Book of Joshua

by Frederick Hoehn, copyright 2013, all rights reserved.

You've probably heard that song, "Joshua fit the battle of Jericho...and the walls came a tumblin’ down."  That happens right here in the book of Joshua (chapter 6).

But a more important passage in Joshua is Joshua 1:8, "This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, so that you'll observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then you'll make your way prosperous, and then you'll have good success."

Moses, who led Israel out of Egyptian bondage, had just died.  Joshua took over as the leader of Israel, and would lead them into the promised land.

So God gives Joshua some good advice.  Don't let the word of God depart from your mouth.  In other words, keep speaking God's words (and especially God's promises).

Meditate on Gods' word so you'll do what He says.  Do it, and you'll have prosperity and success.

The book of Joshua is from the Holy Bible, Hoehn Version, copyright 2011.



___Joshua chapter 1
 1 Now after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, the Lord spoke to Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,
 2 "Moses my servant is dead, now therefore get up, go over this Jordan, you, and all these people, to the land that I give to them, to the children of Israel.
 3 Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread on, I have given that to you, as I said to Moses.
 4 From the wilderness and this Lebanon to the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your coast.
 5 No man will be able to stand before you all the days of your life, as I was with Moses, so I will be with you, I will not fail you, nor forsake you.
 6 Be strong and of good courage, for to this people you'll divide the land for an inheritance, that I promised to their fathers to give them.
 7 Only be strong and very courageous, so that you will observe to do according to all the law, that Moses my servant commanded you, don't turn from it to the right hand or to the left, so that you'll prosper wherever you go.
 8 This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, so that you'll observe to do according to all that is written in it, for then you'll make your way prosperous, and then you'll have good success.
 9 Haven't I commanded you?  Be strong and of a good courage, don't be afraid, nor be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go."
 10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,
 11 "Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare food, for within three days you'll pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, that the Lord your God gives you to possess."
 12 And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, Joshua spoke, saying,
 13 "Remember the word that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying, The Lord your God has given you rest, and has given you this land.
 14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land that Moses gave you on this side of Jordan, but you shall pass armed before your brothers, all the mighty men of valor, and help them,
 15 Until the Lord has given your brothers rest, like he's given you, and they've also possessed the land that the Lord your God gives them, then you shall return and enjoy the land of your possession, that Moses the Lord's servant gave you on this side of Jordan toward the sunrising."
 16 And they answered Joshua, saying, "All that you command us we will do, and wherever you send us, we will go.
 17 Like we listened to Moses in all things, so we will listen to you, only the Lord your God be with you, like he was with Moses.
 18 Whoever he is that rebels against your commandment, and won't listen to your words in all that you command him, he shall be put to death, only be strong and of good courage."

___Joshua chapter 2
 1 And Joshua the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, "Go view the land, Jericho."  And they went, and came into a prostitute's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.
 2 And the king of Jericho was told, "See, men came in here tonight from the children of Israel to search out the country."
 3 And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, "Bring out the men that have come to you, that have entered into your house, for they've come to search out all the country."
 4 And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said, "Men came to me, but I didn't know where they were from,
 5 And at about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, the men went out, I don't know where they went, pursue after them quickly, for you'll overtake them."
 6 But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hidden them with the stalks of flax, that she had laid in order on the roof.
 7 And the men pursued after them on the way to Jordan up to the fords, and as soon as those who pursued after them had gone out, they shut the gate.
 8 And before they had laid down, she came up to them on the roof,
 9 And she said to the men, "I know that the Lord has given you the land, and that your terror has fallen on 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 you came out of Egypt, and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side of Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom you completely destroyed.
 11 And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts melted, nor did there remain any courage in any man, because of you, for the Lord your God is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
 12 Now therefore, please, promise me by the Lord, since I have shown you kindness, that you'll also show kindness to my father's house, and give me a true token,
 13 And that you'll save my father alive, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death."
 14 And the men answered her, "Our life for yours, if don't tell this, our business.  And it shall be, when the Lord has given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with you."
 15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window, for her house was on the town wall, and she lived on the wall.
 16 And she said to them, "Get to the mountain, so the pursuers won't find you, and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers have returned, and afterward you can be on your way."
 17 And the men said to her, "We will be blameless of your oath that you've made us swear.
 18 See, when we come into the land, you shall tie this line of red thread in the window that you let us down by, and you shall bring your father, and your mother, and your brothers, and all your father's household, home to you.
 19 And it shall be, that whoever shall go out of the doors of your house into the street, his blood shall be on his head, and we will be guiltless, and whoever shall be with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand is on him.
 20 And if you tell this business of ours, then there's no deal, regarding your oath that you've made us swear."
 21 And she said, "According to your words, so be it."  And she sent them away, and they departed, and she tied the red line in the window.
 22 And they went, and came to the mountain, and stayed there three days, until the pursuers had returned, and the pursuers looked for them throughout all the way, but didn't find them.
 23 So the two men returned, and went down from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all things that happened with them,
 24 And they said to Joshua, "Truly the Lord has delivered into our hands all the land, for all the inhabitants of the country faint because of us."

___Joshua chapter 3
 1 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and they moved from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over.
 2 And after three days, the officers went through the host,
 3 And they commanded the people, "When you see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests the Levites carrying it, then you shall remove from your place, and go after it.
 4 Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about one thousand yards by measure, don't come near it, so that you'll know the way by which you must go, for you haven't passed this way before."
 5 And Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will do wonders among you."
 6 And Joshua spoke to 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 to Joshua, "This day I'll begin to magnify you in the sight of all Israel, so that they will know that as I was with Moses, so I'll be with you.
 8 And you shall command the priests that carry the ark of the covenant, saying, When you've come to the bank of the water of Jordan, you shall stand still in Jordan."
 9 And Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of the Lord your God."
 10 And Joshua said, "Hereby you'll 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 See, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you into Jordan.
 12 Now therefore take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.
 13 And it shall occur, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that carry 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 upstream, and they'll be heaped up."
 14 And it occurred, when the people went from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests carrying the ark of the covenant before the people,
 15 And when those who carried the ark had come to Jordan, and the feet of the priests that carried the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overflows all its banks all the time of harvest,)
 16 That the waters that came down from above stood and rose up on a heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan, and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, the salt sea, failed, and were cut off, and the people passed over opposite Jericho.
 17 And the priests that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the middle of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people had finished passing over Jordan.

