Joshua 10 Cross References - Thomson

¹ Now when Adonibezek, the king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Gai, and utterly destroyed it; [As they had done to Jericho, and the king thereof, so had they done to Gai, and its king] and that the inhabitants of Gabaon had gone over to Joshua and Israel; ² [Now there was a great dread on account of them, for he knew that Gabaon was a great city, like one of the chief cities, and that all the inhabitants thereof were men of valour;] ³ Adonibezek, the king of Jerusalem sent to Elam, king of Chebron, and to Phedon, king of Jerimuth, and to Jephtha, king of Lachis, and to Dabin, king of Odollam, saying, ⁴ Haste, come up to me, and help me, and let us smite Gabaon, for they have revolted to Joshua and the Israelites. ⁵ So the five kings of the Jebusites, the king of Jerusalem, and the king of Chebron, and the king of Jerimuth, and the king of Lachis, and the king of Odollam, went up, they and their people, and encamped about Gabaon, and besieged it. ⁶ Thereupon the inhabitants of Gabaon sent to Joshua, to the camp of Israel, at Galgala, saying, Slack not thy hands from thy servants. Come up to us with all speed, and help us, and deliver us; for all the kings of the Amorites who inhabit the hilly country are assembled against us. ⁷ So Joshua went up from Galgala, he and all the people of war with him, every man of valour. ⁸ And the Lord said to Joshua, Be not afraid of them, for I have delivered them into thy hands. There shall not one of them be left before you. ⁹ And when Joshua came upon them suddenly, having marched all night from Galgala, ¹⁰ the Lord struck them with a panic, on account of the children of Israel, and the Lord routed them, with a great slaughter, at Gabaon. And they pursued them by the way of the ascent of Oronin, and smote them even to Azeka, and to Makeda. ¹¹ And as they were fleeing from before Israel, at the descent of Oronin, the Lord poured a storm of hail stones from heaven upon them, all the way to Azeka; so that there were more who died by the hail stones, than the children of Israel slew with the sword in battle. ¹² Then Joshua spoke to the Lord, on the day God delivered up the Amorite into the hand of Israel. When he had discomfited them at Gabaon, and they were routed before the children of Israel, Joshua said, Let the sun stand over against Gabaon, and the moon over against the valley of Ailon. ¹³ So the sun stood still, and the moon in its station; until God executed vengeance on their enemies, the sun stood in the midst of heaven; it advanced not to the setting, to the end of a day. ¹⁴ So that there never was such a day before, nor after it such an instance of God's hearkening to man. ¹⁵ Because the Lord fought conjointly with Israel, ¹⁶ therefore the five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makeda. ¹⁷ And when it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hidden in the cave at Makeda, ¹⁸ Joshua said, Roll stones on the mouth of the cave, and set men to keep watch over them; ¹⁹ but as for you, halt not; pursue your enemies, and attack their rear, and suffer them not to enter their cities; for the Lord our God hath delivered them into our hands. ²⁰ And when Joshua, and all Israel, had made an end of slaughtering them till they were utterly routed, and those who had escaped had got into fortified cities, ²¹ all the people returned safe to Joshua to Makeda, and there was not a murmur on the tongue of any one among the children of Israel. ²² Then Joshua said, Open the cave, and bring out the five kings out of the cave. ²³ So they brought the five kings out of the cave; the king of Jerusalem, and the king of Chebron, and the king of Jerimuth, and the king of Lachis, and the king of Odollam. ²⁴ And when they had brought them out to Joshua, he called together ail Israel, namely the chief commanders of the army who went out with him, and said to them, Go near, and put your feet on the necks of those men. And when they had gone near, and put their feet on their necks, ²⁵ Joshua said to them, Fear them not, nor be dismayed. Be strong and of good courage; for thus will the Lord do to all your enemies, against whom you fight. ²⁶ So Joshua slew them, and hanged them on five gibbets, and they hung on the gibbets till evening. ²⁷ And at the setting of the sun Joshua gave orders, and they took them down from the gibbets, and threw them into the cave, and rolled stones on the cave, which still remain. ²⁸ Now on that day they took Makeda, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed every thing therein which breathed. There was not one left who escaped or fled. And when they had done to the king of Makeda as they did to the king of Jericho, ²⁹ Joshua, and all Israel with him, marched from Makeda to Lebna and besieged it; ³⁰ and the Lord delivered it into the hands of Israel, and they took it and the king thereof, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and every thing in it which had breath. There was not one left in it who escaped, or fled. And when they had done to the king thereof as they did to the king of Jericho, ³¹ Joshua, and all Israel with him, marched from Lebna to Lachis, and encamped about it, and besieged it. ³² And the Lord delivered Lachis into the hands of Israel; and they took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed it as they had done Lebna. ³³ At that time Elam, king of Gazer, having come up to assist Lachis, Joshua smote him with the edge of the sword, till there was none of them left who escaped, or fled. ³⁴ Then Joshua, and all Israel with him, went from Lachis to Odollam, and encamped about it, and besieged it. ³⁵ And the Lord delivered it into the hand of Israel, and they took it that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword. ³⁶ And when they had slain every living soul therein, as they had done at Lachis, ³⁷ Joshua, and all Israel with him, went to Chebron, and encamped about it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and every living soul therein. Not one escaped. As they had done to Odollam, they utterly destroyed it, and all that were in it. ³⁸ Then Joshua, and all Israel, wheeled round to Dabir, and encamped about it, and took it, and the king thereof, and the villages thereof. And he smote it with the edge of the sword. ³⁹ And they utterly destroyed it, and every soul in it. They did not leave one alive. As they had done to Chebron, and its king, so they did to Dabir, and its king. ⁴⁰ Thus did Joshua smite all the hilly country, and Nageb, and the plain, and Asedoth, and the kings thereof. They did not leave one of them alive. They utterly destroyed every one who breathed the breath of life, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded. ⁴¹ From Kades-barne to Gaza, Joshua smote at one time all the land of Gosom, quite to Gabaon, all their kings, and their land, for the Lord the God of Israel fought for Israel.

¹⁸ Melchisedek also the king of Salem carried out bread and wine. Now he was a priest of the most High God,

²¹ Now when Joshua devoted it, and all that were in it, men and women, young and old, ox and ass, to the edge of the sword,

² and thou shalt treat Gai, as thou hast treated Jericho, and its king; but the plunder of the cattle thou shalt take for thyself. Lay thee an ambush for the city, behind it.

²² and the others issued out of the city to meet them, so that they were in the midst of the army, some being on one side, and some on the other; and they smote them until there was not one left alive, nor any who escaped. ²³ They took the king of Gai alive, and brought him to Joshua, ²⁴ and when the Israelites had made an end of slaying all that were in Gai, and all that were in the plains, and on the mountain, at the steep, from which at the last they had driven them, Joshua returned to Gai, and smote it with the edge of the sword. ²⁵ Now they who fell on that day, including men and women, even all the inhabitants of Gai, were twelve thousand. ²⁶ Over and above the spoils which were in the city, the Israelites took all the prey for themselves, ²⁷ according to the command of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Joshua. ²⁸ Then Joshua burned the city with fire, and made it an uninhabitable heap forever, as at this day. ²⁹ And he hanged the king of Gai on a gibbet; and he continued on the gibbet till the evening. But, at the setting of the sun, Joshua gave orders, and they took down his body from the gibbet, and threw it into a pit; and raised over it a heap of stones, which remaineth to this day.

¹⁵ And Joshua made peace with them, and they entered into a covenant with them to save their lives; and the chiefs of the congregation sword to them. ¹⁶ But three days after they had entered into covenant with them, they heard that they were in the neighbourhood, and dwelt close by them. ¹⁷ Whereupon the children of Israel removed, and came to their cities. Now their cities were Gabaon, and Kephira, and Berot, and the cities of Jarim; ¹⁸ But the children of Israel did not make war on them, because all the chiefs had sworn to them by the Lord the God of Israel. ¹⁹ When all the congregation murmured at the chiefs, the chiefs said to all the congregation, We have sworn to them by the Lord the God of Israel; now therefore we cannot touch them. ²⁰ This we will do. We will let them live and protect them; that there may be no wrath against us because of the oath which we have sworn to them. ²¹ They shall live; but they shall be hewers of wood, and drawers of water for all the congregation, as the chiefs have said to them. ²² For Joshua had called them, and said to them, Why did you impose upon me saying, We are far distant from thee, seeing you are our nearest neighbour? ²³ Now therefore you are cursed, and not one of you shall escape servitude; from being a hewer of wood, and a drawer of water, for me and my God. ²⁴ And they answered Joshua saying, We were told all that the Lord thy God commanded his servant Moses, to give yon this land, and to extirpate us, and all the inhabitants thereof from before you, therefore we were in great terror for our lives because of you, and we did this. ²⁵ And now behold we are in your power, deal with us as you please, and as it seemeth good to you. ²⁶ So they dealt with them in this manner, and Joshua saved them that day out of the hand of the Israelites, and they did not destroy them. ²⁷ And on that day Joshua made them hewers of wood, and drawers of water, for the whole congregation, and for the altar of God. For this cause the inhabitants of Gabaon are hewers of wood, and drawers of water, for the altar of God, even at this day, and are to be so for the place which the Lord will chuse.

