Combination against Israel. JOSHUA. Five kings attack Gibeon. 35 There was not a word of all that Mo- live: and the princes of the congregation ses commanded, which Joshua read hot be- sware unto them. fore all the congregation of Israel, with the 16 And it came to pass at the end of Women, and the little ones, and the stran- three days after they had made a league gers that were conversant among them. with them, that they heard that they were their, neighbours, and that they dwelt CHAP. IX. AND it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the 17 And the children of Israel journeyed, hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts and came unto their cities on the third day. of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Now their cities were Gibeon, and ChephiHittite, and the Amorites, the Canaanite rah, and Beeroth, and Kirjath-jearim. the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite 18 And the children of Israel smote heard thereof; them not, because the princes of the con2 That they gathered themselves toge-gregation had sworn unto them by the ther, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, LORD God of Israel. And all the congrewith one accord. gation murmured against the princes. 3¶ And when the inhabitants of Gibeon 19 But all the princes said, unto all the heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho congregation, We have sworn unto them and to Ai, by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not touch them. 4 They did work wilily, and wen and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and winebottles, old, and rent, and bound up; 20 This we will do to them; we will even let them live, lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto 5 And old shoes and clouted upon their them. feet, and old garments upon them; and all 21 And the princes said unto them, Let the bread of their provision was dry and them live; but let them be hewers of wood, mouldy. and drawers of water unto all the con6 And they went to Joshua unto the gregation; as the princes ha promised camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to them. the men of Israel, We be come from a far 22 ¶ And Joshua called them, and he country: now therefore make ye a league spake unto them, saying Wherefore have with us. ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far 7 And the men of Israel said unto the from you; when ye dwell amor us? Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; 23 Now therefore ye are cursed, and. and how shall we make a league with you? there shall none of you be freed from being 8 And they said unto Joshua, We are thy bond-men, and hewers of word and draw servants. And Joshua said unto them, Who ers of water for the house of myod. are ye? and from whence come ye? 24 And they answered Joshing and said, 9 And they said unto him, From a very Because it was certainly told thy servants, far country thy servants are come, because how that the LORD thy commanded of the name of the LORD thy God: for we his servant Moses to give you all the land, have heard the fame of him, and all that he and to. destroy all the inhabitants of the did in Egypt, land from before you, therefore we were10 And all that he did to the two kings sore afraid of our lives because of you, and of the Amorites, that were beyond Jordan, have done this thing. to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king 25 And now, behold, we are in thine of Bashan, which was at Ashtaroth. hand: as it seemeth good and right unto 11 Wherefore our elders, and all the in- thee to do unto us, do. habitants of our country spake to us, say- 26 And so did he unto them, and deing, Take victuals with you for the jour-livered them out of the hand of the chilney, and go to meet them, and say unto dren of Israel, that they slew them not. them, We are your servants: therefore now 27 And Joshua made them that day make ye a league with us: hewers of wood and drawers of water for 12 This our bread we took hot for our the congregation, and for the altar of the provision out of our houses on the day we LORD, even unto this day, in the place came forth to go unto you; but now, be- which he should choose. hold, it is dry, and it is mouldy: Now 13 And these bottles of wine which we filled, were new, and behold they be rent: Came to pass, when Adonizedes king of Jerusalem had heard and these our garments and our shoes are ho Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly become old by reason of the very long de croyed it; as he had done to Jericho journ y. and her king, so he had done to Ai and 14 And the men took of their victuals, her king; and how the inhabitants of Giand asked not counsel at the mouth of the beon had made peace with Israel, and were LORD. among them; 15 And Joshua made peace with them, 2 That they feared greatly, because and made a league with them, to let them Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal Joshua rescues it. CHAP. X. The five kings hanged. cities, and because it was greater than Ai, five kings are found hid in a cave at Makand all the men thereof were mighty. kedah. 3 Wherefore Adoni-zedec king of Jeru- 18 And Joshua said, Roll great stones salem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, upon the mouth of the cave, and set men and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto by it for to keep them: Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying, 19 And stay you not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite the hindmost of 4 Come up unto me, and help me, that them; suffer them not to enter into their we may smite Gibeon for it hath made cities: for the LORD your God hath delipeace with Joshua and with the children vered them into your hand. of Israel. 20 And it came to pass, when Joshua. 