___Joshua chapter 4
 1 And when all the people had finished passing over Jordan, the Lord spoke to Joshua, saying,
 2 "Take twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,
 3 And command them, saying, Take from here out of the middle of Jordan, out of the place where the priests feet stood firm, twelve stones, and you shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging place, where you'll 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 to them, "Pass over before the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of Jordan, and every man of you take up a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel,
 6 So that this will be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in the future, saying, What do you mean by these stones?
 7 Then you 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 to the children of Israel forever."
 8 And the children of Israel did like Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the middle of Jordan, like the Lord said to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
 9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests that carried the ark of the covenant stood, and they are there until this day.
 10 For the priests that carried the ark stood in the middle of Jordan, until everything was finished that the Lord commanded Joshua to speak to the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua, and the people hurried and passed over.
 11 And when all the people had finished passing over, 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, like Moses spoke to them,
 13 About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the Lord to battle, to the plains of Jericho.
 14 On that day the Lord magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they feared him, like they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
 15 And the Lord said to Joshua,
 16 "Command the priests that carry the ark of the testimony, to come up out of Jordan."
 17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, "Come up out of Jordan."
 18 And when the priests that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord had come up out of the middle of Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up to the dry land, the waters of Jordan returned to their place, and flowed over all its banks, like 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 Joshua tossed those twelve stones that they took out of Jordan in Gilgal.
 21 And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, "When your children shall ask their fathers in the future, What do these stones mean?
 22 Then you shall let your children know, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.
 23 For the Lord your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until you had passed over, as the Lord your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from before us, until we had gone over,
 24 So that all the people of the earth would know the hand of the Lord is mighty, so that you'll fear the Lord your God forever."

___Joshua chapter 5
 1 And when all the kings of the Amorites, that were on the west side of Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites, that were by the sea, heard that the Lord had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we had passed over, their hearts melted, nor was there spirit in them anymore, because of the children of Israel.
 2 At that time the Lord said to Joshua, "Make for yourselves sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.
 3 And Joshua made sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.
 4 And this is the reason why Joshua circumcised.  All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, all the men of war, died in the wilderness on 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 on the way as they came out of Egypt had not been circumcised.
 6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, 'til all the people that were men of war, who came out of Egypt, had died, because they didn't obey the voice of the Lord, to whom the Lord swore that he wouldn't show them the land that the Lord promised to their fathers that he would give us, a land that flows with milk and honey.
 7 And their children, whom he raised up instead of them, Joshua circumcised, for they were uncircumcised, because they hadn't circumcised them on the way.
 8 And when they had finished circumcising all the people, they stayed in their places in the camp, 'til they were healed.
 9 And the Lord said to Joshua, "This day I've rolled away the reproach of Egypt off of you.  So the name of the place is called Gilgal to this day.
 10 And the children of Israel camped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at evening in the plains of Jericho.
 11 And they ate of the old corn of the land on the next day after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn on the same day.
 12 And the manna stopped on the next day after they had eaten of the old corn of the land, nor did the children of Israel have manna anymore, but they ate of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
 13 And when Joshua was by Jericho, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, see, a man stood opposite him with his sword drawn in his hand, and Joshua went to him, and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?"
 14 And he said, "No, but as captain of the host of the Lord I've now come."  And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and worshipped, and said to him, "What does my lord say to his servant?"
 15 And the captain of the Lord's host said to Joshua, "Take off your shoes, for the place on which you're standing is holy."  And Joshua did.

___Joshua chapter 6
 1 Now Jericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Israel, no one went out, and no one came in.
 2 And the Lord said to Joshua, "See, I've given into your hand Jericho, and its king, and the mighty men of valor.
 3 And you shall circle the city, all you men of war, and go around the city once.  You shall do that six days.
 4 And seven priests shall carry before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns, and the seventh day you shall circle the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.
 5 And when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you 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 to them, "Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests carry seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the Lord."
 7 And he said to the people, "Pass on, and circle the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the Lord.
 8 And when Joshua had spoken to the people, the seven priests carrying 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 rear guard came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
 10 And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, "You shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, nor shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I tell you shout, then you shall shout."
 11 So the ark of the Lord circled the city, going around it once, and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
 12 And Joshua got up 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 rear guard came after the ark of the Lord, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets.
 14 And the second day they circled the city once, and returned to the camp, they did that six days.
 15 And on the seventh day, they got up early at about the dawning of the day, and circled the city, in the same way, seven times, only on that day did they circle the city seven times.
 16 And at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said to the people, "Shout, for the Lord has given you the city.
 17 And the city shall be accursed, it, and all that are in it, to the Lord, only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
 18 And you, be sure to keep yourselves from the accursed thing, so you don't make yourselves accursed, when you take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.
 19 But all the silver, and gold, and brass and iron pots, are consecrated to the Lord, they shall come into the treasury of the Lord."
 20 So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets, and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man directly before him, and they took the city.
 21 And they completely destroyed everything 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 to the two men that had spied out the country, "Go into the harlot's house, and bring out from there the woman, and all that she has, as you swore to her."
 23 And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brothers, and all that she had, and they brought out all her family, and left them outside the camp of Israel.
 24 And they burned the city with fire, and all that was in it, only the silver, and the gold, and the brass and iron pots, they put into the treasury of the house of the Lord.
 25 And Joshua saved Rahab the prostitute alive, and her father's household, and all that she had, and she lives in Israel until this day, because she hid the messengers, that Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
 26 And Joshua warned them at that time, saying, "Cursed be the man before the Lord, that rises up and builds this city Jericho, he shall lay the foundation of it 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 spoken of throughout all the country.

