalry; yet thou art stronger than he.
Chapter 18
18:1 And all the congregation of the
children of Israel were assembled at Selo, and there they pitched the tabernacle
of witness; and the land was subdued by them.
2 And the sons of Israel remained,
even those who had not received their inheritance, seven tribes.
3 And Joshua said to the sons of
Israel, How long will ye be slack to inherit the land, which the Lord our God
has given you? 4 Appoint of
yourselves three men of each tribe, and let them rise up and go through the
land, and let them describe it before me, as it will be proper to divide it.
5 And they came to him: and he
divided to them seven portions, saying, Juda shall stand to them a border
southward, and the sons of Joseph shall stand to them northward.
6 And do ye divide the land into seven
parts, and bring the description hither to me, and I will give you a lot before
the Lord our God. 7 For the sons of
Levi have no part among you; for the priesthood of the Lord is his
portion; and Gad, and Ruben, and the half tribe of Manasse, have received their
inheritance beyond Jordan eastward, which Moses the servant of the Lord gave to
them.
8 And the men rose up and went; and
Joshua charged the men who went to explore the land, saying, Go and explore the
land, and come to me, and I will bring you forth a lot here before the Lord in
Selo. 9 And they went, and explored
the land: and they viewed it, and described it according to the cities, seven
parts in a book, and brought the book to Joshua. 10
And Joshua cast the lot for them in Selo before the Lord.
11 And the lot of the tribe of Benjamin
came forth first according to their families: and the borders of their lot came
forth between the children of Juda and the children of Joseph.
12 And their borders were northward: the
borders shall go up from Jordan behind Jericho northward, and shall go up to the
mountain westward, and the issue of it shall be Baethon of Mabdara.
13 And the borders will go forth thence to
Luz, behind Luz, from the south of it; this is Baethel: and the borders shall go
down to Maatarob Orech, to the hill country, which is southward of Baethoron the
lower.
14 And the borders shall pass through
and proceed to the part that looks toward the sea, on the south, from the
mountain in front of Baethoron southward, and its termination shall be at
Cariath-Baal, this is Cariath-Jarin, a city of the children of Juda; this is the
part toward the west.
15 And the south side on the part of
Cariath-Baal; and the borders shall go across to Gasin, to the fountain of the
water of Naphtho. 16 And the borders
shall extend down on one side, this is in front of the forest of Sonnam, which
is on the side of Emec Raphain northward, and it shall come down to Gaeenna
behind Jebusai southward: it shall come down to the fountain of Rogel.
17 And the borders shall go across
to the fountain of Baethsamys: 18
and shall proceed to Galiloth, which is in front by the going up of Æthamin; and
they shall come down to the stone of Baeon of the sons of Ruben; and shall pass
over behind Baetharaba northward, and shall go down to the borders behind the
sea northward. 19 And the
termination of the borders shall be at the creek of the salt sea northward to
the side of Jordan southward: these are their southern borders.
20 And Jordan shall be their boundary on
the east: this is the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, these
are their borders round about according to their families.
21 And the cities of the children of
Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Bethagaeo, and the
Amecasis, 22 and Baethabara, and
Sara, and Besana, 23 and Æein, and
Phara, and Ephratha, 24 and Carapha,
and Cephira, and Moni, and Gabaa, twelve cities and their villages:
25 Gabaon, and Rama, and Beerotha;
26 and Massema, and Miron, and Amoke;
27 and Phira, and Caphan, and Nacan,
and Selecan, and Thareela, 28 and
Jebus (this is Jerusalem); and Gabaoth, Jarim, thirteen cities, and their
villages; this is the inheritance of the sons of Benjamin according to
their families.
Chapter 19
19:1 And the second lot came out for the
children of Symeon; and their inheritance was in the midst of the lots of the
children of Juda. 2 And their lot
was Beersabee, and Samaa, and Caladam, 3
and Arsola, and Bola, and Jason, 4
and Erthula, and Bula, and Herma, 5
and Sikelac, and Baethmachereb, and Sarsusin,
6 and Batharoth, and their fields, thirteen
cities, and their villages. 7
Eremmon, and Thalcha, and Jether, and Asan; four cities and their villages,
8 round about their cities as far as
Balec as men go to Bameth southward: this is the inheritance of
the tribe of the children of Symeon according to their families.
