Yehoshua
1:1Now
it happened after the death of Moshe the servant of the LORD, that the LORD
spoke to Yehoshua the son of Nun, Moshe#s minister, saying,
1:2Moshe
my servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Yarden, you, and all
this people, to the land which I do give to them, even to the children of
Yisra'el. 1:3Every
place that the sole of your foot shall tread on, to you have I given it, as
I spoke to Moshe.
1:4From the wilderness, and this
Levanon, even to the great river, the river Perat, all the land of the
Chitti, and to the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your
border. 1:5There
shall not any man be able to stand before you all the days of your life. As
I was with Moshe, so I will be with you; I will not fail you, nor forsake
you. 1:6Be
strong and of good courage; for you shall cause this people to inherit the
land which I swore to their fathers to give them.
1:7Only
be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law,
which Moshe my servant commanded you: don't turn from it to the right hand
or to the left, that you may have good success wherever you go.
1:8This
book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth, but you shall meditate
thereon day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is
written therein: for then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you
shall have good success.
1:9Haven't
I commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; don't be afraid, neither be
dismayed: for the LORD your G-d is with you wherever you go.
1:10Then
Yehoshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,
1:11Pass
through the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying, Prepare food;
for within three days you are to pass over this Yarden, to go in to possess
the land, which the LORD your G-d gives you to possess it.
1:12To
the Re'uveni, and to the Gadi, and to the half-tribe of Menashsheh, spoke
Yehoshua, saying,
1:13Remember the word which Moshe the
servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, the LORD your G-d gives you rest,
and will give you this land.
1:14Your
wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall abide in the land which
Moshe gave you beyond the Yarden; but you shall pass over before your
brothers armed, all the mighty men of valor, and shall help them;
1:15until
the LORD have given your brothers rest, as he has given you, and they
also have possessed the land which the LORD your G-d gives them: then you
shall return to the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moshe the
servant of the LORD gave you beyond the Yarden toward the sunrise.
1:16They
answered Yehoshua, saying, All that you have commanded us we will do, and
wherever you send us we will go.
1:17According
as we listened to Moshe in all things, so will we listen to you: only the
LORD your G-d be with you, as he was with Moshe.
1:18Whoever
he be who shall rebel against your mitzvah, and shall not
listen to your words in all that you command him, he shall be put to death:
only be strong and of good courage.
2:1Yehoshua
the son of Nun sent out of Shittim two men as spies secretly, saying, Go,
view the land, and Yericho. They went and came into the house of a
prostitute whose name was Rachav, and lay there.
2:2It
was told the king of Yericho, saying, Behold, there came men in here tonight
of the children of Yisra'el to search out the land.
2:3The
king of Yericho sent to Rachav, saying, Bring forth the men who are come to
you, who have entered into your house; for they have come to search out all
the land. 2:4The
woman took the two men, and hid them; and she said, Yes, the men came to me,
but I didn't know whence they were:
2:5and
it happened about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark,
that the men went out; where the men went I don't know: pursue after them
quickly; for you will overtake them.
2:6But
she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax,
which she had laid in order on the roof.
2:7The
men pursued after them the way to the Yarden to the fords: and as soon as
those who pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.
2:8Before
they were laid down, she came up to them on the roof;
2:9and
she said to the men, I know that the LORD has given you the land, and that
the fear of you is fallen on us, and that all the inhabitants of the land
melt away before you.
2:10For
we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Sea of Suf before you,
when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amori,
who were beyond the Yarden, to Sichon and to `Og, whom you utterly
destroyed. 2:11As
soon as we had heard it, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any
more spirit in any man, because of you: for the LORD your G-d, he is G-d in
heaven above, and on earth beneath.
2:12Now
therefore, please swear to me by the LORD, since I have dealt kindly with
you, that you also will deal kindly with my father's house, and give me a
true token; 2:13and
that you will save alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my
sisters, and all that they have, and will deliver our lives from death.
2:14The
men said to her, Our life for yours, if you don't utter this our business;
and it shall be, when the LORD gives us the land, that we will deal kindly
and truly with you.
2:15Then she let them down by a cord
through the window: for her house was on the side of the wall, and she lived
on the wall.
2:16She said to them, Get you to the
mountain, lest the pursuers light on you; and hide yourselves there three
days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may you go your way.
2:17The
men said to her, We will be guiltless of this your oath which you have made
us to swear.
2:18Behold, when we come into the land, you
shall bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which you did let us
down by: and you shall gather to you into the house your father, and your
mother, and your brothers, and all your father's household.
2:19It
shall be, that whoever shall go out of the doors of your house into the
street, his blood shall be on his head, and we shall be guiltless: and
whoever shall be with you in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if
any hand be on him.
2:20But if you utter this our business,
then we shall be guiltless of your oath which you have made us to swear.
2:21She
said, According to your words, so be it. She sent them away, and they
departed: and she bound the scarlet line in the window.
2:22They
went, and came to the mountain, and abode there three days, until the
pursuers were returned: and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way,
but didn't find them.
2:23Then
the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and
came to Yehoshua the son of Nun; and they told him all that had happened to
them. 2:24They
said to Yehoshua, Truly the LORD has delivered into our hands all the land;
and moreover all the inhabitants of the land do melt away before us.
3:1Yehoshua
rose up early in the morning; and they removed from Shittim, and came to the
Yarden, he and all the children of Yisra'el; and they lodged there before
they passed over.
3:2It happened after three days, that
the officers went through the midst of the camp;
3:3and
they commanded the people, saying, When you see the ark of the covenant of
the LORD your G-d, and the kohanim the Levites bearing it,
then you shall remove from your place, and go after it.
3:4Yet
there shall be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by
measure: don't come near to it, that you may know the way by which you must
go; for you have not passed this way heretofore.
3:5Yehoshua
said to the people, Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow the LORD will do
wonders among you.
3:6Yehoshua spoke to the
kohanim, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before
the people. They took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the
people. 3:7The
LORD said to Yehoshua, This day will I begin to magnify you in the sight of
all Yisra'el, that they may know that, as I was with Moshe, so I will be
with you. 3:8You
shall command the kohanim who bear the ark of the
covenant, saying, When you are come to the brink of the waters of the Yarden,
you shall stand still in the Yarden.