___Joshua 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 things, and the anger of the Lord was kindled against the children of Israel.
 2 And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, that is beside Bethaven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, "Go up and view the country."  And the men went up and viewed Ai.
 3 And they returned to Joshua, and said to him, "Don't send all the people to go up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and strike Ai, and don't make all the people labor there, for they are but few.
 4 So about three thousand men of the people went up there, and they fled before the men of Ai.
 5 And the men of Ai struck of them about thirty six men, for they chased them from before the gate to Shebarim, and struck them in the going down, so the hearts of the people melted, and became like water.
 6 And Joshua tore his clothes, and fell to the earth on his face before the ark of the Lord until the evening, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust on their heads.
 7 And Joshua said, "Alas, O Lord God, why have you at all brought these people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us?  Would to God we had been content, and lived on the other side of Jordan!
 8 O Lord, what shall I say, when Israel turns their backs before their enemies!
 9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and shall surround us, and cut off our name from the earth, and what will you do to your great name?"
 10 And the Lord said to Joshua, "Get up, why are you lying like this on your face?
 11 Israel has sinned, and they've also transgressed my covenant that I commanded them, for they've taken of the accursed things, and have also stolen, and pretended also, and they've put it among their own stuff.
 12 Therefore the children of Israel couldn't stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed, nor will I be with you anymore, unless you destroy the accursed from among you.
 13 Get up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow, for thus says the Lord God of Israel, There is an accursed thing among you, O Israel, you can't stand before your enemies, until you take away the accursed thing from among you.
 14 In the morning therefore you'll be brought according to your tribes, and it shall be, that the tribe that the Lord takes shall come according to the families of it, and the family that the Lord shall take shall come by households, and the household that the Lord takes 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 has, because he has transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and because he has done foolishness 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 to Achan, "My son, please give glory to the Lord God of Israel, and make confession to him, and tell me now what you've done, don't hide it from me."
 20 And Achan answered Joshua, and said, "Indeed I have sinned against the Lord God of Israel, and thus and thus I have done,
 21 When I saw among the spoils a good 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 see, they're hidden in the earth in the middle of my tent, and the silver under it."
 22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent, and see, it was hidden in his tent, and the silver under it.
 23 And they took them out of the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua, and to 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 to the valley of Achor.
 25 And Joshua said, "Why have you troubled us?  The Lord shall trouble you 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 large heap of stones until this day.  So the Lord turned from the fierceness of his anger.  So the name of that place was called, "The valley of Achor," until this day.

___Joshua chapter 8
 1 And the Lord said to Joshua, "Don't be afraid, nor be dismayed, take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai, see, I've given into your hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land,
 2 And you'll do to Ai and her king like you did to Jericho and her king, only the spoil of it, and the cattle of it, you shall take for a prey to yourselves, lay 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 valor, and sent them away by night.
 4 And he commanded them, "See, you shall lie in wait against the city, behind the city, don't go very far from the city, but all of you be ready,
 5 And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach the city, and it shall occur, when they come out against us, like before, that we will run away from them,
 6 (For they will come out after us) 'til we have drawn them from the city, for they will say, They flee before us, like at the first, therefore we will flee before them.
 7 Then you shall rise up from the ambush, and seize the city, for the Lord your God will deliver it into your hand.
 8 And it shall be, when you've taken the city, that you shall set the city on fire, according to the commandment of the Lord shall you do.  See, I have commanded you."
 9 Joshua therefore sent them out, and they went to lie in ambush, and stayed between Bethel 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, the people of war that were with him, went up, and went near, 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 Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.
 13 And when they had set the people, 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 middle of the valley.
 14 And when the king of Ai saw it, they hurried 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 didn't know that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.
 15 And Joshua and all Israel made like 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 Bethel, that didn't go out after Israel, and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.
 18 And the Lord said to Joshua, "Stretch out the spear that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your 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 hurried and set the city on fire.
 20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, see, 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 on 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 killed the men of Ai.
 22 And the others came out of the city against them, so they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side, and they struck them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.
 23 And they took alive the king of Ai, and brought him to Joshua.
 24 And when Israel had made an end of killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they chased them, and when they had all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, all the Israelites returned to Ai, and struck 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, all the men of Ai.
 26 For Joshua didn't pull his hand back, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had completely destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.
 27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey for themselves, according to the word of the Lord that he commanded Joshua.
 28 And Joshua burned Ai, and made it a heap forever, a desolation until this day.
 29 And the king of Ai he hung on a tree until evening, and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and throw it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise on it a large heap of stones, that remains until this day.
 30 Then Joshua built an altar to 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 had lifted up any iron, and they offered on it burnt offerings to the Lord, and sacrificed peace offerings.
 32 And he wrote there, on the stones, a copy of the law of Moses, that 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 of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, who carried 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, like Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded before, so 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, that Joshua didn't read before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.

