The Israelites smitten at Ai. JOSHUA. God instructs Joshua. the woman, and all that she hath, as yel 8 O LORD, what shall I say, when Issware unto her. rael turneth their backs before their ene 23 And the young men that were spies mies! went in, and brought out Rahab, and her 9 For the Canaanites, and all the infather, and her mother, and her brethren, habitants of the land shall hear of it, and and all that she had; and they brought shall environ us round, and cut off our out all her kindred, and left them without name from the earth: and what wilt thou the camp of Israel. do unto thy great name? 24 And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD. 10 T And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? 11 Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I 25 And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot commanded them: for they have even alive, and her father's household, and all taken of the accursed thing, and have also that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel stolen, and dissembled also, and they have even unto this day; because she hid the put it even among their own stuff. messengers which Joshua sent to spy out 12 Therefore the children of Israel Jericho. could not stand before their enemies, but 26 ¶ And Joshua adjured them at that turned their backs before their enemies, time, saying, Cursed be the man before the because they were accursed: neither will LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city I be with you any more, except ye deJericho he shall lay the foundation there-stroy the accursed from among you. of in his first-born, and in his youngest son 13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, shall he set up the gates of it. 27 So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country. CHAP. VII. UT the children of Israel committed BUT Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, until ye take away the Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, 14 In the morning therefore ye shall be the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, brought according to your tribes: and it took of the accursed thing: and the anger shall be, that the tribe which the LORD of the LORD was kindled against the chil- taketh shall come according to the famidren of Israel. lies thereof; and the family which the 2 And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, LORD shall take shall come by housewhich is beside Beth-aven, on the east side holds; and the household which the LORD of Beth-el, and spake unto them, saying, shall take shall come man by man. Go up and view the country. And te 15 And it shall be, that he that is taken men went up and viewed Ai. with the accursed thing shall be burnt with 3 And they returned to Joshua, and said fire, he and all that he hath because he unto him, Let not all the people go up; hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, but let about two or three thousand men go and because he hath wrought folly in Israel. up and smite Ai: and make not all the peo- 16 ¶ So Joshua rose up early in the ple to labour thither; for they are but few. morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; 4 So there went up thither of the peo- and the tribe of Judah was taken: ple about three thousand men: and they 17 And he brought the family of Judah; led before the men of Ai. and he took the family of the Zarhites: 5 And the men of Ai smote of them and he brought the family of the Zarhites about thirty and six men: for they chased man by man; and Zabdi was taken: them from before the gate even unto She- 18 And he brought his household man barim, and smote them in the going down: by man; and Achan the son of Carmi, the wherefore the hearts of the people melted, son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe and became as water. of Judah, was taken. 6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and 19 And Joshua said unto Achan, My fell to the earth upon his face before the son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD ark of the LORD until the even-tide, he God of Israel, and make confession unto and the elders of Israel, and put dust up- him; and tell me now what thou hast done, on their heads. hide it not from me. 7 And Joshua said, Alas! O Lord GOD, 20 And Achan answered Joshua, and wherefore hast thou at all brought this said, Indeed I have sinned against the people over Jordan, to deliver us into the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would I done. to God we had been content, and dwelt 21 When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred on the other side Jordan! Ai taken by stratagem. CHAP. VIII. The city is burnt. shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of 9 Joshua therefore sent them forth; fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and they went to lie in ambush, and abode and took them, and behold, they are hid between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side in the earth in the midst of my tent, and of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the silver under it. the people. 22 T So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent, and behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it. 23 And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD. 10 And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai. 11 And all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and 24 And Joshua, and all Israel with him, pitched on the north side of Ai: now there took Achan the son of Zerah, and the sil-was a valley between them and Ai. ver, and the garment, and the wedge of 12 And he took about five thousand gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and men, and set them to lie in ambush bebis oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and tween Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of his tent, and all that he had: and they the city. brought them unto the valley of Achor. 13 And when they had set the people, 25 And Joshua said, Why hast thou even all the host that was on the north of troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee the city, and their liers in wait on the west this day. And all Israel stoned him with of the city, Joshua went that night into the stones, and burned them with fire, after midst of the valley. they had stoned them with stones. 14 And it came to pass when the king 26 And they raised over him a great of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD early, and the men of the city went out turned from the fierceness of his anger: against Israel to battle, he and all his peowherefore the name of that place was call-ple, at a time appointed, before the plain: ed The valley of Achor, into this day. CHAP. VIII. AND the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land : but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city. 15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. 16 And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city. 2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king, as thou didst unto Jericho and her king: 17 And there was not a man left in Ai, only the spoil thereof, and the cattle there- or Beth-el, that went not out after Israel: of, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: and they left the city open, and pursued lay thee an ambush for the city behind it. after Israel. 3 So Joshua arose, and all the people 18 And the LORD said unto Joshua, of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand tochose out thirty thousand mighty men of ward Ai; for I will give it into thy hand. valour, and sent them away by night. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he 4 And he commanded them, saying, Be- had in his hand toward the city. hold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye all ready : 19 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted, and set the city on fire. 5 And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city: and it shall come to pass when they come out 20 And when the men of Ai looked beagainst us, as at the first, that we will flee hind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke before them, of the city ascended up to heaven, and 6 (For they will come out after us) till they had no power to flee this way or that we have drawn them from the city; for way: and the people that fled to the wilthey will say, They flee before us, as at derness turned back upon the pursuers. the first: therefore we will flee before them. 21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw 7 Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand. that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai. 8 And it shall be when ye have taken 22 And the other issued out of the city the city, that ye shall set the city on fire against them; so they were in the midst of according to the commandment of the LORD Israel, some on this side, and some on that shall ye do. See, I have commanded you. side: and they smote them, so that they Blessings and cursings offered. JOSHUA. Combination against Israel. let none of them remain or escape. the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the 23 And the king of Ai they took alive, coasts of the great sea over against Lebaand brought him to Joshua. non, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite heard thereof; 24 And it came to pass when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge of the sword. 25 And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai. 2 That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord. 3¶ And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai, 4 They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and winebottles, old, and rent, and bound up; 26 For Joshua drew not his hand back wherewith he stretched out the spear, until 5 And old shoes and clouted upon their he had utterly destroyed all the inhabit-feet, and old garments upon them; and all ants of Ai. the bread of their provision was dry and 27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that mouldy. city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which be commanded Joshua 28 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it a heap forever,even a desolation unto this day. 29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until even-tide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcass down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day. 30 Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal, 6 And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us. 7 And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us and how shall we make a league with you? 8 And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And Joshua said unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye? 9 And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come, because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt, 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 10 And all that he did to the two kings altar of whole stones, over which no man of the Amorites, that were beyond Jordan, hath lifted up any iron: and they offered to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king thereon burnt-offerings unto the LORD, of Bashan, which was at Ashtaroth. and sacrificed peace-offerings. 11 Wherefore our elders, and all the 32 And he wrote there upon the stones inhabitants of our country spake to us, saya copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote ing, Take victuals with you for the jourin the presence of the children of Israel. ney, and go to meet them, and say unto 33 And all Israel, and their elders, and them, We are your servants: therefore officers, and their judges, stood on this side now make ye a league with us: the ark and on that side before the priests 12 This our bread we took hot for our the Levites, which bare the ark of the co-provision out of our houses on the day we venant of the LORD, as well the stran- came forth to go unto you; but now, beger, as he that was born among them; half hold, it is dry, and it is mouldy: of them over against mount Gerizim, and 13 And these bottles of wine which we half of them over against mount Ebal; as filled, were new, and behold they be rent: Moses the servant of the LORD had com- and these our garments and our shoes are manded before, that they should bless the become old by reason of the very long people of Israel. journey. 34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law. 35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them. CHAP. IX. 14 And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the LORD. 15 And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them. 16 And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were AND it came to pass, when all the kings their neighbours, and that they dwelt which were on this side Jordan, in among them. Five kings attack Gibeon. CHAP. X. The sun and moon stand still. 17 And the children of Israel journeyed, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto and came unto their cities on the third Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and king of Eglon, saying, Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath- 4 Come up unto me, and help me, that jearim. we may smite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel. 18 And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes. 5 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it. 19 But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them. 20 This we will do to them; we will 6 And the men of Gibeon sent unto even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack because of the oath which we sware unto not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: them. 21 And the princes said unto them, for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell Let them live; but let them be hewers of in the mountains are gathered together wood, and drawers of water unto all the against us. congregation; as the princes had promised 7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, them. and all the people of war with him, and all 22 ¶ And Joshua called for them, and the mighty men of valour. he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore 8 And the LORD said unto Joshua, have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very