of war with him, and all the mighty 8 men of valour. And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine 'hands'; there shall not a man of 9 them stand before thee. Joshua therefore came upon' them suddenly; for he went up from Gilgal all the 10 night. And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and he slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon, and smote them 11 to Azekah, and unto Makkedah. And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, while they were in the going down of Beth-horon, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with the hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew with the sword.

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13

Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel; and he said in the sight of Israel,

Sun, 'stand thou still upon Gibeon;
And thou, Moon, in the valley of
Aijalon.

And the sun stood still, and the
moon stayed,

Until the nation' had avenged them

selves of their enemies.

Is not this written in the book of Jashar? And the sun stayed' in the midst of heaven, and hasted not 14 to go down about a whole day. 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.

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And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.

And these five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah. 17 And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found, 'hidden' in 'the' 18 cave at Makkedah. And Joshua said, Roll great stones unto the mouth of the cave, and set men by it (19 for to keep them: but stay not 'yel; pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for the LORD your God hath delivered them 20 into your hand. And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with

1 Heb. be silent.

a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into 21 the fenced cities, that all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedah in peace: none 3moved his tongue against any of the children of 22 Israel. Then said Joshua, Open the

mouth of the cave, and bring forth' those five kings unto me out of the (23 cave. 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 Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the king of Eg24 lon. And it came to pass, when they brought forth those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the 'chiefs' 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 25 upon the necks of them. 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 26 fight. And afterward Joshua smote them, and put them to death', and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the 27) evening. 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 hidden themselves', and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave, unto this very day.

28) And Joshua took Makkedah 'on' that day, 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 'left' none remaining and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done unto the king of Jericho.

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And Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah: 30 and the LORD delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining in it; and he did unto the king thereof as he 'had done' unto the king of Jericho.

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And Joshua passed from Libnah,

And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and fought against 39 it and he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and 1utterly destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as he had done also to Libnah, and to the king 'thereof.

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So Joshua smote all the land', the hill country, and the South, and the lowland', and the 'slopes', and all their kings; he left none remaining: but he utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the LORD, the God of 41 Israel, commanded. And Joshua

smote them from Kadesh-barnea even

unto Gaza, and all the country of Go42 shen, even unto Gibeon. And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the LORD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel. 43 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal. 11(1 And it came to pass, when Jabin

1 Heb. devoted.

king of Hazor heard 'thereof', that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king 2 of Achshaph, and to the kings that were on the north, in the hill country', and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland', and in the heights of Dor on the west, (3 to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the hill country, and the Hivite under Hermon in the land of 4 Mizpah. And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses (5 and chariots very many. And all these kings met together; and they came and pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight with! Israel. 6 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for tomorrow at this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn (7 their chariots with fire. So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell upon them. 8 And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, and they smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephoth-maim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until 9 they left them none remaining. Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him he houghed their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.

10)

And

And Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of all those 11 kingdoms. And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was none left that breathed': 12) and he burnt Hazor with fire.

And

all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Joshua take, and he smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as Moses the servant of the 13 LORD commanded. But as for the cities that stood on their 'mounds', 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 that breathed'. 15 As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua and so did Joshua; 1he left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded Moses.

16) So Joshua took all that land, the hill country, and all the South, and all the land of Goshen, and the lowland, and the Arabah', and the hill country of Israel, and the lowland of (17 the same; from 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 put them to 18 death'. Joshua made war a long (19) time with all those kings. °There

was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: they took (20) all in battle. For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, Ito' come against Israel in battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moses.

21) And Joshua came at that time, and

cut off the 'Anakim from the hill country, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the hill country of Judah, and from all the 'hill country of Israel: Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities. There was none of the 'Anakim1 left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, 23 did some remain. So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD spake unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land had rest! from war.

121 Now these are the kings of the land,

whom the children of Israel smote, and possessed their land beyond! Jordan toward the 'sunrising', from the Ivalley of Arnon unto mount Hermon, (2 and all the 'Arabah eastward' : 'Sihon

1 Heb. he removed nothing.

2 Or, the bare mountain 3 Heb. make strong.

king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley', and half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok, the bor(3 der of the children of Ammon; and the Arabah unto the sea of Chinneroth, eastward", and unto the sea of the Arabah', even the Salt Sea, eastward', the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes (4 of Pisgah and the border of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who dwelt at Ashtaroth 5 and at Edrei, and ruled' in mount Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, the border of Şihon king of 6) Heshbon. Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of Israel Ismote them: and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.

Hittite, the 'Amorite', and the Canaanite', the 'Perizzite, the 'Hivitel, 9 and the 'Jebusite: the king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is 10 beside Beth-el, one; the king of

Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, 11 one; the king of Jarmuth, one; the 12 king of Lachish, one; the king of

Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one; 13 °the king of Debir, one; the king of 14 Geder, one; the king of Hormah, 15 one; the king of Arad, one; the king

of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, 16 one; the king of Makkedah, one; 17 the king of Beth-el, one; the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, 18 one; the king of Aphek, one; the 7 See Deut. ii. 36. 8 See ch. xi. 17.

