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1 ¶ Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD
it came to pass, that the LORD spake
unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses' minister, saying,
2
Moses my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over
this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them,
even to the children of Israel.
3
Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon,
that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
4 From the wilderness and this
Lebanon even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the
Hittites, and unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be
your coast.
5
There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all
the days of thy life: as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee: I will not
fail thee, nor forsake thee.
6 Be strong and of a good
courage: for unto this people shalt thou divide for an inheritance the land,
which I sware unto their fathers to give them.
7
Only be thou strong and very courageous, that thou mayest
observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee:
turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest prosper
whithersoever thou goest.
8 This book of the law shall not
depart out of thy mouth; but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that
thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein: for then
thou shalt make thy way prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
9
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good
courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the
LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
10 ¶ Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people,
saying,
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Pass through the host, and command the people, saying, Prepare you victuals; for within
three days ye shall pass over this Jordan, to go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it.
12
And to the Reubenites, and to
the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, spake
Joshua, saying,
13
Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD
commanded you, saying, The LORD your God hath given you rest, and hath given
you this land.
14 Your wives, your little ones,
and your cattle, shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side
Jordan; but ye shall pass before your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and help them;
15
Until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as he hath
given you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth
them: then ye shall return unto the land of your possession,
and enjoy it, which Moses the LORD'S servant gave you on this side Jordan
toward the sunrising.
16 ¶ And they answered Joshua, saying, All
that thou commandest us we will do, and whithersoever
thou sendest us, we will go.
17
According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so
will we hearken unto thee: only the LORD thy God be with
thee, as he was with Moses.
18
Whosoever he be that doth rebel against thy commandment,
and will not hearken unto thy words in all that thou commandest
him, he shall be put to death: only be strong and of a good courage.
1 ¶ And Joshua the son of Nun sent out
of Shittim two men to spy secretly, saying, Go view
the land, even Jericho. And they went, and came into an
harlot's house, named Rahab, and lodged there.
2
And it was told the king of Jericho, saying, Behold, there
came men in hither to night of the children of Israel to search out the
country.
3 And the king of Jericho sent
unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that are come
to thee, which are entered into thine house: for they be come to search out all
the country.
4
And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said
thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:
5 And it came to pass about the
time of shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out: whither
the men went I wot not: pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.
6
But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and
hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.
7 And the men pursued after them
the way to Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them
were gone out, they shut the gate.
8 ¶ And before they were laid down, she came up unto them
upon the roof;
9
And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given
you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the
inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
10
For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red sea for you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did
unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Jordan, Sihon
and Og, whom ye utterly destroyed.
11
And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did
melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man,
because of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth
beneath.
12
Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD,
since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also
shew kindness unto my father's house, and give me a true token:
13 And that ye will save alive my
father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have,
and deliver our lives from death.
14
And the men answered her, Our
life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the
LORD hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.
15 Then she let them down by a
cord through the window: for her house was upon the town wall, and she dwelt
upon the wall.
16
And she said unto them, Get you
to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three
days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.
17 And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this thine oath which thou hast made
us swear.
18
Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this
line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by: and thou
shalt bring thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's
household, home unto thee.
19 And it shall be, that whosoever
shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon
his head, and we will be guiltless: and whosoever shall be with thee in the
house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon him.
20
And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit
of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.
21
And she said, According unto your
words, so be it. And she sent them away, and they departed: and she bound the
scarlet line in the window.
22 ¶ And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode
there three days, until the pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought
them throughout all the way, but found them not.
23
So the two men returned, and descended from the mountain,
and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun, and told him all things
that befell them:
24
And they said unto Joshua, Truly the LORD hath delivered
into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do
faint because of us.
1 ¶ And Joshua rose early in the morning; and they
removed from Shittim, and came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel,
and lodged there before they passed over.
2
And it came to pass after three days, that the officers
went through the host;
3 And they commanded the people,
saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the
LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove
from your place, and go after it.
4
Yet there shall be a space between you and it, about two
thousand cubits by measure: 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.
6
And Joshua spake unto the
priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and
pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and 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.
8
And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of
the covenant, saying, When ye are
come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ye shall stand still in Jordan.
9
And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God.
