JOSHUA. the families of the tribe of Issachar, fuge for the slayer; and Beeshterah with her suburbs: two cities. he children of Merari, by their famiad out of the tribe of Reuben, and out tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of un, twelve cities. nd the children of Israel gave by lot unto evites these cities with their suburbs, as ORD commanded by the hand of Moses. And they gave, out of the tribe of the ren of Judah, and out of the tribe of the ren of Simeon, these cities which are -mentioned by name, Which the children of Aaron, being of families of the Kohathites, who were of children of Levi, had: for theirs was the lot. 34 And unto the families of the children 11 And they gave them the city of Arba, of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the father of Anak, (which city is Hebron,) tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, the hill-country of Judah, with the suburbs ereof round about it. and Kartah with her suburbs, 35 Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs: four cities. 36 And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and Jahazah with her suburbs, 37 Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Me 12 But the fields of the city, and the vilges thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of ephunneh for his possession. 131 Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest, Hebron with her suburbs, o be a city of refuge for the slayer, and Lib-phaath with her suburbs: four cities. mah with her suburbs, 14 And Jattir with her suburbs, and temoa with her suburbs, 15 And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir, with her suburbs, 16 And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with her suburbs: nine cities out of those two tribes. 17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba with her suburbs, 18 Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs: four cities. 19 All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs. 20 1 And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim. 21 For they gave them Shechem with her 23 And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with 24 Ajalon with her suburbs, Gath-rimmon with her suburbs: four cities. nasseh, 2 And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses, the servant of the LORD, com 25 And out of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach with her suburbs, and Gath-rimmon with her suburbs: two cities. 26 All the cities were ten, with their sub-manded you, and have obeyed my voice in urbs, for the families of the children of Ko- all that I commanded you: hath that remained. 3 Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge 27 1 And unto the children of Gershon, of 4 And now the LORD your God hath given the families of the Levites, out of the other of the commandment of the LORD your God. half-tribe of Manasseh, they gave Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, to be a city of re-rest unto your brethren, as he promised them 180 therefore now return ye, and get you unto that ye have builded you an altar, that ye your tents, and unto the land of your posses- might rebel this day against the LORD? sion, which Moses, the servant of the LORD, 17 Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, gave you on the other side Jordan. from which we are not cleansed until this 5 But take diligent heed to do the com- day, although there was a plague in the conmandment, and the law, which Moses, the gregation of the LORD, servant of the LORD, charged you, to love 18 But that ye must turn away this day the LORD your God, and to walk in all his from following the LORD? And it will be, ways, and to keep his commandments, and seeing ye rebel to-day against the LORD, that to cleave unto him, and to serve him with to-morrow he will be wroth with the whole all your heart, and with all your soul. congregation of Israel. 6 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them 19 Notwithstanding, if the land of your posaway: and they went unto their tents. session be unclean, then pass ye over unto the 7 Now, to the one half of the tribe of land of the possession of the LORD, wherein Manasseh Moses had given possession in Ba-the LORD's tabernacle dwelleth, and take shan; but unto the other half thereof gave possession among us: but rebel not against the Joshua among their brethren, on this side LORD, nor rebel against us,in building you an Jordan westward. And when Joshua sent altar, besides the altar of the LORD our God. them away also unto their tents, then he 20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit blessed them; a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath 8 And he spake unto them, saying, Return fell on all the congregation of Israel? and with much riches unto your tents, and with that man perished not alone in his iniquity. very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, 21 Then the children of Reuben, and and with brass, and with iron, and with the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of very much raiment: divide the spoil of your Manasseh, answered and said unto the heads enemies with your brethren. of the thousands of Israel, 22 The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shal! know, if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day,) 9 And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, 23 That we have built us an altar to turn to the land of their possession, whereof they from following the LORD, or if to offer therewere possessed, according to the word of the on burnt-offering, or meat-offering, or if to LORD by the hand of Moses. offer peace-offerings thereon, let the LORD himself require it: 10 And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that are in the land of Ca- 24 And if we have not rather done it for naan, the children of Reuben, and the chil-fear of this thing, saying, In time to come dren of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manas-your children might speak unto our children, seh, built there an altar by Jordan, a great saying, What have ye to do with the LORD altar to see to. God of Israel? 11 And the children of Israel heard say, 25 For the LORD hath made Jordan a borBehold, the children of Reuben, and the der between us and you, ye children of Reuchildren of Gad, and the half-tribe of Ma-ben, and children of Gad; ye have no part nasseh, have built an altar over against the in the LORD: so shall your children make land of Canaan, in the borders of Jordan, at our children cease from fearing the LORD. the passage of the children of Israel. 26 Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar, not for burnt-offering, nor for sacrifice : 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. 27 But that it may be a witness between us and you, and our generations after us, that we 13 And the children of Israel sent unto the might do the service of the LORD before him children of Reuben, and to the children of with our burnt-offerings, and with our sacriGad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, into fices, and with our peace-offerings; that your the land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Elea- children may not say to our children in time zar the priest, to come, Ye have no part in the LORD. 14 And with him ten princes, of each 28 Therefore said we, that it shall be, when chief house a prince, throughout all the they should so say to us, or to our genera. tribes of Israel; and each one was an head tions in time to come, that we may say again, of the house of their fathers among the Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, thousands of Israel. which our fathers made, not for burnt-offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you. 15 And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of 29 God forbid that we should rebel against Gilead, and they spake with them, saying, the LORD, and turn this day from following 16 Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD, to build an altar for burnt-offerthe LORD, What trespass is this that ye have ings, for meat-offerings, or for sacrifices, becommitted against the God of Israel, to turn sides the altar of the LORD our God that is away this day from following the LORD, in before his tabernacle. 