Joshua relates God's benefits. CHAP. XXIV. Israel's covenant renewed. 9 For the LORD hath driven out from be- did among them: and afterward I brought fore you great nations and strong: but as you out. for you, no man hath been able to stand 6 And I brought your fathers out of before you unto this day. Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and 10 One man of you shall chase a thou- the Egyptians pursued after your fathers sand: for the LORD your God, he it is with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea. that fighteth for you, as he hath promised 7 And when they cried unto the LORD, you. 11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God. 12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you: he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season. 8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you and I 13 Know for a certainty that the LORD gave them into your hands, that ye might your God will no more drive out any of possess their land; and I destroyed them these nations from before you: but they from before you. shall be snares and traps unto you, and 9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king scourges in your sides, and thorns in your of Moab, arose and warred against Ísrael, eyes, until ye perish from off this good and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor land which the LORD your God hath given to curse you : you. 10 But I would not hearken unto Ba14 And behold, this day I am going the laam; therefore he blessed you still: so I way of all the earth; and ye know in all delivered you out of his hand. your hearts and in all your souls, that not 11 And ye went over Jordan, and came one thing hath failed of all the good things unto Jericho and the men of Jericho which the LORD your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath failed thereof. fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand. 15 Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; 12 And I sent the hornet before you, so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil which drave them out from before you, even things, until he have destroyed you from the two kings of the Amorites: but not off this good land which the LORD your with thy sword, nor with thy bow. God hath given you. 13 And I have given you a land for 16 When ye have transgressed the cove- which ye did not labour, and cities which nant of the LORD your God, which he com- ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the manded you, and have gone and served vineyards and olive-yards which ye planted other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; not do ye eat. then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled 14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and against you, and ye shall perish quickly serve him in sincerity and in truth; and from off the good land which he hath given put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. unto you. CHAP. XXIV. AND Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.' 15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. 2 ¶ And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood 16 And the people answered, and said, in old time, even Terah, the father of Abra- God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, ham, and the father of Nachor: and they to serve other gods; served other gods. 17 For the LORD our God, he it is that 3 And I took your father Abraham from brought us up, and our fathers, out of the the other side of the flood, and led him land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, throughout all the land of Canaan, and mul- and which did those great signs in our tiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac. sight, and preserved us in all the way where4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and in we went, and among all the people Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to through whom we passed: possess it; but Jacob and his children went 18 And the LORD drave out from before down into Egypt. us all the people, even the Amorites which 5 I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I dwelt in the land: therefore will we alsa plagued Egypt, according to that which I serve the LORD; for he is our God. Death of Joshua. JUDGES. The acts of Judah and Simeon. 19 And Joshua said unto the people, Yejus; for it hath heard all the words of the cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be God: he is a jealous God; he will not for- therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny give your transgressions, nor your sins. 20 If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good. 21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD. 22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses. 23 Now therefore put away (said he) the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel. 24 And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey. 25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. your God. 28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance. 29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun the servant of the LORD died, being an hundred and ten years old. 30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash. 31 And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD that he had done for Israel. 32 ¶ And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for 26 ¶ And Joshua wrote these words in an hundred pieces of silver; and it became the book of the law of God, and took the inheritance of the children of Joseph. a great stone, and set it up there under an 33 ¶ And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; oak that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. and they buried him in a hill that pertain27 And Joshua said unto all the people, eth to Phinehas his son, which was given Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto him in mount Ephraim. CHAP. I. The Book of JUDGES. fought against Jerusalem, and had taken it, Now after the death of Joshua it came and smitten it with the edge of the sword, to pass, that the children of Israel and set the city on fire.) asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up 9 And afterward the children of Judah for us against the Canaanites first to fight went down to fight against the Canaanites against them? that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, his hand. 2 And the LORD said, Judah shall go and in the valley. up: behold, I have delivered the land into 10 And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: (now the 3 And Judah said unto Simeon his bro-name of Hebron before was Kirjath-arba :) ther, Come up with me into my lot, that and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and we may fight against the Canaanites; and Talmai. I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him. 4 And Judah went up, and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men. 11 ¶ And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjath-sepher: 12 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife. 5 And they found Adoni-bezek in Be- 13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Cazek: and they fought against him, and leb's younger brother, took it: and he gave they slew the Canaanites and the Periz-him Achsah his daughter to wife. 14 And it came to pass, when she came zites. 