1:1 Now after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord,
the
word of the Lord came
to Joshua, the son of Nun, Moses' helper,
saying,
1:2 Moses my servant is dead; so now get up! Go over Jordan,
you
and all this people,
into the land which I am giving to them,
to the children of
Israel.
1:3 Every place on which you put your foot I have given to
you,
as I said to Moses.
1:4 From the waste land and this mountain Lebanon, as far as
the
great river, the
river Euphrates, and all the land of the
Hittites to the Great
Sea, in the west, will be your country.
1:5 While you are living, all will give way before you: as I
was
with Moses, so I will
be with you; I will not take away my help
from you or give you
up.
1:6 Take heart and be strong; for you will give to this
people
for their heritage
the land which I gave by an oath to their
fathers.
1:7 Only take heart and be very strong; take care to do all
the
law which Moses my
servant gave you, not turning from it to the
right hand or to the
left, so that you may do well in all your
undertakings.
1:8 Let this book of the law be ever on your lips and in
your
thoughts day and
night, so that you may keep with care
everything in it;
then a blessing will be on all your way, and
you will do well.
1:9 Have I not given you your orders? Take heart and be
strong;
have no fear and do
not be troubled; for the Lord your God is
with you wherever you
go,
1:10 Then Joshua gave their orders to those who were in
authority over the
people, saying,
1:11 Go through the tents and give orders to the people,
saying,
Get ready a store of
food; for in three days you are to go over
this river Jordan and
take for your heritage the land which the
Lord your God is
giving you.
1:12 And to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the
half-tribe of
Manasseh, Joshua
said,
1:13 Keep in mind what Moses, the servant of the Lord, said
to
you, The Lord your
God is sending you rest and will give you
this land.
1:14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle will be
kept
here in the land
which Moses gave you on this side of Jordan;
but you, the
fighting-men, are to go over before your brothers,
armed, to give them
help;
1:15 Till the Lord has given your brothers rest, as he has
given
it to you, and they
have taken their heritage in the land which
the Lord your God is
giving them: then you will go back to the
land of your heritage
which Moses, the servant of the Lord,
gave you on the east
side of Jordan.
1:16 Then they said to Joshua in answer, Whatever you say to
us
we will do, and
wherever you send us we will go.
1:17 As we gave attention to Moses in all things, so we will
give attention to
you: and may the Lord your God be with you as
he was with Moses.
1:18 Whoever goes against your orders, and does not give
attention to all your
words, will be put to death: only take
heart and be strong.
2:1 Then Joshua, the son of Nun, sent two men from Shittim
secretly, with the
purpose of searching out the land, and
Jericho. So they went
and came to the house of a loose woman of
the town, named
Rahab, where they took their rest for the
night.
2:2 And it was said to the king of Jericho, See, some men
have
come here tonight
from the children of Israel with the purpose
of searching out the
land.
2:3 Then the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, Send out
the
men who have come to
you and are in your house; for they have
come with the purpose
of searching out all the land.
2:4 And the woman took the two men and put them in a secret
place; then she said,
Yes, the men came to me, but I had no
idea where they came
from;
2:5 And when it was the time for shutting the doors at dark,
they went out; I have
no idea where the men went: but if you go
after them quickly,
you will overtake them.
2:6 But she had taken them up to the roof, covering them
with
the stems of flax
which she had put out in order there.
2:7 So the men went after them on the road to Jordan as far
as
the river-crossing:
and when they had gone out after them, the
door into the town
was shut.
2:8 And before the men went to rest, she came up to them on
the
roof,
2:9 And said to them, It is clear to me that the Lord has
given
you the land, and
that the fear of you has come on us;
2:10 For we have had news of how the Lord made the Red Sea
dry
before you when you
came out of Egypt; and what you did to the
two kings of the
Amorites, on the other side of Jordan, to
Sihon and Og, whom
you gave up to the curse.
2:11 And because of this news, our hearts became like water,
and
there was no more
spirit in any of us because of you; for the
Lord your God is God
in heaven on high and here on earth.
2:12 So now, will you give me your oath by the Lord, that,
because I have been
kind to you, you will be kind to my
father's house,
2:13 And that you will keep safe my father and mother and my
brothers and sisters
and all they have, so that death may not
come on us?
2:14 And the men said to her, Our life for yours if you keep
our
business secret; and
when the Lord has given us the land, we
will keep faith and
be kind to you.
2:15 Then she let them down from the window by a cord, for
the
house where she was
living was on the town wall.
2:16 And she said to them, Get away into the hill-country,
or
the men who have gone
after you will overtake you; keep
yourselves safe there
for three days, till the searchers have
come back, and then
go on your way.
2:17 And the men said to her, We will only be responsible
for
this oath which you
have made us take,
2:18 If, when we come into the land, you put this cord of
bright
red thread in the
window from which you let us down; and get
your father and
mother and your brothers and all your family
into the house;
2:19 Then if anyone goes out of your house into the street,
his
blood will be on his
head, we will not be responsible; but if
any damage comes to
anyone in the house, his blood will be on
our heads.
2:20 But if you say anything about our business here, then
we
will be free from the
oath you have made us take.
2:21 And she said, Let it be as you say. Then she sent them
away, and they went;
and she put the bright red cord in the
window.
2:22 And they went into the hill-country and were there
three
days, till the men
who had gone after them had come back; and
those who went after
them were searching for them everywhere
without coming across
them.
2:23 Then the two men came down from the hill-country and
went
over and came back to
Joshua, the son of Nun; and they gave him
a complete account of
what had taken place.
2:24 And they said to Joshua, Truly, the Lord has given all
the
land into our hands;
and all the people of the land have become
like water because of
us.
3:1 Then Joshua got up early in the morning, and, moving on
from
Shittim, he and all
the children of Israel came to Jordan and
were there for the
night before going over.
3:2 And at the end of three days, the men in authority over
the
people went through
the tents,
3:3 Giving the people their orders, and saying, When you see
the
ark of the agreement
of the Lord your God lifted up by the
priests, the Levites,
then get up from your places and go after
it;
3:4 But let there be a space between you and it of about two
thousand cubits: come
no nearer to it, so that you may see the
way you have to go,
for you have not been over this way before.
3:5 And Joshua said to the people, Make yourselves holy, for
tomorrow the Lord
will do works of wonder among you.
3:6 Then Joshua said to the priests, Take up the ark of the
agreement and go over
in front of the people. So they took up
the ark of the
agreement and went in front of the people.
3:7 And the Lord said to Joshua, From now on I will give you
glory in the eyes of
all Israel, so that they may see that, as
I was with Moses, so
I will be with you.
3:8 And you are to give orders to the priests who take up
the
ark of the agreement,
and say, When you come to the edge of the
waters of Jordan, go
no further.
3:9 And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come to me
here:
and give ear to the
words of the Lord your God.
3:10 And Joshua said, By this you will see that the living
God
is among you, and
that he will certainly send out from before
you the Canaanite and
the Hittite and the Hivite and the
Perizzite and the Girgashite
and the Amorite and the Jebusite.
3:11 See, the ark of the agreement of the Lord of all the
earth
is going over before
you into Jordan.
3:12 So take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, a man
from
every tribe.
3:13 And when the feet of the priests who take up the ark of
the
Lord, the Lord of all
the earth, come to rest in the waters of
Jordan, the waters of
Jordan will be cut off, all the waters
flowing down from
higher up, and will come together in a mass.
3:14 So when the people went out from their tents to go over
Jordan, the priests
who took up the ark of the agreement were
in front of the
people;
3:15 And when those who took up the ark came to Jordan, and
the
feet of the priests
who took up the ark were touching the edge
of the water (for the
waters of Jordan are overflowing all
through the time of
the grain-cutting),
3:16 Then the waters flowing down from higher up were
stopped
and came together in
a mass a long way back at Adam, a town
near Zarethan; and
the waters flowing down to the sea of the
Arabah, the Salt Sea,
were cut off: and the people went across
opposite Jericho.
3:17 And the priests who took up the ark of the agreement of
the
Lord kept their
places, with their feet on dry land in the
middle of Jordan,
while all Israel went over on dry land, till
all the nation had
gone over Jordan.
4:1 Now when all the nation had come to the other side of
Jordan, the Lord said
to Joshua,
4:2 Take twelve men from the people, a man for every tribe,
4:3 And say to them, Take up from the middle of Jordan, from
the
place where the feet
of the priests were resting, twelve
stones, and take them
over with you and put them down in the
place where you take
your rest tonight.
4:4 So Joshua sent for the twelve men, whom he had ready,
one
man out of every
tribe of the children of Israel,
4:5 And he said to them, Go over before the ark of the Lord
your
God into the middle
of Jordan, and let every one of you take up
a stone on his back,
one for every tribe of the children of
Israel:
4:6 So that this may be a sign among you; when your children
say
to you in time to
come, What is the reason for these stones?
4:7 Then you will say to them, Because the waters of Jordan
were
cut off before the
ark of the Lord's agreement; when it went
over Jordan the
waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones
will be a sign for
the children of Israel, keeping it in their
memory for ever.
4:8 So the children of Israel did as Joshua gave them
orders,
and took twelve
stones from the middle of Jordan, as the Lord
had said to Joshua,
one for every tribe of the children of
Israel; these they
took across with them to their night's
resting-place and put
them down there.
4:9 And Joshua put up twelve stones in the middle of Jordan,
where the feet of the
priests who took up the ark of the
agreement had been
placed: and there they are to this day.
4:10 For the priests who took up the ark kept there in the
middle of Jordan till
all the orders given to Joshua by Moses
from the Lord had
been done: then the people went over quickly.
4:11 And when all the people had come to the other side, the
ark
of the Lord went
over, and the priests, before the eyes of the
people.
4:12 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and
the
half-tribe of
Manasseh went over armed before the children of
Israel as Moses had
said to them:
4:13 About forty thousand armed for war went over before the
Lord to the fight, to
the lowlands of Jericho.
4:14 That day the Lord made Joshua great in the eyes of all
Israel; and all the
days of his life they went in fear of him,
as they had gone in
fear of Moses.
4:15 Then the Lord said to Joshua,
4:16 Give orders to the priests who take up the ark of
witness,
to come up out of
Jordan.
4:17 So Joshua gave orders to the priests, saying, Come up
now
out of Jordan.
4:18 And when the priests who took up the ark of the Lord's
agreement came up out
of Jordan and their feet came out on to
dry land, the waters
of Jordan went back to their place,
overflowing its edges
as before.
4:19 So on the tenth day of the first month the people came
up
out of Jordan, and
put up their tents in Gilgal, on the east
side of Jericho.