3:9Yehoshua
said to the children of Yisra'el, Come here, and hear the words of the LORD
your G-d. 3:10Yehoshua
said, Hereby you shall know that the living G-d is among you, and that he
will without fail drive out from before you the Kana`ani, and the Chittite,
and the Chivvi, and the Perizzi, and the Girgashi, and the Amori, and the
Yevusi. 3:11Behold,
the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passes over before you
into the Yarden.
3:12Now therefore take twelve men out
of the tribes of Yisra'el, for every tribe a man.
3:13It
shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the kohanim
who bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the
waters of the Yarden, that the waters of the Yarden shall be cut off, even
the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap.
3:14It
happened, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over the Yarden,
the kohanim who bore the ark of the covenant being before
the people; 3:15and
when those who bore the ark were come to the Yarden, and the feet of the
kohanim who bore the ark were dipped in the brink of the
water (for the Yarden overflows all its banks all the time of harvest),
3:16that
the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a
great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Tzaretan; and those that
went down toward the sea of the `Aravah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut
off: and the people passed over right against Yericho.
3:17The
kohanim who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood
firm on dry ground in the midst of the Yarden; and all Yisra'el passed over
on dry ground, until all the nation were passed clean over the Yarden.
4:1It
happened, when all the nation were clean passed over the Yarden, that the
LORD spoke to Yehoshua, saying,
4:2Take
twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,
4:3and
command you them, saying, Take hence out of the midst of the Yarden, out of
the place where the kohanim' feet stood firm, twelve
stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the
lodging-place, where you shall lodge this night.
4:4Then
Yehoshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of
Yisra'el, out of every tribe a man:
4:5and
Yehoshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your G-d into
the midst of the Yarden, and take up every man of you a stone on his
shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Yisra'el;
4:6that
this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in time to come,
saying, What do you mean by these stones?
4:7then
you shall tell them, Because the waters of the Yarden were cut off before
the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over the Yarden, the
waters of the Yarden were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial
to the children of Yisra'el forever.
4:8The
children of Yisra'el did so as Yehoshua commanded, and took up twelve stones
out of the midst of the Yarden, as the LORD spoke to Yehoshua, according to
the number of the tribes of the children of Yisra'el; and they carried them
over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.
4:9Yehoshua
set up twelve stones in the midst of the Yarden, in the place where the feet
of the kohanim who bore the ark of the covenant stood:
and they are there to this day.
4:10For
the kohanim who bore the ark stood in the midst of the
Yarden, until everything was finished that the LORD commanded Yehoshua to
speak to the people, according to all that Moshe commanded Yehoshua: and the
people hurried and passed over.
4:11It
happened, when all the people had completely passed over, that the ark of
the LORD passed over, with the kohanim, in the presence
of the people.
4:12The children of Re'uven, and the
children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Menashsheh, passed over armed before
the children of Yisra'el, as Moshe spoke to them:
4:13about
forty thousand ready armed for war passed over before the LORD to battle, to
the plains of Yericho.
4:14On
that day the LORD magnified Yehoshua in the sight of all Yisra'el; and they
feared him, as they feared Moshe, all the days of his life.
4:15The
LORD spoke to Yehoshua, saying,
4:16Command
the kohanim who bear the ark of the testimony, that they
come up out of the Yarden.
4:17Yehoshua
therefore commanded the kohanim, saying, Come up out of
the Yarden. 4:18It
happened, when the kohanim who bore the ark of the
covenant of the LORD were come up out of the midst of the Yarden, and the
soles of the kohanim' feet were lifted up to the dry
ground, that the waters of the Yarden returned to their place, and went over
all its banks, as before.
4:19The
people came up out of the Yarden on the tenth day of the first month, and
encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Yericho.
4:20Those
twelve stones, which they took out of the Yarden, did Yehoshua set up in
Gilgal. 4:21He
spoke to the children of Yisra'el, saying, When your children shall ask
their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean these stones?
4:22Then
you shall let your children know, saying, Yisra'el came over this Yarden on
dry land. 4:23For
the LORD your G-d dried up the waters of the Yarden from before you, until
you were passed over, as the LORD your G-d did to the Sea of Suf, which he
dried up from before us, until we were passed over;
4:24that
all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of the LORD, that it is
mighty; that you may fear the LORD your G-d forever.
5:1It
happened, when all the kings of the Amori, who were beyond the Yarden
westward, and all the kings of the Kana`anim, who were by the sea, heard how
that the LORD had dried up the waters of the Yarden from before the children
of Yisra'el, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was
there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Yisra'el.
5:2At
that time the LORD said to Yehoshua, Make you flint knives, and circumcise
again the children of Yisra'el the second time.
5:3Yehoshua
made himself flint knives, and circumcised the children of Yisra'el at the
hill of `Aralot.
5:4This
is the cause why Yehoshua did circumcise: all the people who came forth out
of Egypt, who were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by
the way, after they came forth out of Egypt.
5:5For
all the people who came out were circumcised; but all the people who were
born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, they had
not circumcised.
5:6For the children of Yisra'el walked forty
years in the wilderness, until all the nation, even the men of war who came
forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they didn't listen to the voice
of the LORD: to whom the LORD swore that he wouldn't let them see the land
which the LORD swore to their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing
with milk and honey.
5:7Their children, whom he raised up in
their place, them did Yehoshua circumcise: for they were uncircumcised,
because they had not circumcised them by the way.
5:8It
happened, when they had done circumcising all the nation, that they abode in
their places in the camp, until they were whole.
5:9The
LORD said to Yehoshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt
from off you. Therefore the name of that place was called Gilgal, to this
day. 5:10The
children of Yisra'el encamped in Gilgal; and they kept the Pesach on the
fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Yericho.
5:11They
ate of the produce of the land on the next day after the Pesach, unleavened
cakes and parched grain, in the same day.
5:12The
manna ceased on the next day, after they had eaten of the produce of the
land; neither had the children of Yisra'el manna any more; but they ate of
the fruit of the land of Kana`an that year.
5:13It
happened, when Yehoshua was by Yericho, 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 Yehoshua went to him, and said to him, Are you for us, or
for our adversaries?
5:14He said, No; but as prince
of the host of the LORD am I now come. Yehoshua fell on his face to the
earth, and did worship, and said to him, What says my lord to his servant?
5:15The
prince of the LORD's host said to Yehoshua, Put off your shoe from off your
foot; for the place whereon you stand is holy. Yehoshua did so.