6 But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pur- to him, that she moved him to ask of her fasued after him, and caught him, and cut off ther a field: and she lighted from off her his thumbs and his great toes. ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt 7 And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore thou? and ten kings, having their thumbs and 15 And she said unto him, Give me a their great toes cut off, gathered their meat blessing: for thou hast given me a south under my table; as I have done, so God land; give me also springs of water. And hath requited me. And they brought him Caleb gave her the upper springs, and the to Jerusalem, and there he died. nether springs. 8(Now the children of Judah had 16 And the children of the Kenite, Jerusalem and Hebron taken. CHAP. II. The people of Bochim rebuked. Moses' father-in-law, went up out of the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: city of palm-trees with the children of Ju- for they did not drive them out. dah into the wilderness of Judah, which 33 Neither did Naphtali drive out the beth in the south of Arad; and they went inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, nor the inand dwelt among the people. habitants of Beth-anath; but he dwelt 17¶ And Judah went with Simeon his among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of brother, and they slew the Canaanites that the land: nevertheless, the inhabitants of inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became it. And the name of the city was called tributaries unto them. 34 And the Amorites forced the chil-` Hormah. 18 Also Judah took Gaza with the coast dren of Dan into the mountain: for they thereof, and Askelon with the coast there- would not suffer them to come down to the of, and Ekron with the coast thereof. valley: 19 And the LORD was with Judah; and 35 But the Amorites would dwell in be drave out the inhabitants of the moun-mount Heres in Ajalon, and in Shaalbim : tain; but could not drive out the inhabitants yet the hand of the house of Joseph preof the valley, because they had chariots of vailed, so that they became tributaries. iron. 20 And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and he expelled thence the three sons of Anak. 21 And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day. 22 And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Beth-el: and the LORD was with them. 36 And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward. CHAP. II. a Gilgal to Bochim, and said, ND an angel of the LORD came up made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you. 2 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw 23 And the house of Joseph sent to de-down their altars: but ye have not obeyed scry Beth-el. Now the name of the city my voice: why have ye done this? before was Luz. 3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive 24 And the spies saw a man come forth them out from before you; but they shall out of the city, and they said unto him, be as thorns in your sides, and their gods Shew us, we pray thee, the entrance into shall be a snare unto you. the city, and we will shew thee mercy. 25 And when he shewed them the entrance into the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword: but they let go the man and all his family. 26 And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name thereof unto this day. 4 And it came to pass, when the angel of the LORD spake these words unto all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept. 5 And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the LORD. 6 ¶ And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man 27¶ Neither did Manasseh drive out the unto his inheritance to possess the land. inhabitants of Beth-shean and her towns, 7 And the people served the LORD all nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabit- the days of Joshua, and all the days of the ants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabit- elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen ants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the in- all the great works of the LORD, that he habitants of Megiddo and her towns; but did for Israel. the Canaanites would dwell in that land. 8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the ser28 And it came to pass when Israel was vant of the LORD, died, being an hundred strong, that they put the Canaanites to tri-and ten years old. bute, and did not utterly drive them out. 9 And they buried him in the border of 29 Neither did Ephraim drive out the his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them. hill Gaash. 30 Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries. 10 ¶ And also all that generation were gathered unto their fathers: and there arose another generation after them, which knew not the LORD, nor yet the works which he 31 ¶ Neither did Asher drive out the in- had done for Israel. habitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants 11 And the children of Israel did evil in of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, the sight of the LORD, and served Baalim: nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Re- 12 And they forsook the LORD God of hob: their fathers, which brought them out of 32 But the Asherites dwelt among the the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, Wickedness of the Israelites. JUDGES. Their obstinate idolatry. of the gods of the people that were round and the Hivites that dwelt in mount Lebaabout them, and bowed themselves unto non, from mount Baal-hermon unto the enthem, and provoked the LORD to anger. tering in of Hamath. 13 And they forsook the LORD, and 4 Ånd they were to prove Israel by them, served Baal and Ashtaroth. to know whether they would hearken unto 14 And the anger of the LORD was the commandments of the LORD, which he hot against Israel, and he delivered them commanded their fathers by the hand of into the hands of spoilers that spoiled them, Moses. and he sold them into the hands of their 5¶ And the children of Israel dwelt enemies round about, so that they could among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amonot any longer stand before their enemies. rites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Je15 Whithersoever they went out, the busites: hand of the LORD was against them for evil, 6 And they took their daughters to be as the LORD had said, and as the LORD had their wives, and gave their daughters to sworn unto them: and they were greatly their sons, and served their gods. distressed. 7 And the children of Israel did evil in 16 ¶ Nevertheless the LORD raised up the sight of the LORD, and forgat the judges, which delivered them out of the LORD their God, and served Baalim, and hand of those that spoiled them. the groves. 17 And yet they would not hearken unto 8 Therefore the anger of the LORD their judges, but they went a whoring after was hot against Israel, and he sold them other gods, and bowed themselves unto into the hand of Chushan-rishathaim king them they turned quickly out of the way of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel which their fathers walked in, obeying the served Chushan-rishathaim eight years. commandments of the LORD; but they did 9 And when the children of Israel cried not so. unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. 