11:1Now Jabin, king of Hazor, hearing of these things, sent to Jobab, king of Madon, and to the king of Shimron, and to the king of Achshaph, 11:2And to the kings on the north in the hill-country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in the highlands of Dor on the west, 11:3And to the Canaanites on the east and on the west, and to the Amorites and the Hittites and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the hill-country, and the Hivites under Hermon in the land of Mizpah. 11:4And they went out, they and all their armies with them, a great people, in number like the sand on the seaside, with horses and war-carriages in great number. 11:5And all these kings came together, and put their forces in position at the waters of Merom, to make war on Israel. 11:6And the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear of them: for tomorrow at this time I will give them all up dead before Israel; you are to have the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire. 11:7So Joshua and all the men of war with him came against them suddenly at the waters of Merom, and made an attack on them. 11:8And the Lord gave them up into the hands of Israel, and they overcame them driving them back to great Zidon and to Misrephoth-maim and into the valley of Mizpeh to the east; and they put them all to death, no man got away safely. 11:9And Joshua did to them as the Lord had said to him; he had the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire. 11:10At that time, Joshua went on to take Hazor and put its king to the sword: for in earlier times Hazor was the chief of all those kingdoms. 11:11And they put every person in it to death without mercy, giving every living thing up to the curse, and burning Hazor. 11:12And all the towns of these kings, and all the kings, Joshua took, and put them to the sword: he gave them up to the curse, as Moses, the servant of the Lord, had said. 11:13As for the towns made on hills of earth, not one was burned by Israel but Hazor, which was burned by Joshua. 11:14And all the goods taken from these towns, and their cattle, the children of Israel kept for themselves; but every man they put to death without mercy, till their destruction was complete, and there was no one living. 11:15As the Lord had given orders to Moses his servant, so Moses gave orders to Joshua, and so Joshua did; every order which the Lord had given to Moses was done. 11:16So Joshua took all that land, the hill-country and all the South, and all the land of Goshen, and the lowland and the Arabah, the hill-country of Israel and its lowland; 11:17From Mount Halak, which goes up to Seir, as far as Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon under Mount Hermon: and all their kings he overcame and put to death. 11:18For a long time Joshua made war on all those kings. 11:19Not one town made peace with the children of Israel, but only the Hivites of Gibeon: they took them all in war. 11:20For the Lord made them strong in heart to go to war against Israel, so that he might give them up to the curse without mercy, and that destruction might come on them, as the Lord had given orders to Moses. 11:21And Joshua came at that time and put an end to the Anakim in the hill-country, in Hebron, in Debir, in Anab, and in all the hill-country of Judah and Israel: Joshua gave them and their towns to the curse. 11:22Not one of the Anakim was to be seen in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, some were still living. 11:23So Joshua took all the land, as the Lord had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it to the children of Israel as their heritage, making division of it among them by their tribes. And the land had rest from war.
12:1Now these are the kings of the land whom the children of Israel overcame, taking as their heritage their land on the east side of Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah to the east: 12:2Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was living in Heshbon, ruling from Aroer, which is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the town in the middle of the valley, and half Gilead, as far as the river Jabbok, the limits of the children of Ammon; 12:3And the Arabah to the sea of Chinneroth, to the east, and to the sea of the Arabah, that is the Salt Sea, to the east, the way to Beth-jeshimoth; and on the south, under the slopes of Pisgah: 12:4And the land of Og, king of Bashan, of the rest of the Rephaim, who was living at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, 12:5Ruling in the mountain of Hermon, and in Salecah, and in all Bashan, as far as the limits of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and half Gilead, to the land of Sihon, king of Heshbon. 12:6Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the children of Israel overcame them; and Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave their land for a heritage to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. 12:7And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel overcame on the west side of Jordan, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which goes up to Seir; and Joshua gave the land to the tribes of Israel for a heritage, in keeping with their divisions; 12:8In the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the Arabah, and on the mountain slopes, and in the waste land, and in the South; the Hittites, the Amorites, and the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. 12:9The king of Jericho, one; the king of Ai, which is near Beth-el, one; 12:10The king of Jerusalem, one; the king of Hebron, one; 12:11The king of Jarmuth, one; the king of Lachish, one; 12:12The king of Eglon, one; the king of Gezer, one; 12:13The king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one; 12:14The king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; 12:15The king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one; 12:16The king of Makkedah, one; the king of Beth-el, one; 12:17The king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one; 12:18The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lassharon, one; 12:19The king of Madon, one; the king of Hazor, one; 12:20The king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one; 12:21The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one; 12:22The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one; 12:23The king of Dor on the hill of Dor, one; the king of Goiim in Gilgal, one; 12:24The king of Tirzah, one; all the kings together were thirty-one.