6:1Now
Yericho was tightly shut up because of the children of Yisra'el: none went
out, and none came in.
6:2The
LORD said to Yehoshua, Behold, I have given into your hand Yericho, and the
king of it, and the mighty men of valor.
6:3You
shall compass the city, all the men of war, going about the city once. Thus
shall you do six days.
6:4Seven
kohanim shall bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before
the ark: and the seventh day you shall compass the city seven times, and the
kohanim shall blow the trumpets.
6:5It
shall be that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when you
hear the sound of the shofar, all the people shall shout
with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the
people shall go up every man straight before him.
6:6Yehoshua
the son of Nun called the kohanim, and said to them, Take
up the ark of the covenant, and let seven kohanim bear
seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD.
6:7They
said to the people, Pass on, and compass the city, and let the armed men
pass on before the ark of the LORD.
6:8It
was so, that when Yehoshua had spoken to the people, the seven
kohanim bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before
the LORD passed on, and blew the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of
the LORD followed them.
6:9The
armed men went before the kohanim who blew the trumpets,
and the rearward went after the ark, the kohanim
blowing the trumpets as they went.
6:10Yehoshua
commanded the people, saying, You shall not shout, nor let your voice be
heard, neither shall any word proceed out of your mouth, until the day I bid
you shout; then shall you shout.
6:11So
he caused the ark of the LORD to compass the city, going about it once: and
they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.
6:12Yehoshua
rose early in the morning, and the kohanim took up the
ark of the LORD.
6:13The seven kohanim
bearing the seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD went on
continually, and blew the trumpets: and the armed men went before them; and
the rearward came after the ark of the LORD, the kohanim
blowing the trumpets as they went.
6:14The
second day they compassed the city once, and returned into the camp: so they
did six days.
6:15It happened on the seventh day, that
they rose early at the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the
same manner seven times: only on the day they compassed the city seven
times. 6:16It
happened at the seventh time, when the kohanim blew the
trumpets, Yehoshua said to the people, Shout; for the LORD has given you the
city. 6:17The
city shall be devoted, even it and all that is therein, to the LORD: only
Rachav the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house,
because she hid the messengers that we sent.
6:18But
as for you, only keep yourselves from the devoted thing, lest when you have
devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so would you make the camp of
Yisra'el accursed, and trouble it.
6:19But
all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are holy to the
LORD: they shall come into the treasury of the LORD.
6:20So
the people shouted, and the kohanim blew the
trumpets; and it happened, when the people heard the sound of the
shofar, that the people shouted with a great shout, and
the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man
straight before him, and they took the city.
6:21They
utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young
and old, and ox, and sheep, and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
6:22Yehoshua
said to the two men who had spied out the land, Go into the prostitute's
house, and bring out there the woman, and all that she has, as you swore to
her. 6:23The
young men the spies went in, and brought out Rachav, and her father, and her
mother, and her brothers, and all that she had; all her relatives also they
brought out; and they set them outside of the camp of Yisra'el.
6:24They
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.
6:25But
Rachav the prostitute, and her father's household, and all that she had, did
Yehoshua save alive; and she lived in the midst of Yisra'el to this day,
because she hid the messengers, whom Yehoshua sent to spy out Yericho.
6:26Yehoshua
charged them with an oath at that time, saying, Cursed be the man before the
LORD, that rises up and builds this city Yericho: with the loss of his
firstborn shall he lay the foundation of it, and with the loss of his
youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.
6:27So
the LORD was with Yehoshua; and his fame was in all the land.
7:1But
the children of Yisra'el committed a trespass in the devoted thing; for `Akhan,
the son of Karmi, the son of Zavdi, the son of Zerach, of the tribe of
Yehudah, took of the devoted thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled
against the children of Yisra'el.
7:2Yehoshua
sent men from Yericho to `Ai, which is beside Beit-Aven, on the east side of
Beit-El, and spoke to them, saying, Go up and spy out the land. The men went
up and spied out `Ai.
7:3They returned to Yehoshua, and said
to him, Don't let all the people go up; but let about two or three thousand
men go up and strike `Ai; don't make all the people to toil there; for they
are but few. 7:4So
there went up there of the people about three thousand men: and they fled
before the men of `Ai.
7:5The
men of `Ai struck of them about thirty-six men; and they chased them from
before the gate even to Shevarim, and struck them at the descent; and the
hearts of the people melted, and became as water.
7:6Yehoshua
tore his clothes, and fell to the dirt on his face before the ark of the
LORD until the evening, he and the elders of Yisra'el; and they put dust on
their heads. 7:7Yehoshua
said, Alas, Lord G-d, why have you at all brought this people over the
Yarden, to deliver us into the hand of the Amori, to cause us to perish?
would that we had been content and lived beyond the Yarden!
7:8Oh,
Lord, what shall I say, after that Yisra'el has turned their backs before
their enemies!
7:9For the Kana`anim and all the inhabitants
of the land will hear of it, and will compass us round, and cut off our name
from the earth: and what will you do for your great name?
7:10The
LORD said to Yehoshua, Get you up; why are you thus fallen on your face?
7:11Yisra'el
has sinned; yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded
them: yes, they have even taken of the devoted thing, and have also stolen,
and dissembled also; and they have even put it among their own stuff.
7:12Therefore
the children of Yisra'el can't stand before their enemies; they turn their
backs before their enemies, because they are become accursed: I will not be
with you any more, except you destroy the devoted thing from among you.
7:13Up,
sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow: for thus
says the LORD, the G-d of Yisra'el, There is a devoted thing in the midst of
you, Yisra'el; you can not stand before your enemies, until you take away
the devoted thing from among you.
7:14In
the morning therefore you shall be brought near by your tribes: and it shall
be, that the tribe which the LORD takes shall come near by families; and the
family which the LORD shall take shall come near by households; and the
household which the LORD shall take shall come near man by man.
7:15It
shall be, that he who is taken with the devoted thing shall be burnt with
fire, he and all that he has; because he has transgressed the covenant of
the LORD, and because he has done folly in Yisra'el.
7:16So
Yehoshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Yisra'el near by their
tribes; and the tribe of Yehudah was taken:
7:17and
he brought near the family of Yehudah; and he took the family of the Zarchi:
and he brought near the family of the Zarchi man by man; and Zavdi was
taken: 7:18and
he brought near his household man by man; and `Akhan, the son of Karmi, the
son of Zavdi, the son of Zerach, of the tribe of Yehudah, was taken.
