Jos 01:01 Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD
it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun,
Moses' minister, saying,
Jos 01:02 Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over
this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do
give to them, [even] to the children of Israel.
Jos 01:03 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread
upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
Jos 01:04 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the
great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites,
and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall
be your coast.
Jos 01:05 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee
all the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, [so] I will be
with thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
Jos 01:06 Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people
shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware
unto their fathers to give them.
Jos 01:07 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou
mayest observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my
servant commanded thee: turn not from it [to] the right hand or
[to] the left, that thou mayest prosper whithersoever thou goest.
Jos 01:08 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth;
but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest
observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then
thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have
good success.
Jos 01:09 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good
courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD
thy God [is] with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Jos 01:10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people,
saying,
Jos 01:11 Pass through the host, and command the people, saying,
Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over
this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your
God giveth you to possess it.
Jos 01:12 And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half
the tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying,
Jos 01:13 Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD
commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest,
and hath given you this land.
Jos 01:14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall
remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but
ye shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of
valour, and help them;
Jos 01:15 Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as [he
hath given] you, and they also have possessed the land which the
LORD your God giveth them: then ye shall return unto the land of
your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD'S servant
gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.
Jos 01:16 And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou
commandest us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we
will go.
Jos 01:17 According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so
will we hearken unto thee: only the LORD thy God be with thee,
as he was with Moses.
Jos 01:18 Whosoever [he be] that doth rebel against thy
commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that
thou commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be strong
and of a good courage.
Jos 02:01 And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men
to spy secretly, saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And
they went, and came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and
lodged there.
Jos 02:02 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold,
there came men in hither to night of the children of Israel to
search out the country.
Jos 02:03 And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring
forth the men that are come to thee, which are entered into
thine house: for they be come to search out all the country.
Jos 02:04 And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said
thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they [were]:
Jos 02:05 And it came to pass [about the time] of shutting of
the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the
men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall
overtake them.
Jos 02:06 But she had brought them up to the roof of the house,
and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in
order upon the roof.
Jos 02:07 And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto
the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were
gone out, they shut the gate.
Jos 02:08 And before they were laid down, she came up unto them
upon the roof;
Jos 02:09 And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath
given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and
that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
Jos 02:10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of
the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did
unto the two kings of the Amorites, that [were] on the other
side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
Jos 02:11 And as soon as we had heard [these things], our hearts
did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man,
because of you: for the LORD your God, he [is] God in heaven
above, and in earth beneath.
Jos 02:12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD,
since I have showed you kindness, that ye will also show
kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token:
Jos 02:13 And [that] ye will save alive my father, and my mother,
and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and
deliver our lives from death.
Jos 02:14 And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye
utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD hath
given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.
Jos 02:15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window:
for her house [was] upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the
wall.
Jos 02:16 And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest
the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days,
until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.
Jos 02:17 And the men said unto her, We [will be] blameless of
this thine oath which thou hast made us swear.
Jos 02:18 Behold, [when] we come into the land, thou shalt bind
this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let
us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and
thy brethren, and all thy father's household, home unto thee.
Jos 02:19 And it shall be, [that] whosoever shall go out of the
doors of thy house into the street, his blood [shall be] upon
his head, and we [will be] guiltless: and whosoever shall be
with thee in the house, his blood [shall be] on our head, if
[any] hand be upon him.
Jos 02:20 And if thou utter this our business, then we will be
quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
Jos 02:21 And she said, According unto your words, so [be] it.
And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the
scarlet line in the window.
Jos 02:22 And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode
there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the
pursuers sought [them] throughout all the way, but found [them]
not.
Jos 02:23 So the two men returned, and descended from the
mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun,
and told him all [things] that befell them:
Jos 02:24 And they said unto Joshua, Truly the LORD hath
delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the
inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.
Jos 03:01 And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed
from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of
Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.
Jos 03:02 And it came to pass after three days, that the
officers went through the host;
Jos 03:03 And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the
ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the
Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go
after it.
Jos 03:04 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about
two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye
may know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed
[this] way heretofore.
Jos 03:05 And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves:
for tomorrow the LORD will do wonders among you.
Jos 03:06 And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the
ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they
took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
Jos 03:07 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day will I begin
to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know
that, as I was with Moses, [so] I will be with thee.
Jos 03:08 And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark
of the covenant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the
water of Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan.
Jos 03:09 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come
hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God.
Jos 03:10 And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living
God [is] among you, and [that] he will without fail drive out
from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the
Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the
Amorites, and the Jebusites.
Jos 03:11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the LORD of all the
earth passeth over before you into Jordan.
Jos 03:12 Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of
Israel, out of every tribe a man.
Jos 03:13 And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the
feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of
all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, [that] the
waters of Jordan shall be cut off [from] the waters that come
down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap.
Jos 03:14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from
their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the
ark of the covenant before the people;
Jos 03:15 And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan,
and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the
brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the
time of harvest,)
Jos 03:16 That the waters which came down from above stood [and]
rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that [is]
beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the
plain, [even] the salt sea, failed, [and] were cut off: and the
people passed over right against Jericho.
Jos 03:17 And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of
the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and
all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the
people were passed clean over Jordan.
Jos 04:01 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean
passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,
Jos 04:02 Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every
tribe a man,
Jos 04:03 And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the
midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood
firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and
leave them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this night.
Jos 04:04 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had
prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:
Jos 04:05 And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of
the LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take you up
every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the
number of the tribes of the children of Israel:
Jos 04:06 That this may be a sign among you, [that] when your
children ask [their fathers] in time to come, saying, What
[mean] ye by these stones?
Jos 04:07 Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan
were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it
passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these
stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for
ever.
Jos 04:08 And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded,
and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the
LORD spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of
the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto the
place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
Jos 04:09 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan,
in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark
of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.
Jos 04:10 For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst
of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the LORD
commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that
Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over.
Jos 04:11 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean
passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the
priests, in the presence of the people.
Jos 04:12 And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad,
and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the
children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them:
Jos 04:13 About forty thousand prepared for war passed over
before the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
Jos 04:14 On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of
all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the
days of his life.
Jos 04:15 And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,
Jos 04:16 Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony,
that they come up out of Jordan.
Jos 04:17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come
ye up out of Jordan.
Jos 04:18 And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the
ark of the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of
Jordan, [and] the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto
the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their
place, and flowed over all his banks, as [they did] before.
Jos 04:19 And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth
[day] of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east
border of Jericho.
Jos 04:20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan,
did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.
Jos 04:21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When
your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying,
What [mean] these stones?
Jos 04:22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel
came over this Jordan on dry land.
Jos 04:23 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan
from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God
did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we
were gone over:
Jos 04:24 That all the people of the earth might know the hand
of the LORD, that it [is] mighty: that ye might fear the LORD
your God for ever.
