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  • king james study
  • JO-1:1 Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass,
  • that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,
  • JO-1:2 Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan,
  • thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, [even] to
  • the children of Israel.
  • JO-1:3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I
  • given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
  • JO-1:4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even unto the great river, the
  • river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the great sea toward
  • the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
  • JO-1:5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of
  • thy life: as I was with Moses, [so] I will be with thee: I will not fail thee,
  • nor forsake thee.
  • JO-1:6 Be strong and of a good courage: for unto this people shalt thou
  • divide for an inheritance the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give
  • them.
  • JO-1:7 Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest observe to
  • do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not
  • from it [to] the right hand or [to] the left, that thou mayest prosper
  • whithersoever thou goest.
  • JO-1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt
  • meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to
  • all that is written therein: for then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and
  • then thou shalt have good success.
  • JO-1:9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not
  • afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God [is] with thee
  • whithersoever thou goest.
  • JO-1:10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,
  • JO-1:11 Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you
  • victuals; for within three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to
  • possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it.
  • JO-1:12 And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of
  • Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying,
  • JO-1:13 Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you,
  • saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land.
  • JO-1:14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the
  • land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but ye shall pass before your
  • brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help them;
  • JO-1:15 Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as [he hath given] you,
  • and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them:
  • then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and enjoy it, which
  • Moses the LORD'S servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sunrising.
  • JO-1:16 And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest us we will
  • do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go.
  • JO-1:17 According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we
  • hearken unto thee: only the LORD thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses.
  • JO-1:18 Whosoever [he be] that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will
  • not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to
  • death: only be strong and of a good courage.
  • JO-2:1 And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly,
  • saying, Go view the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an
  • harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.
  • JO-2:2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in
  • hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the country.
  • JO-2:3 And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men
  • that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they be come to
  • search out all the country.
  • JO-2:4 And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There
  • came men unto me, but I wist not whence they [were]:
  • JO-2:5 And it came to pass [about the time] of shutting of the gate, when it
  • was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after
  • them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.
  • JO-2:6 But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them
  • with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.
  • JO-2:7 And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and
  • as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.
  • JO-2:8 And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof;
  • JO-2:9 And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given you the
  • land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of
  • the land faint because of you.
  • JO-2:10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for
  • you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the
  • Amorites, that [were] on the other side Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly
  • destroyed.
  • JO-2:11 And as soon as we had heard [these things], our hearts did melt,
  • neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the
  • LORD your God, he [is] God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
  • JO-2:12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have
  • showed you kindness, that ye will also show kindness unto my father's house,
  • and give me a true token:
  • JO-2:13 And [that] ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and my
  • brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from
  • death.
  • JO-2:14 And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this
  • our business. And it shall be, when the LORD hath given us the land, that we
  • will deal kindly and truly with thee.
  • JO-2:15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her house
  • [was] upon the town wall, and she dwelt upon the wall.
  • JO-2:16 And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers
  • meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be
  • returned: and afterward may ye go your way.
  • JO-2:17 And the men said unto her, We [will be] blameless of this thine oath
  • which thou hast made us swear.
  • JO-2:18 Behold, [when] we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of
  • scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt
  • bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's
  • household, home unto thee.
  • JO-2:19 And it shall be, [that] whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy
  • house into the street, his blood [shall be] upon his head, and we [will be]
  • guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood [shall be]
  • on our head, if [any] hand be upon him.
  • JO-2:20 And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine
  • oath which thou hast made us to swear.
  • JO-2:21 And she said, According unto your words, so [be] it. And she sent
  • them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.
  • JO-2:22 And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three
  • days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought [them]
  • throughout all the way, but found [them] not.
  • JO-2:23 So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed
  • over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all [things] that befell
  • them:
  • JO-2:24 And they said unto Joshua, Truly the LORD hath delivered into our
  • hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint
  • because of us.
  • JO-3:1 And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim,
  • and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before
  • they passed over.
  • JO-3:2 And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through
  • the host;
  • JO-3:3 And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the
  • covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye
  • shall remove from your place, and go after it.
  • JO-3:4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand
  • cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye
  • must go: for ye have not passed [this] way heretofore.
  • JO-3:5 And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for tomorrow the
  • LORD will do wonders among you.
  • JO-3:6 And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the
  • covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the
  • covenant, and went before the people.
  • JO-3:7 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee
  • in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, [so]
  • I will be with thee.
  • JO-3:8 And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant,
  • saying, When ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ye shall stand
  • still in Jordan.
  • JO-3:9 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the
  • words of the LORD your God.
  • JO-3:10 And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall know that the living God [is] among
  • you, and [that] he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites,
  • and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites,
  • and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
  • JO-3:11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the LORD of all the earth passeth
  • over before you into Jordan.
  • JO-3:12 Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of
  • every tribe a man.
  • JO-3:13 And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the
  • priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest
  • in the waters of Jordan, [that] the waters of Jordan shall be cut off [from]
  • the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap.
  • JO-3:14 And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to
  • pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the
  • people;
  • JO-3:15 And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of
  • the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for
  • Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)
  • JO-3:16 That the waters which came down from above stood [and] rose up upon
  • an heap very far from the city Adam, that [is] beside Zaretan: and those that
  • came down toward the sea of the plain, [even] the salt sea, failed, [and] were
  • cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
  • JO-3:17 And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood
  • firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over
  • on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.
  • JO-4:1 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over
  • Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,
  • JO-4:2 Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,
  • JO-4:3 And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of
  • Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones,
  • and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place,
  • where ye shall lodge this night.
  • JO-4:4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the
  • children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:
  • JO-4:5 And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your
  • God into the midst of Jordan, and take you up every man of you a stone upon
  • his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of
  • Israel:
  • JO-4:6 That this may be a sign among you, [that] when your children ask
  • [their fathers] in time to come, saying, What [mean] ye by these stones?
  • JO-4:7 Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off
  • before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the
  • waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto
  • the children of Israel for ever.
  • JO-4:8 And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up
  • twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD spake unto Joshua,
  • according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried
  • them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down
  • there.
  • JO-4:9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place
  • where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and
  • they are there unto this day.
  • JO-4:10 For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan,
  • until every thing was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak unto
  • the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people
  • hasted and passed over.
  • JO-4:11 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that
  • the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the
  • people.
  • JO-4:12 And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the
  • tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses
  • spake unto them:
  • JO-4:13 About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the LORD
  • unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
  • JO-4:14 On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and
  • they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
  • JO-4:15 And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,
  • JO-4:16 Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they
  • come up out of Jordan.
  • JO-4:17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up out of
  • Jordan.
  • JO-4:18 And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the
  • covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, [and] the soles
  • of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of
  • Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as [they did]
  • before.
  • JO-4:19 And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth [day] of the first
  • month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.
  • JO-4:20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did Joshua
  • pitch in Gilgal.
  • JO-4:21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children
  • shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What [mean] these stones?
  • JO-4:22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this
  • Jordan on dry land.
  • JO-4:23 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you,
  • until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he
  • dried up from before us, until we were gone over:
  • JO-4:24 That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD,
  • that it [is] mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever.
  • JO-5:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which [were]
  • on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which
  • [were] by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from
  • before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart
  • melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of
  • Israel.