¹⁹ so that there was not a city which Israel did not take. They took them all by battle. ²⁰ For the Lord permitted them to assume courage to come to battle with Israel, that they might be utterly destroyed, that no mercy might be shewn them; but that they might be utterly destroyed, as the Lord commanded Moses.

¹ For this Melchisedek, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham on his return from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him,

¹⁴ Nations have heard and are troubled: Pangs have taken hold of the inhabitants of Phylisteim; ¹⁵ The Emirs of Edom are already in commotion; And as for the chiefs of Moab, horror hath seized them: All the inhabitants of Chanaan are appalled. ¹⁶ On them let dread and terror fall. By the greatness of thine arm may they be petrified, till thy people pass through, Lord; till this thy people pass by, whom thou hast purchased.

²⁵ None shall be able to stand before you. For the Lord your God will impress the fear of you, and the dread of you, on the face of all the land on which you shall tread, as the Lord hath said to you.

¹⁰ then shall all the nations of the earth see that thou art called by the name of the Lord, and they will be afraid of thee;

⁹ and said to them, I know that the Lord hath given you this land; for the dread of you is fallen upon us: ¹⁰ for we have heard that the Lord God dried up the Bed sea on your account, when you came out of Egypt, and all that he hath done to the two kings of the Amorites who were on the borders of the Jordan, to Seon and Og, whom you have utterly destroyed: ¹¹ and, upon hearing these things, we became faint hearted, and there was no spirit in any of us because of you. Since, then, the Lord your God is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath, ¹² swear now to me by the Lord your God, because I shew mercy to you, that you will shew mercy to my father's house; ¹³ and that you will save alive my father's household, my mother, and my brothers, and all my family, and all that belong to them, and that you will deliver my soul from death.

²⁴ And they said to him, Because the Lord hath delivered up all that land into our hands, therefore all the inhabitants of the land are in the utmost consternation because of us.

⁵ Now David had said to Angchus, If thy servant hath found favour in thy sight, let a place, I pray thee, be given me in one of thy cities, in the country, and I will settle there. For why should thy servant dwell in the royal city with thee?

²⁶ Now Joab had fought at Rabbath of the Ammonites, and taken the royal city.

⁴ For lo! the kings of the land assembled; they came together. ⁵ Having taken a view they were so astonished; they were frightened, they were shaken: ⁶ a trembling seized them: pangs were there as of a woman in travail.

²⁶ therefore I will laugh at your calamity; and mock when your destruction cometh. ²⁷ Yes, when tumult shall suddenly come upon you; and destruction like a whirlwind shall be at hand; even when tribulation and siege approach you; or when destruction is advancing upon you.

²⁴ A wicked man is whirled about by destruction; but the desire of the righteous is acceptable.

²⁷ but a certain dreadful expectation of judgment, and fiery indignation which will devour the adversaries.

³¹ It is a dreadful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

¹⁵ and the kings of the earth and the nobles and the rich and the chief commanders and the under officers and every bondman and every freeman hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains, ¹⁶ saying to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall upon us, and hide us from the face of him who is sitting on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb, ¹⁷ for the great day of His wrath is come and who is able to stand?"

² And Sarah died in the city Arbok, which is in the vale, the same is Chebron in the land of Chanaan. And Abraham went to mourn for Sarah and to make lamentation.

¹⁴ Whereupon Israel said to him, Go and see if thy brothers and the flocks be well and bring me word. So he despatched him from the valley of Hebron and he went to Sychem:

²² Then they went up, on a course parallel with the front of the desart; then turned down to Chebron, where were the Achimans and the Sessians, and the Thelamins, descendants of Enach. Now Chebron was built seven years before Tanis in Egypt.

¹ Now when Adonibezek, the king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Gai, and utterly destroyed it; [As they had done to Jericho, and the king thereof, so had they done to Gai, and its king] and that the inhabitants of Gabaon had gone over to Joshua and Israel;

⁵ So the five kings of the Jebusites, the king of Jerusalem, and the king of Chebron, and the king of Jerimuth, and the king of Lachis, and the king of Odollam, went up, they and their people, and encamped about Gabaon, and besieged it.

¹⁰ the king of Jerusalem; the king of Chebron; ¹¹ the king of Jerimuth; the king of Lachis; ¹² the king of Ailam; the king of Gazer; ¹³ the king of Dabir: the king of Gadir;

¹⁵ Now the name of Chebron, formerly, was city Argob. It was the metropolis of the Enakims. Now when the land had rest from war,

³⁵ and Jermuth, and Odollam, and Membra, and Saocho, and Jaseka, ³⁶ and Sakarim, and Gadera, with its villages; fourteen cities, with their villages: ³⁷ Senna, and Adosan, and Magadalgad, ³⁸ and Dalad, and Maspha, and Jachareel, ³⁹ and Basedoth, and Ideadalea,

⁵⁴ and Eyma, and city Arbok, this is Chebron, and Soraith, nine cities with their sheepcots:

⁶³ But the Jebusites dwelt in Jerusalem, and the children of Juda were not able to destroy them. So the Jebusites had dwelt in Jerusalem to this day.

²⁸ and Jebus, this is Jerusalem, and Gabaoth-Jarim, thirteen cities with their villages. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, according to their communities.

¹¹ now the time which David reigned at Chebron over the house of Juda was seven years and six months]

¹⁴ Ezekias king of Juda sent messengers to the king of Assyria at Lachis, saying, I have done wrong. Depart from me. Whatever thou imposest on me I will bear. Thereupon the king of Assyria imposed on Ezekias king of Juda, three hundred talents of silver and thirty talents of gold.

¹⁷ Nevertheless the king of Assyria sent Tharthan and Raphis, and Rapsakes of Lachis, to king Ezekias with a great army against Jerusalem. And when they had marched up and arrived at Jerusalem they halted at the conduit of the upper pool, which is by the high way to the fuller's field,

⁹ and Adorai and Lachis and Azeka

¹³ Was it the inhabitant of Lachis? She is a leader to sin for the daughter of Sion. Because in thee have been found the impieties of Israel,

¹⁵ And Joshua made peace with them, and they entered into a covenant with them to save their lives; and the chiefs of the congregation sword to them.

⁹ Know this, nations, and be struck with consternation. Hearken ye who are in the remotest parts of the earth; be struck with consternation ye who have made yourselves strong; for though you should again become strong; with consternation you shall again be stricken, ¹⁰ and what counsel soever you may take, the Lord will defeat it; and what word soever you may speak shall not take effect among you; because God is with us:

⁵ The nations saw and were affrighted; the ends of the earth drew near and came together. ⁶ Every one is determining to help his neighbour and his brother, and one will say, ⁷ The carpenter had strength, so had the smith who beateth with a hammer and plateth it. Sometimes indeed one will say, "It is a beautiful composition?" These things they made strong with nails; they will fix them up that they may not be moved:

²⁴ Then Jesus said to his disciples if any one wisheth to follow me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

¹⁹ If ye were of the world, the world would love its own. Now because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.

² They will excommunicate you. Indeed a time is coming, when whosoever killeth you will think he doth an act of religious worship to God. ³ And these things they will do to you because they know neither the Father nor me.

²³ Now when many days were fulfilled, the Jews conspired to kill him; ²⁴ and Saul was apprized of their plot. As they were watching the gates day and night to murder him, ²⁵ the disciples took him by night and let him down over the wall, lowering him in a basket. ²⁶ And when Saul came to Jerusalem and tried to associate with the disciples, they were all afraid of him, not believing that he was a disciple. ²⁷ But Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles, and told them, how he had on the road seen the Lord, who had spoken to him; and how he had spoken boldly in Damascus in the name of Jesus.

²⁸ crying out, Men of Israel help; This is the man who is continually teaching all men every where against the people and the law and this very place; and moreover he hath brought Greeks into the temple and defiled this holy place.

¹² Indeed all who wish to live holy in Christ Jesus will be persecuted,

⁴ Ye adulterers and adulteresses! do you not know that the friendship of this world is enmity against God? Whoever therefore wisheth to be a friend of the world is adjudged an enemy of God.

⁴ at this they are surprized; and when you do not run with them into the same sink of debauchery, they rail.

¹⁴ For these are spirits of demons making signs which go forth to the kings of the earth and the whole world, to gather them together to the battle of the great day of God the Almighty.

⁸ and will go forth to seduce the nations which are in the four corners of the earth Gog and Magog to assemble them for battle; the number of whom will be as the sand of the sea. ⁹ And they came up on the breadth of the earth and surrounded the camp of the saints and the beloved city, and fire came down from God out of heaven and devoured them. ¹⁰ And the Devil who was seducing them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where the beast and the false prophet are; and they shall be tormented day and night for the ages of the ages.