___Joshua chapter 9
 1 And when all the kings that were on this side of Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea opposite Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard about it,
 2 They gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, unanimously.
 3 And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,
 4 They worked wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their asses, and wine bottles, old, and torn, and mended up,
 5 And old shoes and clouted on their feet, and old garments on them, and all the bread of their provision was dry and moldy.
 6 And they went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, "We've come from a far country, now therefore make a league with us."
 7 And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, "Perhaps you live among us, and how shall we make a league with you?"
 8 And they said to Joshua, "We are your servants."  And Joshua said to them, "Who are you?  And where do you come from?"
 9 And they said to him, "From a very far country your servants have come because of the name of the Lord your 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, who was at Ashtaroth.
 11 So our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take food with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and say to them, We are your servants, therefore now make a league with us.
 12 This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came out to go to you, but now, see, it is dry, and it is moldy,
 13 And these bottles of wine, that we filled, were new, and, see, they're torn, and our garments and our shoes have become old because of the very long journey.
 14 And the men took of their food, and didn't ask advice from 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 swore to them.
 16 And at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among them.
 17 And the children of Israel journeyed, and came to their cities on the third day.  Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.
 18 And the children of Israel didn't strike them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by the Lord God of Israel.  And all the congregation murmured against the princes.
 19 But all the princes said to all the congregation, "We have sworn to them by the Lord God of Israel, now therefore we may not touch them.
 20 Here's what we'll do to them, we'll let them live, so wrath won't be on us, because of the oath that we swore to them."
 21 And the princes said to them, "Let them live, but let them be cutters of wood and drawers of water to all the congregation, as the princes had promised them."
 22 And Joshua called for them, and he said to them, "Why have you beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you, when you live among us?
 23 Now therefore you are cursed, and none of you shall be free from being bondmen, and cutters of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.
 24 And they answered Joshua, "Because it was certainly told your servants, how the Lord your 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 very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.
 25 And now, see, we are in your hand, do to us what seems good and right to you to.
 26 And that's what he did to them, and gave them deliverance from the hand of the children of Israel, so that they didn't kill them.
 27 And Joshua made them that day cutters of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the Lord, until this day, in the place that he would choose.

___Joshua chapter 10
 1 Now when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had completely destroyed it, like 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 They feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, like one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men of it were mighty.
 3 So Adonizedek king of Jerusalem sent to Hoham king of Hebron, and to Piram king of Jarmuth, and to Japhia king of Lachish, and to Debir king of Eglon, saying,
 4 "Come up unto me, and help me, so we can strike Gibeon, for it has 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, and all their armies, and camped before Gibeon, and made war against it.
 6 And the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, "Don't hold back your hand from your servants, come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us, for all the kings of the Amorites that live in the mountains have 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 valor.
 8 And the Lord said to Joshua, "Don't be afraid of them, for I have delivered them into your hand, not a man of them shall stand before you."
 9 Joshua therefore came to them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night.
 10 And the Lord discomfited them before Israel, and killed them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goes up to Bethhoron, and struck them to Azekah, and to Makkedah.
 11 And as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, the Lord threw down great stones from heaven on them as far as Azekah, and they died, there were more who died by hail stones than those whom the children of Israel killed with the sword.
 12 Then Joshua spoke 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 still on Gibeon, and you, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon."
 13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves on their enemies.  Is not this written in the book of Jasher?  So the sun stood still in the middle of heaven, and didn't go down for about a whole day.
 14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the Lord listened to the voice of a man, for the Lord fought for Israel.
 15 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.
 16 But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah.
 17 And Joshua was told , "The five kings have been found hidden in a cave at Makkedah."
 18 And Joshua said, "Roll large stones on the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to keep them,
 19 And don't stay, but pursue after your enemies, and strike the tail end of them, don't allow them to enter into their cities, for the Lord your God has delivered them into your hand."
 20 And when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of killing them with a very great slaughter, 'til they were consumed, the rest that remained of them entered into fenced cities.
 21 And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace, no one moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel.
 22 Then Joshua said, "Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings to me out of the cave."
 23 And they did so, and brought out those five kings to 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 when they brought out those kings to Joshua, Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said to the captains of the men of war that went with him, "Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings."  And they came near, and put their feet on the necks of them.
 25 And Joshua said to them, "Don't be afraid, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage, for this is what the Lord shall do to all your enemies against whom you fight."
 26 And afterward Joshua struck them, and killed them, and hung them on five trees, and they were hanging on the trees until the evening.
 27 And at the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and threw them into the cave in which they had been hiding, and laid large stones in the cave's mouth, that remain until this very day.
 28 And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and he completely destroyed its king, them, and all the souls that were in it, he let none remain, and he did to the king of Makkedah like he did to the king of Jericho.
 29 Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, to Libnah, and fought against Libnah,
 30 And the Lord delivered it also, and its king, into the hand of Israel, and he struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were in it, he let no one remain in it, but did to the king of it like he did to the king of Jericho.
 31 And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, to Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it,
 32 And the Lord delivered Lachish to the hand of Israel, who took it on the second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were in it, according to all that he had done to Libnah.
 33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish, and Joshua struck him and his people, until he had left him no one remaining.
 34 And from Lachish Joshua passed to Eglon, and all Israel with him, and they encamped against it, and fought against it,
 35 And they took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were in it he completely destroyed that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.
 36 And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, to Hebron, and they fought against it,
 37 And they took it, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and the king of it, and all the cities of it, and all the souls that were in it, he left no one remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon, but destroyed it completely, and all the souls that were in it.
 38 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and fought against it,
 39 And he took it, and the king of it, and all the cities of it, and they struck them with the edge of the sword, and completely destroyed all the souls that were in it, he left no one remaining, as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king of it, as he had done also to Libnah, and to her king.
 40 So Joshua struck all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings, he left no one remaining, but completely destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel commanded.
 41 And Joshua struck them from Kadeshbarnea to Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, to Gibeon.
 42 And Joshua took all these kings and their land at one time, because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel.
 43 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp to Gilgal.

___Joshua chapter 11
 1 And when Jabin king of Hazor had heard those things, 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 armies with them, many people, like the sand that is at the sea shore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots.
 5 And when all these kings had gotten together, they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.
 6 And the Lord said to Joshua, "Don't be afraid because of them, for tomorrow about this time I'll deliver them up all killed before Israel, you shall slash 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 on them.
 8 And the Lord delivered them into the hand of Israel, who struck them, and chased them to great Zidon, and to Misrephothmaim, and to the valley of Mizpeh eastward, and they struck them, until no one remained.
 9 And Joshua did to them as the Lord told him, he slashed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.
 10 And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword, for Hazor previously was the head of all those kingdoms.
 11 And they struck all the souls that were in it with the edge of the sword, completely destroying them, there was no one left to breathe, and he burnt Hazor with fire.
 12 And Joshua took all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, and struck them with the edge of the sword, and he completely destroyed them, like Moses the servant of the Lord commanded.
 13 But as for the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only, Joshua burned that.
 14 And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey for themselves, but every man they struck with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, nor did they leave any to breathe.
 15 As the Lord commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua, and Joshua did it, 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 goes up to Seir, even to Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon, and all their kings he took, and struck them, and killed 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, except the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon, all others they took in battle.
 20 For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts, so that they would come against Israel in battle, so that he would destroy them completely, and that they would have no favor, but so that he would destroy them, as the Lord commanded Moses.
 21 And Joshua came at that time, 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 completely with their cities.
 22 There were none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel, only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, some remained.
 23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord said to Moses, and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes.  And the land rested from war.