4:20 And the twelve stones which they took out of Jordan,
Joshua
put up in Gilgal.
4:21 And he said to the children of Israel, When your
children
say to their fathers
in time to come, What is the reason for
these stones?
4:22 Then give your children the story, and say, Israel came
over this river
Jordan on dry land.
4:23 For the Lord your God made the waters of Jordan dry
before
you till you had gone
across, as he did to the Red Sea, drying
it up before us till
we had gone across:
4:24 So that all the peoples of the earth may see that the
hand
of the Lord is
strong; and that they may go in fear of the Lord
your God for ever.
5:1 Now when the news came to all the kings of the Amorites
on
the west side of
Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites
living by the sea,
how the Lord had made the waters of Jordan
dry before the
children of Israel, till they had gone across,
their hearts became
like water, and there was no more spirit in
them, because of the
children of Israel.
5:2 At that time the Lord said to Joshua, Make yourself
stone
knives and give the
children of Israel circumcision a second
time.
5:3 So Joshua made stone knives and gave the children of
Israel
circumcision at
Gibeath-ha-araloth.
5:4 And this is the reason why Joshua did so: all the males
of
the people who came
out of Egypt, all the fighting-men, had
been overtaken by
death in the waste land on the way, after
they came out of
Egypt.
5:5 All the people who came out had undergone circumcision;
but
all the people whose
birth had taken place in the waste land on
their journey from
Egypt had not.
5:6 For the children of Israel were wandering in the waste
land
for forty years, till
all the nation, that is, all the
fighting-men, who had
come out of Egypt, were dead, because
they did not give ear
to the voice of the Lord: to whom the
Lord said, with an
oath, that he would not let them see the
land which the Lord
had given his word to their fathers to give
us, a land flowing
with milk and honey.
5:7 And their children, who came up in their place, now
underwent
circumcision by the hands of Joshua, not having had
it before: for there
had been no circumcision on the journey.
5:8 So when all the nation had undergone circumcision, they
kept
in their tents till
they were well again.
5:9 And the Lord said to Joshua, Today the shame of Egypt
has
been rolled away from
you. So that place was named Gilgal, to
this day.
5:10 So the children of Israel put up their tents in Gilgal;
and
they kept the
Passover on the fourteenth day of the month, in
the evening, in the
lowlands of Jericho.
5:11 And on the day after the Passover, they had for their
food
the produce of the
land, unleavened cakes and dry grain on the
same day.
5:12 And there was no more manna from the day after they had
for
their food the
produce of the land; the children of Israel had
manna no longer, but
that year the produce of the land of
Canaan was their
food.
5:13 Now when Joshua was near Jericho, lifting up his eyes
he
saw a man in front of
him, with his sword uncovered in his
hand: and Joshua went
up to him and said, Are you for us or
against us?
5:14 And he said, No; but I have come as captain of the
armies
of the Lord. Then
Joshua, falling down with his face to the
earth in worship,
said, What has my lord to say to his servant?
5:15 And the captain of the Lord's army said to Joshua, Take
off
your shoes from your
feet, for the place where you are is holy.
And Joshua did so.
6:1 (Now Jericho was all shut up because of the children of
Israel: there was no
going out or coming in.)
6:2 And the Lord said to Joshua, See, I have given into your
hands Jericho with
its king and all its men of war.
6:3 Now let all your fighting-men make a circle round the
town,
going all round it
once. Do this for six days.
6:4 And let seven priests go before the ark with seven
loud-sounding horns
in their hands: on the seventh day you are
to go round the town
seven times, the priests blowing their
horns.
6:5 And at the sound of a long note on the horns, let all
the
people give a loud
cry; and the wall of the town will come down
flat, and all the
people are to go straight forward.
6:6 Then Joshua, the son of Nun, sent for the priests and
said
to them, Take up the
ark of the agreement, and let seven
priests take seven
horns in their hands and go before the ark
of the Lord.
6:7 And he said to the people, Go forward, circling the
town,
and let the armed men
go before the ark of the Lord.
6:8 So after Joshua had said this to the people, the seven
priests with their
seven horns went forward before the Lord,
blowing on their
horns: and the ark of the Lord's agreement
went after them.
6:9 And the armed men went before the priests who were
blowing
the horns, and the
mass of the people went after the ark,
blowing their horns.
6:10 And to the people Joshua gave an order, saying, You
will
give no cry, and make
no sound, and let no word go out of your
mouth till the day
when I say, Give a loud cry; then give a
loud cry.
6:11 So he made the ark of the Lord go all round the town
once:
then they went back
to the tents for the night.
6:12 And early in the morning Joshua got up, and the priests
took up the ark of
the Lord.
6:13 And the seven priests with their seven horns went on
before
the ark of the Lord,
blowing their horns: the armed men went
before them, and the
mass of the people went after the ark of
the Lord, blowing
their horns.
6:14 The second day they went all round the town once, and
then
went back to their
tents: and so they did for six days.
6:15 Then on the seventh day they got up early, at the dawn
of
the day, and went
round the town in the same way, but that day
they went round it
seven times.
6:16 And the seventh time, at the sound of the priests'
horns,
Joshua said to the
people, Now give a loud cry; for the Lord
has given you the
town.
6:17 And the town will be put to the curse, and everything
in it
will be given to the
Lord: only Rahab, the loose woman, and all
who are in the house
with her, will be kept safe, because she
kept secret the men
we sent.
6:18 And as for you, keep yourselves from the cursed thing,
for
fear that you may get
a desire for it and take some of it for
yourselves, and so be
the cause of a curse and great trouble on
the tents of Israel.
6:19 But all the silver and gold and the vessels of brass
and
iron are holy to the
Lord: they are to come into the
store-house of the
Lord.
6:20 So the people gave a loud cry, and the horns were
sounded;
and on hearing the
horns the people gave a loud cry, and the
wall came down flat,
so that the people went up into the town,
every man going
straight before him, and they took the town.
6:21 And they put everything in the town to the curse; men
and
women, young and old,
ox and sheep and ass, they put to death
without mercy.
6:22 Then Joshua said to the two men who had been sent to
make a
search through the
land, Go into the house of the loose woman,
and get her out, and
all who are with her, as you gave her your
oath.
6:23 So the searchers went in and got out Rahab and her
father
and mother and her
brothers and all she had, and they got out
all her family; and
they took them outside the tents of Israel.
6:24 Then, after burning up the town and everything in it,
they
put the silver and gold
and the vessels of brass and iron into
the store-house of
the Lord's house.
6:25 But Joshua kept Rahab, the loose woman, and her
father's
family and all she
had, from death, and so she got a
living-place among
the children of Israel to this day; because
she kept safe the men
whom Joshua had sent to make a search
through the land.
6:26 Then Joshua gave the people orders with an oath,
saying,
Let that man be
cursed before the Lord who puts his hand to the
building up of this
town: with the loss of his first son will
he put the first
stone of it in place, and with the loss of his
youngest son he will
put up its doors.
6:27 So the Lord was with Joshua; and news of him went
through
all the land.
7:1 But the children of Israel did wrong about the cursed
thing:
for Achan, the son of
Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of
Zerah, of the family
of Judah, took of the cursed thing, moving
the Lord to wrath
against the children of Israel.
7:2 Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is by the
side
of Beth-aven, on the
east side of Beth-el, and said to them, Go
up and make a search
through the land. And the men went up and
saw how Ai was
placed.
7:3 Then they came back to Joshua and said to him, Do not
send
all the people up,
but let about two or three thousand men go
up and make an attack
on Ai; there is no need for all the
people to be tired
with the journey there, for it is only a
small town.
7:4 So about three thousand of the people went up, and were
sent
in flight by the men
of Ai.
7:5 The men of Ai put to death about thirty-six of them,
driving
them from before the
town as far as the stoneworks, and
overcoming them on
the way down: and the hearts of the people
became like water.
7:6 Then Joshua, in great grief, went down on the earth
before
the ark of the Lord
till the evening, and all the chiefs of
Israel with him, and
they put dust on their heads.
7:7 And Joshua said, O Lord God, why have you taken us over
Jordan only to give
us up into the hands of the Amorites for
our destruction? If
only it had been enough for us to keep on
the other side of
Jordan!
7:8 O Lord, what am I to say now that Israel have given way
before their
attackers?
7:9 For when the news comes to the Canaanites and all the
people
of the land, they
will come up, shutting us in and cutting off
our name from the
earth: and what will you do for the honour of
your great name?
7:10 Then the Lord said to Joshua, Get up; what are you
doing
with your face to the
earth?
7:11 Israel has done wrong, sinning against the agreement
which
I made with them:
they have even taken of the cursed thing;
acting falsely like
thieves they have put it among their goods.
7:12 For this reason the children of Israel have given way,
turning their backs
in flight before their attackers, because
they are cursed: I
will no longer be with you, if you do not
put the cursed thing
away from among you.
7:13 Up! make the people holy; say to them, Make yourselves
holy
before tomorrow, for
the Lord, the God of Israel, has said,
There is a cursed
thing among you, O Israel, and you will give
way before your
attackers in the fight till the cursed thing
has been taken away
from among you.
7:14 So in the morning you are to come near, tribe by tribe;
and
the tribe marked out
by the Lord is to come near, family by
family; and the
family marked out by the Lord is to come near,
house by house; and
the house marked out by the Lord is to come
near, man by man.
7:15 Then the man who is taken with the cursed thing is to
be
burned, with
everything which is his; because he has gone
against the agreement
of the Lord and has done an act of shame
in Israel.
7:16 So Joshua got up early in the morning, and made Israel
come
before him by their
tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken;
7:17 Then he made Judah come forward, and the family of the
Zerahites was taken;
and he made the family of the Zerahites
come forward man by
man; and Zabdi was taken;
7:18 Then the house of Zabdi came forward 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 glory and praise
to
the Lord, the God of
Israel; give me word now of what you have
done, and keep
nothing back from me.
7:20 And Achan, answering, said to Joshua, Truly I have done
wrong against the
Lord, the God of Israel, and this is what I
have done:
7:21 When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and
two
hundred shekels of
silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in
weight, I was
overcome by desire and took them; and they are
put away in the earth
in my tent, and the silver is under it.
7:22 So Joshua sent men quickly, and looking in his tent,
they
saw where the robe
had been put away secretly with the silver
under it.
7:23 And they took them from the tent and came back with
them to
Joshua and the
children of Israel, and put them before the
Lord.
7:24 Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, the son of
Zerah,
and the silver and
the robe and the mass of gold, and his sons
and his daughters and
his oxen and his asses and his sheep and
his tent and
everything he had; and they took them up into the
valley of Achor.
