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1:1 Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, it
 came to pass, that the LORD spoke to Joshua the son of Nun,
 Moses's minister, saying,
1:2 Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this
 Jordan, thou, and all this people, to the land which I do give
 to them, [even] to the children of Israel.
1:3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon,
 that have I given to you, as I said to Moses.
1:4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon even to the great
 river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and
 to the great sea towards the setting of the sun, shall be your
 border.
1:5 There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the
 days of thy life: as I was with Moses, [so] I will be with
 thee: I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
1:6 Be strong and of a good courage: for to this people shalt
 thou divide for an inheritance the land which I swore to their
 fathers to give them.
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.
1:8 This book of the law shall not depart out of thy mouth; but
 thou shalt meditate in it day and night, that thou mayest
 observe to do according to all [that is] written therein: for
 then thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt
 have good success.
1:9 Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage;
 be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God
 [is] with thee whithersoever thou goest.
1:10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,
1:11 Pass through the host, and command the people, saying,
 Prepare you provisions; 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.
1:12 And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the
 tribe of Manasseh, spoke Joshua, saying,
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.
1:14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle shall remain
 in the land which Moses gave you on this side of Jordan; but ye
 shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of
 valor, and help them;
1:15 Until the LORD shall 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 to the land
 of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD'S
 servant gave you on this side of Jordan towards the sun-rising.
1:16 And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest
 us, we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go.
1:17 According as we hearkened to Moses in all things, so will
 we hearken to thee: only the LORD thy God be with thee, as he
 was with Moses.
1:18 Every one that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will
 not hearken to thy words in all that thou commandest him, shall
 be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage.
2:1 And Joshua the son of Nun sent from Shittim two men to spy
 secretly, saying, Go, view the land, even Jericho. And they
 went, and came into the house of a harlot, named Rahab, and
 lodged there.
2:2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there
 came men in hither to-night of the children of Israel, to
 search out the country.
2:3 And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, Bring forth
 the men that have come to thee, who have entered into thy
 house: for they have come to search out all the country.
2:4 And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus,
 There came men to me, but I knew not whence they [were]:
2:5 And it came to pass [about the time] of shutting the gate,
 when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went,
 I know not: pursue after them quickly; for ye will overtake
 them.
2:6 But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and
 hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order
 upon the roof.
2:7 And the men pursued them the way to Jordan to the fords: and
 as soon as they who pursued them had gone out, they shut the
 gate.
2:8 And before they had lain down, she came up to them upon the
 roof;
2:9 And she said to the men, I know that the LORD hath given you
 the land, and that your terror hath fallen upon us, and that
 all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
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 to
 the two kings of the Amorites, that [were] on the other side of
 Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
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.
2:12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear to me by the LORD, since I
 have showed you kindness, that ye will also show kindness to my
 father's house, and give me a true token:
2:13 And [that] ye will save alive my father, and my mother, and
 my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and
 deliver our lives from death.
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.
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.
2:16 And she said to them, Depart to the mountain, lest the
 pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until
 the pursuers have returned: and afterward ye may go your way.
2:17 And the men said to her, We [will be] blameless of this thy
 oath which thou hast made us swear.
2:18 Behold, [when] we come into the land, thou shalt bind this
 line of scarlet thread in the window by which thou didst let us
 down: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy
 brethren, and all thy father's household home to thee.
2:19 And it shall be, [that] whoever 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 whoever shall be with
 thee in the house, his blood [shall be] on our head, if [any]
 hand be upon him.
2:20 And if thou shalt utter this our business, then we will be
 quit of thy oath which thou hast made us to swear.
2:21 And she said, According to your words, so [be] it. And she
 sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the scarlet
 line in the window.
2:22 And they went, and came to the mountain, and abode there
 three days, until the pursuers had returned: and the pursuers
 sought [them] throughout all the way, but found [them] not.
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:
2:24 And they said to 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.
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.
3:2 And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went
 through the host;
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.
3:4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two
 thousand cubits by measure: come not near to it, that ye may
 know the way by which ye must go: for ye have not passed [this]
 way heretofore.
3:5 And Joshua said to the people, Sanctify yourselves: for
 to-morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.
3:6 And Joshua spoke to the priests, saying, Take up the ark of
 the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up
 the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
3:7 And the LORD said to Joshua, This day will I begin to
 magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know
 that as I was with Moses, [so] I will be with thee.
3:8 And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the
 covenant, saying, When ye have come to the brink of the water
 of Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan.
3:9 And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come hither, and
 hear the words of the LORD your God.
3:10 And Joshua said, By this 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.
3:11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the LORD of all the
 earth passeth over before you into Jordan.
3:12 Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of
 Israel, out of every tribe a man.
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 in a heap.
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;
3:15 And as they that bore the ark had come to Jordan, and the
 feet of the priests that bore the ark were dipped in the brim
 of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all its banks all the
 time of harvest,)
3:16 That the waters which came down from above stood [and] rose
 up in a heap very far from the city Adam, that [is] beside
 Zaretan; and those that came down towards the sea of the plain,
 [even] the salt sea, failed, [and] were cut off: and the people
 passed over right against Jericho.
3:17 And the priests that bore 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
 had passed quite over Jordan.
4:1 And it came to pass, when all the people had quite passed
 over Jordan, that the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,
4:2 Take you twelve men from the people, from every tribe a man,
4:3 And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst
 of Jordan, from 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.
4:4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of
 the children of Israel, of every tribe a man:
4:5 And Joshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of the
 LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every
 man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number
 of the tribes of the children of Israel:
4:6 That this may be a sign among you, [that] when your children
 ask [their fathers] in time to come, saying, What [mean] ye by
 these stones?
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 to the children of Israel
 for ever.
4:8 And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and
 took up twelve stones from the midst of Jordan, as the the LORD
 commanded Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the
 children of Israel, and carried them over with them to the
 place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
4:9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in
 the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the
 covenant stood: and they are there to this day.
4:10 For the priests who bore the ark stood in the midst of
 Jordan, until every thing was finished that the LORD commanded
 Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses
 commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over.
4:11 And it came to pass, when all the people had quite passed
 over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests in
 the presence of the people.
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 directed them:
4:13 About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before
 the LORD to battle, to the plains of Jericho.
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.
4:15 And the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,
4:16 Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony,
 that they come up out of Jordan.
4:17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up
 out of Jordan.
4:18 And it came to pass, when the priests that bore the ark of
 the covenant of the LORD had come up out of the midst of
 Jordan, [and] the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up
 upon the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned to their
 place, and flowed over all its banks, as [they did] before.
