JOS 1:1 Now it
came about after the death of Moses the servant of
the Lord that the Lord spoke to Joshua the son of
Nun, Moses' servant, saying,
JOS 1:2 "Moses My servant is dead; now
therefore arise, cross this Jordan, you and all this
people, to the land which I am giving to them, to
the sons of Israel.
JOS 1:3 "Every place on which the sole of
your foot treads, I have given it to you, just as I
spoke to Moses.
JOS 1:4 "From the wilderness and this
Lebanon, even as far as the great river, the river
Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and as far
as the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun, will
be your territory.
JOS 1:5 "No man will be able to stand before
you all the days of your life. Just as I have been
with Moses, I will be with you; I will not fail you
or forsake you.
JOS 1:6 "Be strong and courageous, for you
shall give this people possession of the land which
I swore to their fathers to give them.
JOS 1:7 "Only be strong and very courageous;
be careful to do according to all the law which
Moses My servant commanded you; do not turn from it
to the right or to the left, so that you may have
success wherever you go.
JOS 1:8 "This book of the law shall not
depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it
day and night, so that you may be careful to do
according to all that is written in it; for then you
will make your way prosperous, and then you will
have success.
JOS 1:9 "Have I not commanded you? Be strong
and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for
the Lord your God is with you wherever you go."
JOS 1:10 Then Joshua commanded the officers
of the people, saying,
JOS 1:11 "Pass through the midst of the camp
and command the people, saying, 'Prepare provisions
for yourselves, for within three days you are to
cross this Jordan, to go in to possess the land
which the Lord your God is giving you, to possess
it.'"
JOS 1:12 And to the Reubenites and to the
Gadites and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua
said,
JOS 1:13 "Remember the word which Moses the
servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, 'The Lord
your God gives you rest, and will give you this
land.'
JOS 1:14 "Your wives, your little ones, and
your cattle shall remain in the land which Moses
gave you beyond the Jordan, but you shall cross
before your brothers in battle array, all your
valiant warriors, and shall help them,
JOS 1:15 until the Lord gives your brothers
rest, as He gives you, and they also possess the
land which the Lord your God is giving them. Then
you shall return to your own land, and possess that
which Moses the servant of the Lord gave you beyond
the Jordan toward the sunrise."
JOS 1:16 And they answered Joshua, saying,
"All that you have commanded us we will do, and
wherever you send us we will go.
JOS 1:17 "Just as we obeyed Moses in all
things, so we will obey you; only may the Lord your
God be with you, as He was with Moses.
JOS 1:18 "Anyone who rebels against your
command and does not obey your words in all that you
command him, shall be put to death; only be strong
and courageous."
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JOS 2:1 Then
Joshua the son of Nun sent two men as spies secretly
from Shittim, saying, "Go, view the land, especially
Jericho." So they went and came into the house of a
harlot whose name was Rahab, and lodged there.
JOS 2:2 And it was told the king of Jericho,
saying, "Behold, men from the sons of Israel have
come here tonight to search out the land."
JOS 2:3 And the king of Jericho sent word to
Rahab, saying, "Bring out the men who have come to
you, who have entered your house, for they have come
to search out all the land."
JOS 2:4 But the woman had taken the two men
and hidden them, and she said, "Yes, the men came to
me, but I did not know where they were from.
JOS 2:5 "And it came about when it was time
to shut the gate, at dark, that the men went out; I
do not know where the men went. Pursue them quickly,
for you will overtake them."
JOS 2:6 But she had brought them up to the
roof and hidden them in the stalks of flax which she
had laid in order on the roof.
JOS 2:7 So the men pursued them on the road
to the Jordan to the fords; and as soon as those who
were pursuing them had gone out, they shut the gate.
JOS 2:8 Now before they lay down, she came up
to them on the roof,
JOS 2:9 and said to the men, "I know that the
Lord has given you the land, and that the terror of
you has fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants
of the land have melted away before you.
JOS 2:10 "For we have heard how the Lord
dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when
you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two
kings of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to
Sihon and Og, whom you utterly destroyed.
JOS 2:11 "And when we heard it, our hearts
melted and no courage remained in any man any longer
because of you; for the Lord your God, He is God in
heaven above and on earth beneath.
JOS 2:12 "Now therefore, please swear to me
by the Lord, since I have dealt kindly with you,
that you also will deal kindly with my father's
household, and give me a pledge of truth,
JOS 2:13 and spare my father and my mother
and my brothers and my sisters, with all who belong
to them, and deliver our lives from death."
JOS 2:14 So the men said to her, "Our life
for yours if you do not tell this business of ours;
and it shall come about when the Lord gives us the
land that we will deal kindly and faithfully with
you."
JOS 2:15 Then she let them down by a rope
through the window, for her house was on the city
wall, so that she was living on the wall.
JOS 2:16 And she said to them, "Go to the
hill country, lest the pursuers happen upon you, and
hide yourselves there for three days, until the
pursuers return. Then afterward you may go on your
way."
JOS 2:17 And the men said to her, "We shall
be free from this oath to you which you have made us
swear,
JOS 2:18 unless, when we come into the land,
you tie this cord of scarlet thread in the window
through which you let us down, and gather to
yourself into the house your father and your mother
and your brothers and all your father's household.
JOS 2:19 "And it shall come about that anyone
who goes out of the doors of your house into the
street, his blood shall be on his own head, and we
shall be free; but anyone who is with you in the
house, his blood shall be on our head, if a hand is
laid on him.
JOS 2:20 "But if you tell this business of
ours, then we shall be free from the oath which you
have made us swear."
JOS 2:21 And she said, "According to your
words, so be it." So she sent them away, and they
departed; and she tied the scarlet cord in the
window.
JOS 2:22 And they departed and came to the
hill country, and remained there for three days
until the pursuers returned. Now the pursuers had
sought them all along the road, but had not found
them.
JOS 2:23 Then the two men returned and came
down from the hill country and crossed over and came
to Joshua the son of Nun, and they related to him
all that had happened to them.
JOS 2:24 And they said to Joshua, "Surely the
Lord has given all the land into our hands, and all
the inhabitants of the land, moreover, have melted
away before us."
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JOS 3:1 Then
Joshua rose early in the morning; and he and all the
sons of Israel set out from Shittim and came to the
Jordan, and they lodged there before they crossed.
JOS 3:2 And it came about at the end of three
days that the officers went through the midst of the
camp;
JOS 3:3 and they commanded the people,
saying, "When you see the ark of the covenant of the
Lord your God with the Levitical priests carrying
it, then you shall set out from your place and go
after it.
JOS 3:4 "However, there shall be between you
and it a distance of about 2,000 cubits by measure.
Do not come near it, that you may know the way by
which you shall go, for you have not passed this way
before."
JOS 3:5 Then Joshua said to the people,
"Consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will
do wonders among you."
JOS 3:6 And Joshua spoke to the priests,
saying, "Take up the ark of the covenant and cross
over ahead of the people." So they took up the ark
of the covenant and went ahead of the people.
JOS 3:7 Now the Lord said to Joshua, "This
day I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all
Israel, that they may know that just as I have been
with Moses, I will be with you.
JOS 3:8 "You shall, moreover, command the
priests who are carrying the ark of the covenant,
saying, 'When you come to the edge of the waters of
the Jordan, you shall stand still in the Jordan.'"
JOS 3:9 Then Joshua said to the sons of
Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of the Lord
your God."
JOS 3:10 And Joshua said, "By this you shall
know that the living God is among you, and that He
will assuredly dispossess from before you the
Canaanite, the Hittite, the Hivite, the Perizzite,
the Girgashite, the Amorite, and the Jebusite.
JOS 3:11 "Behold, the ark of the covenant of
the Lord of all the earth is crossing over ahead of
you into the Jordan.
JOS 3:12 "Now then, take for yourselves
twelve men from the tribes of Israel, one man for
each tribe.
JOS 3:13 "And it shall come about when the
soles of the feet of the priests who carry the ark
of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest
in the waters of the Jordan, the waters of the
Jordan shall be cut off, and the waters which are
flowing down from above shall stand in one heap."
JOS 3:14 So it came about when the people set
out from their tents to cross the Jordan with the
priests carrying the ark of the covenant before the
people,
JOS 3:15 and when those who carried the ark
came into the Jordan, and the feet of the priests
carrying the ark were dipped in the edge of the
water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all
the days of harvest),
JOS 3:16 that the waters which were flowing
down from above stood and rose up in one heap, a
great distance away at Adam, the city that is beside
Zarethan; and those which were flowing down toward
the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely
cut off. So the people crossed opposite Jericho.
JOS 3:17 And the priests who carried the ark
of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground
in the middle of the Jordan while all Israel crossed
on dry ground, until all the nation had finished
crossing the Jordan.
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JOS 4:1 Now it
came about when all the nation had finished crossing
the Jordan, that the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying,
JOS 4:2 "Take for yourselves twelve men from
the people, one man from each tribe,
JOS 4:3 and command them, saying,' Take up
for yourselves twelve stones from here out of the
middle of the Jordan, from the place where the
priests' feet are standing firm, and carry them over
with you, and lay them down in the lodging place
where you will lodge tonight.' "
JOS 4:4 So Joshua called the twelve men whom
he had appointed from the sons of Israel, one man
from each tribe;
JOS 4:5 and Joshua said to them, "Cross again
to the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of
the Jordan, and each of you take up a stone on his
shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of
the sons of Israel.
JOS 4:6 "Let this be a sign among you, so
that when your children ask later, saying, 'What do
these stones mean to you?'
JOS 4:7 then you shall say to them,' Because
the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark
of the covenant of the Lord; when it crossed the
Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off.' So
these stones shall become a memorial to the sons of
Israel forever."
JOS 4:8 And thus the sons of Israel did, as
Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones from the
middle of the Jordan, just as the Lord spoke to
Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the
sons of Israel; and they carried them over with them
to the lodging place, and put them down there.
JOS 3:14 So it came about when the people set
out from their tents to cross the Jordan with the
priests carrying the ark of the covenant before the
people,
JOS 3:15 and when those who carried the ark
came into the Jordan, and the feet of the priests
carrying the ark were dipped in the edge of the
water (for the Jordan overflows all its banks all
the days of harvest),
JOS 3:16 that the waters which were flowing
down from above stood and rose up in one heap, a
great distance away at Adam, the city that is beside
Zarethan; and those which were flowing down toward
the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, were completely
cut off. So the people crossed opposite Jericho.
JOS 3:17 And the priests who carried the ark
of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground
in the middle of the Jordan while all Israel crossed
on dry ground, until all the nation had finished
crossing the Jordan.
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Chapter 4
JOS 4:1 Now it
came about when all the nation had finished crossing
the Jordan, that the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying,
JOS 4:2 "Take for yourselves twelve men from
the people, one man from each tribe,
JOS 4:3 and command them, saying,' Take up
for yourselves twelve stones from here out of the
middle of the Jordan, from the place where the
priests' feet are standing firm, and carry them over
with you, and lay them down in the lodging place
where you will lodge tonight.' "
JOS 4:4 So Joshua called the twelve men whom
he had appointed from the sons of Israel, one man
from each tribe;
JOS 4:5 and Joshua said to them, "Cross again
to the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of
the Jordan, and each of you take up a stone on his
shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of
the sons of Israel.
JOS 4:6 "Let this be a sign among you, so
that when your children ask later, saying, 'What do
these stones mean to you?'
JOS 4:7 then you shall say to them,' Because
the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark
of the covenant of the Lord; when it crossed the
Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off.' So
these stones shall become a memorial to the sons of
Israel forever."
JOS 4:8 And thus the sons of Israel did, as
Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones from the
middle of the Jordan, just as the Lord spoke to
Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the
sons of Israel; and they carried them over with them
to the lodging place, and put them down there.
