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+<book name='Joshua' permalink='joshua' id='6'>
+  <chapter no='1'>
+    <verse no='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,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon,  that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 withersoever thou goest.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>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.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the  tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest  us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='2'>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon  the roof;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the men said unto her, We will be blameless of this  thine oath which thou hast made us swear.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And if thou utter this our business, then we will be quit of  thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='3'>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went  through the host;</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves: for to  morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither,  and hear the words of the LORD your God.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Behold, the ark of the covenant of the LORD of all the earth  passeth over before you into Jordan.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of  Israel, out of every tribe a man.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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;</verse>
+    <verse no='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,)</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='4'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed  over Jordan, that the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a  man,</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of  the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man:</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the  LORD your God into the midst of Jordan, and take you up every man of  you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes  of the children of Israel:</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of  Jordan, until everything 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>About forty thousand prepared for war passed over before the  LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And the LORD spake unto Joshua, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that  they come up out of Jordan.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying, Come ye up  out of Jordan.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And those twelve stones, which they took out of Jordan, did  Joshua pitch in Gilgal.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Then ye shall let your children know, saying, Israel came  over this Jordan on dry land.</verse>
+    <verse no='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:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='5'>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>At that time the LORD said unto Joshua, Make thee sharp  knives, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the  children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='6'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of  Israel: none went out, and none came in.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And Joshua rose early in the morning, and the priests took  up the ark of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And the second day they compassed the city once, and  returned into the camp: so they did six days.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was noised  throughout all the country.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='7'>
+    <verse no='1'>But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the  accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son  of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the  anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside  Bethaven, on the east of Bethel, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and  view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And they returned to Joshua, and said unto him, Let not all  the people go up; but let about two or three thousand men go up and  smite Ai; and make not all the people to labour thither; for they are  but few.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>So there went up thither of the people about three thousand  men: and they fled before the men of Ai.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men:  for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote  them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and  became as water.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his  face before the ark of the LORD until the eventide, he and the elders  of Israel, and put dust upon their heads.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And Joshua said, Alas, O LORD God, wherefore hast thou at  all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the  Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on  the other side Jordan!</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs  before their enemies!</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall  hear of it, and shall environ us round, and cut off our name from the  earth: and what wilt thou do unto thy great name?</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest  thou thus upon thy face?</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my  covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the  accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they  have put it even among their own stuff.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before  their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because  they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye  destroy the accursed from among you.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Up, sanctify the people, and say, Sanctify yourselves  against to morrow: for thus saith the LORD God of Israel, There is an  accursed thing in the midst of thee, O Israel: thou canst not stand  before thine enemies, until ye take away the accursed thing from among  you.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>In the morning therefore ye shall be brought according to  your tribes: and it shall be, that the tribe which the LORD taketh  shall come according to the families thereof; and the family which the  LORD shall take shall come by households; and the household which the  LORD shall take shall come man by man.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And it shall be, that he that is taken with the accursed  thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because he  hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought  folly in Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel  by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And he brought the family of Judah; and he took the family  of the Zarhites: and he brought the family of the Zarhites man by man;  and Zabdi was taken:</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son  of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah,  was taken.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory  to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me  now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Indeed I have sinned  against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and  two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels  weight, then 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and,  behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And they took them out of the midst of the tent, and brought  them unto Joshua, and unto all the children of Israel, and laid them  out before the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of  Zerah, and the silver, and the garment, and the wedge of gold, and his  sons, and his daughters, and his oxen, and his asses, and his sheep,  and his tent, and all that he had: and they brought them unto the  valley of Achor.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the LORD shall  trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and  burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this  day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Wherefore the  name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='8'>
+    <verse no='1'>And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear not, neither be thou  dismayed: take all the people of war with thee, and arise, go up to Ai:  see, I have given into thy hand the king of Ai, and his people, and his  city, and his land:</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And thou shalt do to Ai and her king as thou didst unto  Jericho and her king: only the spoil thereof, and the cattle thereof,  shall ye take for a prey unto yourselves: lay thee an ambush for the  city behind it.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against  Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty thousand mighty men of valour, and sent  them away by night.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And he commanded them, saying, Behold, ye shall lie in wait  against the city, even behind the city: go not very far from the city,  but be ye all ready:</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And I, and all the people that are with me, will approach  unto the city: and it shall come to pass, when they come out against  us, as at the first, that we will flee before them,</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>(For they will come out after us) till we have drawn them  from the city; for they will say, They flee before us, as at the first:  therefore we will flee before them.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Then ye shall rise up from the ambush, and seize upon the  city: for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And it shall be, when ye have taken the city, that ye shall  set the city on fire: according to the commandment of the LORD shall ye  do. See, I have commanded you.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Joshua therefore sent them forth: and they went to lie in  ambush, and abode between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but  Joshua lodged that night among the people.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And Joshua rose up early in the morning, and numbered the  people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to  Ai.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And all the people, even the people of war that were with  him, went up, and drew nigh, and came before the city, and pitched on  the north side of Ai: now there was a valley between them and Ai.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And he took about five thousand men, and set them to lie in  ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And when they had set the people, even all the host that was  on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the  city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they  hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against  Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before  the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him  behind the city.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before  them, and fled by the way of the wilderness.