  • JO-5:2 At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and
  • circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
  • JO-5:3 And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of
  • Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
  • JO-5:4 And this [is] the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that
  • came out of Egypt, [that were] males, [even] all the men of war, died in the
  • wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
  • JO-5:5 Now all the people that came out were circumcised: but all the people
  • [that were] born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt,
  • [them] they had not circumcised.
  • JO-5:6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till
  • all the people [that were] men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed,
  • because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that
  • he would not show them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that
  • he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
  • JO-5:7 And their children, [whom] he raised up in their stead, them Joshua
  • circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised
  • them by the way.
  • JO-5:8 And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all the people,
  • that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.
  • JO-5:9 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the
  • reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name of the place is called
  • Gilgal unto this day.
  • JO-5:10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover
  • on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho.
  • JO-5:11 And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the
  • passover, unleavened cakes, and parched [corn] in the selfsame day.
  • JO-5:12 And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old
  • corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they
  • did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
  • JO-5:13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up
  • his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his
  • sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, [Art]
  • thou for us, or for our adversaries?
  • JO-5:14 And he said, Nay; but [as] captain of the host of the LORD am I now
  • come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto
  • him, What saith my lord unto his servant?
  • JO-5:15 And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe
  • from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest [is] holy. And Joshua
  • did so.
  • JO-6:1 Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel:
  • none went out, and none came in.
  • JO-6:2 And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand
  • Jericho, and the king thereof, [and] the mighty men of valour.
  • JO-6:3 And ye shall compass the city, all [ye] men of war, [and] go round
  • about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
  • JO-6:4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams'
  • horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the
  • priests shall blow with the trumpets.
  • JO-6:5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long [blast] with the
  • ram's horn, [and] when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall
  • shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and
  • the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.
  • JO-6:6 And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take
  • up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams'
  • horns before the ark of the LORD.
  • JO-6:7 And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let
  • him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.
  • JO-6:8 And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the
  • seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the
  • LORD, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the LORD
  • followed them.
  • JO-6:9 And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets,
  • and the rereward came after the ark, [the priests] going on, and blowing with
  • the trumpets.
  • JO-6:10 And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor
  • make any noise with your voice, neither shall [any] word proceed out of your
  • mouth, until the day I bid you shout; then shall ye shout.
  • JO-6:11 So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about [it] once: and
  • they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
  • JO-6:12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark
  • of the LORD.
  • JO-6:13 And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' horns before the
  • ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets: and the armed
  • men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the LORD, [the
  • priests] going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
  • JO-6:14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into
  • the camp: so they did six days.
  • JO-6:15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about
  • the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven
  • times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.
  • JO-6:16 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with
  • the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the LORD hath given you
  • the city.
  • JO-6:17 And the city shall be accursed, [even] it, and all that [are]
  • therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that [are]
  • with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
  • JO-6:18 And ye, in any wise keep [yourselves] from the accursed thing, lest
  • ye make [yourselves] accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make
  • the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
  • JO-6:19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, [are]
  • consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.
  • JO-6:20 So the people shouted when [the priests] blew with the trumpets: and
  • it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the
  • people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the
  • people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the
  • city.
  • JO-6:21 And they utterly destroyed all that [was] in the city, both man and
  • woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.
  • JO-6:22 But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country,
  • Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she
  • hath, as ye sware unto her.
  • JO-6:23 And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and
  • her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they
  • brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel.
  • JO-6:24 And they burnt the city with fire, and all that [was] therein: only
  • the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into
  • the treasury of the house of the LORD.
  • JO-6:25 And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household,
  • and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel [even] unto this day; because
  • she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
  • JO-6:26 And Joshua adjured [them] at that time, saying, Cursed [be] the man
  • before the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay
  • the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest [son] shall he
  • set up the gates of it.
  • JO-6:27 So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was [noised] throughout all
  • the country.
  • JO-7:1 But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing:
  • for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe
  • of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled
  • against the children of Israel.
  • JO-7:2 And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which [is] beside Bethaven, on
  • the east side of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the
  • country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.
  • JO-7:3 And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people
  • go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; [and] make
  • not all the people to labour thither; for they [are but] few.
  • JO-7:4 So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and
  • they fled before the men of Ai.
  • JO-7:5 And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they
  • chased them [from] before the gate [even] unto Shebarim, and smote them in the
  • going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.
  • JO-7:6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face
  • before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel,
  • and put dust upon their heads.
  • JO-7:7 And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought
  • this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to
  • destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side
  • Jordan!
  • JO-7:8 O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their
  • enemies!
  • JO-7:9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear [of
  • it], and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the earth: and what
  • wilt thou do unto thy great name?
  • JO-7:10 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus
  • upon thy face?
  • JO-7:11 Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which
  • I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have
  • also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put [it] even among their own
  • stuff.
  • JO-7:12 Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their
  • enemies, [but] turned [their] backs before their enemies, because they were
  • accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed
  • from among you.
  • JO-7:13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against
  • tomorrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, [There is] an accursed thing
  • in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies,
  • until ye take away the accursed thing from among you.
  • JO-7:14 In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your
  • tribes: and it shall be, [that] the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come
  • according to the families [thereof]; and the family which the LORD shall take
  • shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall
  • come man by man.
  • JO-7:15 And it shall be, [that] he that is taken with the accursed thing
  • shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath
  • transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in
  • Israel.
  • JO-7:16 So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their
  • tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
  • JO-7:17 And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the
  • Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was
  • taken:
  • JO-7:18 And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi,
  • the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.
  • JO-7:19 And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the
  • LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou
  • hast done; hide [it] not from me.
  • JO-7:20 And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the
  • LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:
  • JO-7:21 When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two
  • hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I
  • coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they [are] hid in the earth in the
  • midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
  • JO-7:22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold,
  • [it was] hid in his tent, and the silver under it.
  • JO-7:23 And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them
  • unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the
  • LORD.
  • JO-7:24 And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and
  • the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his
  • daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all
  • that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor.
  • JO-7:25 And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble
  • thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with
  • fire, after they had stoned them with stones.
  • JO-7:26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the
  • LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place
  • was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.
  • JO-8:1 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed:
  • take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have
  • given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his
  • land:
  • JO-8:2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto Jericho and
  • her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a
  • prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city behind it.
  • JO-8:3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and
  • Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by
  • night.
  • JO-8:4 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against
  • the city, [even] behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all
  • ready:
  • JO-8:5 And I, and all the people that [are] with me, will approach unto the
  • city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the
  • first, that we will flee before them,
  • JO-8:6 (For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the
  • city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we
  • will flee before them.
  • JO-8:7 Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for
  • the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.
  • JO-8:8 And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, [that] ye shall set the
  • city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye do. See, I
  • have commanded you.
  • JO-8:9 Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in ambush, and
  • abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that
  • night among the people.
  • JO-8:10 And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and
  • went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.
  • JO-8:11 And all the people, [even the people] of war that [were] with him,
  • went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north
  • side of Ai: now [there was] a valley between them and Ai.
  • JO-8:12 And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush
  • between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
  • JO-8:13 And when they had set the people, [even] all the host that [was] on
  • the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua
  • went that night into the midst of the valley.