___Joshua chapter 12
 1 Now these are the kings of the land, that the children of Israel struck, and possessed their land on the other side of Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon to mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east,
 2 Sihon king of the Amorites, who lived in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gilead, to 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 to the sea of the plain, the salt sea on the east, the way to Bethjeshimoth, and from the south, under Ashdothpisgah,
 4 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, that was of the remnant of the giants, that lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,
 5 And ruled in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, to the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.
 6 Moses the servant of the Lord and the children of Israel struck them, and Moses the servant of the Lord gave it for a possession to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and one half of the tribe of Manasseh.
 7 And these are the kings of the country that Joshua and the children of Israel struck on this side of Jordan on the west, from Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon to the mount Halak, that goes up to Seir, which Joshua gave to 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, that is beside Bethel, 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 Bethel, 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 Shimronmeron, 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 one.

___Joshua chapter 13
 1 Now Joshua was old and stricken in years, and the Lord said to him, "You're old and stricken in years, and there still remains very much land to be possessed.
 2 This is the land that still remains, all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,
 3 From Sihor, that is before Egypt, to 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, to Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites,
 5 And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baalgad under Mount Hermon to the entrance of Hamath.
 6 All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, I will drive them out from before the children of Israel, only divide it by drawing straws to the Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
 7 Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes, and the one half tribe of Manasseh,
 8 With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance that Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them,
 9 From Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the river, and all the plain of Medeba to Dibon,
 10 And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, that ruled in Heshbon, to 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 to Salcah,
 12 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, that ruled in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants, for Moses struck those, and threw them out.
 13 But the children of Israel didn't expell the Geshurites, nor the Maachathites, but the Geshurites and the Maachathites live among the Israelites until this day.
 14 Only to the tribe of Levi he didn't give any inheritance, the sacrifices of the Lord God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he said to them.
 15 And Moses gave to 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 middle of the river, and all the plain by Medeba,
 17 Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain, Dibon, and Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon,
 18 And Jahazah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,
 19 And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zarethshahar in the mount of the valley,
 20 And Bethpeor, and Ashdothpisgah, and Bethjeshimoth,
 21 And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who ruled in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, who were dukes of Sihon, living in the country.
 22 The children of Israel also killed Balaam the son of Beor, the fortune teller, with the sword among those who were killed by them.
 23 And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border of it.  This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the villages of it.
 24 And Moses gave inheritance to the tribe of Gad, to 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, to Aroer that is before Rabbah,
 26 And from Heshbon to Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim, and from Mahanaim to the border of Debir,
 27 And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and his border, to the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the other side of 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 to the one 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, that are in Bashan, sixty cities,
 31 And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining to the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, to the one half of the children of Machir by their families.
 32 These are the countries that Moses distributed for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side of Jordan, by Jericho, eastward.
 33 But Moses didn't give any inheritance to the tribe of Levi, the Lord God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said to them.

___Joshua chapter 14
 1 And these are the countries that the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, that 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 Their inheritance was by drawing straws, 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 a half tribe on the other side of Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.
 4 For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim, therefore they gave no part to the Levites in the land, except cities to live in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.
 5 The children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses, and they divided the land.
 6 Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said to him, "You know the thing that the Lord said to Moses the man of God concerning me and you in Kadeshbarnea.
 7 I was forty years old when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadeshbarnea to spy out the land, and I brought him back word as it was in my heart.
 8 But my brothers that went up with me made the heart of the people melt, but I completely followed the Lord my God.
 9 And Moses swore on that day, saying, Surely the land on which your feet have walked shall be your inheritance, and your children's forever, because you've completely followed the Lord my God.
 10 And now, see, the Lord has kept me alive, as he said, these forty five years, since the Lord spoke this word to Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness, and now, see, today I'm eighty five years old.
 11 As I am still as strong today as I was in the day that Moses sent me, my strength now is like my strength was then, for war, both to go out, and to come in.
 12 Now therefore give me this mountain, about which the Lord spoke on that day, for you heard on that day how the Anakims were there, and that the cities were great and fenced, if the Lord will be with me, then I'll be able to drive them out, like the Lord said.
 13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, Hebron for an inheritance.
 14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite to this day, because he completely followed the Lord God of Israel.
 15 And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba, which Arba was a great man among the Anakims.  And the land had rest from war.