7:25 And Joshua said, Why have you been a cause of trouble
to
us? Today the Lord
will send trouble on you. And all Israel
took part in stoning
him; they had him stoned to death and then
burned with fire.
7:26 And over him they put a great mass of stones, which is
there to this day;
then the heat of the Lord's wrath was turned
away. So that place
was named, The Valley of Achor, to this
day.
8:1 Then the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear and do not be
troubled: take with
you all the fighting-men and go up against
Ai: for I have given
into your hands the king of Ai and his
people and his town
and his land:
8:2 And you are to do to Ai and its king as you did to
Jericho
and its king: but
their goods and their cattle you may take for
yourselves: let a
secret force be stationed to make a surprise
attack on the town
from the back.
8:3 So Joshua and the fighting-men got ready to go up
against
Ai; and Joshua took
thirty thousand men of war, and sent them
out by night.
8:4 And he gave them their orders, saying, Go and take up
your
position secretly at
the back of the town: do not go very far
away, and let all of
you be ready:
8:5 And I and all the people with me will come near the
town,
and when they come
out against us as they did before, we will
go in flight from
them;
8:6 And they will come out after us, till we have got them
away
from the town; for
they will say, They have gone in flight from
us as before; so we
will go in flight before them;
8:7 Then you will get up from your secret position and take
the
town, for the Lord
your God will give it up into your hands.
8:8 And when you have taken the town, put fire to it, as the
Lord has said: see, I
have given you your orders.
8:9 So Joshua sent them out: and they took up a secret
position
between Beth-el and
Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua kept
with the people that
night.
8:10 And early in the morning Joshua got up, and put the
people
in order, and he and
the chiefs of Israel went up before the
people to Ai.
8:11 And all the fighting-men who were with him went up and
came
near the town, and
took up a position on the north side of Ai
facing the town, with
a valley between him and the town.
8:12 And taking about five thousand men, he put them in
position
for a surprise attack
on the west side of Ai, between Beth-el
and Ai.
8:13 So all the people were in their places, the army on the
north side of the
town and the secret force on the west; and
that night Joshua
went down into the valley.
8:14 Now when the king of Ai saw it, he got up quickly and
went
out to war against
Israel, he and all his people, to the slope
going down to the
valley; but he had no idea that a secret
force was waiting at
the back of the town.
8:15 Then Joshua and all Israel, acting as if they were
overcome
before them, went in
flight by way of the waste land.
8:16 And all the people in Ai came together to go after
them;
and they went after
Joshua, moving away from the town.
8:17 There was not a man in Ai and Beth-el who did not go
out
after Israel; and the
town was open and unwatched while they
went after Israel.
8:18 And the Lord said to Joshua, Let your spear be
stretched
out against Ai; for I
will give it into your hands. So Joshua
took up his spear,
stretching it out in the direction of the
town.
8:19 Then the secret force came quickly from their place,
and
running forward when
they saw his hand stretched out, went into
the town and took it,
and put fire to it straight away.
8:20 Then the men of Ai, looking back, saw the smoke of the
town
going up to heaven,
and were unable to go this way or that: and
the people who had
gone in flight to the waste land were turned
back on those who
were coming after them.
8:21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the town had
been
taken by the surprise
attack, and that the smoke of the town
had gone up, turning
round they overcame the men of Ai.
8:22 Then the other force came out of the town against them,
so
that they were being
attacked on this side and on that: and
Israel overcame them
and let not one of them get away with his
life.
8:23 But the king of Ai they made prisoner, and took him to
Joshua.
8:24 Then, after the destruction of all the people of Ai in
the
field and in the
waste land where they went after them, and
when all the people
had been put to death without mercy, all
Israel went back to
Ai, and put to death all who were in it
without mercy.
8:25 On that day twelve thousand were put to death, men and
women, all the people
of Ai.
8:26 For Joshua did not take back his hand with the
outstretched
spear till the
destruction of the people of Ai was complete.
8:27 But the cattle and the goods from that town, Israel
took
for themselves, as
the Lord had given orders to Joshua.
8:28 So Joshua gave Ai to the flames, and made it a waste
mass
of stones for ever,
as it is to this day.
8:29 And he put the king of Ai to death, hanging him on a
tree
till evening: and
when the sun went down, Joshua gave them
orders to take his
body down from the tree, and put it in the
public place of the
town, covering it with a great mass of
stones, which is
there to this day.
8:30 Then Joshua put up an altar to the Lord, the God of
Israel,
in Mount Ebal,
8:31 In the way ordered by Moses, the servant of the Lord,
as it
is recorded in the
book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut
stones, untouched by
any iron instrument: and on it they made
burned offerings and
peace-offerings to the Lord.
8:32 And he made there on the stones a copy of the law of
Moses,
writing it before the
eyes of the children of Israel.
8:33 And all Israel, those who were Israelites by birth, as
well
as the men from other
lands living with them, and their
responsible men and
their overseers and judges, took their
places round the ark,
in front of the priests, the Levites,
whose work it was to
take up the ark of the Lord's agreement;
half of them were
stationed in front of Mount Gerizim and half
in front of Mount
Ebal, in agreement with the orders for the
blessing of the
children of Israel which Moses, the servant of
the Lord, had given.
8:34 And after, he gave them all the words of the law, the
blessing and the
curse, as it is all recorded in the book of
the law;
8:35 Reading to all the meeting of Israel, with the women
and
the children and the
men from other lands who were living among
them, every word of
the orders which Moses had given.
9:1 Now on hearing the news of these things, all the kings on
the west side of
Jordan, in the hill-country and the lowlands
and by the Great Sea
in front of Lebanon, the Hittites and the
Amorites, the
Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the
Jebusites,
9:2 Came together with one purpose, to make war against
Joshua
and Israel.
9:3 And the men of Gibeon, hearing what Joshua had done to
Jericho and Ai,
9:4 Acting with deceit, got food together as if for a long
journey; and took old
food-bags for their asses, and old and
cracked wine-skins
kept together with cord;
9:5 And put old stitched-up shoes on their feet, and old
clothing on their
backs; and all the food they had with them
was dry and broken
up.
9:6 And they came to Joshua to the tent-circle at Gilgal,
and
said to him and to
the men of Israel, We have come from a far
country: so now make
an agreement with us.
9:7 And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, It may be
that
you are living among
us; how then may we make an agreement with
you?
9:8 And they said to Joshua, We are your servants. Then
Joshua
said to them, Who are
you and where do you come from?
9:9 And they said to him, Your servants have come from a
very
far country, because
of the name of the Lord your God: for the
story of his great
name, and of all he did in Egypt has come to
our ears,
9:10 And what he did to the two kings of the Amorites east
of
Jordan, to Sihon,
king of Heshbon, and to Og, king of Bashan,
at Ashtaroth.
9:11 So the responsible men and all the people of our
country
said to us, Take food
with you for the journey and go to them,
and say to them, We
are your servants: so now make an agreement
with us.
9:12 This bread which we have with us for our food, we took
warm
and new from our
houses when starting on our journey to you;
but now see, it has
become dry and broken up.
9:13 And these wine-skins were new when we put the wine in
them,
and now they are
cracked as you see; and our clothing and our
shoes have become old
because of our very long journey here.
9:14 And the men took some of their food, without requesting
directions from the
Lord.
9:15 So Joshua made peace with them, and made an agreement
with
them that they were
not to be put to death: and the chiefs of
the people took an
oath to them.
9:16 Now three days after, when they had made this agreement
with them, they had
word that these men were their neighbours,
living near them.
9:17 And the children of Israel went forward on their
journey,
and on the third day
came to their towns. Now their towns were
Gibeon and Chephirah
and Beeroth and Kiriath-jearim.
9:18 And the children of Israel did not put them to death,
because the chiefs of
the people had taken an oath to them by
the Lord, the God of
Israel. And all the people made an outcry
against the chiefs.
9:19 But all the chiefs said to the people, We have taken an
oath to them by the
Lord, the God of Israel, and so we may not
put our hands on
them.
9:20 This is what we will do to them: we will not put them
to
death, for fear that
wrath may come on us because of our oath
to them.
9:21 Keep them living, and let them be servants, cutting
wood
and getting water for
all the people. And all the people did as
the chiefs had said
to them.
9:22 Then Joshua sent for them, and said to them, Why have
you
been false to us,
saying, We are very far from you, when you
are living among us?
9:23 Now because of this you are cursed, and you will for
ever
be our servants,
cutting wood and getting water for the house
of my God.
9:24 And, answering Joshua, they said, Because it came to
the
ears of your servants
that the Lord your God had given orders
to his servant Moses
to give you all this land, and to send
destruction on all
the people living in it, because of you; so,
fearing greatly for
our lives because of you, we have done
this.
9:25 And now we are in your hands: do to us whatever seems
good
and right to you.
9:26 So he kept them safe from the children of Israel, and
did
not let them be put
to death.
9:27 And that day Joshua made them servants, cutting wood
and
getting water for the
people and for the altar of the Lord, in
the place marked out
by him, to this day.
10:1 Now when it came to the ears of Adoni-zedek, king of
Jerusalem, that
Joshua had taken Ai, and had given it up to the
curse (for as he had
done to Jericho and its king, so he had
done to Ai and its
king); and that the people of Gibeon had
made peace with
Israel and were living among them;
10:2 He was in great fear, because Gibeon was a great town,
like
one of the king's
towns, greater than Ai, and all the men in it
were men of war.
10:3 So Adoni-zedek, 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 give me help, and let us make an
attack
on Gibeon: for they
have made peace with Joshua and the
children of Israel.
10:5 So the five kings of the Amorites, the king of
Jerusalem,
the king of Hebron,
the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish,
and the king of
Eglon, were banded together, and went up with
all their armies and
took up their position before Gibeon and
made war against it.
10:6 And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the tent-circle
at
Gilgal, saying, Be
not slow to send help to your servants; come
up quickly to our
support and keep us safe: for all the kings
of the Amorites from
the hill-country have come together
against us.
10:7 So Joshua went up from Gilgal with all his army and all
his
men of war.
10:8 And the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear of them, for
I
have given them into
your hands; they will all give way before
you.
10:9 So Joshua, having come up from Gilgal all night, made a
sudden attack on
them.
10:10 And the Lord made them full of fear before Israel, and
they put great
numbers of them to death at Gibeon, and went
after them by the way
going up to Beth-horon, driving them back
to Azekah and
Makkedah
10:11 And in their flight before Israel, on the way down
from
Beth-horon, the Lord
sent down great stones from heaven on them
all the way to
Azekah, causing their death: those whose death
was caused by the
stones were more than those whom the children
of Israel put to
death with the sword.