5 Therefore the five kings of the Amo- and the children of Israel had made an rites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of end of slaying them with a very great Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of slaughter, till they were consumed, that the Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered them- rest which remained of them entered into selves together, and went up, they and all fenced cities. their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war against it. 6 And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us for all the kings of the Amorites that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us. 7 So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour. 8 And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand before thee. 21 And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at Makkedal in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of Israel. 22 Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave. 23 And they did so, and brought forth those five kings unto him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon. 24 And it came to pass, when they brought out those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the captains of the men of war 9 Joshua therefore came unto them sud- which went with him, Come near, put your denly, and went up from Gilgal all night. feet upon the necks of these kings. And 10 And the LORD discomfited them be- they came near, and put their feet upon fore Isra, and slew them with a great the necks of them. slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along 25 And Joshua said unto them, Fear the way that goeth up to Beth-horon, and not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah. courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all 11 And it came to pass as they fled from your enemies against whom ye fight. before Israel, and were in the going down 26 And afterward Joshua smote them, to Beth-horon, that the LORD cast down and slew them, and hanged them on five great stones from heaven upon them unto trees and they were hanging upon the Azekah, and they died: they were more trees until the evening. which died with hailstones than they whom 27 And it came to pass at the time of the children of Israel slew with the sword. the going down of the sun, that Joshua 12 Then spake Joshua to the LORD in commanded, and they took them down off the day when the LORD delivered up the the trees, and cast them into the cave Amorites before the children of Israel, and wherein they had been hid, and laid great he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand stones in the cave's mouth, which remain thou still upon Gibeon, and thou Moon, in until this very day. the valley of Ajalon. 28 And that day Joshua took Makke13 And the sun stood still, and the moon dah, and smote it with the edge of the stayed, until the people had avenged them- sword, and the king thereof he utterly deselves upon their enemies. Is not this stroyed, them, and all the souls that were written in the book of Jasher? So the sun therein; he let none remain: and he did stood still in the midst of heaven, and to the king of Makkedah as he did unto hasted not to go down about a whole day. the king of Jericho. 14 And there was no day like that be- 29 Then Joshua passed from Makkefore it or after it, that the LORD hearkened dah, and all Israel with him, unto Libnah, unto the voice of a man: for the LORD and fought against Libnah : fought for Israel. 15 And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal. 16 But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah. 17 And it was told Joshua, saying, The 30 And the LORD delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the hand of Israel: and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain in it; but did unto the king thereof as he did unto the king of Jericho. Bounds of the unconquered land. JOSHUA. Balaam is slain. inheritance unto the nine tribes, and the the cities of Gilead, and half the land of half-tribe of Manasseh, the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is 8 With whom the Reubenites and the before Rabbah; Gadites have received their inheritance, 26 And from Heshbon unto Ramathwhich Moses gave them, beyond Jordan mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim eastward, even as Moses the servant of the unto the border of Debir; LORD gave them; 27 And in the valley, Beth-aram, and 9 From Aroer that is upon the bank of Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the river Arnon, and the city that is in the the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of midst of the river, and all the plain of Me- Heshbon, Jordan and his border, even unto deba unto Dibon; the edge of the sea of Cinneroth, on the other side Jordan eastward. 10 And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon; 11 And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah; 28 This is the inheritance of the children of Gad after their families, the cities, and their villages. 29 ¶ And Moses gave inheritance unto the half-tribe of Manasseh: and this was the possession of the half-tribe of the chil12 All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, dren of Manasseh by their families. which reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei, 30 And their coast was from Mahanaim, who remained of the remnant of the giants. all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of For these did Moses smite, and cast them out. Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which 13 Nevertheless, the children of Israel are in Bashan, threescore cities: expelled not the Geshurites, nor the Maa- 31 And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and chathites: but the Geshurites and the Maa- Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bachathites dwell among the Israelites until shan, were pertaining unto the children of this day. Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families. 14 Only unto the tribe of Levi he gave none inheritance; the sacrifices of the LORD God of Israel made by fire are their inheritance, as he said unto them. 15 ¶ And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben inheritance according to their families. 