  • JO-8:14 And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw [it], that they hasted
  • and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle,
  • he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not
  • that [there were] liers in ambush against him behind the city.
  • JO-8:15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them,
  • and fled by the way of the wilderness.
  • JO-8:16 And all the people that [were] in Ai were called together to pursue
  • after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.
  • JO-8:17 And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not out after
  • Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
  • JO-8:18 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that [is] in thy
  • hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua stretched out
  • the spear that [he had] in his hand toward the city.
  • JO-8:19 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon
  • as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it,
  • and hasted and set the city on fire.
  • JO-8:20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the
  • smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this
  • way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon
  • the pursuers.
  • JO-8:21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the
  • city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and
  • slew the men of Ai.
  • JO-8:22 And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in
  • the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote
  • them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
  • JO-8:23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.
  • JO-8:24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the
  • inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them,
  • and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were
  • consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge
  • of the sword.
  • JO-8:25 And [so] it was, [that] all that fell that day, both of men and
  • women, [were] twelve thousand, [even] all the men of Ai.
  • JO-8:26 For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the
  • spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
  • JO-8:27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey
  • unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he commanded
  • Joshua.
  • JO-8:28 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, [even] a
  • desolation unto this day.
  • JO-8:29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and as soon as
  • the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from
  • the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise
  • thereon a great heap of stones, [that remaineth] unto this day.
  • JO-8:30 Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal,
  • JO-8:31 As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as
  • it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over
  • which no man hath lift up [any] iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings
  • unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.
  • JO-8:32 And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which
  • he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.
  • JO-8:33 And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges,
  • stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites,
  • which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he
  • that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of
  • them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded
  • before, that they should bless the people of Israel.
  • JO-8:34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and
  • cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law.
  • JO-8:35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read
  • not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little
  • ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.
  • JO-9:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings which [were] on this side
  • Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great
  • sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the
  • Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard [thereof];
  • JO-9:2 That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with
  • Israel, with one accord.
  • JO-9:3 And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto
  • Jericho and to Ai,
  • JO-9:4 They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been
  • ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and
  • rent, and bound up;
  • JO-9:5 And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them;
  • and all the bread of their provision was dry [and] mouldy.
  • JO-9:6 And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him,
  • and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye
  • a league with us.
  • JO-9:7 And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell
  • among us; and how shall we make a league with you?
  • JO-9:8 And they said unto Joshua, We [are] thy servants. And Joshua said unto
  • them, Who [are] ye? and from whence come ye?
  • JO-9:9 And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come
  • because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him,
  • and all that he did in Egypt,
  • JO-9:10 And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that [were]
  • beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, which [was]
  • at Ashtaroth.
  • JO-9:11 Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to
  • us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and
  • say unto them, We [are] your servants: therefore now make ye a league with us.
  • JO-9:12 This our bread we took hot [for] our provision out of our houses on
  • the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is dry, and it is
  • mouldy:
  • JO-9:13 And these bottles of wine, which we filled, [were] new; and, behold,
  • they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of
  • the very long journey.
  • JO-9:14 And the men took of their victuals, and asked not [counsel] at the
  • mouth of the LORD.
  • JO-9:15 And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let
  • them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them.
  • JO-9:16 And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a
  • league with them, that they heard that they [were] their neighbours, and
  • [that] they dwelt among them.
  • JO-9:17 And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on
  • the third day. Now their cities [were] Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and
  • Kirjathjearim.
  • JO-9:18 And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the
  • congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the
  • congregation murmured against the princes.
  • JO-9:19 But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn
  • unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them.
  • JO-9:20 This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be
  • upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.
  • JO-9:21 And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers
  • of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had
  • promised them.
  • JO-9:22 And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore
  • have ye beguiled us, saying, We [are] very far from you; when ye dwell among
  • us?
  • JO-9:23 Now therefore ye [are] cursed, and there shall none of you be freed
  • from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of
  • my God.
  • JO-9:24 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy
  • servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you
  • all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you,
  • therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this
  • thing.
  • JO-9:25 And now, behold, we [are] in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right
  • unto thee to do unto us, do.
  • JO-9:26 And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the
  • children of Israel, that they slew them not.
  • JO-9:27 And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for
  • the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the
  • place which he should choose.
  • JO-10:1 Now it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem had heard how
  • Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho
  • and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of
  • Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;
  • JO-10:2 That they feared greatly, because Gibeon [was] a great city, as one
  • of the royal cities, and because it [was] greater than Ai, and all the men
  • thereof [were] mighty.
  • JO-10:3 Wherefore Adonizedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of
  • Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and
  • unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,
  • JO-10:4 Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for it hath
  • made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.
  • JO-10:5 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the
  • king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon,
  • gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and
  • encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it.
  • JO-10:6 And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying,
  • Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and
  • help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are
  • gathered together against us.
  • JO-10:7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with
  • him, and all the mighty men of valour.
  • JO-10:8 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered
  • them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.
  • JO-10:9 Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, [and] went up from Gilgal
  • all night.
  • JO-10:10 And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a
  • great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to
  • Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.
  • JO-10:11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, [and] were in
  • the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven
  • upon them unto Azekah, and they died: [they were] more which died with
  • hailstones than [they] whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.
  • JO-10:12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up
  • the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of
  • Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of
  • Ajalon.
  • JO-10:13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had
  • avenged themselves upon their enemies. [Is] not this written in the book of
  • Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go
  • down about a whole day.
  • JO-10:14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD
  • hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel.
  • JO-10:15 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to
  • Gilgal.
  • JO-10:16 But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah.
  • JO-10:17 And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a
  • cave at Makkedah.
  • JO-10:18 And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave, and
  • set men by it for to keep them:
  • JO-10:19 And stay ye not, [but] pursue after your enemies, and smite the
  • hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the LORD
  • your God hath delivered them into your hand.
  • JO-10:20 And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made
  • an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed,
  • that the rest [which] remained of them entered into fenced cities.
  • JO-10:21 And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in
  • peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
  • JO-10:22 Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those
  • five kings unto me out of the cave.
  • JO-10:23 And they did so, and brought forth those five kings unto him out of
  • the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the
  • king of Lachish, [and] the king of Eglon.
  • JO-10:24 And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua,
  • that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of
  • the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of
  • these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them.
  • JO-10:25 And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and
  • of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom
  • ye fight.
  • JO-10:26 And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on
  • five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.
  • JO-10:27 And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, [that]
  • Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into
  • the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth,
  • [which remain] until this very day.
  • JO-10:28 And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of the
  • sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that
  • [were] therein; he let none remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he
  • did unto the king of Jericho.
  • JO-10:29 Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto
  • Libnah, and fought against Libnah:
  • JO-10:30 And the LORD delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the hand
  • of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that
  • [were] therein; he let none remain in it; but did unto the king thereof as he
  • did unto the king of Jericho.
  • JO-10:31 And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto
  • Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:
  • JO-10:32 And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took
  • it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the
  • souls that [were] therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.
  • JO-10:33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote
  • him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.
  • JO-10:34 And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all Israel with him;
  • and they encamped against it, and fought against it:
  • JO-10:35 And they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the
  • sword, and all the souls that [were] therein he utterly destroyed that day,
  • according to all that he had done to Lachish.