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And all the people that were in Ai were called together to  pursue after them: and they pursued after Joshua, and were drawn away  from the city.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And there was not a man left in Ai or Bethel, that went not  out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after  Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And the LORD said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is  in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua  stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they  ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand: and they entered into the  city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And when 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 that fled to the  wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken  the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned  again, and slew the men of Ai.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And the other issued out of the city against them; so they  were in the midst of Israel, some on this side, and some on that side:  and they smote them, so that they let none of them remain or escape.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to  Joshua.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And it came to pass, when Israel had made an end of slaying  all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness wherein they  chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword,  until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned unto Ai, and  smote it with the edge of the sword.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And so it was, that all that fell that day, both of men and  women, were twelve thousand, even all the men of Ai.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched  out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of  Ai.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a  prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the LORD which he  commanded Joshua.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And Joshua burnt Ai, and made it an heap for ever, even a  desolation unto this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until eventide: and  as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his  carcase down from the tree, and cast it at the entering of the gate of  the city, and raise thereon a great heap of stones, that remaineth unto  this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in  mount Ebal,</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of  Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of  whole stones, over which no man hath lift up any iron: and they offered  thereon burnt offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of  Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their  judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests  the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, as well  the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against  mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the  servant of the LORD had commanded before, that they should bless the  people of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>And afterward he read all the words of the law, the  blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of  the law.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which  Joshua read not before all the congregation of Israel, with the women,  and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='9'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this  side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of  the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the  Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua  and with Israel, with one accord.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had  done unto Jericho and to Ai,</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been  ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles,  old, and rent, and bound up;</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments  upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said  unto him, and to the men of Israel, We be come from a far country: now  therefore make ye a league with us.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye  dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And Joshua  said unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye?</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants  are come because of the name of the LORD thy God: for we have heard the  fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that  were beyond Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan,  which was at Ashtaroth.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Wherefore our elders and all the inhabitants of our country  spake to us, saying, Take victuals with you for the journey, and go to  meet them, and say unto them, We are your servants: therefore now make  ye a league with us.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our  houses on the day we came forth to go unto you; but now, behold, it is  dry, and it is mouldy:</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And these bottles of wine, which we filled, were new; and,  behold, they be rent: and these our garments and our shoes are become  old by reason of the very long journey.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at  the mouth of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Joshua made peace with them, and made a league with  them, to let them live: and the princes of the congregation sware unto  them.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And it came to pass at the end of three days after they had  made a league with them, that they heard that they were their  neighbours, and that they dwelt among them.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their  cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah,  and Beeroth, and Kirjathjearim.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And the children of Israel smote them not, because the  princes of the congregation had sworn unto them by the LORD God of  Israel. And all the congregation murmured against the princes.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>But all the princes said unto all the congregation, We have  sworn unto them by the LORD God of Israel: now therefore we may not  touch them.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 them.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And the princes said unto them, Let them live; but let them  be hewers of wood and drawers of water unto all the congregation; as  the princes had promised them.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying,  Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when  ye dwell among us?</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Now therefore ye are cursed, and there shall none of you be  freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for  the house of my God.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly  told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant  Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of  the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives  because of you, and have done this thing.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And now, behold, we are in thine hand: as it seemeth good  and right unto thee to do unto us, do.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of the hand  of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And Joshua made them that day hewers of wood and drawers of  water for the congregation, and for the altar of the LORD, even unto  this day, in the place which he should choose.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='10'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now it came to pass, when Adonizedec king of Jerusalem had  heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had utterly destroyed it; as he had  done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her king; and  how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were  among them;</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>That they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city,  as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all  the men thereof were mighty.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Wherefore Adonizedec king of Jerusalem, sent unto Hoham king  of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of  Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for  it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Therefore the five kings of the Amorites, the king of  Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of  Lachish, the king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up,  they and all their hosts, and encamped before Gibeon, and made war  against it.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the people of  war with him, and all the mighty men of valour.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And the LORD said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have  delivered them into thine hand; there shall not a man of them stand  before thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from  Gilgal all night.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the LORD discomfited them before Israel, and slew them  with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that  goeth up to Bethhoron, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and  were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great  stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more  which died with hailstones than they whom the children of Israel slew  with the sword.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Then spake Joshua to the LORD in the day when the LORD  delivered up the Amorites before the children of Israel, and he said in  the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou, Moon,  in the valley of Ajalon.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the  people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written  in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven,  and hasted not to go down about a whole day.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And there was no day like that before it or after it, that  the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man: for the LORD fought for  Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp  to Gilgal.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at  Makkedah.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid  in a cave at Makkedah.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And Joshua said, Roll great stones upon the mouth of the  cave, and set men by it for to keep them:</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And stay ye not, but pursue after your enemies, and smite  the hindmost of them; suffer them not to enter into their cities: for  the LORD your God hath delivered them into your hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel  had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they  were consumed, that the rest which remained of them entered into fenced  cities.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And all the people returned to the camp to Joshua at  Makkedah in peace: none moved his tongue against any of the children of  Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out  those five kings unto me out of the cave.