Jos 05:01 And it came to pass, when all the kings of the
Amorites, which [were] on the side of Jordan westward, and all
the kings of the Canaanites, which [were] by the sea, heard that
the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the
children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart
melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of
the children of Israel.
Jos 05:02 At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee
sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the
second time.
Jos 05:03 And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the
children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
Jos 05:04 And this [is] the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All
the people that came out of Egypt, [that were] males, [even] all
the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they
came out of Egypt.
Jos 05:05 Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but
all the people [that were] born in the wilderness by the way as
they came forth out of Egypt, [them] they had not circumcised.
Jos 05:06 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the
wilderness, till all the people [that were] men of war, which
came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the
voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he would not
show them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that
he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
Jos 05:07 And their children, [whom] he raised up in their stead,
them Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because
they had not circumcised them by the way.
Jos 05:08 And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising
all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp,
till they were whole.
Jos 05:09 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled
away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of
the place is called Gilgal unto this day.
Jos 05:10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and
kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in
the plains of Jericho.
Jos 05:11 And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the
morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched [corn]
in the selfsame day.
Jos 05:12 And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had
eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of
Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land
of Canaan that year.
Jos 05:13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that
he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man
over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua
went unto him, and said unto him, [Art] thou for us, or for our
adversaries?
Jos 05:14 And he said, Nay; but [as] captain of the host of the
LORD am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth,
and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his
servant?
Jos 05:15 And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua,
Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou
standest [is] holy. And Joshua did so.
Jos 06:01 Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the
children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
Jos 06:02 And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into
thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, [and] the mighty men
of valour.
Jos 06:03 And ye shall compass the city, all [ye] men of war,
[and] go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
Jos 06:04 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven
trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass
the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the
trumpets.
Jos 06:05 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long
[blast] with the ram's horn, [and] when ye hear the sound of the
trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the
wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall
ascend up every man straight before him.
Jos 06:06 And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said
unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven
priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the
LORD.
Jos 06:07 And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the
city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the
LORD.
Jos 06:08 And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the
people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of
rams' horns passed on before the LORD, and blew with the
trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.
Jos 06:09 And the armed men went before the priests that blew
with the trumpets, and the rereward came after the ark, [the
priests] going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
Jos 06:10 And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall
not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall
[any] word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you
shout; then shall ye shout.
Jos 06:11 So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about
[it] once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
Jos 06:12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests
took up the ark of the LORD.
Jos 06:13 And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams'
horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew
with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the
rereward came after the ark of the LORD, [the priests] going on,
and blowing with the trumpets.
Jos 06:14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and
returned into the camp: so they did six days.
Jos 06:15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose
early about the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after
the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the
city seven times.
Jos 06:16 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the
priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people,
Shout; for the LORD hath given you the city.
Jos 06:17 And the city shall be accursed, [even] it, and all
that [are] therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall
live, she and all that [are] with her in the house, because she
hid the messengers that we sent.
Jos 06:18 And ye, in any wise keep [yourselves] from the
accursed thing, lest ye make [yourselves] accursed, when ye take
of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and
trouble it.
Jos 06:19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and
iron, [are] consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the
treasury of the LORD.
Jos 06:20 So the people shouted when [the priests] blew with the
trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound
of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that
the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the
city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.
Jos 06:21 And they utterly destroyed all that [was] in the city,
both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass,
with the edge of the sword.
Jos 06:22 But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied
out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out
thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.
Jos 06:23 And the young men that were spies went in, and brought
out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and
all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left
them without the camp of Israel.
Jos 06:24 And they burnt the city with fire, and all that [was]
therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass
and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.
Jos 06:25 And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her
father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in
Israel [even] unto this day; because she hid the messengers,
which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
Jos 06:26 And Joshua adjured [them] at that time, saying, Cursed
[be] the man before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this
city Jericho: he shall lay the foundation thereof in his
firstborn, and in his youngest [son] shall he set up the gates
of it.
Jos 06:27 So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was [noised]
throughout all the country.
Jos 07:01 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the
accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi,
the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed
thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the
children of Israel.
Jos 07:02 And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which [is]
beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them,
saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and
viewed Ai.
Jos 07:03 And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let
not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand
men go up and smite Ai; [and] make not all the people to labour
thither; for they [are but] few.
Jos 07:04 So there went up thither of the people about three
thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
Jos 07:05 And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six
men: for they chased them [from] before the gate [even] unto
Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts
of the people melted, and became as water.
Jos 07:06 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth
upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he
and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
Jos 07:07 And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou
at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the
hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been
content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!
Jos 07:08 O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their
backs before their enemies!
Jos 07:09 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land
shall hear [of it], and shall environ us round, and cut off our
name from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
Jos 07:10 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore
liest thou thus upon thy face?
Jos 07:11 Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my
covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the
accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and
they have put [it] even among their own stuff.
Jos 07:12 Therefore the children of Israel could not stand
before their enemies, [but] turned [their] backs before their
enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you
any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.
Jos 07:13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves
against tomorrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, [There
is] an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst
not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed
thing from among you.
Jos 07:14 In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according
to your tribes: and it shall be, [that] the tribe which the LORD
taketh shall come according to the families [thereof]; and the
family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and
the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man.
Jos 07:15 And it shall be, [that] he that is taken with the
accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath:
because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and
because he hath wrought folly in Israel.
Jos 07:16 So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought
Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
Jos 07:17 And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the
family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the
Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken:
Jos 07:18 And he brought his household man by man; and Achan,
the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the
tribe of Judah, was taken.
Jos 07:19 And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee,
glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him;
and tell me now what thou hast done; hide [it] not from me.
Jos 07:20 And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have
sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I
done:
Jos 07:21 When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish
garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold
of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and,
behold, they [are] hid in the earth in the midst of my tent,
and the silver under it.
Jos 07:22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent;
and, behold, [it was] hid in his tent, and the silver under it.
Jos 07:23 And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and
brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel,
and laid them out before the LORD.
Jos 07:24 And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the
son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of
gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his
asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and
they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
Jos 07:25 And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD
shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with
stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them
with stones.
Jos 07:26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto
this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger.
Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor,
unto this day.
Jos 08:01 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be
thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise,
go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and
his people, and his city, and his land:
Jos 08:02 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst
unto Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the
cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay
thee an ambush for the city behind it.
Jos 08:03 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up
against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of
valour, and sent them away by night.
Jos 08:04 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in
wait against the city, [even] behind the city: go not very far
from the city, but be ye all ready:
Jos 08:05 And I, and all the people that [are] with me, will
approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they
come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee before
them,
Jos 08:06 (For they will come out after us) till we have drawn
them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as
at the first: therefore we will flee before them.
Jos 08:07 Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon
the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
Jos 08:08 And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, [that]
ye shall set the city on fire: according to the commandment of
the LORD shall ye do. See, I have commanded you.
Jos 08:09 Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie
in ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of
Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
Jos 08:10 And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered
the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the
people to Ai.
