Joshua's stratagem against Al CHAP. VIII. JOSHUA. ΑΝ ND the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai see, I bave given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land: 2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king, as thou didst unto Jericho and her king only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an am bush for the city behind it. 3So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent them away by Light. 4 And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city, but be ye al ready: 5 And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach unto the city and it shall come to pass, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will fee before them, 6 (For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first therefore we will flee before them. Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the city for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand. 8 And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall set the city on fire according to the comanandiment of the LORD shall ye do. See, I have commanded you. 9 Joshua therefore sent them forth and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people. 10 And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people, to Ai. 11 And all the people, even the people of war that were with him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai. 12 And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city. 13 And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city,shua went that night into the midst of the valley. 14 And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and sose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain: but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city. At destroyed. 15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. 16 And all the people that were in Ai were called together to pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away from the city. 17 And there was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel. 19 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it int thine hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand to ward the city. 19 And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand and they entered into the city, and took it, and hasted, and set the city on fire. 20 And when the men of Ai locked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flew this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers. 21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai. 22 And the other issued out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape. 23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua. 24 And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge. of the sword. 25 And so it was, that a!! that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai. 26 For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. 27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he commanded Joshua. 29 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a desolation unto this day. 29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until even-tide; and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto this day. oshua buildeth an altar. CHAP. IX. The Gibeonites made slaves. come, hecause of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt, 30 Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal, 31 As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, An altar of whole stones, over which no man lath lift up any iron and they offered thereon burnt oferings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace-offerings. 10 And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshhon, and to Og ting of Basian, which was at Ashtaroth. 11 Wherefore our elders and all the 32 And he wrote there upon the inhabitants of our country spake to stones a copy of the law of Moses,us, saying, Take victuals with you for which he wrote in the presence of the journey, and go to meet them, the children of Israel. jand say to them, We are your ser vants therefore now make ye a league with us 33 And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stond on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gérizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the people of israel. 12 This our rend we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; hut now, behold, it is dry, and it is mouldy! 13 And these bottles of wine which we filled, were new and behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become old, by reason of the very long journey. 34 And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is writ-mouth of the LORD. ten in the book of the law. 14 And the men took of their victurals, and asked not counsel at the 35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them. ΑΝ CHAP. IX. ND it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof; 2 That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord. 3 And when the inhabitants of Gi beon heard what Joshua had done! unto Jericho and to Ai, 15 And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto them. 16 And it came to pass at the end, of three days after they had made a league with them, that they heard that they were their neighbours, and that they dweit among them. 17 And the children of Israel journered, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirab, and Beroth, and Kirjath-jearim. 18 And the children of Israel smote them not, because the princes of the congregation bad sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes. 19 But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have sworn unto 4 They did work wilily, and went them by the LORD God of Israel: and made as if they had been ambas-now therefore we may not touch sadors, and took old sacks upon their them. asses, and wine-bottles, old, and rent, and bound up; 5 And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy. 6 And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now therefore make ye a league with us. 7 And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a Jeague with you? And they said unto Joshua, We are tby servants. And Joshua said unto then, Who are ye and from whence come ye? 20 This we will do to them; we wi!! even let them live; lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them. 21 And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them be hewers of wood, and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as the princes had promised them. 92 And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when ye dwell among us? 23 Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondinen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God. 9 And they said unto him, From a 24 And they answered Joshun, and very far country thy servants are said, Because it was certainly told thy Gibeon besieged. JOSHUA. The sun and moon stand still. eervants, how that the LORD thy God, 11 And it came to pass, as they fled commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing. 25 And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do. 26 And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not. 27 And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto this day, in the place which he should choose." CHAP. X. NOW it came to pass, when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them; 2 That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were nighty. from before Israel, and were in the going down to Beth-horon, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword. 12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and be said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon, in the valley of Ajalon. 13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their ene nies. I not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. 14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for Israel. 15 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal. 16 But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah. 17 And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found had in a cave at Makkedah. 