19 And the ambush arofe quickly out of their place, and they ran affoon as he had Aretched out his hand: and they entered into the city, and took it, and hafted and fet the city on fire.

20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they faw, and, behold, the fmoke of the city afcended up to heaven, and they had no power to face this way or that way: and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back upon the purfuers.

21 And when Jothua and all Ifrael faw that

the ambush had taken the city, and that the

fmoke of the city afcended, then they turned again, and flew the men of Ai.

22 And the other iffued out of the city against them; fo they were in the midst of Ifrael, fome on this fide, and fome on that fide: and they fmote them, fo that they let none of them remain or efcape.

23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Jothua."

24 And it came to pafs when Ifrael had made an end of Blaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they chafed them, and when they were all fallen on the edge to the fword until they were confumed, that all the lfraelites returned unto Ai, and fmote it with the edge of the fword.

25 Andfo it was that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thoufand, even all the men of Ai.

26 For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he ftretched out the fpear, until he had utterly deftroyed all the inhabitants of Ai,

27 Only the cattle, and the fpuil of that city, Ilrael took for a prey unto themfelves, according unto the word of the LORD, which hecommanded Jothua.

28 And Jofhua burnt Ai, and made an heap for ever, even a defolation unto this day. 29 And the king of Ai be hanged on a tree until even-tide: and, affoon as the fun was down, Joshua commanded that they thould take his carcafe down from the tree, and caft it at the entrance of a gate of the city, and raife thereon a great heap of ftones, that remaineth unto this day.

30 Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Ifrael in mount Ebal;

31 As Mofes the fervant of the LORD, commanded the children of Ifrael, as it is written in the book of the law of Mofes, An altar of whole ftones, over which no man hath lifted up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt-offerings unto the LORD: and facrinced peace offerings.

32 And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Mofes, which he wrote in the prefence of the children of Ifrael.

33 And all Ifrael, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, flood on this fide the ark, and on that fide, before the priests the Leites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the ranger as he that was born among them: half of thein over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Motes, the fervant of the LORD had commanded befure, that they thould bless the people of Liraci.

34 And afterwards he read all the words ofthe law,the bleffing andcurfings,according to all that is written in the book of the law.

35 There was nota word of all that Moses commanded, which Jofhua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the wa men and the little ones, and the strangers that were converfant among them. CHAP. IX.

1 The kings combine against Ifrael. 3 Gibea nites obtaining a league by craft, 16 are con demned to perpetual bondage. Awhich were on this fide Jordan, in the

it came to pafs, when all the kings

hills, and in the vallies, and in all the coafts of the great fea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Cananite, the Horizzite, the Havite, and the Jebufite, heard thereof,

2 That they gathered themselves together to fight with Joshua, and with Ifrael, with one accord.

3 And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai.

4 They did work wility, and went and made as if they had been ambaladors; and took old facks upon their affes, and winebottles, old, and rent, and bound up;

5 And old shoes 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 Jofhua unto the camp at Gilgal, and faid unto him, and to the men of Ifrael, We be come from a far country; now therefore, make ye a league with us.

7 And the men of Ifrael faid unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how thall we make a league with you?

8 And they faid unto fofhua, We are thy fervants. And Joshua faid unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye?

9 And they faid unto him, From a very far country thy fervants are come, because of the name of the LORD thy God for we have heard the fame of him and all that he did in Egypt,

10 And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites that ere beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Hefhbon, and to Og king of Baihan, which was at Ahtaroth.

11 Wherefore our elders, and all the inhabitants of our country, fpake to us, faying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to meet them, and fay unto them, We are your fervants: therefore now make ye a league with us.

12 This our bread we took hot for ou provifion out of our houfes on the day we came forth to go unto you: but now, befield, it is dry, and it is mouldy:

13 d thefe bottles of wine which we fils led were new; and, behold, they be rent; and thefe our garments and our thoes are become old by reafon of the very long journey.

14 And the men took of their victuals, and afked not counsel at the mouth of the LORD.

15 And Jofhua made peace with them, and made a league with them to let then live: and the princes of the congregation fware unto them.

16 And it came to pafs 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 dwelt among them. 17 And the children of Ifraei journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities quere Gibeon, and Chophitab, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim.

18 And the children of Ifrael fmote them not, because the princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of Irael. And all the congregation murmured against the princes..

19 But all the princes faid unto all the congregation, We have fworn unto them by the LORD God of Ifrael: now, therefore, we may not touch them.

10 This we will do to them; we will even let them live, left wrath be upon us, becaufe of the oath which we fware unto them.

21 And the princes fald 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.

22 And Jothua called for them, and he fpake unto them, faying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, faving, We are very far from you, when ye dwell among us?