JOS 4:9 Then Joshua set up twelve stones in
the middle of the Jordan at the place where the feet
of the priests who carried the ark of the covenant
were standing, and they are there to this day.
JOS 4:10 For the priests who carried the ark
were standing in the middle of the Jordan until
everything was completed that the Lord had commanded
Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that
Moses had commanded Joshua. And the people hurried
and crossed;
JOS 4:11 and it came about when all the
people had finished crossing, that the ark of the
Lord and the priests crossed before the people.
JOS 4:12 And the sons of Reuben and the sons
of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh crossed over
in battle array before the sons of Israel, just as
Moses had spoken to them;
JOS 4:13 about 40,000, equipped for war,
crossed for battle before the Lord to the desert
plains of Jericho.
JOS 4:14 On that day the Lord exalted Joshua
in the sight of all Israel; so that they revered
him, just as they had revered Moses all the days of
his life.
JOS 4:15 Now the Lord said to Joshua,
JOS 4:16 "Command the priests who carry the
ark of the testimony that they come up from the
Jordan."
JOS 4:17 So Joshua commanded the priests,
saying, "Come up from the Jordan."
JOS 4:18 And it came about when the priests
who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord had
come up from the middle of the Jordan, and the soles
of the priests' feet were lifted up to the dry
ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned to
their place, and went over all its banks as before.
JOS 4:19 Now the people came up from the
Jordan on the tenth of the first month and camped at
Gilgal on the eastern edge of Jericho.
JOS 4:20 And those twelve stones which they
had taken from the Jordan, Joshua set up at Gilgal.
JOS 4:21 And he said to the sons of Israel,
"When your children ask their fathers in time to
come, saying, 'What are these stones?'
JOS 4:22 then you shall inform your children,
saying,' Israel crossed this Jordan on dry ground.'
JOS 4:23 "For the Lord your God dried up the
waters of the Jordan before you until you had
crossed, just as the Lord your God had done to the
Red Sea, which He dried up before us until we had
crossed;
JOS 4:24 that all the peoples of the earth
may know that the hand of the Lord is mighty, so
that you may fear the Lord your God forever."
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Chapter 5
JOS 5:1 Now it
came about when all the kings of the Amorites who
were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the
kings of the Canaanites who were by the sea, heard
how the Lord had dried up the waters of the Jordan
before the sons of Israel until they had crossed,
that their hearts melted, and there was no spirit in
them any longer, because of the sons of Israel.
JOS 5:2 At that time the Lord said to Joshua,
"Make for yourself flint knives and circumcise again
the sons of Israel the second time."
JOS 5:3 So Joshua made himself flint knives
and circumcised the sons of Israel at
Gibeath-haaraloth.
JOS 5:4 And this is the reason why Joshua
circumcised them: all the people who came out of
Egypt who were males, all the men of war, died in
the wilderness along the way, after they came out of
Egypt.
JOS 5:5 For all the people who came out were
circumcised, but all the people who were born in the
wilderness along the way as they came out of Egypt
had not been circumcised.
JOS 5:6 For the sons of Israel walked forty
years in the wilderness, until all the nation, that
is, the men of war who came out of Egypt, perished
because they did not listen to the voice of the
Lord, to whom the Lord had sworn that He would not
let them see the land which the Lord had sworn to
their fathers to give us, a land flowing with milk
and honey.
JOS 5:7 And their children whom He raised up
in their place, Joshua circumcised; for they were
uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them
along the way.
JOS 5:8 Now it came about when they had
finished circumcising all the nation, that they
remained in their places in the camp until they were
healed.
JOS 5:9 Then the Lord said to Joshua, "Today
I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you."
So the name of that place is called Gilgal to this
day.
JOS 5:10 While the sons of Israel camped at
Gilgal, they observed the Passover on the evening of
the fourteenth day of the month on the desert plains
of Jericho.
JOS 5:11 And on the day after the Passover,
on that very day, they ate some of the produce of
the land, unleavened cakes and parched grain.
JOS 5:12 And the manna ceased on the day
after they had eaten some of the produce of the
land, so that the sons of Israel no longer had
manna, but they ate some of the yield of the land of
Canaan during that year.
JOS 5:13 Now it came about when Joshua was by
Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and
behold, a man was standing opposite him with his
sword drawn in his hand, and Joshua went to him and
said to him, "Are you for us or for our
adversaries?"
JOS 5:14 And he said, "No, rather I indeed
come now as captain of the host of the Lord." And
Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and bowed
down, and said to him, "What has my lord to say to
his servant?"
JOS 5:15 And the captain of the Lord's host
said to Joshua, "Remove your sandals from your feet,
for the place where you are standing is holy." And
Joshua did so.
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Chapter 6
JOS 6:1 Now
Jericho was tightly shut because of the sons of
Israel; no one went out and no one came in.
JOS 6:2 And the Lord said to Joshua, "See, I
have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and
the valiant warriors.
JOS 6:3 "And you shall march around the city,
all the men of war circling the city once. You shall
do so for six days.
JOS 6:4 "Also seven priests shall carry seven
trumpets of rams' horns before the ark; then on the
seventh day you shall march around the city seven
times, and the priests shall blow the trumpets.
JOS 6:5 "And it shall be that when they make
a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you hear
the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout
with a great shout; and the wall of the city will
fall down flat, and the people will go up every man
straight ahead."
JOS 6:6 So Joshua the son of Nun called the
priests and said to them, "Take up the ark of the
covenant, and let seven priests carry seven trumpets
of rams' horns before the ark of the Lord."
JOS 6:7 Then he said to the people, "Go
forward, and march around the city, and let the
armed men go on before the ark of the Lord."
JOS 6:8 And it was so, that when Joshua had
spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying the
seven trumpets of rams' horns before the Lord went
forward and blew the trumpets; and the ark of the
covenant of the Lord followed them.
JOS 6:9 And the armed men went before the
priests who blew the trumpets, and the rear guard
came after the ark, while they continued to blow the
trumpets.
JOS 6:10 But Joshua commanded the people,
saying, "You shall not shout nor let your voice be
heard, nor let a word proceed out of your mouth,
until the day I tell you, 'Shout!' Then you shall
shout!"
JOS 6:11 So he had the ark of the Lord taken
around the city, circling it once; then they came
into the camp and spent the night in the camp.
JOS 6:12 Now Joshua rose early in the
morning, and the priests took up the ark of the
Lord.
JOS 6:13 And the seven priests carrying the
seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the
Lord went on continually, and blew the trumpets; and
the armed men went before them, and the rear guard
came after the ark of the Lord, while they continued
to blow the trumpets.
JOS 6:14 Thus the second day they marched
around the city once and returned to the camp; they
did so for six days.
JOS 6:15 Then it came about on the seventh
day that they rose early at the dawning of the day
and marched around the city in the same manner seven
times; only on that day they marched around the city
seven times.
JOS 6:16 And it came about at the seventh
time, when the priests blew the trumpets, Joshua
said to the people, "Shout! For the Lord has given
you the city.
JOS 6:17 "And the city shall be under the
ban, it and all that is in it belongs to the Lord;
only Rahab the harlot and all who are with her in
the house shall live, because she hid the messengers
whom we sent.
JOS 6:18 "But as for you, only keep
yourselves from the things under the ban, lest you
covet them and take some of the things under the
ban, so you would make the camp of Israel accursed
and bring trouble on it.
JOS 6:19 "But all the silver and gold and
articles of bronze and iron are holy to the Lord;
they shall go into the treasury of the Lord."
JOS 6:20 So the people shouted, and priests
blew the trumpets; and it came about, 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 ahead, and they took the city.
JOS 6:21 And they utterly destroyed
everything in the city, both man and woman, young
and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge
of the sword.
JOS 6:22 And Joshua said to the two men who
had spied out the land, "Go into the harlot's house
and bring the woman and all she has out of there, as
you have sworn to her."
JOS 6:23 So the young men who were spies went
in and brought out Rahab and her father and her
mother and her brothers and all she had; they also
brought out all her relatives, and placed them
outside the camp of Israel.
JOS 6:24 And they burned the city with fire,
and all that was in it. Only the silver and gold and
articles of bronze and iron, they put into the
treasury of the house of the Lord.
JOS 6:25 However, Rahab the harlot and her
father's household and all she had, Joshua spared;
and she has lived in the midst of Israel to this
day, for she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to
spy out Jericho.
JOS 6:26 Then Joshua made them take an oath
at that time, saying, "Cursed before the Lord is the
man who rises up and builds this city Jericho; with
the loss of his first-born he shall lay its
foundation, and with the loss of his youngest son he
shall set up its gates."
JOS 6:27 So the Lord was with Joshua, and his
fame was in all the land.
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Chapter 7
JOS 7:1 But the
sons of Israel acted unfaithfully in regard to the
things under the ban, for Achan, the son of Carmi,
the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, from the tribe
of Judah, took some of the things under the ban,
therefore the anger of the Lord burned against the
sons of Israel.
JOS 7:2 Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to
Ai, which is near Beth-aven, east of Bethel, and
said to them, "Go up and spy out the land." So the
men went up and spied out Ai.
JOS 7:3 And they returned to Joshua and said
to him, "Do not let all the people go up; only about
two or three thousand men need go up to Ai; do not
make all the people toil up there, for they are
few."
JOS 7:4 So about three thousand men from the
people went up there, but they fled from the men of
Ai.
JOS 7:5 And the men of Ai struck down about
thirty-six of their men, and pursued them from the
gate as far as Shebarim, and struck them down on the
descent, so the hearts of the people melted and
became as water.
JOS 7:6 Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell
to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord
until the evening, both he and the elders of Israel;
and they put dust on their heads.
JOS 7:7 And Joshua said, "Alas, O Lord God,
why didst Thou ever bring this people over the
Jordan, only to deliver us into the hand of the
Amorites, to destroy us? If only we had been willing
to dwell beyond the Jordan!
JOS 7:8 "O Lord, what can I say since Israel
has turned their back before their enemies?
JOS 7:9 "For the Canaanites and all the
inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and they
will surround us and cut off our name from the
earth. And what wilt Thou do for Thy great name?"
JOS 7:10 So the Lord said to Joshua, "Rise
up! Why is it that you have fallen on your face?
JOS 7:11 "Israel has sinned, and they have
also transgressed My covenant which I commanded
them. And they have even taken some of the things
under the ban and have both stolen and deceived.
Moreover, they have also put them among their own
things.
JOS 7:12 "Therefore the sons of Israel cannot
stand before their enemies; they turn their backs
before their enemies, for they have become accursed.
I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy
the things under the ban from your midst.
JOS 7:13 "Rise up! Consecrate the people and
say, 'Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for thus
the Lord, the God of Israel, has said," There are
things under the ban in your midst, O Israel. You
cannot stand before your enemies until you have
removed the things under the ban from your midst."
JOS 7:14 'In the morning then you shall come
near by your tribes. And it shall be that the tribe
which the Lord takes by lot shall come near by
families, and the family which the Lord takes shall
come near by households, and the household which the
Lord takes shall come near man by man.
JOS 7:15 'And it shall be that the one who is
taken with the things under the ban shall be burned
with fire, he and all that belongs to him, because
he has transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and
because he has committed a disgraceful thing in
Israel.' "
JOS 7:16 So Joshua arose early in the morning
and brought Israel near by tribes, and the tribe of
Judah was taken.
JOS 7:17 And he brought the family of Judah
near, and he took the family of the Zerahites; and
he brought the family of the Zerahites near man by
man, and Zabdi was taken.
JOS 7:18 And he brought his household near
man by man; and Achan, son of Carmi, son of Zabdi,
son of Zerah, from the tribe of Judah, was taken.
JOS 7:19 Then Joshua said to Achan, "My son,
I implore you, give glory to the Lord, the God of
Israel, and give praise to Him; and tell me now what
you have done. Do not hide it from me."