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 which went with him, Come near, put your  feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their  feet upon the necks of them.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be  strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your  enemies against whom ye fight.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And afterward Joshua smote them, and slew them, and hanged  them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the  evening.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the  sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and  cast them into the cave wherein they had been hid, and laid great  stones in the cave's mouth, which remain until this very day.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the  edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and  all the souls that were therein; he let none remain: and he did to the  king of Makkedah as he did unto the king of Jericho.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Then Joshua passed from Makkedah, and all Israel with him,  unto Libnah, and fought against Libnah:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And Joshua passed from Libnah, and all Israel with him, unto  Lachish, and encamped against it, and fought against it:</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel,  which took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the  sword, and all the souls that were therein, according to all that he  had done to Libnah.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish; and Joshua  smote him and his people, until he had left him none remaining.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>And from Lachish Joshua passed unto Eglon, and all Israel  with him; and they encamped against it, and fought against it:</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>And they took it on that day, and smote it with the edge of  the sword, and all the souls that were therein he utterly destroyed  that day, according to all that he had done to Lachish.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>And Joshua went up from Eglon, and all Israel with him, unto  Hebron; and they fought against it:</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword,  and the king thereof, and all the cities thereof, and all the souls  that were therein; he left none remaining, according to all that he had  done to Eglon; but destroyed it utterly, and all the souls that were  therein.</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir; and  fought against it:</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>And he took it, and the king thereof, and all the cities  thereof; and they smote them with the edge of the sword, and utterly  destroyed all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining: as  he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir, and to the king thereof; as  he had done also to Libnah, and to her king.</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the  south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he  left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the  LORD God of Israel commanded.</verse>
+    <verse no='41'>And Joshua smote them from Kadeshbarnea even unto Gaza, and  all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.</verse>
+    <verse no='42'>And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one  time, because the LORD God of Israel fought for Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='43'>And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp  to Gilgal.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='11'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor had heard  those things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, and to the king of  Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And to the kings that were on the north of the mountains,  and of the plains south of Chinneroth, and in the valley, and in the  borders of Dor on the west,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And to the Canaanite on the east and on the west, and to the  Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Jebusite in the  mountains, and to the Hivite under Hermon in the land of Mizpeh.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much  people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with  horses and chariots very many.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And when all these kings were met together, they came and  pitched together at the waters of Merom, to fight against Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And the LORD said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of  them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain  before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots  with fire.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>So Joshua came, and all the people of war with him, against  them by the waters of Merom suddenly; and they fell upon them.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who  smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephothmaim,  and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they  left them none remaining.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And Joshua did unto them as the LORD bade him: he houghed  their horses, and burnt their chariots with fire.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and  smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the  head of all those kingdoms.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge  of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to  breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And all the cities of those kings, and all the kings of  them, did Joshua take, and smote them with the edge of the sword, and  he utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the LORD commanded.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>But as for the cities that stood still in their strength,  Israel burned none of them, save Hazor only; that did Joshua burn.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the  children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they  smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them,  neither left they any to breathe.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>As the LORD commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses  command Joshua, and so did Joshua; he left nothing undone of all that  the LORD commanded Moses.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south  country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and  the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same;</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Even from the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir, even unto  Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon: and all their  kings he took, and smote them, and slew them.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>There was not a city that made peace with the children of  Israel, save the Hivites the inhabitants of Gibeon: all other they took  in battle.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>For it was of the LORD to harden their hearts, that they  should come against Israel in battle, that he might destroy them  utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy  them, as the LORD commanded Moses.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And at that time came Joshua, and cut off the Anakims from  the mountains, from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, and from all the  mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua  destroyed them utterly with their cities.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the  children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there  remained.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the  LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel  according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from  war.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='12'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now these are the kings of the land, which the children of  Israel smote, and possessed their land on the other side Jordan toward  the rising of the sun, from the river Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all  the plain on the east:</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt in Heshbon, and ruled  from Aroer, which is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and from the  middle of the river, and from half Gilead, even unto the river Jabbok,  which is the border of the children of Ammon;</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And from the plain to the sea of Chinneroth on the east, and  unto the sea of the plain, even the salt sea on the east, the way to  Bethjeshimoth; and from the south, under Ashdothpisgah:</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the coast of Og king of Bashan, which was of the remnant  of the giants, that dwelt at Ashtaroth and at Edrei,</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And reigned in mount Hermon, and in Salcah, and in all  Bashan, unto the border of the Geshurites and the Maachathites, and  half Gilead, the border of Sihon king of Heshbon.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Them did Moses the servant of the LORD and the children of  Israel smite: and Moses the servant of the LORD gave it for a  possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of  Manasseh.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the  children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baalgad  in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to  Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession  according to their divisions;</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>In the mountains, and in the valleys, and in the plains, and  in the springs, and in the wilderness, and in the south country; the  Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the  Hivites, and the Jebusites:</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is beside  Bethel, one;</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one;</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one;</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one;</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>The king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one;</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>The king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one;</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one;</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Bethel, one;</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one;</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>The king of Shimronmeron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel, one;</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>The king of Dor in the coast of Dor, one; the king of the  nations of Gilgal, one;</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>The king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='13'>