23 Now, therefore, ye are curfed; and there fhall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.

24 And they answered Joshua, and faid, Because it was certainly told thy fervants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his fervant Moles to give you all the land, and to deftroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were fore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

25 And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it feemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.

26 And fo did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of Ifracl, that they flew 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 fhould choofe.

CHAP. X.

5 Therefore the five kings of the Amo rites, the king of Jerufalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachifh, the king of Eglon, gathered themfelves together, and went up, they and all their hoits, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war againtt it.

6 And the men of Gibeon fent unto Jofhua to the camp to Gilgal, faying, Slack not thy hand from thy fervants, come up to us quickly, and fave us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us. 7 So Joshua afcended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour.

8 And the LORD faid unto Joshua, Fear them not; for I have delivered them into thine hand: there fhall not a man of them stand before thee.

9 Joshua, therefore, came unto them fuddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night.

10 And the LORD discomfited them before Ifrael, and flew them with a great flaughter at Gibeon, and chafed them along the way that goeth up to Beth-horon, and fmote them to Azekal, and unto Makkedah.

11. And it came to pafs, as they fled from before Ifrael, and were in the going down to Beth-horon, that the LORD catt down greate tones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more which died with hail-flones than they whom the children of Ifrael flew with the sword.

12 Then (pake Joshua to the Lond, in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amorites before the children of Ifrael, and he faid in the fight of Ifrael, Sun, ftand thou Rill upon Gibeon; and thou, moon, in the valley of Ajalon.

13 And the fun tood fill, and the moon flayed, until the people had avenged themseives upon their enemies. is not this written in the book of Jather? So the fun flood fill in the midft of heaven, and hafted 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 Ifraei.

15 And Jofhua returned, and all Ifrael with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.

16 But thefe five kings fled, and hid themfelves in a cave at Makkedah.

17 And it was told Joshua, faying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah. 18 And Joshua faid, Roll great tones upon the mouth of the cave, and fet men by it for to keep them;

19 And flay ye not, but purfue after your enemies, and fmite the hindmoft of them; fuffer them not to enter into their cities: for the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand.

20 And it came to pafs, when Joshua and the children of Ifrael had made an end of flaying them with a very great flaughter, till they were confumed, that the reft which re mained of them entered into fenced citics.

21 And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedal in peace: none mov ed his tongue againit any of the children of Ifracl

11 And they fmote all the fouls that were therein with the edge of the fword, utterly deltroying them: there was not any left to breathe; and he burnt Hazor with fire.

11 And all the cities of thofe kings, and all the kings of them, did Jothua take, and fmote them with the edge of the fword; and he utterly deftroyed thein, as Moses, the fervant of the LORD, commanded.

13 But as for the cities that flood still in their ttrength, Ifrael burned none of them, fave Hazor only; that did Joshua burn..

14 And all the ipoil of thefe cities, and the cattic, the children of Ifrael took for a prey unto themfelves: but every man they Imote with the edge of the fword, until they had deftroyed them, neither left they any to breathe.

15 As the LORD commanded Mofes his fervant, fo did Mofes command Joihua, and fo did Jofhua: he left nothing undone of all that the LORD coinmanded Mofes.

16 So Jothua took all that land, the hills, and all the fouth country, and all the land of Gothen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Ifracl, and the valley of the fame:

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 fmote them, and flew them.

18 Jefhua made war a long time with all thole kings.

19 There was not a city that made peace with the children of Ifrael fave the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon; all other they took in battle:

20 For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they thould come againft Ifrael in battle, that he might destroy them utter ly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might dettioy them; as the LORD commanded Moles.

21 And at that time came Jofhua, 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 mountains of Ifrael: Jothua deltroyed them utterly with their cities.

22 There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel; only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Athdod, there remained.

23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD faid unto Mofes ; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Ifrael, according to their divifions by their tribes. And the land refted from wai.

CHAP. XIL

I The two kings whofe countries Mofes took and difpofed of. The one and thirty kings on the other fide Jordan, which Joshua fmote.

Nwhich the chirkings of the land, which the children of Ifrael fmote, and poflefled their land on the other fide Jordan, toward the rifing of the fun; from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the plain on the eaft,

2 Sihen king of the Amorites, who dwelt an Hethbon, and ruled from Aroer, which is pon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the middle of the river, and from half Gi

lead even unto the river-Jabbok, which is the border of the children of Amnion:

3 And from the plain to the fea of Chinneroth on the call, and unto the fea of the plain, even the falt fea on the eaft, the way to Beth-jefhimoth; and from the fouth, un der Athdoth-pisgali:

4 And the coast of Og king of Bathan, which reas of the remnant of the giants, that dwelt at Athtaroth and at Edrei,

5 And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Sacah, and in all Bafhan, unto the border of the Gethurites, and the Maachathites, and halt Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Hethbon; 6 Them did Mofes, the fervant of the Lone, and the children of Israel Imite: and Mofes, the fervant of the LORD, gave it for a pollettion unto the Renbenites, and Gadites, and the half tribe of Manalleh.

