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ISA-11:9 ...for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD,

as the waters cover the sea.

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king james study

==== <JO1>

JO-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,

JO-1:2 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.

JO-1:3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon,

that have I

given unto you, as I said unto Moses.

JO-1:4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great

river, the

river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the

great sea toward

the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.

JO-1:5 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.

JO-1:6 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.

JO-1:7 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.

JO-1:8 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.

JO-1:9 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.

JO-1:10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people,

saying,

JO-1:11 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.

JO-1:12 And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half

the tribe of

Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying,

JO-1:13 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.

JO-1:14 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;

JO-1:15 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.

JO-1:16 And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou

commandest us we will

do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go.

JO-1:17 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.

JO-1:18 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.

==== <JO2>

JO-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.

JO-2:2 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.

JO-2:3 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.

JO-2:4 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]:

JO-2:5 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.

JO-2:6 But she had brought them up to the roof of the house,

and hid them

with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the

roof.

JO-2:7 And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto

the fords: and

as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they

shut the gate.

JO-2:8 And before they were laid down, she came up unto them

upon the roof;

JO-2:9 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.

JO-2:10 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.

JO-2:11 And as soon as we had heard [these things], our hearts

did melt,

neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of

you: for the

LORD your God, he [is] God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.

JO-2:12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD,

since I have

showed you kindness, that ye will also show kindness unto my

father's house,

and give me a true token:

JO-2:13 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.

JO-2:14 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.

JO-2:15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window:

for her house

[was] upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.

JO-2:16 And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest

the pursuers

meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the

pursuers be

returned: and afterward may ye go your way.

JO-2:17 And the men said unto her, We [will be] blameless of

this thine oath

which thou hast made us swear.

JO-2:18 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.

JO-2:19 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.

JO-2:20 And if thou utter this our business, then we will be

quit of thine

oath which thou hast made us to swear.

JO-2:21 And she said, According unto your words, so [be] it.

And she sent

them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in

the window.

JO-2:22 And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode

there three

days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought

[them]

throughout all the way, but found [them] not.

JO-2:23 So the two men returned, and descended from the

mountain, and passed

over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all

[things] that befell

them:

JO-2:24 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.

==== <JO3>

JO-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.

JO-3:2 And it came to pass after three days, that the officers

went through

the host;

JO-3:3 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.

JO-3:4 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.

JO-3:5 And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves:

for tomorrow the

LORD will do wonders among you.

JO-3:6 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.

JO-3:7 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.

JO-3:8 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.

JO-3:9 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither,

and hear the

words of the LORD your God.

JO-3:10 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.

JO-3:11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the LORD of all the

earth passeth

over before you into Jordan.

JO-3:12 Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of

Israel, out of

every tribe a man.

JO-3:13 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.

JO-3:14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their

tents, to

pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the

covenant before the

people;

JO-3:15 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,)

JO-3:16 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.

JO-3:17 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.

==== <JO4>

JO-4:1 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean

passed over

Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,

JO-4:2 Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every

tribe a man,

JO-4:3 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.

JO-4:4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared

of the

children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:

JO-4:5 And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of

the LORD your

God into the midst of Jordan, and take you up every man of you a

stone upon

his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the

children of

Israel:

JO-4:6 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?

JO-4:7 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.

JO-4:8 And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded,

and took up

twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD 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.

JO-4:9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan,

in the place

where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant

stood: and

they are there unto this day.

JO-4:10 For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst

of Jordan,

until every thing 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.

JO-4:11 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean

passed over, that

the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, in the

presence of the

people.

JO-4:12 And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad,

and half the

tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of

Israel, as Moses

spake unto them:

JO-4:13 About forty thousand prepared for war passed over

before the LORD

unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.

JO-4:14 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.

JO-4:15 And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,

JO-4:16 Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony,

that they

come up out of Jordan.

JO-4:17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye

up out of

Jordan.

JO-4:18 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.

JO-4:19 And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth [day]

of the first

month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.

JO-4:20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan,

did Joshua

pitch in Gilgal.

JO-4:21 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?

JO-4:22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel

came over this

Jordan on dry land.

JO-4:23 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:

JO-4:24 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.

==== <JO5>

JO-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.

JO-5:2 At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp

knives, and

circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.

JO-5:3 And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the

children of

Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

JO-5:4 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.

JO-5:5 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.

JO-5:6 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 show them the land, which the LORD sware unto their

fathers that

he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

JO-5:7 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.

JO-5:8 And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all

the people,

that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were

whole.

JO-5:9 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled

away the

reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place

is called

Gilgal unto this day.

JO-5:10 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.

JO-5:11 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.

JO-5:12 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.

JO-5:13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that

he lifted up

his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man 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?

JO-5:14 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?

JO-5:15 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.

==== <JO6>

JO-6:1 Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children

of Israel:

none went out, and none came in.

JO-6:2 And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into

thine hand

Jericho, and the king thereof, [and] the mighty men of valour.

JO-6:3 And ye shall compass the city, all [ye] men of war,

[and] go round

about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.

JO-6:4 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.

JO-6:5 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.

JO-6:6 And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said

unto them, Take

up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven

trumpets of rams'

horns before the ark of the LORD.

JO-6:7 And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the

city, and let

him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.

JO-6:8 And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the

people, that the

seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed

on before the

LORD, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of

the LORD

followed them.

JO-6:9 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.

JO-6:10 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.

JO-6:11 So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about

[it] once: and

they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.

JO-6:12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests

took up the ark

of the LORD.

JO-6:13 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.

JO-6:14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and

returned into

the camp: so they did six days.

JO-6:15 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.

JO-6:16 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the

priests blew with

the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the LORD

hath given you

the city.

JO-6:17 And the city shall be accursed, [even] it, and all that

[are]

therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and

all that [are]

with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we

sent.