18 And when the LORD raised them up judges, then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: (for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.) 10 And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia into 19 And it came to pass, when the judge his hand; and his hand prevailed against was dead, that they returned, and corrupt- Chushan-rishathaim. ed themselves more than their fathers, in 11 And the land had rest forty years: following other gods to serve them, and to and Othniel the son of Kenaz died. bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way. 12 ¶ And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD strengthened Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD. 20 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my co- 13 And he gathered unto him the chilvenant which I commanded their fathers, dren of Ammon and Amalek, and went and and have not hearkened unto my voice; smote Israel, and possessed the city of 21 I also will not henceforth drive out palm-trees. any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died: 22 That through them I inay prove Is rael, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not. 14 So the children of Israel served Eg lon the king of Moab eighteen years. 15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man left-handed: and by him the 23 Therefore the LORD left those na- children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon tions, without driving them out hastily, the king of Moab. neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua. 16 But Ehud made him a dagger which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh. 17 And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab: and Eglon was a very fat man. 2 Only that the generations of the chil- 18 And when he had made an end to dren of Israel might know to teach them offer the present, he sent away the people war, at the least such as before knew no- that bare the present. thing thereof;) 19 But he himself turned again from the 3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I and all the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, have a secret errand unto thee, O king: The conduct of Ehud. CHAP. IV. Deborah and Barak deliver Israel. who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him. 5 And she dwelt under the palm-tree of Deborah, between Ramah and Beth-el in mount Ephraim: and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment. 20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer-parlour, which he had for himself alone: and Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And of Abinoam out of Kedesh-naphtali, and be arose out of his seat. 21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly: 22 And the haft also went in after the blade: and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out. 23 Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them. 6 And she sent and called Barak the son said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel commanded, saying, Go, and draw toward mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali, and of the children of Zebulun? 7 And I will draw unto thee, to the river Kishon, Sisera the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand. 8 And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go: but if thou wilt 24 When he was gone out, his servants not go with me, then I will not go. came; and when they saw that, behold, 9 And she said, I will surely go with the doors of the parlour were locked, they thee: notwithstanding the journey that said, Surely he covereth his feet in his sum- thou takest shall not be for thine honour; mer-chamber. for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand 25 And they tarried till they were of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went ashamed: and behold, he opened not the with Barak to Kedesh. doors of the parlour, therefore they took a 10 And Barak called Zebulun and key and opened them: and behold, their Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with lord was fallen down dead on the earth. ten thousand men at his feet: and Debo26 And Ehud escaped while they tar-rah went up with him. ried; and passed beyond the quarries, and 11 Now Heber the Kenite, which was of escaped unto Seirath. the children of Hobab the father-in-law of 27 And it came to pass when he was Moses, had severed himself from the Kencome, that he blew a trumpet in the moun-ites, and pitched his tent unto the plain tain of Ephraim, and the children of Israel of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh. went down with him from the mount, and 12 And they shewed Sisera that Barak he before them. the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount 28 And he said unto them, Follow after Tabor. me: for the LORD hath delivered your ene- 13 And Sisera gathered together all his mies the Moabites into your hand. And chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, they went down after him, and took the and all the people that were with him, from fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of not a man to pass over. Kishon. 29 And they slew of Moab at that time 14 And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; about ten thousand men, all lusty, and all for this is the day in which the LORD hath men of valour: and there escaped not a delivered Sisera into thine hand is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him. man. 30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel: and the land had rest fourscore years. 15 And the LORD discomfited Sisera, 31 And after him was Shamgar the and all his chariots, and all his host, with son of Anath, which slew of the Philis- the edge of the sword before Barak; so tines six hundred men with an ox-goad; that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and and he also delivered Israel. fled away on his feet. CHAP. IV. 16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, ND the children of Israel again did and after the host, unto Harosheth of the fell Ehud was dead. the edge of the sword; and there was not 2 And the LORD sold them into the hand a man left. of Jabin king of Canaan that reigned in 17 Howbeit, Sisera fled away on his Hazor, the captain of whose host was Sise- feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the ra, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gen- Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin tiles. the king of Hazor and the house of Heber 3 And the children of Israel cried unto the Kenite. the LORD; for he had nine hundred cha- 18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, riots of iron; and twenty years he mighti- and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn ly oppressed the children of Israel. in to me; fear not. And when he had 4 And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife turned in unto her into the tent, she coverof Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time. ed him with a mantle. |