9 The inheritance of the tribe of the
children of Symeon was a part of the lot of Juda, for the portion of the
children of Juda was greater than theirs; and the children of Symeon inherited
in the midst of their lot.
10 And the third lot came out to Zabulon
according to their families: the bounds of their inheritance shall be—Esedekgola
shall be their border, 11 the sea
and Magelda, and it shall reach to Baetharaba in the valley, which is opposite
Jekman. 12 And the border returned
from Sedduc in a contrary direction eastward from Baethsamys, to the borders of
Chaselothaith, and shall pass on to Dabiroth, and shall proceed upward to
Phangai. 13 And thence it shall come
round in the opposite direction eastward to Gebere to the city of Catasem, and
shall go on to Remmonaa Matharaoza. 14
And the borders shall come round northward to Amoth, and their
going out shall be at Gaephael, 15
and Catanath, and Nabaal, and Symoon, and Jericho, and Baethman.
16 This is the inheritance of the
tribe of the sons of Zabulon according to their families, these cities
and their villages.
17 And the fourth lot came out to
Issachar. 18 And their borders were
Jazel, and Chasaloth, and Sunam, 19
and Agin, and Siona, and Reeroth, 20
and Anachereth, and Dabiron, and Kison, and Rebes,
21 and Remmas, and Jeon, and Tomman, and
Æmarec, and Bersaphes. 22 And the
boundaries shall border upon Gaethbor, and upon Salim westward, and Baethsamys;
and the extremity of his bounds shall be Jordan. 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 to Aser
according to their families. 25 And
their borders were Exeleketh, and Aleph, and Baethok, and Keaph,
26 and Elimelech, and Amiel, and Maasa, and
the lot will border on Carmel westward, and on Sion, and Labanath.
27 And it will return westward from
Baethegeneth, and will join Zabulon and Ekgai, and Phthaeel northwards, and the
borders will come to Saphthaebaethme, and Inael, and will go on to Chobamasomel,
28 and Elbon, and Raab, and Ememaon,
and Canthan to great Sidon. 29 And
the borders shall turn back to Rama, and to the fountain of Masphassat, and the
Tyrians; and the borders shall return to Jasiph, and their going forth shall be
the sea, and Apoleb, and Echozob, 30
and Archob, and Aphec, and Raau. 31
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Aser
according to their families, the cities and their villages.
32 And the sixth lot came out to
Nephthali. 33 And their borders were
Moolam, and Mola, and Besemiin, and Arme, and Naboc, and Jephthamai, as far as
Dodam; and their goings out were Jordan. 34
And the coasts will return westward by Athabor, and will go out
thence to Jacana, and will border on Zabulon southward, and Aser will join it
westward, and Jordan eastward.
35 And the walled cities of the Tyrians,
Tyre, and Omathadaketh, and Kenereth, 36
and Armaith, and Areal, and Asor, 37
and Cades, and Assari, and the well of Asor;
38 and Keroe, and Megalaarim, and Baetthame,
and Thessamys. 39 This is the
inheritance of the tribe of the children of Nephthali.
40 And the seventh lot came out to Dan.
41 And their borders were Sarath,
and Asa, and the cities of Sammaus, 42
and Salamin, and Ammon, and Silatha, 43
and Elon, and Thamnatha, and Accaron;
44 and Alcatha, and Begethon, and Gebeelan,
45 and Azor, and Banaebacat, and
Gethremmon. 46 And westward of
Hieracon the border was near to Joppa. 47
This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan, according to
their families, these are their cities and their villages: and the
children of Dan did not drive out the Amorite who afflicted them in the
mountain; and the Amorite would not suffer them to come down into the valley,
but they forcibly took from them the border of their portion.