JO-6:18 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.

JO-6:19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and

iron, [are]

consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of

the LORD.

JO-6:20 So the people shouted when [the priests] blew with the

trumpets: and

it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet,

and the

people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat,

so that the

people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and

they took the

city.

JO-6:21 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.

JO-6:22 But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out

the country,

Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and

all that she

hath, as ye sware unto her.

JO-6:23 And the young men that were spies went in, and brought

out Rahab, and

her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she

had; and they

brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of

Israel.

JO-6:24 And they burnt the city with fire, and all that [was]

therein: only

the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron,

they put into

the treasury of the house of the LORD.

JO-6:25 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.

JO-6:26 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.

JO-6:27 So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was [noised]

throughout all

the country.

==== <JO7>

JO-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.

JO-7:2 And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which [is]

beside Bethaven, 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.

JO-7:3 And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not

all the people

go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite

Ai; [and] make

not all the people to labour thither; for they [are but] few.

JO-7:4 So there went up thither of the people about three

thousand men: and

they fled before the men of Ai.

JO-7:5 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.

JO-7:6 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.

JO-7:7 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!

JO-7:8 O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their

backs before their

enemies!

JO-7:9 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?

JO-7:10 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore

liest thou thus

upon thy face?

JO-7:11 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.

JO-7:12 Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before

their

enemies, [but] turned [their] backs before their enemies,

because they were

accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy

the accursed

from among you.

JO-7:13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves

against

tomorrow: 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.

JO-7:14 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.

JO-7:15 And it shall be, [that] he that is taken with the

accursed thing

shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he

hath

transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath

wrought folly in

Israel.

JO-7:16 So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought

Israel by their

tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:

JO-7:17 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:

JO-7:18 And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the

son of Carmi,

the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was

taken.

JO-7:19 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.

JO-7:20 And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have

sinned against the

LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:

JO-7:21 When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment,

and two

hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels

weight, then I

coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they [are] hid in the

earth in the

midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

JO-7:22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent;

and, behold,

[it was] hid in his tent, and the silver under it.

JO-7:23 And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and

brought them

unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them

out before the

LORD.

JO-7:24 And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son

of Zerah, and

the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons,

and his

daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his

tent, and all

that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.

JO-7:25 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.

JO-7:26 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.

==== <JO8>

JO-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:

JO-8:2 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.

JO-8:3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up

against Ai: and

Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent

them away by

night.

JO-8:4 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:

JO-8:5 And I, and all the people that [are] with me, will

approach unto the

city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us,

as at the

first, that we will flee before them,

JO-8:6 (For they will come out after us) till we have drawn

them from the

city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first:

therefore we

will flee before them.

JO-8:7 Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon

the city: for

the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.

JO-8:8 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.

JO-8:9 Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie

in ambush, and

abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua

lodged that

night among the people.

JO-8:10 And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered

the people, and

went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

JO-8:11 And all the people, [even the people] of war that

[were] with him,

went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on

the north

side of Ai: now [there was] a valley between them and Ai.

JO-8:12 And he took about five thousand men, and set them to

lie in ambush

between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.

JO-8:13 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.

JO-8:14 And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw [it], that

they hasted

and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against

Israel to battle,

he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain;

but he wist not

that [there were] liers in ambush against him behind the city.

JO-8:15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten

before them,

and fled by the way of the wilderness.

JO-8:16 And all the people that [were] in Ai were called

together to pursue

after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away

from the city.

JO-8:17 And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went

not out after

Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.

JO-8:18 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.

JO-8:19 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and

they ran as soon

as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city,

and took it,

and hasted and set the city on fire.

JO-8:20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw,

and, behold, the

smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power

to flee this

way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness

turned back upon

the pursuers.

JO-8:21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had

taken the

city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned

again, and

slew the men of Ai.

JO-8:22 And the other issued out of the city against them; so

they were in

the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side:

and they smote

them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.

JO-8:23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to

Joshua.

JO-8:24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of

slaying all the

inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they

chased them,

and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until

they were

consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it

with the edge

of the sword.

JO-8:25 And [so] it was, [that] all that fell that day, both of

men and

women, [were] twelve thousand, [even] all the men of Ai.

JO-8:26 For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he

stretched out the

spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

JO-8:27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took

for a prey

unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he

commanded

Joshua.

JO-8:28 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever,

[even] a

desolation unto this day.

JO-8:29 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.

JO-8:30 Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel

in mount Ebal,

JO-8:31 As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children

of Israel, as

it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole

stones, over

which no man hath lift up [any] iron: and they offered thereon

burnt offerings

unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.

JO-8:32 And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of

Moses, which

he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

JO-8:33 And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and

their judges,

stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests

the Levites,

which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the

stranger, as he

that was born among them; half of them 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.

JO-8:34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the

blessings and

cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the

law.

JO-8:35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which

Joshua read

not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and

the little

ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.

==== <JO9>

JO-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];

JO-9:2 That they gathered themselves together, to fight with

Joshua and with

Israel, with one accord.

JO-9:3 And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had

done unto

Jericho and to Ai,

JO-9:4 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;

JO-9:5 And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old

garments upon them;

and all the bread of their provision was dry [and] mouldy.

JO-9:6 And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and

said unto him,

and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now

therefore make ye

a league with us.

JO-9:7 And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites,

Peradventure ye dwell

among us; and how shall we make a league with you?

JO-9:8 And they said unto Joshua, We [are] thy servants. And

Joshua said unto

them, Who [are] ye? and from whence come ye?

JO-9:9 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,

JO-9:10 And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites,

that [were]

beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of

Bashan, which [was]

at Ashtaroth.

JO-9:11 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.

