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