Rahab recefoeth the spics. CHAP. II. Their returns the Gadites, and to half the tribe of, know that the LORD hath given you Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying, the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you. 13 Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest, and hath given you this land. 14 Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side Jordan; but ye shall pass before your brethren armied, all the mighty men. of valour, and help them: 15 Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as he hath given you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them then ye shall return unto the hud of your possession, and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD's servant gave you on this side Jordan toward the sun-rising. 10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sibon and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed. 11 And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any inore courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath. 12 Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token : 16 And they answered Joshua, say- 13 And that ye will save alive my ing, All that thou commandest us, we father, and my mother, and my brewill do, and whithersoever thou send-thren, and my sisters, and all that est us, we will go. they have, and deliver our lives from death. 17 According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee: only the LORD thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses. 18 Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment, and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage. CHAP. II. 14 And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the LORD hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee. 15 Then she let them down by a cord through the window: for her bouse was upon the town-wall, and she dwelt upon the wall. 16 And she said unto them, Get you AND Joshua the son of Nun sent to the mountain, lest the pursuers out of Shittim two men to spy meet you; and hide yourselves there secretly, saying, Go view the land, three days, until the pursuers be reeven Jericho. And they went, and turned; and afterward may ye go your came into an harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there. 2 And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there came men in bither to-night of the children of Israel, to search out the country. 3 And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that are come to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they be come to search out all the country. 4 And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were. 5 And it came to pass about the time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them. 6 But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid the... with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof. 7 And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate. 8 And before they were laid down, she carne up unto them upon the roof: 9 And she said unto the men, I way. 17 And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made us swear. 18 Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and ail thy father's household home unto thee. 19 And it shall be, that whosoever shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any band be upon him. 20 And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of thine oath which thou hast nade us to swear. 21 And she said, According unte your words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed and she bound the scarlet line in the window. 22 And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were retuined: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not. 23 So the two men returned; and Joshua cometh to Jordan. JOSHUA. The people pass over Jorbate descended from the mountain, and ing the ark of the covenant before the passed over, and came to Joshua the people; son of Nun, and told bin all things that befel them: 24 And they said unto Joshua, Truly the LORD hath delivered into our hand all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do famt because of us. CHAP. III. AND Joshua rose early in the morning; and they removed from Shittum, and came to Jordán, he and all the children of Israel, and lodged there before they passed over. 2 And it came to pass after three dys, that the officers went through, the host; 3 And they commanded the people, saving, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it. 4. Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ve must go for ye have not passed this way heretofore. 5 And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves; for to-morrow the LORD will do wonders among you. 6 And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the cove nant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people. 7 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee. 15 And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,) 16 That the waters which came down. from above stood, and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, filed, and were cut off and the people passed over right against Jericho. 17 And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the peo ple were passed clean over Jordan." CHAP. IV. AND it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, 2 Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man, 3 And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stoed firni, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave them in the lodging-place, where ye shall lodge this night. 4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man: 5 And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every man of you a stone upon co-his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel: 8 And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the venant, saying, When ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan. 6 That this may be a sign among 9 And Joshua said unto the chil-you, that when your children ask their dren of Israel, Come hither, and hear fathers in time to come, saying, What the words of the LORD your God. mean ye by these stones? 10 And Joshua said, Hereby ye shal! know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites and the Jebusites. 11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the LORD of all the ea th passeth over before you into Jordan. 7 Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off and these stones shail be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever. 8 Ang the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jor 12 Now therefore take you twelve dan, as the LORD spake unto Joshua, men out of the tribes of Israel, or of every tribe a man. according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there. 13 And it shall come to pass, as Boon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the art of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in 9 And Joshua set up twelve stones the waters of Jordan, that the waters in the midst of Jordan, in the place of Jordan shall be cut off from the where the feet of the priests which. waters that come down from above; bare the ark of the covenant stood; and they shall stand upon an heap. and they are there unto this day. And it came to pass, when the PEOP -moved from their tenis, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bear 10 For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan until every thing was finished that the CHAP. V. The passover kept at Gigal. YORD commanded Joshua to speak un-1 Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and To the people, according to all that Mo-circumcise again the children of Is ses commanded Joshua: and the peo-rael the second time. ple hasted and passed over. 11 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, in the presence of the people. 3 And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the bill of the foreskins. 4 And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt. 12 And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake 5 Now all the people that came out unto them: were circamcised; but alt the people 13 About forty thousand prepared that were born in the wilderness by for war passed over before the LORD the way as they came forth out o unto battle, to the plains of Je-Egypt, them they had not circumc 14 On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israef, and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life. 15 And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, 16 Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan. 17 Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Cone ye up out of Jordan. sed. 6 For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that be would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth with milk and honey. 