  • JO-10:36 And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto Hebron;
  • and they fought against it:
  • JO-10:37 And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the
  • king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that [were]
  • therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon;
  • but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that [were] therein.
  • JO-10:38 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought
  • against it:
  • JO-10:39 And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof;
  • and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the
  • souls that [were] therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron,
  • so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah,
  • and to her king.
  • JO-10:40 So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and
  • of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining,
  • but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded.
  • JO-10:41 And Joshua smote them from Kadeshbarnea even unto Gaza, and all the
  • country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.
  • JO-10:42 And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time,
  • because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.
  • JO-10:43 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to
  • Gilgal.
  • JO-11:1 And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard [those
  • things], that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and
  • to the king of Achshaph,
  • JO-11:2 And to the kings that [were] on the north of the mountains, and of
  • the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor
  • on the west,
  • JO-11:3 [And to] the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and [to] the
  • Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the
  • mountains, and [to] the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.
  • JO-11:4 And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people,
  • even as the sand that [is] upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses and
  • chariots very many.
  • JO-11:5 And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched
  • together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.
  • JO-11:6 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to
  • morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou
  • shalt hock their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.
  • JO-11:7 So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by
  • the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them.
  • JO-11:8 And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them,
  • and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephothmaim, and unto the valley
  • of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining.
  • JO-11:9 And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he hocked their
  • horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
  • JO-11:10 And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and smote the
  • king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of all those
  • kingdoms.
  • JO-11:11 And they smote all the souls that [were] therein with the edge of
  • the sword, utterly destroying [them]: there was not any left to breathe: and
  • he burnt Hazor with fire.
  • JO-11:12 And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did
  • Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, [and] he utterly
  • destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded.
  • JO-11:13 But [as for] the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel
  • burned none of them, save Hazor only; [that] did Joshua burn.
  • JO-11:14 And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of
  • Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge
  • of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.
  • JO-11:15 As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command
  • Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that the LORD
  • commanded Moses.
  • JO-11:16 So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country,
  • and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of
  • Israel, and the valley of the same;
  • JO-11:17 [Even] from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto
  • Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their kings he
  • took, and smote them, and slew them.
  • JO-11:18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
  • JO-11:19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel,
  • save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all [other] they took in battle.
  • JO-11:20 For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come
  • against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, [and] that they
  • might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded
  • Moses.
  • JO-11:21 And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the
  • mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of
  • Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly
  • with their cities.
  • JO-11:22 There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of
  • Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.
  • JO-11:23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said
  • unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to
  • their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.
  • JO-12:1 Now these [are] the kings of the land, which the children of Israel
  • smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of
  • the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the
  • east:
  • JO-12:2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, [and] ruled from
  • Aroer, which [is] upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the
  • river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, [which is] the border
  • of the children of Ammon;
  • JO-12:3 And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the
  • sea of the plain, [even] the salt sea on the east, the way to Bethjeshimoth;
  • and from the south, under Ashdothpisgah:
  • JO-12:4 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, [which was] of the remnant of the
  • giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
  • JO-12:5 And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto
  • the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border
  • of Sihon king of Heshbon.
  • JO-12:6 Them did Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel
  • smite: and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it [for] a possession unto the
  • Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.
  • JO-12:7 And these [are] the kings of the country which Joshua and the
  • children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baalgad in the
  • valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which
  • Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel [for] a possession according to their
  • divisions;
  • JO-12:8 In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the
  • springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the
  • Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites:
  • JO-12:9 The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which [is] beside Bethel,
  • one;
  • JO-12:10 The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
  • JO-12:11 The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
  • JO-12:12 The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
  • JO-12:13 The king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;
  • JO-12:14 The king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
  • JO-12:15 The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
  • JO-12:16 The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;
  • JO-12:17 The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
  • JO-12:18 The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;
  • JO-12:19 The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;
  • JO-12:20 The king of Shimronmeron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;
  • JO-12:21 The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;
  • JO-12:22 The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel, one;
  • JO-12:23 The king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the nations of
  • Gilgal, one;
  • JO-12:24 The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.
  • JO-13:1 Now Joshua was old [and] stricken in years; and the LORD said unto
  • him, Thou art old [and] stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much
  • land to be possessed.
  • JO-13:2 This [is] the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the
  • Philistines, and all Geshuri,
  • JO-13:3 From Sihor, which [is] before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron
  • northward, [which] is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines;
  • the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites, and the
  • Ekronites; also the Avites:
  • JO-13:4 From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that [is]
  • beside the Sidonians unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:
  • JO-13:5 And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising,
  • from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into Hamath.
  • JO-13:6 All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto
  • Misrephothmaim, [and] all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from before the
  • children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the Israelites for an
  • inheritance, as I have commanded thee.
  • JO-13:7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine
  • tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
  • JO-13:8 With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their
  • inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, [even] as Moses
  • the servant of the LORD gave them;
  • JO-13:9 From Aroer, that [is] upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city
  • that [is] in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;
  • JO-13:10 And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in
  • Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;
  • JO-13:11 And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and
  • all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;
  • JO-13:12 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in
  • Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did Moses smite,
  • and cast them out.
  • JO-13:13 Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the Geshurites, nor
  • the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the Maachathites dwell among the
  • Israelites until this day.
  • JO-13:14 Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices
  • of the LORD God of Israel made by fire [are] their inheritance, as he said
  • unto them.
  • JO-13:15 And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben
  • [inheritance] according to their families.
  • JO-13:16 And their coast was from Aroer, that [is] on the bank of the river
  • Arnon, and the city that [is] in the midst of the river, and all the plain by
  • Medeba;
  • JO-13:17 Heshbon, and all her cities that [are] in the plain; Dibon, and
  • Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon,
  • JO-13:18 And Jahaza, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
  • JO-13:19 And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zarethshahar in the mount of the
  • valley,
  • JO-13:20 And Bethpeor, and Ashdothpisgah, and Bethjeshimoth,
  • JO-13:21 And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king
  • of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the princes
  • of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, [which were] dukes of
  • Sihon, dwelling in the country.
  • JO-13:22 Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of
  • Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.
  • JO-13:23 And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border
  • [thereof]. This [was] the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their
  • families, the cities and the villages thereof.
  • JO-13:24 And Moses gave [inheritance] unto the tribe of Gad, [even] unto the
  • children of Gad according to their families.
  • JO-13:25 And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half
  • the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that [is] before Rabbah;
  • JO-13:26 And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim
  • unto the border of Debir;
  • JO-13:27 And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and
  • Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and [his]
  • border, [even] unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side Jordan
  • eastward.
  • JO-13:28 This [is] the inheritance of the children of Gad after their
  • families, the cities, and their villages.
  • JO-13:29 And Moses gave [inheritance] unto the half tribe of Manasseh: and
  • [this] was [the possession] of the half tribe of the children of Manasseh by
  • their families.
  • JO-13:30 And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og
  • king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which [are] in Bashan, threescore
  • cities:
  • JO-13:31 And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of
  • Og in Bashan, [were pertaining] unto the children of Machir the son of
  • Manasseh, [even] to the one half of the children of Machir by their families.