+    <verse no='1'>Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the LORD said  unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet  very much land to be possessed.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the  Philistines, and all Geshuri,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>From Sihor, which is before Egypt, even unto the borders of  Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanite: five lords of the  Philistines; the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the  Gittites, and the Ekronites; also the Avites:</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>From the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah  that is beside the Sidonians unto Aphek, to the borders of the  Amorites:</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the land of the Giblites, and all Lebanon, toward the  sunrising, from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entering into  Hamath.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon unto  Misrephothmaim, and all the Sidonians, them will I drive out from  before the children of Israel: only divide thou it by lot unto the  Israelites for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Now therefore divide this land for an inheritance unto the  nine tribes, and the half tribe of Manasseh,</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>With whom the Reubenites and the Gadites have received their  inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond Jordan eastward, even as  Moses the servant of the LORD gave them;</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>From Aroer, that is upon the bank of the river Arnon, and  the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain of Medeba  unto Dibon;</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, which  reigned in Heshbon, unto the border of the children of Ammon;</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And Gilead, and the border of the Geshurites and  Maachathites, and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah;</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, which reigned in Ashtaroth  and in Edrei, who remained of the remnant of the giants: for these did  Moses smite, and cast them out.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Nevertheless the children of Israel expelled not the  Geshurites, nor the Maachathites: but the Geshurites and the  Maachathites dwell among the Israelites until this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Only unto the tribes 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Moses gave unto the tribe of the children of Reuben  inheritance according to their families.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the  river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all  the plain by Medeba;</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Heshbon, and all her cities that are in the plain; Dibon,  and Bamothbaal, and Bethbaalmeon,</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And Jahaza, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zarethshahar in the mount of  the valley,</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And Bethpeor, and Ashdothpisgah, and Bethjeshimoth,</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of  Sihon king of the Amorites, which reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses smote  with the princes of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba,  which were dukes of Sihon, dwelling in the country.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the  children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by  them.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And 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.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto  the children of Gad according to their families.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And their coast was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and  half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before  Rabbah;</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And from Heshbon unto Ramathmizpeh, and Betonim; and from  Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And in the valley, Betharam, and Bethnimrah, and Succoth,  and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, Jordan  and his border, even unto the edge of the sea of Chinnereth on the  other side Jordan eastward.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>This is the inheritance of the children of Gad after their  families, the cities, and their villages.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And Moses gave inheritance unto the half tribe of Manasseh:  and this was the possession of the half tribe of the children of  Manasseh by their families.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And their coast was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the  kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in  Bashan, threescore cities:</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the  kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir  the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by  their families.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>These are the countries which Moses did distribute for  inheritance in the plains of Moab, on the other side Jordan, by  Jericho, eastward.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>But unto the tribe of Levi Moses gave not any inheritance:  the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance, as he said unto them.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='14'>
+    <verse no='1'>And these are the countries which the 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 to them.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>By lot was their inheritance, as the LORD commanded by the  hand of Moses, for the nine tribes, and for the half tribe.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>For Moses had given the inheritance of two tribes and an  half tribe on the other side Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave none  inheritance among them.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and  Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save  cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their  substance.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>As the LORD commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did,  and they divided the land.</verse>
+    <verse no='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 Kadeshbarnea.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD  sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word  again as it was in mine heart.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart  of the people melt: but I wholly followed the LORD my God.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And Moses sware on that day, saying, Surely the land whereon  thy feet have trodden shall be thine inheritance, and thy children's  for ever, because thou hast wholly followed the LORD my God.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And now, behold, the LORD hath kept me alive, as he said,  these forty and five years, even since the LORD spake this word unto  Moses, while the children of Israel wandered in the wilderness: and  now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>As yet I am as strong this day as I was in the day that  Moses sent me: as my strength was then, even so is my strength now, for  war, both to go out, and to come in.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Now therefore give me this mountain, whereof the LORD spake  in that day; for thou heardest in that day how the Anakims were there,  and that the cities were great and fenced: if so be the LORD will be  with me, then I shall be able to drive them out, as the LORD said.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of  Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And the name of Hebron before was Kirjatharba; which Arba  was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='15'>
+    <verse no='1'>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.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And their south border was from the shore of the salt sea,  from the bay that looketh southward:</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And it went out to the south side to Maalehacrabbim, and  passed along to Zin, and ascended up on the south side unto  Kadeshbarnea, and passed along to Hezron, and went up to Adar, and  fetched a compass to Karkaa:</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>From thence it passed toward Azmon, and went out unto the  river of Egypt; and the goings out of that coast were at the sea: this  shall be your south coast.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the east border was the salt sea, even unto the end of  Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the  sea at the uttermost part of Jordan:</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And the border went up to Bethhogla, and passed along by the  north of Betharabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan the  son of Reuben:</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And the border went up toward Debir from the valley of  Achor, and so northward, looking toward Gilgal, that is before the  going up to Adummim, which is on the south side of the river: and the  border passed toward the waters of Enshemesh, and the goings out  thereof were at Enrogel:</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom  unto the south side of the Jebusite; the same is Jerusalem: and the  border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley  of Hinnom westward, which is at the end of the valley of the giants  northward:</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And the border was drawn from the top of the hill unto the  fountain of the water of Nephtoah, and went out to the cities of mount  Ephron; and the border was drawn to Baalah, which is Kirjathjearim:</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the border compassed from Baalah westward unto mount  Seir, and passed along unto the side of mount Jearim, which is  Chesalon, on the north side, and went down to Bethshemesh, and passed  on to Timnah:</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and  Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And he went up thence to the inhabitants of Debir: and the  name of Debir before was Kirjathsepher.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And Caleb said, He that smiteth Kirjathsepher, and taketh  it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter to wife.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it:  and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And it came to pass, as she came unto him, that she moved  him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted off her ass; and  Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a  south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper  springs, and the nether springs.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of  Judah according to their families.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of  Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and  Jagur,</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah,</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan,</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And Hazor, Hadattah, and Kerioth, and Hezron, which is  Hazor,</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Amam, and Shema, and Moladah,</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And Hazargaddah, and Heshmon, and Bethpalet,</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And Hazarshual, and Beersheba, and Bizjothjah,</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Baalah, and Iim, and Azem,</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah,</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the  cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>And Zanoah, and Engannim, Tappuah, and Enam,</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah,</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim;  fourteen cities with their villages:</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdalgad,</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon,</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>And Cabbon, and Lahmam, and Kithlish,</verse>