JO-9:12 This our bread we took hot [for] our provision out of

our houses on

the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry,

and it is

mouldy:

JO-9:13 And these bottles of wine, which we filled, [were] new;

and, behold,

they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become

old by reason of

the very long journey.

JO-9:14 And the men took of their victuals, and asked not

[counsel] at the

mouth of the LORD.

JO-9:15 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.

JO-9:16 And it came to pass at the end of three days after they

had made a

league with them, that they heard that they [were] their

neighbours, and

[that] they dwelt among them.

JO-9:17 And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto

their cities on

the third day. Now their cities [were] Gibeon, and Chephirah,

and Beeroth, and

Kirjathjearim.

JO-9:18 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.

JO-9:19 But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We

have sworn

unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not

touch them.

JO-9:20 This we will do to them; we will even let them live,

lest wrath be

upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.

JO-9:21 And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let

them be hewers

of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the

princes had

promised them.

JO-9:22 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?

JO-9:23 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.

JO-9:24 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.

JO-9:25 And now, behold, we [are] in thine hand: as it seemeth

good and right

unto thee to do unto us, do.

JO-9:26 And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the

hand of the

children of Israel, that they slew them not.

JO-9:27 And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and

drawers of water for

the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this

day, in the

place which he should choose.

==== <JO10>

JO-10:1 Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek 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;

JO-10:2 That they feared greatly, because Gibeon [was] a great

city, as one

of the royal cities, and because it [was] greater than Ai, and

all the men

thereof [were] mighty.

JO-10:3 Wherefore Adonizedek 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,

JO-10:4 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.

JO-10:5 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of

Jerusalem, the

king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the

king of Eglon,

gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their

hosts, and

encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it.

JO-10:6 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.

JO-10:7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people

of war with

him, and all the mighty men of valour.

JO-10:8 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.

JO-10:9 Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, [and] went up

from Gilgal

all night.

JO-10:10 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

Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.

JO-10:11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel,

[and] were in

the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great

stones from heaven

upon them unto Azekah, and they died: [they were] more which

died with

hailstones than [they] whom the children of Israel slew with the

sword.

JO-10:12 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.

JO-10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until

the people had

avenged themselves upon their enemies. [Is] not this written in

the book of

Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and

hasted not to go

down about a whole day.

JO-10:14 And there was no day like that before it or after it,

that the LORD

hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for

Israel.

JO-10:15 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the

camp to

Gilgal.

JO-10:16 But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a

cave at Makkedah.

JO-10:17 And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are

found hid in a

cave at Makkedah.

JO-10:18 And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of

the cave, and

set men by it for to keep them:

JO-10:19 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.

JO-10:20 And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of

Israel had made

an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they

were consumed,

that the rest [which] remained of them entered into fenced

cities.

JO-10:21 And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at

Makkedah in

peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of

Israel.

JO-10:22 Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and

bring out those

five kings unto me out of the cave.

JO-10:23 And they did so, and brought forth those five kings

unto him out of

the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of

Jarmuth, the

king of Lachish, [and] the king of Eglon.

JO-10:24 And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings

unto Joshua,

that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the

captains of

the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet

upon the necks of

these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the

necks of them.

JO-10:25 And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed,

be strong and

of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies

against whom

ye fight.

JO-10:26 And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and

hanged them on

five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the

evening.

JO-10:27 And it came to pass at the time of the going down of

the sun, [that]

Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and

cast them into

the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the

cave's mouth,

[which remain] until this very day.

JO-10:28 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.

JO-10:29 Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with

him, unto

Libnah, and fought against Libnah:

JO-10:30 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.

JO-10:31 And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him,

unto

Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:

JO-10:32 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.

JO-10:33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and

Joshua smote

him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.

JO-10:34 And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all

Israel with him;

and they encamped against it, and fought against it:

JO-10:35 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.

JO-10:36 And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him,

unto Hebron;

and they fought against it:

JO-10:37 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.

JO-10:38 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir;

and fought

against it:

JO-10:39 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.

JO-10:40 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.

JO-10:41 And Joshua smote them from Kadeshbarnea even unto Gaza,

and all the

country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.

JO-10:42 And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at

one time,

because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.

JO-10:43 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the

camp to

Gilgal.

==== <JO11>

JO-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,

JO-11:2 And to the kings that [were] on the north of the

mountains, and of

the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the

borders of Dor

on the west,

JO-11:3 [And to] the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and

[to] the

Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in

the

mountains, and [to] the Hivite under Hermon in the land of

Mizpeh.

JO-11:4 And they went out, they and all their hosts with them,

much people,

even as the sand that [is] upon the sea shore in multitude, with

horses and

chariots very many.

JO-11:5 And when all these kings were met together, they came

and pitched

together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.

JO-11:6 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 hock their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.

JO-11:7 So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him,

against them by

the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them.

JO-11:8 And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel,

who smote them,

and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephothmaim, and

unto the valley

of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them

none remaining.

JO-11:9 And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he

hocked their

horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.

JO-11:10 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.

JO-11:11 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.

JO-11:12 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.

JO-11:13 But [as for] the cities that stood still in their

strength, Israel

burned none of them, save Hazor only; [that] did Joshua burn.

JO-11:14 And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the

children of

Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote

with the edge

of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they

any to breathe.

JO-11:15 As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses

command

Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that

the LORD

commanded Moses.

JO-11:16 So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the

south country,

and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and

the mountain of

Israel, and the valley of the same;

JO-11:17 [Even] from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir,

even unto

Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all

their kings he

took, and smote them, and slew them.

JO-11:18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.

JO-11:19 There was not a city that made peace with the children

of Israel,

save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all [other] they

took in battle.

JO-11:20 For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that

they should come

against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly,

[and] that they

might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the

LORD commanded

Moses.

JO-11:21 And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims

from the

mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the

mountains of

Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed

them utterly

with their cities.

