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God instructs Joshua.

JOSHUA.

Rahab conceals the spies.

LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever that the men went out: whither the men thou goest. went, I wot not: pursue after them quick

10 T Then Joshua commanded the offi- ly; for ye shall overtake them. cers of the people, saying,

6 But she had brought them up to the

11 Pass through the host, and command roof of the house, and hid them with the the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; stalks of flax, which she had laid in order for within three days ye shall pass over upon the roof. this Jordan, to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it.

12 T 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.

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.

14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle shall remain in the land which 10 For we have heard how the LORD Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but dried up the water of the Red sea for you, ye shall pass before your brethren armed, when ye came out of Egypt: and what all the mighty men of valour, and help ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites them; that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon 15 Until the LORD have given your and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed. brethren rest, as he hath given you, and 11 And as soon as we had heard these they also have possessed the land which things, our hearts did melt, neither did the LORD your God giveth them: then there remain any more courage in any ye shall return unto the land of your pos-man, because of you: for the LORD your session, and enjoy it, which Moses the God, he is God in heaven above, and in LORD's servant gave you on this side Jor-earth beneath.

dan toward the sun-rising.

12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear

16 And they answered Joshua saying, unto me by the LORD, since I have shewAll that thou commandest us, we will ed you kindness, that ye will also shew do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we kindness unto my father's house, and give will go. me a true token: 17 According as we hearkened unto 13 And that ye will save alive my faMoses in all things, so will we hearken ther, and my mother, and my brethren, unto thee only the LORD thy God be and my sisters, and all that they have, and with thee, as he was with Moses. deliver our lives from death. 18 Whosoever he be that doth rebel 14 And the men answered her, Our life against thy commandment, and will not for yours, if ye utter not this our business. hearken unto thy words in all that thou And it shall be, when the LORD hath given commandest him, he shall be put to death: us the land, that we will deal kindly and only be strong and of a good courage. truly with thee. CHAP. II.

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.

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 a harlot's 16 And she said unto them, Get you to house, named Rahab, and lodged there. the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; 2 And it was told the king of Jericho, and hide yourselves there three days, unsaying, Behold, there came men in hither til the pursuers be returned: and afterto-night of the children of Israel, to search ward may ye go your way.

out the country.

17 And the men said unto her, We will

3 And the king of Jericho sent unto be blameless of this thine oath which thou Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that hast made us swear.

are come to thee, which are entered into 18 Behold, when we come into the land, thine house for they be come to search thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread out all the country. in the window which thou didst let us

4 And the woman took the two men, down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and hid them, and said thus, There came and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all men unto me, but I wist not whence they thy father's household home unto thee. 19 And it shall be, that whosoever

were:

5 And it came to pass about the time of shall go out of the doors of thy house into shutting of the gate, when it was dark, the street,his blood shall be upon his head,

Joshua comes to Jordan.

CHAP. III, IV.

The river divides. and we will be guiltless: and whosoever before you the Canaanites, and the Hitshall be with thee in the house, his blood tites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, shall be on our head, if any hand be upon and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and him. the Jebusites.

20 And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.

11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the LORD of all the earth passeth over before you into Jordan.

21 And she said, According unto your 12 Now therefore take you twelve men words, so be it. And she sent them away, out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe and they departed and she bound the a man. scarlet line in the window.

13 And it shall come to pass, as soon as

22 And they went, and came unto the the soles of the feet of the priests that bear mountain, and abode there three days, the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the until the pursuers were returned: and earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, the pursuers sought them throughout all that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off the way, but found them not. from the waters that come down from 23 So the two men returned, and de-above; and they shall stand upon a heap. scended from the mountain, and passed 14 And it came to pass,when the peoover, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, ple removed from their tents to pass over and told him all things that befel them : Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of 24 And they said unto Joshua, Truly the covenant before the people; the LORD hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.

ed over.

CHAP. III.

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 overflow

AND Joshua rose early in the morning eth all his banks all the time of harvest,) and they removed from Shittim, and 16 That the waters which came down came to Jordan, he and all the children of from above stood and rose up upon a Israel, and lodged there before they pass-heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan; and those that came down 2 And it came to pass after three days, toward the sea of the plain, even the salt that the officers went through the host; sea, failed, and were cut off: and the peo3 And they commanded the people, say-ple passed over right against Jericho. ing, When ye see the ark of the covenant 17 And the priests that bare the ark of of the LORD your God, and the priests the the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the from your place, and go after it. Israelites passed over on dry ground, until 4 Yet there shall be a space between all the people were passed clean over you and it, about two thousand cubits by Jordan. 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

CHAP. IV.