+    <verse no='41'>And Gederoth, Bethdagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen  cities with their villages:</verse>
+    <verse no='42'>Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan,</verse>
+    <verse no='43'>And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,</verse>
+    <verse no='44'>And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine cities with their  villages:</verse>
+    <verse no='45'>Ekron, with her towns and her villages:</verse>
+    <verse no='46'>From Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with  their villages:</verse>
+    <verse no='47'>Ashdod with her towns and her villages, Gaza with her towns  and her villages, unto the river of Egypt, and the great sea, and the  border thereof:</verse>
+    <verse no='48'>And in the mountains, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,</verse>
+    <verse no='49'>And Dannah, and Kirjathsannah, which is Debir,</verse>
+    <verse no='50'>And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim,</verse>
+    <verse no='51'>And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven cities with their  villages:</verse>
+    <verse no='52'>Arab, and Dumah, and Eshean,</verse>
+    <verse no='53'>And Janum, and Bethtappuah, and Aphekah,</verse>
+    <verse no='54'>And Humtah, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, and Zior; nine  cities with their villages:</verse>
+    <verse no='55'>Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,</verse>
+    <verse no='56'>And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,</verse>
+    <verse no='57'>Cain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten cities with their villages:</verse>
+    <verse no='58'>Halhul, Bethzur, and Gedor,</verse>
+    <verse no='59'>And Maarath, and Bethanoth, and Eltekon; six cities with  their villages:</verse>
+    <verse no='60'>Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim, and Rabbah; two cities  with their villages:</verse>
+    <verse no='61'>In the wilderness, Betharabah, Middin, and Secacah,</verse>
+    <verse no='62'>And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and Engedi; six cities  with their villages.</verse>
+    <verse no='63'>As for the Jebusites the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the  children of Judah could not drive them out; but the Jebusites dwell  with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='16'>
+    <verse no='1'>And the lot of the children of Joseph fell from Jordan by  Jericho, unto the water of Jericho on the east, to the wilderness that  goeth up from Jericho throughout mount Bethel,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And goeth out from Bethel to Luz, and passeth along unto the  borders of Archi to Ataroth,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And goeth down westward to the coast of Japhleti, unto the  coast of Bethhoron the nether, and to Gezer; and the goings out thereof  are at the sea.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>So the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their  inheritance.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their  families was thus: even the border of their inheritance on the east  side was Atarothaddar, unto Bethhoron the upper;</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And the border went out toward the sea to Michmethah on the  north side; and the border went about eastward unto Taanathshiloh, and  passed by it on the east to Janohah;</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And it went down from Janohah to Ataroth, and to Naarath,  and came to Jericho, and went out at Jordan.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river  Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the  inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And the separate cities for the children of Ephraim were  among the inheritance of the children of Manasseh, all the cities with  their villages.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer:  but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve  under tribute.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='17'>
+    <verse no='1'>There was also a lot for the tribe of Manasseh; for he was  the firstborn of Joseph; to wit, for Machir the firstborn of Manasseh,  the father of Gilead: because he was a man of war, therefore he had  Gilead and Bashan.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>There was also a lot for the rest of the children of  Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the  children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children  of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of  Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by  their families.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the  son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but daughters: and  these are the names of his daughters, Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah,  and Tirzah.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And they came near before Eleazar the priest, and before  Joshua the son of Nun, and before the princes, saying, The LORD  commanded Moses to give us an inheritance among our brethren. Therefore  according to the commandment of the LORD he gave them an inheritance  among the brethren of their father.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And there fell ten portions to Manasseh, beside the land of  Gilead and Bashan, which were on the other side Jordan;</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among  his sons: and the rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of Gilead.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And the coast of Manasseh was from Asher to Michmethah, that  lieth before Shechem; and the border went along on the right hand unto  the inhabitants of Entappuah.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the  border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim;</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And the coast descended unto the river Kanah, southward of  the river: these cities of Ephraim are among the cities of Manasseh:  the coast of Manasseh also was on the north side of the river, and the  outgoings of it were at the sea:</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Southward it was Ephraim's, and northward it was Manasseh's,  and the sea is his border; and they met together in Asher on the north,  and in Issachar on the east.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Bethshean and her  towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her  towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants  of Taanach and her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns,  even three countries.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Yet the children of Manasseh could not drive out the  inhabitants of those cities; but the Canaanites would dwell in that  land.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen  strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, but did not utterly  drive them out.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And the children of Joseph spake unto Joshua, saying, Why  hast thou given me but one lot and one portion to inherit, seeing I am  a great people, forasmuch as the LORD hath blessed me hitherto?</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Joshua answered them, If thou be a great people, then  get thee up to the wood country, and cut down for thyself there in the  land of the Perizzites and of the giants, if mount Ephraim be too  narrow for thee.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And the children of Joseph said, The hill is not enough for  us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land of the valley have  chariots of iron, both they who are of Bethshean and her towns, and  they who are of the valley of Jezreel.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim  and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power:  thou shalt not have one lot only:</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>But the mountain shall be thine; for it is a wood, and thou  shalt cut it down: and the outgoings of it shall be thine: for thou  shalt drive out the Canaanites, though they have iron chariots, and  though they be strong.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='18'>
+    <verse no='1'>And the whole congregation of the children of Israel  assembled together at Shiloh, and set up the tabernacle of the  congregation there. And the land was subdued before them.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And there remained among the children of Israel seven  tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye  slack to go to possess the land, which the LORD God of your fathers  hath given you?</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Give out from among you three men for each tribe: and I will  send them, and they shall rise, and go through the land, and describe  it according to the inheritance of them; and they shall come again to  me.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And they shall divide it into seven parts: Judah shall abide  in their coast on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in  their coasts on the north.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and  bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here  before the LORD our God.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>But the Levites have no part among you; for the priesthood  of the LORD is their inheritance: and Gad, and Reuben, and half the  tribe of Manasseh, have received their inheritance beyond Jordan on the  east, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave them.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And the men arose, and went away: and Joshua charged them  that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land,  and describe it, and come again to me, that I may here cast lots for  you before the LORD in Shiloh.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And the men went and passed through the land, and described  it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to  the host at Shiloh.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And Joshua cast lots for them in Shiloh before the LORD: and  there Joshua divided the land unto the children of Israel according to  their divisions.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And the lot of the tribe of the children of Benjamin came up  according to their families: and the coast of their lot came forth  between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And their border on the north side was from Jordan; and the  border went up to the side of Jericho on the north side, and went up  through the mountains westward; and the goings out thereof were at the  wilderness of Bethaven.