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.
4:20 And those twelve stones which they took out of Jordan, did
 Joshua set up in Gilgal.
4:21 And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your
 children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What
 [mean] these stones?
4:22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came
 over this Jordan on dry land.
4:23 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from
 before you, until ye had passed over, as the LORD your God did
 to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we had
 gone over:
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.
5:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites who
 [were] on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the
 Canaanites who [were] by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried
 up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel,
 until we had passed over, that their heart melted; neither was
 there spirit in them any more, because of the children of
 Israel.
5:2 At that time the LORD said to Joshua, Make thee sharp
 knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second
 time.
5:3 And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the
 children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
5:4 And this [is] the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the
 people that came 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.
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 from Egypt, [them] they had not circumcised.
5:6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the
 wilderness, till all the people [that were] men of war who came
 out of Egypt were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice
 of the LORD: to whom the LORD swore that he would not show them
 the land which the LORD swore to their fathers that he would
 give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
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.
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.
5:9 And the LORD said to Joshua, This day have I rolled away the
 reproach of Egypt from off you: Wherefore the name of the place
 is called Gilgal to this day.
5:10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the
 passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the
 plains of Jericho.
5:11 And they ate of the old corn of the land on the morrow
 after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched [corn] in the
 same day.
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 ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan
 that year.
5:13 And it came to pass when Joshua was by Jericho, that he
 lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there stood a man
 over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua
 went to him, and said to him, [Art] thou for us, or for our
 adversaries?
5:14 And he said, No; but [as] captain of the host of the LORD
 am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and
 worshiped, and said to him, What saith my lord to his servant?
5:15 And the captain of the LORD'S host said to Joshua, Loose
 thy shoe from off thy foot, for the place on which thou
 standest is holy: and Joshua did so.
6:1 Now Jericho was closely shut up because of the children of
 Israel: none went out, and none came in.
6:2 And the LORD said to Joshua, See, I have given into thy hand
 Jericho, and its king, [and] the mighty men of valor.
6:3 And ye shall compass the city, all [ye] men of war, [and] go
 round the city once: thus shalt thou do six days.
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.
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 every man straight before him.
6:6 And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said to
 them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests
 bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD.
6:7 And he said to the people, Pass on, and compass the city,
 and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD.
6:8 And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken to 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.
6:9 And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the
 trumpets, and the rear-guard came after the ark, [the priests]
 going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
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 from your mouth, until the day I bid you shout,
 then shall ye shout.
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.
6:12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took
 up the ark of the LORD.
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
 rear-guard came after the ark of the LORD, [the priests] going
 on, and blowing with the trumpets.
6:14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and
 returned into the camp. So they did six days.
6:15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose
 early 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.
6:16 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests
 blew with the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, Shout; for
 the LORD hath given you the city.
6:17 And the city shall be accursed, [even] it, and all that
 [are] in it, 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.
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.
6:19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and
 iron, [are] consecrated to the LORD: they shall come into the
 treasury of the LORD.
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.
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.
6:22 But Joshua had said to the two men that spied out the
 country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the
 woman, and all that she hath, as ye swore to her.
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.
6:24 And they burnt the city with fire, and all that [was] in
 it: 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.
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] to this day; because she hid the messengers which Joshua
 sent to spy out Jericho.
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 its foundation in his first-born, and in
 his youngest [son] shall he set up the gates of it.
6:27 So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was [noised]
 throughout all the country.
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.
7:2 And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which [is] beside
 Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and spoke to them,
 saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and
 viewed Ai.
7:3 And they returned to Joshua, and said to 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 labor thither;
 for they [are but] few.
7:4 So there went up thither of the people about three thousand
 men: and they fled before the men of Ai.
7:5 And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men:
 for they chased them [from] before the gate [even] to Shebarim,
 and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the
 people melted, and became as water.
7:6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his
 face before the ark of the LORD until the evening, he and the
 elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.
7:7 And Joshua said, Alas, O LORD GOD, why hast thou at all
 brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of
 the Amorites, to destroy us? O that we had been content, and
 dwelt on the other side of Jordan.
7:8 O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel turn their backs
 before their enemies!
7:9 For the Canaanites, and all the inhabitants of the land will
 hear [of it], and will environ us, and cut off our name from
 the earth: and what wilt thou do to thy great name?
7:10 And the LORD said to Joshua, Arise; Why liest thou thus
 upon thy face?
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 goods.
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.
7:13 Rise, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves
 against to-morrow: 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 thy enemies, until ye take away the
 accursed thing from among you.
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 their families: 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.
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.
7:16 So Joshua rose early in the morning, and brought Israel by
 their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:
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:
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.
7:19 And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory
 to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession to him; and tell
 me now what thou hast done, hide [it] not from me.
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.
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.
7:22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent, and
 behold, [it was] hid in his tent, and the silver under it.
7:23 And they took them from the midst of the tent, and brought
 them to Joshua, and to all the children of Israel, and laid
 them out before the LORD.
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 to the valley of Achor.
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.
7:26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones to this
 day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger:
 wherefore the name of that place was called the valley of Achor
 to this day.
8:1 And the LORD said to Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou
 dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go
 up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and
 his people, and his city, and his land:
8:2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king, as thou didst to
 Jericho and her king: only its spoil, and its cattle, shall ye
 take for a prey to yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the city
 behind it.
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 valor,
 and sent them away by night.
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:
8:5 And I, and all the people that [are] with me, will approach
 to the city: and it shall come to pass when they come out
 against us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,
8:6 (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.
8:7 Then ye shall rise from the ambush and seize upon the city:
 for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand,
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.
8:9 Joshua therefore sent them forth; and they went to lie in
 ambush, and abode between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of
 Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.
8:10 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and numbered the
 people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the
 people to Ai.
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.
8:12 And he took about five thousand men; and set them to lie in
 ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city.
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.
8:14 And it came to pass when the king of Ai saw [it], that they
 hasted and rose 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 knew not that [there were] liers in
 ambush against him behind the city.
8:15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten
 before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.
8:16 And all the people that [were] in Ai were called together
 to pursue them: and they pursued Joshua, and were drawn away
 from the city.
8:17 And there was not a man left in Ai, or Beth-el that went
 not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued
 Israel.
8:18 And the LORD said to Joshua, Stretch out the spear that
 [is] in thy hand towards Ai; for I will give it into thy hand.
 And Joshua stretched out the spear that [he had] in his hand
 towards the city.
