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<h1>Joshua</h1>
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<a href="#4">4</a> | <a href="#5">5</a> | <a href="#6">6</a> |
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<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="1">Joshua 1</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>Now it came to pass after the death of Moses the servant
of the Lord, that the Lord spoke to Josue the son of Nun, the
minister of Moses, and said to him:</span></li>
<li><span>Moses my servant is dead: arise, and pass over this
Jordan, thou and thy people with thee, into the land which I will
give to the children of Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>I will deliver to you every place that the sole of your
foot shall tread upon, as I have said to Moses.</span></li>
<li><span>From the desert and from Libanus unto the great river
Euphrates, all the land of the Hethites unto the great sea toward
the going; down of the sun, shall be your border.</span></li>
<li><span>No man shall be able to resist you all the days of thy
life: as I have been with Moses, so will I be with thee: I will not
leave thee, nor forsake thee.</span></li>
<li><span>Take courage, and be strong: for thou shalt divide by lot
to this people the land, for which I swore to their fathers, that I
would deliver it to them.</span></li>
<li><span>Take courage therefore, and be very valiant: that thou
mayst observe and do all the law, which Moses my servant hath
commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left,
that thou mayst understand all things which thou dost.</span></li>
<li><span>Let not the book of this law depart from thy mouth: but
thou shalt meditate on it day and night, that thou mayst observe
and do all things that are written in it: then shalt thou direct
thy way, and understand it.</span></li>
<li><span>Behold I command thee, take courage, end be strong. Fear
not and be not dismayed: because the Lord thy God is with thee in
all things whatsoever thou shalt go to.</span></li>
<li><span>And Josue commanded the princes of the people, saying:
Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people, and
say:</span></li>
<li><span>Prepare you victuals: for after the third day you shall
pass over the Jordan and shall go in to possess the land, which the
Lord your God will give you.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said to the Rubenites, and the Gadites, and the
half tribe of Manasses:</span></li>
<li><span>Remember the word, which Moses the servant of the Lord
commanded you, saying: The Lord your God hath given you rest, and
all this land.</span></li>
<li><span>Your wives, and children, and cattle shall remain in the
land which Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan: but pass you
over armed before your brethren, all of you that are strong of
hand, and fight for them,</span></li>
<li><span>Until the Lord give rest to your brethren as he hath
given you, and they also possess the land which the Lord your God
will give them: and so you shall return into the land of your
possession, and you shall dwell in it, which Moses the servant of
the Lord gave you beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the
sun.</span></li>
<li><span>And they made answer to Josue, and said: All that thou
hast commanded us we will do; and whithersoever thou shalt send us,
we will go.</span></li>
<li><span>As we obeyed Moses in all things, so will we obey thee
also: only be the Lord thy God with thee, as he was with
Moses.</span></li>
<li><span>He that shall gainsay thy mouth, and not obey all thy
words, that thou shalt command him, let him die: only take thou
courage, and do manfully.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="2">Joshua 2</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And Josue the son of Nun sent from Setim two men, to spy
secretly: and said to them: Go, and view the land and the city of
Jericho. n They went and entered into the house of a woman that was
a harlot named Rahab, and lodged with her.</span></li>
<li><span>And it was told the king of Jericho, and was said :
Behold there are men come in hither, by night, of the children of
Israel, to spy the land.</span></li>
<li><span>And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying: Bring
forth the men that came to thee, and are entered into thy house:
for they are spies, and are come to view all the land.</span></li>
<li><span>And the woman taking the men, hid them, and said: I
confess they came to me, but I knew not whence they
were:</span></li>
<li><span>And at the time of shutting the gate in the dark, they
also went out together. I know not whither they are gone: pursue
after them quickly, and you will overtake them.</span></li>
<li><span>But she made the men go up to the top of her house, and
covered them with the stalks of flax, which was there.</span></li>
<li><span>Now they that were sent, pursued after them, by the way
that leadeth to the fords of the Jordan: and as soon as they were
gone out, the gate was presently shut.</span></li>
<li><span>The men that were hidden were not yet asleep, when behold
the woman went up to them, and said:</span></li>
<li><span>the Lord dried up the water of the Red Sea at your going
in, when you came out of Egypt: and what things you did to the two
kings of the Amorrhites, that were beyond the Jordan: Sehon and Og
whom you slew.</span></li>
<li><span>I know that the Lord hath given this land to you: for the
dread of you is fallen upon us, and all the inhabitants of the land
have lost all strength.</span></li>
<li><span>We have heard that</span></li>
<li><span>And hearing these things we were affrighted, and our
heart fainted away, neither did there remain any spirit in us at
your coming in: for the Lord your God he is God in heaven above,
and in the earth beneath.</span></li>
<li><span>Now therefore swear ye to me by the Lord, that as I have
shewn mercy to you, so you also will shew mercy to my father's
house: and give me a true token,</span></li>
<li><span>That you will save my father and mother, my brethren end
sisters, and all things that are theirs, and deliver our souls from
death.</span></li>
<li><span>They answered her: Be our lives for you unto death, only
if thou betray us not. And when the Lord shall have delivered us
the land, we will shew thee mercy and truth.</span></li>
<li><span>Then she let them down with a cord out of a window: for
her house joined close to the wall.</span></li>
<li><span>And she said to them: Get ye up to the mountains, lest
perhaps they meet you as they return: and there lie ye hid three
days, till they come back, and so you shall go on your