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side  of Luz, which is Bethel, southward; and the border descended to  Atarothadar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether  Bethhoron.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And the border was drawn thence, and compassed the corner of  the sea southward, from the hill that lieth before Bethhoron southward;  and the goings out thereof were at Kirjathbaal, which is Kirjathjearim,  a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And the south quarter was from the end of Kirjathjearim, and  the border went out on the west, and went out to the well of waters of  Nephtoah:</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And the border came down to the end of the mountain that  lieth before the valley of the son of Hinnom, and which is in the  valley of the giants on the north, and descended to the valley of  Hinnom, to the side of Jebusi on the south, and descended to Enrogel,</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And was drawn from the north, and went forth to Enshemesh,  and went forth toward Geliloth, which is over against the going up of  Adummim, and descended to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben,</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And passed along toward the side over against Arabah  northward, and went down unto Arabah:</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And the border passed along to the side of Bethhoglah  northward: and the outgoings of the border were at the north bay of the  salt sea at the south end of Jordan: this was the south coast.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was  the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof  round about, according to their families.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Now the cities of the tribe of the children of Benjamin  according to their families were Jericho, and Bethhoglah, and the  valley of Keziz,</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And Betharabah, and Zemaraim, and Bethel,</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And Avim, and Pharah, and Ophrah,</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And Chepharhaammonai, and Ophni, and Gaba; twelve cities  with their villages:</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>Gibeon, and Ramah, and Beeroth,</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And Mizpeh, and Chephirah, and Mozah,</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And Rekem, and Irpeel, and Taralah,</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And Zelah, Eleph, and Jebusi, which is Jerusalem, Gibeath,  and Kirjath; fourteen cities with their villages. This is the  inheritance of the children of Benjamin according to their families.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='19'>
+    <verse no='1'>And the second lot came forth to Simeon, even for the tribe  of the children of Simeon according to their families: and their  inheritance was within the inheritance of the children of Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And they had in their inheritance Beersheba, and Sheba, and  Moladah,</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And Hazarshual, and Balah, and Azem,</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And Eltolad, and Bethul, and Hormah,</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And Ziklag, and Bethmarcaboth, and Hazarsusah,</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And Bethlebaoth, and Sharuhen; thirteen cities and their  villages:</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Ain, Remmon, and Ether, and Ashan; four cities and their  villages:</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And all the villages that were round about these cities to  Baalathbeer, Ramath of the south. This is the inheritance of the tribe  of the children of Simeon according to their families.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Out of the portion of the children of Judah was the  inheritance of the children of Simeon: for the part of the children of  Judah was too much for them: therefore the children of Simeon had their  inheritance within the inheritance of them.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun  according to their families: and the border of their inheritance was  unto Sarid:</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And their border went up toward the sea, and Maralah, and  reached to Dabbasheth, and reached to the river that is before Jokneam;</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And turned from Sarid eastward toward the sunrising unto the  border of Chislothtabor, and then goeth out to Daberath, and goeth up  to Japhia,</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And from thence passeth on along on the east to  Gittahhepher, to Ittahkazin, and goeth out to Remmonmethoar to Neah;</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And the border compasseth it on the north side to Hannathon:  and the outgoings thereof are in the valley of Jiphthahel:</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Kattath, and Nahallal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and  Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>This is the inheritance of the children of Zebulun according  to their families, these cities with their villages.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And the fourth lot came out to Issachar, for the children of  Issachar according to their families.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and  Shunem,</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And Haphraim, and Shihon, and Anaharath,</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez,</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And Remeth, and Engannim, and Enhaddah, and Bethpazzez;</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and  Bethshemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen  cities with their villages.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of  Issachar according to their families, the cities and their villages.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And the fifth lot came out for the tribe of the children of  Asher according to their families.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and  Achshaph,</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to  Carmel westward, and to Shihorlibnath;</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And turneth toward the sunrising to Bethdagon, and reacheth  to Zebulun, and to the valley of Jiphthahel toward the north side of  Bethemek, and Neiel, and goeth out to Cabul on the left hand,</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And Hebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto  great Zidon;</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And then the coast turneth to Ramah, and to the strong city  Tyre; and the coast turneth to Hosah; and the outgoings thereof are at  the sea from the coast to Achzib:</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>Ummah also, and Aphek, and Rehob: twenty and two cities with  their villages.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of  Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, even for  the children of Naphtali according to their families.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And their coast was from Heleph, from Allon to Zaanannim,  and Adami, Nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakum; and the outgoings thereof  were at Jordan:</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>And then the coast turneth westward to Aznothtabor, and  goeth out from thence to Hukkok, and reacheth to Zebulun on the south  side, and reacheth to Asher on the west side, and to Judah upon Jordan  toward the sunrising.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath,  and Chinnereth,</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>And Adamah, and Ramah, and Hazor,</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>And Kedesh, and Edrei, and Enhazor,</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>And Iron, and Migdalel, Horem, and Bethanath, and  Bethshemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of  Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages.</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>And the seventh lot came out for the tribe of the children  of Dan according to their families.</verse>
+    <verse no='41'>And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol,  and Irshemesh,</verse>
+    <verse no='42'>And Shaalabbin, and Ajalon, and Jethlah,</verse>
+    <verse no='43'>And Elon, and Thimnathah, and Ekron,</verse>
+    <verse no='44'>And Eltekeh, and Gibbethon, and Baalath,</verse>
+    <verse no='45'>And Jehud, and Beneberak, and Gathrimmon,</verse>
+    <verse no='46'>And Mejarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Japho.</verse>
+    <verse no='47'>And the coast of the children of Dan went out too little for  them: therefore the children of Dan went up to fight against Leshem,  and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it,  and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their  father.</verse>
+    <verse no='48'>This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Dan  according to their families, these cities with their villages.</verse>
+    <verse no='49'>When they had made an end of dividing the land for  inheritance by their coasts, the children of Israel gave an inheritance  to Joshua the son of Nun among them:</verse>
+    <verse no='50'>According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city  which he asked, even Timnathserah in mount Ephraim: and he built the  city, and dwelt therein.</verse>
+    <verse no='51'>These are the inheritances, which Eleazar the priest, and  Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of  the children of Israel, divided for an inheritance by lot in Shiloh  before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. So  they made an end of dividing the country.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='20'>
+    <verse no='1'>The LORD also spake unto Joshua, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Speak to the children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for you  cities of refuge, whereof I spake unto you by the hand of Moses:</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>That the slayer that killeth any person unawares and  unwittingly may flee thither: and they shall be your refuge from the  avenger of blood.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And when he that doth flee unto one of those cities shall  stand at the entering of the gate of the city, and shall declare his  cause in the ears of the elders of that city, they shall take him into  the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they  shall not deliver the slayer up into his hand; because he smote his  neighbour unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And he shall dwell in that city, until he stand before the  congregation for judgment, and until the death of the high priest that  shall be in those days: then shall the slayer return, and come unto his  own city, and unto his own house, unto the city from whence he fled.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and  Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba, which is Hebron, in the  mountain of Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And on the other side Jordan by Jericho eastward, they  assigned Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out of the tribe of  Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in  Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>These were the cities appointed for all the children of  Israel, and for the stranger that sojourneth among them, that whosoever  killeth any person at unawares might flee thither, and not die by the  hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='21'>
