
The Book of Joshua

   {1:1} Now it came to pass after the death of Moses the servant of
Jehovah, that Jehovah spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses'
minister, saying, {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. {1:3} Every place that
the sole of your foot shall tread upon, to you have I given it, as I
spake unto Moses. {1:4} From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even
unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the
Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun,
shall be your border. {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. {1:6} Be strong and
of good courage; for thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land
which I sware unto their fathers to give them. {1:7} Only be strong and
very courageous, to 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 have good success whithersoever thou goest.
{1:8} This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou
shalt meditate thereon 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. {1:9} Have not I
commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not affrighted,
neither be thou dismayed: for Jehovah thy God is with thee
whithersoever thou goest.

   {1:10} Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,
{1:11} Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people,
saying, Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye are to pass over
this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which Jehovah your God
giveth you to possess it.

   {1:12} And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the
half-tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying, {1:13} Remember the word
which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, saying, Jehovah your
God giveth you rest, and will give you this land. {1:14} Your wives,
your little ones, and your cattle, shall abide in the land which Moses
gave you beyond the Jordan; but ye shall pass over before your brethren
armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them; {1:15} until
Jehovah have given your brethren rest, as [he hath given] you, and they
also have possessed the land which Jehovah your God giveth them: then
ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and possess it, which
Moses the servant of Jehovah gave you beyond the Jordan toward the
sunrising. {1:16} And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou hast
commanded us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us we will go.
{1:17} According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we
hearken unto thee: only Jehovah thy God be with thee, as he was with
Moses. {1:18} Whosoever he be that shall rebel against thy commandment,
and shall not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him,
he shall be put to death: only be strong and of good courage.



   {2:1} And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men as spies
secretly, saying, Go, view the land, and Jericho. And they went and
came into the house of a harlot whose name was Rahab, and lay there.
{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
land. {2:3} And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring
forth the men that are come to thee, that are entered into thy house;
for they are come to search out all the land. {2:4} And the woman took
the two men, and hid them; and she said, Yea, the men came unto me, but
I knew not whence they were: {2:5} and it came to pass about the time
of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out;
whither the men went I know not: pursue after them quickly; for ye will
overtake them. {2:6} But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid
them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the
roof. {2:7} And the men pursued after them the way to the Jordan unto
the fords: and as soon as they that pursued after them were gone out,
they shut the gate.

   {2:8} And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the
roof; {2:9} and she said unto the men, I know that Jehovah hath given
you the land, and that the fear of you is fallen upon us, and that all
the inhabitants of the land melt away before you. {2:10} For we have
heard how Jehovah dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when ye
came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites,
that were beyond the Jordan, unto Sihon and to Og, whom ye utterly
destroyed. {2:11} And as soon as we had heard it, our hearts did melt,
neither did there remain any more spirit in any man, because of you:
for Jehovah your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.
{2:12} Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by Jehovah, since I
have dealt kindly with you, that ye also will deal kindly with my
father's house, and give me a true token; {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 will deliver our lives from death. {2:14} And
the men said unto her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our
business; and it shall be, when Jehovah giveth us the land, that we
will deal kindly and truly with thee.

   {2:15} Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her
house was upon the side of the wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
{2:16} And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the
pursuers light upon you; and hide yourselves there three days, until
the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way. {2:17} And
the men said unto her, We will be guiltless of this thine oath which
thou hast made us to swear. {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 gather unto thee into the house
thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's
household. {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 shall be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the
house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him. {2:20}
But if thou utter this our business, then we shall be guiltless of
thine oath which thou hast made us to swear. {2:21} And she said,
According unto your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they
departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.

   {2:22} And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there
three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought
them throughout all the way, but found them not. {2:23} Then the two
men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and
came to Joshua the son of Nun; and they told him all that had befallen
them. {2:24} And they said unto Joshua, Truly Jehovah hath delivered
into our hands all the land; and moreover all the inhabitants of the
land do melt away before us.



   {3:1} And Joshua rose up early in the morning; and they removed from
Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel; and
they lodged there before they passed over. {3:2} And it came to pass
after three days, that the officers went through the midst of the camp;
{3:3} and they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the
covenant of Jehovah your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it,
then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it. {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. {3:5} And Joshua
said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Jehovah will do
wonders among you. {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.

   {3:7} And Jehovah 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. {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 waters of the Jordan, ye shall stand still in the Jordan.
{3:9} And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and
hear the words of Jehovah your God. {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 Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the
Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the
Jebusite. {3:11} Behold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the
earth passeth over before you into the Jordan. {3:12} Now therefore
take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
{3:13} And it shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the
priests that bear the ark of Jehovah, the Lord of all the earth, shall
rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall
be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall
stand in one heap.

   {3:14} And it came to pass, when the people removed from their
tents, to pass over the Jordan, the priests that bare the ark of the
covenant being before the people; {3:15} and when they that bare the
ark were come unto the Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare
the ark were dipped in the brink of the water (for the Jordan
overfloweth all its banks all the time of harvest,) {3:16} that the
waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a
great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those
that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were
wholly cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
{3:17} And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah
stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan; and all Israel
passed over on dry ground, until all the nation were passed clean over
the Jordan.





   {4:1} And it came to pass, when all the nation were clean passed
over the Jordan, that Jehovah spake unto Joshua, saying, {4:2} Take you
twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, {4:3} and
command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of the Jordan,
out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and
carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging-place, where
ye shall lodge this night. {4:4} Then Joshua called the twelve men,
whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a
man: {4:5} and Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of
Jehovah your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take you up every
man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the
tribes of the children of Israel; {4:6} that this may be a sign among
you, that, when your children ask in time to come, saying, What mean ye
by these stones? {4:7} then ye shall say unto them, Because the waters
of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah;
when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off:
and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel
for ever.

   {4:8} And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and
took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as Jehovah spake
unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of
Israel; and they carried them over with them unto the place where they
lodged, and laid them down there. {4:9} And Joshua set up twelve stones
in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests
that bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this
day. {4:10} For the priests that bare the ark stood in the midst of the
Jordan, until everything was finished that Jehovah commanded Joshua to
speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua:
and the people hasted and passed over. {4:11} And it came to pass, when
all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of Jehovah passed
over, and the priests, in the presence of the people. {4:12} And the
children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of
Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses
spake unto them: {4:13} about forty thousand ready armed for war passed
over before Jehovah unto battle, to the plains of Jericho. {4:14} On
that day Jehovah magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they
feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.

   {4:15} And Jehovah spake unto Joshua, saying, {4:16} Command the
priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of
the Jordan. {4:17} Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come
ye up out of the Jordan. {4:18} And it came to pass, when the priests
that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah were come up out of the
midst of the Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up
unto the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned unto their
place, and went over all its banks, as aforetime.

   {4:19} And the people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of
the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho.
{4:20} And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, did
Joshua set up in Gilgal. {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? {4:22} Then ye shall let your
children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. {4:23}
For Jehovah your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you,
until ye were passed over, as Jehovah your God did to the Red Sea,
which he dried up from before us, until we were passed over; {4:24}
that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of Jehovah, that it
is mighty; that ye may fear Jehovah your God for ever.





   {5:1} And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, that
were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites,
that were by the sea, heard how that Jehovah had dried up the waters of
the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed
over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any
more, because of the children of Israel.

   {5:2} At that time Jehovah said unto Joshua, Make thee knives of
flint, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
{5:3} And Joshua made him knives of lint, and circumcised the children
of Israel at the hill of the foreskins. {5:4} And this is the cause why
Joshua did circumcise: all the people that came forth out of Egypt,
that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the
way, after they came forth out of Egypt. {5:5} For 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, they had not
circumcised. {5:6} For the children of Israel walked forty years in the
wilderness, till all the nation, even the men of war that came forth
out of Egypt, were consumed, because they hearkened not unto the voice
of Jehovah: unto whom Jehovah sware that he would not let them see the
land which Jehovah sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a
land flowing with milk and honey. {5:7} And their children, whom he
raised up in their stead, them did Joshua circumcise: for they were
uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way. {5:8}
And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the nation,
that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.
{5:9} And Jehovah said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the
reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of that place was
called Gilgal, unto this day.