Jos 08:11 And all the people, [even the people] of war that
[were] with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the
city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now [there was] a
valley between them and Ai.
Jos 08:12 And he took about five thousand men, and set them to
lie in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the
city.
Jos 08:13 And when they had set the people, [even] all the host
that [was] on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on
the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of
the valley.
Jos 08:14 And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw [it],
that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went
out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time
appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that [there were]
liers in ambush against him behind the city.
Jos 08:15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten
before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
Jos 08:16 And all the people that [were] in Ai were called
together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua,
and were drawn away from the city.
Jos 08:17 And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that
went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and
pursued after Israel.
Jos 08:18 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear
that [is] in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine
hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that [he had] in his
hand toward the city.
Jos 08:19 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and
they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they
entered into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city
on fire.
Jos 08:20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw,
and, behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and
they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people
that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
Jos 08:21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had
taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then
they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.
Jos 08:22 And the other issued out of the city against them; so
they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on
that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them
remain or escape.
Jos 08:23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to
Joshua.
Jos 08:24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of
slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the
wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all
fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that
all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge
of the sword.
Jos 08:25 And [so] it was, [that] all that fell that day, both
of men and women, [were] twelve thousand, [even] all the men of
Ai.
Jos 08:26 For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he
stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the
inhabitants of Ai.
Jos 08:27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took
for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD
which he commanded Joshua.
Jos 08:28 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever,
[even] a desolation unto this day.
Jos 08:29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide:
and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they
should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the
entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap
of stones, [that remaineth] unto this day.
Jos 08:30 Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel
in mount Ebal,
Jos 08:31 As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the
children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of
Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lift up
[any] iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings unto the
LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.
Jos 08:32 And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law
of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of
Israel.
Jos 08:33 And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and
their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before
the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of
the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them;
half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over
against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had
commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.
Jos 08:34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the
blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the
book of the law.
Jos 08:35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded,
which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel,
with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were
conversant among them.
Jos 09:01 And it came to pass, when all the kings which [were]
on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in
all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the
Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the
Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard [thereof];
Jos 09:02 That they gathered themselves together, to fight with
Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.
Jos 09:03 And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua
had done unto Jericho and to Ai,
Jos 09:04 They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had
been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine
bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
Jos 09:05 And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old
garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry
[and] mouldy.
Jos 09:06 And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and
said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far
country: now therefore make ye a league with us.
Jos 09:07 And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites,
Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league
with you?
Jos 09:08 And they said unto Joshua, We [are] thy servants. And
Joshua said unto them, Who [are] ye? and from whence come ye?
Jos 09:09 And they said unto him, From a very far country thy
servants are come because of the name of the LORD thy God: for
we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,
Jos 09:10 And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites,
that [were] beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og
king of Bashan, which [was] at Ashtaroth.
Jos 09:11 Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our
country spake to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the
journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We [are] your
servants: therefore now make ye a league with us.
Jos 09:12 This our bread we took hot [for] our provision out of
our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now,
behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:
Jos 09:13 And these bottles of wine, which we filled, [were] new;
and, behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes
are become old by reason of the very long journey.
Jos 09:14 And the men took of their victuals, and asked not
[counsel] at the mouth of the LORD.
Jos 09:15 And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league
with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation
sware unto them.
Jos 09:16 And it came to pass at the end of three days after
they had made a league with them, that they heard that they
[were] their neighbours, and [that] they dwelt among them.
Jos 09:17 And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto
their cities on the third day. Now their cities [were] Gibeon,
and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.
Jos 09:18 And the children of Israel smote them not, because the
princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God
of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.
Jos 09:19 But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We
have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we
may not touch them.
Jos 09:20 This we will do to them; we will even let them live,
lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto
them.
Jos 09:21 And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let
them be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the
congregation; as the princes had promised them.
Jos 09:22 And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them,
saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We [are] very far
from you; when ye dwell among us?
Jos 09:23 Now therefore ye [are] cursed, and there shall none of
you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers
of water for the house of my God.
Jos 09:24 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was
certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded
his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all
the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were
sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this
thing.
Jos 09:25 And now, behold, we [are] in thine hand: as it seemeth
good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.
Jos 09:26 And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the
hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.
Jos 09:27 And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and
drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the
LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose.
Jos 10:01 Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem
had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it;
as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and
her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with
Israel, and were among them;
Jos 10:02 That they feared greatly, because Gibeon [was] a great
city, as one of the royal cities, and because it [was] greater
than Ai, and all the men thereof [were] mighty.
Jos 10:03 Wherefore Adonizedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham
king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia
king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,
Jos 10:04 Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon:
for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of
Israel.
Jos 10:05 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of
Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of
Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and
went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon,
and made war against it.
Jos 10:06 And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to
Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to
us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the
Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together
against us.
Jos 10:07 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people
of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour.
Jos 10:08 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I
have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of
them stand before thee.
Jos 10:09 Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, [and] went
up from Gilgal all night.
Jos 10:10 And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew
them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the
way that goeth up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and
unto Makkedah.
Jos 10:11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel,
[and] were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast
down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they
died: [they were] more which died with hailstones than [they]
whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
Jos 10:12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD
delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he
said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon;
and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
Jos 10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until
the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. [Is] not
this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in
the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.
Jos 10:14 And there was no day like that before it or after it,
that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD
fought for Israel.
Jos 10:15 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the
camp to Gilgal.
Jos 10:16 But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a
cave at Makkedah.
Jos 10:17 And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are
found hid in a cave at Makkedah.
Jos 10:18 And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of
the cave, and set men by it for to keep them:
Jos 10:19 And stay ye not, [but] pursue after your enemies, and
smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their
cities: for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand.
Jos 10:20 And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of
Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great
slaughter, till they were consumed, that the rest [which]
remained of them entered into fenced cities.
Jos 10:21 And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at
Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the
children of Israel.
Jos 10:22 Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and
bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave.
Jos 10:23 And they did so, and brought forth those five kings
unto him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of
Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, [and] the king
of Eglon.
Jos 10:24 And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings
unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and
said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him,
Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they
came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them.
Jos 10:25 And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed,
be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all
your enemies against whom ye fight.
Jos 10:26 And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and
hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees
until the evening.
Jos 10:27 And it came to pass at the time of the going down of
the sun, [that] Joshua commanded, and they took them down off
the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid,
and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, [which remain] until
this very day.
Jos 10:28 And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with
the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed,
them, and all the souls that [were] therein; he let none remain:
and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did unto the king of
Jericho.
Jos 10:29 Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with
him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah:
Jos 10:30 And the LORD delivered it also, and the king thereof,
into the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the
sword, and all the souls that [were] therein; he let none remain
in it; but did unto the king thereof as he did unto the king of
Jericho.
Jos 10:31 And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him,
unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:
Jos 10:32 And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel,
which took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of
the sword, and all the souls that [were] therein, according to
all that he had done to Libnah.