32 These are the countries which Moses did distribute for inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward. 33 But unto the tribe of Levi Moses 16 And their coast was from Aroer that gave not any inheritance: the LORD God is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the of Israel was their inheritance, as he said city that is in the midst of the river, and all unto them. the plain by Medeba: CHAP. XIV. 17 Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and AND these are the countries which the Beth-baal-meon, 18 And Jahaza, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath, 19 And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zareth-shahar in the mount of the valley, 20 And Beth-peor, and Ashdoth-pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth, children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel distributed for inheritance unto them. 2 By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half-tribe. 21 And all the cities of the plain and all 3 For Moses had given the inheritance the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amo- of two tribes and an half-tribe on the other rites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave Moses smote with the princes of Midian, none inheritance among them. Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and 4 For the children of Joseph were two Reba, which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore in the country. they gave no part unto the Levites in the 22 Balaam also the son of Beor, the land, save cities to dwell in, with their subsoothsayer, did the children of Israel slay urbs for their cattle, and for their substance. with the sword, among them that were 5 As the LORD commanded Moses, so slain by them. the children of Israel did, and they divided the land. 23 Ånd the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border thereof. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben, after their families, the cities and the villages thereof. 24 ¶ And Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the children of Gad according to their families. 25 And their coast was Jazer, and all 6¶ Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadesh-barnea. 7 Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadesh Inheritance of the tribes. CHAP. XV. Borders of the lot of Judah. barnea to espy out the land; and I brought 7 And the border went up toward Debir him word again as it was in mine heart. from the valley of Achor, and so northward 8 Nevertheless, my brethren that went looking toward Gilgal, that is before the goup with me made the heart of the people ing up to Adummim, which is on the south melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God. side of the river: and the border passed to9 And Moses sware on that day, saying, ward the waters of En-shemesh, and the goSurely the land whereon thy feet have ings out thereof were at En-rogel : trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy 8 And the border went up by the valley children's for ever; because thou hast of the son of Hinnom, unto the south side wholly followed the LORD my God. of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: 10 And now, behold, the LORD hath and the border went up to the top of the kept me alive, as he said, these forty and mountain that lieth before the valley of five years, even since the LORD spake this Hinnom westward, which is at the end of word unto Moses, while the children of the valley of the giants northward: Israel wandered in the wilderness: and 9 And the border was drawn from the now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five top of the hill unto the fountain of the years old. water of Nephtoah, and went out to the 11 As yet I am as strong this day, as I cities of mount Ephron; and the border was in the day that Moses sent me as my was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjath-jeastrength was then, even so is my strength rim: now, for war, both to go out, and to come in. 10 And the border compassed from Baa12 Now therefore give me this mountain, lah westward unto mount Seir, and passed whereof the LORD spake in that day; for along unto the side of mount Jearim (which thou heardest in that day how the Anakims is Chesalon) on the north side, and went were there, and that the cities were great and down to Beth-shemesh, and passed on to fenced: if so be the LORD will be with me, Timnah: then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said. 13 And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance. 14 Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day; because that he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel. 15 And the name of Hebron before was Kirjath-arba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war. CHAP. XV. THIS then was the lot of the tribe of the children of Judah by their families; even to the border of Edom, the wilderness of Zin southward was the uttermost part of the south coast. 2 And their south border was from the shore of the salt-sea, from the bay that looketh southward: 3 And it went out to the south side to Maaleh-acrabbim, and passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto Kadesh-barnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and fetched a compass to Karkaa: 11 And the border went out unto the side of Ekron northward: and the border was drawn to Shicron, and passed along to mount Baalah, and went out unto Jabneel; and the goings out of the border were at the sea. 12 And the west border was to the great sea, and the coast thereof: this is the coast of the children of Judah round about, according to their families. 13 And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a part among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of the LORD to Joshua, even the city of Arba the father of Anak, which city is Hebron. 14 And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak. 15 And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjath-sepher. 