  • JO-13:32 These [are the countries] which Moses did distribute for inheritance
  • in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan, by Jericho, eastward.
  • JO-13:33 But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not [any] inheritance: the
  • LORD God of Israel [was] their inheritance, as he said unto them.
  • JO-14:1 And these [are the countries] which the children of Israel inherited
  • in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun,
  • and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel,
  • distributed for inheritance to them.
  • JO-14:2 By lot [was] their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of
  • Moses, for the nine tribes, and [for] the half tribe.
  • JO-14:3 For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half tribe
  • on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance among
  • them.
  • JO-14:4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim:
  • therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell
  • [in], with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.
  • JO-14:5 As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they
  • divided the land.
  • JO-14:6 Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the
  • son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the
  • LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea.
  • JO-14:7 Forty years old [was] I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me
  • from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as [it
  • was] in mine heart.
  • JO-14:8 Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the
  • people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.
  • JO-14:9 And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy feet
  • have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's for ever, because
  • thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.
  • JO-14:10 And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these
  • forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while
  • [the children of] Israel wandered in the wilderness: and now, lo, I [am] this
  • day fourscore and five years old.
  • JO-14:11 As yet I [am as] strong this day as [I was] in the day that Moses
  • sent me: as my strength [was] then, even so [is] my strength now, for war,
  • both to go out, and to come in.
  • JO-14:12 Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that
  • day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims [were] there, and [that]
  • the cities [were] great [and] fenced: if so be the LORD [will be] with me,
  • then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.
  • JO-14:13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh
  • Hebron for an inheritance.
  • JO-14:14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of
  • Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the LORD
  • God of Israel.
  • JO-14:15 And the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjatharba; [which Arba was] a
  • great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.
  • JO-15:1 [This] then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by
  • their families; [even] to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward
  • [was] the uttermost part of the south coast.
  • JO-15:2 And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea, from the
  • bay that looketh southward:
  • JO-15:3 And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along
  • to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadeshbarnea, and passed along
  • to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa:
  • JO-15:4 [From thence] it passed toward Azmon, and went out unto the river of
  • Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this shall be your
  • south coast.
  • JO-15:5 And the east border [was] the salt sea, [even] unto the end of
  • Jordan. And [their] border in the north quarter [was] from the bay of the sea
  • at the uttermost part of Jordan:
  • JO-15:6 And the border went up to Bethhogla, and passed along by the north of
  • Betharabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben:
  • JO-15:7 And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and so
  • northward, looking toward Gilgal, that [is] before the going up to Adummim,
  • which [is] on the south side of the river: and the border passed toward the
  • waters of Enshemesh, and the goings out thereof were at Enrogel:
  • JO-15:8 And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the
  • south side of the Jebusite; the same [is] Jerusalem: and the border went up to
  • the top of the mountain that [lieth] before the valley of Hinnom westward,
  • which [is] at the end of the valley of the giants northward:
  • JO-15:9 And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the fountain
  • of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount Ephron; and the
  • border was drawn to Baalah, which [is] Kirjathjearim:
  • JO-15:10 And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount Seir, and
  • passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which [is] Chesalon, on the north
  • side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah:
  • JO-15:11 And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and the
  • border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out
  • unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea.
  • JO-15:12 And the west border [was] to the great sea, and the coast [thereof].
  • This [is] the coast of the children of Judah round about according to their
  • families.
  • JO-15:13 And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the
  • children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, [even]
  • the city of Arba the father of Anak, which [city is] Hebron.
  • JO-15:14 And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman,
  • and Talmai, the children of Anak.
  • JO-15:15 And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of
  • Debir before [was] Kirjathsepher.
  • JO-15:16 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh it, to him
  • will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.
  • JO-15:17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he
  • gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.
  • JO-15:18 And it came to pass, as she came [unto him], that she moved him to
  • ask of her father a field: and she lighted off [her] ass; and Caleb said unto
  • her, What wouldest thou?
  • JO-15:19 Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south
  • land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and
  • the nether springs.
  • JO-15:20 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah
  • according to their families.
  • JO-15:21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah
  • toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,
  • JO-15:22 And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,
  • JO-15:23 And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,
  • JO-15:24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,
  • JO-15:25 And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, [and] Hezron, which [is] Hazor,
  • JO-15:26 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,
  • JO-15:27 And Hazargaddah, and Heshmon, and Bethpalet,
  • JO-15:28 And Hazarshual, and Beersheba, and Bizjothjah,
  • JO-15:29 Baalah, and Iim, and Azem,
  • JO-15:30 And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,
  • JO-15:31 And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,
  • JO-15:32 And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities [are]
  • twenty and nine, with their villages:
  • JO-15:33 [And] in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
  • JO-15:34 And Zanoah, and Engannim, Tappuah, and Enam,
  • JO-15:35 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
  • JO-15:36 And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen
  • cities with their villages:
  • JO-15:37 Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdalgad,
  • JO-15:38 And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,
  • JO-15:39 Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,
  • JO-15:40 And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish,
  • JO-15:41 And Gederoth, Bethdagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen cities
  • with their villages:
  • JO-15:42 Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
  • JO-15:43 And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,
  • JO-15:44 And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their
  • villages:
  • JO-15:45 Ekron, with her towns and her villages:
  • JO-15:46 From Ekron even unto the sea, all that [lay] near Ashdod, with their
  • villages:
  • JO-15:47 Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her
  • villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border
  • [thereof]:
  • JO-15:48 And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
  • JO-15:49 And Dannah, and Kirjathsannah, which [is] Debir,
  • JO-15:50 And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,
  • JO-15:51 And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their villages:
  • JO-15:52 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean,
  • JO-15:53 And Janum, and Bethtappuah, and Aphekah,
  • JO-15:54 And Humtah, and Kirjatharba, which [is] Hebron, and Zior; nine
  • cities with their villages:
  • JO-15:55 Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,
  • JO-15:56 And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,
  • JO-15:57 Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages:
  • JO-15:58 Halhul, Bethzur, and Gedor,
  • JO-15:59 And Maarath, and Bethanoth, and Eltekon; six cities with their
  • villages:
  • JO-15:60 Kirjathbaal, which [is] Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah; two cities with
  • their villages:
  • JO-15:61 In the wilderness, Betharabah, Middin, and Secacah,
  • JO-15:62 And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and Engedi; six cities with their
  • villages.
  • JO-15:63 As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of
  • Judah could not drive them out: but the Jebusites dwell with the children of
  • Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.
  • JO-16:1 And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho,
  • unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goeth up from
  • Jericho throughout mount Bethel.
  • JO-16:2 And goeth out from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along unto the borders
  • of Archi to Ataroth,
  • JO-16:3 And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the coast of
  • Bethhoron the nether, and to Gezer: and the goings out thereof are at the sea.
  • JO-16:4 So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their
  • inheritance.
  • JO-16:5 And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families
  • was [thus]: even the border of their inheritance on the east side was
  • Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper;
  • JO-16:6 And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north
  • side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanathshiloh, and passed by it
  • on the east to Janohah;
  • JO-16:7 And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath, and came to
  • Jericho, and went out at Jordan.
  • JO-16:8 The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah; and
  • the goings out thereof were at the sea. This [is] the inheritance of the tribe
  • of the children of Ephraim by their families.
