f6 And Joshua the son of Nun day they compassed the city seven called the priests, and said unto times. them, Take up the ark of the covenant, and let seven priests bear seven trumpets of rams' horns before the ark of the LORD.

25 And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father's household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers which Joshua seut to spy out Jericho.

sels of brass and of iron, they put | before the ark of the LORD until the into the treasury of the house of the even-tide, he and the elders of IsLORD. rael, and put dust upon their heads. 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! d 8 O LORD, what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backs before their enemies!

w 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 Jay the foundation thereof in his first-born, and in his youngest son shall he set up the gates of it.

27 So the LORD was with Joshua; and his fame was noised throughout all the country.

CHAP. VII.

UT the children of Israel

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?

10 T And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou thus upon thy face?

Bommited a trespass in the 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.

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. g2 And Joshua sent men from 12 Therefore the children of IsJericho to Ai, which is beside Beth-rael could not stand before their eneaven, on the east side of Beth-el, and spake unto them, saying, Go up and view the country. And the men went up and viewed Ai.

f 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 Jabour thither; for they are but few. 4 So there went up thither of the people about three thousand men; and they fled before the men of

Ai.

g

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.

f6 And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face

mies, but turned their backs before
their enemies, because they were
accursed; neither will I be with you
any more, except ye destroy the ac-
cursed from among you.
d 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 ac-
cursed thing from among you.

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.
w 15 And it shall be, that he that is

taken with the accursed thing shall had; and they brought them unto be burnt with fire, he and all that the valley of Achor.

he hath; because he hath transgressed the covenant of the LORD, and because he hath wrought folly in Israel.

f16 So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:

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 :

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.

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.

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. g 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.

CHAP. VIII.

AND the LORD said unto Joe shua, 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.

it.

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 20 And Achan answered Joshua, for a prey unto yourselves. Lay and said, Indeed I have sinned thee an ambush for the city behind against the LORD God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done: c 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.

f 22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.

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.

f 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.

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:

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,

6 (For they will come out after us,) till we have drawn them from f24 And Joshua, and all Israel the city; for they will say, They with him, took Achan the son of flee before us, as at the first: thereZerah, and the silver, and the gar- fore we will flee before them. ment, and the wedge of gold, and 7 Then ye shall rise up from the his sons, and his daughters, and ambush, and seize upon the city: his oxen, and his asses, and his for the LORD your God will deliver sheep, and his tent, and all that he it into your hand.

8 And it shall be, when ye have thy hand toward Ai; for I will give taken the city, that ye shall set the it into thy hand. And Joshua stretchcity on fire: according to the com-ed out the spear that he had in his mandment of the LORD shall ye do. hand toward the city. See, I have commanded you. g9 Joshua therefore sent them forth and they went to lie in ambush, and abode between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua lodged that night among the people.

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.

ed up to heaven; and they had no power to flee this way or that way: and the people that led to the wilderness turned back upon the pursuers.

20 And when the men of Ai lookf 10 And Joshua rose up early in ed behind them, they saw, and, bethe morning, and numbered the peo-hold, the smoke of the city ascendple, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai. 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 21 And when Joshua and all Isnorth side of Ai: now there was a rael saw that the ambush had taken valley between them and Ai. the city, and that the smoke of the 12 And he took about five thou-city ascended, then they turned sand men, and set them to lie in again, and slew the men of Ai. ambush between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of the city.

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.

f 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. 15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilder

ness.

f 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.

17 And there was not a man left in Ai or Beth-el that went not out after Israel and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.

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. f 23 And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

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, aad smote it with the edge of the sword.

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.

26 For Joshua drew not his hand back, wherewith he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

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 com

18 And the LORD said unto Jo-manded Joshua. shua, Stretch out the spear that is in

28 And Joshua burnt Ai, and

made it a heap for ever, even a de- | side Jordan, in the hills, and in the solation, unto this day. 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, 2 That they gathered themselves together, to fight with Joshua and with Israel, with one accord. g 3 T And when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done unto Jericho and to Ai,

29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until even-tide: and as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his carcass 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.

d 30 Then Joshua built an altar unto the LORD God of Israel in mount Ebal;

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 lifted up any iron; and they offered thereon burnt-offerings unto the LORD, and sacrificed peace-offerings.

f 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.

f 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;

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.

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.

7 And the men of Israel said unto g 33 And all Israel, and their el- the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell ders, and officers, and their judges, among us; and how shall we make stood on this side the ark, and on a league with you? that side, before the priests the Le-f 8 And they said unto Joshua, We vites, which bare the ark of the co-are thy servants. And Joshua said venant of the LORD, as well the unto them, Who are ye? and from stranger as he that was born among whence come ye? 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.

34 And afterwards he read all the words of the law, the blessings and cursings, according to all that is written in the book of the law. d 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.

A

CHAP. IX.

ND it came to pass, when all
the kings which were on this

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,

10 And all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyoud Jordan, to Sihon king of Heshbon, and to Og king of Bashan, which was at Ashtaroth.

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.

12 This our bread we took hot for our provision out of our houses