   {5:10} And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal; and they kept
the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains
of Jericho. {5:11} And they did eat of the produce of the land on the
morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes and parched grain, in the
selfsame day. {5:12} And the manna ceased on the morrow, after they had
eaten of the produce of the land; neither had the children of Israel
manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan
that year.

   {5:13} And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he
lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man 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? {5:14} And
he said, Nay; but [as] prince of the host of Jehovah 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? {5:15} And the prince of
Jehovah's host said unto Joshua, Put off thy shoe from off thy foot;
for the place whereon thou standest is holy. And Joshua did so.



   {6:1} Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of
Israel: none went out, and none came in. {6:2} And Jehovah said unto
Joshua, See, I have given into thy hand Jericho, and the king thereof,
and the mighty men of valor. {6:3} And ye shall compass the city, all
the men of war, going about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
{6:4} And seven priests shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before
the ark: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and
the priests shall blow the trumpets. {6:5} And it shall be, 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 go up every
man straight before him. {6:6} And Joshua the son of Nun called the
priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let
seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of
Jehovah. {6:7} And they said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the
city, and let the armed men pass on before the ark of Jehovah.

   {6:8} And it was so, that, when Joshua had spoken unto the people,
the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before
Jehovah passed on, and blew the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant
of Jehovah followed them. {6:9} And the armed men went before the
priests that blew the trumpets, and the rearward went after the ark,
[the priests] blowing the trumpets as they went. {6:10} And Joshua
commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor let your voice be
heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day
I bid you shout; then shall ye shout. {6:11} So he caused the ark of
Jehovah to compass the city, going about it once: and they came into
the camp, and lodged in the camp.

   {6:12} And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up
the ark of Jehovah. {6:13} And the seven priests bearing the seven
trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of Jehovah went on continually,
and blew the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; and the
rearward came after the ark of Jehovah, [the priests] blowing the
trumpets as they went. {6:14} And the second day they compassed the
city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days.

   {6:15} And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early
at the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner
seven times: only on the day they compassed the city seven times.
{6:16} And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew
the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for Jehovah hath
given you the city. {6:17} And the city shall be devoted, even it and
all that is therein, to Jehovah: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she
and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers
that we sent. {6:18} But as for you, only keep yourselves from the
devoted thing, lest when ye have devoted it, ye take of the devoted
thing; so would ye make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.
{6:19} But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are
holy unto Jehovah: they shall come into the treasury of Jehovah. {6:20}
So the people shouted, and [the priests] blew the trumpets; and it came
to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, that the
people shouted with a great shout, and the wall fell down flat, so that
the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and
they took the city. {6:21} And they utterly destroyed all that was in
the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep,
and ass, with the edge of the sword.

   {6:22} And Joshua said unto the two men that had spied out the land,
Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all
that she hath, as ye sware unto her. {6:23} And the young men the spies
went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her
brethren, and all that she had; all her kindred also they brought out;
and they set them without the camp of Israel. {6:24} And they burnt the
city with fire, and all that was therein; only the silver, and the
gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury
of the house of Jehovah. {6:25} But Rahab the harlot, and her father's
household, and all that she had, did Joshua save alive; and she dwelt
in the midst of Israel unto this day, because she hid the messengers,
whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. {6:26} And Joshua charged them
with an oath at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before Jehovah,
that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: with the loss of his
first-born shall he lay the foundation thereof, and with the loss of
his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it. {6:27} So Jehovah was
with Joshua; and his fame was in all the land.



   {7:1} But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted
thing; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah,
of the tribe of Judah, took of the devoted thing: and the anger of
Jehovah was kindled against the children of Israel.

   {7:2} And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside
Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and spake unto them, saying, Go
up and spy out the land. And the men went up and spied out Ai. {7:3}
And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people
go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; make
not all the people to toil thither; for they are but few. {7:4} So
there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they
fled before the men of Ai. {7:5} And the men of Ai smote of them about
thirty and six men; and they chased them [from] before the gate even
unto Shebarim, and smote them at the descent; and the hearts of the
people melted, and became as water.

   {7:6} And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his
face before the ark of Jehovah until the evening, he and the elders of
Israel; and they put dust upon their heads. {7:7} And Joshua said,
Alas, O Lord Jehovah, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people
over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to cause
us to perish? would that we had been content and dwelt beyond the
Jordan! {7:8} Oh, Lord, what shall I say, after that Israel hath turned
their backs before their enemies! {7:9} For the Canaanites and all the
inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will compass us round, and
cut off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do for thy great
name?

   {7:10} And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore art thou
thus fallen upon thy face? {7:11} Israel hath sinned; yea, they have
even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: yea, they have
even taken of the devoted thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled
also; and they have even put it among their own stuff. {7:12} Therefore
the children of Israel cannot stand before their enemies; they turn
their backs before their enemies, because they are become accursed: I
will not be with you any more, except ye destroy the devoted thing from
among you. {7:13} Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves
against tomorrow: for thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, There is a
devoted thing in the midst of thee, O Israel; thou canst not stand
before thine enemies, until ye take away the devoted thing from among
you. {7:14} In the morning therefore ye shall be brought near by your
tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which Jehovah taketh shall come
near by families; and the family which Jehovah shall take shall come
near by households; and the household which Jehovah shall take shall
come near man by man. {7:15} And it shall be, that he that is taken
with the devoted thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he
hath; because he hath transgressed the covenant of Jehovah, and because
he hath wrought folly in Israel.

   {7:16} So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel
near by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken: {7:17} and he
brought near the family of Judah; and he took the family of the
Zerahites: and he brought near the family of the Zerahites man by man;
and Zabdi was taken: {7:18} and he brought near his household man by
man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah,
of the tribe of Judah, was taken. {7:19} And Joshua said unto Achan, My
son, give, I pray thee, glory to Jehovah, the God of Israel, and make
confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not
from me. {7:20} And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Of a truth I have
sinned against Jehovah, the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I
done: {7:21} when I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonish mantle, and
two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels
weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid
in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

   {7:22} So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and,
behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it. {7:23} And
they took them from the midst of the tent, and brought them unto
Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel; and they laid them down
before Jehovah. {7:24} And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan
the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the mantle, and the wedge of
gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and
his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them up
unto the valley of Achor. {7:25} And Joshua said, Why hast thou
troubled us? Jehovah shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned
him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned them with
stones. {7:26} And they raised over him a great heap of stones, unto
this day; and Jehovah turned from the fierceness of his anger.
Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto
this day.



   {8:1} And Jehovah 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; {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: set thee an ambush
for the city behind it.

   {8:3} So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to Ai:
and Joshua chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and
sent them forth by night. {8:4} And he commanded them, saying, Behold,
ye shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city; go not very
far from the city, but be ye all ready: {8:5} and I, and all the people
that are with me, will approach unto the city. And it shall come to
pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee
before them; {8:6} and they will come out after us, till we have drawn
them away from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at
the first: so we will flee before them; {8:7} and ye shall rise up from
the ambush, and take possession of the city: for Jehovah your God will
deliver it into your hand. {8:8} And it shall be, when ye have seized
upon the city, that ye shall set the city on fire; according to the
word of Jehovah shall ye do: see, I have commanded you. {8:9} And
Joshua sent them forth; and they went to the ambushment, and abode
between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that
night among the people.