JOS 7:20 So Achan answered Joshua and said,
"Truly, I have sinned against the Lord, the God of
Israel, and this is what I did:
JOS 7:21 when I saw among the spoil a
beautiful mantle from Shinar and two hundred shekels
of silver and a bar of gold fifty shekels in weight,
then I coveted them and took them; and behold, they
are concealed in the earth inside my tent with the
silver underneath it."
JOS 7:22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they
ran to the tent; and behold, it was concealed in his
tent with the silver underneath it.
JOS 7:23 And they took them from inside the
tent and brought them to Joshua and to all the sons
of Israel, and they poured them out before the Lord.
JOS 7:24 Then Joshua and all Israel with him,
took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the mantle,
the bar of gold, his sons, his daughters, his oxen,
his donkeys, his sheep, his tent and all that
belonged to him; and they brought them up to the
valley of Achor.
JOS 7:25 And Joshua said, "Why have you
troubled us? The Lord will trouble you this day."
And all Israel stoned them with stones; and they
burned them with fire after they had stoned them
with stones.
JOS 7:26 And they raised over him a great
heap of stones that stands to this day, and the Lord
turned from the fierceness of His anger. Therefore
the name of that place has been called the valley of
Achor to this day.
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Chapter 8
JOS 8:1 Now the
Lord said to Joshua, "Do not fear or be dismayed.
Take all the people of war with you and arise, go up
to Ai; see, I have given into your hand the king of
Ai, his people, his city, and his land.
JOS 8:2 "And you shall do to Ai and its king
just as you did to Jericho and its king; you shall
take only its spoil and its cattle as plunder for
yourselves. Set an ambush for the city behind it."
JOS 8:3 So Joshua rose with all the people of
war to go up to Ai; and Joshua chose 30,000 men,
valiant warriors, and sent them out at night.
JOS 8:4 And he commanded them, saying, "See,
you are going to ambush the city from behind it. Do
not go very far from the city, but all of you be
ready.
JOS 8:5 "Then I and all the people who are
with me will approach the city. And it will come
about when they come out to meet us as at the first,
that we will flee before them.
JOS 8:6 "And they will come out after us
until we have drawn them away from the city, for
they will say, 'They are fleeing before us as at the
first.' So we will flee before them.
JOS 8:7 "And you shall rise from your ambush
and take possession of the city, for the Lord your
God will deliver it into your hand.
JOS 8:8 "Then it will be when you have seized
the city, that you shall set the city on fire. You
shall do it according to the word of the Lord. See,
I have commanded you."
JOS 8:9 So Joshua sent them away, and they
went to the place of ambush and remained between
Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua
spent that night among the people.
JOS 8:10 Now Joshua rose early in the morning
and mustered the people, and he went up with the
elders of Israel before the people to Ai.
JOS 8:11 Then all the people of war who were
with him went up and drew near and arrived in front
of the city, and camped on the north side of Ai. Now
there was a valley between him and Ai.
JOS 8:12 And he took about 5,000 men and set
them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west
side of the city.
JOS 8:13 So they stationed the people, all
the army that was on the north side of the city, and
its rear guard on the west side of the city, and
Joshua spent that night in the midst of the valley.
JOS 8:14 And it came about when the king of
Ai saw it, that the men of the city hurried and rose
up early and went out to meet Israel in battle, he
and all his people at the appointed place before the
desert plain. But he did not know that there was an
ambush against him behind the city.
JOS 8:15 And Joshua and all Israel pretended
to be beaten before them, and fled by the way of the
wilderness.
JOS 8:16 And all the people who were in the
city were called together to pursue them, and they
pursued Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
JOS 8:17 So not a man was left in Ai or
Bethel who had not gone out after Israel, and they
left the city unguarded and pursued Israel.
JOS 8:18 Then the Lord said to Joshua,
"Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward
Ai, for I will give it into your hand." So Joshua
stretched out the javelin that was in his hand
toward the city.
JOS 8:19 And the men in ambush rose quickly
from their place, and when he had stretched out his
hand, they ran and entered the city and captured it;
and they quickly set the city on fire.
JOS 8:20 When the men of Ai turned back and
looked, behold, the smoke of the city ascended to
the sky, and they had no place to flee this way or
that, for the people who had been fleeing to the
wilderness turned against the pursuers.
JOS 8:21 When Joshua and all Israel saw that
the men in ambush had captured the city and that the
smoke of the city ascended, they turned back and
slew the men of Ai.
JOS 8:22 And the others came out from the
city to encounter them, so that they were trapped in
the midst of Israel, some on this side and some on
that side; and they slew them until no one was left
of those who survived or escaped.
JOS 8:23 But they took alive the king of Ai
and brought him to Joshua.
JOS 8:24 Now it came about when Israel had
finished killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the
field in the wilderness where they pursued them, and
all of them were fallen by the edge of the sword
until they were destroyed, then all Israel returned
to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword.
JOS 8:25 And all who fell that day, both men
and women, were 12,000 - - all the people of Ai.
JOS 8:26 For Joshua did not withdraw his hand
with which he stretched out the javelin until he had
utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
JOS 8:27 Israel took only the cattle and the
spoil of that city as plunder for themselves,
according to the word of the Lord which He had
commanded Joshua.
JOS 8:28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a
heap forever, a desolation until this day.
JOS 8:29 And he hanged the king of Ai on a
tree until evening; and at sunset Joshua gave
command and they took his body down from the tree,
and threw it at the entrance of the city gate, and
raised over it a great heap of stones that stands to
this day.
JOS 8:30 Then Joshua built an altar to the
Lord, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,
JOS 8:31 just as Moses the servant of the
Lord had commanded the sons of Israel, as it is
written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of
uncut stones, on which no man had wielded an iron
tool; and they offered burnt offerings on it to the
Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings.
JOS 8:32 And he wrote there on the stones a
copy of the law of Moses, which he had written, in
the presence of the sons of Israel.
JOS 8:33 And all Israel with their elders and
officers and their judges were standing on both
sides of the ark before the Levitical priests who
carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, the
stranger as well as the native. Half of them stood
in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front
of Mount Ebal, just as Moses the servant of the Lord
had given command at first to bless the people of
Israel.
JOS 8:34 Then 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.
JOS 8:35 There was not a word of all that
Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before
all the assembly of Israel with the women and the
little ones and the strangers who were living among
them.
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Chapter 9
JOS 9:1 Now it
came about when all the kings who were beyond the
Jordan, in the hill country and in the lowland and
on all the coast of the Great Sea toward Lebanon,
the Hittite and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the
Perizzite, the Hivite and the Jebusite, heard of it,
JOS 9:2 that they gathered themselves
together with one accord to fight with Joshua and
with Israel.
JOS 9:3 When the inhabitants of Gibeon heard
what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
JOS 9:4 they also acted craftily and set out
as envoys, and took worn-out sacks on their donkeys,
and wineskins, worn-out and torn and mended,
JOS 9:5 and worn-out and patched sandals on
their feet, and worn-out clothes on themselves; and
all the bread of their provision was dry and had
become crumbled.
JOS 9:6 And they went to Joshua to the camp
at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel,
"We have come from a far country; now therefore,
make a covenant with us."
JOS 9:7 And the men of Israel said to the
Hivites, "Perhaps you are living within our land;
how then shall we make a covenant with you?"
JOS 9:8 But they said to Joshua, "We are your
servants." Then Joshua said to them, "Who are you,
and where do you come from?"
JOS 9:9 And they said to him, "Your servants
have come from a very far country because of the
fame of the Lord your God; for we have heard the
report of Him and all that He did in Egypt,
JOS 9:10 and all that He did to the two kings
of the Amorites who were beyond the Jordan, to Sihon
king of Heshbon and to Og king of Bashan who was at
Ashtaroth.
JOS 9:11 "So our elders and all the
inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying,
'Take provisions in your hand for the journey, and
go to meet them and say to them," We are your
servants; now then, make a covenant with us."'
JOS 9:12 "This our bread was warm when we
took it for our provisions out of our houses on the
day that we left to come to you; but now behold, it
is dry and has become crumbled.
JOS 9:13 "And these wineskins which we filled
were new, and behold, they are torn; and these our
clothes and our sandals are worn out because of the
very long journey."
JOS 9:14 So the men of Israel took some of
their provisions, and did not ask for the counsel of
the Lord.
JOS 9:15 And Joshua made peace with them and
made a covenant with them, to let them live; and the
leaders of the congregation swore an oath to them.
JOS 9:16 And it came about at the end of
three days after they had made a covenant with them,
that they heard that they were neighbors and that
they were living within their land.
JOS 9:17 Then the sons of Israel set out and
came to their cities on the third day. Now their
cities were Gibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth and
Kiriath-jearim.
JOS 9:18 And the sons of Israel did not
strike them because the leaders of the congregation
had sworn to them by the Lord the God of Israel. And
the whole congregation grumbled against the leaders.
JOS 9:19 But all the leaders said to the
whole congregation, "We have sworn to them by the
Lord, the God of Israel, and now we cannot touch
them.
JOS 9:20 "This we will do to them, even let
them live, lest wrath be upon us for the oath which
we swore to them."
JOS 9:21 And the leaders said to them, "Let
them live." So they became hewers of wood and
drawers of water for the whole congregation, just as
the leaders had spoken to them.
JOS 9:22 Then Joshua called for them and
spoke to them, saying, "Why have you deceived us,
saying, 'We are very far from you,' when you are
living within our land?
JOS 9:23 "Now therefore, you are cursed, and
you shall never cease being slaves, both hewers of
wood and drawers of water for the house of my God."
JOS 9:24 So they answered Joshua and said,
"Because it was certainly told your servants that
the Lord your God had commanded His servant Moses to
give you all the land, and to destroy all the
inhabitants of the land before you; therefore we
feared greatly for our lives because of you, and
have done this thing.
JOS 9:25 "And now behold, we are in your
hands; do as it seems good and right in your sight
to do to us."
JOS 9:26 Thus he did to them, and delivered
them from the hands of the sons of Israel, and they
did not kill them.
JOS 9:27 But Joshua made them that day hewers
of wood and drawers of water for the congregation
and for the altar of the Lord, to this day, in the
place which He would choose.
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Chapter 10
JOS 10:1 Now it
came about when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem heard
that Joshua had captured Ai, and had utterly
destroyed it (just as he had done to Jericho and its
king, so he had done to Ai and its king), and that
the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel
and were within their land,
JOS 10:2 that he feared greatly, because
Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal
cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all
its men were mighty.
JOS 10:3 Therefore Adoni-zedek king of
Jerusalem sent word to Hoham king of Hebron and to
Piram king of Jarmuth and to Japhia king of Lachish
and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,
JOS 10:4 "Come up to me and help me, and let
us attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua
and with the sons of Israel."
JOS 10:5 So the five kings of the Amorites,
the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king
of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of
Eglon, gathered together and went up, they with all
their armies, and camped by Gibeon and fought
against it.
JOS 10:6 Then the men of Gibeon sent word to
Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, saying, "Do not
abandon your servants; come up to us quickly and
save us and help us, for all the kings of the
Amorites that live in the hill country have
assembled against us."
JOS 10:7 So Joshua went up from Gilgal, he
and all the people of war with him and all the
valiant warriors.
JOS 10:8 And the Lord said to Joshua, "Do not
fear them, for I have given them into your hands;
not one of them shall stand before you."
JOS 10:9 So Joshua came upon them suddenly by
marching all night from Gilgal.
JOS 10:10 And the Lord confounded them before
Israel, and He slew them with a great slaughter at
Gibeon, and pursued them by the way of the ascent of
Beth-horon, and struck them as far as Azekah and
Makkedah.
JOS 10:11 And it came about as they fled from
before Israel, while they were at the descent of
Beth-horon, that the Lord threw large stones from
heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died;
there were more who died from the hailstones than
those whom the sons of Israel killed with the sword.