___Joshua chapter 15
 1 This then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families, to the border of Edom the wilderness of Zin southward was the farthest part of the south coast.
 2 And their south border was from the shore of the Dead Sea, from the bay that looks southward,
 3 And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side to Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and circled to Karkaa,
 4 From there it passed toward Azmon, and went out to 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 Dead Sea, to the end of Jordan.  And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the farthest part of Jordan,
 6 And the border went up to Bethhogla, and passed along by the north of Betharabah, 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, that is on the south side of the river, and the border passed toward the waters of Enshemesh, and the goings out of it were at Enrogel,
 8 And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the south side of the Jebusite, the same is Jerusalem, and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, that is at the end of the valley of the giants northward,
 9 And the border was drawn from the top of the hill to the fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of Mount Ephron, and the border was drawn to Baalah, that is Kirjathjearim,
 10 And the border circled from Baalah westward to mount Seir, and passed along to the side of mount Jearim, which is Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed on to Timnah,
 11 And the border went out to the side of Ekron northward, and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to Mount Baalah, and went out to 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 of it.  This is the coast of the children of Judah around according to their families.
 13 And to 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 from there the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.
 15 And he went up from there to the inhabitants of Debir, and the name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher.
 16 And Caleb said, "He that smites Kirjathsepher, and takes it, I'll give him Achsah, my daughter, as wife."
 17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it, and he gave him Achsah his daughter as wife.
 18 And as she came to him, she moved him to ask from her father a field, and she dismounted from her animal, and Caleb said to her, "What do you want?"
 19 Who answered, "Give me a blessing, for you've 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 farthest 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 Hazargaddah, and Heshmon, and Bethpalet,
 28 And Hazarshual, and Beersheba, 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 nine, with their villages,
 33 And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
 34 And Zanoah, and Engannim, 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 Migdalgad,
 38 And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,
 39 Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,
 40 And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish,
 41 And Gederoth, Bethdagon, 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 to the sea, all that were close to Ashdod, with their villages,
 47 Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns and her villages, to the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the border of it,
 48 And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,
 49 And Dannah, and Kirjathsannah, 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 Bethtappuah, and Aphekah,
 54 And Humtah, and Kirjatharba, 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, Bethzur, and Gedor,
 59 And Maarath, and Bethanoth, and Eltekon, six cities with their villages,
 60 Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah, two cities with their villages,
 61 In the wilderness, Betharabah, Middin, and Secacah,
 62 And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and Engedi, six cities with their villages.
 63 As for the Jebusites, the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the children of Judah couldn't drive them out, but the Jebusites live with the children of Judah at Jerusalem until this day.

___Joshua chapter 16
 1 And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by Jericho, to the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that goes up from Jericho throughout Mount Bethel,
 2 And goes out from Bethel to Luz, and passes along to the borders of Archi to Ataroth,
 3 And goes down westward to the coast of Japhleti, to the coast of Bethhoron the nether, and to Gezer, and the goings out of it 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, the border of their inheritance on the east side was Atarothaddar, to Bethhoron the upper,
 6 And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the north side, and the border went about eastward to Taanathshiloh, 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 to the river Kanah, and the goings out of it 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 didn't drive out the Canaanites that lived in Gezer, but the Canaanites live among the Ephraimites until this day, and serve under tribute.

___Joshua chapter 17
 1 There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh, for he was the firstborn of Joseph, specifically, 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 and said, "The Lord commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brothers."  Therefore according to the commandment of the Lord he gave them an inheritance among the brothers of their father.
 5 And ten portions fell to Manasseh, beside the land of Gilead and Bashan, that were on the other side of 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 lies before Shechem, and the border went along on the right hand to the inhabitants of Entappuah.
 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 to 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 its border, and they met together in Asher on the north, and in Issachar on the east.
 11 And in Issachar and in Asher, Manasseh had Bethshean and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, three countries.
 12 Yet the children of Manasseh couldn't drive out the inhabitants of those cities, but the Canaanites would live in that land.
 13 Yet when the children of Israel had become strong, they put the Canaanites to tribute, but didn't completely drive them out.
 14 And the children of Joseph said to Joshua, "Why have you given me only one lot and one portion to inherit, since we are a great people, since the Lord has blessed me until now?"
 15 And Joshua answered them, "If you're a great people, then get up to the wood country, and cut down for yourself there in the land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if Mount Ephraim is too narrow for you."
 16 And the children of Joseph said, "The hill isn't enough for us, and all the Canaanites that live in the land of the valley have chariots of iron, both those who are of Bethshean and her towns, and those who are of the valley of Jezreel."
 17 And Joshua said to the house of Joseph, to Ephraim and to Manasseh, "You are a great people, and have great power, you won't have just one lot,
 18 But the mountain shall be yours, for it is a forest, and you'll cut it down, and the outgoings of it shall be yours, for you'll drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and though they're strong."

___Joshua 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 seven tribes remained among the children of Israel that hadn't yet received their inheritance.
 3 And Joshua said to the children of Israel, "How long are you slack to go to possess the land that the Lord God of your fathers has 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 live in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall live in their coasts on the north.
 6 You shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring the description here to me, so I can draw straws 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, that Moses the servant of the Lord gave them.
 8 And the men got up, 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 back to me, so I can draw straws here 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 back to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.
 10 And Joshua drew straws for them in Shiloh before the Lord, and Joshua divided the land there for 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 out 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 of it were at the wilderness of Bethaven.
 13 And the border went over from there toward Luz, to the side of Luz, that is Bethel, southward, and the border descended to Atarothadar, near the hill that lies on the south side of the nether Bethhoron.
 14 And the border was drawn from there, and circled the corner of the sea southward, from the hill that lies before Bethhoron southward, and the goings out of it were at Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, a city of the children of Judah, this was the west quarter.
 15 And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjathjearim, 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 lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and that 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 Enrogel,
 17 And was drawn from the north, and went out to Enshemesh, and went out toward Geliloth, that is opposite the going up of Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,
 18 And passed along toward the side opposite Arabah northward, and went down to Arabah,
 19 And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah northward, and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the Dead 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 of it all around, according to their families.
 21 Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin according to their families were Jericho, and Bethhoglah, and the valley of Keziz,
 22 And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,
 23 And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,
 24 And Chepharhaammonai, 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.

