The two tribes and half dismissed. Before CHRIST 1444. P Gen. 13. 15. & 15. 18. & 26. 3. & 28. 4, 13. 9 ch. 11. 23. & 22. 4. Deut. 7. 24. 'ch. 23. 14. Numb.32.20. b ch. 1. 16, 17. Numb.32.33. Deut. 29. 8. ch. 13. 8. d Deut. 6. 6, 17. & 11. 22. Deut. 10.12. Gen. 47. 7. Exod. 39.43. ch. 14. 13. 2 Sam. 6. 18. Luke 24. 50. 8 ch. 17. 5. JOSHUA, XXII. They build an altar by Jordan. Before CHRIST 1444. Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: "di- Numb.31.27. vide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren. i 1.Sam.30.24. 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 Numb. 32 1, country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses. 10 And when they came unto 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 there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to. 13 And the children of Israel sent unto 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, Deut. 13.14. Judg. 20. 12. n Exod. 6. 25. Numb. 25. 7. of the father. • Numb. 1. 4. 14 And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince throughout all the +Heb. house tribes of Israel; and each one was an head of the house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel. 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 Gilead, and they spake with them, saying, 16 Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar, P that ye might rebel this See Lev. 17. day against the LORD? The Israelites are offended thereat. Before CHRIST 1444. Numb. 16.22. ch. 18. 1. t ch. 7. 1, 5. "Deut. 10.17. * 1 Kings 8. 39. JOSHUA, XXIII. 18 But that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD? and it will be, seeing ye rebel to day against the LORD, that to morrow' he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel. 19 Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein the LORD's tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us : but rebel not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar beside the altar of the LORD our God. 20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity. 21 ¶Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the thousands of Israel, X 22 The LORD "God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in Ps. 44. 21. & transgression against the LORD, (save us not this day,) Job 10. 7. & 23. 10. 139. 1, 2. Jer. 12. 3. 2 Cor. 11.11, 31. Deut. 18. 19. 1 Sam.20.16. + Heb. To morrow. Gen. 31. 48. ch. 24. 27. ver. 34. Deut. 12.5, 18, 26, 27. 24 And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, † In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel? 25 For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye 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 pre pare to build us an altar, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice: 27 But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of 6,11,121, the LORD before him with our burnt of ferings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no part in the LORD. 28 Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again, Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not They give them good satisfaction. for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness between us and you. Before CHRIST 1444. 29 God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for Deut. 12. 13, 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 which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them. 31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto 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 ye have not committed this trespass against the LORD: † now ye have 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, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of Israel, and brought them word again. d 33 And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and Gad dwelt. 14. + Heb. it was good in their eyes. © Lev. 26. 11, 12. 2 Chron. 15. 2. + Heb. then. d 1 Chron. 29. 20. Neh. 8. 6. 34 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar || Ed: That is, a for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is God. witness: So ch. 24. 27. cir. 1427. ach. 21. 44. & 22. 4. b ch. 13. 1. + Heb. come into days. Deut. 31.28. ch. 24. 1. 1 Chron. 28. 1. d Exod. 14.14. ch. 10. 14,42. ⚫ ch. 13. 2, 6. & 18. 10. Joshua's exhortation. Before CHRIST cir. 1427. + Heb. at the sunset. Exod. 23. 30. & 33. 2. & 34. 11. Deut. 11.23. ch. 13. 6. Numb.33.53. h ch. 1. 7. i Deut. 5. 32. & 28. 14. Exod. 23.33. I Exod. 23. 13. Ps. 16. 4. || Or, For if ye will cleave, &c. m Deut. 10.20. & 11. 22. & 13. 4. ch. 22. 5. || Or, Then the LORD will drive. "Deut. 11.23. • ch. 1. 5. JOSHUA, XXIV. 10 One man of you shall chase a thousand for the LORD your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath 2 Sam. 23. 8. promised you. P Lev. 26. 8. Deut. 32. 30. See Judg. 3. 31. & 15. 15. Exod. 14.14. & 23. 27. * ch. 22. 5. +Heb. your 2 Pet. 2. 20, The tribes assembled at Shechem. 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 commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you. CHAPTER XXIV. 2 A 1 Joshua assembleth the tribes at Shechem. brief history of God's benefits from Terah. 14 He reneweth the covenant between them and God. 26 A stone the witness of the covenant. 