8:19 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they
 ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered
 into the city, and took it, and hasted, and set the city on
 fire.
8:20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and
 behold, the smoke of the city ascended to heaven, and they had
 no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that fled
 to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.
8:21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had
 taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then
 they turned again and slew the men of Ai.
8:22 And the 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.
8:23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to
 Joshua.
8:24 And it came to pass when Israel had made an end of slaying
 all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in
 which they chased them, and when they had all fallen on the
 edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the
 Israelites returned to Ai, and smote it with the edge of the
 sword.
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.
8:26 For Joshua drew not his hand back with which he stretched
 out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the
 inhabitants of Ai.
8:27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for
 a prey to themselves, according to the word of the LORD which
 he commanded Joshua.
8:28 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap for ever, [even] a
 desolation to this day.
8:29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until evening: and
 as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should
 take his carcass down from the tree, and cast it at the
 entering of the gate of the city, and raise upon it a great
 heap of stones, [that remaineth] to this day.
8:30 Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD God of Israel in
 mount Ebal,
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 lifted up [any]
 iron: and they offered upon it burnt-offerings to the LORD, and
 sacrificed peace-offerings.
8:32 And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of
 Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of
 Israel.
8:33 And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their
 judges, stood on this side of the ark, and on that side, before
 the priests the Levites, who bore 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.
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.
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.
9:1 And it came to pass, when all the kings who [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 [these things],
9:2 That they assembled themselves, to fight with Joshua and
 with Israel, with one accord.
9:3 And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had
 done to Jericho and to Ai,
9:4 They did work craftily, and went and made as if they had
 been embassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and
 wine-bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;
9:5 And old shoes and patched upon their feet, and old garments
 upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry [and]
 moldy.
9:6 And they went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to
 him, and to the men of Israel, We have come from a far country:
 now therefore make ye a league with us.
9:7 And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, It may be ye
 dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?
9:8 And they said to Joshua, we [are] thy servants. And Joshua
 said to them, Who [are] ye? and whence come ye?
9:9 And they said to him, From a very far country thy servants
 have 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,
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, who [was] at Ashtaroth.
9:11 Wherefore our elders, and all the inhabitants of our
 country spoke to us, saying, Take provisions with you for the
 journey, and go to meet them, and say to them, We [are] your
 servants: therefore now make ye a league with us:
9:12 This our bread we took hot [for] our provision out of our
 houses on the day we came forth to go to you; but now, behold,
 it is dry, and it is moldy:
9:13 And these bottles of wine which we filled, [were] new, and
 behold, they are rent: and these our garments and our shoes are
 become old by reason of the very long journey.
9:14 And the men took of their provisions, and asked not
 [counsel] at the mouth of the LORD.
9:15 And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with
 them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation
 swore to them.
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
 neighbors, and [that] they dwelt among them.
9:17 And the children of Israel journeyed, and came to their
 cities on the third day. Now their cities [were] Gibeon, and
 Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim.
9:18 And the children of Israel smote them not, because the
 princes of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD God
 of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the
 princes.
9:19 But all the princes said to all the congregation, We have
 sworn to them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may
 not touch them.
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 swore to them.
9:21 And the princes said to them, Let them live; but let them
 be hewers of wood, and drawers of water to all the
 congregation; as the princes had promised them.
9:22 And Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying,
 Why have ye deceived us, saying, We [are] very far from you;
 when ye dwell among us?
9:23 Now therefore ye [are] cursed, and there shall none of you
 be freed from being bond-men, and hewers of wood and drawers of
 water for the house of my God.
9:24 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was
 certainly told thy servants, how 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
 greatly afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this
 thing.
9:25 And now, behold, we [are] in thy hand: do as it seemeth
 good and right to thee to do to us,
9:26 And so did he to them, and delivered them out of the hand
 of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.
9:27 And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of
 water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even
 to this day, in the place which he should choose.
10:1 Now it came to pass, when Adoni-zedec 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;
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 of it [were] mighty.
10:3 Wherefore Adoni-zedec king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king
 of Hebron, and to Piram king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia king of
 Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,
10:4 Come up to me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for
 it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.
10:5 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of
 Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of
 Lachish, the king of Eglon, assembled themselves, and went up,
 they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made
 war against it.
10:6 And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp at 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 assembled against us.
10:7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of
 war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.
10:8 And the LORD said to Joshua, Fear them not: for I have
 delivered them into thy hand; there shall not a man of them
 stand before thee.
10:9 Joshua therefore came to them suddenly, [and] went up from
 Gilgal all night.
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 Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and to
 Makkedah.
10:11 And it came to pass as they fled from before Israel, [and]
 were in the descent to Beth-horon, that the LORD cast down
 great stones from heaven upon them to Azekah, and they died:
 [they were] more who died with hailstones than [they] whom the
 children of Israel slew with the sword.
10:12 Then spoke 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.
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.
10:14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that
 the LORD hearkened to the voice of a man: for the LORD fought
 for Israel.
10:15 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp
 at Gilgal.
10:16 But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at
 Makkedah.
10:17 And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found
 hid in a cave at Makkedah.
10:18 And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the
 cave, and set men by it to keep them:
10:19 And stay you not, [but] pursue 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.
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 [who]
 remained of them entered into fortified cities.
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.
10:22 Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring
 those five kings to me out of the cave.
10:23 And they did so, and brought those five kings to 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.
10:24 And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings to
 Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said
 to the captains of the men of war who went with him, Come near,
 put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came
 near, and put their feet upon the necks of them.
10:25 And Joshua said to 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.
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.
10:27 And it came to pass at the time of the setting of the sun,
 [that] Joshua commanded, and they took them down from the
 trees, and cast them into the cave in which they had been hid,
 and laid great stones upon the cave's mouth, [which remain]
 until this very day.
10:28 And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the
 edge of the sword, and the king of it he utterly destroyed,
 them, and all the souls that [were] in it; he let none remain:
 and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did to the king of
 Jericho.
10:29 Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him,
 to Libnah, and fought against Libnah:
10:30 And the LORD delivered it also, and its king, into the
 hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and
 all the souls that [were] in it; he let none remain in it; but
 did to the king of it as he did to the king of Jericho.
10:31 And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to
 Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:
10:32 And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel,
 who took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of
 the sword, and all the souls that [were] in it, according to
 all that he had done to Libnah.
10:33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and
 Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none
 remaining.
10:34 And from Lachish Joshua passed to Eglon, and all Israel
 with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it:
10:35 And they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge
 of the sword, and all the souls that [were] in it he utterly
 destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to
 Lachish.
10:36 And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to
 Hebron; and they fought against it:
10:37 And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword,
 and its king, and all its cities, and all the souls that [were]
 in them; he left none remaining (according to all that he had
 done to Eglon) but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that
 [were] in it.
10:38 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir;
 and fought against it:
10:39 And he took it, and its king, and all its cities, and they
 smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed
 all the souls that [were] in them; he left none remaining: as
 he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to its king; as
 he had done also to Libnah, and to its king.
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.
10:41 And Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even to Gaza, and
 all the country of Goshen, even to Gibeon.
10:42 And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one
 time; because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.
10:43 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp
 in Gilgal.
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 Achshaph,
11:2 And to the kings that [were] on the north of the mountains,
 and of the plains south of Cinneroth, and in the valley, and in
 the borders of Dor on the west,
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.
11:4 And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, many
 people, even as the sand that [is] upon the sea-shore in
 multitude, with horses and chariots very numerous.
11:5 And when all these kings were met together, they came and
 encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight against
 Israel.
11:6 And the LORD said to Joshua, Be not afraid because of them:
 for to-morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain
 before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their
 chariots with fire.
11:7 So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against
 them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and they fell upon them.
11:8 And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who
 smote them, and chased them to great Zidon, and to
 Misrephoth-maim, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they
 smote them, until they left to them none remaining.
11:9 And Joshua did to them as the LORD bade him: he houghed
 their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
11:10 And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and
 smote its king with the sword: for Hazor before-time was the
 head of all those kingdoms.
11:11 And they smote all the souls that [were] in it with the
 edge of the sword, utterly destroying [them]: there was not any
 left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.
11:12 And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of
 them, Joshua took, and smote them with the edge of the sword,
 [and] he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the
 LORD commanded.
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.
11:14 And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the
 children of Israel took for a prey to themselves: but every man
 they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed
 them, neither left they any to breathe.
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.
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;
11:17 [Even] from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even
 to Baal-gad, in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and
 all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.
11:18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.
11:19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of
 Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all [other]
 they took in battle.
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 favor, but that he
 might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.
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.
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.
11:23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the
 LORD said to Moses, and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to
 Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the
 land rested from war.
12:1 Now these [are] the kings of the land, whom the children of
 Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side of
 Jordan towards the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon, to
 mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east:
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 to
 the river Jabbok, [which is] the border of the children of
 Ammon;
12:3 And from the plain to the sea of Cinneroth on the east, and
 to the sea of the plain, [even] the salt sea on the east, the
 way to Beth-jeshimoth; and from the south, under
 Ashdoth-pisgah:
12:4 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, [who was] of the
 remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
12:5 And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all
 Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites, and the Maachathites,
 and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
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 to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the
 half-tribe of Manasseh.
12:7 And these [are] the kings of the country whom Joshua and
 the children of Israel smote on this side of Jordan on the
 west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon, even to the mount
 Halak that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave to the tribes of
 Israel [for] a possession according to their divisions;
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:
12:9 The king of Jericho one; the king of Ai, which [is] beside
 Beth-el, one;
12:10 The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;
12:11 The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;
12:12 The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
12:13 The king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;
12:14 The king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;
12:15 The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;
12:16 The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Beth-el, one;
12:17 The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;
12:18 The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;
12:19 The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;
12:20 The king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;
12:21 The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;
12:22 The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel,
 one;
12:23 The king of Dor in the border of Dor, one; the king of the
 nations of Gilgal, one;
12:24 The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.
13:1 Now Joshua was old [and] advanced in years; and the LORD
 said to him Thou art old [and] advanced in years, and there
 remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.
13:2 This [is] the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of
 the Philistines, and all Geshuri,
13:3 From Sihor, which [is] before Egypt, even to 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:
13:4 From the south all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah
 that [is] beside the Sidonians, to Aphek to the borders of the
 Amorites:
13:5 And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon towards the
 sun-rising, from Baal-gad under mount Hermon to the entering
 into Hamath.
13:6 And the inhabitants of the hill-country from Lebanon to
 Misrephoth-maim, [and] all the Sidonians, them will I drive out
 from before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot
 to the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.
13:7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the
 nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
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.
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 to Dibon;
13:10 And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who
 reigned in Heshbon, to the border of the children of Ammon;
13:11 And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and
 Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salcah;
13:12 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth
 and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants. For
 these did Moses smite, and cast them out.
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.
13:14 Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance; the
 sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire [are] their
 inheritance, as he said to them.
13:15 And Moses gave to the tribe of the children of Reuben
 [inheritance] according to their families.
13:16 And their border 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;
13:17 Heshbon, and all her cities that [are] in the plain;
 Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon,
13:18 And Jahaza, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
13:19 And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zareth-shahar in the mount
 of the valley,
13:20 And Beth-peor, and Ashdoth-pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth,
13:21 And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of
 Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses
 smote with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and
 Hur, and Reba, dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country.
13:22 Balaam also the son of Beor, the sooth-sayer, did the
 children of Israel slay with the sword, among them that were
 slain by them.
13:23 And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and
 its border. This [was] the inheritance of the children of
 Reuben after their families, the cities and their villages.
13:24 And Moses gave [inheritance] to the tribe of Gad, [even]
 to the children of Gad according to their families.
13:25 And their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead,
 and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer that [is]
 before Rabbah;
13:26 And from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from
 Mahanaim to the border of Debir;
13:27 And in the valley, Beth-aram, and Beth-nimrah, and
 Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of
 Heshbon, Jordan and [its] border, [even] to the edge of the sea
 of Cinneroth, on the other side of Jordan eastward.
13:28 This [is] the inheritance of the children of Gad after
 their families, the cities, and their villages.
13:29 And Moses gave [inheritance] to the half-tribe of
 Manasseh: and [this] was [the possession] of the half-tribe of
 the children of Manasseh by their families.
13:30 And their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the
 kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which
 [are] in Bashan, sixty cities:
13:31 And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the
 kingdom of Og in Bashan, [were pertaining] to the children of
 Machir the son of Manasseh, [even] to the one half of the
 children of Machir by their families.
13:32 These [are the countries] which Moses distributed for
 inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side of Jordan
 by Jericho eastward.
13:33 But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave not [any] inheritance:
 the LORD God of Israel [was] their inheritance, as he said to
 them.
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.
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.
14:3 For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and a
 half-tribe on the other side of Jordan: but to the Levites he
 gave no inheritance among them.