Jos 10:33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and
Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none
remaining.
Jos 10:34 And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all
Israel with him; and they encamped against it, and fought
against it:
Jos 10:35 And they took it on that day, and smote it with the
edge of the sword, and all the souls that [were] therein he
utterly destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to
Lachish.
Jos 10:36 And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him,
unto Hebron; and they fought against it:
Jos 10:37 And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the
sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all
the souls that [were] therein; he left none remaining, according
to all that he had done to Eglon; but destroyed it utterly, and
all the souls that [were] therein.
Jos 10:38 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir;
and fought against it:
Jos 10:39 And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the
cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword,
and utterly destroyed all the souls that [were] therein; he left
none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir,
and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to
her king.
Jos 10:40 So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of
the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their
kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that
breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.
Jos 10:41 And Joshua smote them from Kadeshbarnea even unto Gaza,
and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.
Jos 10:42 And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at
one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.
Jos 10:43 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the
camp to Gilgal.
Jos 11:01 And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had
heard [those things], that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and
to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,
Jos 11:02 And to the kings that [were] on the north of the
mountains, and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the
valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west,
Jos 11:03 [And to] the Canaanite on the east and on the west,
and [to] the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and
the Jebusite in the mountains, and [to] the Hivite under Hermon
in the land of Mizpeh.
Jos 11:04 And they went out, they and all their hosts with them,
much people, even as the sand that [is] upon the sea shore in
multitude, with horses and chariots very many.
Jos 11:05 And when all these kings were met together, they came
and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against
Israel.
Jos 11:06 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because
of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up
all slain before Israel: thou shalt hock their horses, and burn
their chariots with fire.
Jos 11:07 So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him,
against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon
them.
Jos 11:08 And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel,
who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto
Misrephothmaim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they
smote them, until they left them none remaining.
Jos 11:09 And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he
hocked their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
Jos 11:10 And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor,
and smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime
was the head of all those kingdoms.
Jos 11:11 And they smote all the souls that [were] therein with
the edge of the sword, utterly destroying [them]: there was not
any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.
Jos 11:12 And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings
of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the
sword, [and] he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of
the LORD commanded.
Jos 11:13 But [as for] the cities that stood still in their
strength, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; [that]
did Joshua burn.
Jos 11:14 And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the
children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every
man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had
destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.
Jos 11:15 As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses
command Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all
that the LORD commanded Moses.
Jos 11:16 So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the
south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and
the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the
same;
Jos 11:17 [Even] from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir,
even unto Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon:
and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.
Jos 11:18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
Jos 11:19 There was not a city that made peace with the children
of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all
[other] they took in battle.
Jos 11:20 For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that
they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy
them utterly, [and] that they might have no favour, but that he
might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
Jos 11:21 And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims
from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from
all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel:
Joshua destroyed them utterly with their cities.
Jos 11:22 There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the
children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there
remained.
Jos 11:23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that
the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance
unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And
the land rested from war.
Jos 12:01 Now these [are] the kings of the land, which the
children of Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other
side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon
unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east: Jos 12:02
Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, [and] ruled
from Aroer, which [is] upon the bank of the river Arnon, and
from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto
the river Jabbok, [which is] the border of the children of Ammon;
Jos 12:03 And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the
east, and unto the sea of the plain, [even] the salt sea on the
east, the way to Bethjeshimoth; and from the south, under
Ashdothpisgah:
Jos 12:04 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, [which was] of the
remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
Jos 12:05 And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all
Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites,
and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
Jos 12:06 Them did Moses the servant of the LORD and the
children of Israel smite: and Moses the servant of the LORD gave
it [for] a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and
the half tribe of Manasseh.
Jos 12:07 And these [are] the kings of the country which Joshua
and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west,
from Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak,
that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of
Israel [for] a possession according to their divisions;
Jos 12:08 In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the
plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the
south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites,
the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:
Jos 12:09 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 Shimronmeron, 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 of Carmel,
one;
Jos 12:23 The king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of
the nations of Gilgal, one;
Jos 12:24 The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.
Jos 13:01 Now Joshua was old [and] stricken in years; and the
LORD said unto him, Thou art old [and] stricken in years, and
there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.
Jos 13:02 This [is] the land that yet remaineth: all the borders
of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,
Jos 13:03 From Sihor, which [is] before Egypt, even unto the
borders of Ekron northward, [which] is counted to the Canaanite:
five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the
Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites;
also the Avites:
Jos 13:04 From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and
Mearah that [is] beside the Sidonians unto Aphek, to the borders
of the Amorites:
Jos 13:05 And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward
the sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering
into Hamath.
Jos 13:06 All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon
unto Misrephothmaim, [and] all the Sidonians, them will I drive
out from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by
lot unto the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded
thee.
Jos 13:07 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto
the nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
Jos 13:08 With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received
their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward,
[even] as Moses the servant of the LORD gave them;
Jos 13:09 From Aroer, that [is] upon the bank of the river Arnon,
and the city that [is] in the midst of the river, and all the
plain of Medeba unto Dibon;
Jos 13:10 And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites,
which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of
Ammon;
Jos 13:11 And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and
Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;
Jos 13:12 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in
Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the
giants: for these did Moses smite, and cast them out.
Jos 13:13 Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the
Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the
Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.
Jos 13:14 Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance;
the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire [are]
their inheritance, as he said unto them.
Jos 13:15 And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of
Reuben [inheritance] according to their families.
Jos 13:16 And their coast was from Aroer, that [is] on the bank
of the river Arnon, and the city that [is] in the midst of the
river, and all the plain by Medeba;
Jos 13:17 Heshbon, and all her cities that [are] in the plain;
Dibon, and Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon,
Jos 13:18 And Jahaza, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
Jos 13:19 And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zarethshahar in the
mount of the valley,
Jos 13:20 And Bethpeor, and Ashdothpisgah, and Bethjeshimoth,
Jos 13:21 And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom
of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom
Moses smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur,
and Hur, and Reba, [which were] dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the
country.
Jos 13:22 Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the
children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were
slain by them.
Jos 13:23 And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan,
and the border [thereof]. This [was] the inheritance of the
children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the
villages thereof.
Jos 13:24 And Moses gave [inheritance] unto the tribe of Gad,
[even] unto the children of Gad according to their families.
Jos 13:25 And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of
Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer
that [is] before Rabbah;
Jos 13:26 And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and
from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;
Jos 13:27 And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and
Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of
Heshbon, Jordan and [his] border, [even] unto the edge of the
sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan eastward.
Jos 13:28 This [is] the inheritance of the children of Gad after
their families, the cities, and their villages.
Jos 13:29 And Moses gave [inheritance] unto the half tribe of
Manasseh: and [this] was [the possession] of the half tribe of
the children of Manasseh by their families.
Jos 13:30 And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the
kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which
[are] in Bashan, threescore cities:
Jos 13:31 And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of
the kingdom of Og in Bashan, [were pertaining] unto the children
of Machir the son of Manasseh, [even] to the one half of the
children of Machir by their families.