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,

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, 3 And command ye them, saying, Take saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out and pass over before the people. And they of the place where the priests' feet stood took up the ark of the covenant, and went firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry before the people. them over with you, and leave them in the 7 And the LORD said unto Joshua, lodging-place where ye shall lodge this This day will I begin to magnify thee in night. the sight of all Israel, that they may know 4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, that as I was with Moses, so I will be with whom he had prepared of the children of thee. Israel, out of every tribe a man:

8 And thou shalt command the priests 5 And Joshua said unto them, Pass over that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, before the ark of the LORD your God into When ye are come to the brink of the water the midst of Jordan, and take you up every of Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan. man of you a stone upon his shoulder, ac9 And Joshua said unto the children cording unto the number of the tribes of of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words the children of Israel: of the LORD your God,

6 That this may be a sign among you, 10 And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall that when your children ask their fathers know that the living God is among you, in time to come, saying, What mean ye by and that he will without fail drive out from these stones?

The people pass over.

JOSHUA.

Circumcision renewed.

7 Then ye shall answer them, That the 22 Then ye shall let your children know, waters of Jordan were cut off before the saying, Israel came over this Jordan on ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it dry land.

passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan 23 For the LORD your God dried up the were cut off: and these stones shall be for a waters of Jordan from before you, until ye memorial unto the children of Israel forever. were passed over, as the LORD your God 8 And the children of Israel did so as did to the Red sea, which he dried up from Joshua commanded, and took up twelve before us, until we were gone over: stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the 24 That all the people of the earth might LORD spake unto Joshua, according to the know the hand of the LORD, that it is number of the tribes of the children of mighty: that ye might fear the LORD your Israel, and carried them over with them God for ever. unto the place where they lodged, and laid

them down there.

CHAP. V.

9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in AND it came to pass, when all the kings

of the Amorites which were on the the midst of Jordan, in the place where side of Jordan westward, and all the kings the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the Canaanites which were by the sea, of the covenant stood: and they are there heard that the LORD had dried up the waunto this day. ters of Jordan from before the children of

10 For the priests which bare the ark Israel, until we were passed over, that their stood in the midst of Jordan, until every heart melted; neither was there spirit in thing was finished that the LORD command-them any more, because of the children of ed Joshua to speak unto the people, accord-Israel. ing 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.

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.

12 And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Ma- 4 And this is the cause why Joshua did nasseh, passed over armed before the chil- circumcise: All the people that came out dren of Israel, as Moses spake unto them: of Egypt, that were males,even all the men 13 About forty thousand prepared for of war died in the wilderness by the way, war passed over before the LORD unto after they came out of Egypt. 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.

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 17 Joshua therefore commanded the the LORD sware that he would not shew priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan. them the land which the LORD Sware unto 18 And it came to pass, when the priests their fathers that he would give us, a land that bare the ark of the covenant of the that floweth with milk and honey.

LORD were come up out of the midst of Jor- And their children, whom he raised dan, and the soles of the priests' feet were up in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: /lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters for they were uncircumcised, because they of Jordan returned unto their place, and had not circumcised them by the way. flowed overall his banks, as they did before. 8 And it came to pass when they had 19 And the people came up out of done circumcising all the people, that they Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, abode in their places in the camp, till they and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border] were whole.

of Jericho.

9 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This 20 T And those twelve stones which day have I rolled away the reproach of they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch Egypt from off you: Wherefore the name in Gilgal. of the place is called Gilgal unto this day. 21 And he spake unto the children of 10 And the children of Israel encampIsrael, saying, When your children shall ed in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the ask their fathers in time to come, saying, fourteenth day of the month at even, in What mean these stones? the plains of Jericho.

An angel appears to Joshua.

CHAP. VI.

The walls of Jericho fall.

11 And they did eat of the old corn of priests going on, and blowing with the the land on the morrow after the passover, trumpets. unleavened cakes and parched corn in the 10 And Joshua had commanded the self-same day. people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor 12¶ And the manna ceased on the mor- make any noise with your voice, neither row after they had eaten of the old corn of shall any word proceed out of your mouth, the land; neither had the children of Israel until the day I bid you shout, then shall manna any more; but they did eat of the ye shout. fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

11 So the ark of the LORD compassed 13 And it came to pass when Joshua the city, going about it once: and they was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes came into the camp, and lodged in the and looked, and behold, there stood a man camp.

over against him with his sword drawn in 12¶ And Joshua rose early in the mornhis hand and Joshua went unto him, and ing, and the priests took up the ark of the said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our LORD.

adversaries?

13 And seven priests bearing seven

14 And he said, Nay ; but as captain of trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the host of the LORD am I now come. And the LORD went on continually, and blew Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and with the trumpets: and the armed men did worship, and said unto him, What went before them; but the rere-ward saith my lord unto his servant? came after the ark of the LORD, the priests 15 And the captain of the LORD's host going on, and blowing with the trumpets. said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off 14 And the second day they compassthy foot, for the place whereon thou stand-ed the city once, and returned into the est is holy and Joshua did so. camp. So they did six days. CHAP. VI. 15 And it came to pass on the seventh W Jericho was straitly shut up be-day, that they rose early about the dawn

Now was shut none ing of the day, and compassed the city

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.