+    <verse no='1'>Then came near the heads of the fathers of the Levites unto  Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son of Nun, and unto the heads  of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel;</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And they spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of Canaan,  saying, The LORD commanded by the hand of Moses to give us cities to  dwell in, with the suburbs thereof for our cattle.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of  their inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD, these cities and  their suburbs.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And the lot came out for the families of the Kohathites: and  the children of Aaron the priest, which were of the Levites, had by lot  out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the tribe of Simeon, and out of  the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the  families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out  of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And the children of Gershon had by lot out of the families  of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the  tribe of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh in Bashan,  thirteen cities.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>The children of Merari by their families had out of the  tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of  Zebulun, twelve cities.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites  these cities with their suburbs, as the LORD commanded by the hand of  Moses.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And they gave out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and  out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, these cities which are here  mentioned by name.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Which the children of Aaron, being of the families of the  Kohathites, who were of the children of Levi, had: for theirs was the  first lot.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And they gave them the city of Arba the father of Anak,  which city is Hebron, in the hill country of Judah, with the suburbs  thereof round about it.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave  they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Thus they gave to the children of Aaron the priest Hebron  with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Libnah  with her suburbs,</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And Jattir with her suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her suburbs,</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And Holon with her suburbs, and Debir with her suburbs,</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah with her suburbs, and  Bethshemesh with her suburbs; nine cities out of those two tribes.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And out of the tribe of Benjamin, Gibeon with her suburbs,  Geba with her suburbs,</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs; four  cities.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were  thirteen cities with their suburbs.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites  which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of  their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>For they gave them Shechem with her suburbs in mount  Ephraim, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Gezer with her  suburbs,</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Bethhoron with her  suburbs; four cities.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh with her suburbs,  Gibbethon with her suburbs,</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>Aijalon with her suburbs, Gathrimmon with her suburbs; four  cities.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her  suburbs, and Gathrimmon with her suburbs; two cities.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>All the cities were ten with their suburbs for the families  of the children of Kohath that remained.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And unto the children of Gershon, of the families of the  Levites, out of the other half tribe of Manasseh they gave Golan in  Bashan with her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and  Beeshterah with her suburbs; two cities.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>And out of the tribe of Issachar, Kishon with her suburbs,  Dabareh with her suburbs,</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>Jarmuth with her suburbs, Engannim with her suburbs; four  cities.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with her suburbs,  Abdon with her suburbs,</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>Helkath with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs; four  cities.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And out of the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with her  suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Hammothdor with her  suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs; three cities.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>All the cities of the Gershonites according to their  families were thirteen cities with their suburbs.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of  the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and  Kartah with her suburbs,</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>Dimnah with her suburbs, Nahalal with her suburbs; four  cities.</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with her suburbs, and  Jahazah with her suburbs,</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>Kedemoth with her suburbs, and Mephaath with her suburbs;  four cities.</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead with her  suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and Mahanaim with her  suburbs,</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with her suburbs; four  cities in all.</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>So all the cities for the children of Merari by their  families, which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were by  their lot twelve cities.</verse>
+    <verse no='41'>All the cities of the Levites within the possession of the  children of Israel were forty and eight cities with their suburbs.</verse>
+    <verse no='42'>These cities were every one with their suburbs round about  them: thus were all these cities.</verse>
+    <verse no='43'>And the LORD gave unto Israel all the land which he sware to  give unto their fathers; and they possessed it, and dwelt therein.</verse>
+    <verse no='44'>And the LORD gave them rest round about, according to all  that he sware unto their fathers: and there stood not a man of all  their enemies before them; the LORD delivered all their enemies into  their hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='45'>There failed not ought of any good thing which the LORD had  spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='22'>
+    <verse no='1'>Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the  half tribe of Manasseh,</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And said unto them, Ye have kept all that Moses the servant  of the LORD commanded you, and have obeyed my voice in all that I  commanded you:</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this  day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the LORD your God.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And now the LORD your God hath given rest unto your  brethren, as he promised them: therefore now return ye, and get you  unto your tents, and unto the land of your possession, which Moses the  servant of the LORD gave you on the other side Jordan.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law,  which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your  God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to  cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your  soul.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>So Joshua blessed them, and sent them away: and they went  unto their tents.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given  possession in Bashan: but unto the other half thereof gave Joshua among  their brethren on this side Jordan westward. And when Joshua sent them  away also unto their tents, then he blessed them,</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto  your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and  with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil  of your enemies with your brethren.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the  half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of  Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the  country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were  possessed, according to the word of the LORD by the hand of Moses.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that are in  the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and  the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great  altar to see to.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And the children of Israel heard say, Behold, the children  of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh have  built an altar over against the land of Canaan, in the borders of  Jordan, at the passage of the children of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole  congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at  Shiloh, to go up to war against them.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And the children of Israel sent unto the children of Reuben,  and to the children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, into the  land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest,</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And with him ten princes, of each chief house a prince  throughout all the tribes of Israel; and each one was an head of the  house of their fathers among the thousands of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And they came unto the children of Reuben, and to the  children of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh, unto the land of  Gilead, and they spake with them, saying,</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>Thus saith the whole congregation of the LORD, What trespass  is this that ye have committed against the God of Israel, to turn away  this day from following the LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar,  that ye might rebel this day against the LORD?