29 Joshua's age, death, and burial. 32 Joseph's bones are buried. 33 Eleazar dieth. с Before CHRIST cir. 1427. a Gen. 35. 4. b 1 Sam. 10.19. AND Joshua gathered AND Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, ch. 23. 2. and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. 2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your Gen. 11. 26, fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods. e 31. • Gen. 31. 53. Acts 7. 2, 3. 3 And I took your father Abraham Gen. 12. 1. from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac. h g 4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau and I gave unto 1 Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. Gen. 21. 2,3. Ps. 127. 3. Gen. 25. 24, 25, 26. i Gen. 36. 8. Deut. 2. 5. k Gen. 46. 1, 6. Acts 7. 15. 5 I sent Moses also and Aaron, and Exod. 3. 10. "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 Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red Exod.7.& 8. & 9, & 10, & 12. "Exod. 12. 37, P 51. Exod. 14. 2. Exod. 14. 9. Exod. 14.20. * Exod. 14. 27, 28. 7 And when they cried unto the Exod. 14.10. 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 wilderness "a longch. 5. 6. season. 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 might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you. 1 Kings 18. Ezek. 20.39. ver. 14. • Exod. 23. 24, 32, 33. & 34. 15. Deut. 13. 7. & 29. 18. P Gen. 18. 19. Matt. 6. 24. Lev. 19. 2. 1-Sam. 6. 20. Ps. 99. 5, 9. Isai. 5. 16. Exod. 20, 5. Exod. 23, 21. "1Chron.28.9. P 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. r 19 And Joshua said unto the people, ¶ Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an 2 Chron. 15. holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. 2. Ezra 8. 22. Isai. 1. 28. & 65. 11, 12. Jer. 17. 13. * ch. 23. 15. Isai. 63. 10. Acts 7. 42. 20 "If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do Joshua's age, death, and burial. 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. y 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. 24 And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey. 25 So Joshua a made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. d e C b 26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there funder an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. h g 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. k 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. m Before CHRIST cir. 1427. 31 And Israel served the LORD all Judg. 27. the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that † overlived Joshua, and which +Heb. prohad " known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel. longed their days after Joshua. " See Deut. 11. 2. & 31. 13. • Gen. 50. 25. Exod. 13.19. P Gen. 33. 19. || Or, lambs. cir. 1420. Exod. 6 25. Judg. 20, 28. THE BOOK OF JUDGES. Before CHRIST cir. 1425. Numb.27.21. ch. 20. 18. b Gen. 49. 8. e ver. 17. d1 Sam. 11. 8. + Heb. the CHAPTER I. 1 The acts of Judah and Simeon. 4 Adoni-bezek justly requited. 8 Jerusalem taken. 10 Hebron taken. 11 Othniel hath Achsah to wife for taking of Debir. 16 The Kenites dwell in Judah. 17 Hormah, Gaza, Askelon and Ekron taken. 21 The acts of Benjamin. 22 Of the house of Joseph, who take Beth-el. 30 Of Zebulun. 31 Of Asher. 33 Of Naphtali. 34 Of Dan. a NOW after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us 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 brother, Come up with me into my lot, that we may fight against the Canaanites; and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. So Simeon went with him. 4 And Judah went up; and the LORD delivered the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand and they slew of them in a Bezek ten thousand men. d 5 And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek 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. 7 And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having † their thumbs and their great toes cut off, I gathered their meat under my table: as I have done, so Or, gleaned. God hath requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and there he died. thumbs of their hands and of their feet. Lev. 24. 19. 1 Sam. 15.33. Jam. 2. 13. See Josh. 15. 63. Josh. 10. 36. & 11. 21. & 15. 13. || Or, low country. h Josh. 14. 15. & 15. 13, 14. e 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. 17. m Josh. 15. 18, 19. n Gen. 33. 11. cir. 1425. 16 And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up out of thech. 4. 11, 17. city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lieth in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt 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. X 1 Sam. 15. 6. 1 Chron. 2. 55. Jer. 35. 2. P Deut. 34. 3. Numb. 21.1. ver. 3. Numb. 10.32. t Numb. 21.3. Josh. 19. 4. "Josh. 11. 22. ver. 2. 2 Kings 18.7. 18 Also Judah took "Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with the coast thereof. 19 And the LORD was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the Or, he posmountain; 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. a 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 sessed the mountain. y Josh. 17. 16, 18. Numb. 14.24. 13. & 15. 13, 14. See Josh. 15. 63. & 18. 28. |