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, 4 And seven priests shall bear before even it, and all that are therein, to the the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, and the seventh day ye shall compass the she and all that are with her in the house, city seven times, and the priests shall because she hid the messengers that we 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.

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 un6 T And Joshua the son of Nun called to the LORD: they shall come into the the priests, and said unto them, Take up treasury of the LORD.

the ark of the covenant, and let seven 20 So the people shouted when the priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns priests blew with the trumpets: and it before the ark of the LORD. came to pass, when the people heard the

7 And he said unto the people, Pass on, sound of the trumpet, and the people and compass the city, and let him that is shouted with a great shout, that the wall armed pass on before the ark of the LORD. fell down flat, so that the people went up 8¶ And it came to pass, when Joshua into the city, every man straight before had spoken unto the people, that the se- him, and they took the city. ven priests bearing the seven trumpets of 21 And they utterly destroyed all that rams' horns passed on before the LORD, and was in the city, both man and woman, blew with the trumpets: and the ark of young and old, and ox, and sheep, and the covenant of the LORD followed them. ass, with the edge of the sword.

9 And the armed men went before 22 But Joshua had said unto the two the priests that blew with the trumpets, men that had spied out the country, Go and the rere-ward came after the ark, the into the harlot's house, and bring out thence

The Israelites smitten at Ai.

JOSHUA.

God instructs Joshua. the woman, and all that she hath, as yel 8 O LORD, what shall I say, when Is sware unto her. rael turneth their backs before their ene

23 And the young men that were spies mies! went in, and brought out Rahab, and her 9 For the Canaanites, and all the infather, and her mother, and her brethren, habitants of the land shall hear of it, and and all that she had; and they brought shall environ us round, and cut off our out all her kindred, and left them without name from the earth: and what wilt thou the camp of Israel. do unto thy great name?

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.

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 25 And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot commanded them: for they have even alive, and her father's household, and all taken of the accursed thing, and have also that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel stolen, and dissembled also, and they have even unto this day; because she hid the put it even among their own stuff. messengers which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

12 Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but 26 And Joshua adjured them at that turned their backs before their enemies, time, saying, Cursed be the man before the because they were accursed: neither will LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city I be with you any more, except ye deJericho he shall lay the foundation there-stroy the accursed from among you. of in his first-born, and in his youngest son 13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, shall he set up the gates of it. Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow: 27 So the LORD was with Joshua; and his for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, fame was noised throughout all the country. There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand beUT the children of Israel committed fore thine enemies, until ye take away the

CHAP. VII.

Batrespass in the accursed thing: for accursed thing from among you. Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, 14 In the morning therefore ye shall be the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, brought according to your tribes: and it took of the accursed thing: and the anger shall be, that the tribe which the LORD of the LORD was kindled against the chil-taketh shall come according to the famidren of Israel. lies thereof; and the family which the 2 And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, LORD shall take shall come by housewhich is beside Beth-aven, on the east side holds; and the household which the LORD of Beth-el, and spake unto them, saying, shall take shall come man by man. Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.

15 And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with 3 And they returned to Joshua, and said fire, he and all that he hath because he unto him, Let not all the people go up; hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, but let about two or three thousand men go and because he hath wrought folly in Israel. up and smite Ai: and make not all the peo- 16 ¶ So Joshua rose up early in the ple to labour thither; for they are but few. morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; 4 So there went up thither of the peo- and the tribe of Judah was taken: ple about three thousand men: and they 17 And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites:

Bled before the men of Ai.

5 And the men of Ai smote of them and he brought the family of the Zarhites about thirty and six men: for they chased man by man; and Zabdi was taken: them from before the gate even unto She- 18 And he brought his household man barim, and smote them in the going down: by man; and Achan the son of Carmi, the wherefore the hearts of the people melted, son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe and became as water. of Judah, was taken.

6 ¶ And Joshua rent his clothes, and 19 And Joshua said unto Achan, My fell to the earth upon his face before the son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD ark of the LORD until the even-tide, he God of Israel, and make confession unto and the elders of Israel, and put dust up- him; and tell me now what thou hast done, on their heads. hide it not from me.

7 And Joshua said, Alas! O Lord GoD, 20 And Achan answered Joshua, and wherefore hast thou at all brought this said, Indeed I have sinned against the people over Jordan, to deliver us into the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would I done. to God we had been content, and dwelt 21 When I saw among the spoils a goodon the other side Jordan! ly Babylonish garment, and two hundred

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