7:19Yehoshua
said to `Akhan, My son, please give glory to the LORD, the G-d of Yisra'el,
and make confession to him; and tell me now what you have done; don't hide
it from me. 7:20`Akhan
answered Yehoshua, and said, Of a truth I have sinned against the LORD, the
G-d of Yisra'el, and thus and thus have I done:
7:21when
I saw among the spoil a goodly mantle of Shin`ar, and two hundred shekels of
silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them,
and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my
tent, and the silver under it.
7:22So
Yehoshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent; and, behold, it was hid
in his tent, and the silver under it.
7:23They
took them from the midst of the tent, and brought them to Yehoshua, and to
all the children of Yisra'el; and they laid them down before the LORD.
7:24Yehoshua,
and all Yisra'el with him, took `Akhan the son of Zerach, and the silver,
and the mantle, and the wedge of gold, and his sons, and his daughters, and
his oxen, and his donkeys, and his sheep, and his tent, and all that he had:
and they brought them up to the valley of `Akhor.
7:25Yehoshua
said, Why have you troubled us? the LORD shall trouble you this day. All
Yisra'el stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire, and stoned
them with stones.
7:26They raised over him a great heap
of stones, to this day; and the LORD turned from the fierceness of his
anger. Therefore the name of that place was called "The valley of `Akhor" to
this day.
8:1The
LORD said to Yehoshua, Don't be afraid, neither be dismayed: take all the
people of war with you, and arise, go up to `Ai; behold, I have given into
your hand the king of `Ai, and his people, and his city, and his land;
8:2You
shall do to `Ai and her king as you did to Yericho and her king: only the
spoil of it, and the cattle of it, shall you take for a prey to yourselves:
set you an ambush for the city behind it.
8:3So
Yehoshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up to `Ai: and Yehoshua
chose out thirty thousand men, the mighty men of valor, and sent them forth
by night. 8:4He
commanded them, saying, Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city,
behind the city; don't go very far from the city, but be all ready:
8:5and
I, and all the people who are with me, will approach to the city. It shall
happen, when they come out against us, as at the first, that we will flee
before them; 8:6and
they will come out after us, until we have drawn them away from the city;
for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first: so we will flee
before them; 8:7and
you shall rise up from the ambush, and take possession of the city: for the
LORD your G-d will deliver it into your hand.
8:8It
shall be, when you have seized on the city, that you shall set the city on
fire; according to the word of the LORD shall you do: behold, I have
commanded you.
8:9Yehoshua sent them forth; and they went
to set up the ambush, and stayed between Beit-El and `Ai, on the west side
of `Ai: but Yehoshua lodged that night among the people.
8:10Yehoshua
arose up early in the morning, and mustered the people, and went up, he and
the elders of Yisra'el, before the people to `Ai.
8:11All
the people, even the men of war who were with him, went up,
and drew near, and came before the city, and encamped on the north side of
`Ai: now there was a valley between him and `Ai.
8:12He
took about five thousand men, and set them in ambush between Beit-El and
`Ai, on the west side of the city.
8:13So
they set the people, even all the host who was on the north of the city, and
their liers-in-wait who were on the west of the city; and Yehoshua went that
night into the midst of the valley.
8:14It
happened, when the king of `Ai saw it, that they hurried and rose up early,
and the men of the city went out against Yisra'el to battle, he and all his
people, at the time appointed, before the `Aravah; but he didn't know that
there was an ambush against him behind the city.
8:15Yehoshua
and all Yisra'el made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the
way of the wilderness.
8:16All
the people who were in the city were called together to pursue after them:
and they pursued after Yehoshua, and were drawn away from the city.
8:17There
was not a man left in `Ai or Beit-El, who didn't go out after Yisra'el: and
they left the city open, and pursued after Yisra'el.
8:18The
LORD said to Yehoshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in your hand toward
`Ai; for I will give it into your hand. Yehoshua stretched out the javelin
that was in his hand toward the city.
8:19The
ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had
stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it; and they
hurried and set the city on fire.
8:20When
the men of `Ai looked behind them, they saw, and, behold, the smoke of the
city ascended up to heaven, and they had no power to flee this way or that
way: and the people who fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers.
8:21When
Yehoshua and all Yisra'el saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that
the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men
of `Ai. 8:22The
others came forth out of the city against them; so they were in the midst of
Yisra'el, some on this side, and some on that side: and they struck them, so
that they let none of them remain or escape.
8:23The
king of `Ai they took alive, and brought him to Yehoshua.
8:24It
happened, when Yisra'el had made an end of killing all the inhabitants of
`Ai in the field, in the wilderness in which they pursued them, and they
were all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were consumed, that all
Yisra'el returned to `Ai, and struck it with the edge of the sword.
8:25All
that fell that day, both of men and women, were twelve thousand, even all
the men of `Ai.
8:26For Yehoshua didn't draw back his hand,
with which he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all
the inhabitants of `Ai.
8:27Only
the cattle and the spoil of that city Yisra'el took for prey to themselves,
according to the word of the LORD which he commanded Yehoshua.
8:28So
Yehoshua burnt `Ai, and made it a heap forever, even a desolation, to this
day. 8:29The
king of `Ai he hanged on a tree until the evening: and at the going down of
the sun Yehoshua commanded, and they took his body down from the tree, and
cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raised thereon a great
heap of stones, to this day.
8:30Then
Yehoshua built an altar to the LORD, the G-d of Yisra'el, in Mount `Eval,
8:31as
Moshe the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Yisra'el, as it is
written in the book of the law of Moshe, an altar of uncut stones, on which
no man had lifted up any iron: and they offered thereon burnt offerings to
the LORD, and sacrificed peace-offerings.
8:32He
wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moshe, which he wrote, in the
presence of the children of Yisra'el.
8:33All
Yisra'el, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this
side of the ark and on that side before the kohanim the
Levites, who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well the foreigner
as the native; half of them in front of Mount Gerizim, and half of them in
front of Mount `Eval; as Moshe the servant of the LORD had commanded at the
first, that they should bless the people of Yisra'el.
8:34Afterward
he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to
all that is written in the book of the law.
8:35There
was not a word of all that Moshe commanded, which Yehoshua didn't read
before all the assembly of Yisra'el, and the women, and the little ones, and
the foreigners who were among them.