   {8:10} And Joshua arose up early in the morning, and mustered the
people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to
Ai. {8:11} And all the people, [even] the [men of] war that were with
him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and encamped on
the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between him and Ai. {8:12}
And he took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between
Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city. {8:13} So they set the
people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their
liers-in-wait that were on the west of the city; and Joshua went that
night into the midst of the valley. {8:14} And it came to pass, when
the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men
of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people,
at the time appointed, before the Arabah; but he knew not that there
was an ambush against him behind the city. {8:15} And Joshua and all
Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of
the wilderness. {8:16} And all the people that were in the city were
called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua,
and were drawn away from the city. {8:17} And there was not a man left
in Ai or Beth-el, that went not out after Israel: and they left the
city open, and pursued after Israel.

   {8:18} And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is
in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thy hand. And Joshua
stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city. {8:19}
And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon
as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took
it; and they hasted and set the city on fire. {8:20} And when the men
of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the city
ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that
way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the
pursuers. {8:21} And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had
taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they
turned again, and slew the men of Ai. {8:22} And the others came forth
out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some
on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they
let none of them remain or escape. {8:23} And the king of Ai they took
alive, and brought him to Joshua.

   {8:24} And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying
all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they
pursued them, and they were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until
they were consumed, that all Israel returned unto Ai, and smote it with
the edge of the sword. {8:25} And all that fell that day, both of men
and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai. {8:26} For
Joshua drew not back his hand, wherewith he stretched out the javelin,
until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. {8:27} Only
the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for prey unto
themselves, according unto the word of Jehovah which he commanded
Joshua. {8:28} So Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, even a
desolation, unto this day. {8:29} And the king of Ai he hanged on a
tree until the eventide: and at the going down of the sun Joshua
commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and cast it at
the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap
of stones, unto this day.

   {8:30} Then Joshua built an altar unto Jehovah, the God of Israel,
in mount Ebal, {8:31} as Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded the
children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses,
an altar of unhewn stones, upon which no man had lifted up any iron:
and they offered thereon burnt-offerings unto Jehovah, and sacrificed
peace-offerings. {8:32} And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of
the law of Moses, which he wrote, in the presence of the children of
Israel. {8:33} And all Israel, and their elders and officers, and their
judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the
priests the Levites, that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, as
well the sojourner as the homeborn; half of them in front of mount
Gerizim, and half of them in front of mount Ebal; as Moses the servant
of Jehovah had commanded at the first, that they should bless the
people of Israel. {8:34} And afterward he read all the words of the
law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in
the book of the law. {8:35} There was not a word of all that Moses
commanded, which Joshua read not before all the assembly of Israel, and
the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners that were among them.



   {9:1} And it came to pass, when all the kings that were beyond the
Jordan, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore
of the great sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the
Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;
{9:2} that they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and
with Israel, with one accord.

   {9:3} But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done
unto Jericho and to Ai, {9:4} they also did work wilily, and went and
made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their
asses, and wine-skins, old and rent and bound up, {9:5} and old and
patched shoes upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the
bread of their provision was dry and was become mouldy. {9:6} And they
went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the
men of Israel, We are come from a far country: now therefore make ye a
covenant with us. {9:7} And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites,
Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a covenant with
you? {9:8} And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And Joshua
said unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye? {9:9} And they
said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of
the name of Jehovah thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all
that he did in Egypt, {9:10} and all that he did to the two kings of
the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon,
and to Og king of Bashan, who was at Ashtaroth. {9:11} And our elders
and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take
provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and say
unto them, We are your servants: and now make ye a covenant with us.
{9:12} This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses
on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry,
and is become mouldy: {9:13} and these wine-skins, which we filled,
were new; and, behold, they are rent: and these our garments and our
shoes are become old by reason of the very long journey. {9:14} And the
men took of their provision, and asked not counsel at the mouth of
Jehovah. {9:15} And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant
with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware
unto them.

   {9:16} And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had
made a covenant with them, that they heard that they were their
neighbors, and that they dwelt among them. {9:17} And the children of
Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now
their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and
Kiriath-jearim. {9:18} And the children of Israel smote them not,
because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by Jehovah,
the God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the
princes. {9:19} But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We
have sworn unto them by Jehovah, the God of Israel: now therefore we
may not touch them. {9:20} This we will do to them, and let them live;
lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
{9:21} And the princes said unto them, Let them live: so they became
hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation, as the
princes had spoken unto them.

   {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? {9:23} Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall
never fail to be of you bondmen, both hewers of wood and drawers of
water for the house of my God. {9:24} And they answered Joshua, and
said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that Jehovah 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 for our lives because of you, and have done this
thing. {9:25} And now, behold, we are in thy hand: as it seemeth good
and right unto thee to do unto us, do. {9:26} And so did he unto them,
and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they
slew them not. {9:27} And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and
drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of Jehovah,
unto this day, in the place which he should choose.



   {10:1} Now it came to pass, when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard
how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done
to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the
inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;
{10:2} that they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as
one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all
the men thereof were mighty. {10:3} Wherefore Adoni-zedek king of
Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of
Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon,
saying, {10:4} Come up unto me, and help me, and let us smite Gibeon;
for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.
{10:5} Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem,
the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king
of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their
hosts, and encamped against Gibeon, and made war against it.

   {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 hill-country are gathered together against us. {10:7} So Joshua
went up from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all
the mighty men of valor. {10:8} And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Fear them
not: for I have delivered them into thy hands; there shall not a man of
them stand before thee. {10:9} Joshua therefore came upon them
suddenly; [for] he went up from Gilgal all the night. {10:10} And
Jehovah discomfited them before Israel, and he slew them with a great
slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of
Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah. {10:11} And it
came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, while they were at the
descent of Beth-horon, that Jehovah cast down great stones from heaven
upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more who died with the
hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

   {10:12} Then spake Joshua to Jehovah in the day when Jehovah
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 Aijalon.
{10:13} And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed,
Until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies.

   Is not this written in the book of Jashar? And the sun stayed in the
midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. {10:14}
And there was no day like that before it or after it, that Jehovah
hearkened unto the voice of a man: for Jehovah fought for Israel.

   {10:15} And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp
to Gilgal.

   {10:16} And these five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at
Makkedah. {10:17} And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are
found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah. {10:18} And Joshua said, Roll
great stones unto the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to keep
them: {10:19} but stay not ye; pursue after your enemies, and smite the
hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for
Jehovah your God hath delivered them into your hand. {10:20} And it
came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of
slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, and
the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified
cities, {10:21} that all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at
Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of
Israel.

   {10:22} Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring
forth those five kings unto me out of the cave. {10:23} And they did
so, and brought forth those five kings unto him out of the cave, the
king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of
Lachish, the king of Eglon. {10:24} And it came to pass, when they
brought forth those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the
men of Israel, and said unto the chiefs of the men of war that went
with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And
they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them. {10:25} And
Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed; be strong and of good
courage: for thus shall Jehovah do to all your enemies against whom ye
fight. {10:26} And afterward Joshua smote them, and put them to death,
and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees
until the evening. {10:27} And it came to pass at the time of the going
down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the
trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had hidden themselves,
and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, unto this very day.

   {10:28} And Joshua took Makkedah on that day, 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 left none remaining; and he did to
the king of Makkedah as he had done unto the king of Jericho.

   {10:29} And Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him,
unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah: {10:30} and Jehovah 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
left none remaining in it; and he did unto the king thereof as he had
done unto the king of Jericho.

   {10:31} And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto
Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it: {10:32} and
Jehovah delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel; and he 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.

   {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.

   {10:34} And Joshua passed from Lachish, and all Israel with him,
unto Eglon; and they encamped against it, and fought against it;
{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.

   {10:36} And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto
Hebron; and they fought against it: {10:37} and they took it, and 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 he utterly destroyed
it, and all the souls that were therein.

   {10:38} And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and
fought against it: {10:39} and he took it, and the king thereof, and
all the cities thereof; and they 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 the king thereof.

   {10:40} So Joshua smote all the land, the hill-country, and the
South, and the lowland, and the slopes, and all their kings: he left
none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as Jehovah,
the God of Israel, commanded. {10:41} And Joshua smote them from
Kadesh-barnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto
Gibeon. {10:42} And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at
one time, because Jehovah, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
{10:43} And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to
Gilgal.



   {11:1} And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor heard thereof,
that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to
the king of Achshaph, {11:2} and to the kings that were on the north,
in the hill-country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the
lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west, {11:3} to the Canaanite
on the east and on the west, and the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the
Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the hill-country, and the Hivite under
Hermon in the land of Mizpah. {11:4} And they went out, they and all
their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the
sea-shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many. {11:5} And
all these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at
the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.

   {11:6} And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them;
for to-morrow at this time will I deliver them up all slain before
Israel: thou shalt hock their horses, and burn their chariots with
fire. {11:7} So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him,
against them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell upon them.
{11:8} And Jehovah delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they
smote them, and chased them unto great Sidon, and unto Misrephoth-maim,
and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they
left them none remaining. {11:9} And Joshua did unto them as Jehovah
bade him: he hocked their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.

   {11:10} And Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and
smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the
head of all those kingdoms. {11:11} And they smote all the souls that
were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them; there
was none left that breathed: and he burnt Hazor with fire. {11:12} And
all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua
take, and he smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly
destroyed them; as Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded. {11:13} But
as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of
them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn. {11:14} And all the spoil
of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey
unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword,
until they had destroyed them, neither left they any that breathed.
{11:15} As Jehovah commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command
Joshua: and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that Jehovah
commanded Moses.

   {11:16} So Joshua took all that land, the hill-country, and all the
South, and all the land of Goshen, and the lowland, and the Arabah, and
the hill-country of Israel, and the lowland of the same; {11:17} from
mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baal-gad in the valley of
Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he took, and smote
them, and put them to death. {11:18} Joshua made war a long time with
all those kings. {11:19} There was not a city that made peace with the
children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: they
took all in battle. {11:20} For it was of Jehovah to harden their
hearts, to come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy
them, that they might have no favor, but that he might destroy them, as
Jehovah commanded Moses.

   {11:21} And Joshua came at that time, and cut off the Anakim from
the hill-country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the
hill-country of Judah, and from all the hill-country of Israel: Joshua
utterly destroyed them with their cities. {11:22} There was none of the
Anakim left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in
Gath, and in Ashdod, did some remain. {11:23} So Joshua took the whole
land, according to all that Jehovah spake unto Moses; and Joshua gave
it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their
tribes. And the land had rest from war.



   {12:1} Now these are the kings of the land, whom the children of
Israel smote, and possessed their land beyond the Jordan toward the
sunrising, from the valley of the Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the
Arabah eastward: {12:2} Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in
Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of
the Arnon, and [the city that is in] the middle of the valley, and half
Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, the border of the children of
Ammon; {12:3} and the Arabah unto the sea of Chinneroth, eastward, and
unto the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to
Beth-jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah: {12:4}
and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who
dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, {12:5} and ruled in mount Hermon, and
in Salecah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and
the Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
{12:6} Moses the servant of Jehovah and the children of Israel smote
them: and Moses the servant of Jehovah gave it for a possession unto
the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

   {12:7} And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the
children of Israel smote beyond the Jordan westward, from Baal-gad in
the valley of Lebanon even unto mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; and
Joshua gave it unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to
their divisions; {12:8} in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in
the Arabah, and in the slopes, and in the wilderness, and in the South;
the Hittite, the Amorite, and the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite,
and the Jebusite: {12:9} the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai,
which is beside Bethel, one; {12:10} the king of Jerusalem, one; the
king of Hebron, one; {12:11} the king of Jarmuth, one; the king of
Lachish, one; {12:12} the king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
{12:13} the king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one; {12:14} the
king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; {12:15} the king of Libnah,
one; the king of Adullam, one; {12:16} the king of Makkedah, one; the
king of Bethel, one; {12:17} the king of Tappuah, one; the king of
Hepher, one; {12:18} the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lassharon,
one; {12:19} the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one; {12:20}
the king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one; {12:21} the
king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one; {12:22} the king of
Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one; {12:23} the king of
Dor in the height of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;
{12:24} the king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.



   {13:1} Now Joshua was old and well stricken in years; and Jehovah
said unto him, Thou art old and well stricken in years, and there
remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. {13:2} This is the land
that yet remaineth: all the regions of the Philistines, and all the
Geshurites; {13:3} from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even unto
the border of Ekron northward, [which] is reckoned to the Canaanites;
the five lords of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the
Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avvim, {13:4}
on the south; all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongeth
to the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the border of the Amorites; {13:5} and
the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from
Baal-gad under mount Hermon unto the entrance of Hamath; {13:6} all the
inhabitants of the hill-country from Lebanon unto Misrephoth-maim, even
all the Sidonians; them will I drive out from before the children of
Israel: only allot thou it unto Israel for an inheritance, as I have
commanded thee. {13:7} Now therefore divide this land for an
inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

   {13:8} With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their
inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as
Moses the servant of Jehovah gave them: {13:9} from Aroer, that is on
the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle
of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon; {13:10} and all
the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, unto
the border of the children of Ammon; {13:11} and Gilead, and the border
of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan
unto Salecah; {13:12} all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in
Ashtaroth and in Edrei (the same was left of the remnant of the
Rephaim); for these did Moses smite, and drove them out. {13:13}
Nevertheless the children of Israel drove not out the Geshurites, nor
the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel
unto this day. {13:14} Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave no
inheritance; the offerings of Jehovah, the God of Israel, made by fire
are his inheritance, as he spake unto him.

   {13:15} And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben
according to their families. {13:16} And their border was from Aroer,
that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in
the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeba; {13:17} Heshbon,
and all its cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and
Beth-baal-meon, {13:18} and Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath, {13:19}
and Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar in the mount of the
valley, {13:20} and Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and
Beth-jeshimoth, {13:21} and all the cities of the plain, and all the
kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom
Moses smote with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and
Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, that dwelt in the land. {13:22}
Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel
slay with the sword among the rest of their slain. {13:23} And the
border of the children of Reuben was the Jordan, and the border
[thereof]. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according
to their families, the cities and the villages thereof.

   {13:24} And Moses gave unto the tribe of Gad, unto the children of
Gad, according to their families. {13:25} And their border was Jazer,
and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of
Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah; {13:26} and from Heshbon unto
Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;
{13:27} and in the valley, Beth-haram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth,
and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the
Jordan and the border [thereof], unto the uttermost part of the sea of
Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward. {13:28} This is the inheritance
of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and the
villages thereof.

   {13:29} And Moses gave [inheritance] unto the half-tribe of
Manasseh: and it was for the half-tribe of the children of Manasseh
according to their families. {13:30} And their border was from
Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the
towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities: {13:31} and half
Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in
Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even for
the half of the children of Machir according to their families.

   {13:32} These are the inheritances which Moses distributed in the
plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward. {13:33} But
unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance: Jehovah, the God of
Israel, is their inheritance, as he spake unto them.



   {14:1} And these are the inheritances which the children of Israel
took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the
son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the
children of Israel, distributed unto them, {14:2} by the lot of their
inheritance, as Jehovah commanded by Moses, for the nine tribes, and
for the half-tribe. {14:3} For Moses had given the inheritance of the
two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan: but unto the Levites
he gave no inheritance among them. {14:4} For the children of Joseph
were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: and they gave no portion unto
the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with the suburbs
thereof for their cattle and for their substance. {14:5} As Jehovah
commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did; and they divided the
land.