7 And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them Joshua circumfor they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way. 19 And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of the cove-cised nant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land, that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his banks, as they did before. 19 And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho., 20 And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan did Joshua) pitch in Gilgal: 8 And it came to pass, when they bad done circumcising all the people, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole 9 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the, reproach of Egypt from off you. Where fore the name of the place is called Gilgal unto this day. 10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the pass21 And he spake unto the children over on the fourteenth day of the of Israel, saying, When your children month at even, in the plains o shall ask their fathers in time to come, | Jericho. saying, What mean these stones? 22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land. 23 For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were gone over: 24 That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever CHAP V. A ND it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which zeere by the sea, beard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from betore the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their beart melted; neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel. Atthat time the LORD said unto 11 And they did eat of the old com of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes, and parched corn in the self-same day. 12 And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had ea en of the old corn of the land; neither bad the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year. 13 And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that be lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our a versaries? 14 And he said, Nay; but as captain of the bost of the LORD am I now come. And Joshun fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant? 15 And the captain of the LORD's host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy fout; for the place Jericho besieged. NO And, the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compass ed the city seven times. YOW Jericho was straitly shut up, because of the children of Israel ? | none went out, and none came in. And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour. 3 And ye shall compass the city, all ve men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days. 4 And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets. 5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout: and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up, every man straight before him. 6 And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams horns before the ark of the LORD. 7 And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of the LORD. 8 And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed on before the LORD, and blew with the trumpets, and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them. 16 And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the LORD hath given you the city. 17 And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid ue messengers that we sent. 18 And ye, in any wise keep your.. relves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves accursed, when ye take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it. 19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD. 20 Se the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpets, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wal! fell down fiat, so that the people went up into the city, every mar straight before him, and they took the city. 21 And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox. and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword. 22 But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her. 23 And the young men that were 9 And the armed men went before spies went in, and brought out Rabab, the priests that blew with the trum-and her father, and her mother, and pets, and the rereward came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets. her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out ail her kindred, and leit them without the camp of Israel. 10 And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor 24 And they burnt the city with fire, make any noise with your voice, nei-and all that was therein only the sil ther shall any word proceed cut of your mouth, until the day 1 bid you shout: then shall ye shout. 11 So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp. 12 And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took up the ark of the LORD. 13 And seven priests bearing seven trumpets of rams' borns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and blew with the trumpets; and the armed men went before them; but the rereward came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowmg with the trumpets. 14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they did six days. 15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they iose early about ver, and the goid, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD. 25 And Joshua saved Rahab the barlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleta in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. 26 And Joshua adjured them at that, time, saying, Cursed be the man be fore the LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shaj lay the foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall be set up the gates of it. 27 So the LORD was with Joshua: and his fame was noised throughout alt the country. CHAP. VII. BUT the children of Israel coun mitted a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmis the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel. Achan taken by lot. the son of Zahdi, the son of Zerah, of, and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh shall come according to the famines thereof: and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man. 2 AndJoshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth-aven, on the east side of Beth-el, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai. 3 And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are but few. 4 So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai. 5 And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water. 6 And Joshua rent is clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads. 7 And Joshua said, Alas, O LORD God, wherefore hast thou all rought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan 15 And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and be cause he hath wrought folly in Israel. 16 So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken: 17 And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man; and Zabdi was taken: 18 And he brought his household man by man: and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken. 19 And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not froma me. 20 And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done. 21 When I saw among the sports a 8 LORD, what shall I say, when goodiy Babylonish garment, and two Israel turneth their backs before their hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge enemies! of gold of fifty shekels weight, then 9 For the Canaanites and all the in-1 coveted them, and took thein and habitants of the land shall hear of it, behold, they are hid in the earth in the and shall environ us ound, and cut midst of my tent, and the silver under of our name from the earth: and it. what wilt thou do unto thy great game? 10 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face? 11 Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them; for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff. 12 Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed froni among you. 13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against to morrow; for this saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand before thine eneRies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among you. 14 In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to your tribes: 22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it. 23 And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD. 24 And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, ant the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the valley of Achor. 25 And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones. 95 And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day. |