10:12 It was on the day when the Lord gave up the Amorites
into
the hands of the
children of Israel that Joshua said to the
Lord, before the eyes
of Israel, Sun, be at rest over Gibeon;
and you, O moon, in
the valley of Aijalon.
10:13 And the sun was at rest and the moon kept its place
till
the nation had given
punishment to their attackers. (Is it not
recorded in the book
of Jashar?) So the sun kept its place in
the middle of the
heavens, and was waiting, and did not go
down, for the space
of a day.
10:14 And there was no day like that, before it or after it,
when the Lord gave
ear to the voice of a man; for the Lord was
fighting for Israel.
10:15 And Joshua, with all Israel, went back to the
tent-circle
at Gilgal.
10:16 But these five kings went in flight secretly to a hole
in
the rock at Makkedah.
10:17 And word was given to Joshua that the five kings had
been
taken in a hole in
the rock at Makkedah.
10:18 And Joshua said, Let great stones be rolled against
the
mouth of the hole,
and let men keep watch by it:
10:19 But do you, without waiting, go after their army,
attacking them from
the back; do not let them get into their
towns, for the Lord
your God has given them into your hands.
10:20 Now when Joshua and the children of Israel had come to
the
end of their war of
complete destruction, and had put to death
all but a small band
who had got safely into the walled towns,
10:21 All the people went back to Joshua to the tent-circle
at
Makkedah in peace:
and no one said a word against the children
of Israel.
10:22 Then Joshua said, Take away the stones from the mouth
of
the hole in the rock,
and make those five kings come out to me.
10:23 And they did so, and made those five kings come out of
the
hole to him, the king
of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the
king of Jarmuth, the
king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.
10:24 And when they had made those kings come out to Joshua,
Joshua sent for all
the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs
of the men of war who
had gone with him, Come near and put your
feet on the necks of
these kings. So they came near and put
their feet on their
necks.
10:25 And Joshua said to them, Have no fear and do not be
troubled; be strong
and take heart: for so will the Lord do to
all against whom you
make war.
10:26 Then Joshua had them put to death, hanging them on
five
trees, where they
were till evening.
10:27 And when the sun went down, they were taken down from
the
trees, by Joshua's
orders, and put into the hole where they had
gone to be safe; and
great stones were placed at the mouth of
the hole, where they
are to this day.
10:28 That day Joshua took Makkedah, and put it and its king
to
the sword; every soul
in it he gave up to the curse without
mercy: and he did to
the king of Makkedah as he had done to the
king of Jericho.
10:29 Then Joshua and all Israel with him went on from
Makkedah
and came to Libnah,
and made an attack on it;
10:30 And again the Lord gave it and its king into the hands
of
Israel; and he put it
and every person in it to the sword, till
their destruction was
complete; and he did to its king as he
had done to the king
of Jericho.
10:31 Then Joshua and all Israel with him went on from
Libnah to
Lachish, and took up
their position against it and made an
attack on it,
10:32 And the Lord gave Lachish into the hands of Israel,
and on
the second day he
took it, putting it and every person in it to
the sword without
mercy, as he had done to Libnah.
10:33 Then Horam, king of Gezer, came up to the help of
Lachish;
and Joshua overcame
him and his people, putting all of them to
death.
10:34 And Joshua and all Israel with him went on from
Lachish to
Eglon: and they took
up their position against it and made an
attack on it;
10:35 And that day they took it, putting it and every person
in
it to the sword, as
he had done to Lachish.
10:36 And Joshua and all Israel with him went up from Eglon
to
Hebron, and made an
attack on it;
10:37 And took it, overcoming it and putting it and its king
and
its towns and every
person in it to the sword: as he had done
to Eglon, he put them
all to death, and gave it up to the curse
with every person in
it.
10:38 And Joshua and all Israel with him went on to make an
attack on Debir;
10:39 And he took it, with its king and all its towns: and
he
put them to the
sword, giving every person in it to the curse;
all were put to
death: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to
Debir and its king.
10:40 So Joshua overcame all the land, the hill-country and
the
South and the lowland
and the mountain slopes, and all their
kings; all were put
to death: and every living thing he gave up
to the curse, as the
Lord, the God of Israel, had given him
orders.
10:41 Joshua overcame them from Kadesh-barnea to Gaza, and
all
the land of Goshen as
far as Gibeon.
10:42 And all these kings and their land Joshua took at the
same
time, because the
Lord, the God of Israel, was fighting for
Israel.
10:43 Then Joshua and all Israel with him went back to their
tents at Gilgal.
11:1 Now Jabin, king of Hazor, hearing of these things, sent
to
Jobab, king of Madon,
and to the king of Shimron, and to the
king of Achshaph,
11:2 And to the kings on the north in the hill-country, and
in
the Arabah south of
Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in the
highlands of Dor on
the west,
11:3 And to the Canaanites on the east and on the west, and
to
the Amorites and the
Hittites and the Perizzites, and the
Jebusites in the
hill-country, and the Hivites under Hermon in
the land of Mizpah.
11:4 And they went out, they and all their armies with them,
a
great people, in
number like the sand on the seaside, with
horses and
war-carriages in great number.
11:5 And all these kings came together, and put their forces
in
position at the
waters of Merom, to make war on Israel.
11:6 And the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear of them: for
tomorrow at this time
I will give them all up dead before
Israel; you are to
have the leg-muscles of their horses cut and
their war-carriages
burned with fire.
11:7 So Joshua and all the men of war with him came against
them
suddenly at the
waters of Merom, and made an attack on them.
11:8 And the Lord gave them up into the hands of Israel, and
they overcame them
driving them back to great Zidon and to
Misrephoth-maim and
into the valley of Mizpeh to the east; and
they put them all to
death, no man got away safely.
11:9 And Joshua did to them as the Lord had said to him; he
had
the leg-muscles of
their horses cut and their war-carriages
burned with fire.
11:10 At that time, Joshua went on to take Hazor and put its
king to the sword:
for in earlier times Hazor was the chief of
all those kingdoms.
11:11 And they put every person in it to death without
mercy,
giving every living
thing up to the curse, and burning Hazor.
11:12 And all the towns of these kings, and all the kings,
Joshua took, and put
them to the sword: he gave them up to the
curse, as Moses, the
servant of the Lord, had said.
11:13 As for the towns made on hills of earth, not one was
burned by Israel but
Hazor, which was burned by Joshua.
11:14 And all the goods taken from these towns, and their
cattle, the children
of Israel kept for themselves; but every
man they put to death
without mercy, till their destruction was
complete, and there
was no one living.
11:15 As the Lord had given orders to Moses his servant, so
Moses gave orders to
Joshua, and so Joshua did; every order
which the Lord had
given to Moses was done.
11:16 So Joshua took all that land, the hill-country and all
the
South, and all the
land of Goshen, and the lowland and the
Arabah, the
hill-country of Israel and its lowland;
11:17 From Mount Halak, which goes up to Seir, as far as
Baal-gad in the
valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon: and all
their kings he
overcame and put to death.
11:18 For a long time Joshua made war on all those kings.
11:19 Not one town made peace with the children of Israel,
but
only the Hivites of
Gibeon: they took them all in war.
11:20 For the Lord made them strong in heart to go to war
against Israel, so
that he might give them up to the curse
without mercy, and
that destruction might come on them, as the
Lord had given orders
to Moses.
11:21 And Joshua came at that time and put an end to the
Anakim
in the hill-country,
in Hebron, in Debir, in Anab, and in all
the hill-country of
Judah and Israel: Joshua gave them and
their towns to the
curse.
11:22 Not one of the Anakim was to be seen in the land of
the
children of Israel:
only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, some
were still living.
11:23 So Joshua took all the land, as the Lord had said to
Moses; and Joshua
gave it to the children of Israel as their
heritage, making
division of it among them by their tribes. And
the land had rest
from war.
12:1 Now these are the kings of the land whom the children
of
Israel overcame,
taking as their heritage their land on the
east side of Jordan,
from the valley of the Arnon to Mount
Hermon, and all the
Arabah to the east:
12:2 Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was living in Heshbon,
ruling from Aroer,
which is on the edge of the valley of the
Arnon, and the town
in the middle of the valley, and half
Gilead, as far as the
river Jabbok, the limits of the children
of Ammon;
12:3 And the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, to the east,
and
to the sea of the
Arabah, that is the Salt Sea, to the east,
the way to
Beth-jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes
of Pisgah:
12:4 And the land of Og, king of Bashan, of the rest of the
Rephaim, who was
living at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
12:5 Ruling in the mountain of Hermon, and in Salecah, and
in
all Bashan, as far as
the limits of the Geshurites and the
Maacathites, and half
Gilead, to the land of Sihon, king of
Heshbon.
12:6 Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the children of
Israel
overcame them; and
Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave their
land for a heritage
to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the
half-tribe of
Manasseh.
12:7 And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the
children of Israel
overcame on the west side of Jordan, from
Baal-gad in the
valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which goes up
to Seir; and Joshua
gave the land to the tribes of Israel for a
heritage, in keeping
with their divisions;
12:8 In the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the
Arabah,
and on the mountain
slopes, and in the waste land, and in the
South; 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 near
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 Lassharon, one;
12:19 The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;
12:20 The king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph,
one;
12:21 The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;
12:22 The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in
Carmel,
one;
12:23 The king of Dor on the hill of Dor, one; the king of
Goiim
in Gilgal, one;
12:24 The king of Tirzah, one; all the kings together were
thirty-one.
13:1 Now Joshua was old and full of years; and the Lord said
to
him, You are old and
full of years, and there is still very
much land to be
taken.
13:2 This is the land which is still to be taken: all the
country of the
Philistines, and all the Geshurites;
13:3 From the Shihor, which is before Egypt, to the edge of
Ekron to the north,
which is taken to be Canaanite property:
the five chiefs of
the Philistines; the Gazites, and the
Ashdodites, the
Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites,
as well as the Avvim;
13:4 On the south: all the land of the Canaanites, and
Mearah
which is the property
of the Zidonians, to Aphek, as far as the
limit of the
Amorites:
13:5 And the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, looking
east, from Baal-gad
under Mount Hermon as far as Hamath:
13:6 All the people of the hill-country from Lebanon to
Misrephoth-maim, all
the Zidonians; them will I send out from
before the children
of Israel: only make division of it to
Israel for a
heritage, as I have given you orders to do.
13:7 So now make division of this land for a heritage to the
nine tribes, and the
half-tribe of Manasseh.