___Joshua chapter 19
 1 And the second lot came out for Simeon, for the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families, and their inheritance was inside the inheritance of the children of Judah.
 2 And they had in their inheritance Beersheba, or Sheba, and Moladah,
 3 And Hazarshual, and Balah, and Azem,
 4 And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,
 5 And Ziklag, and Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusah,
 6 And Bethlebaoth, 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 around these cities to Baalathbeer, Ramath of the south.  This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.
 9 The inheritance of the children of Simeon was out of the portion of the children of Judah, for the part of the children of Judah was too much for them, therefore the children of Simeon had their inheritance inside 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 to 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 to the border of Chislothtabor, and then goes out to Daberath, and goes up to Japhia,
 13 And from there passes on along on the east to Gittahhepher, to Ittahkazin, and goes out to Remmonmethoar to Neah,
 14 And the border circles it on the north side to Hannathon, and the outgoings of it are in the valley of Jiphthahel,
 15 And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem, 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 Hapharaim, and Shion, and Anaharath,
 20 And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez,
 21 And Remeth, and Engannim, and Enhaddah, and Bethpazzez,
 22 And the coast reaches to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Bethshemesh, 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 reaches to Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath,
 27 And turns toward the sunrising to Bethdagon, and reaches to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthahel toward the north side of Bethemek, and Neiel, and goes out to Cabul on the left hand,
 28 And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, to great Zidon,
 29 And then the coast turns to Ramah, and to the strong city Tyre, and the coast turns to Hosah, and the outgoings of it are at the sea from the coast to Achzib,
 30 Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob, twenty 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, 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, to Lakum, and the outgoings of it were at Jordan,
 34 And then the coast turns westward to Aznothtabor, and goes out from there to Hukkok, and reaches to Zebulun on the south side, and reaches to Asher on the west side, and to Judah on 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 Enhazor,
 38 And Iron, and Migdalel, Horem, and Bethanath, and Bethshemesh, 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 Irshemesh,
 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 Beneberak, and Gathrimmon,
 46 And Mejarkon, 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 struck it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and lived in it, and they changed the name from Leshem to 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 that he asked for, Timnathserah in mount Ephraim, and he built the city, and lived there.
 51 These are the inheritances that 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.

___Joshua chapter 20
 1 The Lord also said to Joshua,
 2 "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint for yourselves cities of refuge, about which I spoke to you by the hand of Moses,
 3 So that the slayer that kills any person unintentionally and unknowingly can flee there, and they shall be your refuge from the avenger of blood.
 4 And when he that flees to 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 to them, and give him a place, so that he can live among them.
 5 And if the avenger of blood pursues after him, then they shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand, because he struck his neighbor unknowingly, and didn't hate him previously.
 6 And he shall live in that city, until he stands before the congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that shall be in those days, then the slayer shall return, and come to his own city, and to his own house, to the city that he fled from."
 7 And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in Mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.
 8 And on the other side of Jordan by Jericho eastward, they assigned Bezer in the wilderness on 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 visits among them, so that whoever kills any person unintentionally could flee there, and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.

___Joshua chapter 21
 1 Then the heads of the fathers of the Levites came near Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and to the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel,
 2 And they spoke to them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, saying, "The Lord commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to live in, with the suburbs of them for our cattle."
 3 And the children of Israel gave to 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, that were of the Levites, had thirteen cities by lot out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of the tribe of Benjamin.
 5 And the rest of the children of Kohath had ten cities 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.
 6 And the children of Gershon had thirteen cities 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.
 7 The children of Merari by their families had twelve cities out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun.
 8 And the children of Israel gave by lot to 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 that are mentioned here by name,
 10 That the children of Aaron, being of the families of the Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had, for the first lot was theirs.
 11 And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak, that city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with its suburbs around it.
 12 But the fields of the city, and the villages of it, they gave to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.
 13 Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest, Hebron with its suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer, and Libnah with its suburbs,
 14 And Jattir with its suburbs, and Eshtemoa with its suburbs,
 15 And Holon with its suburbs, and Debir with its suburbs,
 16 And Ain with its suburbs, and Juttah with its suburbs, and Bethshemesh with its suburbs, nine cities out of those two tribes.
 17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with its suburbs, Geba with its suburbs,
 18 Anathoth with its suburbs, and Almon with its 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 that remained of the children of Kohath, they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
 21 For they gave them Shechem with its suburbs in mount Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the slayer, and Gezer with its suburbs,
 22 And Kibzaim with its suburbs, and Bethhoron with its suburbs, four cities.
 23 And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs, Gibbethon with her suburbs,
 24 Aijalon with her suburbs, Gathrimmon with her suburbs, four cities.
 25 And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with its suburbs, and Gathrimmon with its suburbs, two cities.
 26 There was a total of ten cities with their suburbs for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.
 27 And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, out of the other half tribe of Manasseh, they gave Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer, and Beeshterah with its suburbs, two cities.
 28 And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with its suburbs, Dabareh with its suburbs,
 29 Jarmuth with its suburbs, Engannim with its suburbs, four cities.
 30 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with its suburbs, Abdon with its suburbs,
 31 Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with its suburbs, four cities.
 32 And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer, and Hammothdor with its suburbs, and Kartan with its suburbs, three cities.
 33 All the cities of the Gershonites according to their families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
 34 And to the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its suburbs, and Kartah with its suburbs,
 35 Dimnah with its suburbs, Nahalal with its suburbs, four cities.
 36 And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with its suburbs, and Jahazah with its suburbs,
 37 Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs, four cities.
 38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with its suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer, and Mahanaim with its suburbs,
 39 Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs, four cities in all.
 40 So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, that were remaining of the families of the Levites, by their lot were twelve cities.
 41 All the cities of the Levites inside the possession of the children of Israel were forty eight cities with their suburbs.
 42 These cities were each city plus their suburbs around them, for all these cities.
 43 And the Lord gave Israel all the land that he promised to give to their fathers, and they possessed it, and lived there.
 44 And the Lord gave them rest all around, according to all that he promised to their fathers, and not a man of all their enemies stood before them, the Lord delivered all their enemies into their hand.
 45 No good thing failed to occur that the Lord had spoken to the house of Israel, all of it happened.