9:1It
happened, when all the kings who were beyond the Yarden, in the
hill-country, and in the lowland, and on all the shore of the great sea in
front of Levanon, the Chittite, and the Amori, the Kana`ani, the Perizzi,
the Chivvi, and the Yevusi, heard of it;
9:2that
they gathered themselves together, to fight with Yehoshua and with Yisra'el,
with one accord.
9:3But when the inhabitants of Giv`on heard
what Yehoshua had done to Yericho and to `Ai,
9:4they
also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors,
and took old sacks on their donkeys, and wine-skins, old and torn and bound
up, 9:5and
old and patched shoes on their feet, and old garments on them; and all the
bread of their provision was dry and was become moldy.
9:6They
went to Yehoshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of
Yisra'el, We are come from a far country: now therefore make you a covenant
with us. 9:7The
men of Yisra'el said to the Chivvi, What if you dwell among us; and how
shall we make a covenant with you?
9:8They
said to Yehoshua, We are your servants. Yehoshua said to them, Who are you?
and from whence come you?
9:9They
said to him, From a very far country your servants are come because of the
name of the LORD your G-d: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that
he did in Egypt,
9:10and all that he did to the two
kings of the Amori, who were beyond the Yarden, to Sichon king of Cheshbon,
and to `Og king of Bashan, who was at `Ashtarot.
9:11Our
elders and all the inhabitants of our country spoke to us, saying, Take
provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and tell them,
We are your servants: and now make you a covenant with us.
9:12This
our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses on the day we came
forth to go to you; but now, behold, it is dry, and is become moldy:
9:13and
these wine-skins, which we filled, were new; and, behold, they are torn: and
these our garments and our shoes are become old by reason of the very long
journey. 9:14The
men took of their provision, and didn't ask counsel at the mouth of the
LORD. 9:15Yehoshua
made shalom with them, and made a covenant with them, to let them live: and
the princes of the congregation swore to them.
9:16It
happened at the end of three days after they had made a covenant with them,
that they heard that they were their neighbors, and that they lived among
them. 9:17The
children of Yisra'el traveled, and came to their cities on the third day.
Now their cities were Giv`on, and Kefirah, and Be'erot, and Kiryat-Ye`arim.
9:18The
children of Yisra'el didn't strike them, because the princes of the
congregation had sworn to them by the LORD, the G-d of Yisra'el. All the
congregation murmured against the princes.
9:19But
all the princes said to all the congregation, We have sworn to them by the
LORD, the G-d of Yisra'el: now therefore we may not touch them.
9:20This
we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be on us, because of the
oath which we swore to them.
9:21The
princes said to them, Let them live: so they became wood cutters and drawers
of water to all the congregation, as the princes had spoken to them.
9:22Yehoshua
called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, Why have you deceived us,
saying, We are very far from you; when you dwell among us?
9:23Now
therefore you are cursed, and there shall never fail to be of you
bondservants, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my
G-d. 9:24They
answered Yehoshua, and said, Because it was certainly told your servants,
how that the LORD your G-d commanded his servant Moshe to give you all the
land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you;
therefore we were sore afraid for our lives because of you, and have done
this thing. 9:25Now,
behold, we are in your hand: as it seems good and right to you to do to us,
do. 9:26So
did he to them, and delivered them out of the hand of the children of
Yisra'el, that they didn't kill them.
9:27That
day Yehoshua made those wood cutters and drawers of water for the
congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, to this day, in the place which
he should choose.
10:1Now
it happened, when Adoni-Tzedek king of Yerushalayim heard how Yehoshua had
taken `Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Yericho and her
king, so he had done to `Ai and her king; and how the inhabitants of Giv`on
had made shalom with Yisra'el, and were among them;
10:2that
they feared greatly, because Giv`on was a great city, as one of the royal
cities, and because it was greater than `Ai, and all the men of it were
mighty. 10:3Therefore
Adoni-Tzedek king of Yerushalayim sent to Hoham king of Chevron, and to
Pir'am king of Yarmut, and to Yafia king of Lakhish, and to Devir king of `Eglon,
saying, 10:4Come
up to me, and help me, and let us strike Giv`on; for it has made shalom with
Yehoshua and with the children of Yisra'el.
10:5Therefore
the five kings of the Amori, the king of Yerushalayim, the king of Chevron,
the king of Yarmut, the king of Lakhish, the king of `Eglon, gathered
themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped
against Giv`on, and made war against it.
10:6The
men of Giv`on sent to Yehoshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Don't slack
your hand from your servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help
us: for all the kings of the Amori that dwell in the hill-country are
gathered together against us.
10:7So
Yehoshua went up from Gilgal, he, and all the people of war with him, and
all the mighty men of valor.
10:8The
LORD said to Yehoshua, Don't fear them: for I have delivered them into your
hands; there shall not a man of them stand before you.
10:9Yehoshua
therefore came on them suddenly; for he went up from Gilgal all the
night. 10:10The
LORD confused them before Yisra'el, and he killed them with a great
slaughter at Giv`on, and chased them by the way of the ascent of Beit-Choron,
and struck them to `Azeka, and to Makkedah.
10:11It
happened, as they fled from before Yisra'el, while they were at the descent
of Beit-Choron, that the LORD cast down great stones from the sky on them to
`Azeka, and they died: they were more who died with the hailstones than they
whom the children of Yisra'el killed with the sword.
10:12Then
spoke Yehoshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD delivered up the Amori
before the children of Yisra'el; and he said in the sight of Yisra'el, Sun,
stand you still on Giv`on; You, Moon, in the valley of Ayalon.
10:13The
sun stood still, and the moon stayed, Until the nation had avenged
themselves of their enemies. Isn't this written in the book of Yashar? The
sun stayed in the midst of the sky, and didn't hurry to go down about a
whole day.
10:14There was no day like that before it or
after it, that the LORD listened to the voice of a man: for the LORD fought
for Yisra'el.
10:15Yehoshua returned, and all Yisra'el
with him, to the camp to Gilgal.
10:16These
five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
10:17It
was told Yehoshua, saying, The five kings are found, hidden in the cave at
Makkedah. 10:18Yehoshua
said, Roll great stones to the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to keep
them: 10:19but
don't stay; pursue after your enemies, and strike the hindmost of them;
don't allow them to enter into their cities: for the LORD your G-d has
delivered them into your hand.