¹⁶ And in the fourth generation they shall be brought back hither. For the sins of the Amorites have not yet come to the full.

²⁹ and the Amalekites dwell in the land to the south, and the Chettites, and the Evites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, inhabit the hilly country; and the Chananites dwell on the sea shore, and along the river Jordan;

¹ When the kings of the Amorites, who dwelt on the border of the Jordan, and those in the hilly country, and those in the plain, and those along the coast of the great sea, and those bordering on Antilibanus, namely the Chettites, and the Chananites, and the Pherezites, and the Evites, and the Amorites, and the Gergasites, and the Jebusites, heard of these things, ² they assembled together to attack Joshua and Israel, all at the same time.

⁶ Thereupon the inhabitants of Gabaon sent to Joshua, to the camp of Israel, at Galgala, saying, Slack not thy hands from thy servants. Come up to us with all speed, and help us, and deliver us; for all the kings of the Amorites who inhabit the hilly country are assembled against us.

¹⁵ So I took from among you men of wisdom, knowledge, and understanding, and appointed them to be leaders over you; captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds, and captains of fifties, and captains of tens; and promulgators of the law for your judges.

¹⁰ And on the fourteenth of the same month, towards evening, the children of Israel pre 11 pared the passover, on the confines of Jericho, in the plain of Jordan,

⁶ they came to Joshua, to the camp of Israel, at Galgala, and said to Joshua and Israel, We are come from a far distant land, now therefore make a covenant with us.

²⁴ And they answered Joshua saying, We were told all that the Lord thy God commanded his servant Moses, to give yon this land, and to extirpate us, and all the inhabitants thereof from before you, therefore we were in great terror for our lives because of you, and we did this. ²⁵ And now behold we are in your power, deal with us as you please, and as it seemeth good to you.

¹¹ they gave them Kariatharbok, the capital of the Enakims, which is Chebron, on the mountain of Juda. Now the suburbs around it,

²⁴ So when he had saddled the ass, she said to her servant, Come, drive on. Slack not thy gait for me, unless I order thee.

² Around her are mountains; and the Lord is around his people, from this time forth and forever;

²² for my God is great and will not pass me by. The Lord our judge; the Lord our chief; the Lord our king; the Lord will himself save us.

³⁹ And the angel left her. And in those days Mary set out and travelled with speed to the hill country, to a city of Juda,

¹ Then the Lord said to Joshua, Fear not, nor be dismayed. Take with thee all the men who are warriors, and arise, and go up to Gai. Behold I have delivered into thy hands, the king of Gai, and his land;

¹² saying, Perhaps they may order what is hard; [for whatever this people order is hard.] Be not ye terrified with the fear of them, nor dismayed;

¹⁴ for if thou hast put trust in him he will be to thee a sanctuary, and you shall not run against a stumbling stone, nor as under a falling rock. But as for the houses of Jacob, they are in a trap, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem are in a pit:

² the Lord said to me, Fear him not; for into thy hand I have delivered him, and all his people, and all his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou hast done to Seon, the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Esebon.

¹ When thou shalt go out to battle against thine enemies, and see horsemen, and charioteers, and a people more numerous than thou art; be not afraid of them; for the Lord thy God is with thee; he who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. ² And when thou art near coming to battle, the priest shall approach, and speak to the people, ³ and say to them, Hear, O Israel! Yon are now going to battle against your enemies; let not your heart be discouraged; fear not, nor be dismayed, nor turn aside from before them; ⁴ for the Lord your God goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, and to save you.

⁵ Not a man shall withstand you all the clays of thy life. As I was with Moses, so will I be with thee. I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. ⁶ Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt parcel out to this people the land, which I solemnly promised their fathers to give to them. ⁷ Therefore be strong, and courageous, to watch, and to do as my servant Moses commanded. Thou must not deviate from them, to the right or to the left. That thou mayst clearly understand all that thou art to do: ⁸ the book of the Law must never be out of thy mouth. Thou must study it day and night, that thou mayst know how to do all that are written. Then shalt thou be prospered; and thou wilt make thy ways prosperous; and then thou shalt have a good understanding. ⁹ Behold I have commanded thee; be strong and courageous: fear not, nor be dismayed; for the Lord thy God is with thee withersoever thou goest.

⁶ the Lord said to Joshua, Be not afraid of them, for to-morrow, about this time, I will deliver them up vanquished before Israel. Thou shalt hamstring their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.

¹⁴ And Debbora said to Barak, Arise, for this is the day, on which the Lord hath delivered Sisara into thy hand; for the Lord will march before thee. So Barak went down from mount Thabor with ten thousand men after him; ¹⁵ And the Lord discomfited Sisara, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword, before Barak. And Sisara alighted from his chariot and fled on foot.

¹ A Psalm of David before he was anointed. The Lord is my light and my saviour. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defender of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? ² When evil doers approached me, to devour my flesh; they, who afflicted me, even mine enemies fainted and fell.

¹⁰ Fear not, for I am with thee; be not led astray, for I am thy God. I have strengthened thee and helped thee, and secured thee with my just right hand. ¹¹ Behold all thine adversaries shall be ashamed and confounded; for they shall be as nothing and all thine opponents shall be destroyed. ¹² Thou mayst seek but thou shalt not find the men, who through drunkenness will dare to insult thee. For they shall be as mere nothing: and they who war against thee shall be no more. ¹³ For I am thy God, who have hold of thy right hand, and who say to thee, ¹⁴ Fear not, Jacob, diminutive Israel! I have helped thee, saith thy God, who redeemeth thee, Israel. ¹⁵ Behold I have made thee like the wheels of a wain bruising to pieces a brood of pigeons: thou indeed shalt grind mountains and reduce hills to small pieces, and make them like dust:

³¹ What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

⁹ he said to the messengers who came, Thus shall you say to the men of Jabis, To-morrow, by the time the sun is warm, you shall have help. ¹⁰ So when the messengers came to the city, and told the men of Jabis, they were rejoiced. And the men of Jabis said to Nahas the Ammanite, Tomorrow we will come out to you, that you may do to us what is good in your sight. ¹¹ Now, on the morrow, Saul divided the people into three armies, and they entered the camp in the morning watch, and smote the Ammanites till the day grew warm; and when they who were left, were dispersed, so that not two of them were found together,

²⁹ A man clear in his perceptions and quick in the despatch of business should stand before kings and not wait on slothful men.

¹¹ Deliver them who are to be led away to death; and intercede for them who are to be slain, make no delay. ¹² If thou should say, I do not know this man: know that the Lord knoweth the hearts of all: and that he, who gave breath to all, knoweth all things: and will render to every one according to his works.

¹⁰ Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with all thy might; since there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge nor wisdom in the mansion of the dead to which thou must go.

³ Do thou therefore endure hardships as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

² proclaim the word; be intent thereon, in season and out of season; convince, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine.

²³ But the Lord thy God will deliver them into thy hands, and thou shalt destroy them with a great destruction, until you may utterly exterminate them.

¹¹ And as they were fleeing from before Israel, at the descent of Oronin, the Lord poured a storm of hail stones from heaven upon them, all the way to Azeka; so that there were more who died by the hail stones, than the children of Israel slew with the sword in battle.

²⁸ Now on that day they took Makeda, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed every thing therein which breathed. There was not one left who escaped or fled. And when they had done to the king of Makeda as they did to the king of Jericho,

⁸ and the Lord delivered them into the hands of Israel, and they pursued them with slaughter, to great Sidon, and to Maseron, and to the plains of Massoch, eastward, and hewed them down till there was none of them left alive.

³⁵ and Jermuth, and Odollam, and Membra, and Saocho, and Jaseka,

⁴¹ and Geddor, and Bagadiel, and Noman, and Machedan; sixteen cities with their villages.

³ and proceed westward, along the borders of Aptalim, till it reacheth the borders of lower Baithoron; and the termination thereof is to be at the sea.

⁵ the borders of the children of Ephraim, according to their communities were these. The boundary of their possession from the east were Ataroth, and Erok, till it reached the

²² and Baithoron with its suburbs, four cities;

¹⁵ And the Lord discomfited Sisara, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword, before Barak. And Sisara alighted from his chariot and fled on foot.

¹⁰ Now while Samuel was offering the whole burnt offering, the Philistines advanced to battle against Israel; and the Lord thundered that day with a great voice against the Philistines, and they were discomfited, and fled before Israel. ¹¹ And the men of Israel went out from Massepha, and pursued the Philistines, and smote them to below Baithcor. ¹² Then Samuel took a stone, and set it up between Massepha and the old town, and called its name Abenezer, [the stone of the helper;] for he said, Even at this place the Lord helped us.

¹⁸ another took the way to Baithoron, and another took the way of Gabaa, which leadeth by Gai to Sabim.

¹² So the Lord smote the Ethiopeans before Juda. And the Ethiopeans fled,

¹⁴ He sent forth his bolts and scattered them: he multiplied his lightnings and confounded them.