13:8 With him the Reubenites and the Gadites have been given
their heritage, which
Moses gave them, on the east side of
Jordan, as Moses, the
servant of the Lord, gave them;
13:9 From Aroer, on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and
the
town in the middle of
the valley, and all the table-land from
Medeba to Dibon;
13:10 And all the towns of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who
was
ruling in Heshbon, to
the limits of the children of Ammon;
13:11 And Gilead, and the land of the Geshurites and the
Maacathites, and all
Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah;
13:12 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who was ruling in
Ashtaroth and in Edrei
(he was one of the last of the Rephaim);
these did Moses
overcome, driving them out of their country.
13:13 However, the people of Israel did not send out the
Geshurites, or the
Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath are
living among Israel
to this day.
13:14 Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no heritage; the
offerings of the
Lord, the God of Israel, made by fire are his
heritage, as he said
to him.
13:15 And Moses gave their heritage to the tribe of Reuben
by
their families.
13:16 Their limit was from Aroer, on the edge of the valley
of
the Arnon, and the
town in the middle of the valley, and all
the table-land by
Medeba;
13:17 Heshbon and all her towns in the table-land; Dibon,
and
Bamoth-baal, and
Beth-baal-meon;
13:18 And Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath;
13:19 And Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar in the
mountain of the
valley;
13:20 And Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and
Beth-jeshimoth;
13:21 And all the towns of the table-land, and all the
kingdom
of Sihon, king of the
Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon, whom
Moses overcame,
together with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, and
Rekem, and Zur, and
Hur, and Reba, the chiefs of Sihon, who
were living in the
land.
13:22 And Balaam, the son of Beor, the prophet, the children
of
Israel put to death
with the sword.
13:23 And the limit of the children of Reuben was the edge
of
Jordan. This was the
heritage of the children of Reuben by
their families, with
its towns and its unwalled places.
13:24 And Moses gave their heritage to the tribe of Gad by
their
families.
13:25 And their limit was Jazer, and all the towns of
Gilead,
and half the land of
the children of Ammon, to Aroer before
Rabbah;
13:26 And from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and
from
Mahanaim to the edge
of Debir;
13:27 And in the valley, Beth-haram, and Beth-nimrah, and
Succoth, and Zaphon,
the rest of the kingdom of Sihon, king of
Heshbon, having
Jordan for its limit, to the end of the sea of
Chinnereth on the
east side of Jordan.
13:28 This is the heritage of the children of Gad by their
families, with its
towns and its unwalled places
13:29 And Moses gave their heritage to the half-tribe of
Manasseh by their
families.
13:30 And their limit was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the
kingdom of Og, king
of Bashan, and all Havvoth-Jair, in Bashan,
sixty towns;
13:31 And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, towns of
the
kingdom of Og in
Bashan, were for the children of Machir, the
son of Manasseh, for
half of the children of Machir by their
families.
13:32 These are the heritages of which Moses made
distribution
in the lowlands of
Moab, on the other side of Jordan in
Jericho, to the east.
13:33 But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no heritage: the
Lord,
the God of Israel, is
their heritage, as he said to them.
14:1 And these are the heritages which the children of
Israel
took in the land of
Canaan, which Eleazar, the priest, and
Joshua, the son of
Nun, and the heads of the tribes of the
children of Israel,
gave out to them;
14:2 Their heritage by the Lord's decision, as he gave
orders by
Moses, for the nine
tribes and the half-tribe.
14:3 For Moses had given their heritage to the two tribes
and
the half-tribe on the
other side of Jordan, but to the Levites
he gave no heritage
among them.
14:4 Because the children of Joseph were two tribes,
Manasseh
and Ephraim; and they
gave the Levites no part in the land,
only towns for their
living-places, with the grass-lands for
their cattle and for
their property.
14:5 As the Lord had given orders to Moses, so the people of
Israel did, and they
made division of the land.
14:6 Then the children of Judah went to Joshua in Gilgal;
and
Caleb, the son of
Jephunneh the Kenizzite, said to him, You
have knowledge of
what the Lord said to Moses, the man of God,
about me and about
you in Kadesh-barnea.
14:7 I was forty years old when Moses, the servant of the
Lord,
sent me from
Kadesh-barnea to make a search through the land;
and the account which
I gave him was in keeping with his
desire.
14:8 My brothers, however, who went up with me, made the
heart
of the people like
water: but I was true to the Lord with all
my heart.
14:9 And on that day Moses took an oath, saying, Truly the
land
where your feet have
been placed will become a heritage for you
and your children for
ever, because you have been true to the
Lord your God with
all your heart.
14:10 And now, as you see, the Lord has kept me safe these
forty-five years,
from the time when the Lord said this to
Moses, while Israel
was wandering in the waste land: and now I
am eighty-five years
old.
14:11 And still, I am as strong today as I was when Moses
sent
me out: as my
strength was then, so is it now, for war and for
all the business of
life.
14:12 So now, give me this hill-country named by the Lord at
that time; for you
had an account of it then, how the Anakim
were there, and great
walled towns: it may be that the Lord
will be with me, and
I will be able to take their land, as the
Lord said.
14:13 And Joshua gave him his blessing; and he gave Hebron
to
Caleb, the son of
Jephunneh, for his heritage.
14:14 So Hebron became the heritage of Caleb, the son of
Jephunneh the
Kenizzite, to this day, because with all his
heart he was true to
the Lord, the God of Israel.
14:15 In earlier times the name of Hebron had been
Kiriath-arba,
named after Arba, the
greatest of the Anakim. And the land had
rest from war.
15:1 Now the part of the land marked out for the children of
Judah by families,
went up to the edge of Edom, as far as the
waste land of Zin to
the south, to the farthest point of it on
the south.
15:2 Their south limit was from the farthest part of the
Salt
Sea, from the inlet
looking to the south:
15:3 From there it goes south of the slope up to Akrabbim,
and
on to Zin, then south
past Kadesh-barnea, and on by Hezron and
up to Addar, turning
in the direction of Karka:
15:4 Then on to Azmon, ending at the stream of Egypt: and
the
end of the limit is
at the sea; this will be your limit on the
south.
15:5 And the east limit is the Salt Sea as far as the end of
Jordan. And the limit
of the north part of the land is from the
inlet of the sea at
the end of Jordan:
15:6 Then the line goes up to Beth-hoglah, past the north of
Beth-arabah, and up
to the stone of Bohan, the son of Reuben;
15:7 Then the line goes up to Debir from the valley of
Achor,
and so to the north,
in the direction of Gilgal, which is
opposite the slope up
to Adummim, on the south side of the
river: and the line
goes on to the waters of En-shemesh, ending
at En-rogel:
15:8 Then the line goes up by the valley of the son of
Hinnom to
the south side of the
Jebusite (which is Jerusalem): then up to
the top of the
mountain in front of the valley of Hinnom to the
west, which is at the
farthest point of the valley of Rephaim
on the north:
15:9 And the limit is marked out from the top of the
mountain to
the fountain of the
waters of Nephtoah, and out to the towns of
Mount Ephron, as far
as Baalah (which is Kiriath-jearim):
15:10 Then turning west, the line goes from Baalah to Mount
Seir, and on to the
side of Mount Jearim (which is Chesalon) on
the north, then down
to Beth-shemesh, and on past Timnah:
15:11 And out to the side of Ekron to the north: then it is
marked out to
Shikkeron and on to Mount Baalah, ending at
Jabneel; the end of
the line is at the sea.
15:12 And the limit on the west is the edge of the Great
Sea.
This is the line
going round the land marked out for the
children of Judah, by
their families.
15:13 And to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, he gave a part
among
the children of
Judah, as the Lord had given orders to Joshua,
that is,
Kiriath-arba, named after Arba, the father of Anak
which is Hebron.
15:14 And the three sons of Anak, Sheshai and Ahiman and
Talmai,
the children of Anak,
were forced out from there by Caleb.
15:15 From there he went up against the people of Debir:
(now
the name of Debir
before that was Kiriath-sepher.)
15:16 And Caleb said, I will give Achsah, my daughter, as
wife
to the man who
overcomes Kiriath-sepher and takes it.
15:17 And Othniel, the son of Kenaz, Caleb's brother, took
it:
so he gave him his
daughter Achsah for his wife.
15:18 Now when she came to him, he put into her mind the
idea of
requesting a field
from her father: and she got down from her
ass; and Caleb said
to her, What is it?
15:19 And she said, Give me a blessing; because you have put
me
in dry south-land,
now give me springs of water. So he gave her
the higher spring and
the lower spring.
15:20 This is the heritage of the tribe of Judah, by their
families.
15:21 The farthest towns of the tribe of Judah in the
direction
of the limits of Edom
to the south, were Kabzeel, and Eder, and
Jagur;
15:22 And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah;
15:23 And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan;
15:24 Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth;
15:25 And Hazor-hadattah, and Kerioth-hezron (which is
Hazor);
15:26 Amam, and Shema, and Moladah;
15:27 And Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth-pelet;
15:28 And Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Biziothiah;
15:29 Baalah, and Iim, and Ezem;
15:30 And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah;
15:31 And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah;
15:32 And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon; all the
towns are
twenty-nine, with their unwalled places.
15:33 In the lowland, Eshtaol, and Zorah, and Ashnah;
15:34 And Zanoah, and En-gannim, Tappuah, and Enam;
15:35 Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah;
15:36 And Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and
Gederothaim;
fourteen towns with
their unwalled places.
15:37 Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal-gad;
15:38 And Dilan, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel;
15:39 Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon;
15:40 And Cabbon, and Lahmas, and Chithlish;
15:41 And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah;
sixteen towns with
their unwalled places.
15:42 Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan;
15:43 And Iphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib;
15:44 And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine towns with
their unwalled
places.
15:45 Ekron, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled
places;
15:46 From Ekron to the sea, all the towns by the side of
Ashdod, with their
unwalled places.
15:47 Ashdod, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled
places;
Gaza, with her
daughter-towns and her unwalled places, to the
stream of Egypt, with
the Great Sea as a limit.
15:48 And in the hill-country, Shamir, and Jattir, and
Socoh;
15:49 And Dannah, and Kiriath-sannah (which is Debir);
15:50 And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim;
15:51 And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven towns with
their
unwalled places.
15:52 Arab, and Dumah, and Eshan;
15:53 And Janim, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah;
15:54 And Humtah, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron), and
Zior;
nine towns with their
unwalled places.
15:55 Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Jutah;
15:56 And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah;
15:57 Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten towns with their
unwalled
places.
15:58 Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor;
15:59 And Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six towns
with
their unwalled
places.
15:60 Kiriath-baal (which is Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah;
two
towns with their
unwalled places.