  • JO-16:9 And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim [were] among the
  • inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with their villages.
  • JO-16:10 And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the
  • Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute.
  • JO-17:1 There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he [was] the
  • firstborn of Joseph; [to wit], for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh, the
  • father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had Gilead and
  • Bashan.
  • JO-17:2 There was also [a lot] for the rest of the children of Manasseh by
  • their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek,
  • and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the
  • children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these [were] the male
  • children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.
  • JO-17:3 But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of
  • Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and these [are] the
  • names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
  • JO-17:4 And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before Joshua the
  • son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD commanded Moses to give
  • us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore according to the commandment
  • of the LORD he gave them an inheritance among the brethren of their father.
  • JO-17:5 And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead
  • and Bashan, which [were] on the other side Jordan;
  • JO-17:6 Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons:
  • and the rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of Gilead.
  • JO-17:7 And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that [lieth]
  • before Shechem; and the border went along on the right hand unto the
  • inhabitants of Entappuah.
  • JO-17:8 [Now] Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of
  • Manasseh [belonged] to the children of Ephraim;
  • JO-17:9 And the coast descended unto the river Kanah, southward of the river:
  • these cities of Ephraim [are] among the cities of Manasseh: the coast of
  • Manasseh also [was] on the north side of the river, and the outgoings of it
  • were at the sea:
  • JO-17:10 Southward [it was] Ephraim's, and northward [it was] Manasseh's, and
  • the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher on the north, and in
  • Issachar on the east.
  • JO-17:11 And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Bethshean and her towns,
  • and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, and the
  • inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and her
  • towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, [even] three countries.
  • JO-17:12 Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out [the inhabitants
  • of] those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that land.
  • JO-17:13 Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong,
  • that they put the Canaanites to tribute; but did not utterly drive them out.
  • JO-17:14 And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why hast thou
  • given me [but] one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I [am] a great
  • people, forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed me hitherto?
  • JO-17:15 And Joshua answered them, If thou [be] a great people, [then] get
  • thee up to the wood [country], and cut down for thyself there in the land of
  • the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee.
  • JO-17:16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for us: and
  • all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have chariots of iron,
  • [both they] who [are] of Bethshean and her towns, and [they] who [are] of the
  • valley of Jezreel.
  • JO-17:17 And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, [even] to Ephraim and to
  • Manasseh, saying, Thou [art] a great people, and hast great power: thou shalt
  • not have one lot [only]:
  • JO-17:18 But the mountain shall be thine; for it [is] a wood, and thou shalt
  • cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou shalt drive out
  • the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, [and] though they [be] strong.
  • JO-18:1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled
  • together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there. And
  • the land was subdued before them.
  • JO-18:2 And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which
  • had not yet received their inheritance.
  • JO-18:3 And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long [are] ye slack
  • to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers hath given you?
  • JO-18:4 Give out from among you three men for [each] tribe: and I will send
  • them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe it according
  • to the inheritance of them; and they shall come [again] to me.
  • JO-18:5 And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide in their
  • coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their coasts on the
  • north.
  • JO-18:6 Ye shall therefore describe the land [into] seven parts, and bring
  • [the description] hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the
  • LORD our God.
  • JO-18:7 But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood of the
  • LORD [is] their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the tribe of
  • Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the east, which
  • Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.
  • JO-18:8 And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them that went
  • to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it,
  • and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for you before the LORD in
  • Shiloh.
  • JO-18:9 And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by
  • cities into seven parts in a book, and came [again] to Joshua to the host at
  • Shiloh.
  • JO-18:10 And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and there
  • Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to their
  • divisions.
  • JO-18:11 And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up
  • according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth between the
  • children of Judah and the children of Joseph.
  • JO-18:12 And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border
  • went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up through the
  • mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the wilderness of
  • Bethaven.
  • JO-18:13 And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz,
  • which [is] Bethel, southward; and the border descended to Atarothadar, near
  • the hill that [lieth] on the south side of the nether Bethhoron.
  • JO-18:14 And the border was drawn [thence], and compassed the corner of the
  • sea southward, from the hill that [lieth] before Bethhoron southward; and the
  • goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which [is] Kirjathjearim, a city of
  • the children of Judah: this [was] the west quarter.
  • JO-18:15 And the south quarter [was] from the end of Kirjathjearim, and the
  • border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of Nephtoah:
  • JO-18:16 And the border came down to the end of the mountain that [lieth]
  • before the valley of the son of Hinnom, [and] which [is] in the valley of the
  • giants on the north, and descended to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of
  • Jebusi on the south, and descended to Enrogel,
  • JO-18:17 And was drawn from the north, and went forth to Enshemesh, and went
  • forth toward Geliloth, which [is] over against the going up of Adummim, and
  • descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,
  • JO-18:18 And passed along toward the side over against Arabah northward, and
  • went down unto Arabah:
  • JO-18:19 And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward: and
  • the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the salt sea at the south
  • end of Jordan: this [was] the south coast.
  • JO-18:20 And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This [was] the
  • inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about,
  • according to their families.
  • JO-18:21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to
  • their families were Jericho, and Bethhoglah, and the valley of Keziz.
  • JO-18:22 And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
  • JO-18:23 And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
  • JO-18:24 And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities with their
  • villages:
  • JO-18:25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
  • JO-18:26 And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
  • JO-18:27 And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
  • JO-18:28 And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which [is] Jerusalem, Gibeath, [and]
  • Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This [is] the inheritance of the
  • children of Benjamin according to their families.
  • JO-19:1 And the second lot came forth to Simeon, [even] for the tribe of the
  • children of Simeon according to their families: and their inheritance was
  • within the inheritance of the children of Judah.
  • JO-19:2 And they had in their inheritance Beersheba, and Sheba, and Moladah,
  • JO-19:3 And Hazarshual, and Balah, and Azem,
  • JO-19:4 And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,
  • JO-19:5 And Ziklag, and Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusah,
  • JO-19:6 And Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their villages:
  • JO-19:7 Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their villages:
  • JO-19:8 And all the villages that [were] round about these cities to
  • Baalathbeer, Ramath of the south. This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of
  • the children of Simeon according to their families.
  • JO-19:9 Out of the portion of the children of Judah [was] the inheritance of
  • the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of Judah was too much for
  • them: therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance within the
  • inheritance of them.
  • JO-19:10 And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to
  • their families: and the border of their inheritance was unto Sarid:
  • JO-19:11 And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah, and reached to
  • Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that [is] before Jokneam;
  • JO-19:12 And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the border
  • of Chislothtabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up to Japhia.
  • JO-19:13 And from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittahhepher, to
  • Ittahkazin, and goeth out to Remmonmethoar to Neah;
  • JO-19:14 And the border compasseth it on the north side to Hannathon: and the
  • outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthahel:
  • JO-19:15 And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem:
  • twelve cities with their villages.
  • JO-19:16 This [is] the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according to
  • their families, these cities with their villages.
  • JO-19:17 [And] the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of
  • Issachar according to their families.
  • JO-19:18 And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,
  • JO-19:19 And Haphraim, and Shihon, and Anaharath,
  • JO-19:20 And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez,
  • JO-19:21 And Remeth, and Engannim, and Enhaddah, and Bethpazzez;
  • JO-19:22 And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Bethshemesh;
  • and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities with their
  • villages.