JOS 10:12 Then Joshua spoke to the Lord in
the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites
before the sons of Israel, and he said in the sight
of Israel, "O sun, stand still at Gibeon, And O moon
in the valley of Aijalon."
JOS 10:13 So the sun stood still, and the
moon stopped, Until the nation avenged themselves of
their enemies. Is it not written in the book of
Jashar? And the sun stopped in the middle of the
sky, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole
day.
JOS 10:14 And there was no day like that
before it or after it, when the Lord listened to the
voice of a man; for the Lord fought for Israel.
JOS 10:15 Then Joshua and all Israel with him
returned to the camp to Gilgal.
JOS 10:16 Now these five kings had fled and
hidden themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
JOS 10:17 And it was told Joshua, saying,
"The five kings have been found hidden in the cave
at Makkedah."
JOS 10:18 And Joshua said, "Roll large stones
against the mouth of the cave, and assign men by it
to guard them,
JOS 10:19 but do not stay there yourselves;
pursue your enemies and attack them in the rear. Do
not allow them to enter their cities, for the Lord
your God has delivered them into your hand."
JOS 10:20 And it came about when Joshua and
the sons of Israel had finished slaying them with a
very great slaughter, until they were destroyed, and
the survivors who remained of them had entered the
fortified cities,
JOS 10:21 that all the people returned to the
camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace. No one uttered
a word against any of the sons of Israel.
JOS 10:22 Then Joshua said, "Open the mouth
of the cave and bring these five kings out to me
from the cave."
JOS 10:23 And they did so, and brought these
five kings out to him from the cave: the king of
Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth,
the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.
JOS 10:24 And it came about when they brought
these kings out to Joshua, that Joshua called for
all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the
men of war who had gone with him, "Come near, put
your feet on the necks of these kings." So they came
near and put their feet on their necks.
JOS 10:25 Joshua then said to them, "Do not
fear or be dismayed! Be strong and courageous, for
thus the Lord will do to all your enemies with whom
you fight."
JOS 10:26 So afterward Joshua struck them and
put them to death, and he hanged them on five trees;
and they hung on the trees until evening.
JOS 10:27 And it came about at sunset that
Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the
trees and threw them into the cave where they had
hidden themselves, and put large stones over the
mouth of the cave, to this very day.
JOS 10:28 Now Joshua captured Makkedah on
that day, and struck it and its king with the edge
of the sword; he utterly destroyed it and every
person who was in it. He left no survivor. Thus he
did to the king of Makkedah just as he had done to
the king of Jericho.
JOS 10:29 Then Joshua and all Israel with him
passed on from Makkedah to Libnah, and fought
against Libnah.
JOS 10:30 And the Lord gave it also with its
king into the hands of Israel, and he struck it and
every person who was in it with the edge of the
sword. He left no survivor in it. Thus he did to its
king just as he had done to the king of Jericho.
JOS 10:31 And Joshua and all Israel with him
passed on from Libnah to Lachish, and they camped by
it and fought against it.
JOS 10:32 And the Lord gave Lachish into the
hands of Israel; and he captured it on the second
day, and struck it and every person who was in it
with the edge of the sword, according to all that he
had done to Libnah.
JOS 10:33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to
help Lachish, and Joshua defeated him and his people
until he had left him no survivor.
JOS 10:34 And Joshua and all Israel with him
passed on from Lachish to Eglon, and they camped by
it and fought against it.
JOS 10:35 And they captured it on that day
and struck it with the edge of the sword; and he
utterly destroyed that day every person who was in
it, according to all that he had done to Lachish.
JOS 10:36 Then Joshua and all Israel with him
went up from Eglon to Hebron, and they fought
against it.
JOS 10:37 And they captured it and struck it
and its king and all its cities and all the persons
who were in it with the edge of the sword. He left
no survivor, according to all that he had done to
Eglon. And he utterly destroyed it and every person
who was in it.
JOS 10:38 Then Joshua and all Israel with him
returned to Debir, and they fought against it.
JOS 10:39 And he captured it and its king and
all its cities, and they struck them with the edge
of the sword, and utterly destroyed every person who
was in it. He left no survivor. Just as he had done
to Hebron, so he did to Debir and its king, as he
had also done to Libnah and its king.
JOS 10:40 Thus Joshua struck all the land,
the hill country and the Negev and the lowland and
the slopes and all their kings. He left no survivor,
but he utterly destroyed all who breathed, just as
the Lord, the God of Israel, had commanded.
JOS 10:41 And Joshua struck them from
Kadesh-barnea even as far as Gaza, and all the
country of Goshen even as far as Gibeon.
JOS 10:42 And Joshua captured all these kings
and their lands at one time, because the Lord, the
God of Israel, fought for Israel.
JOS 10:43 So Joshua and all Israel with him
returned to the camp at Gilgal.
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Chapter 11
JOS 11:1 Then it
came about, when Jabin king of Hazor heard of it,
that he sent to Jobab king of Madon and to the king
of Shimron and to the king of Achshaph,
JOS 11:2 and to the kings who were of the
north in the hill country, and in the Arabah - -
south of Chinneroth and in the lowland and on the
heights of Dor on the west - -
JOS 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 at the foot of Hermon in the land of
Mizpeh.
JOS 11:4 And they came out, they and all
their armies with them, as many people as the sand
that is on the seashore, with very many horses and
chariots.
JOS 11:5 So all of these kings having agreed
to meet, came and encamped together at the waters of
Merom, to fight against Israel.
JOS 11:6 Then the Lord said to Joshua, "Do
not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow at this
time I will deliver all of them slain before Israel;
you shall hamstring their horses and burn their
chariots with fire."
JOS 11:7 So Joshua and all the people of war
with him came upon them suddenly by the waters of
Merom, and attacked them.
JOS 11:8 And the Lord delivered them into the
hand of Israel, so that they defeated them, and
pursued them as far as Great Sidon and Misrephoth-maim
and the valley of Mizpeh to the east; and they
struck them until no survivor was left to them.
JOS 11:9 And Joshua did to them as the Lord
had told him; he hamstrung their horses, and burned
their chariots with fire.
JOS 11:10 Then Joshua turned back at that
time, and captured Hazor and struck its king with
the sword; for Hazor formerly was the head of all
these kingdoms.
JOS 11:11 And they struck every person who
was in it with the edge of the sword, utterly
destroying them; there was no one left who breathed.
And he burned Hazor with fire.
JOS 11:12 And Joshua captured all the cities
of these kings, and all their kings, and he struck
them with the edge of the sword, and utterly
destroyed them; just as Moses the servant of the
Lord had commanded.
JOS 11:13 However, Israel did not burn any
cities that stood on their mounds, except Hazor
alone, which Joshua burned.
JOS 11:14 And all the spoil of these cities
and the cattle, the sons of Israel took as their
plunder; but they struck every man with the edge of
the sword, until they had destroyed them. They left
no one who breathed.
JOS 11:15 Just as the Lord had commanded
Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so
Joshua did; he left nothing undone of all that the
Lord had commanded Moses.
JOS 11:16 Thus Joshua took all that land: the
hill country and all the Negev, all that land of
Goshen, the lowland, the Arabah, the hill country of
Israel and its lowland
JOS 11:17 from Mount Halak, that rises toward
Seir, even as far as Baal-gad in the valley of
Lebanon at the foot of Mount Hermon. And he captured
all their kings and struck them down and put them to
death.
JOS 11:18 Joshua waged war a long time with
all these kings.
JOS 11:19 There was not a city which made
peace with the sons of Israel except the Hivites
living in Gibeon; they took them all in battle.
JOS 11:20 For it was of the Lord to harden
their hearts, to meet Israel in battle in order that
he might utterly destroy them, that they might
receive no mercy, but that he might destroy them,
just as the Lord had commanded Moses.
JOS 11:21 Then 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.
JOS 11:22 There were no Anakim left in the
land of the sons of Israel; only in Gaza, in Gath,
and in Ashdod some remained.
JOS 11:23 So Joshua took the whole land,
according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses,
and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel
according to their divisions by their tribes. Thus
the land had rest from war.
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Chapter 12
JOS 12:1 Now
these are the kings of the land whom the sons of
Israel defeated, and whose land they possessed
beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from the
valley of the Arnon as far as Mount Hermon, and all
the Arabah to the east:
JOS 12:2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who
lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on
the edge of the valley of the Arnon, both the middle
of the valley and half of Gilead, even as far as the
brook Jabbok, the border of the sons of Ammon;
JOS 12:3 and the Arabah as far as the Sea of
Chinneroth toward the east, and as far as the sea of
the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, eastward toward Beth-jeshimoth,
and on the south, at the foot of the slopes of
Pisgah;
JOS 12:4 and the territory of Og king of
Bashan, one of the remnant of Rephaim, who lived at
Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
JOS 12:5 and ruled over Mount Hermon and
Salecah and all Bashan, as far as the border of the
Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half of Gilead,
as far as the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
JOS 12:6 Moses the servant of the Lord and
the sons of Israel defeated them; and Moses the
servant of the Lord gave it to the Reubenites and
the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh as a
possession.
JOS 12:7 Now these are the kings of the land
whom Joshua and the sons of Israel defeated beyond
the Jordan toward the west, from Baal-gad in the
valley of Lebanon even as far as Mount Halak, which
rises toward Seir; and Joshua gave it to the tribes
of Israel as a possession according to their
divisions,
JOS 12:8 in the hill country, in the lowland,
in the Arabah, on the slopes, and in the wilderness,
and in the Negev; the Hittite, the Amorite and the
Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite and the
Jebusite:
JOS 12:9 the king of Jericho, one; the king
of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one;
JOS 12:10 the king of Jerusalem, one; the
king of Hebron, one;
JOS 12:11 the king of Jarmuth, one; the king
of Lachish, one;
JOS 12:12 the king of Eglon, one; the king of
Gezer, one;
JOS 12:13 the king of Debir, one; the king of
Geder, one;
JOS 12:14 the king of Hormah, one; the king
of Arad, one;
JOS 12:15 the king of Libnah, one; the king
of Adullam, one;
JOS 12:16 the king of Makkedah, one; the king
of Bethel, one;
JOS 12:17 the king of Tappuah, one; the king
of Hepher, one;
JOS 12:18 the king of Aphek, one; the king of
Lasharon, one;
JOS 12:19 the king of Madon, one; the king of
Hazor, one;
JOS 12:20 the king of Shimron-meron, one; the
king of Achshaph, one;
JOS 12:21 the king of Taanach, one; the king
of Megiddo, one;
JOS 12:22 the king of Kedesh, one; the king
of Jokneam in Carmel, one;
JOS 12:23 the king of Dor in the heights of
Dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one;
JOS 12:24 the king of Tirzah, one: in all,
thirty-one kings.
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Chapter 13
JOS 13:1 Now
Joshua was old and advanced in years when the Lord
said to him, "You are old and advanced in years, and
very much of the land remains to be possessed.
JOS 13:2 "This is the land that remains: all
the regions of the Philistines and all those of the
Geshurites;
JOS 13:3 from the Shihor which is east of
Egypt, even as far as the border of Ekron to the
north (it is counted as Canaanite); the five lords
of the Philistines: the Gazite, the Ashdodite, the
Ashkelonite, the Gittite, the Ekronite; and the
Avvite
JOS 13:4 to the south, all the land of the
Canaanite, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians,
as far as Aphek, to the border of the Amorite;
JOS 13:5 and the land of the Gebalite, and
all of Lebanon, toward the east, from Baal-gad below
Mount Hermon as far as Lebo-hamath.
JOS 13:6 "All the inhabitants of the hill
country from Lebanon as far as Misrephoth-maim, all
the Sidonians, I will drive them out from before the
sons of Israel; only allot it to Israel for an
inheritance as I have commanded you.
JOS 13:7 "Now therefore, apportion this land
for an inheritance to the nine tribes, and the
half-tribe of Manasseh."