15:61 In the waste land, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah;
15:62 And Nibshan, and the Town of Salt, and En-gedi; six
towns
with their unwalled
places.
15:63 And as for the Jebusites living in Jerusalem, the
children
of Judah were unable
to make them go out; but the Jebusites are
living with the
children of Judah at Jerusalem, to this day.
16:1 And the limit of the land marked out for the children
of
Joseph went out from
Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of
Jericho on the east,
in the waste land, going up from Jericho
through the
hill-country to Beth-el;
16:2 And it goes out from Beth-el to Luz, and on as far as
the
limit of the Archites
to Ataroth;
16:3 And it goes down to the west to the limit of the
Japhletites, to the
limit of Beth-horon the lower, as far as
Gezer; ending at the
sea.
16:4 And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took
their heritage.
16:5 And the limit of the land of the children of Ephraim by
their families was
marked out in this way: the limit of their
heritage to the east
was Ataroth-addar, to Beth-horon the
higher;
16:6 The line goes out to the west at Michmethath on the
north;
then turning to the
east to Taanath-shiloh, going past it on
the east of Janoah;
16:7 And from Janoah down to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and
touching Jericho, it
goes on to Jordan.
16:8 From Tappuah the line goes on to the west to the river
of
Kanah; ending at the
sea. This is the heritage of the children
of Ephraim by their
families;
16:9 Together with the towns marked out for the children of
Ephraim in the
heritage of Manasseh, all the towns with their
unwalled places.
16:10 And the Canaanites who were living in Gezer were not
forced out; but the
Canaanites have been living among Ephraim,
to this day, as
servants, doing forced work.
17:1 And this was the part marked out for the tribe of
Manasseh,
because he was the
oldest son of Joseph. As for Machir, the
oldest son of
Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a
man of war he had
Gilead and Bashan.
17:2 And as for the rest of the children of Manasseh, their
heritage was given to
them by 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 only
daughters; and these
are the names of his daughters: Mahlah,
and Noah, Hoglah,
Milcah, and Tirzah.
17:4 And they came before Eleazar the priest, and Joshua,
the
son of Nun, and
before the chiefs, saying, The Lord gave orders
to Moses to give us a
heritage among our brothers: so in
agreement with the
orders of the Lord he gave them a heritage
among their father's
brothers.
17:5 And ten parts were given to Manasseh, in addition to
the
land of Gilead and
Bashan, which is on the other side of
Jordan;
17:6 Because the daughters of Manasseh had a heritage among
his
sons, and the land of
Gilead was the property of the other sons
of Manasseh.
17:7 And the limit of Manasseh's land was from Asher to
Michmethath, which is
before Shechem; the line goes on to the
right hand, to the
people of En-tappuah.
17:8 The land of Tappuah was the property of Manasseh; but
Tappuah on the edge
of Manasseh was the property of the
children of Ephraim.
17:9 And the limit goes down to the stream Kanah, to the
south
of the stream: these
towns were Ephraim's among the towns of
Manasseh; Manasseh's
limit was on the north side of the stream,
ending at the sea:
17:10 To the south it is Ephraim's, and to the north it is
Manasseh's, and the
sea is his limit; and they are touching
Asher on the north,
and Issachar on the east.
17:11 In Issachar and Asher, Manasseh had Beth-shean and its
daughter-towns, and
Ibleam and its daughter-towns, and the
people of Dor and its
daughter-towns, and the people of En-dor
and its
daughter-towns, and the people of Taanach and its
daughter-towns, and
the people of Megiddo and its
daughter-towns, that
is, the three hills.
17:12 But the children of Manasseh were not able to make the
people of those towns
go out; but the Canaanites would go on
living in that land.
17:13 And when the children of Israel had become strong,
they
put the Canaanites to
forced work, in place of driving them
out.
17:14 Then the children of Joseph said to Joshua, Why have
you
given me only one
part and one stretch of land for my heritage?
For through the
blessing given to me by the Lord up to now, I
am a great people.
17:15 Then Joshua said to them, If you are such a great
people,
go up into the
woodlands, clearing a place there for yourselves
in the land of the
Perizzites and the Rephaim, if the
hill-country of
Ephraim is not wide enough for you.
17:16 And the children of Joseph said, The hill-country is
not
enough for us: and
all the Canaanites living in the valley have
iron war-carriages,
those in Beth-shean and its towns as well
as those in the
valley of Jezreel.
17:17 Then Joshua said to the children of Joseph, to Ephraim
and
Manasseh, You are a
great people, and have great power: you are
not to have one
property only,
17:18 For the hill-country of Gilead will be yours ... the
woodland and cut down
... its outskirts will be yours ... get
the Canaanites out,
for they have iron war-carriages ...
strong.
18:1 And all the meeting of the children of Israel came
together
at Shiloh and put up
the Tent of meeting there: and the land
was crushed before
them.
18:2 But there were still seven tribes among the children of
Israel who had not
taken up their heritage.
18:3 Then Joshua said to the children of Israel, Why are you
so
slow to go in and
take up your heritage in the land which the
Lord, the God of your
fathers, has given you?
18:4 Take from among you three men from every tribe; and I
will
send them to go
through the land and make a record of it for
distribution as their
heritage; then let them come back to me.
18:5 And let them make division of it into seven parts: let
Judah keep inside his
limit on the south, and let the children
of Joseph keep inside
their limit on the north.
18:6 And you are to have the land marked out in seven parts,
and
come back to me with
the record; and I will make the
distribution for you
here by the decision of the Lord our God.
18:7 For the Levites have no part among you; to be the
Lord's
priests is their
heritage; and Gad and Reuben and the
half-tribe of
Manasseh have had their heritage on the east side
of Jordan, given to
them by Moses, the servant of the Lord.
18:8 So the men got up and went; and Joshua gave orders to
those
who went, to make a
record of the land, saying, Go up and down
through the land, and
make a record of it and come back here to
me, and I will make
the distribution for you here by the
decision of the Lord
in Shiloh.
18:9 So the men went, travelling through the land, and made
a
record of it by towns
in seven parts in a book, and came back
to Joshua to the
tent-circle at Shiloh.
18:10 And Joshua made the distribution for them in Shiloh by
the
decision of the Lord,
marking out the land for the children of
Israel by their
divisions.
18:11 And the first heritage came out for the tribe of
Benjamin
by their families:
and the limit of their heritage went between
the children of Judah
and the children of Joseph.
18:12 And their limit on the north was from the Jordan, and
the
line goes up to the
side of Jericho on the north and through
the hill-country to
the west, ending at the waste land of
Beth-aven.
18:13 And from there the line goes south to Luz, to the side
of
Luz (which is
Beth-el), then down to Ataroth-addar, by the
mountain to the south
of Beth-horon the lower.
18:14 And the limit is marked as coming round to the south
on
the west side from
the mountain which is south of Beth-horon,
and ending at
Kiriath-baal (which is Kiriath-jearim), a town of
the children of
Judah: this is the west part.
18:15 And the south part is from the farthest point of
Kiriath-jearim, and
the line goes out to the west to the
fountain of the
waters of Nephtoah:
18:16 And the line goes down to the farthest part of the
mountain facing the
valley of the son of Hinnom, which is on
the north of the
valley of Rephaim: from there it goes down to
the valley of Hinnom,
to the side of the Jebusite on the south
as far as En-rogel;
18:17 And it goes to En-shemesh and on to Geliloth, opposite
the
way up to Adummim,
and it goes down to the stone of Bohan, the
son of Reuben;
18:18 And it goes on to the side facing the Arabah to the
north,
and down to the
Arabah;
18:19 And on to the north side of Beth-hoglah, ending at the
north inlet of the
Salt Sea at the south end of Jordan; this is
their limit on the
south.
18:20 And the limit of the east part is the Jordan. This is
the
heritage of the
children of Benjamin, marked out for their
families by these
limits on all sides.
18:21 And the towns of the children of Benjamin, given to
them
in the order of their
families, are Jericho and Beth-hoglah and
Emek-kezziz
18:22 And Beth-arabah and Zemaraim and Beth-el
18:23 And Avvim and Parah and Ophrah
18:24 And Chephar-Ammoni and Ophni and Geba; twelve towns
with
their unwalled places;
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 Zela, Eleph and the Jebusite (which is Jerusalem),
Gibeath and Kiriath;
fourteen towns with their unwalled places.
This is the heritage
of the children of Benjamin by their
families.
19:1 And the second heritage came out for the tribe of
Simeon by
their families; and
their heritage was in the middle of the
heritage of the
children of Judah.
19:2 And they had for their heritage Beer-sheba and Shema
and
Moladah
19:3 And Hazar-shual and Balah and Ezem
19:4 And Eltolad and Bethul and Hormah
19:5 And Ziklag and Beth-marcaboth and Hazar-susah
19:6 And Beth-lebaoth and Sharuhen; thirteen towns with
their
unwalled places;
19:7 Ain, Rimmon, and Ether and Ashan; four towns with their
unwalled places;
19:8 And all the unwalled places round about these towns as
far
as Baalath-beer-ramah
to the south. This is the heritage of the
tribe of Simeon by
their families.
19:9 The heritage of Simeon was taken out of Judah's stretch
of
land, for Judah's
part was more than they had need of, so the
heritage of the
children of Simeon was inside their heritage.
19:10 And the third heritage came out for Zebulun by their
families; the limit
of their heritage was as far as Sarid;
19:11 And their limit goes up to the west to Maralah,
stretching
to Dabbesheth, and to
the stream in front of Jokneam;
19:12 Then turning east from Sarid to the limit of
Chisloth-tabor, it
goes out to Daberath, and up to Japhia;
19:13 And from there it goes on east to Gath-hepher, to
Eth-kazin; ending at
Rimmon which goes as far as Neah;
19:14 And the line goes round it on the north to Hannathon,
ending at the valley
of Iphtah-el;
19:15 And Kattath and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and
Beth-lehem; twelve
towns with their unwalled places.
19:16 This is the heritage of the children of Zebulun by
their
families, these towns
with their unwalled places.
19:17 For Issachar the fourth heritage came out, for the
children of Issachar
by their families;
19:18 And their limit was to Jezreel and Chesulloth and
Shunem
19:19 And Hapharaim and Shion and Anaharath
19:20 And Rabbith and Kishion and Ebez
19:21 And Remeth and En-gannim and En-haddah and
Beth-pazzez;
19:22 And their limit goes as far as Tabor and Shahazimah
and
Beth-shemesh, ending
at Jordan; sixteen towns with their
unwalled places.
19:23 This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of
Issachar by their
families, these towns with their unwalled
places.
