Joshua reneweth the covenant. CHAPTER I. e Rom. 12, 2 ! Or, ye will not be able to serve, verse 23. 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 Mat. 6, 24 people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land Heb. Elo therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our his, but ho- God. him kedo bica (or, holy ones) be, Gen. 20, 13. f2 Chron. 15. 2. Fiek. 18, 24. elr. 1425. a Jushita 24, 30. 5 Num. 27, 21. Gen. 49, 8. Rev. 19, 11. 4 Ps. 72, 8. ban. 7, 14. His age, death, and burial. 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. Before CHRIST cir. 1427. 24 And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey. 25 So Joshua' made a covenant with the people 21, that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in 17. Shechem. 26. 18. 26 And Joshua* wrote these words in the book ofthe k Deut. $1, law of God, and took a great stone, and 'set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. Gen. 28, 27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, chap. 4, 3. "this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath m Deut. 27, heard all the words of the LORD which he spake ch. 22, 34 unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest n Deut. 31, ye deny your God. 31 And Israel served the LORD all the days of 0. 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. S 32 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 1 of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a 19 And Joshua said unto the people, || Ye cannot hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritserve the LORD: for he is a † holy God; he is a jeal-ance of the children of Joseph. ous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. 20 If ye 'forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, Acts 20. 29. Gen. 50, Ex. 13, 19. Gen. 35, 18. 33 And Eleazar, the son of Aaron, died; and they cir. 1420. buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim. 3 And Judah said unto Simeon his brother, Come Josh. 19,1. 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. f Psal. 2, 8. g2 Sam. 10, f1. Dan. 12, 13. 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; 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 7 And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore and ten m 9 And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the mountain, and in the south, and in the valley. That is, 10 And Judah || went against the Canaanites that condut of dwelt in Hebron, (now the name of Hebron before Jha; was Kirjath-arba,) and they slew" Sheshai, and things he Ahiman, and Talmai. Joshua for the verse 19 were done a 11 And from thence he went against the inhabit-he ants of Debir; (and the name of Debir before wasps, 11 Kirjath-sepher :) Eccl. 5, 11 The acts of Judah, Benjamin, &c. JUDGES. and of Naphtali and Dan. 12 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor Before CHRIST and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daugh- of Rehob: Before eir. 1425. ter to wife. 32 But the Asherites' dwelt among the Canaan- 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: Heb. 6, 7. 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. Ex. 18, 1. $2 Chr. 14, 10. t Josh. 15, 30. u ch. 14,14. x Rom. 8, 31. 16 And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, went up out of the 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.) 18 Also Judah took " Gaza with the coast thereof, and Askelon with the coast thereof, and Ekron with 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 Mat. 17, 19. had chariots of iron. y Josh. 7,11. & 13, 6. Gen. 15, 26. & 23, 10. mercy. 25 And when he shewed them the entrance into the city, they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let go the man and all his family. 26 And the man went into the land of the Hittites, and built a city, and called the name thereof Luz: which is the name thereof unto this day. 3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out e Josb. 7, 2 7 And the people served the LORD all the days of k 8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being a hundred and ten years old. 9 And they buried him in the border of his inherit27 1 Neither did Manasseh drive out the inhabit-ance in Timnath-heres, in the mount of Ephraim, ants of Beth-shean and her towns, nor i Taanach on the north side of the hill Gaash. and her towns, nor the inhabitants of Dor and her 10 And also all that generation were gathered towns, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, unto their fathers: and there arose another generachap. 3, 4. nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns: buttion after them, which "knew not the LORD, nor yet Ex. 23, 32. the Canaanites would dwell in that land. the works which he had done for Israel. 12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fa29 Neither did Ephraim drive out the Canaanitesthers which brought them out of the land of Egypt, Jer. 49, 10. that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt in m Josh. 16, Gezer among them. 10. 15. 30 Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants Josh. 19, of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of" Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributarics. o Josh. 19, 24 and followed P other gods, of the gods of the people 14 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Is- 8 x y ch. 3, 9. & 41. & 8, 29. 15, 16. a 17 And yet they would not hearken unto their 22 Chr. 96, judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly Levit. 17, out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying Hosea 2,2 the commandments of the LORD; but they did not so. 18 And when the LORD raised them up judges, Josh. 1,5. then the LORD was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings, by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them. eGen. b,& 4 Gen. 21, 17. Ex. 2,24. Psalm 12, 5. 31. Josh. 24, chap. 3, 12. ↑ Heb. hard tay, Mat. 13, 4. 