Jos 13:32 These [are the countries] which Moses did distribute
for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan,
by Jericho, eastward.
Jos 13:33 But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not [any]
inheritance: the LORD God of Israel [was] their inheritance, as
he said unto them.
Jos 14:01 And these [are the countries] which the children of
Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest,
and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the
tribes of the children of Israel, distributed for inheritance to
them.
Jos 14:02 By lot [was] their inheritance, as the LORD commanded
by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and [for] the half
tribe.
Jos 14:03 For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and
an half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he
gave none inheritance among them.
Jos 14:04 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh
and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the
land, save cities to dwell [in], with their suburbs for their
cattle and for their substance.
Jos 14:05 As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel
did, and they divided the land.
Jos 14:06 Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal:
and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou
knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God
concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea.
Jos 14:07 Forty years old [was] I when Moses the servant of the
LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I
brought him word again as [it was] in mine heart.
Jos 14:08 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the
heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
Jos 14:09 And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land
whereon thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and
thy children's for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the
LORD my God.
Jos 14:10 And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he
said, these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this
word unto Moses, while [the children of] Israel wandered in the
wilderness: and now, lo, I [am] this day fourscore and five
years old.
Jos 14:11 As yet I [am as] strong this day as [I was] in the day
that Moses sent me: as my strength [was] then, even so [is] my
strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.
Jos 14:12 Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD
spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims
[were] there, and [that] the cities [were] great [and] fenced:
if so be the LORD [will be] with me, then I shall be able to
drive them out, as the LORD said.
Jos 14:13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of
Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.
Jos 14:14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the
son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he
wholly followed the LORD God of Israel.
Jos 14:15 And the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjatharba;
[which Arba was] a great man among the Anakims. And the land had
rest from war.
Jos 15:01 [This] then was the lot of the tribe of the children
of Judah by their families; [even] to the border of Edom the
wilderness of Zin southward [was] the uttermost part of the
south coast.
Jos 15:02 And their south border was from the shore of the salt
sea, from the bay that looketh southward:
Jos 15:03 And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim,
and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto
Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar,
and fetched a compass to Karkaa:
Jos 15:04 [From thence] it passed toward Azmon, and went out
unto the river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were
at the sea: this shall be your south coast.
Jos 15:05 And the east border [was] the salt sea, [even] unto
the end of Jordan. And [their] border in the north quarter [was]
from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan:
Jos 15:06 And the border went up to Bethhogla, and passed along
by the north of Betharabah; and the border went up to the stone
of Bohan the son of Reuben:
Jos 15:07 And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of
Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that [is] before
the going up to Adummim, which [is] on the south side of the
river: and the border passed toward the waters of Enshemesh, and
the goings out thereof were at Enrogel:
Jos 15:08 And the border went up by the valley of the son of
Hinnom unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same [is]
Jerusalem: and the border went up to the top of the mountain
that [lieth] before the valley of Hinnom westward, which [is] at
the end of the valley of the giants northward:
Jos 15:09 And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto
the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the
cities of mount Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah,
which [is] Kirjathjearim:
Jos 15:10 And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto
mount Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim,
which [is] Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to
Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah:
Jos 15:11 And the border went out unto the side of Ekron
northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along
to mount Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out
of the border were at the sea.
Jos 15:12 And the west border [was] to the great sea, and the
coast [thereof]. This [is] the coast of the children of Judah
round about according to their families.
Jos 15:13 And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part
among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the
LORD to Joshua, [even] the city of Arba the father of Anak,
which [city is] Hebron.
Jos 15:14 And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai,
and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
Jos 15:15 And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and
the name of Debir before [was] Kirjathsepher.
Jos 15:16 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and
taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.
Jos 15:17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb,
took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.
Jos 15:18 And it came to pass, as she came [unto him], that she
moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off
[her] ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?
Jos 15:19 Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given
me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her
the upper springs, and the nether springs.
Jos 15:20 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children
of Judah according to their families.
Jos 15:21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children
of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and
Eder, and Jagur,
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, [and] Hezron, which
[is] Hazor,
Jos 15:26 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,
Jos 15:27 And Hazargaddah, and Heshmon, and Bethpalet,
Jos 15:28 And Hazarshual, and Beersheba, and Bizjothjah,
Jos 15:29 Baalah, and Iim, and Azem,
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: all the
cities [are] twenty and nine, with their villages:
Jos 15:33 [And] in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
Jos 15:34 And Zanoah, and Engannim, Tappuah, and Enam,
Jos 15:35 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
Jos 15:36 And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and
Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:
Jos 15:37 Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdalgad,
Jos 15:38 And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,
Jos 15:39 Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,
Jos 15:40 And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish,
Jos 15:41 And Gederoth, Bethdagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah;
sixteen cities with their villages:
Jos 15:42 Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
Jos 15:43 And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,
Jos 15:44 And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with
their villages:
Jos 15:45 Ekron, with her towns and her villages:
Jos 15:46 From Ekron even unto the sea, all that [lay] near
Ashdod, with their villages: Jos 15:47 Ashdod with her towns and
her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, unto the
river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border [thereof]:
Jos 15:48 And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
Jos 15:49 And Dannah, and Kirjathsannah, which [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 Eshean,
Jos 15:53 And Janum, and Bethtappuah, and Aphekah,
Jos 15:54 And Humtah, and Kirjatharba, which [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 Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their
villages:
Jos 15:58 Halhul, Bethzur, and Gedor,
Jos 15:59 And Maarath, and Bethanoth, and Eltekon; six cities
with their villages:
Jos 15:60 Kirjathbaal, which [is] Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah; two
cities with their villages:
Jos 15:61 In the wilderness, Betharabah, Middin, and Secacah,
Jos 15:62 And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and Engedi; six
cities with their villages.
Jos 15:63 As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the
children of Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites
dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.
Jos 16:01 And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan
by Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the
wilderness that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel.
Jos 16:02 And goeth out from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along
unto the borders of Archi to Ataroth,
Jos 16:03 And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto
the coast of Bethhoron the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings
out thereof are at the sea.
Jos 16:04 So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took
their inheritance.
Jos 16:05 And the border of the children of Ephraim according to
their families was [thus]: even the border of their inheritance
on the east side was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper;
Jos 16:06 And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah
on the north side; and the border went about eastward unto
Taanathshiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah;
Jos 16:07 And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to
Naarath, and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan.
Jos 16:08 The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the
river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This
[is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by
their families.
Jos 16:09 And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim
[were] among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all
the cities with their villages.
Jos 16:10 And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in
Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this
day, and serve under tribute.
Jos 17:01 There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he
[was] the firstborn of Joseph; [to wit], for Machir the
firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a
man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
Jos 17:02 There was also [a lot] for the rest of the children of
Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for
the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for
the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for
the children of Shemida: these [were] the male children of
Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.