19:24 And the fifth heritage came out for the tribe of Asher
by
their families.
19:25 And their limit was Helkath and Hali and Beten and
Achshaph
19:26 And Alammelech and Amad and Mishal, stretching to
Carmel
on the west and
Shihor-libnath;
19:27 Turning to the east to Beth-dagon and stretching to
Zebulun and the
valley of Iphtah-el as far as Beth-emek and
Neiel to the north;
on the left it goes as far as Cabul
19:28 And Ebron and Rehob and Hammon and Kanah, to great
Zidon;
19:29 And the limit goes round to Ramah and the walled town
of
Tyre and Hosah,
ending at the sea by Heleb and Achzib;
19:30 And Ummah and Aphek and Rehob; twenty-two towns with
their
unwalled places.
19:31 This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of
Asher
by their families,
these towns with their unwalled places.
19:32 For the children of Naphtali the sixth heritage came
out,
for the children of
Naphtali by their families;
19:33 And their limit was from Heleph, from the oak-tree in
Zaanannim, and
Adami-hannekeb and Jabneel, as far as Lakkum,
ending at Jordan;
19:34 And turning west to Aznoth-tabor, the limit goes out
from
there to Hukkok,
stretching to Zebulun on the south, and Asher
on the west, and
Judah at Jordan on the east.
19:35 And the walled towns 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 towns with their unwalled places.
19:39 This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of
Naphtali by their
families, these towns with their unwalled
places.
19:40 For the tribe of Dan by their families the seventh
heritage came out;
19:41 And the limit of their heritage was Zorah and Eshtaol
and
Ir-shemesh
19:42 And Shaalabbin and Aijalon and Ithlah
19:43 And Elon and Timnah and Ekron
19:44 And Eltekeh and Gibbethon and Baalath
19:45 And Jehud and Bene-berak and Gath-rimmon;
19:46 And on the west was ... opposite Joppa.
19:47 (But the limit of the children of Dan was not wide
enough
for them; so the
children of Dan went up and made war on Leshem
and took it, putting
it to the sword without mercy, and they
took it for their
heritage and made a place for themselves
there, giving it the
name of Leshem-dan, after the name of
their father, Dan.)
19:48 This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of
Dan
by their families,
these towns with their unwalled places.
19:49 So the distribution of the land and its limits was
complete; and the
children of Israel gave Joshua, the son of
Nun, a heritage among
them;
19:50 By the orders of the Lord they gave him the town for
which
he made request,
Timnath-serah in the hill-country of Ephraim:
there, after building
the town, he made his living-place.
19:51 These are the heritages which Eleazar the priest and
Joshua, the son of
Nun, and the heads of families of the tribes
of the children of
Israel gave out at Shiloh, by the decision
of the Lord, at the
door of the Tent of meeting. So the
distribution of the
land was complete.
20:1 And the Lord said to Joshua,
20:2 Say to the children of Israel, Let certain towns be
marked
out as safe places,
as I said to you by the mouth of Moses,
20:3 So that any man who in error and without design has
taken
the life of another,
may go in flight to them: and they will be
safe places for you
from him who has the right of punishment
for blood.
20:4 And if anyone goes in flight to one of those towns, and
comes into the public
place of the town, and puts his cause
before the
responsible men of the town, they will take him into
the town and give him
a place among them where he may be safe.
20:5 And if the one who has the right of punishment comes
after
him, they are not to
give the taker of life up to him; because
he was the cause of
his neighbour's death without designing it
and not in hate.
20:6 And he is to go on living in that town till he has to
come
before the meeting of
the people to be judged; (till the death
of him who is high
priest at that time:) then the taker of life
may come back to his
town and to his house, to the town from
which he had gone in
flight.
20:7 So they made selection of Kedesh in Galilee in the
hill-country of
Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of
Ephraim, and
Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron) in the hill-country
of Judah.
20:8 And on the east side of Jordan at Jericho, they made
selection of Bezer in
the waste land, in the table-land, 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 towns marked out for all the children of
Israel and for the
man from a strange country living among
them, so that anyone
causing the death of another in error,
might go in flight
there, and not be put to death by him who
has the right of
punishment for blood till he had come before
the meeting of the
people.
21:1 Then the heads of the families of the Levites came to
Eleazar the priest
and Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads
of families of the
tribes of the children of Israel;
21:2 And said to them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, The
Lord
gave orders by Moses
that we were to have towns for living in,
with their
grass-lands for our cattle.
21:3 And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave
to
the Levites these
towns with their grass-lands, by the order of
the Lord.
21:4 And the heritage came out for the families of the
Kohathites: the
children of Aaron the priest, who were of the
Levites, were given
thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah,
Simeon, and Benjamin.
21:5 The rest of the children of Kohath by their families
were
given ten towns from
the tribes of Ephraim and Dan and the
half-tribe of
Manasseh.
21:6 The children of Gershon by their families were given
thirteen towns from
the tribes of Issachar and Asher and
Naphtali and the
half-tribe of Manasseh which was in Bashan.
21:7 The children of Merari by their families were given
twelve
towns from the tribes
of Reuben and Gad and Zebulun.
21:8 All these towns with their grass-lands the children of
Israel gave by the
decision of the Lord to the Levites, as the
Lord had given orders
by Moses.
21:9 From the tribes of the children of Judah and the
children
of Simeon they gave
these towns, listed here by name:
21:10 These were for the children of Aaron among the
families of
the Kohathites, of
the children of Levi: for they came first in
the distribution.
21:11 They gave them Kiriath-arba, the town of Arba, the
father
of Anak, (which is
Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah, with
its grass-lands.
21:12 But the open country round the town, and its unwalled
places, they gave to
Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, as his
property.
21:13 And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave
Hebron
with its grass-lands,
the town where the taker of life might be
safe, and Libnah with
its grass-lands;
21:14 And Jattir with its grass-lands, and Eshtemoa with its
grass-lands;
21:15 And Holon with its grass-lands, and Debir with its
grass-lands;
21:16 And Ain, and Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, with their
grass-lands; nine
towns from those two tribes.
21:17 And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave Gibeon and
Geba
with their
grass-lands;
21:18 Anathoth and Almon with their grass-lands, four towns.
21:19 Thirteen towns with their grass-lands were given to
the
children of Aaron,
the priests.
21:20 The rest of the families of the children of Kohath,
the
Levites, were given
towns from the tribe of Ephraim.
21:21 And they gave them Shechem with its grass-lands in the
hill-country of
Ephraim, the town where the taker of life might
be safe, and Gezer
with its grass-lands;
21:22 And Kibzaim and Beth-horon with their grass-lands,
four
towns.
21:23 And from the tribe of Dan, Elteke and Gibbethon with
their
grass-lands;
21:24 Aijalon and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, four
towns.
21:25 And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and
Gath-rimmon with
their grass-lands, two towns.
21:26 All the towns of the rest of the families of the
children
of Kohath were ten
with their grass-lands.
21:27 And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the
Levites, they gave
from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in
Bashan with its
grass-lands, the town where the taker of life
might be safe, and
Ashtaroth with its grass-lands, two towns.
21:28 And from the tribe of Issachar, Kishion and Daberath
with
their grass-lands;
21:29 Jarmuth and En-gannim with their grass-lands, four
towns.
21:30 And from the tribe of Asher, Mishal and Abdon, with
their
grass-lands:
21:31 Helkath and Rehob with their grass-lands, four towns.
21:32 And from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with
its
grass-lands, the town
where the taker of life might be safe,
and Hammoth-dor and
Kartan with their grass-lands, three towns.
21:33 All the towns of the Gershonites with their families
were
thirteen with their grass-lands.
21:34 And to the rest of the Levites, that is, the families
of
the children of
Merari, they gave from the tribe of Zebulun,
Jokneam and Kartah
with their grass-lands;
21:35 Dimnah and Nahalal with their grass-lands, four towns.
21:36 And from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and Jahaz with
their
grass-lands;
21:37 Kedemoth and Mephaath with their grass-lands, four
towns.
21:38 And from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead, the town
where the taker of
life might be safe, and Mahanaim with their
grass-lands;
21:39 Heshbon and Jazer with their grass-lands, four towns.
21:40 All these towns were given to the children of Merari
by
their families, that
is, the rest of the families of the
Levites; and their
heritage was twelve towns.
21:41 All the towns of the Levites, among the heritage of
the
children of Israel,
were forty-eight towns with their
grass-lands.
21:42 Every one of these towns had grass-lands round it.
21:43 So the Lord gave to Israel all the land which he gave
by
oath to their fathers;
so it became their heritage and their
living-place.
21:44 And the Lord gave them peace on every side, as he had
said
to their fathers: all
those who were against them gave way
before them, for the
Lord gave them all up into their hands.
21:45 The Lord kept faith with the house of Israel about all
the
good which he said he
would do for them, and all his words came
true.
22:1 Then Joshua sent for the Reubenites and the Gadites and
the
half-tribe of
Manasseh,
22:2 And said to them, You have kept all the orders of
Moses,
the Lord's servant,
and have done everything I gave you orders
to do:
22:3 You have now been with your brothers for a long time;
till
this day you have
been doing the orders of the Lord your God.
22:4 And now the Lord your God has given your brothers rest,
as
he said: so now you
may go back to your tents, to the land of
your heritage, which
Moses, the Lord's servant, gave to you on
the other side of
Jordan.
22:5 Only take great care to do the orders and the law which
Moses, the Lord's
servant, gave you; to have love for the Lord
your God and to go in
all his ways; and to keep his laws and to
be true to him and to
be his servants with all your heart and
with all your soul.
22:6 Then Joshua gave them his blessing and sent them away:
and
they went back to
their tents.
22:7 Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh, Moses had
given a heritage in
Bashan; but to the other half, Joshua gave
a heritage among
their brothers on the west side of Jordan. Now
when Joshua sent them
away to their tents, he gave them his
blessing,
22:8 And said to them, Go back with much wealth to your
tents,
and with very much
cattle, with silver and gold and brass and
iron, and with a very
great store of clothing; give your
brothers a part of
the goods taken in the war.
22:9 So Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went
back,
parting from the
children of Israel at Shiloh in the land of
Canaan, to go to the
land of Gilead, to the land of their
heritage which had
been given to them by the Lord's order to
Moses.
22:10 Now when they came to the country by Jordan in the
land of
Canaan, the children
of Reuben and the children of Gad and the
half-tribe of
Manasseh put up there, by Jordan, a great altar,
seen from far.
22:11 And news came to the children of Israel, See, the
children
of Reuben and the
children of Gad and the half-tribe of
Manasseh have put up
an altar opposite the land of Canaan, in
the country by Jordan
on the side which is Israel's.