___Joshua chapter 22
 1 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh,
 2 And said to them, "You've kept all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I commanded you,
 3 You haven't left your brothers these many days until this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the Lord your God.
 4 And now the Lord your God has given rest to your brothers, as he promised them, therefore now return, and get to your tents, and to the land of your possession, that Moses the servant of the Lord gave you on the other side of Jordan.
 5 But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, that 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 stick to 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 to their tents.
 7 Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given possession in Bashan, but to the other half of it Joshua gave among their brothers on this side of Jordan westward.  And when Joshua sent them away also to their tents, then he blessed them,
 8 And he said to them, "Return with much riches to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much clothing, divide the spoil of your enemies with your brothers.
 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 to the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, which they possessed, according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses.
 10 And when they came to 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 an altar there by Jordan, a large altar to look at.
 11 And the children of Israel heard, "See, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have built an altar opposite 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 to 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 a head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.
 15 And they came to the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and they said to them,
 16 "Thus says the whole congregation of the Lord, What trespass is this that you've committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the Lord, in that you've built yourselves an altar, so you can rebel this day against the Lord?
 17 Is the sin of Peor too little for us, from which we're not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord,
 18 But that you must turn away this day from following the Lord?  And it will be, seeing that you rebel today against the Lord, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.
 19 But if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of the Lord, where the Lord's tabernacle is, and take possession among us, but don't rebel against the Lord, nor rebel against us, in building yourselves an altar beside the altar of the Lord our God.
 20 Didn't Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel?  And that man didn't perish alone in his sin."
 21 Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said to the heads of the thousands of Israel,
 22 "The Lord God of gods, the Lord God of gods, he knows, and Israel he shall know, if it is in rebellion, or if in transgression against the Lord, (don't save us this day,)
 23 That we've built for ourselves an altar to turn from following the Lord, or if to offer on it burnt offering or meat offering, or if to offer peace offerings on it, let the Lord himself require it,
 24 And if we haven't rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, What have you to do with the Lord God of Israel?
 25 For the Lord has made Jordan a border between us and you, you children of Reuben and children of Gad, you 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 so that it will be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, so that we will do the service of the Lord before him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings, so that your children won't say to our children in the future, You have no part in the Lord.  
 28 Therefore we said, that it shall be, when they should so say to us or to our generations in the future, that we can answer, Look at the pattern of the altar of the Lord, that 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 that were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it pleased them.
 31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said to 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 you haven't committed this trespass against the Lord, now you've 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, to the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them back word.
 33 And the thing pleased the children of Israel, and the children of Israel blessed God, and chose not to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land in which the children of Reuben and Gad lived.
 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.

___Joshua chapter 23
 1 And a long time after the Lord had given rest to Israel from all their enemies all around, Joshua was 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 to them, "I am old and stricken in age,
 3 And you've seen all that the Lord your God has done to all these nations because of you, for the Lord your God is he that has fought for you.
 4 See, I've divided to you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I've cut off, to the great sea westward.
 5 And the Lord your God shall expel them from before you, and drive them out of your sight, and you shall possess their land, as the Lord your God has promised you.
 6 Be therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, so that you don't turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left,
 7 So that you don't come among these nations, these that remain among you, nor make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, nor serve them, nor bow yourselves to them,
 8 But stick to the Lord your God, as you've done until this day.
 9 For the Lord has driven out from before you great nations and strong, but as for you, no man has been able to stand before you until this day.
 10 One man of you shall chase a thousand, for the Lord your God, he it is that fights for you, like he has promised you.
 11 Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love the Lord your God.
 12 Otherwise if you in any way go back, and stick to the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you,
 13 Know for sure that the Lord your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you, but they shall be snares and traps to you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land that the Lord your God has given you.
 14 And see, this day I am going the way of all the earth, and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing has failed of all the good things that the Lord your God spoke concerning you, all have occurred for you, and not one thing has failed of them.
 15 Therefore as all good things have come on you, that the Lord your God promised you, so the Lord shall bring on you all evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land that the Lord your God has given you.
 16 When you've transgressed the covenant of the Lord your God, that he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them, then the anger of the Lord shall be kindled against you, and you'll perish quickly from off the good land that he has given you.

___Joshua 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 to all the people, "Thus says the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers lived on the other side of the flood in old times, 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 to Isaac Jacob and Esau, and I gave to 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 you came to the sea, and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red sea.
 7 And when they cried to the Lord, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and closed the sea on them, and covered them, and your eyes have seen what I've done in Egypt, and you lived in the wilderness a long time.
 8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of Jordan, and they fought with you, and I gave them into your hand, so that you would 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 wouldn't listen to Balaam, therefore he blessed you instead, so I delivered you out of his hand.
 11 And you went over Jordan, and came to 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, that drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites, but not with your sword, nor with your bow.
 13 And I've given you a land for which you didn't labor, and cities that you didn't build, and you live in them, you eat of the vineyards and oliveyards that you didn't plant.
 14 Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods that your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.
 15 And if it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you'll serve, whether the gods that your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live, but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."
 16 And the people answered and said, "God forbid that we would forsake the Lord, to serve other gods,
 17 For the Lord our God is he that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the people through whom we passed,
 18 And the Lord drove out from before us all the people, the Amorites who lived in the land, therefore we will also serve the Lord, for he is our God."
 19 And Joshua said to the people, "You can't serve the Lord, for he is a holy God, he is a jealous God, he won't forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
 20 If you forsake the Lord, and serve strange gods, then he'll turn and hurt you, and consume you, after he has done you good."
 21 And the people said to Joshua, "No, but we will serve the Lord."
 22 And Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you've chosen for yourselves the Lord, to serve him."  And they said, "We are witnesses."
 23 "Now therefore put away," he said, "the strange gods that are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord God of Israel."
 24 And the people said to Joshua, "We will serve the Lord our God, and we will obey his voice."
 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 to all the people, "See, this stone shall be a witness to us, for it heard all the words of the Lord that he spoke to us, it shall therefore be a witness to you, so that you don't deny your God."
 28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man to his inheritance.
 29 And after these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being one hundred ten years old.
 30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, that 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 outlived Joshua, and who had known all the works of the Lord, that he had done for Israel.
 32 And the bones of Joseph, that the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, they buried in Shechem, in a parcel of ground that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a 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, that was given to him in Mount Ephraim.