Jos 17:03 But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead,
the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but
daughters: and these [are] the names of his daughters, Mahlah,
and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
Jos 17:04 And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and
before Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying,
The LORD commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our
brethren. Therefore according to the commandment of the LORD he
gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.
Jos 17:05 And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside the
land of Gilead and Bashan, which [were] on the other side Jordan;
Jos 17:06 Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance
among his sons: and the rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of
Gilead.
Jos 17:07 And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah,
that [lieth] before Shechem; and the border went along on the
right hand unto the inhabitants of Entappuah.
Jos 17:08 [Now] Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on
the border of Manasseh [belonged] to the children of Ephraim;
Jos 17:09 And the coast descended unto the river Kanah,
southward of the river: these cities of Ephraim [are] among the
cities of Manasseh: the coast of Manasseh also [was] on the
north side of the river, and the outgoings of it were at the sea:
Jos 17:10 Southward [it was] Ephraim's, and northward [it was]
Manasseh's, and the sea is his border; and they met together in
Asher on the north, and in Issachar on the east.
Jos 17:11 And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Bethshean
and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of
Dor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns,
and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns, and the
inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, [even] three countries.
Jos 17:12 Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out [the
inhabitants of] those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in
that land.
Jos 17:13 Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were
waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute; but did
not utterly drive them out.
Jos 17:14 And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying,
Why hast thou given me [but] one lot and one portion to inherit,
seeing I [am] a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed
me hitherto?
Jos 17:15 And Joshua answered them, If thou [be] a great people,
[then] get thee up to the wood [country], and cut down for
thyself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants,
if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
Jos 17:16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not
enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of
the valley have chariots of iron, [both they] who [are] of
Bethshean and her towns, and [they] who [are] of the valley of
Jezreel.
Jos 17:17 And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, [even] to
Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou [art] a great people, and
hast great power: thou shalt not have one lot [only]:
Jos 17:18 But the mountain shall be thine; for it [is] a wood,
and thou shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be
thine: for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have
iron chariots, [and] though they [be] strong.
Jos 18:01 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel
assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the
congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.
Jos 18:02 And there remained among the children of Israel seven
tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.
Jos 18:03 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long
[are] ye slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of
your fathers hath given you?
Jos 18:04 Give out from among you three men for [each] tribe:
and I will send them, and they shall rise, and go through the
land, and describe it according to the inheritance of them; and
they shall come [again] to me.
Jos 18:05 And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall
abide in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall
abide in their coasts on the north.
Jos 18:06 Ye shall therefore describe the land [into] seven
parts, and bring [the description] hither to me, that I may cast
lots for you here before the LORD our God.
Jos 18:07 But the Levites have no part among you; for the
priesthood of the LORD [is] their inheritance: and Gad, and
Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh, have received their
inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which Moses the servant
of the LORD gave them.
Jos 18:08 And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged
them that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through
the land, and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here
cast lots for you before the LORD in Shiloh.
Jos 18:09 And the men went and passed through the land, and
described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came
[again] to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.
Jos 18:10 And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the
LORD: and there Joshua divided the land unto the children of
Israel according to their divisions.
Jos 18:11 And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin
came up according to their families: and the coast of their lot
came forth between the children of Judah and the children of
Joseph.
Jos 18:12 And their border on the north side was from Jordan;
and the border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side,
and went up through the mountains westward; and the goings out
thereof were at the wilderness of Bethaven.
Jos 18:13 And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to
the side of Luz, which [is] Bethel, southward; and the border
descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that [lieth] on the
south side of the nether Bethhoron.
Jos 18:14 And the border was drawn [thence], and compassed the
corner of the sea southward, from the hill that [lieth] before
Bethhoron southward; and the goings out thereof were at
Kirjathbaal, which [is] Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of
Judah: this [was] the west quarter.
Jos 18:15 And the south quarter [was] from the end of
Kirjathjearim, and the border went out on the west, and went out
to the well of waters of Nephtoah:
Jos 18:16 And the border came down to the end of the mountain
that [lieth] before the valley of the son of Hinnom, [and] which
[is] in the valley of the giants on the north, and descended to
the valley of Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and
descended to Enrogel,
Jos 18:17 And was drawn from the north, and went forth to
Enshemesh, and went forth toward Geliloth, which [is] over
against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of
Bohan the son of Reuben,
Jos 18:18 And passed along toward the side over against Arabah
northward, and went down unto Arabah:
Jos 18:19 And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah
northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay
of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this [was] the south
coast.
Jos 18:20 And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This
[was] the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts
thereof round about, according to their families.
Jos 18:21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of
Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and
Bethhoglah, and the valley of Keziz.
Jos 18:22 And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
Jos 18:23 And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
Jos 18:24 And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; 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, Eleph, and Jebusi, which [is] Jerusalem,
Gibeath, [and] Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages.
This [is] the inheritance of the children of Benjamin according
to their families.
Jos 19:01 And the second lot came forth to Simeon, [even] for
the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families:
and their inheritance was within the inheritance of the children
of Judah.
Jos 19:02 And they had in their inheritance Beersheba, and Sheba,
and Moladah,
Jos 19:03 And Hazarshual, and Balah, and Azem,
Jos 19:04 And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,
Jos 19:05 And Ziklag, and Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusah,
Jos 19:06 And Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and
their villages:
Jos 19:07 Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and
their villages:
Jos 19:08 And all the villages that [were] round about these
cities to Baalathbeer, Ramath of the south. This [is] the
inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to
their families.
Jos 19:09 Out of the portion of the children of Judah [was] the
inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the
children of Judah was too much for them: therefore the children
of Simeon had their inheritance within the inheritance of them.
Jos 19:10 And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun
according to their families: and the border of their inheritance
was unto Sarid:
Jos 19:11 And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah,
and reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that [is]
before Jokneam;
Jos 19:12 And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising
unto the border of Chislothtabor, and then goeth out to Daberath,
and goeth up to Japhia.
Jos 19:13 And from thence passeth on along on the east to
Gittahhepher, to Ittahkazin, and goeth out to Remmonmethoar to
Neah;
Jos 19:14 And the border compasseth it on the north side to
Hannathon: and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of
Jiphthahel:
Jos 19:15 And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah,
and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.
Jos 19:16 This [is] the inheritance of the children of Zebulun
according to their families, these cities with their villages.
Jos 19:17 [And] the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the
children of Issachar according to their families.
Jos 19:18 And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth,
and Shunem,
Jos 19:19 And Haphraim, and Shihon, and Anaharath,
Jos 19:20 And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez,
Jos 19:21 And Remeth, and Engannim, and Enhaddah, and Bethpazzez;
Jos 19:22 And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and
Bethshemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan:
sixteen cities with their villages.
Jos 19:23 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children
of Issachar according to their families, the cities and their
villages.
Jos 19:24 And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the
children of Asher according to their families.