22:12 Then all the meeting of the children of Israel,
hearing
this, came together
at Shiloh to go up against them to war.
22:13 And the children of Israel sent Phinehas, the son of
Eleazar the priest,
to the children of Reuben and the children
of Gad and the
half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead,
22:14 And with him they sent ten chiefs, one for every tribe
of
the children of
Israel, every one of them the head of his house
among the families of
Israel.
22:15 And they came to the children of Reuben and the
children
of Gad and the
half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead,
and said to them,
22:16 This is what all the meeting of the people of the Lord
has
said, What is this
wrong which you have done against the God of
Israel, turning back
this day from the Lord and building an
altar for yourselves,
and being false to the Lord?
22:17 Was not the sin of Baal-peor great enough, from which
we
are not clear even to
this day, though punishment came on the
people of the Lord,
22:18 That now you are turned back from the Lord? and,
because
you are false to him
today, tomorrow his wrath will be let
loose on all the
people of Israel.
22:19 But if the land you now have is unclean, come over
into
the Lord's land where
his House is, and take up your heritage
among us: but do not
be false to the Lord and to us by building
yourselves an altar
in addition to the altar of the Lord our
God.
22:20 Did not Achan, the son of Zerah, do wrong about the
cursed
thing, causing wrath
to come on all the people of Israel? And
not on him only came
the punishment of death.
22:21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad
and
the half-tribe of
Manasseh said in answer to the heads of the
families of Israel,
22:22 God, even God the Lord, God, even God the Lord, he
sees,
and Israel will
see--if it is in pride or in sin against the
Lord,
22:23 That we have made ourselves an altar, being false to
the
Lord, keep us not
safe from death this day; and if for the
purpose of offering
burned offerings on it and meal offerings,
or peace-offerings,
let the Lord himself send punishment for
it;
22:24 And if we have not, in fact, done this designedly and
with
purpose, having in
our minds the fear that in time to come your
children might say to
our children, What have you to do with
the Lord, the God of
Israel?
22:25 For the Lord has made Jordan a line of division
between us
and you, the children
of Reuben and the children of Gad; you
have no part in the
Lord: so your children will make our
children give up
fearing the Lord.
22:26 So we said, Let us now make an altar for ourselves,
not
for burned offerings
or for the offerings of beasts:
22:27 But to be a witness between us and you, and between
the
future generations,
that we have the right of worshipping the
Lord with our burned
offerings and our offerings of beasts and
our peace-offerings;
so that your children will not be able to
say to our children
in time to come, You have no part in the
Lord.
22:28 For we said to ourselves, If they say this to us or to
future generations,
then we will say, See this copy of the
Lord's altar which
our fathers made, not for burned offerings
or offerings of
beasts, but for a witness between us and you.
22:29 Never let it be said that we were false to the Lord,
turning back this day
from him and building an altar for burned
offerings and meal
offerings and offerings of beasts, in
addition to the altar
of the Lord our God which is before his
House.
22:30 Then Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the meeting
and
the heads of the
families of Israel who were with him, hearing
what the children of
Reuben and the children of Gad and the
children of Manasseh
said, were pleased.
22:31 And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, said to
the
children of Reuben
and the children of Gad and the children of
Manasseh, Now we are
certain that the Lord is among us, because
you have not done
this wrong against the Lord: and you have
kept us from falling
into the hands of the Lord.
22:32 Then Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, and the
chiefs went back from
the land of Gilead, from the children of
Reuben and the
children of Gad, and came to the children of
Israel in Canaan and
gave them the news.
22:33 And the children of Israel were pleased about this;
and
they gave praise to
God, and had no more thought of going to
war against the
children of Reuben and the children of Gad for
the destruction of
their land.
22:34 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad
gave to
that altar the name
of Ed. For, they said, It is a witness
between us that the
Lord is God.
23:1 Now after a long time, when the Lord had given Israel
rest
from wars on every
side, and Joshua was old and full of years,
23:2 Joshua sent for all Israel, for their responsible men
and
their chiefs and
their judges and their overseers, and said to
them, I am old, and
full of years:
23:3 You have seen everything the Lord your God has done to
all
these nations because
of you; for it is the Lord your God who
has been fighting for
you.
23:4 Now I have given to you, as the heritage of your
tribes,
all these nations
which are still in the land, together with
those cut off by me,
from Jordan as far as the Great Sea on the
west.
23:5 The Lord your God will send them away by force, driving
them out before you;
and you are to take their land for your
heritage, as the Lord
your God said to you.
23:6 So be very strong to keep and do whatever is recorded
in
the book of the law
of Moses, not turning away from it to the
right or to the left;
23:7 Have nothing to do with these nations who still are
living
among you; let not
their gods be named by you or used in your
oaths; do not be
their servants or give them worship:
23:8 But be true to the Lord your God as you have been till
this
day.
23:9 For the Lord has sent out from before you nations great
and
strong: and they have
all given way before you till this day.
23:10 One man of you is able to put to flight a thousand;
for it
is the Lord your God
who is fighting for you, as he has said to
you.
23:11 So keep watch on yourselves, and see that you have
love
for the Lord your
God.
23:12 For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of
these nations who are
still among you, getting married to them
and living with them
and they with you:
23:13 Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will
not go
on driving these
nations out from before you; but they will
become a danger and a
cause of sin to you, a whip for your
sides and thorns in
your eyes, till you are cut off from this
good land which the
Lord your God has given you.
23:14 Now I am about to go the way of all the earth: and you
have seen and are
certain, all of you, in your hearts and
souls, that in all
the good things which the Lord said about
you, he has kept
faith with you; everything has come true for
you.
23:15 And you will see that, as all the good things which
the
Lord your God
undertook to do for you, have come to you, so the
Lord will send down
on you all the evil things till he has made
your destruction
complete, and you are cut off from the good
land which the Lord
your God has given you.
23:16 If the agreement of the Lord your God, which was given
to
you by his orders, is
broken, and you become the servants of
other gods and give
them worship, then the wrath of the Lord
will be burning
against you, and you will quickly be cut off
from the good land
which he has given you.
24:1 Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at
Shechem; and he sent
for the responsible men of Israel and
their chiefs and
their judges and their overseers; and they
took their place
before God.
24:2 And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words
of
the Lord, the God of
Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah,
the father of
Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on
the other side of the
River: and they were worshipping other
gods.
24:3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of
the
River, guiding him
through all the land of Canaan; I made his
offspring great in
number, and gave him Isaac.
24:4 And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau: to Esau I gave
Mount
Seir, as his
heritage; but Jacob and his children went down to
Egypt.
24:5 And I sent Moses and Aaron, troubling Egypt by all the
signs I did among
them: and after that I took you out.
24:6 I took your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the
Red
Sea; and the
Egyptians came after your fathers to the Red Sea,
with their
war-carriages and their horsemen.
24:7 And at their cry, the Lord made it dark between you and
the
Egyptians, and made
the sea go over them, covering them with
its waters; your eyes
have seen what I did in Egypt: then for a
long time you were
living in the waste land.
24:8 And I took you into the lands of the Amorites on the
other
side of Jordan; and
they made war on you, and I gave them into
your hands and you
took their land; and I sent destruction on
them before you.
24:9 Then Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, went up to
war
against Israel; and
he sent for Balaam, the son of Beor, to put
a curse on you:
24:10 But I did not give ear to Balaam; and so he went on
blessing you; and I
kept you safe from him.
24:11 Then you went over Jordan and came to Jericho: and the
men
of Jericho made war
on you, the Amorites and the Perizzites and
the Canaanites and
the Hittites and the Girgashites and the
Hivites and the
Jebusites: and I gave them up into your hands.
24:12 And I sent the hornet before you, driving out the two
kings of the Amorites
before you, not with your sword and your
bow.
24:13 And I gave you a land on which you had done no work,
and
towns not of your
building, and you are now living in them; and
your food comes from
vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your
planting.
24:14 So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants
with
true hearts: put away
the gods worshipped by your fathers
across the River and
in Egypt, and be servants of the Lord.
24:15 And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the
Lord, make the
decision this day whose servants you will be: of
the gods whose
servants your fathers were across the River, or
of the gods of the
Amorites in whose land you are living: but I
and my house will be
the servants of the Lord.
24:16 Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up
the
Lord to be the
servants of other gods;
24:17 For it is the Lord our God who has taken us and our
fathers out of the
land of Egypt, out of the prison-house, and
who did all those
great signs before our eyes, and kept us safe
on all our journeys,
and among all the peoples through whom we
went:
24:18 And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples,
the
Amorites living in
the land: so we will be the servants of the
Lord, for he is our
God.
24:19 And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be
the
servants of the Lord,
for he is a holy God, a God who will not
let his honour be
given to another: he will have no mercy on
your wrongdoing or
your sins.
24:20 If you are turned away from the Lord and become the
servants of strange
gods, then turning against you he will do
you evil, cutting you
off, after he has done you good.
24:21 And the people said to Joshua, No! But we will be the
servants of the Lord.
24:22 And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses
against
yourselves that you
have made the decision to be the servants
of the Lord. And they
said, We are witnesses.
24:23 Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you,
turning your hearts
to the Lord, the God of Israel.
24:24 And the people said to Joshua, We will be the servants
of
the Lord our God, and
we will give ear to his voice.
24:25 So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day,
and
gave them a rule and
a law in Shechem.
24:26 And Joshua put these words on record, writing them in
the
book of the law of
God; and he took a great stone, and put it
up there under the
oak-tree which was in the holy place of the
Lord.
24:27 And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone
is
to be a witness
against us; for all the words of the Lord have
been said to us in
its hearing: so it will be a witness against
you if you are false
to the Lord your God.
24:28 Then Joshua let the people go away, every man to his
heritage.
24:29 Now after these things, the death of Joshua, the son
of
Nun, the servant of
the Lord, took place, he being then a
hundred and ten years
old.
24:30 And they put his body in the earth in the land of his
heritage in
Timnath-serah, in the hill-country of Ephraim, to
the north of Mount
Gaash.
24:31 And Israel was true to the Lord all the days of
Joshua,
and all the days of
the older men who were still living after
Joshua's death, and
had seen what the Lord had done for Israel.
24:32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel
had
taken up from Egypt,
they put in the earth in Shechem, in the
property which Jacob
had got from the sons of Hamor, the father
of Shechem, for a
hundred shekels: and they became the heritage
of the children of
Joseph.
24:33 Then the death of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, took
place;
and his body was put
in the earth in the hill of Phinehas his
son, which had been
given to him in the hill-country of
Ephraim.