Joshua's complaint."

JOSHUA.

Achan taken by lot. thirty and six men; for they chased them son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe from before the gate even unto Shebarim, of Judah, was taken.

די

and smote them in the going down: where- 19 And Joshua said unto Achan, My fore the hearts of the people melted, and be

came as water..

6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the even-tide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.

son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me,

20 And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the TOO LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done.

7 And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this peo ple over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!

ཟླ་

21 When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred she kels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them, and behold, they are hid in 8 O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel the earth in the midst of my tent, and the turneth their backs before their enemies! silver under it.

9 For the Canaanites, and all the inhabit- 22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ants of the land shall hear of it, and shall ran unto the tent, and behold, it was hid in environ us round, and cut off our name his tent, and the silver under it. from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name? ...

10 1 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?

23 And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD.

24 ¶ And Joshua, and all Israel with him, 11 Israel hath sinned, and they have also took Achan the son of Zerah, and the sil transgressed my covenant which I com-ver, and the garment, and the wedge of manded them: for they have even taken gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and and dissembled also, and they have put it his tent, and all that he had and they even among their own stuff. brought them unto the valley of Achor. 12 Therefore the children of Israel could 25 And Joshua said, Why hast thou not stand before their enemies, but turned troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee their backs before their enemies, because this day. And all Israel stoned him with they were accursed: neither will I be with stones, and burned them with fire, after you any more, except ye destroy the ac- they had stoned them with stones. 26 And they raised over him a great

cursed from among you. 13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow: for turned from the fierceness of his anger: thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is wherefore the name of that place was called an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O the valley of Achor unto this day. Israel: thou canst not stand before thine

enemies, until ye take away the accursed A

thing from among you.

CHAP. VIII.

ND the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take 14 In the morning therefore ye shall be all the people of war with thee, and arise, brought according to your tribes: and it go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy shall be, that the tribe which the LORD hand the king of Ai, and his people, and taketh shall come according to the families his city, and his land:

thereof; and the family which the LORD 2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king, shall take shall come by households; and as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: the household which the LORD shall take only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereshall come man by man. of, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: 15 And it shall be, that he that is taken lay thee an ambush for the city behind it. with the accursed thing shall be burnt with 3 So Joshua arose, and all the people fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and chose out thirty thousand mighty men of because he hath wrought folly in Israel. valour, and sent them away by night.

16 ¶ So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:

17 And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man: and Zabdi was taken:

4 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready:

5 And 1, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city and it shall come to pass when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee

18 And he brought his household man by man; and Achan the son of Carmi, the before thein,

Ai taken by stratagem.

CHAP. VIII.

The king of Ai is hanged.

6 (For they will come out after us) till 21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: therefore we will flee before them. 7 Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.

that the ambush had taken the city, and. that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai. 22 And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that 8 And it shall be when ye have taken the side: and they smote them, so that they. city, that ye shall set the city on fire: ac- let none of them remain or escape. cording to the commandment of the LORD 23 And the king of Ai they took alive, shall ye do. See, I have commanded you. and brought him to Joshua.

9 Joshua therefore sent them forth; 24 And it came to pass when Israel had and they went to lie in ambush, and abode made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among they chased them, and when they were all the people. fallen on the edge of the sword, until they

10 And Joshua rose up early in the were consumed, that all the Israelites remorning, and numbered the people, and turned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge went up, he and the elders of Israel, before of the sword. the people to Ai.

11 And all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai.

12 And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city. 13 And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

25 And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.

26 For Joshua drew not his hand back wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua.

28 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day..

14 And it came to pass when the king 29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up tree until even-tide: and as soon as the sun early, and the men of the city went out was down, Joshua commanded that they against Israel to battle, he and all his peo- should take his carcass down from the tree, ple, at a time appointed, before the plain: and cast it at the entering of the gate of the but he wist not that there were liers in am-city, and raise thereon a great heap of bush against him behind the city.

15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.

16 And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city.

17 And there was not a man left in Ai, or Beth-el, that went not out after Israel and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.

stones, that remaineth unto this day..

30 Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal,

31 As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man hath lifted up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt-offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace-offerings.

32 And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote 18 And the LORD said unto Joshua, in the presence of the children of Israel. Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand to- 33 And all Israel, and their elders, and ward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. officers, and their judges, stood on this side And Joshua stretched out the spear that he the ark and on that side before the priests had in his hand toward the city. the Levites, which bare the ark of the co

19 And the ambush arose quickly out of venant of the LORD, as well the stranger, their place, and they ran as soon as he had as he that was born among them; half of stretched out his hand and they entered them over against mount Gerizim, and half into the city, and took it, and hasted, and of them over against mount Ebal; as Moset the city on fire. ses the servant of the LORD had command

20 And when the men of Ai looked be-ed before, that they should bless the people hind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of Israel.

of the city ascended up to heaven, and 34 And afterward he read all the words they had no power to flee this way or that of the law, the blessings and cursings, acway: and the people that fled to the wil-cording to all that is written in the book of derness turned back upon the pursuers. the law.

