Joshua relates God's benefits.

JOSHUA., Covenant renewed with God.

that fighteth for you, as he hath promised Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and you. the Egyptians pursued after your fathers 11 Take good heed therefore unto with chariots and horsemen unto the Red yourselves, that that ye love the LORD your sea. God.

7 And when they cried unto the LORD, 12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, he put darkness between you and the and cleave unto the remnant of these na- Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, tions, even these that remain among you, and covered them; and your eyes have and shall make marriages with them, and seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye go in unto them, and they to you: dwelt in the wilderness a long season.

3 Know for a certainty that the LORD 8 And I brought you into the land of your God will no more drive out any of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other these nations from before you: but they side Jordan; and they fought with you: shall be snares and traps unto you, and and I gave them into your hand, that ye scourges in your sides, and thorns in your might possess their land; and I destroyed eyes, until ye perish from off this good them from before you. land which the LORD your God hath 9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king given you. of Moab, arose and warred against Israel,

14 And behold, this day I am going and sent and called Balaam the son of the way of all the earth; and ye know in Beor to curse you:

all your hearts and in all your souls, that 10 But I would not hearken unto Banot one thing hath failed of all the good laaı; therefore he blessed you still: so I things which the LORD your God spake delivered you out of his hand. concerning you; all are come to pass unto 11 And ye went over Jordan, and came you, and not one thing hath failed thereof. unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho

15 Therefore it shall come to pass, fought against you, the Amorites, and the that as all good things are come upon you, Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the which the LORD your God promised you; Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil and the Jebusites, and I delivered them things, until he have destroyed you from into your hand. off this good land which the LORD your 12 And I sent the hornet before you, God hath given you. which drave them out from before you,

16 When ye have transgressed the co- even the two kings of the Amorites: but venant of the LORD your God, which he not with thy sword, nor with thy bow. commanded you, and have gone and serv- 13 And I have given you a land for ed other gods, and bowed yourselves to which ye did not labour, and cities which them; then shall the anger of the LORD ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the be kindled against you, and ye shall pe- vineyards and olive-yards which ye plantrish quickly from off the good land which led not do ye eat.

he hath given unto you.

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14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and CHAP. XXIV. serve him in sincerity and in truth; and ND Joshua gathered all the tribes of put away the gods which your fathers Israel to Shechem, and called for served on the other side of the flood, and

the elders of Israel, and for their heads in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. and for their judges, and for their officers; 15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve and they presented themselves before God. the LORD, choose you this day whom ye

2 And Joshua said unto all the people, will serve, whether the gods which your Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers served that were on the other side fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites in in old time, even Terah, the father of whose land ye dwell: but as for me and Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and my house, we will serve the LORD.

they served other gods.

16 And the people answered, and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve 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 17 For the LORD our God, he it is that multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac. brought us up, and our fathers, out of the 4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, and which did those great signs in our to possess it; but Jacob and his children sight, and preserved us in all the way went down into Egypt. wherein we went, and among all the peo5 I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I ple through whom we passed: plagued Egypt, according to that which I 18 And the LORD drave out from before did among them: and afterward I brought us all the people, even the Amorites which you out. dwelt in the land: therefore will we also 6 And I brought your fathers out of serve the LORD; for he is our God.

Death of Joshua.

CHAP. I. The acts of Judah and Simeon

19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye unto us; for it hath heard all the words of cannot serve the LORD: for he is a holy the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall God: he is a jealous God; he will not for- be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye give your 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 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.

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 hundred and ten years old.

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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.

23 Now therefore put away (said he) 31 And Israel served the LORD all the

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.

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.

32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, 25 So Joshua made a covenant with the buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of people that day, and set them a statute ground which Jacob bought of the sons of and an ordinance in Shechem. Hamor the father of Shechem for a hun

26 And Joshua wrote these words in dred pieces of silver; and it became the the book of the law of God, and took a inheritance of the children of Joseph. great stone, and set it up there under an 33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; oak that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. and they buried him in a hill that pertained 27 And Joshua said unto all the peo- to Phinehas his son, which was given him ple, Behold, this stone shall be a witness in mount Ephraim.

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I The Book of JUDGES. CHAP. 1. 8 (Now the children of Judah had TOW after the death N of Joshua it came fought against Jerusalem, and had taken to pass, that the children of Israel it, and smitten it with the edge of the asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up sword, and set the city on fire.) for us against the Canaanites first to fight 9 And afterward the children of Juagainst thein? dah went down to fight against the Ca

2 And the LORD said, Judah shall go naanites that dwelt in the mountain, and up: behold, I have delivered the land into in the south, and in the valley. his hand.