3 Wherefore Adoni-zedek king of 18 And Joshua said, Roll great stones Jerusalem sent unto Hobam king of upon the mouth of the cave, and set Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jar-mien by it for to keep them: uth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying, 4 Come up unto me, and help me, that we may sinite Gibeon: for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel. 5 Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eglon, Rathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their bosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and nade war against it. 6And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy band from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us; for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us. 7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour. 8 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee. 9 Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from Giigal ail night. 10 And the LORD discomfited them before Istaci, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased Them along the way that goeth up to Beth-horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah. 19 And stay ye not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the bindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand. 20 And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were con sumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced cities. 21 And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace rione moved lus tongue against any of the children of Israel. 22 Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave. 23 And they did so, and brought forth those five kings unto him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarinuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Egion. 24 And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war which went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them. 25 And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom ye fight. Five kings hanged. CHAP. XI. 26 And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening. 27 And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day. 28 And that day Joshua took Makkedab, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did unto the king of Jericho. 29 Then Joshua passed from Mak kedah, and all Israel with him to Libnah, and fought against Libnah: 30 And the LORD delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the band of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain in it; but did unto the king thereof as be did unto the king of Jericho. 31 And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it: 32 And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnab. 33 Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining. Hazor taken and burned. king thereof; as he had done also to Librah, and to her king. 40 So Joshua sinote all the country of the bills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left nome remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD God of Israel commanded. 41 And Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon. 42 And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel. 43 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal. CHAP. XI. Aking of Hazer had heard those ND it came to pass, when Jabin things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Acbshaph, 2 And to the kings that were on the north of the mountains, and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the borders of Dor on the west, 3 And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the Amorite and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh. 4 And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the seashore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many. 5 And when all these kings were met together, they came and pitched 34 And from Lachish Joshua pass-together, at the waters of Merom, to ed unto Eglon, and all Israel with him: fight against Israel. and they encamped against it, and fought against it: 6 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them for tomorrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their 35 And they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed that day, ac-chariots with fire. cording to all that he had done to Lachis5. 36 And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto Hebron and they fought against it: 37 And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had done to Eglon; but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that were therein. 38 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against it: 39 And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed ail the souls that were therein; he left none remaining as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the 7 So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them. 8 And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephoth-maim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh, eastward; and they smote them, until they left them norie remaining. 9 And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire. 10 And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of all those kingdoms. 11 And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them there The Analis cut off. JOSHUA. Joshua's victories was not any left to breathe: and be, river Arnon, and from the middle of burnt Hazor with fire. the river, and trom half Gilead, even unto the river Jabhok, which is the border of the children of Ammon; 12 And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded. 13 But as for the cities that stood still in their strength, Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn. 14 And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves: but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any to breathe. 15 As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded Moses. 16 So Joshua took all that land, the bills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same; 17 Even from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon and all their kings he took, and smote them, and slew them. 18 Joshua made war a long time with all those kings. 19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inbabitants of Gibeon: all other they took in battle. 20 For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses. 3 And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and from the south, ander Ashdoth pisgah: 4 And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edre 5 And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites, and the Manchathates, and half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon. 6 Them did Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel smite: and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh. 7 And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the chil dren of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon, even unto the mount Halak tirat goeth up to Seir which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession, according to their divisions: 8 In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: 9 The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside Beth-el, one; 10 The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one; 11 The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one: 12 The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one; 9! And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the moun-of tains of Israel: Joshua destroyed thein utterly with their cities. 22 There was none of the Anakime| left in the land of the children of 1s rael only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained. 23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel, according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war. No CHAP. XII. TOW these are the kings of the land, which the children of Is rael smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the east: 2 Sibon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled rom Aloer, which is upon the bank of the the king 13 The king of Debir, one; Geder, one; 14 The king of Hormah, one; theking of Arad, one; 15 The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullain, one; 16 The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Beth-el, one; 17 The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one; 18 The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one; 19 The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one; 20 The king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one; 21 The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one; 99 The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel, one : 23 The king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the nations of Gilgal, one; 24 The king of Tirzah, one; all the kings thirty and one. |