Combination against Israel. . JOSHUAJ

Five kings attack Gibeon. 35 There was not a word of all that Mo-live: and the princes of the congregation ses commanded, which Joshua read not be- sware unto them.

fore all the congregation of Israel, with the 16 ¶ And it came to pass at the end of women, and the little ones, and the stran- three days after they had made a league gers that were conversant among them. with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dwelt

CHAP. IX.

AND it came to pass, when all the kings among them.

17 Ånd the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim.

which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorites, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite 18 And the children of Israel smote heard thereof; them not, because the princes of the cou2 That they gathered themselves toge-gregation had sworn unto them by the ther, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord.

LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.

19 But all the princes said unto all the

3¶ And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho congregation, We have sworn unto them and to Ai, by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them..

4 They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and winebottles, old, and rent, and bound up;

20 This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto

5 And old shoes and clouted upon their them. feet, and old garments upon them; and all 21 And the princes said unto them, Let the bread of their provision was dry and them live; but let them be hewers of wood, mouldy. and drawers of water unto all the con6 And they went to Joshua unto the gregation; as the princes had promised camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to them. the men of Israel, We be come from a far 22 ¶ And Joshua called for them, and he country: now therefore make ye a league spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have with us. ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far

7 And the men of Israel said unto the from you; when ye dwell among us? Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; 23 Now therefore ye are cursed, and and how shall we make a league with you? there shall none of you be freed from being 8 And they said unto Joshua, We are thy bond-men, and hewers of wood and drawservants. And Joshua said unto them, Who ers of water for the house of my God. are ye? and from whence come ye?

9 And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come, because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,

24 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

10 And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king 25 And now, behold, we are in thine of Bashan, which was at Ashtaroth. hand: as it seemeth good and right unto

11 Wherefore our elders, and all the in- thee to do unto us, do. habitants of our country spake to us, say- 26 And so did he unto them, and deing, Take victuals with you for the jour-livered them out of the hand of the chilney, and go to meet them, and say unto dren of Israel, that they slew them not. them, We are your servants: therefore now 27 And Joshua made them that day make ve a league with us: hewers of wood and drawers of water for

12 This our bread we took hot for our the congregation, and for the altar of the provision out of our houses on the day we LORD, even unto this day, in the place came forth to go unto you; but now, be- which he should choose. hold, it is dry, and it is mouldy:

CHAP. X.

NOW
OW it came to pass, when Adoni-

13 And these bottles of wine which we filled, were new, and behold they be rent: zedec king of Jerusalem had heard and these our garments and our shoes are how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly become old by reason of the very long destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho journey. and her king, so he had done to Ai and 14 And the men took of their victuals, her king; and how the inhabitants of Giand asked not counsel at the mouth of the beon had made peace with Israel, and were LORD. among them;

15 And Joshua made peace with them, 2 That they feared greatly, because and made a league with them, to let them Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal

Joshua rescues it.

CHAP. X.

The five kings anged. cities, and because it was greater than Ai, five kings are found hid in a cave at Makand all the men thereof were mighty. kedah.

3 Wherefore Adoni-zedec king of Jeru- 18 And Joshua said, Roll grea stones salem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, upon the mouth of the cave, and set men and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto by it for to keep them: Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,

19 And stay you not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of 4 Come up unto me, and help me, that them; suffer them not to enter into their we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made cities: for the LORD your God hath delipeace with Joshua and with the children vered them into your hand. of Israel.

20 And it came to pass, when Joshua 5 Therefore the five kings of the Amo- and the children of Israel had made an rites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of end of slaying them with a very great Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of slaughter, till they were consumed, that the Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered them- rest which remained of them entered into selves together, and went up, they and all fenced cities. their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it.

6¶ And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.

7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour.

8 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee.

21 And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.

22 ¶ Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave.