10 And Judah went against the Ca3 And Judah said unto Simeon his bro- naanites that dwelt in Hebron: (now the ther, Come up with me into my lot, that name of Hebron before was Kirjath-arba:) we may fight against the Canaanites; and and they slew Sheshai, and Ahiman, and I likewise will go with thee into thy lot. Talmai. So Simeon went with him.

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4 And Judah went up, and the Lord the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of delivered the Canaanites and the Periz- Debir before was Kirjath-sepher: zites into their hand: and they slew of 12 And Caleb said, He that smiteth them in Bezek ten thousand men. Kirjath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will

zites.

5 And they found Adoni-bezek in Be- I give Achsah my daughter to wife. zek: and they fought against him, and 13 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, Cathey slew the Canaanites and the Periz-leb's younger brother, took it and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife. 6 But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pur- 14 And it came to pass, when she came sued after him, and caught him, and cut to him, that she moved him to ask of her faoff his thumbs and his great toes. ther a field: and she lighted from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wilt thou?

7 And Adoni-bezek said, Threescore

and ten kings, having their thumbs and 15 And she said unto him, Give me a their great toes cut off, gathered their blessing: for thou hast given me a south meat under my table; as I have done, so lard; give me also springs of water. And God hath requited me. And they brought Caleb gave her the upper springs, and him to Jerusalem, and there he died. the nether springs.

Jerusalem and Hebron taken.

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JUDGES. The people of Bochim rebuked. 16 And the children of the Kenite, of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor Moses' father-in-law, went up out of the of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob: city of palm-trees with the children of Ju- 32 But the Asherites dwelt among the dah into the wilderness of Judah, which Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: lieth in the south of Arad; and they went for they did not drive them out.

and dwelt among the people.

331 Neither did Naphtali drive out the 17 And Judah went with Simeon his inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, nor the inbrother, and they slew the Canaanites that habitants of Beth-anath, but he dwelt inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of it. And the name of the city was called the land: nevertheless, the inhabitants of Hormah. Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became

18 Also Judah took Gaza with the coast tributaries unto them. thereof, and Askelon with the coast there- 34 And the Amorites forced the children of, and Ekron with the coast thereof. of Dan into the mountain: for they would

19 And the LORD was with Judah; and not suffer them to comedown to the valley: he drave out the inhabitants of the moun- 35 But the Amorites would dwell in tain; but could not drive out the inhabit-mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: ants of the valley, because they had cha-yet the hand of the house of Joseph preriots of iron.

20 And they gave Hebron unto Caleb, as Moses said: and he expelled thence the three sons of Anak.

vailed, so that they became tributaries.

36 And the coast of the Amorites was from the going up to Akrabbim, from the rock, and upward.

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CHAP. II.

AND an angel of the Lord came up

21 And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; but the Jebusites dwell with from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem made you to go up out of Egypt, and have unto this day. brought you unto the land which I sware

22 And the house of Joseph, they unto your fathers; and I said, I will never also went up against Beth-el: and the break my covenant with you.

LORD was with them.

2 And ye shall make no league with the

23 And the house of Joseph sent to inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw 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 us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will shew thee mercy.

down their altars: but ye have not obeyed my voice: why have ye done this?

3 Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.

25 And when he shewed then the en- 4 And it came to pass, when the angel trance into the city, they smote the city of the LORD spake these words unto all with the edge of the sword: but they let the children of Israel, that the people go the man and all his family.

lifted up their voice, and wept.

26 And the man went into the land of 5 And they called the name of that the Hittites, and built a city, and called place Bochim: and they sacrificed there the name thereof Luz: which is the name unto the LORD.

thereof unto this day.

6 And when Joshua had let the people

27 Neither did Manasseh drive out go, the children of Israel went every man the inhabitants of Beth-shean and her unto his inheritance to possess the land. towns, nor Taanach and her towns, nor the 7 And the people served the LORD all inhabitants of Dor and her towns, nor the the days of Joshua, and all the days of the inhabitants of Ibleam and her towns, nor elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns; all the great works of the Lord, that he but the Canaanites would dwell in that did for Israel.

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8 And Joshua the son of Nun, the ser.

28 And it came to pass when Israel was vant of the LORD, died, being a hundred strong, that they put the Canaanites to and ten years old. tribute, and did not utte utterly drive them out. 9 And the they ey buried him in the border of

29 Neither did Ephraim drive out his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but mount of Ephraim, on the north side of the Canaanites dweltin Gezeramong them. the hill Gaash.

30 Neither did Zebulun drive out the 10 And also all that generation were inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants gathered unto their fathers: and there of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt arose another generation after them, which among them, and became tributaries. knew not the Lord, nor yet the works 31 Neither did Asher drive out the which he had done for Israel. inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants 11 And the chiidren of Israel did evil