48 And the sons of Dan went and fought against Lachis,
and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword; and they dwelt in it, and
called the name of it Lasendan: and the Amorite continued to dwell in Edom and
in Salamin: and the hand of Ephraim prevailed against them, and they became
tribute to them.
49 And they proceeded to take possession
of the land according to their borders, and the children of Israel gave an
inheritance to Joshua the son of Naue among them, 50
by the command of God, and they gave him the city which he
asked for, Thamnasarach, which is in the mount of Ephraim; and he built the
city, and dwelt in it.
51 These are the divisions which
Eleazar the priest divided by lot, and Joshua the son of Naue, and the
heads of families among the tribes of Israel, according to the lots, in Selo
before the Lord by the doors of the tabernacle of testimony, and they went to
take possession of the land.
Chapter 20
20:1 And the Lord spoke to Joshua,
saying, 2 Speak to the children of
Israel, saying, Assign the cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by
Moses. 3 Even a refuge to the
slayer who has smitten a man unintentionally; and the cities shall be to you a
refuge, and the slayer shall not be put to death by the avenger of blood, until
he have stood before the congregation for judgment.
4 And Joshua separated Cades in Galilee
in the mount Nephthali, and Sychem in the mount Ephraim, and the city of Arboc;
this is Chebron, in the mountain of Juda.
5 And beyond Jordan he appointed
Bosor in the wilderness in the plain out of the tribe of Ruben, and Aremoth in
Galaad out of the tribe of Gad, and Gaulon in the country of Basan out of the
tribe of Manasse.
6 These were the cities selected
for the sons of Israel, and for the stranger abiding among them, that every one
who smites a soul unintentionally should flee thither, that he should not die by
the hand of the avenger of blood, until he should stand before the congregation
for judgment.
Chapter 21
21:1 And the heads of the families of
the sons of Levi drew near to Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son
of Naue, and to the heads of families of the tribes of Israel.
2 And they spoke to them in Selo in the
land of Chanaan, saying, The Lord gave commandment by Moses to give us cities to
dwell in, and the country round about for our cattle. 3
So the children of Israel gave to the Levites in their
inheritance by the command of the Lord the cities and the country round.
4 And the lot came out for the children
of Caath; and the sons of Aaron, the priests the Levites, had by lot thirteen
cities out of the tribe of Juda, and out of the tribe of Symeon, and out of the
tribe of Benjamin.
5 And to the sons of Caath that were
left were given by lot ten cities, out of the tribe of Ephraim, and out
of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasse.
6 And the sons of Gedson had thirteen
cities, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Aser, and out of
the tribe of Nephthali, and out of the half tribe of Manasse in Basan.
7 And the sons of Merari according to
their families had by lot twelve cities, out of the tribe of Ruben, and out of
the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zabulon.
8 And the children of Israel gave to the
Levites the cities and their suburbs, as the Lord commanded Moses, by lot.
9 And the tribe of the children of Juda,
and the tribe of the children of Symeon, and part of the tribe of the
children of Benjamin gave these cities, and they were assigned
10 to the sons of Aaron of the family of
Caath of the sons of Levi, for the lot fell to these. 11
And they gave to them Cariatharboc the metropolis of the
sons of Enac; this is Chebron in the mountain country of Juda, and the
suburbs round it. 12 But the lands
of the city, and its villages Joshua gave to the sons of Chaleb the son of
Jephonne for a possession.
13 And to the sons of Aaron he gave the
city of refuge for the slayer, Chebron, and the suburbs belonging to it; and
Lemna and the suburbs belonging to it; 14
and Ælom and its suburbs; and Tema and its suburbs;
15 and Gella and its suburbs; and Dabir and
its suburbs; 16 and Asa and its
suburbs; and Tany and its suburbs; and Baethsamys and its suburbs: nine cities
from these two tribes. 17 And from
the tribe of Benjamin, Gabaon and its suburbs; and Gatheth and its suburbs;
18 and Anathoth and its suburbs; and
Gamala and its suburbs; four cities. 19
All the cities of the sons of Aaron the priests, thirteen.