way.</span></li>
<li><span>And they said to her: We shall be blameless of this oath,
which thou hast made us swear:</span></li>
<li><span>If when we come into the land, this scarlet cord be a
sign, and thou tie it in the window, by which thou hast let us
down: and gather together thy father and mother, and brethren and
all thy kindred into thy house.</span></li>
<li><span>Whosoever shall go out of the door of thy house, his
blood shall be upon his own head, and we shall be quit. But the
blood of all that shall be with thee in the house, shall light upon
our head, if any man touch them.</span></li>
<li><span>But if thou wilt betray us, and utter this word abroad,
we shall be quit of this oath which thou hast made us
swear.</span></li>
<li><span>And she answered: As you have spoken, so be it done. And
sending them on their way, she hung the scarlet cord in the
window.</span></li>
<li><span>But they went and came to the mountains, and stayed there
three days till they that pursued them were returned. For having
sought them through all the way, they found them not.</span></li>
<li><span>And when they were gone back into the city, the spies
returned, and came down from the mountain: and passing over the
Jordan, they came to Josue the son of Nun, and told him all that
befel them.</span></li>
<li><span>And said: The Lord hath delivered all this land into our
hands, and all the inhabitants thereof are overthrown with
fear.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="3">Joshua 3</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And Josue rose before daylight, and removed the camp: and
they departed from Setim, and came to the Jordan, he, and all the
children of Israel, and they abode there for three
days.</span></li>
<li><span>After which, the heralds went through the midst of the
camp,</span></li>
<li><span>And began to proclaim: When you shall see the ark of the
covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests of the race of Levi
carrying it, rise you up also, and follow them as they go
before:</span></li>
<li><span>And let there be between you and the ark the space of two
thousand cubits: that you may see it afar off, and know which way
you must go: for you have not gone this way before: and take care
you come not near the ark.</span></li>
<li><span>And Josue said to the people: Be ye sanctified: for to
morrow the Lord will do wonders among you.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said to the priests: Take up the ark of the
covenant, and go before the people. And they obeyed his commands,
and took it up and walked before them.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Josue: This day will I begin to
exalt thee before Israel: that they may know that as I was with
Moses, so I am with thee also.</span></li>
<li><span>And do thou command the priests that carry the ark of the
covenant, and say to them: When you shall have entered into part of
the water of the Jordan, stand in it.</span></li>
<li><span>And Josue said to the children of Israel: Come hither and
hear the word of the Lord your God.</span></li>
<li><span>And again he said: By this you shall know that the Lord
the living God is in the midst of you, and that he shall destroy
before your sight the Chanaanite and the Hethite, the Hevite and
the Pherezite, the Gergesite also and the Jebusite, and the
Amorrhite.</span></li>
<li><span>Behold the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the
earth shall go before you into the Jordan.</span></li>
<li><span>Prepare ye twelve men of the tribes of Israel, one of
every tribe.</span></li>
<li><span>And when the priests, that carry the ark of the Lord the
God of the whole earth, shall set the soles of their feet in the
waters of the Jordan, the waters that are beneath shall run down
and go off: and those that come from above, shall stand together
upon a heap.</span></li>
<li><span>So the people went out of their tents, to pass over the
Jordan: and the priests that carried the ark of the covenant. went
on before them.</span></li>
<li><span>And as soon as they came into the Jordan, and their feet
were dipped in part of the water, (now the Jordan, it being harvest
time, had filled the banks of its channel,)</span></li>
<li><span>The waters that came down from above stood in one place,
and swelling up like a mountain, were seen afar off from the city
that is called Adom, to the place of Sarthan: but those that were
beneath, ran down into the sea of the wilderness (which now is
called the Dead Sea) until they wholly failed.</span></li>
<li><span>And the people marched over against Jericho: and the
priests that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, stood
girded upon the dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, and all the
people passed over through the channel that was dried
up.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="4">Joshua 4</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And when they were passed over, the Lord said to
Josue:</span></li>
<li><span>Choose twelve men, one of every tribe:</span></li>
<li><span>And command them to take out of the midst of the Jordan,
where the feet of the priests stood, twelve very hard stones, which
you shall set in the place of the camp, where you shall pitch your
tents this night.</span></li>
<li><span>And Josue called twelve men, whom he had chosen out of
the children of Israel, one out of every tribe,</span></li>
<li><span>And he said to them: Go before the ark of the Lord your
God to the midst of the Jordan, and carry from thence every man a
stone on your shoulders, according to the number of the children of
Israel,</span></li>
<li><span>That it may be a sign among you end when your children
shall ask you to morrow, saying: What mean these
stones?</span></li>
<li><span>You shall answer them: The waters of the Jordan ran off
before the ark of the covenant of the Lord, when it passed over the
same: therefore were these atones set for a monument of the
children of Israel for ever.</span></li>
<li><span>The children of Israel therefore did as Josue commanded
them, carrying out of the channel of the Jordan twelve stones, as
the Lord had commanded him, according to the number of the children
of Israel, unto the place wherein they camped, and there they set
them.</span></li>
<li><span>And Josue put other twelve stones in the midst of the
channel of the Jordan, where the priests stood that carried the ark
of the covenant: and they are there until this present
day.</span></li>
<li><span>Now the priests that carried the ark, stood in the midst
of the Jordan till all things were accomplished which the Lord had
commanded Josue to speak to the people, and Moses had said to him.
And the people made haste and passed over.</span></li>
<li><span>And when they had all passed over, the ark also of the
Lord passed over, and the priests went before the
people.</span></li>
<li><span>The children of Ruben also and Gad, and half the tribe of
Manasses, went armed before the children of Israel as Moses had
commanded them.</span></li>
<li><span>And forty thousand fighting men by their troops, and
bands, marched through the plains and fields of the city of
Jericho.</span></li>
<li><span>In that day the Lord magnified Josue in the sight of all
Israel, that they should fear him, as they had feared Moses, while
he lived.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said to him:</span></li>
<li><span>Command the priests, that carry the ark of the covenant,
to come up out of the Jordan.</span></li>
<li><span>And he commanded them, saying: Come ye up out of the
Jordan.</span></li>
<li><span>And when they that carried the ark of the covenant of the
Lord, were come up, and began to tread on the dry ground, the
waters returned into the channel, and ran as they were wont
before.</span></li>
<li><span>And the people came up out of the Jordan, the tenth day
of the first month, and camped in Galgal, over against the east
side of the city of Jericho.</span></li>
<li><span>And the twelve stones which they had taken out of the
channel of the Jordan, Josue pitched in Galgal,</span></li>
<li><span>And said to the children of Israel: When your children
shall ask their fathers, to morrow, and shall say to them: What
mean these stones?</span></li>
<li><span>You shall teach them and say: Israel passed over this
Jordan through the dry channel.</span></li>
<li><span>The Lord your God drying up the waters thereof in your
sight, until you passed over:</span></li>
<li><span>As he had done before in the Red Sea, which he dried up
till we passed through :</span></li>
<li><span>That all the people of the earth may learn the most
mighty hand of the Lord, that you also may fear the Lord your God
for ever.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="5">Joshua 5</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>Now when all the kings of the Amorrhites, who dwelt
beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of Chanaan, who
possessed the places near the great sea, had heard that the Lord
had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the children of
Israel, till they passed over, their heart failed them, and there
remained no spirit in them, fearing the coming in of the children
of Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>At that time the Lord said to Josue: Make thee knives of
stone, and circumcise the second time the children of
Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>He did what the Lord had commanded, and he circumcised
the children of Israel in the hill of the foreskins.</span></li>
<li><span>Now this is the cause of the second circumcision: All the
people that came out of Egypt that were males, all the men fit for
war, died in the desert, during the time of the long going about in
the way.</span></li>
<li><span>Now these were all circumcised. But the people that were
born in the desert,</span></li>
<li><span>Luring the forty years of the journey in the wide
wilderness, were uncircumcised: till all they were consumed that
had not heard the voice of the Lord, and to whom he had sworn
before, that he would not shew them the land flowing with milk and
honey.</span></li>
<li><span>The children of these succeeded in the place of their
fathers, and were circumcised by Josue: for they were uncircumcised
even as they were born, and no one had circumcised them in the
way.</span></li>
<li><span>Now after they were all circumcised, they remained in the
same place of the camp, until they were healed.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Josue: This day have I taken away
from you the reproach of Egypt. And the name of that place was
called Galgal, until this present day.</span></li>
<li><span>And the children of Israel abode in Galgal, and they kept
the phase on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the
plains of Jericho:</span></li>
<li><span>And they ate on the next day unleavened bread of the corn
of the land, and frumenty of the same year.</span></li>
<li><span>And the manna ceased after they ate of the corn of the
land, neither did the children of Israel use that food any more,
but they ate of the corn of the present year of the land of
Chanaan.</span></li>
<li><span>And when Josue was in the field of the city of Jericho,
he lifted up his eyes, and saw a man standing over against him:
holding a drawn sword, and he went to him, and said: Art thou one
of ours, or of our adversaries?</span></li>
<li><span>And he answered: No: but I am prince of the host of the
Lord, and now I am come.</span></li>
<li><span>Josue fell on his face to the ground. And worshipping,
add: What saith my lord to his servant?</span></li>
<li><span>Loose, saith he, thy shoes from off thy feet: for the
place whereon thou standest is holy. And Josue did as was commanded
him.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="6">Joshua 6</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>Now Jericho was close shut up and fenced, for fear of the
children of Israel, and no man durst go out or come in.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Josue: Behold I have given into thy
hands Jericho, and the king thereof, and all the valiant
men.</span></li>
<li><span>Go round about the city, all ye fighting men, once a day:
so shall ye do for six days.</span></li>
<li><span>And on the seventh day the priests shall take the seven
trumpets, which are used in the jubilee, and shall go before the
ark of the covenant: and you shall go about the city seven times,
and the priests shall sound the trumpets.</span></li>
<li><span>And when the voice of the trumpet shall give a longer and
broken tune, and shall sound in your ears, all the people shall
shout together with a very great shout, and the walls of the city
shall fall to the ground, and they shall enter in every one at the
place against which they shall stand.</span></li>
<li><span>Then Josue the son of Nun called the priests, and said to
them: Take the ark of the covenant: and let seven other priests
take the seven trumpets of the jubilee, and march before the ark of
the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And he said to the people: Go, and compass the city,
armed, marching before the ark of the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And when Josue had ended his words, and the seven priests
blew the seven trumpets before the ark of the covenant of the
Lord,</span></li>
<li><span>And all the armed men went before, the rest of the common
people followed the ark, and the sound of the trumpets was heard on
all sides.</span></li>
<li><span>But Josue had commanded the people, saying: You shall not
shout, nor shall your voice be heard, nor any word go out of your
mouth: until the day come wherein I shall say to you: Cry, and
shout.</span></li>
<li><span>So the ark of the Lord went about the city once a day,
and returning into the camp, abode there.</span></li>
<li><span>And Josue rising before day, the priests took the ark of
the Lord,</span></li>
<li><span>And seven of them seven trumpets, which are used in the
jubilee: and they went before the ark of the Lord walking and
sounding the trumpets: and the armed men went before them, and the
rest of the common people followed the ark, and they blew the
trumpets.</span></li>
<li><span>And they went round about the city the second day once,
and returned into the camp. So they did six days.</span></li>
<li><span>But the seventh day, rising up early, they went about the
city, as it was ordered, seven times.</span></li>
<li><span>And when in the seventh going about the priests sounded
with the trumpets, Josue said to all Israel: Shout: for the Lord
hath delivered the city to you:</span></li>
<li><span>And let this city be an anathema, and all things that are
in it, to the Lord. Let only Rahab the harlot live, with all that
are with her in the house: for she hid the messengers whom we
sent.</span></li>
<li><span>But beware ye lest you touch ought of those things that
are forbidden, and you be guilty of transgression, and all the camp
of Israel be under sin, and be troubled.</span></li>
<li><span>But whatsoever gold or silver there shall be, or vessels
of brass and iron, let it be consecrated to the Lord, laid up in
his treasures.</span></li>
<li><span>So all the people making a shout, and the trumpets
sounding, when the voice and the sound thundered in the ears of the
multitude, the walls forth- with fell down: and every man went up
by the place that was over against him: s and they took the
city,</span></li>
<li><span>And killed all that were in it, man and woman, young and
old. The oxen also and the sheep, and the asses, they slew with the
edge of the sword.</span></li>
<li><span>But Josue said to the two men that had been sent for
spies: Go into the harlot's house, and bring her out, and all
things that are hers, as you assured her by oath.</span></li>
<li><span>And the young men went in and brought out Rahab, and her
parents, her brethren also and all her goods and her kindred, and
made them to stay without the camp.</span></li>
<li><span>But they burned the city, and all things that were
therein; except the gold and silver, and vessels of brass and iron,
which they consecrated into the treasury of the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>But Josue saved Rahab the harlot and her father's house,
and all she had, and they dwelt in the midst of Israel until this
present day: because she hid the messengers whom he had sent to spy
out Jericho. At that time, Josue made an imprecation,
saying:</span></li>
<li><span>Cursed be the man before the Lord, that shall raise up
and build the city of Jericho. In his firstborn may he lay the
foundation thereof, and in the last of his children set up its
gates.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord was with Josue, and his name was noised
throughout all the land.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="7">Joshua 7</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>But the children of Israel transgressed the commandment,
and took to their own use of the anathema. For Achan the son of
Charmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zare of the tribe of Juda,
took something of the anathema: and the Lord was angry against the
children of Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>And when Josue sent men from Jericho against Hai, which
is beside Bethaven, on the east side of the town of Bethel, he said
to them: Go up, and view the country: and they fulfilled his
command, and viewed Hai.</span></li>
<li><span>And returning they said to him: Let not all the people go
up, but let two or three thousand men go and destroy the city: why
should all the people be troubled in vain against enemies that are
very few?</span></li>
<li><span>There went up therefore three thou- sand fighting men:
who immediately turned their backs,</span></li>
<li><span>And were defeated by the men of the city of Hai, and
there fell of them six and thirty men : and the enemies pursued
them from the gate as far as Sabarim, and they slew them as they
fled by the descent: and the heart of the people was struck with
fear, and melted like water.</span></li>
<li><span>But Josue rent his garments, and fell flat on the ground
before the ark of the Lord until the evening, both he and all the
ancients of Israel: and they put dust upon their heads.</span></li>
<li><span>And Josue said: Alas, O Lord God, why wouldst thou bring
this people over the river Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of
the Amorrhite, and to destroy us? would God, we had stayed beyond
the Jordan as we began.</span></li>
<li><span>My Lord God, what shall I say, seeing Israel turning
their backs to their enemies?</span></li>
<li><span>The Chanaanites, and all the inhabitants of the land will
hear of it, and being gathered together will surround us and cut
off our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do to thy great
name?</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Josue: Arise, why liest thou flat on
the ground?</span></li>
<li><span>Israel hath sinned, and transgressed my covenant: and
they have taken of the anathema, and have stolen and lied, and have
hidden it among their goods.</span></li>
<li><span>Neither can Israel stand before his enemies, but he shall
flee from them: because he is defiled with the anathema. I will be
no more with you, till you destroy him that is guilty of this
wickedness.</span></li>
<li><span>Arise, sanctify the people, and say to them: Be ye
sanctified against to morrow: for thus saith the Lord God of
Israel: The anathema is in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst
not stand before thy enemies, till he be destroyed out of thee that
is defiled with this wickedness.</span></li>
<li><span>And you shall come in the morning every one by your
tribes: and what tribe soever the lot shall find, it shall come by
its kindreds and the kindred by its houses, and the house by the
men.</span></li>
<li><span>And whosoever he be that shall be found guilty of this
fact, he shall be burnt with fire with all his substance, because
he hath transgressed the covenant of the Lord, and hath done
wickedness in Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>Josue, therefore, when he rose in the morning, made
Israel to come by their tribes, and the tribe of Juda was
found,</span></li>
<li><span>Which being brought by its families, it was found to be
the family of Zare. Bringing that also by the houses, he found it
to be Zabdi.</span></li>
<li><span>And bringing his house man by man, he found Achan the son
of Charmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zare of the tribe of
Juda.</span></li>
<li><span>And Josue said to Achan: My son, give glory to the Lord
God of Israel, and confess, and tell me what thou hast done, hide
it not.</span></li>
<li><span>And Achan answered Josue, and said to him: Indeed I have
sinned against the Lord the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I
done.</span></li>
<li><span>For I saw among the spoils a scarlet garment exceeding
good, and two hundred sides of silver, and a golden rule of fifty
sides: and I coveted them, and I took them away, and hid them in
the ground is the midst of my tent, and the silver I covered with
the earth that I dug up.</span></li>
<li><span>Josue therefore sent ministers: who running to his tent,
found all hidden in the same place, together with the
silver.</span></li>
<li><span>And taking them away out of the tent, they brought them
to Josue, and to all the children of Israel, and threw them down
before the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>Then Josue and all Israel with him took Achan the son of
Zare, and the silver and the garments, and the golden rule, his
sons also and his daughters, his oxen and asses and sheep, the tent
also, and all the goods: and brought them to the valley of
Achor:</span></li>
<li><span>Where Josue said: Because thou hast troubled us, the Lord
trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him: and all things
that were his, were consumed with fire.</span></li>
<li><span>And they gathered together upon him a great heap of
stones, which remaineth until this present day. And the wrath of
the Lord was turned away from them. And the name of that place was
called the Valley of Achor, until this day.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="8">Joshua 8</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Josue: Fear not, nor be thou
dismayed: take with thee all the multitude of fighting men, arise
and go up to the town of Hai. Behold I have delivered into thy hand
the king thereof, and the people, and the city, and the
land.</span></li>
<li><span>And thou shalt do to the city of Hai, and to the king
thereof, as thou hast done to Jericho, and to the king thereof: but
the spoils and all the cattle you shall take for a prey to
yourselves: lay an ambush for the city behind it.</span></li>
<li><span>And Josue arose, and all the army of the fighting men
with him, to go up against Hai: and he sent thirty thousand chosen
valiant men in the night,</span></li>
<li><span>And commanded them, saying: Lay an ambush behind the
city: and go not very far from it: and be ye all ready.</span></li>
<li><span>But I and the rest of the multitude which is with me;
will approach on the contrary side against the city. And when they
shall come out against us, we will flee, and turn our backs, as we
did before:</span></li>
<li><span>Till they pursuing us be drawn farther from the city: for
they will think that we flee as before.</span></li>
<li><span>And whilst we are fleeing, and they pursuing, you shall
arise out of the ambush, and shall destroy the city: and the Lord
your God will deliver it into our hands.</span></li>
<li><span>And when you shall have taken it, set it on fire, and you
shall do all things so as I have commanded.</span></li>
<li><span>And he sent them away, and they went on to the place of
the ambush, and abode between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of
the city of Hai. But Josue stayed that night in the midst of the
people,</span></li>
<li><span>And rising early in the morning, he mustered his
soldiers, and went up with the ancients in the front of the army
environed with the aid of the fighting men.</span></li>
<li><span>And when they were come, and were gone up over against
the city, they stood on the north side of the city, between which
and them there was a valley in the midst.</span></li>
<li><span>And he had chosen five thousand men, and set them to lie
in ambush between Bethel and Hai, on the west side of the same
city:</span></li>
<li><span>But all the rest of the army went in battle array on the
north side, so that the last of that multitude reached to the west
side of the city. So Josue went that night, and stood in the midst
of the valley.</span></li>
<li><span>And when the king of Hai saw this, he made haste in the
morning, and went out with all the army of the city, and set it in
battle array toward the desert, not knowing that there lay an
ambush behind his back.</span></li>
<li><span>But Josue, and all Israel gave back, making as if they
were afraid, and fleeing by the way of the wilderness.</span></li>
<li><span>But they shouting together, and encouraging one another,
pursued them. And when they were come from the city,</span></li>
<li><span>And not one remained in the city of Hai and of Bethel,
that did not pursue after Israel, leaving the towns open as they
had rushed out,</span></li>
<li><span>The Lord said to Josue: Lift up the shield that is in thy
hand, towards the city of Hai, for I will deliver it to
thee.</span></li>
<li><span>And when he had lifted up his shield towards the city,
the ambush that lay hid, rose up immediately: and going to the
city, took it and set it on fire.</span></li>
<li><span>And the men of the city, that pursued after Josue,
looking back and seeing the smoke of the city rise up to heaven,
had no more power to flee this way or that way: especially as they
that had counterfeited flight, end were going toward the
wilderness, turned back most valiantly against them that
pursued.</span></li>
<li><span>So Josue and all Israel seeing that the city was taken,
and that the smoke of the city rose up, returned and slew the men
of Hai.</span></li>
<li><span>And they also that had taken and set the city on fire,
issuing out of the city to meet their own men, began to cut off the
enemies who were surrounded by them. So that the enemies being cut
off on both sides, not one of so great a multitude was
saved.</span></li>
<li><span>And they took the king of the city of Hai alive, and
brought him to Josue.</span></li>
<li><span>So all being slain that had pursued after Israel in his
flight to the wilderness, and tailing by the sword in the same
place, the children of Israel returned and laid waste the
city.</span></li>
<li><span>And the number of them that fell that day, both of men
and women, was twelve thousand persons all of the city of
Hai.</span></li>
<li><span>But Josue drew not back his hand, which he had stretched
out on high, holding the shield, till all the inhabitants of Hai
were slain.</span></li>
<li><span>And the children of Israel divided among them the cattle
and the prey of the city, as the Lord had commanded
Josue.</span></li>
<li><span>And he burned the city, and made it a heap for
ever:</span></li>
<li><span>And he hung the king thereof on a gibbet until the
evening and the going down of the sun. Then Josue commanded, and
they took down his carcass from the gibbet: and threw it in the
very entrance of the city, heaping upon it a great heap of stones,
which remaineth until this present day.</span></li>
<li><span>Then Josue built an altar to the Lord the God of Israel
in mount Hebal,</span></li>
<li><span>As Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the
children of Israel, and it is written in the book of the law of
Moses: an altar of unhewn stones which iron had not touched: and he
offered upon it holocausts to the Lord, and immolated victims of
peace offerings.</span></li>
<li><span>And he wrote upon stones the Deuteronomy of the law of
Moses, which he had ordered before the children of
Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>And all the people, and the ancients, and the princes and
judges stood on both sides of the ark, before the priests that
carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, both the stranger and
he that was born among them, half of them by mount Garizim, and
half by mount Hebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord had
commanded. And first he blessed the people of Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>After this he read all the words of the blessing and the
cursing and all things that were written in the hook of the
law.</span></li>
<li><span>He left out nothing of those things which Moses had
commanded, but he repeated all before all the people of Israel,
with the women and children and strangers that dwelt among
them.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="9">Joshua 9</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>Now When these things were heard of, all the kings beyond
the Jordan, that dwelt in the mountains and in the plains, in the
places near the sea, and on the coasts of the great sea, they also
that dwell by Libanus, the Hethite and the Amorrhite, the
Chanaanite, the Pherezite, and the Hevite, and the
Jebusite,</span></li>
<li><span>Gathered themselves together, to fight against Josue and
Israel with one mind, and one resolution.</span></li>
<li><span>But they that dwelt in Gabaon, hearing all that Josue had
done to Jericho and Hai:</span></li>
<li><span>Cunningly devising took for themselves provisions, laying
old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles rent and sewed up
again,</span></li>
<li><span>And very old shoes, which for a show of age were clouted
with patches, and old garments upon them: the leaves also, which
they carried for provisions by the way, were hard, and broken into
pieces:</span></li>
<li><span>And they went to Josue, who then abode in the camp at
Galgal, and said to him, and to all Israel with him: We are come
from a far country, desiring to make peace with you. And the
children of Israel answered them, and said:</span></li>
<li><span>Perhaps you dwell in the land which falls to our lot; if
so, we can make no league with you.</span></li>
<li><span>But they said to Josue: We are thy servants. Josue said
to them: Who are you? and whence came you?</span></li>
<li><span>They answered: From a very far country thy servants are
come in the name of the Lord thy God. For we have heard the fame of
his power, all the things that he did in Egypt.</span></li>
<li><span>And to the two kings of the Amorrhites that were beyond
the Jordan, Sehon king of Hesebon, and Og king of Basan, that was
in Astaroth:</span></li>
<li><span>And our ancients, and all the inhabitants of our country
said to us: Take with you victuals for a long way, and go meet
them, and say: We are your servants, make ye a league with
us.</span></li>
<li><span>Behold, these leaves we took hot, when we set out from
our houses to come to you, now they are become dry, and broken in
pieces, by being exceeding old.</span></li>
<li><span>These bottles of wine when we filled them were new, now
they are rent and burst. These garments we have on, and the shoes
we have on our feet, by reason of the very long journey are worn
out, and almost consumed.</span></li>
<li><span>They took therefore of their victuals, and consulted not
the mouth of the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>And Josue made peace with them, and entering into a
league promised that they should not be slain: the princes also of
the multitude swore to them.</span></li>
<li><span>Now three days after the league was made, they heard that
they dwelt nigh, and they should be among them.</span></li>
<li><span>And the children of Israel removed the camp, and came
into their cities on the third day, the names of which are Gabaon,
and Caphira, and Beroth, and Cariathiarim.</span></li>
<li><span>And they slew them not, because the princes of the
multitude had sworn in the name of the Lord the God of Israel. Then
all the common people murmured against the princes.</span></li>
<li><span>And they answered them: We have sworn to them in the name
of the Lord the God of Israel, and therefore we may not touch
them.</span></li>
<li><span>But this we mill do to them: Let their lives be saved,
lest the wrath of the Lord be stirred up against us, if we should
be forsworn.</span></li>
<li><span>But so let them live, as to serve the whole multitude in
hewing wood, and bringing in water. As they were speaking these
things,</span></li>
<li><span>Josue called the Gabaonites and said to them: Why would
you impose upon us, saying: We dwell far off from you, whereas you
are in the midst of us?</span></li>
<li><span>Therefore you shall be under a curse, and your race shall
always be hewers of wood, and carriers of water unto the house of
my God.</span></li>
<li><span>They answered: It was told us thy servants, that the Lord
thy God had promised his servant Moses to give you all the land,
and to destroy all the inhabitants thereof. Therefore we feared
exceedingly and provided for our lives. compelled by the dread we
had of you and we took this counsel.</span></li>
<li><span>And now we are in thy hand: deal with us as it seemeth
good and right unto thee.</span></li>
<li><span>So Josue did as he had said, and delivered them from the
hand of the children of Israel, that they should not be
slain.</span></li>
<li><span>And he gave orders in that day that they should be in the
service of all the people, and of the altar of the Lord, hewing
wood and carrying water, until this present time, in the place
which the Lord hath chosen.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="10">Joshua 10</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>When Adonisedec king of Jerusalem had heard these things,
to wit, that Josue had taken Hai, and had destroyed it, (for as he
had done to Jericho and the king thereof, so did he to Hai, and its
king,) and that the Gabaonites were gone over to Israel, and were
their confederates,</span></li>
<li><span>He was exceedingly afraid. For Gabaon was a great city,
and one of the royal cities, and greater than the town of Hai, and
all its fighting men were most valiant.</span></li>
<li><span>Therefore Adonisedec king of Jerusalem sent to Oham king
of Hebron, and to Pharam king of Jerimoth, and to Japhia king of
Lachis, and to Dabir king of Eglon, saying:</span></li>
<li><span>Come up to me, and bring help, that we may take Gabaon,
because it hath gone over to Josue, and to the children of
Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>So the five kings of the Amorrhites being assembled
together went up: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the
king of Jerimoth, the king of Lachis, the king of Eglon, they and
their armies, and camped about Gabaon, laying siege to
it.</span></li>
<li><span>But the inhabitants of the city of Gabaon which was
besieged, sent to Josue, who then abode in the camp at Galgal, and
said to him: Withdraw not thy hands from helping thy servants: come
up quickly and save us, and bring us succour: for all the kings of
the Amorrhites, who dwell in the mountains, are gathered together
against us.</span></li>
<li><span>And Josue went up from Galgal, and all the army of the
warriors with him, most valiant men.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Josue: Fear them not: for I have
delivered them into thy hands: none of them shall be able to stand
against thee.</span></li>
<li><span>So Josue going up from Galgal all the night, came upon
them suddenly.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord troubled them at the sight of Israel: and he
slew them with a great slaughter in Gabaon, and pursued them by the
way of the ascent to Beth-horon, and cut them off all the way to
Azeca and Maceda.</span></li>
<li><span>And when they were fleeing from the children of Israel,
and were in the descent of Beth-horon, the Lord cast down upon them
great stones from heaven as far as Azeca: and many more were killed
with the hailstones than were slain by the swords of the children
of Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>Then Josue spoke to the Lord, in the day that he
delivered the Amorrhite in the sight of the children of Israel, and
he said before them: Move not, O sun, toward Gabaon, nor thou, O
moon, toward the valley of Ajalon.</span></li>
<li><span>And the sun and the moon stood still, till the people
revenged themselves of their enemies. Is not this written in the
book of the just? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven,
and hasted not to go down the space of one day.</span></li>
<li><span>There was not before nor after so long a day, the Lord
obeying the voice of a man, and fighting for Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>And Josue returned with all Israel into the camp of
Galgal.</span></li>
<li><span>For the five kings were fled, and had hidden themselves
in a cave of the city of Maceda.</span></li>
<li><span>And it was told Josue that the five kings were found
hidden in a cave of the city of Maceda.</span></li>
<li><span>And he commanded them that were with him, saying: Roll
great stones to the mouth of the cave, and set careful men, to keep
them shut up:</span></li>
<li><span>And stay you not, but pursue after the enemies, and kill
all the hindermost of them as they flee, and do not suffer them
whom the Lord God hath delivered into your hands to shelter
themselves in their cities.</span></li>
<li><span>So the enemies being slain with a great slaughter, and
almost utterly consumed, they that were able to escape from Israel,
entered into fenced cities.</span></li>
<li><span>And all the army returned to Josue in Maceda, where the
camp then was, in good health and without the loss of any one: and
no man durst move his tongue against the children of
Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>And Josue gave orders, saying: Open the mouth of the
cave, and bring forth to me the five kings that lie hid
therein.</span></li>
<li><span>And the ministers did as they were commanded: and they
brought out to him the five kings out of the cave: the king of
Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jerimoth, the king of
Lachis, the king of Eglon.</span></li>
<li><span>And when they were Drought out to him, he called all the
men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the army that were with
him: Go, and set your feet on the necks of these kings. And when
they had gone, and put their feet upon the necks of them lying
under them,</span></li>
<li><span>He said again to them: Fear not, neither be ye dismayed,
take courage and be strong: for so will the Lord do to all your
enemies, against whom you fight.</span></li>
<li><span>And Josue struck, and slew them, and hanged them upon
five gibbets, and they hung until the evening.</span></li>
<li><span>And when the sun was down, he commanded the soldiers to
take them down from the gibbets. And after they were taken down,
they cast them into the cave where they had lain hid, and put great
stones at the mouth thereof, which remain until this
day.</span></li>
<li><span>The same day Josue took Maceda and destroyed it, with the
edge of the sword, and killed the king and all the inhabitants
thereof: he left not in it the least remains. And he did to the
king of Maceda, as he had done to the king of Jericho.</span></li>
<li><span>And he passed from Maceda with all Israel to Lebna, and
fought against it:</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord delivered it with the king thereof into the
hands of Israel: and they destroyed the city with the edge of the
sword, and all the inhabitants thereof. They left not in it any
remains. And they did to the king of Lebna, as they had done to the
king of Jericho.</span></li>
<li><span>From Lebna he passed unto Lachis, with all Israel: and
investing it with his army, besieged it.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord delivered Lachis into the hands of Israel,
and he took it the following day, and put it to the sword, and
every soul that was in it, as he had done to Lebna.</span></li>
<li><span>At that time Horam king of Gazer, came up to succour
Lachis: and Josue slew him with all his people, so as to leave none
alive.</span></li>
<li><span>And he passed from Lachis to Eglon, and surrounded
it,</span></li>
<li><span>And took it the same day: and put to the sword all the
souls that were in it, according to all that he had done to
Lachis.</span></li>
<li><span>He went up also with all Israel from Eglon to Hebron, and
fought against it:</span></li>
<li><span>Took it, and destroyed it with the edge of the sword: the
king also thereof, and all the towns of that country, and all the
souls that dwelt in it: he left not therein any remains: as he had
done to Eglon, so did he also to Hebron, putting to the sword all
that he found in it.</span></li>
<li><span>Returning from thence to Dabir,</span></li>
<li><span>He took it and destroyed it: the king also thereof and
all the towns round about he destroyed with the edge of the sword:
he left not in it any remains: as he had done to Hebron and Lebna
and to their kings, so did he to Dabir and to the king
thereof.</span></li>
<li><span>So Josue conquered all the country of the hills and of
the south and of the plain, and of Asedoth, with their kings: he
left not any remains therein, but slew all that breathed, as the
Lord the God of Israel had commanded him,</span></li>
<li><span>From Cadesbarne even to Gaza. All the land of Gosen even
to Gabaon,</span></li>
<li><span>And all their kings, and their lands he took and wasted
at one onset: for the Lord the God of Israel fought for
him.</span></li>
<li><span>And he returned with all Israel to the place of the camp
in Galgal.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="11">Joshua 11</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>And when Jabin king of Asor had heard these things, he
sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of Semeron, and to the
king of Achsaph:</span></li>
<li><span>And to the kings of the north, that dwelt in the
mountains and in the plains over against the south side of
Ceneroth, and in the levels and the countries of Dor by the sea
side :</span></li>
<li><span>To the Chanaanites also on the ease and on the west, and
the Amorrhite, and the Hethite, and the Pherezite, and the Jebusite
in the mountains: to the Hevite also who dwelt at the foot of
Hermon in the land of Maspha.</span></li>
<li><span>And they all came out with their troops, a people
exceeding numerous as the sand that is on the sea shore, their
horses also and chariots a very great multitude,</span></li>
<li><span>And all these kings assembled together at the waters of
Merom, to fight against Israel.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord said to Josue: Fear them not: for to morrow
at this same hour I will deliver all these to be slain in the sight
of Israel: thou shalt hamstring their horses, and thou shalt burn
their chariots with fire.</span></li>
<li><span>And Josue came, and all the army with him, against them
to the waters of Merom on a sudden, and fell upon them.</span></li>
<li><span>And the Lord delivered them into the hands of Israel. And
they defeated them, and chased them as far as the great Sidon, and
the waters of Maserophot, and the field of Masphe, which is on the
east side thereof. He slew them all, so as to leave no remains of
them:</span></li>
<li><span>And he did as the Lord had commanded him, he hamstringed
their horses and burned their chariots.</span></li>
<li><span>And presently turning back he took Asor: and slew the
king thereof with the sword. Now Asor of old was the head of all
these kingdoms.</span></li>
<li><span>And he cut off all the souls that abode there: he left
not in it any remains, but utterly destroyed all, and burned the
city itself with fire.</span></li>
<li><span>And he took and put to the sword and destroyed all the
cities round about, and their kings, as Moses the servant of God
had commanded him.</span></li>
<li><span>Except the cities that were on hills and high places, the
rest Israel burned: only Asor that was very strong he consumed with
fire.</span></li>
<li><span>And the children of Israel divided among themselves all
the spoil of these cities and the cattle, killing all the
men.</span></li>
<li><span>As the Lord had commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses
command Josue, and he accomplished all: he left not one thing
undone of all the commandments which the Lord had commanded
Moses.</span></li>
<li><span>So Josue took all the country of the hills, and of the
south, and the land of Gosen, and the plains and the west country,
and the mountain of Israel, and the plains thereof:</span></li>
<li><span>And part of the mountain that goeth up to Seir as far as
Baalgad, by the plain of Libanus under mount Hermon: all their
kings he took, smote and slew.</span></li>
<li><span>Josue made war a long time against these
kings.</span></li>
<li><span>There was hot a city that delivered itself to the
children of Israel, except the Hevite, who dwelt in Gabaon: for he
took all by fight.</span></li>
<li><span>For it was the sentence of the Lord, that their hearts
should be hardened, and they should fight against Israel, and fall,
and should not deserve any clemency, and should be destroyed as the
Lord had commanded Moses.</span></li>
<li><span>At that time Josue came and cut off the Enacims from the
mountains, from Hebron, and Dabir, and Anab, and from all the
mountain of Juda and Israel, and destroyed their
cities.</span></li>
<li><span>He left not any of the stock of the Enacims, in the land
of the children of Israel: except the cities of Gaza, and Geth, and
Azotus, in which alone they were left.</span></li>
<li><span>So Josue took all the land, as the Lord spoke to Moses,
and delivered it in possession to the children of Israel, according
to their divisions and tribes. And the land rested from
wars.</span></li>