   {14:6} Then the children of Judah drew nigh unto Joshua in Gilgal:
and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite said unto him, Thou
knowest the thing that Jehovah spake unto Moses the man of God
concerning me and concerning thee in Kadesh-barnea. {14:7} Forty years
old was I when Moses the servant of Jehovah sent me from Kadesh-barnea
to spy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in my
heart. {14:8} Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the
heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed Jehovah my God. {14:9}
And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy foot
hath trodden shall be an inheritance to thee and to thy children for
ever, because thou hast wholly followed Jehovah my God. {14:10} And
now, behold, Jehovah hath kept me alive, as he spake, these forty and
five years, from the time that Jehovah spake this word unto Moses,
while Israel walked in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day
fourscore and five years old. {14:11} As yet I am as strong this day as
I was in the day that Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so
is my strength now, for war, and to go out and to come in. {14:12} Now
therefore give me this hill-country, whereof Jehovah spake in that day;
for thou heardest in that day how the Anakim were there, and cities
great and fortified: it may be that Jehovah will be with me, and I
shall drive them out, as Jehovah spake.

   {14:13} And Joshua blessed him; and he gave Hebron unto Caleb the
son of Jephunneh for an inheritance. {14:14} Therefore Hebron became
the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite unto this
day; because that he wholly followed Jehovah, the God of Israel.
{14:15} Now the name of Hebron beforetime was Kiriath-arba; [which Arba
was] the greatest man among the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.



   {15:1} And the lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according
to their families was unto the border of Edom, even to the wilderness
of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south. {15:2} And their
south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay
that looketh southward; {15:3} and it went out southward of the ascent
of Akrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and went up by the south of
Kadesh-barnea, and passed along by Hezron, and went up to Addar, and
turned about to Karka; {15:4} and it passed along to Azmon, and went
out at the brook of Egypt; and the goings out of the border were at the
sea: this shall be your south border. {15:5} And the east border was
the Salt Sea, even unto the end of the Jordan. And the border of the
north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan;
{15:6} and the border went up to Beth-hoglah, and passed along by the
north of Beth-arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the
son of Reuben; {15:7} and the border went up to Debir from the valley
of Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is over against
the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the river; and the
border passed along to the waters of En-shemesh, and the goings out
thereof were at En-rogel; {15:8} and the border went up by the valley
of the son of Hinnom unto the side of the Jebusite southward (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 uttermost
part of the vale of Rephaim northward; {15:9} and the border extended
from the top of the mountain unto the fountain of the waters of
Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the border
extended to Baalah (the same is Kiriath-jearim); {15:10} and the border
turned about from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and passed along
unto the side of mount Jearim on the north (the same is Chesalon), and
went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed along by Timnah; {15:11} and the
border went out unto the side of Ekron northward; and the border
extended to Shikkeron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out
at Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea. {15:12}
And the west border was to the great sea, and the border [thereof].
This is the border of the children of Judah round about according to
their families.

   {15:13} And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among
the children of Judah, according to the commandment of Jehovah to
Joshua, even Kiriath-arba, [which Arba was] the father of Anak (the
same is Hebron). {15:14} And Caleb drove out thence the three sons of
Anak: Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak. {15:15}
And he went up thence against the inhabitants of Debir: now the name of
Debir beforetime was Kiriath-sepher. {15:16} And Caleb said, He that
smiteth Kiriath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my
daughter to wife. {15:17} And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of
Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife. {15:18}
And it came to pass, when she came [unto him], that she moved him to
ask of her father a field: and she alighted from off her ass; and Caleb
said, What wouldest thou? {15:19} And she said, Give me a blessing; for
that thou hast set me in the land of the South, give me also springs of
water. And he gave her the upper springs and the nether springs.

   {15:20} This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
Judah according to their families.

   {15:21} And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of
Judah toward the border of Edom in the South were Kabzeel, and Eder,
and Jagur, {15:22} and Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah, {15:23} and
Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan, {15:24} Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,
{15:25} and Hazor-hadattah, and Kerioth-hezron (the same is Hazor),
{15:26} Amam, and Shema, and Moladah, {15:27} and Hazar-gaddah, and
Heshmon, and Beth-pelet, {15:28} and Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and
Biziothiah, {15:29} Baalah, and Iim, and Ezem, {15:30} and Eltolad, and
Chesil, and Hormah, {15:31} and Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,
{15:32} and Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities
are twenty and nine, with their villages.

   {15:33} In the lowland, Eshtaol, and Zorah, and Ashnah, {15:34} and
Zanoah, and En-gannim, Tappuah, and Enam, {15:35} Jarmuth, and Adullam,
Socoh, and Azekah, {15:36} and Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and
Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages.

   {15:37} Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal-gad, {15:38} and Dilean, and
Mizpeh, and Joktheel, {15:39} Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon, {15:40}
and Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Chitlish, {15:41} and Gederoth, Beth-dagon,
and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.

   {15:42} Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan, {15:43} and Iphtah, and
Ashnah, and Nezib, {15:44} and Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine
cities with their villages.

   {15:45} Ekron, with its towns and its villages; {15:46} from Ekron
even unto the sea, all that were by the side of Ashdod, with their
villages.

   {15:47} Ashdod, its towns and its villages; Gaza, its towns and its
villages; unto the brook of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border
[thereof].

   {15:48} And in the hill-country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
{15:49} and Dannah, and Kiriath-sannah (the same is Debir), {15:50} and
Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim, {15:51} and Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh;
eleven cities with their villages.

   {15:52} Arab, and Dumah, and Eshan, {15:53} and Janim, and
Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah, {15:54} and Humtah, and Kiriath-arba (the
same is Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their villages.

   {15:55} Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Jutah, {15:56} and Jezreel, and
Jokdeam, and Zanoah, {15:57} Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with
their villages.

   {15:58} Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor, {15:59} and Maarath, and
Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their villages.

   {15:60} Kiriath-baal (the same is Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah; two
cities with their villages.

   {15:61} In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah, {15:62}
and Nibshan, and the City of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities with their
villages.

   {15:63} And as for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the
children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell
with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.



   {16:1} And the lot came out for the children of Joseph from the
Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, even the
wilderness, going up from Jericho through the hill-country to Beth-el;
{16:2} and it went out from Beth-el to Luz, and passed along unto the
border of the Archites to Ataroth; {16:3} and it went down westward to
the border of the Japhletites, unto the border of Beth-horon the
nether, even unto Gezer; and the goings out thereof were at the sea.
{16:4} And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their
inheritance.

   {16:5} And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their
families was [thus]: the border of their inheritance eastward was
Ataroth-addar, unto Beth-horon the upper; {16:6} and the border went
out westward at Michmethath on the north; and the border turned about
eastward unto Taanath-shiloh, and passed along it on the east of
Janoah; {16:7} and it went down from Janoah to Ataroth, and to Naarah,
and reached unto Jericho, and went out at the Jordan. {16:8} From
Tappuah the border went along westward to the brook of Kanah; and the
goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the
tribe of the children of Ephraim according to their families; {16:9}
together with the cities which were set apart for the children of
Ephraim in the midst of the inheritance of the children of Manasseh,
all the cities with their villages. {16:10} And they drove not out the
Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell in the midst
of Ephraim unto this day, and are become servants to do taskwork.



   {17:1} And [this] was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was
the first-born of Joseph. As for Machir the first-born of Manasseh, the
father of Gilead, because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead
and Bashan. {17:2} So [the lot] was for the rest of the children of
Manasseh according to their families: for the children of Abiezer, and
for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the
children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the
children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son
of Joseph according to their families. {17:3} But Zelophehad, the son
of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh,
had no sons, but daughters: and these are the names of his daughters:
Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. {17:4} And they came near
before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the son of Nun, and before
the princes, saying, Jehovah commanded Moses to give us an inheritance
among our brethren: therefore according to the commandment of Jehovah
he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father. {17:5}
And there fell ten parts to Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and
Bashan, which is beyond the Jordan; {17:6} because the daughters of
Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons. And the land of Gilead
belonged unto the rest of the sons of Manasseh.