Fear them not: for I have delivered them far from you; when ye dwell among us? into thy hand; there shall not a man of 23 Now therefore ye are cursed, and them stand before thee. there shall none of you be freed from be- 9 Joshua therefore came unto them suding bond-men, and hewers of wood and denly, and went up from Gilgal all night. drawers of water for the house of my God. 10 And the LORD discomfited them be24 And they answered Joshua, and said, fore Israel, and slew them with a great Because it was certainly told thy servants, slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them how that the LORD thy God commanded along the way that goeth up to Beth-horon, bis servant Moses to give you all the land, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makand to destroy all the inhabitants of the kedah. land from before you, therefore we were 11 And it came to pass as they fled from sore afraid of our lives because of you, and before Israel, and were in the going down have done this thing. to Beth-horon, that the LORD cast down 25 And now, behold, we are in thy great stones from heaven upon them unto hand: as it seemeth good and right unto Azekah, and they died: they were more thee to do unto us, do. which died with hailstones than they 26 And so did he unto them, and de- whom the children of Israel slew with the livered them out of the hand of the chil-sword. dren of Israel, that they slew them not. 12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD 27 And Joshua made them that day in the day when the LORD delivered up hewers of wood and drawers of water for the Amorites before the children of Israel, the congregation and for the altar of the and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, LORD, even unto this day, in the place stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou which he should choose. Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. CHAP. X. 13 And the sun stood still, and the moon NOW it came to pass, when Adoni: stayed, until the people had avenged zedek king of Jerusalem bad heard themselves upon their enemies. Is not this how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly written in the book of Jasher? So the sun destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho stood still in the midst of heaven, and and her king, so he had done to Ai and hasted not to go down about a whole day. her king; and how the inhabitants of Gi- 14 And there was no day like that bebeon had made peace with Israel, and fore it or after it, that the LORD hearkened were among them; unto the voice of a man: for the LORD 2 That they feared greatly, because fought for Israel. Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the meu thereof were mighty. 3 Wherefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, 15 And Joshua returned, and all Is rael with him, unto the camp to Gilgal. 16 But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah. 17 And it was told Joshua, saying, The The five kings hanged. JOSHUA. 18 And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the cave, and set men by it for to keep them: Joshua returns to Gilgal. five kings are found hid in a cave at Mak-none remain in it; but did unto the king to Libnah. 20 And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaugh- up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him 33 Then Horam king of Gezer came ter, till they were consumed, that the rest and his people, until he had left him none which remained of them entered into fenced remaining. cities. 21 And all the people returned to the unto Eglon, and all Israel with him: and 34 ¶ And from Lachish Joshua passed camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: they encamped against it, and fought none moved his tongue against any of the against it: children of Israel. 22 Then said Joshua, Open the mouth smote it with the edge of the sword, and 35 And they took it on that day, and of the cave, and bring out those five kings all the souls that were therein he utterly unto me out of the cave. 23 And they did so, and brought forth he had done to Lachish. destroyed that day, according to all that those five kings unto him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, and all Israel with him, unto Hebron; and 36 And Joshua went up from Eglon, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, they fought against it: and the king of Eglon. 37 And they took it, and smote it with 24 And it came to pass, when they the edge of the sword, and the king therebrought out those kings unto Joshua, that of, and all the cities thereof, and all the Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and souls that were therein; he left none resaid unto the captains of the men of war maining (according to all that he had done which went with him, Come near, put to Eglon) but destroyed it utterly, and all your feet upon the necks of these kings. the souls that were therein. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them. 38 ¶ And Joshua returned, and all Is25 And Joshua said unto them, Fear against it: rael with him, to Debir; and fought not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do of, and all the cities thereof, and they 39 And he took it, and the king thereto all your enemies against whom ye fight. smote them with the edge of the sword, 26 And afterward Joshua smote them, and utterly destroyed all the souls that and slew them, and hanged them on five were therein; he left none remaining: as trees: and they were hanging upon the he had done to Hebron, so he did to Detrees until the evening. 27 And it came to pass at the time of done also to Libnah, and to her king. bir, and to the king thereof; as he had the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off of the hills, and of the south, and of the 40 So Joshua smote all the country the trees, and cast them into the cave vale, and of the springs, and all their wherein they had been hid, and laid great kings: he left none remaining, but utterly stones in the cave's mouth, which remain destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD until this very day. God of Israel commanded. 28 ¶ And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of the desh-barnea even unto Gaza, and all the 41 And Joshua smote them from Kasword, and the king thereof he utterly country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon. destroyed, them, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain: and he did Joshua take at one time; because the 42 And all these kings and their land did to the king of Makkedah as he did, LORD God of Israel fought for Israel. unto the king of Jericho. 29 Then Joshua passed from Makke- with him, unto the camp to Gilgal. 43 And Joshua returned, and all Israel dah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah: CHAP. XI. 30 And the LORD delivered it also, and AND it came to pass, when Jabin king the king thereof, into the hand of Israel: he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the of Hazor had heard those things, that and he smote it with the edge of the sword, king of Shimron, and to the king of Achand all the souls that were therein; he let shapb, |