JO-11:22 There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the

children of

Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.

JO-11:23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that

the LORD said

unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel

according to

their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.

==== <JO12>

JO-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:

JO-12:2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, [and]

ruled from

Aroer, which [is] upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the

middle of the

river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, [which

is] the border

of the children of Ammon;

JO-12:3 And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east,

and unto the

sea of the plain, [even] the salt sea on the east, the way to

Bethjeshimoth;

and from the south, under Ashdothpisgah:

JO-12:4 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, [which was] of the

remnant of the

giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,

JO-12:5 And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all

Bashan, unto

the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half

Gilead, the border

of Sihon king of Heshbon.

JO-12:6 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.

JO-12:7 And these [are] the kings of the country which Joshua

and the

children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from

Baalgad 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;

JO-12:8 In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains,

and in the

springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the

Hittites, the

Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and

the Jebusites:

JO-12:9 The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which [is]

beside Bethel,

one;

JO-12:10 The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;

JO-12:11 The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;

JO-12:12 The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;

JO-12:13 The king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;

JO-12:14 The king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;

JO-12:15 The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;

JO-12:16 The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;

JO-12:17 The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;

JO-12:18 The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;

JO-12:19 The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;

JO-12:20 The king of Shimronmeron, one; the king of Achshaph,

one;

JO-12:21 The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;

JO-12:22 The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel,

one;

JO-12:23 The king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of

the nations of

Gilgal, one;

JO-12:24 The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.

==== <JO13>

JO-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.

JO-13:2 This [is] the land that yet remaineth: all the borders

of the

Philistines, and all Geshuri,

JO-13:3 From Sihor, which [is] before Egypt, even unto the

borders of Ekron

northward, [which] is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of

the Philistines;

the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the

Gittites, and the

Ekronites; also the Avites:

JO-13:4 From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and

Mearah that [is]

beside the Sidonians unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:

JO-13:5 And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward

the sunrising,

from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.

JO-13:6 All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon

unto

Misrephothmaim, [and] all the Sidonians, them will I drive out

from before the

children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the

Israelites for an

inheritance, as I have commanded thee.

JO-13:7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto

the nine

tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,

JO-13:8 With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received

their

inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward,

[even] as Moses

the servant of the LORD gave them;

JO-13:9 From Aroer, that [is] upon the bank of the river Arnon,

and the city

that [is] in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba

unto Dibon;

JO-13:10 And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites,

which reigned in

Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;

JO-13:11 And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and

Maachathites, and

all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;

JO-13:12 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in

Ashtaroth and in

Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did

Moses smite,

and cast them out.

JO-13:13 Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the

Geshurites, nor

the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell

among the

Israelites until this day.

JO-13:14 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.

JO-13:15 And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben

[inheritance] according to their families.

JO-13:16 And their coast was from Aroer, that [is] on the bank

of the river

Arnon, and the city that [is] in the midst of the river, and all

the plain by

Medeba;

JO-13:17 Heshbon, and all her cities that [are] in the plain;

Dibon, and

Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon,

JO-13:18 And Jahaza, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,

JO-13:19 And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zarethshahar in the

mount of the

valley,

JO-13:20 And Bethpeor, and Ashdothpisgah, and Bethjeshimoth,

JO-13:21 And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom

of Sihon king

of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with

the princes

of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, [which

were] dukes of

Sihon, dwelling in the country.

JO-13:22 Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the

children of

Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.

JO-13:23 And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan,

and the border

[thereof]. This [was] the inheritance of the children of Reuben

after their

families, the cities and the villages thereof.

JO-13:24 And Moses gave [inheritance] unto the tribe of Gad,

[even] unto the

children of Gad according to their families.

JO-13:25 And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of

Gilead, and half

the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that [is] before

Rabbah;

JO-13:26 And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and

from Mahanaim

unto the border of Debir;

JO-13:27 And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and

Succoth, and

Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan

and [his]

border, [even] unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the

other side Jordan

eastward.

JO-13:28 This [is] the inheritance of the children of Gad after

their

families, the cities, and their villages.

JO-13:29 And Moses gave [inheritance] unto the half tribe of

Manasseh: and

[this] was [the possession] of the half tribe of the children of

Manasseh by

their families.

JO-13:30 And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the

kingdom of Og

king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which [are] in Bashan,

threescore

cities:

JO-13:31 And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of

the kingdom of

Og in Bashan, [were pertaining] unto the children of Machir the

son of

Manasseh, [even] to the one half of the children of Machir by

their families.

JO-13:32 These [are the countries] which Moses did distribute

for inheritance

in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan, by Jericho,

eastward.

JO-13:33 But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not [any]

inheritance: the

LORD God of Israel [was] their inheritance, as he said unto them.

==== <JO14>

JO-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.

JO-14:2 By lot [was] their inheritance, as the LORD commanded

by the hand of

Moses, for the nine tribes, and [for] the half tribe.

JO-14:3 For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and

an half tribe

on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none

inheritance among

them.

JO-14:4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh

and Ephraim:

therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save

cities to dwell

[in], with their suburbs for their cattle and for their

substance.

JO-14:5 As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel

did, and they

divided the land.

JO-14:6 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

Kadeshbarnea.

JO-14:7 Forty years old [was] I when Moses the servant of the

LORD sent me

from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word

again as [it

was] in mine heart.

JO-14:8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the

heart of the

people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.

JO-14:9 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.

JO-14:10 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.

JO-14:11 As yet I [am as] strong this day as [I was] in the day

that Moses

sent me: as my strength [was] then, even so [is] my strength now,

for war,

both to go out, and to come in.

JO-14:12 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.

JO-14:13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of

Jephunneh

Hebron for an inheritance.

JO-14:14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the

son of

Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly

followed the LORD

God of Israel.