Jos 19:25 And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and
Achshaph,
Jos 19:26 And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to
Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath;
Jos 19:27 And turneth toward the sunrising to Bethdagon, and
reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthahel toward the
north side of Bethemek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the
left hand,
Jos 19:28 And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, [even]
unto great Zidon;
Jos 19:29 And [then] the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the
strong city Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the
outgoings thereof are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:
Jos 19:30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two
cities with their villages.
Jos 19:31 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children
of Asher according to their families, these cities with their
villages.
Jos 19:32 The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali,
[even] for the children of Naphtali according to their families.
Jos 19:33 And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to
Zaanannim, and Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the
outgoings thereof were at Jordan:
Jos 19:34 And [then] the coast turneth westward to Aznothtabor,
and goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on
the south side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to
Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising.
Jos 19:35 And the fenced cities [are] Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath,
Rakkath, and Chinnereth,
Jos 19:36 And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,
Jos 19:37 And Kedesh, and Edrei, and Enhazor,
Jos 19:38 And Iron, and Migdalel, Horem, and Bethanath, and
Bethshemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.
Jos 19:39 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children
of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their
villages.
Jos 19:40 [And] the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the
children of Dan according to their families.
Jos 19:41 And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and
Eshtaol, and Irshemesh,
Jos 19:42 And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,
Jos 19:43 And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron,
Jos 19:44 And Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath,
Jos 19:45 And Jehud, and Beneberak, and Gathrimmon,
Jos 19:46 And Mejarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Japho.
Jos 19:47 And the coast of the children of Dan went out [too
little] for them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight
against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the
sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem,
Dan, after the name of Dan their father.
Jos 19:48 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children
of Dan according to their families, these cities with their
villages.
Jos 19:49 When they had made an end of dividing the land for
inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an
inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them:
Jos 19:50 According to the word of the LORD they gave him the
city which he asked, [even] Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and
he built the city, and dwelt therein.
Jos 19:51 These [are] the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest,
and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the
tribes of the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by
lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of
the congregation. So they made an end of dividing the country.
Jos 20:01 The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying,
Jos 20:02 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out
for you cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand
of Moses:
Jos 20:03 That the slayer that killeth [any] person unawares
[and] unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your
refuge from the avenger of blood.
Jos 20:04 And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities
shall stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall
declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they
shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place,
that he may dwell among them.
Jos 20:05 And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then
they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he
smote his neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.
Jos 20:06 And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before
the congregation for judgment, [and] until the death of the high
priest that shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return,
and come unto his own city, and unto his own house, unto the
city from whence he fled.
Jos 20:07 And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali,
and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which [is]
Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.
Jos 20:08 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they
assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe
of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and
Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.
Jos 20:09 These were the cities appointed for all the children
of Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that
whosoever killeth [any] person at unawares might flee thither,
and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood
before the congregation.
Jos 21:01 Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites
unto Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and
unto the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of
Israel;
Jos 21:02 And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of
Canaan, saying, The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give
us cities to dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.
Jos 21:03 And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out
of their inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these
cities and their suburbs.
Jos 21:04 And the lot came out for the families of the
Kohathites: and the children of Aaron the priest, [which were]
of the Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of
the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen
cities.
Jos 21:05 And the rest of the children of Kohath [had] by lot
out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the
tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
Jos 21:06 And the children of Gershon [had] by lot out of the
families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher,
and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of
Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
Jos 21:07 The children of Merari by their families [had] out of
the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the
tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.
Jos 21:08 And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the
Levites these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded
by the hand of Moses.
Jos 21:09 And they gave out of the tribe of the children of
Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these
cities which are [here] mentioned by name,
Jos 21:10 Which the children of Aaron, [being] of the families
of the Kohathites, [who were] of the children of Levi, had: for
theirs was the first lot.
Jos 21:11 And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak,
which [city is] Hebron, in the hill [country] of Judah, with
the suburbs thereof round about it.
Jos 21:12 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof,
gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
Jos 21:13 Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest
Hebron with her suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer;
and Libnah with her suburbs,
Jos 21:14 And Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her
suburbs,
Jos 21:15 And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs,
Jos 21:16 And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs,
[and] Bethshemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two
tribes.
Jos 21:17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her
suburbs, Geba with her suburbs,
Jos 21:18 Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs;
four cities.
Jos 21:19 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests,
[were] thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Jos 21:20 And the families of the children of Kohath, the
Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had
the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
Jos 21:21 For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount
Ephraim, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with
her suburbs,
Jos 21:22 And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her
suburbs; four cities.
Jos 21:23 And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs,
Gibbethon with her suburbs,
Jos 21:24 Aijalon with her suburbs, Gathrimmon with her suburbs;
four cities.
Jos 21:25 And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her
suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs; two cities.
Jos 21:26 All the cities [were] ten with their suburbs for the
families of the children of Kohath that remained.
Jos 21:27 And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of
the Levites, out of the [other] half tribe of Manasseh [they
gave] Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge
for the slayer; and Beeshterah with her suburbs; two cities.
Jos 21:28 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her
suburbs, Dabareh with her suburbs,
Jos 21:29 Jarmuth with her suburbs, Engannim with her suburbs;
four cities.
Jos 21:30 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her suburbs,
Abdon with her suburbs,
Jos 21:31 Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs;
four cities.
Jos 21:32 And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee
with her suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and
Hammothdor with her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs; three
cities.
Jos 21:33 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their
families [were] thirteen cities with their suburbs.
Jos 21:34 And unto the families of the children of Merari, the
rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with
her suburbs, and Kartah with her suburbs,
Jos 21:35 Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs;
four cities.
Jos 21:36 And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs,
and Jahazah with her suburbs,
Jos 21:37 Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her
suburbs; four cities.
Jos 21:38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her
suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim
with her suburbs,
Jos 21:39 Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four
cities in all.
Jos 21:40 So all the cities for the children of Merari by their
families, which were remaining of the families of the Levites,
were [by] their lot twelve cities.
Jos 21:41 All the cities of the Levites within the possession of
the children of Israel [were] forty and eight cities with their
suburbs.
Jos 21:42 These cities were every one with their suburbs round
about them: thus [were] all these cities.
Jos 21:43 And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he
sware to give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and
dwelt therein.
Jos 21:44 And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to
all that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man
of all their enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their
enemies into their hand.
Jos 21:45 There failed not ought of any good thing which the
LORD had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.
Jos 22:01 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites,
and the half tribe of Manasseh,
Jos 22:02 And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the
servant of the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in
all that I commanded you:
Jos 22:03 Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto
this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the
LORD your God.
Jos 22:04 And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your
brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get
you unto your tents, [and] unto the land of your possession,
which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you on the other side
Jordan.
Jos 22:05 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the
law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love
the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his
commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all
your heart and with all your soul.
Jos 22:06 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they
went unto their tents.
Jos 22:07 Now to the [one] half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses
had given [possession] in Bashan: but unto the [other] half
thereof gave Joshua among their brethren on this side Jordan
westward. And when Joshua sent them away also unto their tents,
then he blessed them,
Jos 22:08 And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much
riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver,
and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much
raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.