14:4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and
 Ephraim: therefore they gave no part to the Levites in the
 land, save cities to dwell [in], with their suburbs for their
 cattle, and for their substance.
14:5 As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did,
 and they divided the land.
14:6 Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal: and
 Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said to him, Thou
 knowest the thing that the LORD said to Moses the man of God
 concerning me and thee in Kadesh-barnea.
14:7 Forty years old [was] I when Moses the servant of the LORD
 sent me from Kadesh-barnea to explore the land; and I brought
 him word again as it [was] in my heart.
14:8 Nevertheless, my brethren that went up with me made the
 heart of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my
 God.
14:9 And Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land on
 which thy feet have trodden shall be thy inheritance, and thy
 children's for ever; because thou hast wholly followed the LORD
 my God.
14:10 And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said,
 these forty and five years, even since the LORD spoke this word
 to Moses, while [the children of] Israel wandered in the
 wilderness: and now, lo, I [am] this day eighty five years old.
14:11 As yet I [am as] strong this day, as [I was] in the day
 that Moses sent me: as my strength [was] then, even so [is] my
 strength now, for war, both to go out, and to come in.
14:12 Now therefore give me this mountain, of which the LORD
 spoke in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the
 Anakims [were] there, and [that] the cities [were] great [and]
 fortified: if the LORD [will be] with me, then I shall be able
 to drive them out, as the LORD said.
14:13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave to Caleb the son of
 Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.
14:14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son
 of Jephunneh the Kenezite to this day; because that he wholly
 followed the LORD God of Israel.
14:15 And the name of Hebron before [was] Kirjath-arba; [which
 Arba was] a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest
 from war.
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 border.
15:2 And their south border was from the shore of the salt-sea,
 from the bay that looketh southward:
15:3 And it went out to the south side to Maaleh-acrabbim, and
 passed along to Zin, and ascended on the south side to
 Kadesh-barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar,
 and fetched a compass to Karkaa:
15:4 [From thence] it passed towards Azmon, and went out to the
 river of Egypt; and the limits of that border were at the sea:
 this shall be your south limit.
15:5 And the east border [was] the salt-sea, [even] to the end
 of Jordan: and [their] border in the north quarter [was] from
 the bay of the sea, at the uttermost part of Jordan:
15:6 And the border went up to Beth-hogla, and passed along by
 the north of Beth-arabah; and the border went up to the stone
 of Bohan the son of Reuben:
15:7 And the border went up towards Debir from the valley of
 Achor, and so northward looking towards Gilgal, that [is]
 before the going up to Adummim, which [is] on the south side of
 the river: and the border passed towards the waters of
 En-shemesh, and the borders of it were at En-rogel:
15:8 And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom,
 to 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:
15:9 And the border was drawn from the top of the hill to 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]
 Kirjath-jearim:
15:10 And the border compassed from Baalah westward to mount
 Seir, and passed along to the side of mount Jearim (which [is]
 Chesalon) on the north side, and went down to Beth-shemesh, and
 passed on to Timnah:
15:11 And the border went out to the side of Ekron northward:
 and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount
 Baalah, and went out to Jabneel; and the terminations of the
 border were at the sea.
15:12 And the west border [was] to the great sea, and its coast:
 this [is] the border of the children of Judah round about,
 according to their families.
15:13 And to 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.
15:14 And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai,
 and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
15:15 And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the
 name of Debir before [was] Kirjath-sepher.
15:16 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher, and taketh
 it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter for a wife.
15:17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took
 it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter for a wife.
15:18 And it came to pass, as she came [to him], that she moved
 him to ask of her father a field. And she lighted off [her]
 ass; and Caleb said to her, What wouldst thou?
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.
15:20 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
 Judah according to their families.
15:21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of
 Judah towards the border of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and
 Eder, and Jagur,
15:22 And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,
15:23 And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,
15:24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,
15:25 And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, [and] Hezron, which [is]
 Hazor,
15:26 Aman, and Shema, and Moladah,
15:27 And Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth-palet,
15:28 And Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Bizjothjah,
15:29 Baalah, and Iim, and Azem,
15:30 And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,
15:31 And Ziglag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,
15:32 And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the
 cities [are] twenty and nine, with their villages:
15:33 [And] in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
15:34 And Zanoah, and En-gannim, Tappuah, and Enam,
15:35 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,
15:36 And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim;
 fourteen cities with their villages:
15:37 Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdalgad,
15:38 And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,
15:39 Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,
15:40 And Cabbon, and Lahman, and Kithlish,
15:41 And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah;
 sixteen cities with their villages:
15:42 Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,
15:43 And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,
15:44 And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with
 their villages:
15:45 Ekron, with her towns and her villages:
15:46 From Ekron even to the sea, all that [lay] near Ashdod,
 with their villages:
15:47 Ashdod, with her towns and her villages; Gaza, with her
 towns and her villages, to the river of Egypt, and the great
 sea, and its border:
15:48 And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
15:49 And Dannah, and Kirjath-sannah, which [is] Debir,
15:50 And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,
15:51 And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh: eleven cities with their
 villages:
15:52 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean,
15:53 And Janum, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah,
15:54 And Humtah, and Kirjath-arba (which [is] Hebron) and Zior;
 nine cities with their villages:
15:55 Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,
15:56 And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,
15:57 Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages:
15:58 Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor,
15:59 And Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six cities with
 their villages:
15:60 Kirjath-baal (which [is] Kirjath-jearim) and Rabbah; two
 cities with their villages:
15:61 In the wilderness, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah,
15:62 And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and En-gedi; six cities
 with their villages.
15:63 As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the
 children of Judah could not expel them: but the Jebusites dwell
 with the children of Judah at Jerusalem to this day.
16:1 And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by
 Jericho, to the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness
 that goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Beth-el,
16:2 And goeth out from Beth-el to Luz, and passeth along to the
 borders of Archi to Ataroth,
16:3 And goeth down westward to the border of Japhleti, to the
 border of Beth-horon the nether, and to Gezer: and the limits
 of it are at the sea.
16:4 So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their
 inheritance.
16:5 And the border of the children of Ephraim according to
 their families was [thus]: even the border of their inheritance
 on the east side was Ataroth-adar, to Beth-horon the upper:
16:6 And the border went out towards the sea to Michmethah on
 the north side; and the border went about eastward to
 Taanath-shiloh, and passed by it on the east to Janohah;
16:7 And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath,
 and came to Jericho, and terminated at Jordan.