10:20It
happened, when Yehoshua and the children of Yisra'el had made an end of
killing them with a very great slaughter, until they were consumed, and the
remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,
10:21that
all the people returned to the camp to Yehoshua at Makkedah in shalom: none
moved his tongue against any of the children of Yisra'el.
10:22Then
said Yehoshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring forth those five kings
to me out of the cave.
10:23They
did so, and brought forth those five kings to him out of the cave, the king
of Yerushalayim, the king of Chevron, the king of Yarmut, the king of
Lakhish, the king of `Eglon.
10:24It
happened, when they brought forth those kings to Yehoshua, that Yehoshua
called for all the men of Yisra'el, and said to the chiefs of the men of war
who went with him, Come near, put your feet on the necks of these kings.
They came near, and put their feet on the necks of them.
10:25Yehoshua
said to them, Don't be afraid, nor be dismayed; be strong and of good
courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom you
fight. 10:26Afterward
Yehoshua struck them, and put them to death, and hanged them on five trees:
and they were hanging on the trees until the evening.
10:27It
happened at the time of the going down of the sun, that Yehoshua commanded,
and they took them down off the trees, and cast them into the cave in which
they had hidden themselves, and laid great stones on the mouth of the cave,
to this very day.
10:28Yehoshua took Makkedah on that
day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and the king of it: he
utterly destroyed them and all the souls who were therein; he left none
remaining; and he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of
Yericho. 10:29Yehoshua
passed from Makkedah, and all Yisra'el with him, to Livna, and fought
against Livna:
10:30and the LORD delivered it also, and the
king of it, into the hand of Yisra'el; and he struck it with the edge of the
sword, and all the souls who were therein; he left none remaining in it; and
he did to the king of it as he had done to the king of Yericho.
10:31Yehoshua
passed from Livna, and all Yisra'el with him, to Lakhish, and encamped
against it, and fought against it:
10:32and
the LORD delivered Lakhish into the hand of Yisra'el; and he took it on the
second day, and struck it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls who
were therein, according to all that he had done to Livna.
10:33Then
Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lakhish; and Yehoshua struck him and his
people, until he had left him none remaining.
10:34Yehoshua
passed from Lakhish, and all Yisra'el with him, to `Eglon; and they encamped
against it, and fought against it;
10:35and
they took it on that day, and struck it with the edge of the sword; and all
the souls who were therein he utterly destroyed that day, according to all
that he had done to Lakhish.
10:36Yehoshua
went up from `Eglon, and all Yisra'el with him, to Chevron; and they fought
against it:
10:37and they took it, and struck it with
the edge of the sword, and the king of it, and all the cities of it, and all
the souls who were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he
had done to `Eglon; but he utterly destroyed it, and all the souls who were
therein. 10:38Yehoshua
returned, and all Yisra'el with him, to Devir, and fought against it:
10:39and
he took it, and the king of it, and all the cities of it; and they struck
them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed all the souls who
were therein; he left none remaining: as he had done to Chevron, so he did
to Devir, and to the king of it; as he had done also to Livna, and to the
king of it.
10:40So Yehoshua struck all the land, the
hill-country, and the South, and the lowland, and the slopes, and all their
kings: he left none remaining, but he utterly destroyed all that breathed,
as the LORD, the G-d of Yisra'el, commanded.
10:41Yehoshua
struck them from Kadesh-Barnea even to `Aza, and all the country of Goshen,
even to Giv`on.
10:42All these kings and their land did
Yehoshua take at one time, because the LORD, the G-d of Yisra'el, fought for
Yisra'el. 10:43Yehoshua
returned, and all Yisra'el with him, to the camp to Gilgal.
11:1It
happened, when Yavin king of Chatzor heard of it, that he sent to Yovav king
of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Akhshaf,
11:2and
to the kings who were on the north, in the hill-country, and in the `Aravah
south of Kinnarot, and in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the
west, 11:3to
the Kana`ani on the east and on the west, and the Amori, and the Chittite,
and the Perizzi, and the Yevusi in the hill-country, and the Chivvi under
Chermon in the land of Mitzpah.
11:4They
went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand
that is on the sea-shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.
11:5All
these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters
of Merom, to fight with Yisra'el.
11:6The
LORD said to Yehoshua, Don't be afraid because of them; for tomorrow at this
time will I deliver them up all slain before Yisra'el: you shall hamstring
their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.
11:7So
Yehoshua came, and all the people of war with him, against them by the
waters of Merom suddenly, and fell on them.
11:8The
LORD delivered them into the hand of Yisra'el, and they struck them, and
chased them to great Tzidon, and to Misrefot-Mayim, and to the valley of
Mitzpeh eastward; and they struck them, until they left them none remaining.
11:9Yehoshua
did to them as the LORD bade him: he hamstrung their horses, and burnt their
chariots with fire.
11:10Yehoshua turned back at that time,
and took Chatzor, and struck the king of it with the sword: for Chatzor
before was the head of all those kingdoms.
11:11They
struck all the souls who were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly
destroying them; there was none left who breathed: and he burnt Chatzor with
fire. 11:12All
the cities of those kings, and all the kings of them, did Yehoshua take, and
he struck them with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed them; as
Moshe the servant of the LORD commanded.
11:13But
as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Yisra'el burned none of them,
save Chatzor only; that did Yehoshua burn.
11:14All
the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Yisra'el took for
a prey to themselves; but every man they struck with the edge of the sword,
until they had destroyed them, neither left they any who breathed.
11:15As
the LORD commanded Moshe his servant, so did Moshe command Yehoshua: and so
did Yehoshua; he left nothing undone of all that the LORD commanded Moshe.
11:16So
Yehoshua took all that land, the hill-country, and all the South, and all
the land of Goshen, and the lowland, and the `Aravah, and the hill-country
of Yisra'el, and the lowland of the same;
11:17from
Mount Chalak, that goes up to Se`ir, even to Ba`al-Gad in the valley of
Levanon under Mount Chermon: and all their kings he took, and struck them,
and put them to death.
11:18Yehoshua
made war a long time with all those kings.
11:19There
was not a city that made shalom with the children of Yisra'el, save the
Chivvi the inhabitants of Giv`on: they took all in battle.
11:20For
it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, to come against Yisra'el in
battle, that he might utterly destroy them, that they might have no favor,
but that he might destroy them, as the LORD commanded Moshe.