   {17:7} And the border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethath,
which is before Shechem; and the border went along to the right hand,
unto the inhabitants of En-tappuah. {17:8} The land of Tappuah belonged
to Manasseh; but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the
children of Ephraim. {17:9} And the border went down unto the brook of
Kanah, southward of the brook: these cities belonged to Ephraim among
the cities of Manasseh: and the border of Manasseh was on the north
side of the brook, and the goings out thereof were at the sea: {17:10}
southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's, and the
sea was his border; and they reached to Asher on the north, and to
Issachar on the east. {17:11} And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher
Beth-shean and its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants
of Dor and its towns, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its towns, and
the inhabitants of Taanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of
Megiddo and its towns, even the three heights. {17:12} Yet the children
of Manasseh could not drive out [the inhabitants of] those cities; but
the Canaanites would dwell in that land. {17:13} And it came to pass,
when the children of Israel were waxed strong, that they put the
Canaanites to taskwork, and did not utterly drive them out.

   {17:14} And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why
hast thou given me but one lot and one part for an inheritance, seeing
I am a great people, forasmuch as hitherto Jehovah hath blessed me?
{17:15} And Joshua said unto them, If thou be a great people, get thee
up to the forest, and cut down for thyself there in the land of the
Perizzites and of the Rephaim; since the hill-country of Ephraim is too
narrow for thee. {17:16} And the children of Joseph said, The
hill-country 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 in
Beth-shean and its towns, and they who are in the valley of Jezreel.
{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: {17:18} but the hill-country shall be
thine; for though it is a forest, thou shalt cut it down, and the
goings out thereof shall be thine; for thou shalt drive out the
Canaanites, though they have chariots of iron, and though they are
strong.



   {18:1} And the whole congregation of the children of Israel
assembled themselves together at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting
there: and the land was subdued before them. {18:2} And there remained
among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet divided
their inheritance. {18:3} And Joshua said unto the children of Israel,
How long are ye slack to go in to possess the land, which Jehovah, the
God of your fathers, hath given you? {18:4} Appoint for you three men
of each tribe: and I will send them, and they shall arise, and walk
through the land, and describe it according to their inheritance; and
they shall come unto me. {18:5} And they shall divide it into seven
portions: Judah shall abide in his border on the south, and the house
of Joseph shall abide in their border on the north. {18:6} And ye shall
describe the land into seven portions, and bring [the description]
hither to me; and I will cast lots for you here before Jehovah our God.
{18:7} For the Levites have no portion among you; for the priesthood of
Jehovah is their inheritance: and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of
Manasseh have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan eastward,
which Moses the servant of Jehovah gave them.

   {18:8} And the men arose, and went: 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; and I will cast lots for you here
before Jehovah in Shiloh. {18:9} And the men went and passed through
the land, and described it by cities into seven portions in a book; and
they came to Joshua unto the camp at Shiloh. {18:10} And Joshua cast
lots for them in Shiloh before Jehovah: and there Joshua divided the
land unto the children of Israel according to their divisions.

   {18:11} And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up
according to their families: and the border of their lot went out
between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph. {18:12} And
their border on the north quarter was from the Jordan; and the border
went up to the side of Jericho on the north, and went up through the
hill-country westward; and the goings out thereof were at the
wilderness of Beth-aven. {18:13} And the border passed along from
thence to Luz, to the side of Luz (the same is Beth-el), southward; and
the border went down to Ataroth-addar, by the mountain that lieth on
the south of Beth-horon the nether. {18:14} And the border extended
[thence], and turned about on the west quarter southward, from the
mountain that lieth before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out
thereof were at Kiriath-baal (the same is Kiriath-jearim), a city of
the children of Judah: this was the west quarter. {18:15} And the south
quarter was from the uttermost part of Kiriath-jearim; and the border
went out westward, and went out to the fountain of the waters of
Nephtoah; {18:16} and the border went down to the uttermost part of the
mountain that lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in
the vale of Rephaim northward; and it went down to the valley of
Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to
En-rogel; {18:17} and it extended northward, and went out at
En-shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is over against the ascent
of Adummim; and it went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben;
{18:18} and it passed along to the side over against the Arabah
northward, and went down unto the Arabah; {18:19} and the border passed
along to the side of Beth-hoglah northward; and the goings out of the
border were at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end of the
Jordan: this was the south border. {18:20} And the Jordan was the
border of it on the east quarter. This was the inheritance of the
children of Benjamin, by the borders thereof round about, according to
their families.

   {18:21} Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin
according to their families were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and
Emek-keziz, {18:22} and Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el, {18:23}
and Avvim, and Parah, and Ophrah, {18:24} and Chephar-ammoni, and
Ophni, and Geba; twelve cities with their villages: {18:25} Gibeon, and
Ramah, and Beeroth, {18:26} and Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
{18:27} and Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah, {18:28} and Zelah, Eleph,
and the Jebusite (the same is Jerusalem), Gibeath, [and] Kiriath;
fourteen cities with their villages. This is the inheritance of the
children of Benjamin according to their families.



   {19:1} And the second lot came out for Simeon, even for the tribe of
the children of Simeon according to their families: and their
inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of the children of
Judah. {19:2} And they had for their inheritance Beer-sheba, or Sheba,
and Moladah, {19:3} and Hazar-shual, and Balah, and Ezem, {19:4} and
Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah, {19:5} and Ziklag, and Beth-marcaboth,
and Hazar-susah, {19:6} and Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities
with their villages: {19:7} Ain, Rimmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four
cities with their villages: {19:8} and all the villages that were round
about these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramah of the South. This is the
inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their
families. {19:9} Out of the part of the children of Judah was the
inheritance of the children of Simeon; for the portion of the children
of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had
inheritance in the midst of their inheritance.

   {19:10} And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun
according to their families; and the border of their inheritance was
unto Sarid; {19:11} and their border went up westward, even to Maralah,
and reached to Dabbesheth; and it reached to the brook that is before
Jokneam; {19:12} and it turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising
unto the border of Chisloth-tabor; and it went out to Daberath, and
went up to Japhia; {19:13} and from thence it passed along eastward to
Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin; and it went out at Rimmon which stretcheth
unto Neah; {19:14} and the border turned about it on the north to
Hannathon; and the goings out thereof were at the valley of Iphtah-el;
{19:15} and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and
Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages. {19:16} This is the
inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to their families,
these cities with their villages.

   {19:17} The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children
of Issachar according to their families. {19:18} And their border was
unto Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem, {19:19} and Hapharaim, and
Shion, and Anaharath, {19:20} and Rabbith, and Kishion, and Ebez,
{19:21} and Remeth, and Engannim, and En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez,
{19:22} and the border reached to Tabor, and Shahazumah, and
Beth-shemesh; and the goings out of their border were at the Jordan:
sixteen cities with their villages. {19:23} This is the inheritance of
the tribe of the children of Issachar according to their families, the
cities with their villages.

   {19:24} And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of
Asher according to their families. {19:25} And their border was
Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph, {19:26} and Allammelech,
and Amad, and Mishal; and it reached to Carmel westward, and to
Shihor-libnath; {19:27} and it turned toward the sunrising to
Beth-dagon, and reached to Zebulun, and to the valley of Iphtah-el
northward to Beth-emek and Neiel; and it went out to Cabul on the left
hand, {19:28} and Ebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto
great Sidon; {19:29} and the border turned to Ramah, and to the
fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah; and the goings
out thereof were at the sea by the region of Achzib; {19:30} Ummah
also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their villages.
{19:31} This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher
according to their families, these cities with their villages.