16:8 The border went out from Tappuah westward to the river
 Kanah; and the limits of it were at the sea. This [is] the
 inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their
 families.
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.
16:10 And they did not expel the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer:
 but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, and
 serve under tribute.
17:1 There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he
 [was] the first-born of Joseph; [to wit], for Machir the
 first-born of Manasseh, the father of Gilead: because he was a
 man of war, therefore he had Gilead and Bashan.
17:2 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.
17:3 But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the
 son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters:
 and these [are] the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah,
 Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
17:4 And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before
 Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, 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.
17:5 And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, besides the land
 of Gilead and Bashan, which [were] on the other side of Jordan;
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.
17:7 And the border of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah,
 that [lieth] before Shechem; and the border went along on the
 right hand to the inhabitants of En-tappuah.
17:8 [Now] Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the
 border of Manasseh [belonged] to the children of Ephraim;
17:9 And the border descended to the river Kanah, southward of
 the river. These cities of Ephraim [are] among the cities of
 Manasseh: the border of Manasseh also [was] on the north side
 of the river, and the limits of it were at the sea:
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.
17:11 And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth-shean and
 its towns, and Ibleam and its towns, and the inhabitants of Dor
 and its towns, and the inhabitants of En-dor and its towns, and
 the inhabitants of Tanach and its towns, and the inhabitants of
 Megiddo and its towns, [even] three countries.
17:12 Yet the children of Manasseh could not expel [the
 inhabitants of] those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in
 that land.
17:13 Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel had
 become strong, that they subjected the Canaanites to tribute;
 but did not utterly expel them.
17:14 And the children of Joseph spoke to 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
 hitherto blessed me?
17:15 And Joshua answered them, If thou [art] a great people,
 [then] go up to the wood, and cut down for thyself there in the
 land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim is
 too narrow for thee.
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
 Beth-shean and its towns, and [they] who [are] of the valley of
 Jezreel.
17:17 And Joshua spoke to the house of Joseph, [even] to Ephraim
 and to Manasseh, saying, Thou [art] a great people, and hast
 great power: thou shalt not have one lot [only]:
17:18 But the mountain shall be thine; for it [is] a wood, and
 thou shalt cut it down: and the limits of it shall be thine:
 for thou shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron
 chariots, [and] though they [are] strong.
18:1 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel
 assembled at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the
 congregation there: and the land was subdued before them.
18:2 And there remained among the children of Israel seven
 tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.
18:3 And Joshua said to 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?
18:4 Select 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.
18:5 And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall
 abide in their border on the south, and the house of Joseph
 shall abide in their borders on the north.
18:6 Ye shall therefore describe the land [in] seven parts, and
 bring [the description] hither to me, that I may cast lots for
 you here before the LORD our God.
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.
18:8 And the men arose, and departed: 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.
18:9 And the men went and passed through the land, and described
 it by cities in seven parts in a book, and came [again], to
 Joshua to the host at Shiloh.
18:10 And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD:
 and there Joshua divided the land to the children of Israel
 according to their divisions.
18:11 And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came
 up according to their families: and the border of their lot
 came forth between the children of Judah and the children of
 Joseph.
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 limits of
 it were at the wilderness of Beth-aven.
18:13 And the border went over from thence towards Luz, to the
 side of Luz (which [is] Beth-el) southward; and the border
 descended to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that [lieth] on the
 south side of the nether Beth-horon.
18:14 And the border was drawn [thence], and compassed the
 corner of the sea southward, from the hill that [lieth] before
 Beth-horon southward; and the limits of it were at Kirjath-baal
 (which [is] Kirjath-jearim) a city of the children of Judah.
 This [was] the west quarter.
18:15 And the south quarter [was] from the end of Kirjah-jearim,
 and the border went out on the west, and went out to the well
 of waters of Nephtoah:
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 En-rogel,
18:17 And was drawn from the north, and went forth to
 En-shemesh, and went forth towards Geliloth, which [is] over
 against the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of
 Bohan the son of Reuben,
18:18 And passed along towards the side over against Arabah
 northward, and went down to Arabah:
18:19 And the border passed along to the side of Beth-hoglah
 northward: and the limits of the border were at the north bay
 of the salt sea at the south end of Jordan. This [was] the
 south border.
18:20 And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This
 [was] the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the
 limits of it round about, according to their families.
18:21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin,
 according to their families, were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, and
 the valley of Keziz,
18:22 And Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el,
18:23 And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
18:24 And Chephar-haamonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities
 with their villages:
18:25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,
18:26 And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,
18:27 And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,
18:28 And Zelah, Eleph, and 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.
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.
19:2 And they had in their inheritance, Beer-sheba, and Sheba,
 and Moladah.
19:3 And Hazar-shual, and Balah, and Azem,
19:4 And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,
19:5 And Ziklag, and Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susah,
19:6 And Beth-lebaoth, and Sheruhen; thirteen cities and their
 villages:
19:7 Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their
 villages:
19:8 And all the villages that [were] around these cities to
 Baalath-beer, Ramath of the south. This [is] the inheritance of
 the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their
 families.
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.
19:10 And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun
 according to their families: and the border of their
 inheritance was to Sarid:
19:11 And their border went up towards the sea, and Maralah, and
 reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that [is]
 before Jokneam,
19:12 And turned from Sarid eastward, towards the sun-rising, to
 the border of Chisloth-tabor, and then goeth out to Daberath,
 and goeth up to Japhia,
19:13 And from thence passeth along on the east to
 Gittah-hepher, to Ittah-kazin, and goeth out to Remmon-methoar
 to Neah;
19:14 And the border compasseth it on the north side to
 Hannathon: and the limits of it are in the valley of
 Jiphthah-el:
19:15 And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and
 Beth-lehem; twelve cities with their villages.
19:16 This [is] the inheritance of the children of Zebulun
 according to their families, these cities with their villages.
19:17 [And] the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the
 children of Issachar according to their families.
19:18 And their border was towards Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and
 Shunem,
19:19 And Hapharaim, and Shihon, and Anaharath,
19:20 And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez,
19:21 And Remeth, and En-gannim, and En-haddah, and Beth-pazzez;
19:22 And the border reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and
 Beth-shemesh, and the limits of their border were at Jordan:
 sixteen cities with their villages.
19:23 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
 Issachar according to their families, the cities and their
 villages.
19:24 And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children
 of Asher according to their families.