JO-14:15 And the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjatharba;

[which Arba was] a

great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.

==== <JO15>

JO-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.

JO-15:2 And their south border was from the shore of the salt

sea, from the

bay that looketh southward:

JO-15:3 And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim,

and passed along

to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadeshbarnea, and

passed along

to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:

JO-15:4 [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.

JO-15:5 And the east border [was] the salt sea, [even] unto the

end of

Jordan. And [their] border in the north quarter [was] from the

bay of the sea

at the uttermost part of Jordan:

JO-15:6 And the border went up to Bethhogla, and passed along

by the north of

Betharabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son

of Reuben:

JO-15:7 And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of

Achor, and so

northward, looking toward Gilgal, that [is] before the going up

to Adummim,

which [is] on the south side of the river: and the border passed

toward the

waters of Enshemesh, and the goings out thereof were at Enrogel:

JO-15:8 And the border went up by the valley of the son of

Hinnom unto the

south side of the Jebusite; the same [is] Jerusalem: and the

border went up to

the top of the mountain that [lieth] before the valley of Hinnom

westward,

which [is] at the end of the valley of the giants northward:

JO-15:9 And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto

the fountain

of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount

Ephron; and the

border was drawn to Baalah, which [is] Kirjathjearim:

JO-15:10 And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto

mount Seir, and

passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which [is] Chesalon,

on the north

side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah:

JO-15:11 And the border went out unto the side of Ekron

northward: and the

border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah,

and went out

unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.

JO-15:12 And the west border [was] to the great sea, and the

coast [thereof].

This [is] the coast of the children of Judah round about

according to their

families.

JO-15:13 And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part

among the

children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to

Joshua, [even]

the city of Arba the father of Anak, which [city is] Hebron.

JO-15:14 And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai,

and Ahiman,

and Talmai, the children of Anak.

JO-15:15 And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and

the name of

Debir before [was] Kirjathsepher.

JO-15:16 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and

taketh it, to him

will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.

JO-15:17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb,

took it: and he

gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.

JO-15:18 And it came to pass, as she came [unto him], that she

moved him to

ask of her father a field: and she lighted off [her] ass; and

Caleb said unto

her, What wouldest thou?

JO-15:19 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.

JO-15:20 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children

of Judah

according to their families.

JO-15:21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children

of Judah

toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and

Jagur,

JO-15:22 And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,

JO-15:23 And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,

JO-15:24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,

JO-15:25 And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, [and] Hezron, which

[is] Hazor,

JO-15:26 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,

JO-15:27 And Hazargaddah, and Heshmon, and Bethpalet,

JO-15:28 And Hazarshual, and Beersheba, and Bizjothjah,

JO-15:29 Baalah, and Iim, and Azem,

JO-15:30 And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,

JO-15:31 And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,

JO-15:32 And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the

cities [are]

twenty and nine, with their villages:

JO-15:33 [And] in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,

JO-15:34 And Zanoah, and Engannim, Tappuah, and Enam,

JO-15:35 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,

JO-15:36 And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and

Gederothaim; fourteen

cities with their villages:

JO-15:37 Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdalgad,

JO-15:38 And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,

JO-15:39 Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,

JO-15:40 And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish,

JO-15:41 And Gederoth, Bethdagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah;

sixteen cities

with their villages:

JO-15:42 Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,

JO-15:43 And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,

JO-15:44 And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with

their

villages:

JO-15:45 Ekron, with her towns and her villages:

JO-15:46 From Ekron even unto the sea, all that [lay] near

Ashdod, with their

villages:

JO-15:47 Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her

towns and her

villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the

border

[thereof]:

JO-15:48 And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,

JO-15:49 And Dannah, and Kirjathsannah, which [is] Debir,

JO-15:50 And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,

JO-15:51 And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with

their villages:

JO-15:52 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean,

JO-15:53 And Janum, and Bethtappuah, and Aphekah,

JO-15:54 And Humtah, and Kirjatharba, which [is] Hebron, and

Zior; nine

cities with their villages:

JO-15:55 Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,

JO-15:56 And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,

JO-15:57 Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their

villages:

JO-15:58 Halhul, Bethzur, and Gedor,

JO-15:59 And Maarath, and Bethanoth, and Eltekon; six cities

with their

villages:

JO-15:60 Kirjathbaal, which [is] Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah; two

cities with

their villages:

JO-15:61 In the wilderness, Betharabah, Middin, and Secacah,

JO-15:62 And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and Engedi; six

cities with their

villages.

JO-15:63 As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the

children of

Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the

children of

Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.

==== <JO16>

JO-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.

JO-16:2 And goeth out from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along

unto the borders

of Archi to Ataroth,

JO-16:3 And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto

the coast of

Bethhoron the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings out thereof

are at the sea.

JO-16:4 So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took

their

inheritance.

JO-16:5 And the border of the children of Ephraim according to

their families

was [thus]: even the border of their inheritance on the east

side was

Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper;

JO-16:6 And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on

the north

side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanathshiloh, and

passed by it

on the east to Janohah;

JO-16:7 And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to

Naarath, and came to

Jericho, and went out at Jordan.

JO-16:8 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.

JO-16:9 And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim

[were] among the

inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with

their villages.

JO-16:10 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.

==== <JO17>

JO-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.

JO-17:2 There was also [a lot] for the rest of the children of

Manasseh by

their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the

children of Helek,

and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem,

and for the

children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these

[were] the male

children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.

JO-17:3 But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead,

the son of

Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and

these [are] the

names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and

Tirzah.

JO-17:4 And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and

before Joshua the

son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded

Moses to give

us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the

commandment

of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of

their father.

JO-17:5 And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside the

land of Gilead

and Bashan, which [were] on the other side Jordan;

JO-17:6 Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance

among his sons:

and the rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of Gilead.