   {19:32} The sixth lot came out for the children of Naphtali, even
for the children of Naphtali according to their families. {19:33} And
their border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, and
Adaminekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakkum; and the goings out thereof were
at the Jordan; {19:34} and the border turned westward to Aznoth-tabor,
and went out from thence to Hukkok; and it reached to Zebulun on the
south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan
toward the sunrising. {19:35} And the fortified cities were Ziddim,
Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth, {19:36} and Adamah, and
Ramah, and Hazor, {19:37} and Kedesh, and Edrei, and En-hazor, {19:38}
And Iron, and Migdal-el, Horem, and Beth-anath, and Beth-shemesh;
nineteen cities with their villages. {19:39} This is the inheritance of
the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the
cities with their villages.

   {19:40} The seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of
Dan according to their families. {19:41} And the border of their
inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh, {19:42} and
Shaalabbin, and Aijalon, and Ithlah, {19:43} and Elon, and Timnah, and
Ekron, {19:44} and Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath, {19:45} and
Jehud, and Bene-berak, and Gath-rimmon, {19:46} and Me-jarkon, and
Rakkon, with the border over against Joppa. {19:47} And the border of
the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went
up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and 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. {19:48} This is the
inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan according to their
families, these cities with their villages.

   {19:49} So they made an end of distributing the land for inheritance
by the borders thereof; and the children of Israel gave an inheritance
to Joshua the son of Nun in the midst of them: {19:50} according to the
commandment of Jehovah they gave him the city which he asked, even
Timnath-serah in the hill-country of Ephraim; and he built the city,
and dwelt therein.

   {19:51} These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and
Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers' [houses] of the
tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance by lot in
Shiloh before Jehovah, at the door of the tent of meeting. So they made
an end of dividing the land.



   {20:1} And Jehovah spake unto Joshua, saying, {20:2} Speak to the
children of Israel, saying, Assign you the cities of refuge, whereof I
spake unto you by Moses, {20:3} that the manslayer that killeth any
person unwittingly [and] unawares may flee thither: and they shall be
unto you for a refuge from the avenger of blood. {20:4} And he shall
flee unto one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the
gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of
that city; and they shall take him into the city unto them, and give
him a place, that he may dwell among them. {20:5} And if the avenger of
blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer
into his hand; because he smote his neighbor unawares, and hated him
not beforetime. {20:6} And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand
before the congregation for judgment, until the death of the high
priest that shall be in those days: then shall the manslayer return,
and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from
whence he fled.

   {20:7} And they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of
Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba
(the same is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah. {20:8} And beyond
the Jordan at Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness
in the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of
the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
{20:9} These were the appointed cities for all the children of Israel,
and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth
any person unwittingly might flee thither, and not die by the hand of
the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.



   {21:1} Then came near the heads of fathers' [houses] of the Levites
unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the
heads of fathers' [houses] of the tribes of the children of Israel;
{21:2} and they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan,
saying, Jehovah commanded Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the
suburbs thereof for our cattle. {21:3} And the children of Israel gave
unto the Levites out of their inheritance, according to the commandment
of Jehovah, these cities with their suburbs.

   {21:4} And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and
the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, had by lot
out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of the Simeonites, and
out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.

   {21:5} And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the
families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out
of the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.

   {21:6} And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families of
the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the
tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan,
thirteen cities.

   {21:7} The children of Merari according to their families had out of
the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe
of Zebulun, twelve cities.

   {21:8} And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these
cities with their suburbs, as Jehovah commanded by Moses. {21:9} And
they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the
tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are [here]
mentioned by name: {21:10} and they were for the children of Aaron, of
the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi; for
theirs was the first lot. {21:11} And they gave them Kiriath-arba,
[which Arba was] the father of Anak (the same is Hebron), in the
hill-country of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round about it. {21:12}
But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to
Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

   {21:13} And unto the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron
with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Libnah with
its suburbs, {21:14} and Jattir with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its
suburbs, {21:15} and Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its
suburbs, {21:16} and Ain with its suburbs, and Juttah with its suburbs,
[and] Beth-shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of those two
tribes. {21:17} And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its
suburbs, Geba with its suburbs, {21:18} Anathoth with its suburbs, and
Almon with its suburbs; four cities. {21:19} All the cities of the
children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.

   {21:20} And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites,
even the rest of the children of Kohath, they had the cities of their
lot out of the tribe of Ephraim. {21:21} And they gave them Shechem
with its suburbs in the hill-country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for
the manslayer, and Gezer with its suburbs, {21:22} and Kibzaim with its
suburbs, and Beth-horon with its suburbs; four cities. {21:23} And out
of the tribe of Dan, Elteke with its suburbs, Gibbethon with its
suburbs, {21:24} Aijalon with its suburbs, Gath-rimmon with its
suburbs; four cities. {21:25} And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh,
Taanach with its suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; two cities.
{21:26} All the cities of the families of the rest of the children of
Kohath were ten with their suburbs.

   {21:27} And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the
Levites, out of the half-tribe of Manasseh [they gave] Golan in Bashan
with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Be-eshterah
with its suburbs; two cities. {21:28} And out of the tribe of Issachar,
Kishion with its suburbs, Daberath with its suburbs, {21:29} Jarmuth
with its suburbs, En-gannim with its suburbs; four cities. {21:30} And
out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with its suburbs, Abdon with its
suburbs, {21:31} Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs;
four cities. {21:32} And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in
Galilee with its suburbs, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and
Hammoth-dor with its suburbs, and Kartan with its suburbs; three
cities. {21:33} All the cities of the Gershonites according to their
families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.

   {21:34} And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of
the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its suburbs, and
Kartah with its suburbs, {21:35} Dimnah with its suburbs, Nahalal with
its suburbs; four cities. {21:36} And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer
with its suburbs, and Jahaz with its suburbs, {21:37} Kedemoth with its
suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs; four cities. {21:38} And out of
the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, the city of refuge
for the manslayer, and Mahanaim with its suburbs, {21:39} Heshbon with
its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; four cities in all. {21:40} All
[these were] the cities of the children of Merari according to their
families, even the rest of the families of the Levites; and their lot
was twelve cities.

   {21:41} All the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession
of the children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their
suburbs. {21:42} These cities were every one with their suburbs round
about them: thus it was with all these cities.

   {21:43} So Jehovah gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to
give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
{21:44} And Jehovah 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; Jehovah delivered all their enemies into their
hand. {21:45} There failed not aught of any good thing which Jehovah
had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.



   {22:1} Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the
half-tribe of Manasseh, {22:2} and said unto them, Ye have kept all
that Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, and have hearkened
unto my voice in all that I commanded you: {22:3} ye have not left your
brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the
commandment of Jehovah your God. {22:4} And now Jehovah your God hath
given rest unto your brethren, as he spake unto them: therefore now
turn ye, and get you unto your tents, unto the land of your possession,
which Moses the servant of Jehovah gave you beyond the Jordan. {22:5}
Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses
the servant of Jehovah commanded you, to love Jehovah your God, and to
walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto
him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
{22:6} So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away; and they went unto
their tents.

   {22:7} Now to the one half-tribe of Manasseh Moses had given
[inheritance] in Bashan; but unto the other half gave Joshua among
their brethren beyond the Jordan westward; moreover when Joshua sent
them away unto their tents, he blessed them, {22:8} and spake unto
them, saying, Return with much wealth unto your tents, and with very
much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron,
and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your
brethren. {22:9} And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and
the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of
Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the
land of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were
possessed, according to the commandment of Jehovah by Moses.

   {22:10} And when they came unto the region about the Jordan, that is
in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad
and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, a
great altar to look upon. {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 in the forefront of the land
of Canaan, in the region about the Jordan, on the side that pertaineth
to the children of Israel. {22:12} And when the children of Israel
heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered
themselves together at Shiloh, to go up against them to war.