19:25 And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and
 Achshaph,
19:26 And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to
 Carmel westward, and to Shihor-libnath;
19:27 And turneth towards the sun-rising to Beth-dagon, and
 reacheth to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthah-el towards
 the north side of Beth-emek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul
 on the left hand,
19:28 And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, [even] to
 great Zidon;
19:29 And [then] the border turneth to Ramah, and to the strong
 city Tyre; and the border turneth to Hosah: and the limits of
 it are at the sea from the coast to Achzib:
19:30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities
 with their villages.
19:31 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
 Asher according to their families, these cities with their
 villages.
19:32 The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, [even]
 for the children of Naphtali according to their families.
19:33 And their border was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim,
 and Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, to Lakum; and the limits thereof
 were at Jordan:
19:34 And [then] the border turneth westward to Aznoth-tabor,
 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 towards the sun-rising.
19:35 And the fortified cities [are] Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath,
 Rakkath, and Chinnereth,
19:36 And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,
19:37 And Kedesh, and Edrei, and En-hazor,
19:38 And Iron, and Migdal-el, Horem, and Beth-anath, and
 Beth-shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.
19:39 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
 Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their
 villages.
19:40 [And] the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the
 children of Dan according to their families.
19:41 And the border of their inheritance was Zorah, and
 Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh,
19:42 And Shaalabbim, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,
19:43 And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron,
19:44 And Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath,
19:45 And Jehud, and Bene-berak, and Gath-rimmon,
19:46 And Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Japho.
19:47 And the border 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 in it, and called
 Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.
19:48 This [is] the inheritance of the tribe of the children of
 Dan according to their families, these cities with their
 villages.
19:49 When they had made an end of dividing the land for
 inheritance by their borders, the children of Israel gave an
 inheritance to Joshua the son of Nun among them:
19:50 According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city
 which he asked, [even] Timnath-serah in mount Ephraim: and he
 built the city, and dwelt in it.
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.
20:1 The LORD also spoke to Joshua, saying,
20:2 Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint for you
 cities of refuge, of which I spoke to you by the hand of Moses:
20:3 That the slayer that killeth [any] person unawares [and]
 ignorantly, may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge
 from the avenger of blood.
20:4 And when he that doth flee to 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 to them, and give him a place,
 that he may dwell among them.
20:5 And if the avenger of blood shall pursue him, then they
 shall not deliver the slayer into his hand; because he smote
 his neighbor ignorantly, and had not hated him before.
20:6 And he shall dwell in that city, until he shall 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 to his own city, and to his own house,
 to the city from whence he fled.
20:7 And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and
 Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath-arba, (which [is] Hebron)
 in the mountain of Judah.
20:8 And on the other side of 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.
20:9 These were the cities appointed for all the children of
 Israel, and for the stranger sojourning among them, that
 whoever should kill [any] person unawares might flee thither,
 and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood
 before the congregation.
21:1 Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites to
 Eleazar the priest, and to Joshua the son of Nun, and to the
 heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel;
21:2 And they spoke to 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 their suburbs for our cattle.
21:3 And the children of Israel gave to the Levites out of their
 inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and
 their suburbs.
21:4 And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites:
 and the children of Aaron the priest, [who were] of the
 Levites, had by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the
 tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen
 cities.
21:5 And the rest of the children of Kohath [had] by lot out of
 the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of
 Dan, and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
21:6 And the children of Gershon [had] by lot out of the
 families of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of
 Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the
 half-tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.
21:7 The children of Merari 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.
21:8 And the children of Israel gave by lot to the Levites these
 cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of
 Moses.
21:9 And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah,
 and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities
 which are [here] mentioned by name,
21:10 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.
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
 its suburbs round it.
21:12 But the fields of the city, and its villages, they gave to
 Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
21:13 Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest, Hebron
 with its suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and
 Libnah with its suburbs,
21:14 And Jattir with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its
 suburbs,
21:15 And Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs,
21:16 And Ain with its suburbs, and Juttah with its suburbs,
 [and] Beth-shemesh with its suburbs; nine cities out of those
 two tribes.
21:17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs,
 Geba with its suburbs,
21:18 Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its suburbs;
 four cities.
21:19 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests,
 [were] thirteen cities with their suburbs.
21:20 And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites
 who remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the
 cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
21:21 For they gave them Shechem with its suburbs in mount
 Ephraim, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer
 with its suburbs,
21:22 And Kibzaim with its suburbs, and Beth-horon with its
 suburbs; four cities.
21:23 And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with its suburbs,
 Gibbethon with its suburbs,
21:24 Ajalon with its suburbs, Gath-rimmon with its suburbs;
 four cities.
21:25 And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with its
 suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with its suburbs; two cities.
21:26 All the cities [were] ten with their suburbs, for the
 families of the children of Kohath that remained.
21:27 And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the
 Levites, out of the [other] half-tribe of Manasseh [they gave]
 Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for
 the slayer, and Beesh-terah with its suburbs; two cities.
21:28 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with its suburbs,
 Dabareh with its suburbs,
21:29 Jarmuth with its suburbs, En-gannim with its suburbs; four
 cities.
21:30 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with its suburbs,
 Abdon with its suburbs,
21:31 Helkath with its suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs; four
 cities.
21:32 And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with
 its suburbs, [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and
 Hammoth-dor with its suburbs, and Kartan with its suburbs;
 three cities.
21:33 All the cities of the Gershonites, according to their
 families, [were] thirteen cities with their suburbs.
21:34 And to the families of the children of Merari, the rest of
 the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its
 suburbs, and Kartah with its suburbs,
21:35 Dimnah with its suburbs, Nahalal with its suburbs; four
 cities.
21:36 And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its suburbs,
 and Jahazah with its suburbs,
21:37 Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs;
 four cities.
21:38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its
 suburbs [to be] a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim
 with its suburbs,
21:39 Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; four
 cities in all.
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.
21:41 All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the
 children of Israel [were] forty and eight cities with their
 suburbs.
21:42 These cities were every one with their suburbs around
 them. Thus [were] all these cities.
21:43 And the LORD gave to Israel all the land which he swore to
 give to their fathers: and they possessed it, and dwelt in it.
21:44 And the LORD gave them rest on all sides, according to all
 that he swore to their fathers: and there stood not a man of
 all their enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their
 enemies into their hand.
21:45 There failed not aught of any good thing which the LORD
 had spoken to the house of Israel; all came to pass.
22:1 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the
 half-tribe of Manasseh,
22:2 And said to 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:
22:3 Ye have not left your brethren these many days to this day,
 but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your
 God.
22:4 And now the LORD your God hath given rest to your brethren,
 as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and go to your
 tents, [and] to the land of your possession, which Moses the
 servant of the LORD gave you on the other side of Jordan.