19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them: they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their † stubborn way. 20 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice, 21 I also will not henceforth drive out any from gch. 3,1. before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died; f Ps. 81, 11. h Gen. 22, 1. Deut. 13, 3. 22 That through them I may prove Israel, whether Josh. 23, 13. they will keep the way of the LORD, to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not. 23 Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily; neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua. 3 Namely, five lords of the Philistines, and all ch. 10, the Canaanites, and the Sidonians, and the Hivites 1 Sam. 41, that dwelt in mount Lebanon, from mount 'Baalhermon unto the entering in of Hamath. 2. * Deut. 1,7. | Deut. 3, 9. Deut. 3, 2 Ehud killeth Eglon. 9 And " when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a † deliverer to the chil-C dren of Israel, who delivered them, even ° Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. Beore cir. 1354. n Ps. 78, 34. saviour, 10 And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and le he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD Tim. 4.16. delivered Chushan-rishathaim king of Mesopotamia o ch. 1, 13. into his hand and his hand prevailed against Chushan-rishathaim. 11 And the land had rest forty years: and Othniel the son of Kenaz died. strengthened 121 And the children of Israel did evil again in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD Eglon the king of Moab against Israel, because they had done evil in the sight of the LORD. 13 And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek, and went and smote Israel, and possessed the city of palm-trees. 14 So the children of Israel " served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years. X 15 But when the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man left-handed: and by him the children of Israel sent a present unto Eglon the king of Moab. 16 But Ehud made him a dagger, which had two edges, of a cubit length; and he did gird it under his raiment upon his right thigh. 17 And he brought the present unto Eglon king of Moab; and Eglon was a very fat man. Josh. 11, 23. Esth. 9, 22. 6, Ps. 78,52 sa, 4. John 19, 11. r Ps. 140, 8. 18 And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present. 19 But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand Josh. 4, 20. unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him. † Heb. a 20 And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting in a summer parlour, which he had for himself, alone: and Ehud said, I have † a message from God unto word from thee. And he arose out of his seat. Elohim, that is, Almighties, Hence idols are called things, 21 And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the Gen. 1, 1. dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly. He * 22 And the haft also went in after the blade; and Ellim, no the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not 1 Cor. 8, 4. draw the dagger out of his belly; and the || dirt came y 1 Thess. 2, out. 13. 7, 8. 33. Num. 25, Sam. 15, Or, it came Zech. 2, 7. 23 Then Ehud went forth through the porch, and shut the doors of the parlour upon him, and locked them. 24 When he was gone out, his servants came; and when they saw that, behold, the doors of the parlour. were locked, they said, Surely he covereth his feet' his summer chamber. 4 And they were to prove Israel by them, to know whether they would hearken unto the command-in Phn 2, 24. ments of the LORD, which he commanded their fathers by the hand of Moses. 25 And they tarried till they were ashamed; and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour: therefore they took a key and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth. 26 And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirath. a 1 Sam. 24 4. 27 And it came to pass, when he was come, that he blew a trumpet in the mountain of Ephraim, b ch. 6, 34. and the children of Israel went down with him from the mount, and he before them. Josh. 15, 2 Kings 5, 22. d 1 Sam. 17 Ps. 115, 1 28 And he said unto them, Follow after me; for the LORD hath delivered your enemies the Moabites 47 into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the || fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered {not a man to pass over. Or ferries Josirua 2,7 Deborah and Barak deliver Israel. Before CHRIST cir. 1306. 7 Heb. fut, Ps. 17, 10. e ch. 2, 16. JUDGES. 29 And they slew of Moab at that time about ten thousand men, all † lusty, and all men of valour; and there escaped not a man. 30 So Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years. 31 And after him was Shamgar, the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with 1 Cor. 1, 27. an ox-goad: and he also delivered Israel. CHAPTER IV. f ch. 15, 15. 1316. a ch. 3, 12. Jer. 5, 3. 5 cb. 2, 14. f 4, 6 Deborah and Barak deliver Israel from Jabin and ND the children of Israel again did evil in the b Jael killeth Sisera. host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and Before there was not † a man left. CHRIST cir. 1996. † Ileb. 17 Howbeit, Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there unto one, was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the Ps. 104, 36 house of Heber the Kenite. 18 And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said untò him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not : and when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle. 19 And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty and she open X 2 And the LORD sold them into the hand of Ja-ed him. c Josb. 11,1. bin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the cap d Josh. 11, e Josh. 11, 5,7. d e 20 Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the 3 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD; for he had nine hundred chariots of iron: and 'twenty f chap. 3, 8 years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel. cir. 1296. g Gen. 35, 8. 