聚

23 And they did so, and brought forth those five kings unto him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.

24 And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings, And they came near, and put their feet upon

9 Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night. 10 And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great the necks of them. slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along 25 And Joshua said unto them, Fear the way that goeth up to Beth-horon, and not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah. courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all 11 And it came to pass as they fled from your enemies against whom ye fight. before Israel, and were in the going down 26 And afterward Joshua smote them, to Beth-horon, that the LORD cast down and slew them, and hanged them on five great stones from heaven upon them unto trees and they were hanging upon the Azekah, and they died: they were more trees until the evening.

which died with hailstones than they whom 27 And it came to pass at the time of the children of Israel slew with the sword. the going down of the sun, that Joshua 12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in commanded, and they took them down off the day when the LORD delivered up the the trees, and cast them into the cave Amorites before the children of Israel, and wherein they had been hid, and laid great he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand stones in the cave's mouth, which remain thou still upon Gibeon, and thou Moon, in until this very day.

the valley of Ajalon.

28 And that day Joshua took Makke13 And the sun stood still, and the moon dah, and smote it with the edge of the stayed, until the people had avenged them- sword, and the king thereof he utterly deselves upon their enemies. Is not this stroyed, them, and all the souls that were written in the book of Jasher? So the sun therein; he let none remain: and he did stood still in the midst of heaven, and to the king of Makkedah as he did unto hasted not to go down about a whole day. the king of Jericho. 14 And there was no day like that be- 29 Then Joshua passed from Makkefore it or after it, that the LORD hearkened dah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, unto the voice of a man: for the LORD and fought against Libnah: fought for Israel.

30 And the LORD delivered it also, and 15 And Joshua returned, and all Israel the king thereof, into the hand of Israel: with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.

16 But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cav at Makkedah.

17 And it was tok J. bua, saying, The

and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain in it; but did unto the king thereof as he did unto the king of Jericho.

Joshua returns to Gilgal.

JOSHUA.

Hazor is taken and burnt. 31 ¶ And Joshua passed from Libnah, on the west, and to the Amorite, and the and all Israel with him, unto Lachish, and Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebuencamped against it, and fought against it: site in the mountains, and to the Hivite 32 And the LORD delivered Lachish under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh. into the hand of Israel, which took it on 4 And they went out, they and all their the second day, and smote it with the edge hosts with them, much people, even as the of the sword, and all the souls that were sand that is upon the sea-shore in multitherein, according to all that he had done tude, with horses and chariots very many. to Libnah. 5 And when all these kings were met to33 ¶ Then Horam king of Gezer came gether, they came and pitched together at up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him the waters of Merom, to fight against Isand his people, until he had left him none rael. remaining. 6 ¶ And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be 34 ¶ And from Lachish Joshua passed not afraid because of them: for to-morrow unto Eglon, and all Israel with him and about this time will I deliver them up all they encamped against it, and fought slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their against it: horses, and burn their chariots with fire. 35 And they took it on that day, and 7 So Joshua came, and all the people smote it with the edge of the sword, and all of war with him, against them by the wathe souls that were therein he utterly de- ters of Merom suddenly, and they fell upon stroyed that day, according to all that he them. had done to Lachish.

8 And the LORD delivered them into the 36 ¶ And Joshua went up from Eglon, hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased and all Israel with him, unto Hebron; and them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrethey fought against it: photh-maim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh 37 And they took it, and smote it with eastward; and they smote them, until they the edge of the sword, and the king there- left them none remaining.

of, and all the cities thereof, and all the 9 And Joshua did unto them as the souls that were therein; he left none re- LORD bade him he houghed their horses, maining, (according to all that he had done and burnt their chariots with fire.

to Eglon,) but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that were therein.

10 And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and smote the king 38 And Joshua returned, and all Israel thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforewith him, to Debir; and fought against it: time was the head of all those kingdoms. 39 And he took it, and the king thereof, 11 And they smote all the souls that and all the cities thereof, and they smote were therein with the edge of the sword, them with the edge of the sword, and ut- utterly destroying them: there was not any terly destroyed all the souls that were there- left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with in; he left none remaining: as he had done fire.

to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the 12 And all the cities of those kings, and king thereof; as he had done also to Lib-all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and nah, and to her king. smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded.

40 ¶ So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he 13 But as for the cities that stood still in left none remaining, but utterly destroyed their strength, Israel burned none of them, all that breathed, as the LORD God of Is- save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn. rael commanded.

14 And all the spoil of these cities, and 41 And Joshua smote them from Ka- the cattle, the children of Israel took for a desh-barnea even unto Gaza, and all the prey unto themselves: but every man they country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon. smote with the edge of the sword, until they 42 And all these kings and their land had destroyed them, neither left they any did Joshua take at one time; because the to breathe. LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.

15 As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua, and so did Joshua: he left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded Moses. 16 So it came pass, Jabin king

43 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.

CHAP. XI.

AND Hazare to beard whose things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,

2 And to the kings that were on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of Cinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west,

3 And to the Canaanite on the east and

hills, and all the so took all that land, the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same;

17 Even from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baal-gad, in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon : and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.

1