JO-17:7 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 Entappuah.

JO-17:8 [Now] Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on

the border of

Manasseh [belonged] to the children of Ephraim;

JO-17:9 And the coast descended unto the river Kanah, southward

of the river:

these cities of Ephraim [are] among the cities of Manasseh: the

coast of

Manasseh also [was] on the north side of the river, and the

outgoings of it

were at the sea:

JO-17:10 Southward [it was] Ephraim's, and northward [it was]

Manasseh's, and

the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher on the

north, and in

Issachar on the east.

JO-17:11 And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Bethshean

and her towns,

and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her

towns, and the

inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants of

Taanach and her

towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, [even]

three countries.

JO-17:12 Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out [the

inhabitants

of] those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.

JO-17:13 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.

JO-17:14 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?

JO-17:15 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.

JO-17:16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not

enough for us: and

all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have

chariots of iron,

[both they] who [are] of Bethshean and her towns, and [they] who

[are] of the

valley of Jezreel.

JO-17:17 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]:

JO-17:18 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.

==== <JO18>

JO-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.

JO-18:2 And there remained among the children of Israel seven

tribes, which

had not yet received their inheritance.

JO-18:3 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?

JO-18:4 Give out from among you three men for [each] tribe: and

I will send

them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe

it according

to the inheritance of them; and they shall come [again] to me.

JO-18:5 And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall

abide in their

coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their

coasts on the

north.

JO-18:6 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.

JO-18:7 But the Levites have no part among you; for the

priesthood of the

LORD [is] their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the

tribe of

Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the

east, which

Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.

JO-18:8 And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged

them that went

to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and

describe it,

and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before

the LORD in

Shiloh.

JO-18:9 And the men went and passed through the land, and

described it by

cities into seven parts in a book, and came [again] to Joshua to

the host at

Shiloh.

JO-18:10 And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the

LORD: and there

Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to

their

divisions.

JO-18:11 And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin

came up

according to their families: and the coast of their lot came

forth between the

children of Judah and the children of Joseph.

JO-18:12 And their border on the north side was from Jordan;

and the border

went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up

through the

mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the

wilderness of

Bethaven.

JO-18:13 And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to

the side of Luz,

which [is] Bethel, southward; and the border descended to

Atarothadar, near

the hill that [lieth] on the south side of the nether Bethhoron.

JO-18:14 And the border was drawn [thence], and compassed the

corner of the

sea southward, from the hill that [lieth] before Bethhoron

southward; and the

goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which [is] Kirjathjearim,

a city of

the children of Judah: this [was] the west quarter.

JO-18:15 And the south quarter [was] from the end of

Kirjathjearim, and the

border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters

of Nephtoah:

JO-18:16 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 Enrogel,

JO-18:17 And was drawn from the north, and went forth to

Enshemesh, 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,

JO-18:18 And passed along toward the side over against Arabah

northward, and

went down unto Arabah:

JO-18:19 And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah

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.

JO-18:20 And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This

[was] the

inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof

round about,

according to their families.

JO-18:21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of

Benjamin according to

their families were Jericho, and Bethhoglah, and the valley of

Keziz.

JO-18:22 And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,

JO-18:23 And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,

JO-18:24 And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve

cities with their

villages:

JO-18:25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,

JO-18:26 And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,

JO-18:27 And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,

JO-18:28 And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which [is] Jerusalem,

Gibeath, [and]

Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This [is] the

inheritance of the

children of Benjamin according to their families.

==== <JO19>

JO-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.

JO-19:2 And they had in their inheritance Beersheba, and Sheba,

and Moladah,

JO-19:3 And Hazarshual, and Balah, and Azem,

JO-19:4 And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,

JO-19:5 And Ziklag, and Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusah,

JO-19:6 And Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and

their villages:

JO-19:7 Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and

their villages:

JO-19:8 And all the villages that [were] round about these

cities to

Baalathbeer, Ramath of the south. This [is] the inheritance of

the tribe of

the children of Simeon according to their families.

JO-19:9 Out of the portion of the children of Judah [was] the

inheritance of

the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah

was too much for

them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance

within the

inheritance of them.

JO-19:10 And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun

according to

their families: and the border of their inheritance was unto

Sarid:

JO-19:11 And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah,

and reached to

Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that [is] before Jokneam;

JO-19:12 And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising

unto the border

of Chislothtabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up

to Japhia.

JO-19:13 And from thence passeth on along on the east to

Gittahhepher, to

Ittahkazin, and goeth out to Remmonmethoar to Neah;

JO-19:14 And the border compasseth it on the north side to

Hannathon: and the

outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthahel:

JO-19:15 And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah,

and Bethlehem:

twelve cities with their villages.

JO-19:16 This [is] the inheritance of the children of Zebulun

according to

their families, these cities with their villages.

JO-19:17 [And] the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the

children of

Issachar according to their families.

JO-19:18 And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth,

and Shunem,

JO-19:19 And Haphraim, and Shihon, and Anaharath,

JO-19:20 And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez,

JO-19:21 And Remeth, and Engannim, and Enhaddah, and Bethpazzez;

JO-19:22 And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and

Bethshemesh;

and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities

with their

villages.

JO-19:23 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children

of Issachar

according to their families, the cities and their villages.

JO-19:24 And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the

children of Asher

according to their families.

JO-19:25 And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and

Achshaph,

JO-19:26 And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to

Carmel

westward, and to Shihorlibnath;

JO-19:27 And turneth toward the sunrising to Bethdagon, and

reacheth to

Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthahel toward the north side

of Bethemek,

and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand,

JO-19:28 And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, [even]

unto great

Zidon;

JO-19:29 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:

JO-19:30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two

cities with their

villages.

JO-19:31 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children

of Asher

according to their families, these cities with their villages.