11:21Yehoshua
came at that time, and cut off the `Anakim from the hill-country, from
Chevron, from Devir, from `Anav, and from all the hill-country of Yehudah,
and from all the hill-country of Yisra'el: Yehoshua utterly destroyed them
with their cities.
11:22There was none of the `Anakim left
in the land of the children of Yisra'el: only in `Aza, in Gat, and in Ashdod,
did some remain.
11:23So Yehoshua took the whole land,
according to all that the LORD spoke to Moshe; and Yehoshua gave it for an
inheritance to Yisra'el according to their divisions by their tribes. The
land had rest from war.
12:1Now
these are the kings of the land, whom the children of Yisra'el struck, and
possessed their land beyond the Yarden toward the sunrise, from the valley
of the Arnon to Mount Chermon, and all the `Aravah eastward:
12:2Sichon
king of the Amori, who lived in Cheshbon, and ruled from `Aro`er, which is
on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the
middle of the valley, and half Gil`ad, even to the river Yabbok, the border
of the children of `Ammon;
12:3and
the `Aravah to the sea of Kinnarot, eastward, and to the sea of the `Aravah,
even the Salt Sea, eastward, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and on the south,
under the slopes of Pisgah:
12:4and
the border of `Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Refa'im, who lived
at `Ashtarot and at Edre`i,
12:5and
ruled in Mount Chermon, and in Salkhah, and in all Bashan, to the border of
the Geshuri and the Ma`akhati, and half Gil`ad, the border of Sichon king of
Cheshbon. 12:6Moshe
the servant of the LORD and the children of Yisra'el struck them: and Moshe
the servant of the LORD gave it for a possession to the Re'uveni, and the
Gadi, and the half-tribe of Menashsheh.
12:7These
are the kings of the land whom Yehoshua and the children of Yisra'el struck
beyond the Yarden westward, from Ba`al-Gad in the valley of Levanon even to
Mount Chalak, that goes up to Se`ir; and Yehoshua gave it to the tribes of
Yisra'el for a possession according to their divisions;
12:8in
the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the `Aravah, and in the slopes,
and in the wilderness, and in the South; the Chittite, the Amori, and the
Kana`ani, the Perizzi, the Chivvi, and the Yevusi:
12:9the
king of Yericho, one; the king of `Ai, which is beside Beit-El, one;
12:10the
king of Yerushalayim, one; the king of Chevron, one;
12:11the
king of Yarmut, one; the king of Lakhish, one;
12:12the
king of `Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;
12:13the
king of Devir, one; the king of Geder, one;
12:14the
king of Chormah, one; the king of `Arad, one;
12:15the
king of Livna, one; the king of `Adullam, one;
12:16the
king of Makkedah, one; the king of Beit-El, one;
12:17the
king of Tappuach, one; the king of Chefer, one;
12:18the
king of Afek, one; the king of Lassharon, one;
12:19the
king of Madon, one; the king of Chatzor, one;
12:20the
king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Akhshaf, one;
12:21the
king of Ta`nakh, one; the king of Megiddo, one;
12:22the
king of Kedesh, one; the king of Yokne`am in Karmel, one;
12:23the
king of Dor in the height of Dor, one; the king of Goyim in Gilgal, one;
12:24the
king of Tirtzah, one: all the kings thirty-one.
13:1Now
Yehoshua was old and well stricken in years; and the LORD said to him, You
are old and well stricken in years, and there remains yet very much land to
be possessed.
13:2This is the land that yet remains: all
the regions of the Pelishtim, and all the Geshuri;
13:3from
the Shichor, which is before Egypt, even to the border of `Ekron northward,
which is reckoned to the Kana`anim; the five lords of the Pelishtim;
the `Azati, and the Ashdodi, the Eshkeloni, the Gitti, and the `Ekroni; also
the `Avvim, 13:4on
the south; all the land of the Kana`anim, and Me`arah that belongs to the
Tzidonim, to Afek, to the border of the Amori;
13:5and
the land of the Givli, and all Levanon, toward the sunrise, from Ba`al-Gad
under Mount Chermon to the entrance of Chamat;
13:6all
the inhabitants of the hill-country from Levanon to Misrefot-Mayim, even all
the Tzidonim; them will I drive out from before the children of Yisra'el:
only allot you it to Yisra'el for an inheritance, as I have commanded you.
13:7Now
therefore divide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes, and the
half-tribe of Menashsheh.
13:8With
him the Re'uveni and the Gadi received their inheritance, which Moshe gave
them, beyond the Yarden eastward, even as Moshe the servant of the LORD gave
them: 13:9from
`Aro`er, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that
is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeva to Divon;
13:10and
all the cities of Sichon king of the Amori, who reigned in Cheshbon, to the
border of the children of `Ammon;
13:11and
Gil`ad, and the border of the Geshuri and Ma`akhati, and all Mount Chermon,
and all Bashan to Salkhah;
13:12all
the kingdom of `Og in Bashan, who reigned in `Ashtarot and in Edre`i (the
same was left of the remnant of the Refa'im); for these did Moshe strike,
and drove them out.
13:13Nevertheless the children of
Yisra'el didn't drive out the Geshuri, nor the Ma`akhati: but Geshur and
Ma`akhat dwell in the midst of Yisra'el to this day.
13:14Only
to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance; the offerings of the LORD, the
G-d of Yisra'el, made by fire are his inheritance, as he spoke to him.
13:15Moshe
gave to the tribe of the children of Re'uven according to their families.
13:16Their
border was from `Aro`er, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and
the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain by Medeva;
13:17Cheshbon,
and all its cities that are in the plain; Divon, and Bamot-Ba`al, and
Beit-Ba`al-Me`on,
13:18and Yahatz, and Kedemot, and
Mefa`at, 13:19and
Kiryatayim, and Sivmah, and Tzeret-Hashachar in the mount of the valley,
13:20and
Beit-Pe`or, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth,
13:21and
all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sichon king of the Amori,
who reigned in Cheshbon, whom Moshe struck with the chiefs of Midyan, Evi,
and Rekem, and Tzur, and Chur, and Reva, the princes of Sichon, who lived in
the land. 13:22Bil`am
also the son of Be'or, the soothsayer, did the children of Yisra'el kill
with the sword among the rest of their slain.
13:23The
border of the children of Re'uven was the Yarden, and the border of it.