³ For they took not possession of the land with their own sword: nor was it their own arm that saved them: but thy right hand and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou tookest pleasure in them.

⁵⁵ and drove out nations from before them, and gave them by lot their several portions, and settled in their dwellings the tribes of Israel.

²¹ Like a mountain of wicked men the Lord will rise up; and he will be in the valley of Gabaon. With wrath he will execute his work; a work of bitterness; and his wrath will attack in a strange manner; and its severity will be unusual.

⁷ when the army of the king of Babylon was warring against Jerusalem and against the cities of Juda namely against Lachis and against Azeka; for they were the only fortified cities which were left of the cities of Juda.

²⁴ and the Lord rained upon Sodom and Gomorra brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.

²² Then the Lord said to Moses, Stretch forth thy hand towards heaven, and there shall be hail on all the land of Egypt, both on man and beast and on every herb which is on the ground. ²³ And Moses stretched forth his hand towards heaven and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and the fire streamed along the ground. And the Lord poured down a storm of hail on all the land of Egypt. ²⁴ And there was hail, with flaming fire among the hail. And the hail storm was excessively great such as had never been in Egypt from the day there was a nation in it. ²⁵ And throughout all the land of Egypt the hail smote both man and beast. The hail also smote every herb of the field and broke to pieces all the trees in the fields. ²⁶ But in the land of Gesem where the children of Israel were, there was no hail.

²⁰ The stars from heaven were drawn up in array; From their orbits they fought against Sisara.

⁶ Upon the wicked he will rain snares. Fire and brimstone and a tempestuous wind, shall be the portion of their cup.

¹² At the flash of the lightning before him, the clouds burst. Hail stones and coals of fire! ¹³ Then the Lord thundered from heaven, the Most High uttered his voice: ¹⁴ He sent forth his bolts and scattered them: he multiplied his lightnings and confounded them.

¹⁷ Great was the roaring of the waters; the clouds uttered a sound: for thy bolts were passing through them. ¹⁸ The sound of thy thunder was in the round expanse: thy lightnings illumed the World; the earth shook and trembled.

² Behold the wrath of the Lord is a harsh and terrible thing. Like a tempest of hail furiously driven when there is no shelter, like a mighty deluge sweeping a country. In this land it will put a stop to the labour of hands;

³⁰ When the Lord shall cause the glory of his voice to be heard; when, to display the fury of his arm with wrath and indignation and consuming fire, he shall utter tremendous thunder, accompanied with a furious tempest of rain and hail.

¹¹ Say to these anointers, It shall fall. For there shall be an overwhelming rain, and I will send hail stones against their buttresses; and they shall fall; and a tempestuous wind; and it shall be broken down.

¹⁹ And the temple of God in heaven was opened; and the ark of his covenant in his temple was seen. And there were lightnings and noises and thunders and an earthquake and great hail.

²¹ and great hail like talent weights pour down from heaven on the men; and the men blasphemed God, because of the plague of the hail; for the plague of the hail was very great.

¹⁹ and that upon looking up to heaven, and seeing the sun, and the moon, and the stars, and all the host of heaven, thou mayst not be led astray, and worship them, and perform religious service to those things which the Lord thy God hath arranged in due order, for all the nations which are under heaven.

³ and they have gone, and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or the moon, or any of the whole host of heaven, which he hath not commanded thee,

¹³ So the sun stood still, and the moon in its station; until God executed vengeance on their enemies, the sun stood in the midst of heaven; it advanced not to the setting, to the end of a day.

⁴² and Salamin, and Ammon, and Silatha,

¹² And Ailom the Zabulonite died, and was buried in Ailom, in the land of Zabulon.

⁷ who commandeth the sun and it riseth not; and who sealeth up against the stars;

²⁶ or, [do we not see the refulgent sun sometimes eclipsed, and the moon continually changing? for it is not in them:] ²⁷ if then my heart hath been secretly enticed, and I have laid my hand on my mouth and kissed it

⁴ To every land their sound is gone forth: and their doctrines to the limits of the World.

¹⁶ Thine is the day and the night is thine: it is thou who preparedst the sun and moon.

³ Sun and moon! Praise him: praise him all ye stars and light.

⁸ Behold I will bring back the shadow of the steps the ten steps of the house of thy father, which the sun hath gone down. I will bring back the sun those ten steps. So the sun reascended the ten steps which the shadow had gone down.

²⁰ For thy sun shall not go down nor shall thy moon ever wane: For the Lord will be to thee an everlasting light; and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.

⁹ And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord, Lord, That the sun shall set at noon day, and the light on that day shall be darkened on the earth.

²⁰ But the Lord is in his holy temple. Let all the earth be awed at his presence.

¹¹ The sun was withdrawn: and the moon stood on its orbit. Thy bolts will glance for light, for a glare of the lightening of thine arms.

¹³ Let all flesh be struck with awe, at the presence of the Lord, for he is risen up from his holy clouds.

¹⁴ For this cause it is said in a book, The war of the Lord burned Zoob and the vales of Arnon,

² Avenge the cause of the children of Israel on the Madianites, and afterward thou shalt be gathered to thy people.

¹⁴ So that there never was such a day before, nor after it such an instance of God's hearkening to man.

² Revelation was revealed in Israel when the people offered thank offerings; Praise ye the Lord.

²⁸ Then Sampson wept before two Lord, and said, Adonaie, Lord, remember me, I beseech thee, and strengthen me yet this once more, my God, that I may take vengeance on the Philistines for my two eyes.

¹⁸ and gave orders that the children of Juda should learn it. Behold it is written in the book Straight.

¹³ Artaxerxes; that these subsequent writings were to counterbalance the former letter; and that these counterbalancing writings should be exposed to publick view throughout the whole kingdom, that the Jews might be ready against that day to combat their adversaries.

¹⁶ Thine is the day and the night is thine: it is thou who preparedst the sun and moon. ¹⁷ Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: summer and spring were made by thee.

⁷ to him who alone made the great lights: for his mercy endureth forever; ⁸ the sun to rule the day: for his mercy endureth forever; ⁹ the moon and the stars to rule the night; for his mercy endureth forever;

²³ [c] When the bricks shall have mouldered away, and the wall shall have fallen; because the Lord will commence his reign from Sion and from Jerusalem, and be glorified in the presence of the elders;

¹⁰ At their presence the earth will be confounded and the heaven shaken, and the sun and the moon will be darkened, and the stars will withdraw their refulgence,

³¹ The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and illustrious day of the Lord.

¹⁵ The sun and the moon shall be obscured in darkness; and the stars shall withdraw their refulgence;

⁴⁵ that you may be the children of your Father in heaven: for he causeth the sun to rise on bad and good, and sendeth the rain on just and unjust.

²⁹ Now immediately after the tribulation of those days the sun will be darkened and the moon will not give her splendour; and the stars will fall from heaven, and the heavenly powers will be shaken. And then will appear the sign of the son of man in heaven.

⁷ And will not God vindicate the cause of his chosen, who are crying to him day and night"? Will he linger in their cause?

²⁰ The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the coming of the great and illustrious day of the Lord.

¹⁰ And they cried with a loud voice, saying, "How long, O sovereign, the holy one and the true, dost thou defer judging and avenging our blood on the inhabitants of the earth?"

¹² And I looked when he opened the sixth seal. And behold there was a great earthquake. And the sun became black as sackcloth made of hair; and the moon was like blood;

¹² And the fourth angel sounded; and the third part of the sun, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars were smitten, so that the third part of them was darkened and the day did not shine the third part of it and in like manner the night.

⁸ And the fourth angel poured out his vial on the sun; and power was given to it to scorch men with fire. ⁹ And the men were scorched with great heat; and they blasphemed the name of God who hath power over these plagues and did not reform to give glory to him.

²³ And the city had no need of the sun nor of the moon to enlighten it; for the glory of God enlightened it; and the lamb is its lamp:

¹⁴ The Lord will fight for you. Be ye therefore silent.

³⁰ The Lord your God is marching before you. He will assist you in subduing them, according to all that he hath done for you in the land of Egypt,

³ Now you have seen all that the Lord our God hath done to these nations for your sake; for it is the Lord your God who hath fought for you.

¹⁰ And Ezekias said, It is an easy matter for the shadow to decline ten steps. No. Let the shadow return upon the steps, ten steps backwards. ¹¹ Then Esaias the prophet cried to the Lord, and the shadow returned on the steps, ten steps backward.

⁶ Then he answered and said to me, This is the word of the Lord to Zorobabel, saying, "Not by mighty power nor by strength, but by my spirit" saith the Lord Almighty. ⁷ Who art thou; to complete this mountain; this great one; this before Zorobabel! I will indeed bring out the stone of the inheritance, an equality of favour, a free gift of it.

²¹ And Jesus answering, said to them, Verily I say to you, if you have faith, without wavering, you may do not only as much as is done to this fig tree; but if you should even say to that mountain, Be thou lifted up and thrown into the sea, it shall be done. ²² And whatever you ask in prayer, with faith, you shall obtain.