Jos 22:09 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and
the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the
children of Israel out of Shiloh, which [is] in the land of
Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their
possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word
of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
Jos 22:10 And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that
[are] in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the
children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an
altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to.
Jos 22:11 And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the
children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of
Manasseh have built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in
the borders of Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel.
Jos 22:12 And when the children of Israel heard [of it], the
whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves
together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them.
Jos 22:13 And the children of Israel sent unto the children of
Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of
Manasseh, into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar
the priest,
Jos 22:14 And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince
throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one [was] an head
of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.
Jos 22:15 And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the
children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the
land of Gilead, and they spake with them, saying,
Jos 22:16 Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD, What
trespass [is] this that ye have committed against the God of
Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that
ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day
against the LORD?
Jos 22:17 [Is] the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from
which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a
plague in the congregation of the LORD,
Jos 22:18 But that ye must turn away this day from following the
LORD? and it will be, [seeing] ye rebel to day against the LORD,
that to morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of
Israel.
Jos 22:19 Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession [be]
unclean, [then] pass ye over unto the land of the possession of
the LORD, wherein the LORD'S tabernacle dwelleth, and take
possession among us: but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel
against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the
LORD our God.
Jos 22:20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in
the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of
Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.
Jos 22:21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad
and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads
of the thousands of Israel,
Jos 22:22 The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth,
and Israel he shall know; if [it be] in rebellion, or if in
transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day,)
Jos 22:23 That we have built us an altar to turn from following
the LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering,
or if to offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD himself
require [it];
Jos 22:24 And if we have not [rather] done it for fear of [this]
thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto
our children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of
Israel?
Jos 22:25 For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and
you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part
in the LORD: so shall your children make our children cease from
fearing the LORD.
Jos 22:26 Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an
altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:
Jos 22:27 But [that] it [may be] a witness between us, and you,
and our generations after us, that we might do the service of
the LORD before him with our burnt offerings, and with our
sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may
not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the
LORD.
Jos 22:28 Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should
[so] say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we
may say [again], Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD,
which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for
sacrifices; but it [is] a witness between us and you.
Jos 22:29 God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and
turn this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for
burnt offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside
the altar of the LORD our God that [is] before his tabernacle.
Jos 22:30 And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the
congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which [were]
with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the
children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased
them.
Jos 22:31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto
the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the
children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD [is]
among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against
the LORD: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of
the hand of the LORD.
Jos 22:32 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the
princes, returned from the children of Reuben, and from the
children of Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of
Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.
Jos 22:33 And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the
children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up
against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children
of Reuben and Gad dwelt.
Jos 22:34 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad
called the altar [Ed]: for it [shall be] a witness between us
that the LORD [is] God.
Jos 23:01 And it came to pass a long time after that the LORD
had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about,
that Joshua waxed old [and] stricken in age.
Jos 23:02 And Joshua called for all Israel, [and] for their
elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their
officers, and said unto them, I am old [and] stricken in age:
Jos 23:03 And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done
unto all these nations because of you; for the LORD your God
[is] he that hath fought for you.
Jos 23:04 Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations
that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan,
with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great
sea westward.
Jos 23:05 And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before
you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess
their land, as the LORD your God hath promised unto you.
Jos 23:06 Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all
that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn
not aside therefrom [to] the right hand or [to] the left;
Jos 23:07 That ye come not among these nations, these that
remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods,
nor cause to swear [by them], neither serve them, nor bow
yourselves unto them:
Jos 23:08 But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done
unto this day.
Jos 23:09 For the LORD hath driven out from before you great
nations and strong: but [as for] you, no man hath been able to
stand before you unto this day.
Jos 23:10 One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD
your God, he [it is] that fighteth for you, as he hath promised
you.
Jos 23:11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love
the LORD your God.
Jos 23:12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the
remnant of these nations, [even] these that remain among you,
and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and
they to you:
Jos 23:13 Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no
more drive out [any of] these nations from before you; but they
shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides,
and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land
which the LORD your God hath given you.
Jos 23:14 And, behold, this day I [am] going the way of all the
earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls,
that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the
LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto
you, [and] not one thing hath failed thereof.
Jos 23:15 Therefore it shall come to pass, [that] as all good
things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you;
so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things, until he have
destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God
hath given you.
Jos 23:16 When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD
your God, which he commanded you, and have gone and served other
gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the
LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from
off the good land which he hath given unto you.
Jos 24:01 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to
Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their
heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they
presented themselves before God.
Jos 24:02 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the
LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the
flood in old time, [even] Terah, the father of Abraham, and the
father of Nachor: and they served other gods.
Jos 24:03 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of
the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and
multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.
Jos 24:04 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto
Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went
down into Egypt.
Jos 24:05 I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt,
according to that which I did among them: and afterward I
brought you out.
Jos 24:06 And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came
unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with
chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.
Jos 24:07 And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness
between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them,
and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in
Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.
Jos 24:08 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which
dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I
gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and
I destroyed them from before you.
Jos 24:09 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and
warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of
Beor to curse you:
Jos 24:10 But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he
blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.
Jos 24:11 And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and
the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the
Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the
Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered
them into your hand.
Jos 24:12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out
from before you, [even] the two kings of the Amorites; [but] not
with thy sword, nor with thy bow.
Jos 24:13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not
labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of
the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
Jos 24:14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in
sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers
served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve
ye the LORD.
Jos 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose
you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your
fathers served that [were] on the other side of the flood, or
the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me
and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Jos 24:16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we
should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
Jos 24:17 For the LORD our God, he [it is] that brought us up
and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of
bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and
preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the
people through whom we passed:
Jos 24:18 And the LORD drave out from before us all the people,
even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: [therefore] will we
also serve the LORD; for he [is] our God.
Jos 24:19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the
LORD: for he [is] an holy God; he [is] a jealous God; he will
not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
Jos 24:20 If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then
he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he
hath done you good.
Jos 24:21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will
serve the LORD.
Jos 24:22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye [are] witnesses
against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve
him. And they said, [We are] witnesses.
Jos 24:23 Now therefore put away, [said he], the strange gods
which [are] among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God
of Israel.
Jos 24:24 And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will
we serve, and his voice will we obey.
Jos 24:25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day,
and set 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 took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak,
that [was] by the sanctuary of the LORD.
Jos 24:27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this
stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the
words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore
a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.
Jos 24:28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his
inheritance.
Jos 24:29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua
the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, [being] an
hundred and ten years old.
Jos 24:30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance
in Timnathserah, which [is] in mount Ephraim, on the north side
of the hill of Gaash.
Jos 24:31 And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and
all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had
known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
Jos 24:32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel
brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of
ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of
Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the
inheritance of the children of Joseph.
Jos 24:33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him
in a hill [that pertained to] Phinehas his son, which was given
him in mount Ephraim.
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