22:5 But take diligent heed to perform 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 to him, and to serve him with all
 your heart, and with all your soul.
22:6 So Joshua blessed them and sent them away; and they went to
 their tents.
22:7 Now to the [one] half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had
 given [possession] in Bashan: but to the [other] half of it
 gave Joshua among their brethren on this side of Jordan
 westward. And when Joshua sent them away also to their tents,
 then he blessed them,
22:8 And he spoke to them, saying, Return with much riches to
 your tents, and with very many cattle, with silver, and with
 gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much
 raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.
22:9 And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and
 the half-tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the
 children of Israel out of Shiloh, which [is] in the land of
 Canaan, to go to the country of Gilead, to the land of their
 possession, of which they were possessed, according to the word
 of the LORD by the hand of Moses.
22:10 And when they came to 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 the sight.
22:11 And the children of Israel heard it said, 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.
22:12 And when the children of Israel heard [of it], the whole
 congregation of the children of Israel assembled at Shiloh, to
 go up to war against them.
22:13 And the children of Israel sent to the children of Reuben,
 and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh
 into the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the
 priest,
22:14 And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince
 throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one [was] a head
 of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.
22:15 And they came to the children of Reuben, and to the
 children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land
 of Gilead, and they spoke with them, saying,
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 built you an altar, that ye might rebel this day
 against the LORD?
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,
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.
22:19 Not withstanding, if the land of your possession [is]
 unclean, [then] pass ye over to the land of the possession of
 the LORD, in which 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 besides the altar of the
 LORD our God.
22:20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the
 accursed thing, and wrath fall on all the congregation of
 Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.
22:21 Then the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and
 the half-tribe of Manasseh answered, and said to the heads of
 the thousands of Israel,
22:22 The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth,
 and Israel he shall know; if [it is] in rebellion, or if in
 transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day,)
22:23 That we have built us an altar to turn from following the
 LORD, or if to offer on it burnt-offering, or meat-offering, or
 if to offer peace-offerings on it, let the LORD himself require
 [it];
22:24 And if we have not [rather] done it for fear of [this]
 thing, saying, In time to come your children may speak to our
 children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of
 Israel?
22:25 For the LORD hath made Jordan a boundary 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.
22:26 Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an
 altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice:
22:27 But [that] it [may be] a witness between us, and you, and
 our generations after us, that we may 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.
22:28 Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they shall [so]
 say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may
 say, 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.
22:29 Far be it from us 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,
 besides the altar of the LORD our God that [is] before his
 tabernacle.
22:30 And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the
 congregation, and heads of the thousands of Israel who [were]
 with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben, and the
 children of Gad, and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased
 them.
22:31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to 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.
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, from the land of Gilead, to the land of
 Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again.
22:33 And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the
 children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up
 against them in battle, to destroy the land in which the
 children of Reuben and Gad dwelt.
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.
23:1 And it came to pass, a long time after that the LORD had
 given rest to Israel from all their enemies on all sides, that
 Joshua became old [and] advanced in age.
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 to them, I am old [and] advanced in age:
23:3 And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done to
 all these nations because of you; for the LORD your God [is] he
 that hath fought for you.
23:4 Behold, I have divided to 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 to the great sea
 westward.
23:5 And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you,
 and drive them from your sight; and ye shall possess their
 land, as the LORD your God hath promised to you.
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 from it [to] the right hand or [to] the left;
23:7 That ye come not among these nations, these that remain
 among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor
 cause to swear [by them], neither serve them, nor bow
 yourselves to them:
23:8 But cleave to the LORD your God, as ye have done to this
 day.
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 to this day.
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.
23:11 Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that ye love the
 LORD your God.
23:12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave to the
 remnant of these nations, [even] these that remain among you,
 and shall make marriages with them, and associate with them,
 and they with you:
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 to 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.
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 spoke concerning you: all are come to pass to
 you, [and] not one thing hath failed of it.
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 hath
 destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God
 hath given you.
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 to you.
24:1 And Joshua convened all the tribes of Israel to Shechem,
 and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and
 for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented
 themselves before God.
24:2 And Joshua said to 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 Nahor: and they served other gods.
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.
24:4 And I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau
 mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down
 into Egypt.
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.
24:6 And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came to the
 sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots
 and horsemen to the Red sea.
24:7 And when they cried to 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.
24:8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, who dwelt
 on the other side of 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.
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:
24:10 But I would not hearken to Balaam; therefore he blessed
 you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.
24:11 And ye went over Jordan, and came to 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.
24:12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out
 from before you, [even] the two kings of the Amorites; [but]
 not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.
24:13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not labor,
 and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the
 vineyards and olive-yards which ye planted not do ye eat.
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.
24:15 And if it seemeth evil to 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.
24:16 And the people answered, and said, Be it far from us that
 we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
24:17 For the LORD our God, he [it is] that brought us, and our
 fathers, out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage,
 and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in
 all the way in which we went, and among all the people through
 whom we passed:
24:18 And the LORD drove out from before us all the people, even
 the Amorites who dwelt in the land: [therefore] will we also
 serve the LORD; for he [is] our God.
24:19 And Joshua said to the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD:
 for he [is] a holy God; he [is] a jealous God; he will not
 forgive your transgressions, nor your sins.
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.
24:21 And the people said to Joshua, No; but we will serve the
 LORD.
24:22 And Joshua said to the people, Ye [are] witnesses against
 yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And
 they said, [We are] witnesses.
24:23 Now therefore put away ([said he]) the strange gods which
 [are] among you, and incline your heart to the LORD God of
 Israel.
24:24 And the people said to Joshua, The LORD our God will we
 serve, and his voice will we obey.
24:25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and
 set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
24:26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of
 God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak
 that [was] by the sanctuary of the LORD.
24:27 And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone
 shall be a witness to us; for it hath heard all the words of
 the LORD which he spoke to us, it shall be therefore a witness
 to you, lest ye deny your God.
24:28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man to his
 inheritance.
24:29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the
 son of Nun the servant of the LORD died, [being] a hundred and
 ten years old.
24:30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in
 Timnath-serah, which [is] in mount Ephraim, on the north side
 of the hill of Gaash.
24:31 And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all
 the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, and who had known
 all the works of the LORD that he had done for Israel.
24:32 And the bones of Joseph which the children of Israel
 brought out of Egypt, they buried in Shechem, in a parcel of
 ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of
 Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver; and it became the
 inheritance of the children of Joseph.
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.