20 And to the families, even the
sons of Caath the Levites, that were left of the sons of Caath, there was
given their priests’ city, 21
out of the tribe of Ephraim; and they gave them the slayer’s city of refuge,
Sychem, and its suburbs, and Gazara and its appendages, and its suburbs;
22 and Baethoron and its suburbs: four
cities: 23 and the tribe of Dan,
Helcothaim and its suburbs; and Gethedan and its suburbs:
24 and Ælon and its suburbs; and Getheremmon and its
suburbs: four cities. 25 And out of
the half tribe of Manasse, Tanach and its suburbs; and Jebatha and its suburbs;
two cities. 26 In all were given
ten cities, and the suburbs of each belonging to them, to the families of the
sons of Caath that remained.
27 And Joshua gave to the sons of
Gedson the Levites out of the other half tribe of Manasse cities set apart for
the slayers, Gaulon in the country of Basan, and its suburbs; and Bosora and its
suburbs; two cities. 28 And out of
the tribe of Issachar, Kison and its suburbs; and Debba and its suburbs;
29 and Remmath and its suburbs; and the
well of Letters, and its suburbs; four cities. 30
And out of the tribe of Aser, Basella and its suburbs; and Dabbon
and its suburbs; 31 and Chelcat and
its suburbs; and Raab and its suburbs; four cities. 32
And of the tribe of Nephthali, the city set apart for the
slayer, Cades in Galilee, and its suburbs; and Nemmath, and its suburbs; and
Themmon and its suburbs; three cities. 33
All the cities of Gedson according to their families were
thirteen cities.
34 And to the family of the sons of
Merari the Levites that remained, he gave out of the tribe of Zabulon,
Maan and its suburbs; and Cades and its suburbs, 35
and Sella and its suburbs: three cities. 36
And beyond Jordan over against Jericho, out of the tribe
of Ruben, the city of refuge for the slayer, Bosor in the wilderness; Miso and
its suburbs; and Jazer and its suburbs; and Decmon and its suburbs; and Mapha
and its suburbs; four cities. 37 And
out of the tribe of Gad the city of refuge for the slayer, both Ramoth in
Galaad, and its suburbs; Camin and its suburbs; and Esbon and its suburbs; and
Jazer and its suburbs: the cities were four in all.
38 All these cities were given
to the sons of Merari according to the families of them that were left out of
the tribe of Levi; and their limits were the twelve cities.
39 All the cities of the Levites in the
midst of the possession of the children of Israel, were forty-eight
cities, 40 and their suburbs round
about these cities: a city and the suburbs round about the city to all these
cities: and Joshua ceased dividing the land by their borders: and the children
of Israel gave a portion to Joshua because of the commandment of the Lord: they
gave him the city which he asked: they gave him Thamnasachar in mount Ephraim;
and Joshua built the city, and dwelt in it: and Joshua took the knives of stone,
wherewith he circumcised the children of Israel that were born in the desert by
the way, and put them in Thamnasachar.
41 So the Lord gave to Israel all the
land which he sware to give to their fathers: and they inherited it, and dwelt
in it. 42 And the Lord gave them
rest round about, as he sware to their fathers: not one of all their enemies
maintained his ground against them; the Lord delivered all their enemies into
their hands. 43 There failed not one
of the good things which the Lord spoke to the children of Israel; all came to
pass.
Chapter 22
22:1 Then Joshua called together the
sons of Ruben, and the sons of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse,
2 and said to them, Ye have heard all that
Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, and ye have hearkened to my voice
in all that he commanded you. 3 Ye
have not deserted your brethren these many days: until this day ye have kept the
commandment of the Lord your God. 4
And now the Lord our God has given our brethren rest, as he told them: now then
return and depart to your homes, and to the land of your possession, which Moses
gave you on the other side Jordan. 5
But take great heed to do the commands and the law, which Moses
the servant of the Lord commanded you to do; to love the Lord our God, to walk
in all his ways, to keep his commands, and to cleave to him, and serve him with
all your mind, and with all your soul. 6
And Joshua blessed them, and dismissed them; and they went to
their homes.
7 And to one half the tribe of
Manasse Moses gave a portion in the land of Basan, and to the other half
Joshua gave a portion with his brethren on the other side of Jordan westward:
and when Joshua sent them away to their homes, then he blessed them.
8 And they departed with much wealth to
their houses, and they divided the spoil of their enemies with their brethren;
very much cattle, and silver, and gold, and iron, and much raiment.
9 So the sons of Ruben, and the sons of
Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse, departed from the children of Israel in Selo
in the land of Chanaan, to go away into Galaad, into the land of their
possession, which they inherited by the command of the Lord, by the hand of
Moses.
10 And they came to Galaad of Jordan,
which is in the land of Chanaan: and the children of Ruben, and the children of
Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse built there an alter by Jordan, a great altar
to look at. 11 And the children of
Israel heard say, Behold, the sons of Ruben, and the sons of Gad, and the half
tribe of Manasse have built an alter at the borders of the land of Chanaan at
Galaad of Jordan, on the opposite side to the children of Israel.
12 And all the children of Israel gathered
together to Selo, so as to go up and fight against them.
13 And the children of Israel sent to
the sons of Ruben, and the sons of Gad, and to the sons of the half tribe of
Manasse into the land of Galaad, both Phinees the son of Eleazar the son of
Aaron the priest, 14 and ten of the
chiefs with him; there was one chief of every household out of all the
tribes of Israel; (the heads of families are the captains of thousands in
Israel.) 15 And they came to the
sons of Ruben, and to the sons of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasse into the
land of Galaad; and they spoke to them, saying, 16
Thus says the whole congregation of the Lord, What is this
transgression that ye have transgressed before the God of Israel, to turn away
today from the Lord, in that ye have built for yourselves an alter, so that ye
should be apostates from the Lord? 17
Is the sin of Phogor too little for you, whereas we have not been
cleansed from it until this day, though there was a plague among the
congregation of the Lord? 18 And ye
have this day revolted from the Lord; and it shall come to pass if ye revolt
this day from the Lord, that to-morrow there shall be wrath upon all Israel.
19 And now if the land of your
possession be too little, cross over to the land of the possession of the
Lord, where the tabernacle of the Lord dwells, and receive ye an inheritance
among us; and do not become apostates from God, neither do ye apostatize from
the Lord, because of your having built an altar apart from the altar of the Lord
our God. 20 Lo! did not Achar the
son of Zara commit a trespass taking of the accursed thing, and there
was wrath on the whole congregation of Israel? and he himself died alone in his
own sin.
21 And the sons of Ruben, and the sons
of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse answered, and spoke to the captains of the
thousands of Israel, saying, 22 God
even God is the Lord, and God even God himself knows, and Israel
he shall know; if we have transgressed before the Lord by apostasy, let him not
deliver us this day. 23 And if we
have built to ourselves an altar, so as to apostatize from the Lord our God, so
as to offer upon it a sacrifice of whole-burnt-offerings, so as to offer upon it
a sacrifice of peace-offering, —the Lord shall require it.
24 But we have done this for the sake of
precaution concerning this thing, saying, Lest hereafter your sons should
say to our sons, What have ye to do with the Lord God of Israel?
25 Whereas the Lord has set boundaries
between us and you, even Jordan, and ye have no portion in the Lord: so your
sons shall alienate our sons, that they should not worship the Lord.
26 And we gave orders to do thus, to build
this altar, not for burnt-offerings, nor for meat-offerings;
27 but that this may be a witness between
you and us, and between our posterity after us, that we may do service to the
Lord before him, with our burnt-offerings and our meat-offerings and our
peace-offerings: so your sons shall not say to our sons, hereafter, Ye have no
portion in the Lord. 28 And we said,
If ever it should come to pass that they should speak so to us, or to our
posterity hereafter; then shall they say, Behold the likeness of the altar of
the Lord, which our fathers made, not for the sake of burnt-offerings, nor for
the sake of meat-offerings, but it is a witness between you and us, and between
our sons. 29 Far be it from us
therefore that we should turn away from the Lord this day so as to apostatize
from the Lord, so as that we should build an altar for burnt-offerings, and for
peace-offerings, besides the altar of the Lord which is before his tabernacle.
30 And Phinees the priest and all the
chiefs of the congregation of Israel who were with him heard the words which the
children of Ruben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse spoke;
and it pleased them. 31 And Phinees
the priest said to the sons of Ruben, and to the sons of Gad, and to the half of
the tribe of Manasse, To-day we know that the Lord is with us, because ye
have not trespassed grievously against the Lord, and because ye have delivered
the children of Israel out of the hand of the Lord. 32
So Phinees the priest and the princes departed from the
children of Ruben, and from the children of Gad, and from the half tribe of
Manasse out of Galaad into the land of Chanaan to the children of Israel; and
reported the words to them. 33 And
it pleased the children of Israel; and they spoke to the children of Israel, and
blessed the God of the children of Israel, and told them to go up no more to war
against the others to destroy the land of the children of Ruben, and the
children of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasse: so they dwelt upon it.
34 And Joshua gave a name to the altar
of the children of Ruben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of
Manasse; and said, It is a testimony in the midst of them, that the Lord is
their God.
Chapter 23
23:1 And it came to pass after many days
after the Lord had given Israel rest from all his enemies round about, that
Joshua was old and advanced in years. 2
And Joshua called together all the children of Israel, and their
elders, and their chiefs, and their judges, and their officers; and said to
them, I am old and advanced in years. 3
And ye have seen all that the Lord our God has done to all these
nations before us; for it is the Lord your God who has fought for you.
4 See, that I have given to you
these nations that are left to you by lots to your tribes, all the nations
beginning at Jordan; and some I have destroyed; and the boundaries shall
be at the great sea westward.
5 And the Lord our God, he shall destroy
them before us, until they utterly perish; and he shall send against them the
wild beasts, until he shall have utterly destroyed them and their kings from
before you; and ye shall inherit their land, as the Lord our God said to you.
6 Do ye therefore strive diligently
to observe and do all things written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye
turn not to the right hand or to the left; 7
that ye go not in among these nations that are left; and the
names of their gods shall not be named among you, neither shall ye serve them,
neither shall ye bow down to them. 8
But ye shall cleave to the Lord our God, as ye have done until
this day. 9 And the Lord shall
destroy them before you, even great and strong nations; and no one has
stood before us until this day. 10
One of you has chased a thousand, for the Lord our God, he fought for you, as he
said to us.
11 And take ye great heed to love the
Lord our God. 12 For if ye shall
turn aside and attach yourselves to these nations that are left with you, and
make marriages with them, and become mingled with them and they with you,
13 know that the Lord will no more destroy
these nations from before you; and they will be to you snares and
stumbling-blocks, and nails in your heels, and darts in your eyes, until ye be
destroyed from off this good land, which the Lord your God has given you.
14 But I hasten to go the way of
death, as all that are upon the earth also do: and ye know in your
heart and in your soul, that not one word has fallen to the ground of all
the words which the Lord our God has spoken respecting all that concerns us;
there has not one of them failed. 15
And it shall come to pass, that as all the good things are come
upon us which the Lord God will bring upon you all the evil things, until he
shall have destroyed you from off this good land, which the Lord has given you,
16 when ye transgress the covenant
of the Lord our God, which he has charged us, and go and serve other gods, and
bow down to them.
Chapter 24
24:1 And Joshua gathered all the tribe
of Israel to Selo, and convoked their elders, and their officers, and their
judges, and set them before God.
2 And Joshua said to all the people,
Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers at first sojourned beyond the
river, even Thara, the father of Abraam and the father of Nachor; and
they served other gods. 3 And I took |