30 ↑ And when Phinehas the priest, and for the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth the princes of the congregation, and heads of for you, as he hath promised you. the thousands of Israel which were with him, 11 Take good heed therefore unto your heard the words that the children of Reuben, selves, that ye love the LORD your God. and the children of Gad, and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them. 12 Else, if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these na✩ 31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the tions, even these that remain among you, priest said unto the children of Reuben, and and shall make marriages with them, and go to the children of Gad, and to the children in unto them, and they to you: of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the 13 Know for a certainty, that the LORD LORD is among us, because ye have not com- your God will no more drive out any of these mitted this trespass against the LORD: now nations from before you; but they shall ba ye have delivered the children of Israel out snares and traps unto you, and scourges in of the hand of the LORD. your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye 32 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the perish from off this good land which the priest, and the princes, returned from the LORD your God hath given you. children of Reuben, and from the children of 14 And behold, this day I am going the Gad, out of the land of Gilead, unto the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and hearts, and in all your souls, that not one brought them word again. thing hath failed of all the good things which 33 And the thing pleased the children of the LORD your God spake concerning you; Israel; and the children of Israel blessed all are come to pass unto you, and not one God, and did not intend to go up against thing hath failed thereof. them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt. 15 Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things until be have destroyed you from off this good land, which the LORD your God hath given you. 16 When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God, which he com from all their enemies round about, that Jo-other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; shua waxed old, and stricken in age. then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled 2 And Joshua called for all Israel, and for against you, and ye shall perish quickly from their elders, and for their heads, and for their off the good land which he hath given unte judges, and for their officers, and said unto you. them, I am old and stricken in age: 3 And ye have seen all that the LORD your Del to Shechem, and called for the God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for the LORD your God is he that hath fought for you. 4 Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward. 5 And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as the LORD your God hath promised unto you. 6 Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left; 7 That ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you, neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them: 8 But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this day. 9 For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day. 10 One man of you shall chase a thousand: 182 CHAP. XXIV. ND Joshua gathered all the tribes of Is elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. 21 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fa thers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods. 3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac. 4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. 5 I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them; and afterward I brought you out. 6 And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyp tians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea. 7 And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wil he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your derness a long season. transgressions nor your sins. 20 If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good. 21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD. 22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves, that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses. 23 Now therefore put away (said he) the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel. 8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you. 9Then Balak the son of Zippor,king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curseyou: 10 But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand. 11 And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought| against you, the Amorites,and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand. 12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow. 13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not,and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat. 141 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. 15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served, that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. 16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods; 17 For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed: 18 And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God. 19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God: [mount Ephraim. 24 And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey. 5 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. 261 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. 27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God. 28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance. 29 And it came to pass, after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old. 30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash. 31 And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel. 321 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt. buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for an hundred pieces of silver and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. 331 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in The Book of JUDGES. ther, Come up with me into my lot, that we the and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Sim CHAP. I. it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us eon went with him. against the Canaanites first, to fight against them? 2 And the LORD said, Judah shall go up: behold, I have delivered the land into his hand. 3 And Judah said unto Simeon his bro 4 And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand: and they slew of them in Bezek ten thousand men. 5 And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek 23 And the house of Joseph sent to descry Beth-el; (now the name of the city before was Luz.) 24 And the spies saw a man come forth out of the city, and they said unto him, Shew 7 And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, ten kings, having their thumbs and their and we will shew thee mercy. great toes cut off, gathered their meat under] 25 And when he shewed them the entrance my table: as I have done, so God hath re-into the city, they smote the city with the quited me. And they brought him to Jeru-edge of the sword: but they let go the man salem, and there he died. and all his family. and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites. 6 But Adoni-bezek fled: and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes. 8 Now the children of Judah had fought 26 And the man went into the land of the against Jerusalem, and had taken it, and Hittites, and built a city, and called the name smitten it with the edge of the sword, and thereof Luz: which is the name thereof unto set the city on fire. this day. 9 And afterward the children of Judah 27 ¶ Neither did Manasseh drive out the went down to fight against the Canaanites inhabitants of Beth-shean and her towns, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the inhabiand in the valley. tants of Dor and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: but the Canaanites would dwell in that land. 101 And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron: (now the name of Hebron before was Kirjath-arba;) and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai. 28¶ And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out. 29 Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them. 30 Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries. 11 And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir: (and the name of Debir before was Kirjath-sepher :) 12 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife. 13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife. 14 And it came to pass, when she came to him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou? 15 And she said unto him, Give me a blessing: for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And Caleb gave her the upper springs and the nether springs. 16 And the children of the Kenite, Moses' tants of Beth-anath; but he dwelt among father-in-law, went up out of the city of the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: palm-trees with the children of Judah into nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the and of Beth-anath became tributaries unto south of Arad; and they went and dwelt them. among the people. 17 And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it: (and the name of the city was called Hormah`:) 34 And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley: 18 Also Judah took Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof. 35 But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Ajalon, and in Shaalbim, yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries. 19 And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain, but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron. 20 And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and he expelled thence the three sons of Anak. 31 Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob: 32 But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out. 21 And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day. 22 And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Beth-el: and the LORD was with them. 33 Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, nor the inhabi 36 And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward. CHAP. II. AN ND an angel of the LORD came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you. 2 And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice; why have ye done this? 3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive |