4 Yet there shall be a space between |

The people pass over. CHAP. IV.

ple were clean passed over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying, 2 Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,

you and it, about two thousand cubits by AND it came to pass, when all the peomeasure: come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go; for ye have not passed this way heretofore. 5 And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves for to-morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.

3 And command ye them, saying, Take you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out 6 And Joshua spake unto the priests, of the place where the priests' feet stood saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry and pass over before the people. And them over with you, and leave them in the they took up the ark of the covenant, and lodging-place where ye shall lodge this went before the people.

7 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee.

night.

4 Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:

5 And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into 8 And thou shalt command the priests the midst of Jordan, and take ye up every that bear the ark of the covenant, saying, man of you a stone upon his shoulder, acWhen ye are come to the brink of the wa-cording unto the number of the tribes of ter of Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan. the children of Israel:

9

And Joshua said unto the children 6 That this may be a sign among you, of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words that when your children ask their fathers of the LORD your God. in time to come, saying, What mean ye by

10 And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall these stones ? know that the living God is among you, 7 Then ye shall answer them, That the and that he will without fail drive out from waters of Jordan were cut off before the before you the Canaanites, and the Hit- ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it tites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and were cut off: and these stones shall be for a the Jebusites. memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.

11 Behold, the ark of the covenant of the LORD of all the earth passeth over before you into Jordan.

12 Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe

a man.

8 And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of Jordan, as the LORD spake unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them unto 13 And it shall come to pass, as soon as the place where they lodged, and laid them the soles of the feet of the priests that bear down there. the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the 9 ¶ And Joshua set up twelve stones in earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, the midst of Jordan, in the place where that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off the feet of the priests which bare the ark from the waters that come down from above; of the covenant stood: and they are there and they shall stand upon an heap. 14 And it came to pass, when the peo- 10 For the priests which bare the ark, ple removed from their tents to pass over stood in the midst of Jordan, until every Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of thing was finished that the LORD commandthe covenant before the people; ed Joshua to speak unto the people, ac15 And as they that bear the ark were cording to all that Moses commanded come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests Joshua: and the people hasted and passed that bare the ark were dipped in the brim over. of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest,)

unto this day.

11 And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the 16 That the waters which came down ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests from above stood and rose up upon an heap in the presence of the people. very far from the city Adam, that is beside 12 And the children of Reuben, and the Zaretan; and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.

children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them:

13 About forty thousand prepared for 17 And the priests that bare the ark of war passed over before the LORD unto batthe covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry tle, to the plains of Jericho. ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the 14 On that day the LORD magnified Israelites passed over on dry ground, until Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they all the people were passed clean over Jor- feared him as they feared Moses, all the dan. days of his life,

Circumcision renewed.

JOSHUA.

Jericho is shut up. 15 ¶ And the LORD spake unto Joshua, years in the wilderness, till all the people saying, that were men of war which came out of 16 Command the priests that bear the Egypt were consumed, because they obeyark of the testimony, that they come up ed not the voice of the LORD: unto whom out of Jordan. the LORD sware that he would not show 17 Joshua therefore commanded the them the land which the LORD Sware unto priests, saying, Come ye up out of Jordan. their fathers that he would give us, a land 18 And it came to pass, when the priests that floweth with milk and honey. that bare the ark of the covenant of the 7 And their children, whom he raised up LORD were come up out of the midst of in their stead, them Joshua circumcised: Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet for they were uncircumcised, because they were lifted up unto the dry land, that the had not circumcised them by the way. waters of Jordan returned unto their place, 8 And it came to pass when they had and flowed over all his banks, as they did done circumcising all the people, that they before. abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.

9 And the LORD said unto Joshua, This

19 And the people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border day have I rolled away the reproach of of Jericho. Egypt from off you: Wherefore the name 20 T And those twelve stones which of the place is called Gilgal unto this day. they took out of Jordan, did Joshua pitch| in Gilgal.

21 And he spake unto the children of Israel, saying, When your children shall ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?

22 Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

10 And the children of Israel encamped in Gilgal, and kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even, in the plains of Jericho,

11 And they did eat of the old corn of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes and parched corn in the self-same day.

12 ¶ And the manna ceased on the mor23 For the LORD your God dried up the row after they had eaten of the old corn of waters of Jordan from before you, until ye the land; neither had the children of Israel were passed over, as the LORD your God manna any more; but they did eat of the did to the Red sea, which he dried up from fruit of the land of Canaan that year. before us, until we were gone over:

24 That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the LORD, that it is mighty that ye might fear the LORD your God for ever.

CHAP. V.

13 And it came to pass when Joshuawas by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our

AND it came to pass, when all the kings adversaries?

of the Amorites which were on the 14 And he said, Nay; but as captain of side of Jordan westward, and all the kings the host of the LORD am I now come. And of the Canaanites which were by the sea, Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did heard that the LORD had dried up the wa- worship, and said unto him, What saith my ters of Jordan from before the children of lord unto his servant?

Israel, until we were passed over, that their 15 And the captain of the LORD's host heart melted; neither was there spirit in said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off them any more, because of the children of thy foot, for the place whereon thou standest is holy: and Joshua did so. CHAP. VI.

Israel.

2 At that time the LORD said unto

Joshua, Make thee sharp knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.

3 And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

NOW Jericho was straitly shut up beof the children of Israel: none

went out, and none came in.

I

2 ¶ And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, have given into thine hand Jericho, and the king thereof, and the mighty men of valour. 3 And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once: thus shalt thou do six days.

4 And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males even all the men of war died in the wilderness by the way, 4 And seven priests shall bear before after they came out of Egypt. the ark seven trumpets of rams' horns: and the seventh day ye shall compass the city seven times, and the priests shall blow with the trumpets.

5 Now all the people that came out were circumcised; but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, them they had 5 And it shall come to pass, that when not circumcised. they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the

6 For the children of Israel walked forty

The city is compassed.

CHAP. VII. The Israelites smitten at Ai. trumpet, all the people shall shout with a the LORD: they shall come into the treagreat shout: and the wall of the city shall sury of the LORD.

fall down flat, and the people shall ascend 20 So the people shouted when the up every man straight before him. priests blew with the trumpets: and it came

6 And Joshua the son of Nun called to pass, when the people heard the sound the priests, and said unto them, Take up of the trumpet, and the people shouted the ark of the covenant, and let seven with a great shout, that the wall fell down priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns flat, so that the people went up into the before the ark of the LORD. city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

7 And he said unto the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let him that is 21 And they utterly destroyed all that armed pass on before the ark of the was in the city, both man and woman, LORD. young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.

8 And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven 22 But Joshua had said unto the two priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' men that had spied out the country, Go into horns passed on before the LORD, and blew the harlot's house, and bring out thence the with the trumpets: and the ark of the co- woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware venant of the LORD followed them. unto her.

9 And the armed men went before the priests that blew with the trumpets, and the rere-ward came after the ark, the priests going on, and blowing with the trumpets. 10 And Joshua had commanded the people, saying, Ye shall not shout, nor make any noise with your voice, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid you shout, then shall ye shout.

11 So the ark of the LORD compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.

23 And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel.

24 And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house of the LORD.

25 And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all 12 And Joshua rose early in the morn- that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel ing, and the priests took up the ark of the even unto this day; because she hid the LORD. messengers which Joshua sent to spy out

13 And seven priests bearing seven trum- Jericho. pets of rams' horns before the ark of the 26 And Joshua adjured them at that LORD went on continually, and blew with time, saying, Cursed be the man before the the trumpets: and the armed men went be- LORD, that riseth up and buildeth this city fore them; but the rere-ward came after Jericho: he shall lay the foundation therethe ark of the LORD, the priests going on, of in his first-born, and in his youngest son and blowing with the trumpets. shall he set up the gates of it.

14 And the second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp. So they did six days.

15 And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early about the dawn

27 So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country.

CHAP. VII.

BUT the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for after the same manner seven times: only Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, on that day they compassed the city seven the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, times. took of the accursed thing: and the anger

16 And it came to pass at the seventh of the LORD was kindled against the chiltime, when the priests blew with the trum-dren of Israel.

pets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; 2 ¶ And Joshua sent men from Jericho for the LORD hath given you the city. to Ai, which is beside Beth-aven, on the 17 And the city shall be accursed, even east side of Beth-el, and spake unto them, it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: saying, Go up and view the country. And only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all the men went up and viewed Ai. that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

3 And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all the people go up; but 18 And ye, in any wise keep yourselves let about two or three thousand men go up from the accursed thing, lest ye make your- and smite Ai: and make not all the people selves accursed, when ye take of the accurs- to labour thither; for they are but few. ed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.

19 But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are consecrated unto

4 So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men: and they fled before the men of Ai.

5 And the men of Ai smote of them about

Joshua's complaint.

JOSHUA.

Achan taken by lot. thirty and six men: for they chased them son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe from before the gate even unto Shebarim, of Judah, was taken. and smote them in the going down: where- 19 And Joshua said unto Achan, My fore the hearts of the people melted, and be- son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done, hide it not from me.

came as water.

6¶ And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the LORD until the even-tide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.

7 And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!

20 And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done.

21 When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then 1 coveted them, and took them, and behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

8 O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies! 9 For the Canaanites, and all the inhabit- 22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ants of the land shall hear of it, and shall ran unto the tent, and behold, it was hid in environ us round, and cut off our name his tent, and the silver under it. from the earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?

101 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?

23 And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them out before the LORD.

24 ¶ And Joshua, and all Israel with him, 11 Israel hath sinned, and they have also took Achan the son of Zerah, and the siltransgressed my covenant which I com-ver, and the garment, and the wedge of manded them: for they have even taken gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep, and and dissembled also, and they have put it his tent, and all that he had: and they even among their own stuff. brought them unto the valley of Achor. 12 Therefore the children of Israel could 25 And Joshua said, Why hast thou not stand before their enemies, but turned troubled us? the LORD shall trouble thee their backs before their enemies, because this day. And all Israel stoned him with they were accursed: neither will I be with stones, and burned them with fire, after you any more, except ye destroy the ac- they had stoned them with stones. 26 And they raised over him a great

cursed from among you.

13 Up, sanctify the people, and say, heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD Sanctify yourselves against to-morrow: for turned from the fierceness of his anger: thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is wherefore the name of that place was called an accursed thing in the midst of thee, O the valley of Achor unto this day. Israel: thou canst not stand before thine

enemies, until ye take away the accursed A

thing from among you.

CHAP. VIII.

ND the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou dismayed: take 14 In the morning therefore ye shall be all the people of war with thee, and arise, brought according to your tribes: and it go up to Ai: see, I have given into thy shall be, that the tribe which the LORD hand the king of Ai, and his people, and taketh shall come according to the families his city, and his land:

thereof; and the family which the LORD 2 And thou shalt do to Ai and her king, shall take shall come by households; and as thou didst unto Jericho and her king the household which the LORD shall take only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereshall come man by man. of, shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves : 15 And it shall be, that he that is taken lay thee an ambush for the city behind it. with the accursed thing shall be burnt with 3 ¶ So Joshua arose, and all the people fire, he and all that he hath: because he hath of war, to go up against Ai: and Joshua transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and chose out thirty thousand mighty men of because he hath wrought folly in Israel. valour, and sent them away by night.

16 So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:

17 And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man and Zabdi was taken :

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 all 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 flee

18 And he brought his household man by man; and Achan the son of Carmi, the before them,

Ai taken by stratagem.

CHAP. VIII.

The king of Ai is hanged.

6 (For they will come out after us) till 21 And when Joshua and all Israel saw we have drawn them from the city; for that the ambush had taken the city, and they will say, They flee before us, as at the that the smoke of the city ascended, then first: therefore we will flee before them. 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.

7 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 commandment 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.

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 10 And Joshua rose up early in the were consumed, that all the Israelites remorning, and numbered the people, and turned unto Ai, and smote it with the edge went up, he and the elders of Israel, before of the sword. 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.

25 And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ái.

26 For Joshua drew not his hand back wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

12 And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in ambush between 27 Only the cattle and the spoil of that Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city. city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, 13 And when they had set the people, according unto the word of the LORD which even all the host that was on the north of he commanded Joshua.

the city, and their liers in wait on the west 28 And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an of the city, Joshua went that night into the heap for ever, even a desolation unto this midst of the valley. day.

14 And it came to pass when the king 29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up tree until even-tide: and as soon as the sun early, and the men of the city went out was down, Joshua commanded that they against Israel to battle, he and all his peo- should take his carcass down from the tree, ple, at a time appointed, before the plain: and cast it at the entering of the gate of the but he wist not that there were liers in am- city, and raise thereon a great heap of bush against him behind the city. stones, that remaineth unto this day.

15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if 30 Then Joshua built an altar unto the they were beaten before them, and fled by LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal, 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.

18 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city.

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 hath lifted up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt-offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace-offerings.

32 And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

33 And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the co19 And the ambush arose quickly out of venant of the LORD, as well the stranger, their place, and they ran as soon as he had as he that was born among them; half of stretched out his hand and they entered them over against mount Gerizim, and half into the city, and took it, and hasted, and of them over against mount Ebal; as Moset the city on fire. ses the servant of the LORD had command

20 And when the men of Ai looked be-ed before, that they should bless the people hind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of Israel.

of the city ascended up to heaven, and 34 And afterward he read all the words they had no power to flee this way or that of the law, the blessings and cursings, acway and the people that fled to the wil-cording to all that is written in the book of derness turned back upon the pursuers. the law.