19 king of Lassharon, one; the king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one; 20 the king of Shimron-meron, one; the 21 king of Achshaph, one; the king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, 22 one; the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one; 23 the king of Dor in the height of Dor, one; the king of "Goiim in1 Gil24 gal, one; the king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.

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Now Joshua was old and well stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him, Thou art old and well stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed. 2 This is the land that yet remaineth: all the regions of the Philistines, 3 and all the Geshurites; from the Shihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the border of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanites : the five lords of the Philistines; the 'Gazites, and the 'Ashdodites', the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the 4 Ekronites; also the 'Avvim", lon' the south all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that 'belongeth tol the 'Zidonians', unto Aphek, to the 5 border of the Amorites: and the land of the Gebalites1, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrising, from Baal-gad under mount Hermon unto 6 the entering in of Hamath: all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephoth-maim, leven' all the Zidonians; them will I drive out from before the children of Israel only allot thou it unto Israel for an inheritance, as I have 7 commanded thee. "Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the half tribe (8 of Manasseh. With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even Moses the servant of the LORD gave 9 them; from Aroer, that is on the ledge of the valley of Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the 'valley', and all the "plain of Medeba 10 unto Dibon; and all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border

as

1 Or, Naphath\-dor 3 Commonly called, the brook of 2 Or, nations Egypt. See Num. xxxiv. 5.

11 of the children of Ammon; and Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto 'Sale12 cah; all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei ('the same was left of the remnant of the Rephaim1); for these did Moses smite, and 'drave 13 them out. Nevertheless the children of Israel Idravel not out the Geshurites, nor the Maacathites: but

Geshur and Maacath dwelt in the Imidst of Israel, unto this day. 14 Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the offerings of the LORD, the God of Israel, made by fire are his inheritance, as he 'spake unto him'.

(15 And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben according to 16 their families. And their 'border was from Aroer, that is on the ledgel of the valley of Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the 'valley, 17 and all the "plain by Medeba; °Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, 18 and Beth-baal-meon; and 'Jahazꞌ, and 19 Kedemoth, and Mephaath; and 'Kiriathaim', and Sibmah, and Zerethshahar in the mount of the valley; 20 and Beth-peor, and the slopes of 21 Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth; and all

the cities of the "plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, that dwelt in the land'. 22 Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among the rest 23 of their slain. And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border thereof. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben according to their families, the cities and the villages thereof.

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And Moses gave unto the tribe of Gad, unto the children of Gad, ac25 cording to their families. "And their

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'border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the

Or, also the Avvim: from the Or, Itable landī south, all &c. • Or, springs

children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah; and from Heshbon unto Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the 27 border of 1Debir; and in the valley,

Beth-haram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan and the border thereof, unto the uttermost part of the sea of 'Chinnereth beyond! Jordan eastward. This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and the villages 'thereof.

And Moses gave inheritance unto the half tribe of Manasseh: and it was for the half tribe of the children of Manasseh according to their fami3 lies. And their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, threescore cities: and half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, 'the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were 'for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children of Machir laccording to their families.

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These are the inheritances' which Moses distributed in the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan at Jericho, eastward. But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave none inheritance : the LORD, 'the God of Israel, 'is' their inheritance, as he spake unto them. 141 And these are the inheritances! which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the 'fathers' houses of the tribes of the children of Israel, 2 distributed unto them, by the lot lof their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half 3 tribe. For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and 'the' half tribe beyond Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none inheritance 4 among them. For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: land they gave no 'portion unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with 'the sub

1 Or, Lidebir

*Or, having! Fordan for a border

urbs thereof for their cattle and for 5 their substance. As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.

6

Then the children of Judah 'drew nigh unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the 'Kenizzitel said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD spake unto Moses the man of God concerning me and concerning thee in Kadesh7 barnea. Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh-barnea to 'spy' out the land; and I brought him word 8 again as it was in mine heart. "Nev

ertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt but I wholly followed the LORD 9 my God. And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon thy foot hath trodden shall be an inheritance to thee' and 'to' thy 'children for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God. (10 And now, behold, the LORD hath

kept me alive, as he spake, these forty and five years, from the time that the LORD spake this word unto Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness and now, lo, I am this 11 day fourscore and five years old.

:

As

yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that Moses sent me as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, 'and' to go out (12 and to come in. Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the 'Anakim were there, and cities great and fenced: 'it may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as 13) the LORD spakel. "And Joshua

blessed him; and he gave Hebron unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh for 14) an inheritance. "Therefore Hebron became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the 'Kenizzitel, unto this day; because that he wholly followed the LORD, the God of Israel. 15 Now the name of Hebron beforetime was 5 Kiriath1-arba; which Arba was the greatest man among the Anakim'. And the land had rest from war.

was.. said.