²² In reply to which, Jesus saith to them, Have faith in God. ²³ For verily I say to you, If one should say to that mountain, Be thou lifted up and cast into the sea; and have no doubt in his mind, but believe that what he saith cometh to pass; whatever he may command shall be done for him. ²⁴ Therefore I say to you, What things soever you ask when you pray, believe that you will receive, and you shall have them.

⁶ Whereupon the Lord said to them, If you had faith like a grain of mustard seed, you might say to that sycamine tree, Be thou rooted up and planted in the sea. And it would obey you.

² And the hand of Madiam prevailed against Israel, so that because of Madiam, the Israelites made for themselves those dens which are in the mountains, and those caves and strong holds in cliffs.

⁶ And when Israel saw that they were strictly enjoined not to offer sacrifices, the people hid themselves in caves, and in dens, and among rocks, and in pits, and wells,

³ And when he came to the sheepcots by the way side, where there was a cave, Saul went into it to prepare himself. Now David and his men had taken up their abode in the inner part of the cave.

⁸ David went after him out of the cave. And David cried with a loud voice after Saul, and said, My lord, king! And when Saul looked about behind him, David bowed down, with his face to the ground, and made obeisance to him.

⁷ Whither can I go from thy spirit? And from thy presence whither can I flee? ⁸ If I ascend up to heaven, thou art there. If I go down to the mansion of the dead, there thou art. ⁹ If I wing my flight towards the morning; or dwell at the extremes of this sea; ¹⁰ even there thy hand will guide me; and thy right hand will restrain me.

¹⁰ "Now therefore go into the rocks and hide yourselves in the earth, from the tremendous presence of the Lord; and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise, to crush the land." ¹¹ "For the eyes of the Lord are lofty; but man is low; and the loftiness of these men shall be humbled; and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day. ¹² For the day of the Lord of hosts is against every scorner and haughty man; and against every one high and lofty, and they shall be humbled:

¹⁹ carrying them into caverns and clefts of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, from the tremendous presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to crush the lands. ²⁰ For on that day men will cast to the bats their abominations both of silver and gold, which they made to worship vanities; ²¹ that they may go into holes of the flinty rock: nay into the very clefts of the rock, from the tremendous presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to crush the land.

²¹ When God shall bring his hand on the hosts of heaven, even upon the kings of this land; ²² and the congregation thereof shall have been assembled for imprisonment, and shut up as chaff for many generations; of them there shall be a visitation.

² Though they hide themselves in the mansion of the dead, thence my hand will drag them up. And though they climb up to heaven, thence I will bring them down.

¹⁷ They will lick dust like serpents trailing on the ground; they will be confounded in their enclosure. [p] At the Lord our God let them be confounded and struck with terror because of thee.

¹⁵ and the kings of the earth and the nobles and the rich and the chief commanders and the under officers and every bondman and every freeman hid themselves in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains,

²² Then Joshua said, Open the cave, and bring out the five kings out of the cave.

⁴⁶ Now when all the men of the tower of Sychem heard this, they repaired to the fort Baithel-berith. ⁴⁷ And when it was told Abimelech that all the men of the tower of Sychem were assembled together, ⁴⁸ he went up to mount Selmon, with all the people who were with him. And Abimelech took an ax in his hand, and cut a bough of a tree, and took it and put it on his shoulder, and said to the people who were with him, Haste and do as I; what you have seen me do. ⁴⁹ So they cut every man a bough, and went after Abimelech, and piled them up against the fort, and set the fort on fire about them, so that all the men of the tower of Sychem died, about a thousand men and women.

³⁰ Because the wicked is reserved for a day of destruction: let them be carried to prison for the day of his indignation.

¹⁹ As if a man would flee from the face of a lion and a bear met him, or, as if one would leap into a house and leaning his hand on the wall a serpent bit him.

¹ I saw the Lord standing on the altar, and he said, Smite the propitiatory and let the porches be shaken, and cut them down on the heads of them all; and those of them who are left I will slay with the sword. Such of them as flee shall not get away; and such of them as escape shall not be saved.

⁶⁶ So they went and secured the sepulchre, sealing the stone and posting the guard.

²⁰ And when Joshua, and all Israel, had made an end of slaughtering them till they were utterly routed, and those who had escaped had got into fortified cities,

¹³ And if he be shut up in any city, all Israel will take ropes to that city, and we will drag it into the ditch, so that there shall not be left so much as a stone.

⁶ Thereupon David said to Abessa Now will Sabee, son of Bochori do us more harm than Abessalom. Now therefore take thou with thee the servants of thy lord, and pursue him, lest he secure for himself cities of defence, that he may escape our notice.

³⁷ I shall pursue mine enemies and overtake them, and not turn back till they are destroyed. ³⁸ I shall harass them that they may not be able to stand; they shall fall down under my feet. ³⁹ For thou hast girded me with strength for battle, and subdued under me all that rose up against me. ⁴⁰ Thou hast given me the backs of mine enemies, and utterly destroyed them who hate me. ⁴¹ They cried aloud, but there was no saviour; to the Lord, but he hearkened not to them.

¹⁴ therefore the Lord cut off from Israel, head and tail, great and little in one day; ¹⁵ the aged and the honourable, this was the head; and the prophet who teacheth falsehood, he is the tail.

¹⁴ Why sit we still? Assemble and let us go into the fortified cities; and let us be cast oft' there; since God hath cast us off. He hath indeed given us water of gall to drink because we have sinned against him.

¹⁰ He is cursed who doth the work of the Lord negligently, withholding his sword from blood.

¹⁶ Of these you shall save none alive that breatheth:

²⁴ and when the Israelites had made an end of slaying all that were in Gai, and all that were in the plains, and on the mountain, at the steep, from which at the last they had driven them, Joshua returned to Gai, and smote it with the edge of the sword.

¹⁰ the Lord struck them with a panic, on account of the children of Israel, and the Lord routed them, with a great slaughter, at Gabaon. And they pursued them by the way of the ascent of Oronin, and smote them even to Azeka, and to Makeda.

¹⁷ so that Abia and his people smote them with a great slaughter, and there fell of Israel, slain, fifty thousand warriors.

⁷ But among all the children of Israel and their cattle not even a dog shall bark at man or beast, that thou mayst know what a distinction the Lord will make between the Egyptians and the Israelites.

¹⁷ Perish every weapon formed against thee! I will not prosper it. Though every voice should rise up against thee for judgment, thou shalt overcome them all and in the trial they shall be condemned. There is an inheritance for them who serve the Lord, therefore you are to be just for me, saith the Lord.

⁴ in what have you indulged yourselves? and at whom have you opened your mouth, and at whom lolled your tongue? are you not children of destruction; a lawless race?

³² Samuel said, Bring before me Agag the king of Amelek. And when Agag came before him, trembling, Agag said, Ah! how bitter is death!

³ Adonibezek, the king of Jerusalem sent to Elam, king of Chebron, and to Phedon, king of Jerimuth, and to Jephtha, king of Lachis, and to Dabin, king of Odollam, saying,

²⁹ Blessed art thou, Israel! Who is like thee, people saved by the Lord! Thy helper will protect thee, His sword shall be thy boast, Thine enemies shall submit to thee, And thou shalt ride upon their neck.

²⁰ Then he said to Jether his first born, Arise and slay them. But the youth drew not his sword, for he was afraid, for he was yet very young.

⁸ "Ask of me, and I will give thee nations for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. ⁹ Thou shalt rule them with a rod of iron. Thou shalt break them to pieces like a potter's vessel." ¹⁰ Now therefore, O kings, be wise: Be instructed, all ye, who judge the earth. ¹¹ Serve the Lord with fear: and rejoice for him with trembling. ¹² Keep fast hold of instruction; the Lord may be angry and you may perish out of the right way. When his anger suddenly blazeth forth, happy are all they who have trusted in him.

⁴⁰ Thou hast given me the backs of mine enemies, and utterly destroyed them who hate me.

¹³ Upon an asp and a basilisk thou shalt tread: and trample down a lion and a dragon.

⁴⁰ Contempt hath been poured on their princes: and he hath caused them to wander in a trackless desert.

¹ A Psalm. By David. The Lord said to my Lord; sit at my right hand; till I make thine enemies thy footstool.

⁵ The Lord at thy right hand hath crushed kings in the day of his wrath.

⁸ To bind their kings with fetters; and their nobles with chains of iron: ⁹ to execute on them the judgments written. Such is the honour which all his saints have.

⁵ who hast humbled and brought down them who dwell in lofty places. Fortified cities thou canst demolish and level them with the dust, ⁶ that the feet of the meek and lowly may trample them.

¹¹ and thy gates shall be open continually [by day or by night they shall not be shut] to introduce to thee the wealth of nations and their kings pompously attended. ¹² For the nations and kings which will not serve thee shall perish; such nations indeed shall be utterly laid waste.

³ And you shall trample down the wicked, for they will be like ashes under your feet, on the day which I make, saith the Lord Almighty.