JOS 13:8 With the other half-tribe, the
Reubenites and the Gadites received their
inheritance which Moses gave them beyond the Jordan
to the east, just as Moses the servant of the Lord
gave to them;
JOS 13:9 from Aroer, which is on the edge of
the valley of the Arnon, with the city which is in
the middle of the valley, and all the plain of
Medeba, as far as Dibon;
JOS 13:10 and all the cities of Sihon king of
the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the
border of the sons of Ammon;
JOS 13:11 and Gilead, and the territory of
the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon,
and all Bashan as far as Salecah;
JOS 13:12 all the kingdom of Og in Bashan,
who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was
left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for Moses
struck them and dispossessed them.
JOS 13:13 But the sons of Israel did not
dispossess the Geshurites or the Maacathites; for
Geshur and Maacath live among Israel until this day.
JOS 13:14 Only to the tribe of Levi he did
not give an inheritance; the offerings by fire to
the Lord, the God of Israel, are their inheritance,
as He spoke to him.
JOS 13:15 So Moses gave an inheritance to the
tribe of the sons of Reuben according to their
families.
JOS 13:16 And their territory was from Aroer,
which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon,
with the cit
y which is in the middle of the valley and all the
plain by Medeba;
JOS 13:17 Heshbon, and all its cities which
are on the plain: Dibon and Bamoth-baal and Beth-baal-meon,
JOS 13:18 and Jahaz and Kedemoth and Mephaath,
JOS 13:19 and Kiriathaim and Sibmah and
Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley,
JOS 13:20 and Beth-peor and the slopes of
Pisgah and Beth-jeshimoth,
JOS 13:21 even all the cities of the plain
and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites
who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the
chiefs of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and
Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.
JOS 13:22 The sons of Israel also killed
Balaam the son of Beor, the diviner, with the sword
among the rest of their slain.
JOS 13:23 And the border of the sons of
Reuben was the Jordan. This was the inheritance of
the sons of Reuben according to their families, the
cities and their villages.
JOS 13:24 Moses also gave an inheritance to
the tribe of Gad, to the sons of Gad, according to
their families.
JOS 13:25 And their territory was Jazer, and
all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the
sons of Ammon, as far as Aroer which is before
Rabbah;
JOS 13:26 and from Heshbon as far as
Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from Mahanaim as far
as the border of Debir;
JOS 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, with the Jordan as
a border, as far as the lower end of the Sea of
Chinnereth beyond the Jordan to the east.
JOS 13:28 This is the inheritance of the sons
of Gad according to their families, the cities and
their villages.
JOS 13:29 Moses also gave an inheritance to
the half-tribe of Manasseh; and it was for the
half-tribe of the sons of Manasseh according to
their families.
JOS 13:30 And their territory was from
Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of
Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in
Bashan, sixty cities;
JOS 13:31 also half of Gilead, with Ashtaroth
and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan,
were for the sons of Machir the son of Manasseh, for
half of the sons of Machir according to their
families.
JOS 13:32 These are the territories which
Moses apportioned for an inheritance in the plains
of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho to the east.
JOS 13:33 But to the tribe of Levi, Moses did
not give an inheritance; the Lord, the God of
Israel, is their inheritance, as He had promised to
them.
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Chapter 14
JOS 14:1 Now
these are the territories which the sons of Israel
inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the
priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of
the households of the tribes of the sons of Israel
apportioned to them for an inheritance,
JOS 14:2 by the lot of their inheritance, as
the Lord commanded through Moses, for the nine
tribes and the half-tribe.
JOS 14:3 For Moses had given the inheritance
of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the
Jordan; but he did not give an inheritance to the
Levites among them.
JOS 14:4 For the sons of Joseph were two
tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim, and they did not give
a portion to the Levites in the land, except cities
to live in, with their pasture lands for their
livestock and for their property.
JOS 14:5 Thus the sons of Israel did just as
the Lord had commanded Moses, and they divided the
land.
JOS 14:6 Then the sons of Judah drew near to
Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the
Kenizzite said to him, "You know the word which the
Lord spoke to Moses the man of God concerning you
and me in Kadesh-barnea.
JOS 14:7 "I was forty years old when Moses
the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea
to spy out the land, and I brought word back to him
as it was in my heart.
JOS 14:8 "Nevertheless my brethren who went
up with me made the heart of the people melt with
fear; but I followed the Lord my God fully.
JOS 14:9 "So Moses swore on that day, saying,
'Surely the land on which your foot has trodden
shall be an inheritance to you and to your children
forever, because you have followed the Lord my God
fully.'
JOS 14:10 "And now behold, the Lord has let
me live, just as He spoke, these forty-five years,
from the time that the Lord spoke this word to
Moses, when Israel walked in the wilderness; and now
behold, I am eighty-five years old today.
JOS 14:11 "I am still as strong today as I
was in the day Moses sent me; as my strength was
then, so my strength is now, for war and for going
out and coming in.
JOS 14:12 "Now then, give me this hill
country about which the Lord spoke on that day, for
you heard on that day that Anakim were there, with
great fortified cities; perhaps the Lord will be
with me, and I shall drive them out as the Lord has
spoken."
JOS 14:13 So Joshua blessed him, and gave
Hebron to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for an
inheritance.
JOS 14:14 Therefore, Hebron became the
inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the
Kenizzite until this day, because he followed the
Lord God of Israel fully.
JOS 14:15 Now the name of Hebron was formerly
Kiriath-arba; for Arba was the greatest man among
the Anakim. Then the land had rest from war.
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Chapter 15
JOS 15:1 Now the
lot for the tribe of the sons of Judah according to
their families reached the border of Edom, southward
to the wilderness of Zin at the extreme south.
JOS 15:2 And their south border was from the
lower end of the Salt Sea, from the bay that turns
to the south.
JOS 15:3 Then it proceeded southward to the
ascent of Akrabbim and continued to Zin, then went
up by the south of Kadesh-barnea and continued to
Hezron, and went up to Addar and turned about to
Karka.
JOS 15:4 And it continued to Azmon and
proceeded to the brook of Egypt; and the border
ended at the sea. This shall be your south border.
JOS 15:5 And the east border was the Salt
Sea, as far as the mouth of the Jordan. And the
border of the north side was from the bay of the sea
at the mouth of the Jordan.
JOS 15:6 Then the border went up to Beth-hoglah,
and continued on the north of Beth-arabah, and the
border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of
Reuben.
JOS 15:7 And the border went up to Debir from
the valley of Achor, and turned northward toward
Gilgal which is opposite the ascent of Adummim,
which is on the south of the valley; and the border
continued to the waters of En-shemesh, and it ended
at En-rogel.
JOS 15:8 Then the border went up the valley
of Ben-hinnom to the slope of the Jebusite on the
south (that is, Jerusalem); and the border went up
to the top of the mountain which is before the
valley of Hinnom to the west, which is at the end of
the valley of Rephaim toward the north.
JOS 15:9 And from the top of the mountain the
border curved to the spring of the waters of
Nephtoah and proceeded to the cities of Mount Ephron,
then the border curved to Baalah (that is,
Kiriath-jearim).
JOS 15:10 And the border turned about from
Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and continued to the
slope of Mount Jearim on the north (that is,
Chesalon), and went down to Beth-shemesh and
continued through Timnah.
JOS 15:11 And the border proceeded to the
side of Ekron northward. Then the border curved to
Shikkeron and continued to Mount Baalah and
proceeded to Jabneel, and the border ended at the
sea.
JOS 15:12 And the west border was at the
Great Sea, even its coastline. This is the border
around the sons of Judah according to their
families.
JOS 15:13 Now he gave to Caleb the son of
Jephunneh a portion among the sons of Judah,
according to the command of the Lord to Joshua,
namely, Kiriath-arba, Arba being the father of Anak
(that is, Hebron).
JOS 15:14 And Caleb drove out from there the
three sons of Anak: Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai,
the children of Anak.
JOS 15:15 Then he went up from there against
the inhabitants of Debir; now the name of Debir
formerly was Kiriath-sepher.
JOS 15:16 And Caleb said, "The one who
attacks Kiriath-sepher and captures it, I will give
him Achsah my daughter as a wife."
JOS 15:17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the
brother of Caleb, captured it; so he gave him Achsah
his daughter as a wife.
JOS 15:18 And it came about that when she
came to him, she persuaded him to ask her father for
a field. So she alighted from the donkey, and Caleb
said to her, "What do you want?"
JOS 15:19 Then she said, "Give me a blessing;
since you have given me the land of the Negev, give
me also springs of water." So he gave her the upper
springs and the lower springs.
JOS 15:20 This is the inheritance of the
tribe of the sons of Judah according to their
families.
JOS 15:21 Now the cities at the extremity of
the tribe of the sons of Judah toward the border of
Edom in the south were Kabzeel and Eder and Jagur,
JOS 15:22 and Kinah and Dimonah and Adadah,
JOS 15:23 and Kedesh and Hazor and Ithnan,
JOS 15:24 Ziph and Telem and Bealoth,
JOS 15:25 and Hazor-hadattah and
Kerioth-hezron (that is, Hazor),
JOS 15:26 Amam and Shema and Moladah,
JOS 15:27 and Hazar-gaddah and Heshmon and
Beth-pelet,
JOS 15:28 and Hazar-shual and Beersheba and
Biziothiah,
JOS 15:29 Baalah and Iim and Ezem,
JOS 15:30 and Eltolad and Chesil and Hormah,
JOS 15:31 and Ziklag and Madmannah and
Sansannah,
JOS 15:32 and Lebaoth and Shilhim and Ain and
Rimmon; in all, twenty-nine cities with their
villages.
JOS 15:33 In the lowland: Eshtaol and Zorah
and Ashnah,
JOS 15:34 and Zanoah and En-gannim, Tappuah
and Enam,
JOS 15:35 Jarmuth and Adullam, Socoh and
Azekah,
JOS 15:36 and Shaaraim and Adithaim and
Gederah and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their
villages.
JOS 15:37 Zenan and Hadashah and Migdal-gad,
JOS 15:38 and Dilean and Mizpeh and Joktheel,
JOS 15:39 Lachish and Bozkath and Eglon,
JOS 15:40 and Cabbon and Lahmas and Chitlish,
JOS 15:41 and Gederoth, Beth-dagon and Naamah
and Makkedah; sixteen cities with their villages.
JOS 15:42 Libnah and Ether and Ashan,
JOS 15:43 and Iphtah and Ashnah and Nezib,
JOS 15:44 and Keilah and Achzib and Mareshah;
nine cities with their villages.
JOS 15:45 Ekron, with its towns and its
villages;
JOS 15:46 from Ekron even to the sea, all
that were by the side of Ashdod, with their
villages.
JOS 15:47 Ashdod, its towns and its villages;
Gaza, its towns and its villages; as far as the
brook of Egypt and the Great Sea, even its
coastline.
JOS 15:48 And in the hill country: Shamir and
Jattir and Socoh,
JOS 15:49 and Dannah and Kiriath-sannah (that
is, Debir),
JOS 15:50 and Anab and Eshtemoh and Anim,
JOS 15:51 and Goshen and Holon and Giloh;
eleven cities with their villages.
JOS 15:52 Arab and Dumah and Eshan,
JOS 15:53 and Janum and Beth-tappuah and
Aphekah,
JOS 15:54 and Humtah and Kiriath-arba (that
is, Hebron), and Zior; nine cities with their
villages.
JOS 15:55 Maon, Carmel and Ziph and Juttah,
JOS 15:56 and Jezreel and Jokdeam and Zanoah,
JOS 15:57 Kain, Gibeah and Timnah; ten cities
with their villages.
JOS 15:58 Halhul, Beth-zur and Gedor,
JOS 15:59 and Maarath and Beth-anoth and
Eltekon; six cities with their villages.
JOS 15:60 Kiriath-baal (that is,
Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah; two cities with their
villages.
JOS 15:61 In the wilderness: Beth-arabah,
Middin and Secacah,
JOS 15:62 and Nibshan and the City of Salt
and Engedi; six cities with their villages.
JOS 15:63 Now as for the Jebusites, the
inhabitants of Jerusalem, the sons of Judah could
not drive them out; so the Jebusites live with the
sons of Judah at Jerusalem until this day.
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Chapter 16
JOS 16:1 Then the
lot for the sons of Joseph went from the Jordan at
Jericho to the waters of Jericho on the east into
the wilderness, going up from Jericho through the
hill country to Bethel.
JOS 16:2 And it went from Bethel to Luz, and
continued to the border of the Archites at Ataroth.
JOS 16:3 And it went down westward to the
territory of the Japhletites, as far as the
territory of lower Beth-horon even to Gezer, and it
ended at the sea.
JOS 16:4 And the sons of Joseph, Manasseh and
Ephraim, received their inheritance.
JOS 16:5 Now this was the territory of the
sons of Ephraim according to their families: the
border of their inheritance eastward was
Ataroth-addar, as far as upper Beth-horon.
JOS 16:6 Then the border went westward at
Michmethath on the north, and the border turned
about eastward to Taanath-shiloh, and continued
beyond it to the east of Janoah.
JOS 16:7 And it went down from Janoah to
Ataroth and to Naarah, then reached Jericho and came
out at the Jordan.
JOS 16:8 From Tappuah the border continued
westward to the brook of Kanah, and it ended at the
sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the
sons of Ephraim according to their families,
JOS 16:9 together with the cities which were
set apart for the sons of Ephraim in the midst of
the inheritance of the sons of Manasseh, all the
cities with their villages.
JOS 16:10 But they did not drive out the
Canaanites who lived in Gezer, so the Canaanites
live in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and they
became forced laborers.
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Chapter 17
JOS 17:1 Now this
was the lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was
the first-born of Joseph. To Machir the first-born
of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, was allotted
Gilead and Bashan, because he was a man of war.
JOS 17:2 So the lot was made for the rest of
the sons of Manasseh according to their families:
for the sons of Abiezer and for the sons of Helek
and for the sons of Asriel and for the sons of
Shechem and for the sons of Hepher and for the sons
of Shemida; these were the male descendants of
Manasseh the son of Joseph according to their
families.
JOS 17:3 However, Zelophehad, the son of
Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the
son of Manasseh, had no sons, only daughters; and
these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah and
Noah, Hoglah, Milcah and Tirzah.
JOS 17:4 And they came near before Eleazar
the priest and before Joshua the son of Nun and
before the leaders, saying, "The Lord commanded
Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers."
So according to the command of the Lord he gave them
an inheritance among their father's brothers.
JOS 17:5 Thus there fell ten portions to
Manasseh, besides the land of Gilead and Bashan,
which is beyond the Jordan,
JOS 17:6 because the daughters of Manasseh
received an inheritance among his sons. And the land
of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of
Manasseh.
JOS 17:7 And the border of Manasseh ran from
Asher to Michmethath which was east of Shechem; then
the border went southward to the inhabitants of En-tappuah.
JOS 17:8 The land of Tappuah belonged to
Manasseh, but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh
belonged to the sons of Ephraim.
JOS 17:9 And the border went down to the
brook of Kanah, southward of the brook (these cities
belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh),
and the border of Manasseh was on the north side of
the brook, and it ended at the sea.
JOS 17:10 The south side belonged to Ephraim
and the north side to Manasseh, and the sea was
their border; and they reached to Asher on the north
and to Issachar on the east.
JOS 17:11 And in Issachar and in Asher,
Manasseh had 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, the third is
Napheth.
JOS 17:12 But the sons of Manasseh could not
take possession of these cities, because the
Canaanites persisted in living in that land.
JOS 17:13 And it came about when the sons of
Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to
forced labor, but they did not drive them out
completely.
JOS 17:14 Then the sons of Joseph spoke to
Joshua, saying, "Why have you given me only one lot
and one portion for an inheritance, since I am a
numerous people whom the Lord has thus far blessed?"
JOS 17:15 And Joshua said to them, "If you
are a numerous people, go up to the forest and clear
a place for yourself there in the land of the
Perizzites and of the Rephaim, since the hill
country of Ephraim is too narrow for you."
JOS 17:16 And the sons of Joseph said, "The
hill country is not enough for us, and all the
Canaanites who live in the valley land have chariots
of iron, both those who are in Beth-shean and its
towns, and those who are in the valley of Jezreel."
JOS 17:17 And Joshua spoke to the house of
Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, saying, "You are a
numerous people and have great power; you shall not
have one lot only,
JOS 17:18 but the hill country shall be
yours. For though it is a forest, you shall clear
it, and to its farthest borders it shall be yours;
for you shall drive out the Canaanites, even though
they have chariots of iron and though they are
strong."
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Chapter 18
JOS 18:1 Then the
whole congregation of the sons of Israel assembled
themselves at Shiloh, and set up the tent of meeting
there; and the land was subdued before them.
JOS 18:2 And there remained among the sons of
Israel seven tribes who had not divided their
inheritance.
JOS 18:3 So Joshua said to the sons of
Israel, "How long will you put off entering to take
possession of the land which the Lord, the God of
your fathers, has given you?
JOS 18:4 "Provide for yourselves three men
from each tribe that I may send them, and that they
may arise and walk through the land and write a
description of it according to their inheritance;
then they shall return to me.
JOS 18:5 "And they shall divide it into seven
portions; Judah shall stay in its territory on the
south, and the house of Joseph shall stay in their
territory on the north.
JOS 18:6 "And you shall describe the land in
seven divisions, and bring the description here to
me. And I will cast lots for you here before the
Lord our God.
JOS 18:7 "For the Levites have no portion
among you, because the priesthood of the Lord is
their inheritance. Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe
of Manasseh also have received their inheritance
eastward beyond the Jordan, which Moses the servant
of the Lord gave them."
JOS 18:8 Then the men arose and went, and
Joshua commanded those who went to describe the
land, saying, "Go and walk through the land and
describe it, and return to me; then I will cast lots
for you here before the Lord in Shiloh."
JOS 18:9 So the men went and passed through
the land, and described it by cities in seven
divisions in a book; and they came to Joshua to the
camp at Shiloh.
JOS 18:10 And Joshua cast lots for them in
Shiloh before the Lord, and there Joshua divided the
land to the sons of Israel according to their
divisions.
JOS 18:11 Now the lot of the tribe of the
sons of Benjamin came up according to their
families, and the territory of their lot lay between
the sons of Judah and the sons of Joseph.
JOS 18:12 And their border on the north side
was from the Jordan, then the border went up to the
side of Jericho on the north, and went up through
the hill country westward; and it ended at the
wilderness of Beth-aven.
JOS 18:13 And from there the border continued
to Luz, to the side of Luz (that is, Bethel)
southward; and the border went down to Ataroth-addar,
near the hill which lies on the south of lower Beth-horon.
JOS 18:14 And the border extended from there,
and turned round on the west side southward, from
the hill which lies before Beth-horon southward; and
it ended at Kiriath-baal (that is, Kiriath-jearim),
a city of the sons of Judah. This was the west side.
JOS 18:15 Then the south side was from the
edge of Kiriath-jearim, and the border went westward
and went to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah.
JOS 18:16 And the border went down to the
edge of the hill which is in the valley of Ben-hinnom,
which is in the valley of Rephaim northward; and it
went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the slope of
the Jebusite southward, and went down to En-rogel.
JOS 18:17 And it extended northward and went
to En-shemesh and went to Geliloth, which is
opposite the ascent of Adummim, and it went down to
the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben.
JOS 18:18 And it continued to the side in
front of the Arabah northward, and went down to the
Arabah.
JOS 18:19 And the border continued to the
side of Beth-hoglah northward; and the border ended
at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the south end
of the Jordan. This was the south border.
JOS 18:20 Moreover, the Jordan was its border
on the east side. This was the inheritance of the
sons of Benjamin, according to their families and
according to its borders all around.
JOS 18:21 Now the cities of the tribe of the
sons of Benjamin according to their families were
Jericho and Beth-hoglah and Emek-keziz,
JOS 18:22 and Beth-arabah and Zemaraim and
Bethel,
JOS 18:23 and Avvim and Parah and Ophrah,
JOS 18:24 and Chephar-ammoni and Ophni and
Geba; twelve cities with their villages.
JOS 18:25 Gibeon and Ramah and Beeroth,
JOS 18:26 and Mizpeh and Chephirah and Mozah,
JOS 18:27 and Rekem and Irpeel and Taralah,
JOS 18:28 and Zelah, Haeleph and the Jebusite
(that is, Jerusalem), Gibeah, Kiriath; fourteen
cities with their villages. This is the inheritance
of the sons of Benjamin according to their families.
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Chapter 19
JOS 19:1 Then the
second lot fell to Simeon, to the tribe of the sons
of Simeon according to their families, and their
inheritance was in the midst of the inheritance of
the sons of Judah.
JOS 19:2 So they had as their inheritance
Beersheba or Sheba and Moladah,
JOS 19:3 and Hazar-shual and Balah and Ezem,
JOS 19:4 and Eltolad and Bethul and Hormah,
JOS 19:5 and Ziklag and Beth-marcaboth and
Hazar-susah,
JOS 19:6 and Beth-lebaoth and Sharuhen,
thirteen cities with their villages;
JOS 19:7 Ain, Rimmon and Ether and Ashan,
four cities with their villages;
JOS 19:8 and all the villages which were
around these cities as far as Baalath-beer, Ramah of
the Negev. This was the inheritance of the tribe of
the sons of Simeon according to their families.
JOS 19:9 The inheritance of the sons of
Simeon was taken from the portion of the sons of
Judah, for the share of the sons of Judah was too
large for them; so the sons of Simeon received an
inheritance in the midst of Judah's inheritance.
JOS 19:10 Now the third lot came up for the
sons of Zebulun according to their families. And the
territory of their inheritance was as far as Sarid.
JOS 19:11 Then their border went up to the
west and to Maralah, it then touched Dabbesheth, and
reached to the brook that is before Jokneam.
JOS 19:12 Then it turned from Sarid to the
east toward the sunrise as far as the border of
Chisloth-tabor, and it proceeded to Daberath and up
to Japhia.
JOS 19:13 And from there it continued
eastward toward the sunrise to Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin,
and it proceeded to Rimmon which stretches to Neah.
JOS 19:14 And the border circled around it on
the north to Hannathon, and it ended at the valley
of Iphtahel.
JOS 19:15 Included also were Kattah and
Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Bethlehem; twelve
cities with their villages.
JOS 19:16 This was the inheritance of the
sons of Zebulun according to their families, these
cities with their villages.
JOS 19:17 The fourth lot fell to Issachar, to
the sons of Issachar according to their families.
JOS 19:18 And their territory was to Jezreel
and included Chesulloth and Shunem,
JOS 19:19 and Hapharaim and Shion and
Anaharath,
JOS 19:20 and Rabbith and Kishion and Ebez,
JOS 19:21 and Remeth and En-gannim and En-haddah
and Beth-pazzez.
JOS 19:22 And the border reached to Tabor and
Shahazumah and Beth-shemesh, and their border ended
at the Jordan; sixteen cities with their villages.
JOS 19:23 This was the inheritance of the
tribe of the sons of Issachar according to their
families, the cities with their villages.
JOS 19:24 Now the fifth lot fell to the tribe
of the sons of Asher according to their families.
JOS 19:25 And their territory was Helkath and
Hali and Beten and Achshaph,
JOS 19:26 and Allammelech and Amad and Mishal;
and it reached to Carmel on the west and to
Shihor-libnath.
JOS 19:27 And it turned toward the east to
Beth-dagon, and reached to Zebulun, and to the
valley of Iphtahel northward to Beth-emek and Neiel;
then it proceeded on north to Cabul,
JOS 19:28 and Ebron and Rehob and Hammon and
Kanah, as far as Great Sidon.
JOS 19:29 And the border turned to Ramah, and
to the fortified city of Tyre; then the border
turned to Hosah, and it ended at the sea by the
region of Achzib.
JOS 19:30 Included also were Ummah, and Aphek
and Rehob; twenty-two cities with their villages.
JOS 19:31 This was the inheritance of the
tribe of the sons of Asher according to their
families, these cities with their villages.
JOS 19:32 The sixth lot fell to the sons of
Naphtali; to the sons of Naphtali according to their
families.
JOS 19:33 And their border was from Heleph,
from the oak in Zaanannim and Adami-nekeb and
Jabneel, as far as Lakkum; and it ended at the
Jordan.
JOS 19:34 Then the border turned westward to
Aznoth-tabor, and proceeded from there to Hukkok;
and it reached to Zebulun on the south and touched
Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan toward
the east.
JOS 19:35 And the fortified cities were
Ziddim, Zer and Hammath, Rakkath and Chinnereth,
JOS 19:36 and Adamah and Ramah and Hazor,
JOS 19:37 and Kedesh and Edrei and En-hazor,
JOS 19:38 and Yiron and Migdal-el, Horem and
Beth-anath and Beth-shemesh; nineteen cities with
their villages.
JOS 19:39 This was the inheritance of the
tribe of the sons of Naphtali according to their
families, the cities with their villages.
JOS 19:40 The seventh lot fell to the tribe
of the sons of Dan according to their families.
JOS 19:41 And the territory of their
inheritance was Zorah and Eshtaol and Ir-shemesh,
JOS 19:42 and Shaalabbin and Aijalon and
Ithlah,
JOS 19:43 and Elon and Timnah and Ekron,
JOS 19:44 and Eltekeh and Gibbethon and
Baalath,
JOS 19:45 and Jehud and Bene-berak and
Gath-rimmon,
JOS 19:46 and Me-jarkon and Rakkon, with the
territory over against Joppa.
JOS 19:47 And the territory of the sons of
Dan proceeded beyond them; for the sons of Dan went
up and fought with Leshem and captured it. Then they
struck it with the edge of the sword and possessed
it and settled in it; and they called Leshem Dan
after the name of Dan their father.
JOS 19:48 This was the inheritance of the
tribe of the sons of Dan according to their
families, these cities with their villages.
JOS 19:49 When they finished apportioning the
land for inheritance by its borders, the sons of
Israel gave an inheritance in their midst to Joshua
the son of Nun.
JOS 19:50 In accordance with the command of
the Lord they gave him the city for which he asked,
Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim. So he
built the city and settled in it.
JOS 19:51 These are the inheritances which
Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the
heads of the households of the tribes of the sons of
Israel distributed by lot in Shiloh before the Lord,
at the doorway of the tent of meeting. So they
finished dividing the land.
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Chapter 20
JOS 20:1 Then the
Lord spoke to Joshua, saying,
JOS 20:2 "Speak to the sons of Israel,
saying, 'Designate the cities of refuge, of which I
spoke to you through Moses,
JOS 20:3 that the manslayer who kills any
person unintentionally, without premeditation, may
flee there, and they shall become your refuge from
the avenger of blood.
JOS 20:4 'And he shall flee to one of these
cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate
of the city and state his case in the hearing of the
elders of that city; and they shall take him into
the city to them and give him a place, so that he
may dwell among them.
JOS 20:5 'Now if the avenger of blood pursues
him, then they shall not deliver the manslayer into
his hand, because he struck his neighbor without
premeditation and did not hate him beforehand.
JOS 20:6 'And he shall dwell in that city
until he stands before the congregation for
judgment, until the death of the one who is high
priest in those days. Then the manslayer shall
return to his own city and to his own house, to the
city from which he fled.' "
JOS 20:7 So they set apart Kedesh in Galilee
in the hill country of Naphtali and Shechem in the
hill country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (that is,
Hebron) in the hill country of Judah.
JOS 20:8 And beyond the Jordan east of
Jericho, they designated Bezer in the wilderness on
the plain from the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in
Gilead from the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan
from the tribe of Manasseh.
JOS 20:9 These were the appointed cities for
all the sons of Israel and for the stranger who
sojourns among them, that whoever kills any person
unintentionally may flee there, and not die by the
hand of the avenger of blood until he stands before
the congregation.
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Chapter 21
JOS 21:1 Then the
heads of households of the Levites approached
Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the
heads of households of the tribes of the sons of
Israel.
JOS 21:2 And they spoke to them at Shiloh in
the land of Canaan, saying, "The Lord commanded
through Moses to give us cities to live in, with
their pasture lands for our cattle."
JOS 21:3 So the sons of Israel gave the
Levites from their inheritance these cities with
their pasture lands, according to the command of the
Lord.
JOS 21:4 Then the lot came out for the
families of the Kohathites. And the sons of Aaron
the priest, who were of the Levites, received
thirteen cities by lot from the tribe of Judah and
from the tribe of the Simeonites and from the tribe
of Benjamin.
JOS 21:5 And the rest of the sons of Kohath
received ten cities by lot from the families of the
tribe of Ephraim and from the tribe of Dan and from
the half-tribe of Manasseh.
JOS 21:6 And the sons of Gershon received
thirteen cities by lot from the families of the
tribe of Issachar and from the tribe of Asher and
from the tribe of Naphtali and from the half-tribe
of Manasseh in Bashan.
JOS 21:7 The sons of Merari according to
their families received twelve cities from the tribe
of Reuben and from the tribe of Gad and from the
tribe of Zebulun.
JOS 21:8 Now the sons of Israel gave by lot
to the Levites these cities with their pasture
lands, as the Lord had commanded through Moses.
JOS 21:9 And they gave these cities which are
here mentioned by name from the tribe of the sons of
Judah and from the tribe of the sons of Simeon;
JOS 21:10 and they were for the sons of
Aaron, one of the families of the Kohathites, of the
sons of Levi, for the lot was theirs first.
JOS 21:11 Thus they gave them Kiriath-arba,
Arba being the father of Anak (that is, Hebron), in
the hill country of Judah, with its surrounding
pasture lands.
JOS 21:12 But the fields of the city and its
villages, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh as
his possession.
JOS 21:13 So to the sons of Aaron the priest
they gave Hebron, the city of refuge for the
manslayer, with its pasture lands, and Libnah with
its pasture lands,
JOS 21:14 and Jattir with its pasture lands
and Eshtemoa with its pasture lands,
JOS 21:15 and Holon with its pasture lands
and Debir with its pasture lands,
JOS 21:16 and Ain with its pasture lands and
Juttah with its pasture lands and Beth-shemesh with
its pasture lands; nine cities from these two
tribes.
JOS 21:17 And from the tribe of Benjamin,
Gibeon with its pasture lands, Geba with its pasture
lands,
JOS 21:18 Anathoth with its pasture lands and
Almon with its pasture lands; four cities.
JOS 21:19 All the cities of the sons of
Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their
pasture lands.
JOS 21:20 Then the cities from the tribe of
Ephraim were allotted to the families of the sons of
Kohath, the Levites, even to the rest of the sons of
Kohath.
JOS 21:21 And they gave them Shechem, the
city of refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture
lands, in the hill country of Ephraim, and Gezer
with its pasture lands,
JOS 21:22 and Kibzaim with its pasture lands
and Beth-horon with its pasture lands; four cities.
JOS 21:23 And from the tribe of Dan, Elteke
with its pasture lands, Gibbethon with its pasture
lands,
JOS 21:24 Aijalon with its pasture lands,
Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; four cities.
JOS 21:25 And from the half-tribe of
Manasseh, they allotted Taanach with its pasture
lands and Gath-rimmon with its pasture lands; two
cities.
JOS 21:26 All the cities with their pasture
lands for the families of the rest of the sons of
Kohath were ten.
JOS 21:27 And to the sons of Gershon, one of
the families of the Levites, from the half-tribe of
Manasseh, they gave Golan in Bashan, the city of
refuge for the manslayer, with its pasture lands,
and Be-eshterah with its pasture lands; two cities.
JOS 21:28 And from the tribe of Issachar,
they gave Kishion with its pasture lands, Daberath
with its pasture lands,
JOS 21:29 Jarmuth with its pasture lands, En-gannim
with its pasture lands; four cities.
JOS 21:30 And from the tribe of Asher, they
gave Mishal with its pasture lands, Abdon with its
pasture lands,
JOS 21:31 Helkath with its pasture lands and
Rehob with its pasture lands; four cities.
JOS 21:32 And from the tribe of Naphtali,
they gave Kedesh in Galilee, the city of refuge for
the manslayer, with its pasture lands and
Hammoth-dor with its pasture lands and Kartan with
its pasture lands; three cities.
JOS 21:33 All the cities of the Gershonites
according to their families were thirteen cities
with their pasture lands.
JOS 21:34 And to the families of the sons of
Merari, the rest of the Levites, they gave from the
tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its pasture lands and
Kartah with its pasture lands.
JOS 21:35 Dimnah with its pasture lands,
Nahalal with its pasture lands; four cities.
JOS 21:36 And from the tribe of Reuben, they
gave Bezer with its pasture lands and Jahaz with its
pasture lands,
JOS 21:37 Kedemoth with its pasture lands and
Mephaath with its pasture lands; four cities.
JOS 21:38 And from the tribe of Gad, they
gave Ramoth in Gilead, the city of refuge for the
manslayer, with its pasture lands and Mahanaim with
its pasture lands,
JOS 21:39 Heshbon with its pasture lands,
Jazer with its pasture lands; four cities in all.
JOS 21:40 All these were the cities of the
sons of Merari according to their families, the rest
of the families of the Levites; and their lot was
twelve cities.
JOS 21:41 All the cities of the Levites in
the midst of the possession of the sons of Israel
were forty-eight cities with their pasture lands.
JOS 21:42 These cities each had its
surrounding pasture lands; thus it was with all
these cities.
JOS 21:43 So the Lord gave Israel all the
land which He had sworn to give to their fathers,
and they possessed it and lived in it.
JOS 21:44 And the Lord gave them rest on
every side, according to all that He had sworn to
their fathers, and no one of all their enemies stood
before them; the Lord gave all their enemies into
their hand.
JOS 21:45 Not one of the good promises which
the Lord had made to the house of Israel failed; all
came to pass.
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Chapter 22
JOS 22:1 Then
Joshua summoned the Reubenites and the Gadites and
the half-tribe of Manasseh, JOS 22:2 and said
to them, "You have kept all that Moses the servant
of the Lord commanded you, and have listened to my
voice in all that I commanded you.
JOS 22:3 "You have not forsaken your brothers
these many days to this day, but have kept the
charge of the commandment of the Lord your God.
JOS 22:4 "And now the Lord your God has given
rest to your brothers, as He spoke to them;
therefore turn now and go to your tents, to the land
of your possession, which Moses the servant of the
Lord gave you beyond the Jordan.
JOS 22:5 "Only be very careful to observe the
commandment and the law which Moses the servant of
the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God
and walk in all His ways and keep His commandments
and hold fast to Him and serve Him with all your
heart and with all your soul."
JOS 22:6 So Joshua blessed them and sent them
away, and they went to their tents.
JOS 22:7 Now to the one half-tribe of
Manasseh Moses had given a possession in Bashan, but
to the other half Joshua gave a possession among
their brothers westward beyond the Jordan. So when
Joshua sent them away to their tents, he blessed
them,
JOS 22:8 and said to them, "Return to your
tents with great riches and with very much
livestock, with silver, gold, bronze, iron, and with
very many clothes; divide the spoil of your enemies
with your brothers."
JOS 22:9 And the sons of Reuben and the sons
of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh returned home
and departed from the sons of Israel at Shiloh which
is in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of
Gilead, to the land of their possession which they
had possessed, according to the command of the Lord
through Moses.