JO-19:32 The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali,

[even] for the

children of Naphtali according to their families.

JO-19:33 And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to

Zaanannim, and Adami,

Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the outgoings thereof were

at Jordan:

JO-19:34 And [then] the coast turneth westward to Aznothtabor,

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.

JO-19:35 And the fenced cities [are] Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath,

Rakkath, and

Chinnereth,

JO-19:36 And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,

JO-19:37 And Kedesh, and Edrei, and Enhazor,

JO-19:38 And Iron, and Migdalel, Horem, and Bethanath, and

Bethshemesh;

nineteen cities with their villages.

JO-19:39 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children

of Naphtali

according to their families, the cities and their villages.

JO-19:40 [And] the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the

children of Dan

according to their families.

JO-19:41 And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and

Eshtaol, and

Irshemesh,

JO-19:42 And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,

JO-19:43 And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron,

JO-19:44 And Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath,

JO-19:45 And Jehud, and Beneberak, and Gathrimmon,

JO-19:46 And Mejarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Japho.

JO-19:47 And the coast of the children of Dan went out [too

little] for them:

therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem,

and took it,

and 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.

JO-19:48 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children

of Dan

according to their families, these cities with their villages.

JO-19:49 When they had made an end of dividing the land for

inheritance by

their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to

Joshua the son of

Nun among them:

JO-19:50 According to the word of the LORD they gave him the

city which he

asked, [even] Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and he built the

city, and dwelt

therein.

JO-19:51 These [are] the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest,

and Joshua

the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of

the children of

Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the

LORD, at the

door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end

of dividing

the country.

==== <JO20>

JO-20:1 The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying,

JO-20:2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out

for you cities

of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:

JO-20:3 That the slayer that killeth [any] person unawares

[and] unwittingly

may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger

of blood.

JO-20:4 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.

JO-20:5 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.

JO-20:6 And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before

the

congregation for judgment, [and] until the death of the high

priest that shall

be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto

his own city,

and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.

JO-20:7 And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali,

and Shechem

in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which [is] Hebron, in the

mountain of

Judah.

JO-20:8 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they

assigned Bezer

in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and

Ramoth in

Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the

tribe of

Manasseh.

JO-20:9 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.

==== <JO21>

JO-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;

JO-21:2 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.

JO-21:3 And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of

their

inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and

their suburbs.

JO-21:4 And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites:

and the

children of Aaron the priest, [which were] of the Levites, had

by lot out of

the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of

the tribe of

Benjamin, thirteen cities.

JO-21:5 And the rest of the children of Kohath [had] by lot out

of the

families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan,

and out of the

half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.

JO-21:6 And the children of Gershon [had] by lot out of the

families of the

tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the

tribe of

Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan,

thirteen cities.

JO-21:7 The children of Merari by their families [had] out of

the tribe of

Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of

Zebulun, twelve

cities.

JO-21:8 And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites

these cities

with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.

JO-21:9 And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah,

and out of

the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are

[here] mentioned

by name,

JO-21:10 Which the children of Aaron, [being] of the families

of the

Kohathites, [who were] of the children of Levi, had: for theirs

was the first

lot.

JO-21:11 And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak,

which [city

is] Hebron, in the hill [country] of Judah, with the suburbs

thereof round

about it.

JO-21:12 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof,

gave they to

Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

JO-21:13 Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest

Hebron with her

suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah

with her suburbs,

JO-21:14 And Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her

suburbs,

JO-21:15 And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs,

JO-21:16 And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs,

[and]

Bethshemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two

tribes.

JO-21:17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her

suburbs, Geba with

her suburbs,

JO-21:18 Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs;

four cities.

JO-21:19 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests,

[were]

thirteen cities with their suburbs.

JO-21:20 And the families of the children of Kohath, the

Levites which

remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of

their lot out

of the tribe of Ephraim.

JO-21:21 For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount

Ephraim, [to

be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,

JO-21:22 And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her

suburbs; four

cities.

JO-21:23 And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs,

Gibbethon

with her suburbs,

JO-21:24 Aijalon with her suburbs, Gathrimmon with her suburbs;

four cities.

JO-21:25 And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her

suburbs, and

Gathrimmon with her suburbs; two cities.

JO-21:26 All the cities [were] ten with their suburbs for the

families of the

children of Kohath that remained.

JO-21:27 And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of

the Levites,

out of the [other] half tribe of Manasseh [they gave] Golan in

Bashan with her

suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Beeshterah

with her

suburbs; two cities.

JO-21:28 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her

suburbs, Dabareh

with her suburbs,

JO-21:29 Jarmuth with her suburbs, Engannim with her suburbs;

four cities.

JO-21:30 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her suburbs,

Abdon with

her suburbs,

JO-21:31 Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs;

four cities.

JO-21:32 And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee

with her

suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammothdor

with her

suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs; three cities.

JO-21:33 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their

families [were]

thirteen cities with their suburbs.

JO-21:34 And unto the families of the children of Merari, the

rest of the

Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs,

and Kartah

with her suburbs,

JO-21:35 Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs;

four cities.

JO-21:36 And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs,

and Jahazah

with her suburbs,

JO-21:37 Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her

suburbs; four

cities.

JO-21:38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her

suburbs, [to

be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her

suburbs,

JO-21:39 Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four

cities in

all.

JO-21:40 So all the cities for the children of Merari by their

families,

which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were [by]

their lot

twelve cities.

JO-21:41 All the cities of the Levites within the possession of

the children

of Israel [were] forty and eight cities with their suburbs.

JO-21:42 These cities were every one with their suburbs round

about them:

thus [were] all these cities.

JO-21:43 And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he

sware to give

unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.

JO-21:44 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.

JO-21:45 There failed not ought of any good thing which the

LORD had spoken

unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.