  • JO-19:23 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Issachar
  • according to their families, the cities and their villages.
  • JO-19:24 And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of Asher
  • according to their families.
  • JO-19:25 And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph,
  • JO-19:26 And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to Carmel
  • westward, and to Shihorlibnath;
  • JO-19:27 And turneth toward the sunrising to Bethdagon, and reacheth to
  • Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthahel toward the north side of Bethemek,
  • and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand,
  • JO-19:28 And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, [even] unto great
  • Zidon;
  • JO-19:29 And [then] the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre;
  • and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at the sea from
  • the coast to Achzib:
  • JO-19:30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with their
  • villages.
  • JO-19:31 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher
  • according to their families, these cities with their villages.
  • JO-19:32 The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, [even] for the
  • children of Naphtali according to their families.
  • JO-19:33 And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim, and Adami,
  • Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the outgoings thereof were at Jordan:
  • JO-19:34 And [then] the coast turneth westward to Aznothtabor, and goeth out
  • from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south side, and reacheth
  • to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan toward the sunrising.
  • JO-19:35 And the fenced cities [are] Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and
  • Chinnereth,
  • JO-19:36 And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,
  • JO-19:37 And Kedesh, and Edrei, and Enhazor,
  • JO-19:38 And Iron, and Migdalel, Horem, and Bethanath, and Bethshemesh;
  • nineteen cities with their villages.
  • JO-19:39 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali
  • according to their families, the cities and their villages.
  • JO-19:40 [And] the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children of Dan
  • according to their families.
  • JO-19:41 And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and
  • Irshemesh,
  • JO-19:42 And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,
  • JO-19:43 And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron,
  • JO-19:44 And Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath,
  • JO-19:45 And Jehud, and Beneberak, and Gathrimmon,
  • JO-19:46 And Mejarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Japho.
  • JO-19:47 And the coast of the children of Dan went out [too little] for them:
  • therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem, and took it,
  • and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein,
  • and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.
  • JO-19:48 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan
  • according to their families, these cities with their villages.
  • JO-19:49 When they had made an end of dividing the land for inheritance by
  • their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance to Joshua the son of
  • Nun among them:
  • JO-19:50 According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he
  • asked, [even] Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt
  • therein.
  • JO-19:51 These [are] the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua
  • the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of
  • Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, at the
  • door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So they made an end of dividing
  • the country.
  • JO-20:1 The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying,
  • JO-20:2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you cities
  • of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:
  • JO-20:3 That the slayer that killeth [any] person unawares [and] unwittingly
  • may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
  • JO-20:4 And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall stand at
  • the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his cause in the ears
  • of the elders of that city, they shall take him into the city unto them, and
  • give him a place, that he may dwell among them.
  • JO-20:5 And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not
  • deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his neighbour
  • unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.
  • JO-20:6 And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the
  • congregation for judgment, [and] until the death of the high priest that shall
  • be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his own city,
  • and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.
  • JO-20:7 And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem
  • in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which [is] Hebron, in the mountain of
  • Judah.
  • JO-20:8 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer
  • in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in
  • Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of
  • Manasseh.
  • JO-20:9 These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and
  • for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever killeth [any]
  • person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the hand of the avenger
  • of blood, until he stood before the congregation.
  • JO-21:1 Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto Eleazar
  • the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads of the fathers
  • of the tribes of the children of Israel;
  • JO-21:2 And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, The
  • LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to dwell in, with the
  • suburbs thereof for our cattle.
  • JO-21:3 And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their
  • inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and their suburbs.
  • JO-21:4 And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and the
  • children of Aaron the priest, [which were] of the Levites, had by lot out of
  • the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of
  • Benjamin, thirteen cities.
  • JO-21:5 And the rest of the children of Kohath [had] by lot out of the
  • families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the
  • half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
  • JO-21:6 And the children of Gershon [had] by lot out of the families of the
  • tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of
  • Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
  • JO-21:7 The children of Merari by their families [had] out of the tribe of
  • Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve
  • cities.
  • JO-21:8 And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities
  • with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.
  • JO-21:9 And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of
  • the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are [here] mentioned
  • by name,
  • JO-21:10 Which the children of Aaron, [being] of the families of the
  • Kohathites, [who were] of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the first
  • lot.
  • JO-21:11 And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, which [city
  • is] Hebron, in the hill [country] of Judah, with the suburbs thereof round
  • about it.
  • JO-21:12 But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to
  • Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
  • JO-21:13 Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron with her
  • suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah with her suburbs,
  • JO-21:14 And Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs,
  • JO-21:15 And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs,
  • JO-21:16 And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, [and]
  • Bethshemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.
  • JO-21:17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with
  • her suburbs,
  • JO-21:18 Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs; four cities.
  • JO-21:19 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, [were]
  • thirteen cities with their suburbs.
  • JO-21:20 And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which
  • remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out
  • of the tribe of Ephraim.
  • JO-21:21 For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount Ephraim, [to
  • be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her suburbs,
  • JO-21:22 And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her suburbs; four
  • cities.
  • JO-21:23 And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs, Gibbethon
  • with her suburbs,
  • JO-21:24 Aijalon with her suburbs, Gathrimmon with her suburbs; four cities.
  • JO-21:25 And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her suburbs, and
  • Gathrimmon with her suburbs; two cities.
  • JO-21:26 All the cities [were] ten with their suburbs for the families of the
  • children of Kohath that remained.
  • JO-21:27 And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites,
  • out of the [other] half tribe of Manasseh [they gave] Golan in Bashan with her
  • suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Beeshterah with her
  • suburbs; two cities.
  • JO-21:28 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs, Dabareh
  • with her suburbs,
  • JO-21:29 Jarmuth with her suburbs, Engannim with her suburbs; four cities.
  • JO-21:30 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her suburbs, Abdon with
  • her suburbs,
  • JO-21:31 Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs; four cities.
  • JO-21:32 And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her
  • suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammothdor with her
  • suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs; three cities.
  • JO-21:33 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families [were]
  • thirteen cities with their suburbs.
  • JO-21:34 And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the
  • Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and Kartah
  • with her suburbs,
  • JO-21:35 Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs; four cities.
  • JO-21:36 And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahazah
  • with her suburbs,
  • JO-21:37 Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs; four
  • cities.
  • JO-21:38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her suburbs, [to
  • be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her suburbs,
  • JO-21:39 Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four cities in
  • all.
  • JO-21:40 So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families,
  • which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were [by] their lot
  • twelve cities.
  • JO-21:41 All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the children
  • of Israel [were] forty and eight cities with their suburbs.
  • JO-21:42 These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them:
  • thus [were] all these cities.
  • JO-21:43 And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to give
  • unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.
  • JO-21:44 And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all that he
  • sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all their enemies
  • before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.
  • JO-21:45 There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had spoken
  • unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.
  • JO-22:1 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half
  • tribe of Manasseh,
  • JO-22:2 And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant of the
  • LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you:
  • JO-22:3 Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but
  • have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.
  • JO-22:4 And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your brethren, as he
  • promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you unto your tents, [and]
  • unto the land of your possession, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you
  • on the other side Jordan.