   {22:13} And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben,
and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into the
land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, {22:14} and
with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers' house for each of the
tribes of Israel; and they were every one of them head of their
fathers' houses among the thousands of Israel. {22:15} And they came
unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the
half-tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and they spake with
them, saying, {22:16} Thus saith the whole congregation of Jehovah,
What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel,
to turn away this day from following Jehovah, in that ye have builded
you an altar, to rebel this day against Jehovah? {22:17} Is the
iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed
ourselves unto this day, although there came a plague upon the
congregation of Jehovah, {22:18} that ye must turn away this day from
following Jehovah? and it will be, seeing ye rebel to-day against
Jehovah, that to-morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of
Israel. {22:19} Howbeit, if the land of your possession be unclean,
then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of Jehovah, wherein
Jehovah's tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel
not against Jehovah, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar
besides the altar of Jehovah our God. {22:20} Did not Achan the son of
Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath fell upon all
the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his
iniquity.

   {22:21} Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the
half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and spake unto the heads of the
thousands of Israel, {22:22} The Mighty One, God, Jehovah, the Mighty
One, God, Jehovah, he knoweth; and Israel he shall know: if it be in
rebellion, or if in trespass against Jehovah (save thou us not this
day,) {22:23} that we have built us an altar to turn away from
following Jehovah; or if to offer thereon burnt-offering or
meal-offering, or if to offer sacrifices of peace-offerings thereon,
let Jehovah himself require it; {22:24} and if we have not [rather] out
of carefulness done this, [and] of purpose, saying, In time to come
your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do
with Jehovah, the God of Israel? {22:25} for Jehovah hath made the
Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children
of Gad; ye have no portion in Jehovah: so might your children make our
children cease from fearing Jehovah. {22:26} Therefore we said, Let us
now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for
sacrifice: {22:27} but it shall be a witness between us and you, and
between our generations after us, that we may do the service of Jehovah
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 portion in Jehovah. {22:28} Therefore said we,
It shall be, when they so say to us or to our generations in time to
come, that we shall say, Behold the pattern of the altar of Jehovah,
which our fathers made, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice; but
it is a witness between us and you. {22:29} Far be it from us that we
should rebel against Jehovah, and turn away this day from following
Jehovah, to build an altar for burnt-offering, for meal-offering, or
for sacrifice, besides the altar of Jehovah our God that is before his
tabernacle.

   {22:30} And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the
congregation, even the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with
him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of
Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them well. {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 know that Jehovah is in the midst of us, because ye have
not committed this trespass against Jehovah: now have ye delivered the
children of Israel out of the hand of Jehovah. {22:32} And Phinehas the
son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes, returned from the children
of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead,
unto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them
word again. {22:33} And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and
the children of Israel blessed God, and spake no more of going up
against them to war, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben
and the children of Gad dwelt. {22:34} And the children of Reuben and
the children of Gad called the altar [Ed]: For, [said they], it is a
witness between us that Jehovah is God.



   {23:1} And it came to pass after many days, when Jehovah had given
rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, and Joshua was old
and well stricken in years; {23:2} that Joshua called for all Israel,
for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for
their officers, and said unto them, I am old and well stricken in
years: {23:3} and ye have seen all that Jehovah your God hath done unto
all these nations because of you; for Jehovah your God, he it is that
hath fought for you. {23:4} Behold, I have allotted unto you these
nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the
Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great
sea toward the going down of the sun. {23:5} And Jehovah your God, he
will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your
sight; and ye shall possess their land, as Jehovah your God spake unto
you. {23:6} Therefore be ye 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; {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 down yourselves unto them; {23:8} but cleave unto Jehovah
your God, as ye have done unto this day. {23:9} For Jehovah hath driven
out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man
hath stood before you unto this day. {23:10} One man of you shall chase
a thousand; for Jehovah your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he
spake unto you. {23:11} Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that
ye love Jehovah your God. {23:12} Else if ye do at all go back, and
cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among
you, and make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to
you; {23:13} know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no more
drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare
and a trap unto you, and a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your
eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which Jehovah your God
hath given you.

   {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 Jehovah your God spake
concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, not one thing hath
failed thereof. {23:15} And it shall come to pass, that as all the good
things are come upon you of which Jehovah your God spake unto you, so
will Jehovah bring upon you all the evil things, until he have
destroyed you from off this good land which Jehovah your God hath given
you. {23:16} When ye transgress the covenant of Jehovah your God, which
he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves
to them; then will the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and ye
shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto
you.



   {24:1} And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and
called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their
judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before
God. {24:2} And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith Jehovah,
the God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt of old time beyond the River,
even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they
served other gods. {24:3} And I took your father Abraham from beyond
the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and
multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac. {24:4} And I gave unto Isaac
Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it: and
Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. {24:5} And I sent Moses
and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did in the
midst thereof: and afterward I brought you out. {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 with horsemen unto the Red
Sea. {24:7} And when they cried out unto Jehovah, he put darkness
between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and
covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and ye dwelt in
the wilderness many days. {24:8} And I brought you into the land of the
Amorites, that dwelt beyond the Jordan: and they fought with you; and I
gave them into your hand, and ye possessed their land; and I destroyed
them from before you. {24:9} Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of
Moab, arose and fought against Israel: and he sent and called Balaam
the son of Beor to curse you; {24:10} but I would not hearken unto
Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his
hand. {24:11} And ye went over the Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and
the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, and the Perizzite,
and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite, the Hivite, and
the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand. {24:12} And I sent
the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the
two kings of the Amorites; not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.
{24:13} And I gave you a land whereon thou hadst not labored, and
cities which ye built not, and ye dwell therein; of vineyards and
oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.

   {24:14} Now therefore fear Jehovah, and serve him in sincerity and
in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the
River, and in Egypt; and serve ye Jehovah. {24:15} And if it seem evil
unto you to serve Jehovah, choose you this day whom ye will serve;
whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River,
or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and
my house, we will serve Jehovah.

   {24:16} And the people answered and said, Far be it from us that we
should forsake Jehovah, to serve other gods; {24:17} for Jehovah our
God, he it is that brought us and our fathers up out of the land of
Egypt, from the house of bondage, and that did those great signs in our
sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all
the peoples through the midst of whom we passed; {24:18} and Jehovah
drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites that dwelt
in the land: therefore we also will serve Jehovah; for he is our God.

   {24:19} And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve Jehovah;
for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your
transgression nor your sins. {24:20} If ye forsake Jehovah, and serve
foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after
that he hath done you good. {24:21} And the people said unto Joshua,
Nay; but we will serve Jehovah. {24:22} And Joshua said unto the
people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you
Jehovah, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses. {24:23} Now
therefore put away, [said he], the foreign gods which are among you,
and incline your heart unto Jehovah, the God of Israel. {24:24} And the
people said unto Joshua, Jehovah our God will we serve, and unto his
voice will we hearken. {24:25} So Joshua made a covenant with the
people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
{24:26} And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and
he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by
the sanctuary of Jehovah. {24:27} And Joshua said unto all the people,
Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it hath heard all
the words of Jehovah which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a
witness against you, lest ye deny your God. {24:28} So Joshua sent the
people away, every man unto his inheritance.

   {24:29} And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son
of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died, being a hundred and ten years
old. {24:30} And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in
Timnathserah, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of
the mountain of Gaash. {24:31} And Israel served Jehovah all the days
of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, and had
known all the work of Jehovah, that he had wrought for Israel.

   {24:32} And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel
brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in the parcel of
ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem
for a hundred pieces of money: and they became the inheritance of the
children of Joseph. {24:33} And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they
buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the
hill-country of Ephraim.