</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are  not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the  congregation of the LORD,</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>But that ye must turn away this day from following the LORD?  and it will be, seeing ye rebel to day against the LORD, that to morrow  he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Notwithstanding, if the land of your possession be unclean,  then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of the LORD, wherein  the LORD's tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel  not against the LORD, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar  beside the altar of the LORD our God.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the  accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and  that man perished not alone in his iniquity.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the  half tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto the heads of the  thousands of Israel,</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>The LORD God of gods, the LORD God of gods, he knoweth, and  Israel he shall know; if it be in rebellion, or if in transgression  against the LORD, (save us not this day,)</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>That we have built us an altar to turn from following the  LORD, or if to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or if to  offer peace offerings thereon, let the LORD himself require it;</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing,  saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children,  saying, What have ye to do with the LORD God of Israel?</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>For the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you,  ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD:  so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>Therefore we said, Let us now prepare to build us an altar,  not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice:</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our  generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before  him with our burnt offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our  peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time  to come, Ye have no part in the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should so say  to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say again,  Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made,  not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it is a witness  between us and you.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>God forbid that we should rebel against the LORD, and turn  this day from following the LORD, to build an altar for burnt  offerings, for meat offerings, or for sacrifices, beside the altar of  the LORD our God that is before his tabernacle.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the  congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him,  heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and  the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the  children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of  Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD is among us, because ye  have not committed this trespass against the LORD: now ye have  delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, and the princes,  returned from the children of Reuben, and from the children of Gad, out  of the land of Gilead, unto the land of Canaan, to the children of  Israel, and brought them word again.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And the thing pleased the children of Israel; and the  children of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to go up against  them in battle, to destroy the land wherein the children of Reuben and  Gad dwelt.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called  the altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is  God.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='23'>
+    <verse no='1'>And it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had  given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua  waxed old and stricken in age.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and  for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said  unto them, I am old and stricken in age:</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto  all these nations because of you; for the LORD your God is he that hath  fought for you.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>Behold, I have divided unto you by lot these nations that  remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from Jordan, with all the  nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea westward.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>And the LORD your God, he shall expel them from before you,  and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land,  as the LORD your God hath promised unto you.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that  is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside  therefrom to the right hand or to the left;</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>That ye come not among these nations, these that remain  among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to  swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them:</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>But cleave unto the LORD your God, as ye have done unto this  day.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations  and strong: but as for you, no man hath been able to stand before you  unto this day.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your  God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the  LORD your God.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the  remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall  make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more  drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be  snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in  your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your  God hath given you.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth:  and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one  thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake  concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, and not one thing hath  failed thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all good things are  come upon you, which the LORD your God promised you; so shall the LORD  bring upon you all evil things, until he have destroyed you from off  this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God,  which he commanded you, and have gone and served other gods, and bowed  yourselves to them; then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against  you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath  given unto you.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='24'>
+    <verse no='1'>And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and  called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their  judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before  God.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God  of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old  time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and  they served other gods.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the  flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied  his seed, and gave him Isaac.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau  mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into  Egypt.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according  to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto  the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and  horsemen unto the Red sea.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between  you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them;  and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the  wilderness a long season.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt  on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them  into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them  from before you.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred  against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse  you:</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed  you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>And you went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men  of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and  the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and  the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from  before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword,  nor with thy bow.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and  cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and  oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and  in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other  side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you  this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served  that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites,  in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the  LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should  forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our  fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which  did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way  wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even  the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the  LORD; for he is our God.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD:  for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your  transgressions nor your sins.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will  turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you  good.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the  LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against  yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they  said, We are witnesses.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are  among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we  serve, and his voice will we obey.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set  them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God,  and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by  the sanctuary of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone  shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD  which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest  ye deny your God.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his  inheritance.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son  of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years  old.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in  Timnathserah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill  of Gaash.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all  the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all  the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel  brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground  which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an  hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children  of Joseph.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a  hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount  Ephraim.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+</book>