10
And Joshua said, Hereby ye shall
know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out
from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the
Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and
the Amorites, and the Jebusites.
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.
13
And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the
feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth,
shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan shall be cut off
from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap.
14 ¶ And it came to pass, when the
people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing
the ark of the covenant before the people;
15
And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and
the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water,
(for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of
harvest,)
16 That the waters which came down
from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far
from the city Adam, that is beside 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.
17
And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the
LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and
all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed
clean over Jordan.
1 ¶ And it came to pass, when all the people 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,
3
And command ye them, saying, Take
you hence out of the midst of Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet
stood firm, twelve stones, and ye shall carry them over with you, and leave
them in the lodging place, where ye shall lodge this 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 the midst of Jordan, and take ye
up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the
tribes of the children of Israel:
6
That this may be a sign among you, that when your children
ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones?
7
Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were
cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan,
the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial
unto the children of Israel for ever.
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 the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
9
And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in
the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark
of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.
10 ¶ For the priests which bare the ark stood in the
midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that
the LORD commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses
commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over.
11
And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed
over, that the ark of the LORD passed over, and the priests, in the presence of
the people.
12
And the children of Reuben, and the 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 war passed over before
the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
14
On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all
Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
15 And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,
16
Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony,
that they come up out of Jordan.
17
Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up
out of Jordan.
18
And it came to pass, when the priests that bare the ark of
the covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of
Jordan, and the soles of the priests' feet were lifted up unto the dry land,
that the waters of Jordan returned unto their place, and flowed over all his
banks, as they did before.
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 of Jericho.
20 ¶ And those twelve stones, which
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.
23
For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from
before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red sea, which he dried up from 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.
1 ¶ And it came to pass, when all the kings of the
Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the
Canaanites, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters
of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were
passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of 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.
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, after they came out of Egypt.
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 not circumcised.
6 For the children
of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people that were
men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they obeyed not the
voice of the LORD: unto whom the LORD sware that he
would not shew them the land, which the LORD sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that
floweth with milk and honey.
7
And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them
Joshua circumcised: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not
circumcised them by the way.
8
And it came to pass, when they had done circumcising all
the people, that they abode in their places in the camp,
till they were whole.
9
And the LORD said unto Joshua, This
day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. Wherefore the name
of the place is called Gilgal unto this day.
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 selfsame day.
12
And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of
the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of
Canaan that year.
13 ¶ And it came to pass, when Joshua
was 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 adversaries?
14
And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the LORD
am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth,
and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?
15
And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou
standest is holy. And Joshua did so.
1 ¶ Now Jericho was straitly shut up
because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.
2
And the LORD said unto Joshua, See, I 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 seven priests shall bear before 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
And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long
blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of
the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the
city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight
before him.
6 ¶ And Joshua the son of Nun called the priests, and
said unto them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and
let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the
ark of the LORD.
7
And he said unto the people, Pass
on, and compass the city, and let him that is armed pass on before the ark of
the LORD.
8
And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the
people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns passed
on before the LORD, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark
of the covenant of the LORD followed them.
9
And the armed men went before the priests that blew with
the trumpets, and the rereward 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.
12
And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took
up the ark of the LORD.
13 And seven priests bearing seven
trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on continually, and
blew with the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; but the rereward
came after the ark of the LORD, the priests going on, and blowing with the
trumpets.
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 dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same
manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.
16
And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests
blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout;
for the LORD hath given you the city.
17 ¶ And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all
that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all
that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
18
And ye, in any wise keep
yourselves from the accursed thing, lest ye make yourselves
accursed, when ye take of the accursed 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 the LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the
LORD.
20
So the people shouted when the priests blew with the
trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the
sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall
fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight
before him, and they took the city.
21
And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both
man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the
sword.
22 But Joshua had said unto the
two men that had spied out the country, Go into the
harlot's house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.
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 that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel
even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy
out Jericho.
26
And Joshua adjured them at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the LORD, that riseth
up and buildeth this city Jericho: he shall lay the
foundation thereof in his firstborn, and in his youngest son shall he set up
the gates of it.
27 So the LORD was with Joshua;
and his fame was noised throughout all the country.