JOS 22:10 And when they came to the region of
the Jordan which is in the land of Canaan, the sons
of Reuben and the sons of Gad and the half-tribe of
Manasseh built an altar there by the Jordan, a large
altar in appearance.
JOS 22:11 And the sons of Israel heard it
said, "Behold, the sons of Reuben and the sons of
Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have built an
altar at the frontier of the land of Canaan, in the
region of the Jordan, on the side belonging to the
sons of Israel."
JOS 22:12 And when the sons of Israel heard
of it, the whole congregation of the sons of Israel
gathered themselves at Shiloh, to go up against them
in war.
JOS 22:13 Then the sons of Israel sent to the
sons of Reuben and to the sons of Gad and to the
half-tribe of Manasseh, into the land of Gilead,
Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,
JOS 22:14 and with him ten chiefs, one chief
for each father's household from each of the tribes
of Israel; and each one of them was the head of his
father's household among the thousands of Israel.
JOS 22:15 And they came to the sons of Reuben
and to the sons of Gad and to the half-tribe of
Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they spoke with
them saying,
JOS 22:16 "Thus says the whole congregation
of the Lord, 'What is this unfaithful act which you
have committed against the God of Israel, turning
away from following the Lord this day, by building
yourselves an altar, to rebel against the Lord this
day?
JOS 22:17 'Is not the iniquity of Peor enough
for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves to
this day, although a plague came on the congregation
of the Lord,
JOS 22:18 that you must turn away this day
from following the Lord? And it will come about if
you rebel against the Lord today, that He will be
angry with the whole congregation of Israel
tomorrow.
JOS 22:19 'If, however, the land of your
possession is unclean, then cross into the land of
the possession of the Lord, where the Lord's
tabernacle stands, and take possession among us.
Only do not rebel against the Lord, or rebel against
us by building an altar for yourselves, besides the
altar of the Lord our God.
JOS 22:20 'Did not Achan the son of Zerah act
unfaithfully in the things under the ban, and wrath
fall on all the congregation of Israel? And that man
did not perish alone in his iniquity.' "
JOS 22:21 Then the sons of Reuben and the
sons of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh answered,
and spoke to the heads of the families of Israel.
JOS 22:22 "The Mighty One, God, the Lord, the
Mighty One, God, the Lord! He knows, and may Israel
itself know. If it was in rebellion, or if in an
unfaithful act against the Lord do not Thou save us
this day!
JOS 22:23 "If we have built us an altar to
turn away from following the Lord, or if to offer a
burnt offering or grain offering on it, or if to
offer sacrifices of peace offerings on it, may the
Lord Himself require it.
JOS 22:24 "But truly we have done this out of
concern, for a reason, saying, 'In time to come your
sons may say to our sons," What have you to do with
the Lord, the God of Israel?
JOS 22:25 "For the Lord has made the Jordan a
border between us and you, you sons of Reuben and
sons of Gad; you have no portion in the Lord." So
your sons may make our sons stop fearing the Lord.'
JOS 22:26 "Therefore we said, 'Let us build
an altar, not for burnt offering or for sacrifice;
JOS 22:27 rather it shall be a witness
between us and you and between our generations after
us, that we are to perform the service of the Lord
before Him with our burnt offerings, and with our
sacrifices and with our peace offerings, that your
sons may not say to our sons in time to come, "You
have no portion in the Lord."'
JOS 22:28 "Therefore we said, 'It shall also
come about if they say this to us or to our
generations in time to come, then we shall say," See
the copy of the altar of the Lord which our fathers
made, not for burnt offering or for sacrifice;
rather it is a witness between us and you."'
JOS 22:29 "Far be it from us that we should
rebel against the Lord and turn away from following
the Lord this day, by building an altar for burnt
offering, for grain offering or for sacrifice,
besides the altar of the Lord our God which is
before His tabernacle."
JOS 22:30 So when Phinehas the priest and the
leaders of the congregation, even the heads of the
families of Israel who were with him, heard the
words which the sons of Reuben and the sons of Gad
and the sons of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them.
JOS 22:31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the
priest said to the sons of Reuben and to the sons of
Gad and to the sons of Manasseh, "Today we know that
the Lord is in our midst, because you have not
committed this unfaithful act against the Lord; now
you have delivered the sons of Israel from the hand
of the Lord."
JOS 22:32 Then Phinehas the son of Eleazar
the priest and the leaders returned from the sons of
Reuben and from the sons of Gad, from the land of
Gilead, to the land of Canaan, to the sons of
Israel, and brought back word to them.
JOS 22:33 And the word pleased the sons of
Israel, and the sons of Israel blessed God; and they
did not speak of going up against them in war, to
destroy the land in which the sons of Reuben and the
sons of Gad were living.
JOS 22:34 And the sons of Reuben and the sons
of Gad called the altar Witness; "For," they said,
"it is a witness between us that the Lord is God."
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Chapter 23
JOS 23:1 Now it
came about after many days, when the Lord had given
rest to Israel from all their enemies on every side,
and Joshua was old, advanced in years,
JOS 23:2 that Joshua called for all Israel,
for their elders and their heads and their judges
and their officers, and said to them, "I am old,
advanced in years.
JOS 23:3 "And you have seen all that the Lord
your God has done to all these nations because of
you, for the Lord your God is He who has been
fighting for you.
JOS 23:4 "See, I have apportioned to you
these nations which remain as an inheritance for
your tribes, with all the nations which I have cut
off, from the Jordan even to the Great Sea toward
the setting of the sun.
JOS 23:5 "And the Lord your God, He shall
thrust them out from before you and drive them from
before you; and you shall possess their land, just
as the Lord your God promised you.
JOS 23:6 "Be very firm, then, to keep and do
all that is written in the book of the law of Moses,
so that you may not turn aside from it to the right
hand or to the left,
JOS 23:7 in order that you may not associate
with these nations, these which remain among you, or
mention the name of their gods, or make anyone swear
by them, or serve them, or bow down to them.
JOS 23:8 "But you are to cling to the Lord
your God, as you have done to this day.
JOS 23:9 "For the Lord has driven out great
and strong nations from before you; and as for you,
no man has stood before you to this day.
JOS 23:10 "One of your men puts to flight a
thousand, for the Lord your God is He who fights for
you, just as He promised you.
JOS 23:11 "So take diligent heed to
yourselves to love the Lord your God.
JOS 23:12 "For if you ever go back and cling
to the rest of these nations, these which remain
among you, and intermarry with them, so that you
associate with them and they with you,
JOS 23:13 know with certainty that the Lord
your God will not continue to drive these nations
out from before you; but they shall be a snare and a
trap to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in
your eyes, until you perish from off this good land
which the Lord your God has given you.
JOS 23:14 "Now behold, today I am going the
way of all the earth, and you know in all your
hearts and in all your souls that not one word of
all the good words which the Lord your God spoke
concerning you has failed; all have been fulfilled
for you, not one of them has failed.
JOS 23:15 "And it shall come about that just
as all the good words which the Lord your God spoke
to you have come upon you, so the Lord will bring
upon you all the threats, until He has destroyed you
from off this good land which the Lord your God has
given you.
JOS 23:16 "When you transgress the covenant
of the Lord your God, which He commanded you, and go
and serve other gods, and bow down to them, then the
anger of the Lord will burn against you, and you
shall perish quickly from off the good land which He
has given you."
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Chapter 24
JOS 24:1 Then
Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem,
and called for the elders of Israel and for their
heads and their judges and their officers; and they
presented themselves before God.
JOS 24:2 And Joshua said to all the people,
"Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'From
ancient times your fathers lived beyond the River,
namely, Terah, the father of Abraham and the father
of Nahor, and they served other gods.
JOS 24:3 'Then I took your father Abraham
from beyond the River, and led him through all the
land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants and
gave him Isaac.
JOS 24:4 'And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau,
and to Esau I gave Mount Seir, to possess it; but
Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.
JOS 24:5 'Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I
plagued Egypt by what I did in its midst; and
afterward I brought you out.
JOS 24:6 'And I brought your fathers out of
Egypt, and you came to the sea; and Egypt pursued
your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red
Sea.
JOS 24:7 'But when they cried out to the
Lord, He put darkness between you and the Egyptians,
and brought the sea upon them and covered them; and
your own eyes saw what I did in Egypt. And you lived
in the wilderness for a long time.
JOS 24:8 'Then I brought you into the land of
the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan, and they
fought with you; and I gave them into your hand, and
you took possession of their land when I destroyed
them before you.
JOS 24:9 'Then Balak the son of Zippor, king
of Moab, arose and fought against Israel, and he
sent and summoned Balaam the son of Beor to curse
you.
JOS 24:10 'But I was not willing to listen to
Balaam. So he had to bless you, and I delivered you
from his hand.
JOS 24:11 'And you crossed the Jordan and
came to Jericho; and the citizens of Jericho fought
against you, and the Amorite and the Perizzite and
the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Girgashite,
the Hivite and the Jebusite. Thus I gave them into
your hand.
JOS 24:12 'Then I sent the hornet before you
and it drove out the two kings of the Amorites from
before you, but not by your sword or your bow.
JOS 24:13 'And I gave you a land on which you
had not labored, and cities which you had not built,
and you have lived in them; you are eating of
vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.'
JOS 24:14 "Now, therefore, fear the Lord and
serve Him in sincerity and truth; and put away the
gods which your fathers served beyond the River and
in Egypt, and serve the Lord.
JOS 24:15 "And if it is disagreeable in your
sight to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves today
whom you will serve: whether the gods which your
fathers served which were beyond the River, or the
gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living;
but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."
JOS 24:16 And the people answered and said,
"Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord
to serve other gods;
JOS 24:17 for the Lord our God is He who
brought us and our fathers up out of the land of
Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did these
great signs in our sight and preserved us through
all the way in which we went and among all the
peoples through whose midst we passed.
JOS 24:18 "And the Lord drove out from before
us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in
the land. We also will serve the Lord, for He is our
God."
JOS 24:19 Then Joshua said to the people,
"You will not be able to serve the Lord, for He is a
holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive
your transgression or your sins.
JOS 24:20 "If you forsake the Lord and serve
foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and
consume you after He has done good to you."
JOS 24:21 And the people said to Joshua, "No,
but we will serve the Lord."
JOS 24:22 And Joshua said to the people, "You
are witnesses against yourselves that you have
chosen for yourselves the Lord, to serve Him." And
they said, "We are witnesses."
JOS 24:23 "Now therefore, put away the
foreign gods which are in your midst, and incline
your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel."
JOS 24:24 And the people said to Joshua, "We
will serve the Lord our God and we will obey His
voice."
JOS 24:25 So Joshua made a covenant with the
people that day, and made for them a statute and an
ordinance in Shechem.
JOS 24:26 And Joshua wrote these words in the
book of the law of God; and he took a large stone
and set it up there under the oak that was by the
sanctuary of the Lord.
JOS 24:27 And Joshua said to all the people,
"Behold, this stone shall be for a witness against
us, for it has heard all the words of the Lord which
He spoke to us; thus it shall be for a witness
against you, lest you deny your God."
JOS 24:28 Then Joshua dismissed the people,
each to his inheritance.
JOS 24:29 And it came about after these
things that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of
the Lord, died, being one hundred and ten years old.
JOS 24:30 And they buried him in the
territory of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which
is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of
Mount Gaash.
JOS 24:31 And Israel served the Lord all the
days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who
survived Joshua, and had known all the deeds of the
Lord which He had done for Israel.
JOS 24:32 Now they buried the bones of
Joseph, which the sons of Israel brought up from
Egypt, at Shechem, in the piece of ground which
Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father
of Shechem for one hundred pieces of money; and they
became the inheritance of Joseph's sons.
JOS 24:33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died;
and they buried him at Gibeah of Phinehas his son,
which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