²⁰ And the God of peace will soon bruise satan under your feet. The favour of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.

²⁶ As for him who overcometh, and keepeth my works to the end, to him I will give power over the nations, ²⁷ [and he shall rule them with a rod of iron. Like vessels of potter's clay they shall be broken in pieces,]

²¹ And at the same time I gave a charge to Joshua, saying, Your eyes have seen all that the Lord our God hath done to these two kings. In the same manner the Lord our God will deal with all those kingdoms against which you are going to cross over. ²² You shall not be afraid of them, for the Lord our God will fight for you.

¹⁹ the great trials which thine eyes have seen,; the signs and great wonders; the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm; As the Lord thy God brought thee out, so will the Lord your God deal with all the nations, of whom you are afraid.

⁶ Act manfully, and be strong; fear not, nor be faint hearted, nor terrified at them; for the Lord thy God, who goeth before you, is with you; is among you. May he never leave thee, nor forsake thee. ⁷ Then Moses called Joshua, and said to him before all Israel, Be courageous, and strong; for thou shalt go before this people, into the land which the Lord solemnly promised your lathers to give them; and thou shalt put them in possession of it; ⁸ and the Lord, who marcheth with thee, will not leave thee nor forsake thee. Fear not, nor be dismayed.

⁹ Behold I have commanded thee; be strong and courageous: fear not, nor be dismayed; for the Lord thy God is with thee withersoever thou goest.

³⁷ The Lord who delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear; he will deliver me out of the hand of this uncircumcised Philistine. Then Saul said to David, Go; and the Lord be with thee.

⁹ But as for these who sought my life in vain; they shall go to the lowest parts of the earth.

¹¹ I called to remembrance the works of the Lord. Seeing I can remember thy wonders of old:

³⁷ We indeed in all these things are more than conquerors by means of him who hath loved us.

¹⁰ who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will still deliver us,

¹⁰ Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.

¹⁷ But the Lord stood by me and strengthened me, that the proclamation might be made completely by me, and that all the nations might hear it. And I was delivered out of the mouth of a lion. ¹⁸ And the Lord will deliver me from every evil work, and save me for his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory, for the ages of the ages. Amen.

⁴ and the Lord said to Moses, Take all those leaders of the people and make a public example of them, for the Lord, in the face of the sun; so shall the wrath of the Lord be turned away from Israel.

²² If any man commit a sin incurring death; and he be put to death; and you hang him on a gibbet; ²³ his body shall not remain on the gibbet; but you shall bury it the same day. Because every one who is hanged on a gibbet is accursed of God; therefore you shall not defile the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for a possesion.

²⁹ And he hanged the king of Gai on a gibbet; and he continued on the gibbet till the evening. But, at the setting of the sun, Joshua gave orders, and they took down his body from the gibbet, and threw it into a pit; and raised over it a heap of stones, which remaineth to this day.

²¹ Whereupon Zebee and Salmana said, Arise thou thyself, and fall upon us, for thou hast the strength of a man. So Gideon arose, and slew Zebee and Salmana, and took the ornaments which were on the necks of their camels.

³³ Whereupon Samuel said to Agag, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be made childless among women. So Samuel slew Agag before the Lord at Galgal.

⁶ Give us seven men of his sons, and let us crucify to the Lord at Gabaon those of Saul who are the choice of the Lord. And the king said, I will give them.

⁹ and delivered them into the hands of the Gabaonites, and they crucified them on the mount before the Lord. So these seven fell together. Now they were put to death in the days of the harvest of first fruits, in the beginning of the barley harvest.

²³ whereupon the king having examined the chamberlains, caused them to be hanged, and ordered a record to be made in the royal library with an encomium on Mordecai's fidelity.

⁹ Then Bugathan one of the chamberlains said to the king, Behold Hainan hath prepared a gallows for Mordecai who spoke for the king. There is at Haman's house a gallows actually erected fifty cubits high. Thereupon the king said, Let him be hanged thereon. ¹⁰ So Haman was hanged on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, and the king's anger was appeased.

²⁵ Upon which all the people, answering, said, His blood be upon us and upon our children.

¹³ From this curse of the law Christ hath redeemed us, being made a curse for us; [for it is written, "Cursed, is every one who is suspended on a cross,"]

⁹ and Joshua caused twelve other stones to be placed in the Jordan, in the very spot under the feet of the priests who carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and they are there at this day.

²⁶ And when they had raised over him a great heap of stones, the Lord ceased from the fierceness of his anger. For this cause he called that place Emek-Achor, which is its name at this day.

¹⁷ And he took Abessalom, and threw him into a great chasm in the forest, into the great pit, and piled ever him a great heap of stones. And all Israel fled every man to his tent.

² When the Lord thy God shall deliver them into thy hands, thou shalt smite them; thou shalt utterly destroy them; thou shalt not make a covenant with them. You shall neither shew them mercy,

¹⁶ And thou shalt consume all the spoils of the nations, which the Lord thy God giveth thee: Thine eye shall not have pity on them. And thou shalt not perform religious service to their gods; for this is a snare for thee.

¹⁶ Of these you shall save none alive that breatheth: ¹⁷ but, with an Anathema, thou shalt devote to destruction the Chettite and the Amorite, and the Chananite, and the Pherezite, and the Evite, and the Jebusite, and the Gergasite, as the Lord thy God hath commanded thee;

³⁰ and the Lord delivered it into the hands of Israel, and they took it and the king thereof, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and every thing in it which had breath. There was not one left in it who escaped, or fled. And when they had done to the king thereof as they did to the king of Jericho,

³² And the Lord delivered Lachis into the hands of Israel; and they took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and utterly destroyed it as they had done Lebna.

³⁵ And the Lord delivered it into the hand of Israel, and they took it that day, and smote it with the edge of the sword.

³⁷ Joshua, and all Israel with him, went to Chebron, and encamped about it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and every living soul therein. Not one escaped. As they had done to Odollam, they utterly destroyed it, and all that were in it.

³⁹ And they utterly destroyed it, and every soul in it. They did not leave one alive. As they had done to Chebron, and its king, so they did to Dabir, and its king.

⁸ Let thine enemies feel thy hand: and thy right hand find out all that hate thee. ⁹ Thou wilt make them like an oven of fire, at the time of thy presence. The Lord with his wrath will confound them, and a fire shall devour them.

²⁷ And as for those enemies of mine who would not have me to reign over them, bring them here and slay them in my presence.

²⁵ For he must reign until he hath put all the enemies under his feet.

²⁰ And they removed from Remmon-Phares, and encamped at Lebona.

¹⁵ the king of Lebna; the king of Odollam; the king of Elath; the king of Taphut, the king of Opher; the king of Ophek of Arok; the king of Asom; the king of Symoon; the king of Mambroth; the king of Aziph; the king of Kades; the king of Zachak; the king of Maredoth; the king of Jekom of Carmel; the king of Odollam of Phennealdor; the king of Gei of Galilee; the king of Thersa; all these kings were twenty nine.

⁴² Lebna, and Ithak, and Anoch,

¹³ but to the sons of Aaron, they gave Chebron, the city of refuge for the manslayer, with what was set apart for it as such, and Lemma with its suburbs,

²² and Edom revolted from under the hand of Juda even to this day. At the same time Lobna also revolted.

⁸ So Rapsakes returned and found the king warring against Lobna; for he heard that he had removed from Lachis.

¹ Sedekias was twenty one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem and his mother's name was Ameital. She was a daughter of Jeremias of Lobena.

¹¹ the king of Jerimuth; the king of Lachis;

³⁹ and Basedoth, and Ideadalea,

⁸ So Rabsakes returned and found the king of the Assyrians besieging Lobna, for he heard that he had removed from Lachis;

¹² the king of Ailam; the king of Gazer;

¹⁰ But Ephraim did not destroy the Chananites who dwelt in Gazer. So the Chananites have dwelt among the Ephraimites to this day.

²¹ and they gave them Sychem, the city of refuge for the manslayer with its appurtenances, and Gazara with its fields and its suburbs,

²⁹ Neither did Ephraim drive out the Chananites who dwelt in Gazer. So the Chananites dwelt among them in Gazer, and became tributaries.

¹⁵ [Omitted] ¹⁶ [Omitted] ¹⁷ [Omitted]

⁶⁷ they gave them of the cities of refuge, Sychem and its suburbs on mount Ephraim; and Gazer with its suburbs,

⁴ And after these things there was another battle at Gazer with the Philistines, in which Sobochai-Sosathai smote Saphut a descendant of the giants and subdued him.

⁴⁴ [as I did not, when they were in their enemies' country, wholly overlook them, nor abhor them so as to destroy them utterly, for breaking my covenant which I made with them, for I am the Lord their God]

¹⁰ He broke me on every side and I fled: and he hath cut down my hope like a tree.

¹⁸ Then Abram removed his tent and came and dwelt near the Oak of Mambre, which was by Chebron, and built there an altar to the Lord.

¹³ Thereupon Joshua blessed him, and gave to Chaleb son of Jephonne, the Kenezite, Chebron for a possession. ¹⁴ For this cause Chebron had become the possession of Chaleb son of Jephonne, the Kenezite, at this day, because he followed the command of the Lord God of Israel.

¹³ Now to Chaleb son of Jephonne he had given a portion in the midst of the children of Juda. By the command of God, Joshua had given him the city Arbok, the metropolis of Enak, the same is Chebron;

¹⁰ And when Juda went against the Chananites who dwelt in Chebron, [the name of which city formerly was Kariath-arbok-sepher,] Chebron came out against them; and they smote Sessi, and Achiman, and Tholmi, descendants of Enak,

¹ Then all the tribes of Israel came to David to Chebron and said to him, Behold we are thy bone and thy flesh. ² Heretofore, while Saul was king over us, It was thou who didst lead out and bring in Israel; and the Lord said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel. ³ And when all the elders of Israel came to David to Chebron, king David made a covenant with them at Chebron, before the Lord, and they anointed David to be king over all Israel. ⁴ David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. ⁵ Seven years and six months he reigned at Chebron over Juda, and he reigned thirty three years, over all Israel and Juda, at Jerusalem.

⁹ And the king said to him, Go in peace. So he arose and went to Chebron. ¹⁰ Now Abessalom had sent spies through all the tribes of Israel, saying, When you hear the sound of the trumpet, then say, Abessalom is king in Chebron.

²³ Now these were the rolls of the chiefs of the army who came to David to Chebron, to transfer the kingdom of Saul to him, according to the word of the Lord.

²⁸ with Sadok a young man of valour, and of his patriarchal family twenty two chiefs;

¹³ the king of Dabir: the king of Gadir;

¹⁵ And when Chaleb went up thence, against the inhabitants of Dabir, [now the name of Dabir formerly was The City of Letters] Chaleb said,

⁴⁹ and Renna, and city of letters, this is Dabir,

¹⁵ and Gella with its suburbs, and Dabir with its suburbs,

¹¹ and they went up thence against the inhabitants of Dabir, [now the name of Dabir formerly was Kariath-sepher [city of letters]] ¹² and Chaleb said, whoever will smite the city of letters, and take it, I will give him my daughter Ascha for a wife; ¹³ whereupon Gothoniel, the younger son of Kenez, Chaleb's brother, took it, and Chaleb gave him his daughter Ascha for a wife, ¹⁴ and when she was going home to him, Gothoniel persuaded her to ask a field of her father: so she murmured, and with a loud voice said, as she was riding, Thou hast sent me away to the land of the south. And Chaleb said to her, What is the matter with thee? ¹⁵ And Ascha said to him, Give me, I beseech thee, a blessing. Since thou hast sent me away to the land of the south, thou shouldst therefore give me a portion of water. Thereupon Chaleb gave her according to her desire, a portion of high lands, and a portion of low grounds.

³ So the Lord our God delivered also into our hands Og, king of Basan, and all his people, and we smote him till there was none of his seed left.

³³ At that time Elam, king of Gazer, having come up to assist Lachis, Joshua smote him with the edge of the sword, till there was none of them left who escaped, or fled.

⁴⁰ Thus did Joshua smite all the hilly country, and Nageb, and the plain, and Asedoth, and the kings thereof. They did not leave one of them alive. They utterly destroyed every one who breathed the breath of life, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded.

¹¹ Then Jehu slew all that were left of the house of Achab in Jezrael, and all his nobles and his acquaintance, and his priests, so that there was not a remnant of him left.

¹⁸ and the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph, a flame; and the house of Esau shall be as stubble; and upon these they shall kindle and consume them, so that there shall not be a torch bearer to the house of Esau. For the Lord hath spoken.

³¹ And I will establish thy boundaries from the Red sea to the sea of Philisteim, and from the wilderness to the great river Euphrates, and deliver into your hands those who are settled in the land, or drive them out from before thee. ³² Thou shalt not make a treaty with them and their gods, ³³ nor shall they dwell in thy land, lest they cause thee to sin against me. For if thou serve their gods, they will be to thee a stumbling block.

¹² Take thou heed to thyself that thou make not a covenant with the inhabitants of the land to which thou art going, lest it become a stumbling block to you.

⁷ Turn; strike your tents, and march to the mountain of the Amorites, and to all the inhabitants around Araba; to the mountain and to the plain, and to the south, and to the land of the Chananites, on the sea shore, and to Antilibanus, till you reach the river; the great river Euphrates.

² When the Lord thy God shall deliver them into thy hands, thou shalt smite them; thou shalt utterly destroy them; thou shalt not make a covenant with them. You shall neither shew them mercy, ³ nor contract marriages with them. Thou shalt not give thy daughter to his son, nor take his daughter for thy son. ⁴ For she will cause thy son to apostatise from me, and to serve other gods, and the Lord will be provoked to wrath against you, and speedily destroy thee. ⁵ But in this manner thou shalt deal with them" their altars you shall destroy; their pillars you shall break to pieces; their groves you shall cut down; and the graven images of their gods you shall burn with fire. ⁶ For thou art a people dedicated to the Lord thy God, and the Lord thy God hath chosen thee, to be a peculiar people to himself, in preference to all the nations which are on the face of the earth. ⁷ It was not because you were the most numerous of all the nations, that the Lord preferred you, and made choice of you; for you are the fewest of all the nations: ⁸ but because the Lord loved you, therefore in performance of the oath which he swore to your fathers, the Lord led you out with a strong hand, and the Lord redeemed thee from the house of bondage, out of the hand of Pharao king of Egypt. ⁹ Know therefore that the Lord thy God is the only God; the God to be confided in, who keepeth covenant and mercy for thousands of generations with them who love him, and keep his commandments; ¹⁰ and who requiteth to their face them who hate him, so as to destroy them. To them indeed who hate him he will not be slack; to their face he will requite them. ¹¹ Therefore keep the commandments, and the rules of rectitude, and these judgments, which I this day command thee to do. ¹² And it shall come to pass, that if you hearken to these rules, and keep and practise them, the Lord thy God will keep with thee the covenant, and the mercy, which he, with an oath, confirmed to your fathers. ¹³ And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee; and he will bless the offspring of thy womb, and the product of thy land; thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, thy herds of cattle, and thy flocks of sheep, in the land which he, with an oath, promised thy fathers to give thee. ¹⁴ Thou shalt be blessed above all the nations. There shall not be a male without a progeny, nor a female barren among you, or your cattle. ¹⁵ And the Lord will remove from thee every malady, and will not lay upon thee any of the sore diseases of Egypt, which thou hast seen, which thou hast known: but will lay them upon all that hate thee. ¹⁶ And thou shalt consume all the spoils of the nations, which the Lord thy God giveth thee: Thine eye shall not have pity on them. And thou shalt not perform religious service to their gods; for this is a snare for thee.

²⁴ When he shall deliver their kings into your hands, you shall destroy their name out of that place. None shall be able to stand before thee, until thou hast utterly destroyed them.

¹⁶ This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to practise all these rules of rectitude and these judgments; you shall therefore keep, and perform them, with your whole heart, and with your whole soul. ¹⁷ Thou hast this day chosen God to be thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to keep his rules of rectitude, and his judgments, and to hearken to his voice.

¹⁷ And this city shall be an Anathema. It, and all that are in it, shall be devoted to the Lord of Sabaoth; save Rahab the harlot. Her you shall save alive, and all that are in her house.

²⁷ according to the command of the Lord, as the Lord commanded Joshua.

²⁴ And they answered Joshua saying, We were told all that the Lord thy God commanded his servant Moses, to give yon this land, and to extirpate us, and all the inhabitants thereof from before you, therefore we were in great terror for our lives because of you, and we did this.

⁸ comprehending the Chettites, and the Amorites, and the Chananites, and the Pherezites, and the Evites, and the Jebusites, on the mountains, and in the plains, and in Araba, and in Asedoth, and in the wilderness, and in Nageb:

²¹ and the cities belonging to the tribe of the children of Juda; on the borders of Edom, adjoining the wilderness, were Baiseleel, and Ara, and Asor, ²² and Ikam and Regma, and Aruel, ²³ and Kades, and Asorionain, and Mainam, ²⁴ and Balmainan, with their villages; ²⁵ and the cities of the Aserons, which is Aser, ²⁶ and Sen, and Salmaa, and Molada, ²⁷ and Seri, and Baiphalath, ²⁸ and Cholaseola, and Bersabee, with their villages and sheepcots: ²⁹ Bala, and Bakok, and Asom, ³⁰ and Elboydad, and Baithel, and Erma, ³¹ and Sekelak, and Macharim, and Sethannak, ³² and Labos, and Sale, and Eromoth, twenty nine cities with their villages. ³³ In the plain, Astaol, and Baa, and Assa, ³⁴ and Ramen, and Tano, and Iluthoth, and Maiani, ³⁵ and Jermuth, and Odollam, and Membra, and Saocho, and Jaseka, ³⁶ and Sakarim, and Gadera, with its villages; fourteen cities, with their villages: ³⁷ Senna, and Adosan, and Magadalgad, ³⁸ and Dalad, and Maspha, and Jachareel, ³⁹ and Basedoth, and Ideadalea, ⁴⁰ and Chabra, and Maches, and Maachos, ⁴¹ and Geddor, and Bagadiel, and Noman, and Machedan; sixteen cities with their villages. ⁴² Lebna, and Ithak, and Anoch, ⁴³ and Jana, and Nasib, ⁴⁴ and Keilam, and Akiezi, and Kezib, and Bathesar, and Ailom, ten cities with their villages: ⁴⁵ Akkaron, and the villages thereof, with their sheepcots; ⁴⁶ bordering on Akkaron, Gemna, and all that lay near Asedoth, with their villages; ⁴⁷ Asiedoth, and the sheepcots thereof, Gaza, and the villages thereof, and its sheepcots, to the brook of Egypt; and the great sea is the boundary. ⁴⁸ And in the hilly country, Samir, and Jether, and Socha, ⁴⁹ and Renna, and city of letters, this is Dabir, ⁵⁰ and Anon, and Es, and Man, and Aisam, ⁵¹ and Gosom, and Chalu, and Channa, and Gelom; eleven cities with their villages; ⁵² Airem, and Remna, and Soma, ⁵³ and Jemain, and Baithachu, and Phakua, ⁵⁴ and Eyma, and city Arbok, this is Chebron, and Soraith, nine cities with their sheepcots: ⁵⁵ Maor, and Chermel, and Ozib, and Itan, ⁵⁶ and Jariel, and Arikam, and Zakanaim, ⁵⁷ and Gabaa, and Thamnatha, nine cities with their villages; ⁵⁸ Ailua, and Bethsur, and Geddon, ⁵⁹ and Magaroth, and Baithanam, and Thekum, six cities with their villages: Theko, and Ephratha, this is Baithlehem, and Phagor, and Aitan, and Kulon, and Tatam, and Thobes, and Karem, and Galem, and Thether, and Manocho, eleven cities with their villages: ⁶⁰ Kariath-baal, this is the city Jarim, and Sotheba, two cities with their sheepcots: ⁶¹ and Baddargis, and Tharabaam, and Ainon, ⁶² and Aiochioza, and Naphlazon, and the cities Sadon and Agkades, seven cities with their villages. ⁶³ But the Jebusites dwelt in Jerusalem, and the children of Juda were not able to destroy them. So the Jebusites had dwelt in Jerusalem to this day.

²¹ And the cities of the Benjaminites according to their communities were Jericho, and Bethegaio, and Amekasis,

⁴⁰ And the seventh lot came out for Dan; ⁴¹ and their borders were Sarath, and Asa, and the cities Sammaus, ⁴² and Salamin, and Ammon, and Silatha, ⁴³ and Elon, and Thamnatha, and Akkaron, ⁴⁴ and Alkatha, and Begethon, and Gebeelan, ⁴⁵ and Azor, and Banaibakat, and Gethrimmon, ⁴⁶ and on the west of Jerakon, the border near Joppa. ⁴⁷ Whereupon the children of Dan went and made war on Lachis, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and dwelt there, and called its name Lasen Dan. The Amorites continued also to dwell in Elom, and Salamin, but the hand of Ephraim was heavy upon them, and they were made tributaries to them. ⁴⁸ This was the inheritance of the tribe of the Danites, according to their communities, including their cities and their villages. [But the children of Dan did not root out the Amorites who distressed them on the mountains, and the Amorites did not suffer them to come down into the valley. Nay they took from them the border of their portion.

²⁹ And soon as he began to reign he smote the whole house of Jeroboam. He did not leave a living soul belonging to Jeroboam until he had utterly extirpated him according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by the ministry of his servant Achia the Selonite,

¹⁷ [17-20 A responsive Ode.] Let the sinners be turned back to the mansion of the dead; all the nations who forget God.

⁷ and to you who are afflicted, rest with us at the manifestation of the Lord Jesus from heaven with his mighty angels, ⁸ executing, with flaming fire, vengeance on them who know not God, and on them who hearken not to the glad tidings of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ These shall suffer punishment, an everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his majesty,

¹⁹ And the boundaries of the Chananites were from Sidon extending to Gerara and Gaza, thence extending to Sodom and Gomorra, Adama and Seboin even to Dasa.

²⁶ and journeying on came to Moses and Aaron, and to all the congregation of the Israelites in the wilderness of Pharan Kades, and made report to them and to all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.

⁸ Did not your fathers do so, when I sent them from Kades-Barne to view the land?

⁴ And your boundaries on the south shall be, from a part of the salt sea on the east, and that boundary shall encompass you on the south, to the ascent of Acrabin, and shall pass on to Ennak, and run along south of Kades-barne and come to the sheepcot of Arad, and pass along by Asemona:

²³ And when the Lord sent you from Kades-barne, saying, Go up, and take possession of the land which I give you, you disobeyed the command of the Lord your God, and did not confide in him, nor hearken to his voice.

² [Now there was a great dread on account of them, for he knew that Gabaon was a great city, like one of the chief cities, and that all the inhabitants thereof were men of valour;]

¹² Then Joshua spoke to the Lord, on the day God delivered up the Amorite into the hand of Israel. When he had discomfited them at Gabaon, and they were routed before the children of Israel, Joshua said, Let the sun stand over against Gabaon, and the moon over against the valley of Ailon.

¹⁶ So Joshua took all the hilly country, and all the land of Nageb, and all the land of Gosom, and the plain, and that to the west, and the mountain of Israel, and the lowlands adjoining the mountain,

⁶ Now the children of Juda had come to Joshua at Galgal, and Chaleb the son of Jephonne, the Kenezite said to him, Thou knowest the word which the Lord said to Moses, the man of God, respecting me and thee at Kades-barne; ⁷ for I was forty years old, when Moses the servant of God sent me from Kades-barne to spy the land, and I made him a report to his mind.

⁵¹ and Gosom, and Chalu, and Channa, and Gelom; eleven cities with their villages;

¹ Sampson went to Gaza, and saw there a woman; a harlot, and went in to her.

²¹ Then the Philistines seized him and put out his eyes, and carried him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass, and he was kept grinding in the prison house.

¹⁷ Now these were the golden stools which the Philistines gave for an atonement to the Lord; one for Azotus, one for Gaza, one for Ascalon, one for Gath, and one for Akkaron.

⁵ the Lord appeared to him that night in a dream, and said to him, Ask for thyself any favour.

⁵ Ascalon shall see and be terrified; so shall Gaza, and be exceedingly pained: Akkaron also; because at her fall she was confounded. And a king shall perish out of Gaza; and Ascalon shall no more be inhabited.

²⁶ In the mean while an angel of the Lord spoke to Philip, saying, Arise and go southward on the road which leadeth down from Jerusalem to Gaza, namely, the desert road.

²⁵ and entangled their chariot wheels and caused them to drag on heavily; whereupon the Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face of Israel, for the Lord fighteth for them against the Egyptians.

⁴ for the Lord your God goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, and to save you.

³ For they took not possession of the land with their own sword: nor was it their own arm that saved them: but thy right hand and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou tookest pleasure in them. ⁴ Thou, who didst command the deliverances of Jacob; even thou art my king and my God. ⁵ By thee we can push down our enemies, and through thy name, scorn them who rise up against us. ⁶ For in mine own bow I will not put trust, nor is it mine own sword that can save me. ⁷ For thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put to shame them who hated us. ⁸ In God let us boast, all the day long: and to thy name give thanks forever.

¹ At the conclusion. For the sons of Kora. A Psalm concerning hidden things. GOD is our refuge and strength; our helper in the troubles which often befal us.

⁷ The Lord of armies is with us; our helper is the God of Jacob.

¹¹ The Lord of armies is with us, our helper is the God of Jacob.

³ Turn us, God; and let thy face shine; and we shall be saved.

⁶ Having the Lord for my helper, I will not fear what man can do to me.

⁴ Because thou hast been precious in my sight; hast been honoured and I loved thee; therefore I will give men for thee and chiefs for thy life.

³¹ What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³² He who spared not his own son but delivered him up for us all, how will he not also with him freely grant us all things? ³³ Who shall lodge an accusation against them whom God hath chosen? God who acquitteth? ³⁴ who is he who shall condemn? Christ who died? Rather indeed who is raised up, who is actually at the right hand of God, and who maketh intercession for us? ³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of the Christ? Shall tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? ³⁶ [As it is written, "For thy sake we are killed all the day long, And accounted as sheep for slaughter" ³⁷ We indeed in all these things are more than conquerors by means of him who hath loved us.

¹⁹ Now the people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and the children of Israel encamped at Galgala, on the eastern border of Jericho;

¹⁵ Because the Lord fought conjointly with Israel,

¹⁴ Then Samuel spoke to the people, saying, Let us go up to Galgal, and there renew the kingdom.