This was the inheritance of the children of Re'uven according to their
families, the cities and the villages of it.
13:24Moshe
gave to the tribe of Gad, to the children of Gad, according to their
families. 13:25Their
border was Ya`zer, and all the cities of Gil`ad, and half the land of the
children of `Ammon, to `Aro`er that is before Rabbah;
13:26and
from Cheshbon to Ramat-Hamitzpeh, and Betonim; and from Machanayim to the
border of Devir;
13:27and in the valley, Beit-Haram, and
Beit-Nimrah, and Sukkot, and Tzafon, the rest of the kingdom of Sichon king
of Cheshbon, the Yarden and the border of it, to the uttermost part
of the sea of Kinneret beyond the Yarden eastward.
13:28This
is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the
cities and the villages of it.
13:29Moshe
gave inheritance to the half-tribe of Menashsheh: and it was for the
half-tribe of the children of Menashsheh according to their families.
13:30Their
border was from Machanayim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of `Og king of
Bashan, and all the towns of Ya'ir, which are in Bashan, sixty cities:
13:31and
half Gil`ad, and `Ashtarot, and Edre`i, the cities of the kingdom of `Og in
Bashan, were for the children of Makhir the son of Menashsheh, even for the
half of the children of Makhir according to their families.
13:32These
are the inheritances which Moshe distributed in the plains of Mo'av, beyond
the Yarden at Yericho, eastward.
13:33But
to the tribe of Levi Moshe gave no inheritance: the LORD, the G-d of
Yisra'el, is their inheritance, as he spoke to them.
14:1These
are the inheritances which the children of Yisra'el took in the land of
Kana`an, which El`azar the kohen, and Yehoshua the son of
Nun, and the heads of the fathers' houses of the tribes of the
children of Yisra'el, distributed to them,
14:2by
the lot of their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by Moshe, for the nine
tribes, and for the half-tribe.
14:3For
Moshe had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond
the Yarden: but to the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.
14:4For
the children of Yosef were two tribes, Menashsheh and Efrayim: and they gave
no portion to the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with the
suburbs of it for their cattle and for their substance.
14:5As
the LORD commanded Moshe, so the children of Yisra'el did; and they divided
the land. 14:6Then
the children of Yehudah drew near to Yehoshua in Gilgal: and Kalev the son
of Yefunneh the Kenizzi said to him, You know the thing that the LORD spoke
to Moshe the man of G-d concerning me and concerning you in Kadesh-Barnea.
14:7Forty
years old was I when Moshe the servant of the LORD sent me from
Kadesh-Barnea to spy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in
my heart. 14:8Nevertheless
my brothers who went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I
wholly followed the LORD my G-d.
14:9Moshe
swore on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon your foot has trodden
shall be an inheritance to you and to your children forever, because you
have wholly followed the LORD my G-d.
14:10Now,
behold, the LORD has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years,
from the time that the LORD spoke this word to Moshe, while Yisra'el walked
in the wilderness: and now, behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.
14:11As
yet I am as strong this day as I as in the day that Moshe sent me: as my
strength was then, even so is my strength now, for war, and to go out and to
come in. 14:12Now
therefore give me this hill-country, of which the LORD spoke in that day;
for you heard in that day how the `Anakim were there, and cities great and
fortified: it may be that the LORD will be with me, and I shall drive them
out, as the LORD spoke.
14:13Yehoshua
blessed him; and he gave Chevron to Kalev the son of Yefunneh for an
inheritance.
14:14Therefore Chevron became the
inheritance of Kalev the son of Yefunneh the Kenizzi to this day; because
that he wholly followed the LORD, the G-d of Yisra'el.
14:15Now
the name of Chevron before was Kiryat-Arba; which Arba was the
greatest man among the `Anakim. The land had rest from war.
15:1The
lot for the tribe of the children of Yehudah according to their families was
to the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of Tzin southward, at the
uttermost part of the south.
15:2Their
south border was from the uttermost part of the Salt Sea, from the bay that
looks southward;
15:3and it went out southward of the
ascent of `Akrabbim, and passed along to Tzin, and went up by the south of
Kadesh-Barnea, and passed along by Chetzron, and went up to Addar, and
turned about to Karka;
15:4and
it passed along to `Atzmon, and went out at the brook of Egypt; and the
goings out of the border were at the sea: this shall be your south border.
15:5The
east border was the Salt Sea, even to the end of the Yarden. The border of
the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Yarden;
15:6and
the border went up to Beit-Choglah, and passed along by the north of
Beit-Ha`aravah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the son of
Re'uven; 15:7and
the border went up to Devir from the valley of `Akhor, and so northward,
looking toward Gilgal, that is over against the ascent of Adummim, which is
on the south side of the river; and the border passed along to the waters of
`En-Shemesh, and the goings out of it were at `En-Rogel;
15:8and
the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the side of the
Yevusi southward (the same is Yerushalayim); and the border went up to the
top of the mountain that lies before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is
at the uttermost part of the valley of Refa'im northward;
15:9and
the border extended from the top of the mountain to the spring of the waters
of Nefto'ach, and went out to the cities of Mount `Efron; and the border
extended to Ba`alah (the same is Kiryat-Ye`arim);
15:10and
the border turned about from Ba`alah westward to Mount Se`ir, and passed
along to the side of Mount Ye`arim on the north (the same is Kesalon), and
went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed along by Timnah;
15:11and
the border went out to the side of `Ekron northward; and the border extended
to Shikron, and passed along to Mount Ba`alah, and went out at Yavne'el; and
the goings out of the border were at the sea.
15:12The
west border was to the great sea, and the border of it. This is the
border of the children of Yehudah round about according to their families.
15:13To
Kalev the son of Yefunneh he gave a portion among the children of Yehudah,
according to the mitzvah of the LORD to Yehoshua, even
Kiryat-Arba, which Arba was the father of `Anak (the same is
Chevron). 15:14Kalev
drove out there the three sons of `Anak: Sheshai, and Achiman, and Talmai,
the children of `Anak.
15:15He
went up there against the inhabitants of Devir: now the name of Devir before
was Kiryat Sepher.
15:16Kalev said, He who strikes Kiryat
Sepher, and takes it, to him will I give `Akhsah my daughter as wife.
15:17`Otni'el
the son of Kenaz, the brother of Kalev, took it: and he gave him `Akhsah his
daughter as wife.