16 And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjath-sepher, and taketh it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife. 17 And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife. 18 And it came to pass, as she came 4 From thence it passed toward Azmon, unto him, that she moved him to ask of her and went out unto the river of Egypt; and father a field. And she lighted off her ass; the goings out of that coast were at the and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest sea: this shall be your south coast. thou? 5 And the east border was the salt-sea, 19 Who answered, Give me a blessing; even unto the end of Jordan and their for thou hast given me a south land, give border in the north quarter was from the me also springs of water. And he gave her bay of the sea, at the uttermost part of the upper springs, and the nether springs. Jordan: 20 This is the inheritance of the tribe of 6 And the border went up to Beth-hogla, the children of Judah according to their faand passed along by the north of Beth-ara-milies. bah; and the border went up to the stone 21 And the uttermost cities of the tribe of Bohan the son of Reuben: of the children of Judah toward the coast The land divided by lot. JOSHUA. The lot of Simeon, Zebulun, parts in a book, and came again to Joshua and Gaba; twelve cities with their vil to the host at Shiloh. lages: 10 And Joshua cast lots for them in 25 Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth, Shiloh before the LORD: and there Joshua 26 And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and divided the land unto the children of Israel Mozah, according to their divisions. 27 And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah, 11 ¶ And the lot of the tribe of the chil- 28 And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, (which dren of Benjamin came up according to is Jerusalem,) Gibeath, and Kirjath; fourtheir families and the coast of their lot teen cities with their villages. This is the came forth between the children of Judah inheritance of the children of Benjamin acand the children of Joseph. cording to their families. A CHAP. XIX. 12 And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the border went up ND the second lot came forth to Sito the side of Jericho on the north side, and meon, even for the tribe of the chilwent up through the mountains westward; dren of Simeon according to their families: and the goings out thereof were at the wil- and their inheritance was within the inderness of Beth-aven. heritance of the children of Judah. 13 And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, (which is Beth-el,) southward; and the border descended to Ataroth-adar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Bethhoron. 2 And they had in their inheritance, Beer-sheba, and Sheba, and Moladah, 3 And Hazar-shual, and Balah, and Azem, 4 And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah, 5 And Ziklag, and Beth-marcaboth, and 14 And the border was drawn thence, Hazar-susah, and compassed the corner of the sea south- 6 And Beth-lebaoth, and Sharuhen; ward, from the hill that lieth before Beth-thirteen cities and their villages : horon southward; and the goings out there- 7 Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; of were at Kirjath-baal, (which is Kirjath- four cities and their villages: jearim,) a city of the children of Judah. 8 And all the villages that were round This was the west quarter. about these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramath 15 And the south quarter was from the of the south. This is the inheritance of end of Kirjath-jearim, and the border went the tribe of the children of Simeon accordout on the west, and went out to the well ing to their families. of waters of Nephtoah: 9 Out of the portion of the children of 16 And the border came down to the Judah was the inheritance of the children end of the mountain that lieth before the of Simeon: for the part of the children of valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is Judah was too much for them: therefore in the valley of the giants on the north, and the children of Simeon had their inheritdescended to the valley of Hinnom, to the ance within the inheritance of them. side of Jebusi on the south, and descended 10 And the third lot came up for the to En-rogel, children of Zebulun according to their fa 17 And was drawn from the north, and milies: and the border of their inheritance went forth to En-shemesh, and went forth was unto Sarid: toward Geliloth, which is over against the 11 And their border went up toward going up of Adummim, and descended to the sea, and Maralah, and reached to Dabthe stone of Bohan the son of Reuben, basheth, and reached to the river that is 18 And passed along toward the side before Jokneam, over against Arabah northward, and went 12 And turned from Sarid eastward, todown unto Arabah: ward the sun-rising, unto the border_of 19 And the border passed along to the Chisloth-tabor, and then goeth out to Daside of Beth-hoglah northward: and the berath, and goeth up to Japhia, out-goings of the border were at the north bay of the salt-sea at the south end of Jordan. This was the south coast. 13 Ánd from thence passeth on along on the east to Gittah-hepher, to Ittah-kazin, and goeth out to Remmon-methoar to Neah; 20 And Jordan was the border of it on 14 And the border compasseth it on the the east side. This was the inheritance of north side to Hannathon: and the outthe children of Benjamin, by the coasts goings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthereof round about, according to their fa- thah-el: milies. 15 And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shim21 Now the cities of the tribe of the ron, and Idalah, and Beth-lehem; twelve children of Benjamin according to their cities with their villages. families, were Jericho, and Beth-hoglah, 16 This is the inheritance of the chiland the valley of Keziz, dren of Zebulun according to their families, these cities with their villages. 22 And Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el, 17 And the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of Issachar accord 23 And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah, |