21 Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a nail of the 5 And she dwelt under the palm-tree of Deborah, 24 And the hand of the children of Israel † pros- 8 And Barak said unto her, "If thou wilt with a CHAPTER V. The song of Deborah and Barak. HEN T HEN sang Deborah, and Barak the son of Neh.9, 24. Ps. 18, 47. went adbe. cam: hard, Zecb. 1, 15 2 Tim., 13 b1 Sam. 3, 12. a Ex. 15, 1. Rev. 19,1,4 2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, b Ps. 94, 1. 9 And she said, I will surely go with thee: not-when the people willingly offered themselves. withstanding the journey that thou takest shall not he 3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes: I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel. p ch. 2, 14 for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh. The song of Deborah and Barak. Before u Befort cir. 1256. 12 Awake, awake, Deborah; awake, awake;} 2 And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: CHRIST utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity and because of the Midianites the children of Israel CHRIST captive, thou son of Abinoam. made them the "dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds. u Ps. 57, 8. 13 Then he made him that remaineth have doPs. 68, 18. minion over the nobles among the people; the LORD P. 49,14 made me have dominion over the mighty. Rev. 2, 26. d b1 Sam. 13. 6. 3 And so it was, when Israel had sown, that the Midianites came up, and the Amalekites, and the 14 Out of Ephraim was there a root of them against children of the east, even they came up against them; Amalek; after thee, Benjamin, among thy people: 4 And they encamped against them, and destroych. 4, 14. out of Machir came down governors, and out of Ze-ed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto o bulun they that handle the pen of the writer. 'Gaza; and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, fGen. 10, 5 For they came up with their cattle, and their tents, and they came as grasshoppers for multitude: for both they and their camels were † without num-h ch. 8, 10. 16 Why abodest thou among the sheep-folds, tober: and they entered into the land to destroy it. hear the bleatings of the flocks? For the divisions of 6 And Israel was greatly impoverished because of no number, pons Reuben there were great searchings of heart. the Midianites; and the children of Israel' cried unto the LORD. divisions, Acts 15, 38. 1 Heb. the of heart were great, a 17 Gilead abode beyond Jordan: and why did Prov. 22,13. Dan remain in ships? Asher continued on the seashore, and abode in his breaches. 2 Cor. 11, 2 a Num. 52, 1. Phil. 1, 21. 18 Zebulun and Naphtali were a people that jeoparded their lives unto the death in the high & Esther 4, places of the field. 16. Acts 20, 24. 1 John 3, 16. 19 The kings came and fought; then fought the Rev. 12, 11. kings of Canaan in Taanach by the waters of MegidPs. 42, 4 do they took no gain of money. Rev. 17, 14. 4 Ps. 77, 16. e Ps. 33, 17. 20 They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera. 21 The river of Kishon swept them away, that{ ancient river, the river Kishon. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength. 22 Then were the horse-hoofs broken by the means? of the prancings, the prancings of their mighty ones. 23 Curse ye Meroz, said the angel of the LORD; curse ye bitterly the inhabitants thereof; because Rev. 17, 14. they came not to the help of the LORD, to the help of gLuke 1,28 the LORD against the mighty. 25 He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish. 26 She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workman's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera; she || smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples. 27 At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell; where he bowed, there he fell down 'dead. 28 The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots? 29 Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself, 8 That the LORD sent† a prophet unto the children ↑ Heb. a of Israel, which said unto them, Thus saith the LORD prophet, God of Israel, I brought you up from Egypt, and chap. 4, 4. brought you forth out of the house of bondage; 9 And I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, Ps. 44, 23. and drave them out from before you, and gave you their land: 12 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him, 1,23 and said unto him, The LORD is with thee, thou mighty man of valour. 13 And Gideon said unto him," Oh, my Lord, if the LORD be with us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which our fathers told us of, saying, Did not the LORD bring us up from Egypt? but now the LORD hath forsaken us, and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites p Gen. 43, 20. 9 P.25, 0. Isaiah 59, 1 & 63, 14. r John 20 22. * Josh. 1, 9. chap. 4,6. t Luke 1,34. 14 And the LORD' looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of the Midianites: have not I sent thee? 15 And he said unto him, Oh, my Lord, where- Heb. 11, 32 with shall I save Israel? behold, my † family is poor in Manassch, and I am the " least in my father's house. 16 And the LORD said unto him, Surely I will be with thee, and thou shalt smite the Midianites as 1 Cor. 15, 9. one man. 171 And he said unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then shew me a sign that thou 30 Have they not sped? have they not divided the 31 So let all thine enemies perish, O LORD: but 1 The Israelites for their sin are oppressed by Midian....31 18 Depart not hence, I pray thee, until I come unto thee, and bring forth my present, and set it before Gen. 18, thee. And he said, I will tarry until thou come again. 19 And Gideon went in, and made ready a kid, and unleavened cakes of an ephah of flour: the flesh he put in a basket, and he put the broth in a pot, and brought it out unto him under the oak, and presented it. chap. 13,18 a 1 Kings 20 And the angel of God said unto him, Take the flesh and the unleavened cakes, and lay them upon 18, 54. this rock, and pour out the broth. And he did so. 21 Then the angel of the LORD put forth the end of |