  • JO-22:5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses
  • the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in
  • all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to
  • serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
  • JO-22:6 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went unto their
  • tents.
  • JO-22:7 Now to the [one] half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given
  • [possession] in Bashan: but unto the [other] half thereof gave Joshua among
  • their brethren on this side Jordan westward. And when Joshua sent them away
  • also unto their tents, then he blessed them,
  • JO-22:8 And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your
  • tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass,
  • and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies
  • with your brethren.
  • JO-22:9 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe
  • of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh,
  • which [is] in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to the
  • land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word
  • of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
  • JO-22:10 And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that [are] in the
  • land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half
  • tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to.
  • JO-22:11 And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children of Reuben
  • and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar
  • over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at the passage of
  • the children of Israel.
  • JO-22:12 And when the children of Israel heard [of it], the whole
  • congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh,
  • to go up to war against them.
  • JO-22:13 And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben, and to
  • the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the land of
  • Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,
  • JO-22:14 And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout
  • all the tribes of Israel; and each one [was] an head of the house of their
  • fathers among the thousands of Israel.
  • JO-22:15 And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of
  • Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of Gilead, and they
  • spake with them, saying,
  • JO-22:16 Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass [is]
  • this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day
  • from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, that ye might
  • rebel this day against the LORD?
  • JO-22:17 [Is] the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not
  • cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of
  • the LORD,
  • JO-22:18 But that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD? and it
  • will be, [seeing] ye rebel to day against the LORD, that to morrow he will be
  • wroth with the whole congregation of Israel.
  • JO-22:19 Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession [be] unclean, [then]
  • pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD'S
  • tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against the
  • LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the
  • LORD our God.
  • JO-22:20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed
  • thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished
  • not alone in his iniquity.
  • JO-22:21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half
  • tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands of
  • Israel,
  • JO-22:22 The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel
  • he shall know; if [it be] in rebellion, or if in transgression against the
  • LORD, (save us not this day,)
  • JO-22:23 That we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or
  • if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace
  • offerings thereon, let the LORD himself require [it];
  • JO-22:24 And if we have not [rather] done it for fear of [this] thing,
  • saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying,
  • What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?
  • JO-22:25 For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye
  • children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so shall
  • your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD.
  • JO-22:26 Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for
  • burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:
  • JO-22:27 But [that] it [may be] a witness between us, and you, and our
  • generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before him with
  • our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings;
  • that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no
  • part in the LORD.
  • JO-22:28 Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should [so] say to us
  • or to our generations in time to come, that we may say [again], Behold the
  • pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt
  • offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it [is] a witness between us and you.
  • JO-22:29 God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this day
  • from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt offerings, for meat
  • offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of the LORD our God that [is]
  • before his tabernacle.
  • JO-22:30 And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation
  • and heads of the thousands of Israel which [were] with him, heard the words
  • that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of
  • Manasseh spake, it pleased them.
  • JO-22:31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of
  • Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day
  • we perceive that the LORD [is] among us, because ye have not committed this
  • trespass against the LORD: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of
  • the hand of the LORD.
  • JO-22:32 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes,
  • returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out of the
  • land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and
  • brought them word again.
  • JO-22:33 And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of
  • Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to
  • destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.
  • JO-22:34 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar
  • [Ed]: for it [shall be] a witness between us that the LORD [is] God.
  • JO-23:1 And it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had given rest
  • unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old [and]
  • stricken in age.
  • JO-23:2 And Joshua called for all Israel, [and] for their elders, and for
  • their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them,
  • I am old [and] stricken in age:
  • JO-23:3 And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these
  • nations because of you; for the LORD your God [is] he that hath fought for
  • you.
  • JO-23:4 Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to
  • be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I
  • have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.
  • JO-23:5 And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive
  • them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the LORD your
  • God hath promised unto you.
  • JO-23:6 Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written
  • in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom [to] the
  • right hand or [to] the left;
  • JO-23:7 That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you;
  • neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear [by them],
  • neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:
  • JO-23:8 But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day.
  • JO-23:9 For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and
  • strong: but [as for] you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this
  • day.
  • JO-23:10 One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, he [it
  • is] that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.
  • JO-23:11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your
  • God.
  • JO-23:12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of
  • these nations, [even] these that remain among you, and shall make marriages
  • with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:
  • JO-23:13 Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out
  • [any of] these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps
  • unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish
  • from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.
  • JO-23:14 And, behold, this day I [am] going the way of all the earth: and ye
  • know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed
  • of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are
  • come to pass unto you, [and] not one thing hath failed thereof.
  • JO-23:15 Therefore it shall come to pass, [that] as all good things are come
  • upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon
  • you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which
  • the LORD your God hath given you.
  • JO-23:16 When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which
  • he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to
  • them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall
  • perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.
  • JO-24:1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called
  • for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for
  • their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
  • JO-24:2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of
  • Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, [even]
  • Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other
  • gods.
  • JO-24:3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and
  • led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave
  • him Isaac.
  • JO-24:4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount
  • Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
  • JO-24:5 I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that
  • which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.
  • JO-24:6 And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea;
  • and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto
  • the Red sea.
  • JO-24:7 And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and
  • the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes
  • have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long
  • season.
  • JO-24:8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the
  • other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand,
  • that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.
  • JO-24:9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against
  • Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:
  • JO-24:10 But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still:
  • so I delivered you out of his hand.
  • JO-24:11 And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of
  • Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the
  • Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the
  • Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
  • JO-24:12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before
  • you, [even] the two kings of the Amorites; [but] not with thy sword, nor with
  • thy bow.
  • JO-24:13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities
  • which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards
  • which ye planted not do ye eat.
  • JO-24:14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in
  • truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of
  • the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
  • JO-24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day
  • whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that [were] on
  • the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye
  • dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
  • JO-24:16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake
  • the LORD, to serve other gods;
  • JO-24:17 For the LORD our God, he [it is] that brought us up and our fathers
  • out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great
  • signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among
  • all the people through whom we passed:
  • JO-24:18 And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the
  • Amorites which dwelt in the land: [therefore] will we also serve the LORD; for
  • he [is] our God.
  • JO-24:19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he
  • [is] an holy God; he [is] a jealous God; he will not forgive your
  • transgressions nor your sins.
  • JO-24:20 If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn
  • and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
  • JO-24:21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD.
  • JO-24:22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye [are] witnesses against
  • yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, [We
  • are] witnesses.
  • JO-24:23 Now therefore put away, [said he], the strange gods which [are]
  • among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.
  • JO-24:24 And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and
  • his voice will we obey.
  • JO-24:25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a
  • statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
  • JO-24:26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took
  • a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that [was] by the sanctuary
  • of the LORD.
  • JO-24:27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a
  • witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake
  • unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.
  • JO-24:28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.
  • JO-24:29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun,
  • the servant of the LORD, died, [being] an hundred and ten years old.
  • JO-24:30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in
  • Timnathserah, which [is] in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of
  • Gaash.
  • JO-24:31 And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days
  • of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the
  • LORD, that he had done for Israel.
  • JO-24:32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out
  • of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of
  • the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and
  • it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
  • JO-24:33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill
  • [that pertained to] Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.