7 And thefe are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Ifrael fmote on this fide Jordan on the west, from Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon, even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Jothua gave unto the tribes of Ifrael for a poffeffion, according to their divifions:

8 In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and in the fprings, and in the wilderness, and in the fouth country; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perrizzite, the Hivites and the Jebufites. 9The king of Jericho, one: the king of Ai, which is belide Beth-el, one:

to The king of Jerufalem, one: the king of Hebron, one:

11 The king of Jarmuth, one: the king of Lachith, one:

12 The king of Eglon, one: the king of Gezer, one:

13 The king of Debir, one: the king of Geder, one:

14 The king of Homal, one: the king of Arad, one;

15 The king of Libnah, one: the king of Adullam, 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 Lafharon, one:

19 The king of Madon, one: the king of

Hazor, one:

3 From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Ehkalonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites; alfo the Avites:

4 From the fouth, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that is betide the Sidonians, unto Aphek, to the borders of the Amorites:

And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon toward the sun-rifing, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the enter ing into Hamath;

All the inhabitants of the hill-country, from Lebanon unto Mifrephoth-maim, and all the Sidonians: them will I drive out from before the children of Ifrael; only divide thon it by lot unto the Ifraelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.

7 Now therefore, divide this land for an inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the halftribe of Manaffeh,

8 With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their inheritance, which Mofes gave them, beyond Jordan eattward, even as Mofes, the fervant of the LORD, gave

them:

9 From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midit of the river, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;

10 And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Hethbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon:

11 And Gilead, and the border of the Gefhurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bathan unto Salcah:

12 All the kingdom of Og in Bathan, which reigned in Afhtaroth and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants; for thefe did Mofes fmite, and caft them out.

13 Nevertheless, the children of Ifracl, expelled not the Gefhurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Gethurices and the Maachathites dwell among the Ifraelites until this day.

14 Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance: the facrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he faid unto them.

15 And Mofes gave unto the tribe of the

children of Reuben inheritance according to

their families.

16 And their coaft was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeha;

17 Hethbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Diben, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meen,

18 And Jahaza, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,

19 And Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zareth-thahar in the mount of the valley,

20 And Beth-peor, and Afhdoth-pifgah, and Beth-jeihimoth,

21 And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Hethbon, whom Mofes smote with the princes of Midlan, Evi, and Bekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, which were dukes of Sitian dwelling in the country.

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22 Balaam alfo, the fon of Beor, the foothfayer, did the children of Ifrael flay with the fword, among them that were flain by them. 23 And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border thereof, This ruas the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities, and villages thereof.

24 And Mofes gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the children of Gad, according to their families:

25 And their coait was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah;

26 And from Heshbon unto Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanain unto the border of Debir;

27 And in the valley, Beth-aram, and Beth. nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the reft of the kingdom of Silon king of Hefhbon, Jordan and his border, even unto the edge of the fea of Chinnereth, on the other fide Jordan eattward.

28 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their villages.

29 And Mofes gave inheritance unto the half-tribe of Manafleh: and this was the pufJelion of the half-tribe of the children of Manaffel by their families.

30 And their coat was from Mahanaitn, all Bathan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bafhan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bathan, threetcore cities:

31 And half Gilead, and Athtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bathan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir, the fon of Manalleh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families.

32 Thefe are the countries which Mofes did diftribute for inheritance in the plains of Moah, on the other fide Jordan by Jericho eastward.

33 But unto the tribe of Levi Mofes gave not any inheritance: the LORD God of Lfrael tuas their inheritance, as he faid unto them.

CHA P. XIV.

1 The nine tribes and an half are to have their inheritance by lot. 6 Caleb by privilege obtaineth Hebron.

Adren of Ifrael inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joftua the fon of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Ifrael, diftributed for inheritance to them.

Nd these are the countries which the chil

2 By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Mofes, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe.

3 For Mofes had given the inheritance of two tribes and an half-tribe on the other fide Jordan; but unto the Levites he gave norie inheritance among them.

4 For the children of Jofeph were two tribes, Manafieh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, fave cities to dwell in, with their fuburbs for their cattle, and for their fubftance.

5 As the LORD commanded Mofes, fo the children of Ifracl did, and they divided thie Land.