==== <JO22>

JO-22:1 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and

the half

tribe of Manasseh,

JO-22:2 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:

JO-22:3 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.

JO-22:4 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.

JO-22:5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the

law, which Moses

the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God,

and to walk in

all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto

him, and to

serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

JO-22:6 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they

went unto their

tents.

JO-22:7 Now to the [one] half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses

had given

[possession] in Bashan: but unto the [other] half thereof gave

Joshua among

their brethren on this side Jordan westward. And when Joshua

sent them away

also unto their tents, then he blessed them,

JO-22:8 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.

JO-22:9 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and

the half tribe

of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel

out of Shiloh,

which [is] in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of

Gilead, to the

land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according

to the word

of the LORD by the hand of Moses.

JO-22:10 And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that

[are] in the

land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad

and the half

tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar

to see to.

JO-22:11 And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the

children of Reuben

and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have

built an altar

over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at

the passage of

the children of Israel.

JO-22:12 And when the children of Israel heard [of it], the

whole

congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves

together at Shiloh,

to go up to war against them.

JO-22:13 And the children of Israel sent unto the children of

Reuben, and to

the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the

land of

Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,

JO-22:14 And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince

throughout

all the tribes of Israel; and each one [was] an head of the

house of their

fathers among the thousands of Israel.

JO-22:15 And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the

children of

Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead,

and they

spake with them, saying,

JO-22:16 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?

JO-22:17 [Is] the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from

which we are not

cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the

congregation of

the LORD,

JO-22:18 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.

JO-22:19 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.

JO-22:20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in

the accursed

thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and

that man perished

not alone in his iniquity.

JO-22:21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad

and the half

tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the

thousands of

Israel,

JO-22:22 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,)

JO-22:23 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];

JO-22:24 And if we have not [rather] done it for fear of [this]

thing,

saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our

children, saying,

What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?

JO-22:25 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.

JO-22:26 Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an

altar, not for

burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:

JO-22:27 But [that] it [may be] a witness between us, and you,

and our

generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD

before him with

our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace

offerings;

that your children may not say to our children in time to come,

Ye have no

part in the LORD.

JO-22:28 Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should

[so] say to us

or to our generations in time to come, that we may say [again],

Behold the

pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not

for burnt

offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it [is] a witness between us

and you.

JO-22:29 God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and

turn this day

from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings,

for meat

offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD our

God that [is]

before his tabernacle.

JO-22:30 And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the

congregation

and heads of the thousands of Israel which [were] with him,

heard the words

that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the

children of

Manasseh spake, it pleased them.

JO-22:31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto

the children of

Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of

Manasseh, This day

we perceive that the LORD [is] among us, because ye have not

committed this

trespass against the LORD: now ye have delivered the children of

Israel out of

the hand of the LORD.

JO-22:32 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the

princes,

returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of

Gad, out of the

land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of

Israel, and

brought them word again.

JO-22:33 And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the

children of

Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in

battle, to

destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.

JO-22:34 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad

called the altar

[Ed]: for it [shall be] a witness between us that the LORD [is]

God.

==== <JO23>

JO-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.

JO-23:2 And Joshua called for all Israel, [and] for their

elders, and for

their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and

said unto them,

I am old [and] stricken in age:

JO-23:3 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.

JO-23:4 Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations

that remain, to

be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the

nations that I

have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.

JO-23:5 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.

JO-23:6 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;

JO-23:7 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:

JO-23:8 But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto

this day.

JO-23:9 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.

JO-23:10 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.

JO-23:11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love

the LORD your

God.

JO-23:12 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:

JO-23:13 Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no

more drive out

[any of] these nations from before you; but they shall be snares

and traps

unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes,

until ye perish

from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.

JO-23:14 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.

JO-23:15 Therefore it shall come to pass, [that] as all good

things are come

upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the

LORD bring upon

you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this

good land which

the LORD your God hath given you.

JO-23:16 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.

==== <JO24>

JO-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.

JO-24:2 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.

JO-24:3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of

the flood, and

led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his

seed, and gave

him Isaac.

JO-24:4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto

Esau mount

Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into

Egypt.

JO-24:5 I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt,

according to that

which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.

JO-24:6 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.

JO-24:7 And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness

between you and

the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them;

and your eyes

have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the

wilderness a long

season.

JO-24:8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which

dwelt on the

other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them

into your hand,

that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from

before you.

JO-24:9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and

warred against

Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:

JO-24:10 But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he

blessed you still:

so I delivered you out of his hand.

JO-24:11 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.

JO-24:12 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.

JO-24:13 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.

JO-24:14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in

sincerity and in

truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the

other side of

the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.

JO-24:15 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.

JO-24:16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we

should forsake

the LORD, to serve other gods;

JO-24:17 For the LORD our God, he [it is] that brought us up

and our fathers

out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which

did those great

signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we

went, and among

all the people through whom we passed:

JO-24:18 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.

JO-24:19 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.

JO-24:20 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.

JO-24:21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will

serve the LORD.

JO-24:22 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.

JO-24:23 Now therefore put away, [said he], the strange gods

which [are]

among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.

JO-24:24 And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will

we serve, and

his voice will we obey.

JO-24:25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day,

and set them a

statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

JO-24:26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of

God, and took

a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that [was] by

the sanctuary

of the LORD.

JO-24:27 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.

JO-24:28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his

inheritance.

JO-24:29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua

the son of Nun,

the servant of the LORD, died, [being] an hundred and ten years

old.

JO-24:30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in

Timnathserah, which [is] in mount Ephraim, on the north side of

the hill of

Gaash.

JO-24:31 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.

JO-24:32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel

brought up out

of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which

Jacob bought of

the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of

silver: and

it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

JO-24:33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him

in a hill

[that pertained to] Phinehas his son, which was given him in

mount Ephraim.