13:1Now Joshua was old and full of years; and the Lord said to him, You are old and full of years, and there is still very much land to be taken. 13:2This is the land which is still to be taken: all the country of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites; 13:3From the Shihor, which is before Egypt, to the edge of Ekron to the north, which is taken to be Canaanite property: the five chiefs of the Philistines; the Gazites, and the Ashdodites, the Ashkelonites, the Gittites, and the Ekronites, as well as the Avvim; 13:4On the south: all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah which is the property of the Zidonians, to Aphek, as far as the limit of the Amorites: 13:5And the land of the Gebalites, and all Lebanon, looking east, from Baal-gad under Mount Hermon as far as Hamath: 13:6All the people of the hill-country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, all the Zidonians; them will I send out from before the children of Israel: only make division of it to Israel for a heritage, as I have given you orders to do. 13:7So now make division of this land for a heritage to the nine tribes, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. 13:8With him the Reubenites and the Gadites have been given their heritage, which Moses gave them, on the east side of Jordan, as Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave them; 13:9From Aroer, on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the town in the middle of the valley, and all the table-land from Medeba to Dibon; 13:10And all the towns of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon, to the limits of the children of Ammon; 13:11And Gilead, and the land of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and all Bashan to Salecah; 13:12All the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who was ruling in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he was one of the last of the Rephaim); these did Moses overcome, driving them out of their country. 13:13However, the people of Israel did not send out the Geshurites, or the Maacathites: but Geshur and Maacath are living among Israel to this day. 13:14Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no heritage; the offerings of the Lord, the God of Israel, made by fire are his heritage, as he said to him. 13:15And Moses gave their heritage to the tribe of Reuben by their families. 13:16Their limit was from Aroer, on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the town in the middle of the valley, and all the table-land by Medeba; 13:17Heshbon and all her towns in the table-land; Dibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon; 13:18And Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath; 13:19And Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar in the mountain of the valley; 13:20And Beth-peor, and the slopes of Pisgah, and Beth-jeshimoth; 13:21And all the towns of the table-land, and all the kingdom of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon, whom Moses overcame, together with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the chiefs of Sihon, who were living in the land. 13:22And Balaam, the son of Beor, the prophet, the children of Israel put to death with the sword. 13:23And the limit of the children of Reuben was the edge of Jordan. This was the heritage of the children of Reuben by their families, with its towns and its unwalled places. 13:24And Moses gave their heritage to the tribe of Gad by their families. 13:25And their limit was Jazer, and all the towns of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer before Rabbah; 13:26And from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the edge of Debir; 13:27And in the valley, Beth-haram, and Beth-nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon, king of Heshbon, having Jordan for its limit, to the end of the sea of Chinnereth on the east side of Jordan. 13:28This is the heritage of the children of Gad by their families, with its towns and its unwalled places 13:29And Moses gave their heritage to the half-tribe of Manasseh by their families. 13:30And their limit was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og, king of Bashan, and all Havvoth-Jair, in Bashan, sixty towns; 13:31And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, towns of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, for half of the children of Machir by their families. 13:32These are the heritages of which Moses made distribution in the lowlands of Moab, on the other side of Jordan in Jericho, to the east. 13:33But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no heritage: the Lord, the God of Israel, is their heritage, as he said to them.
14:1And these are the heritages which the children of Israel took in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar, the priest, and Joshua, the son of Nun, and the heads of the tribes of the children of Israel, gave out to them; 14:2Their heritage by the Lord's decision, as he gave orders by Moses, for the nine tribes and the half-tribe. 14:3For Moses had given their heritage to the two tribes and the half-tribe on the other side of Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no heritage among them. 14:4Because the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave the Levites no part in the land, only towns for their living-places, with the grass-lands for their cattle and for their property. 14:5As the Lord had given orders to Moses, so the people of Israel did, and they made division of the land. 14:6Then the children of Judah went to Joshua in Gilgal; and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, said to him, You have knowledge of what the Lord said to Moses, the man of God, about me and about you in Kadesh-barnea. 14:7I was forty years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadesh-barnea to make a search through the land; and the account which I gave him was in keeping with his desire. 14:8My brothers, however, who went up with me, made the heart of the people like water: but I was true to the Lord with all my heart. 14:9And on that day Moses took an oath, saying, Truly the land where your feet have been placed will become a heritage for you and your children for ever, because you have been true to the Lord your God with all your heart. 14:10And now, as you see, the Lord has kept me safe these forty-five years, from the time when the Lord said this to Moses, while Israel was wandering in the waste land: and now I am eighty-five years old. 14:11And still, I am as strong today as I was when Moses sent me out: as my strength was then, so is it now, for war and for all the business of life. 14:12So now, give me this hill-country named by the Lord at that time; for you had an account of it then, how the Anakim were there, and great walled towns: it may be that the Lord will be with me, and I will be able to take their land, as the Lord said. 14:13And Joshua gave him his blessing; and he gave Hebron to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, for his heritage. 14:14So Hebron became the heritage of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, to this day, because with all his heart he was true to the Lord, the God of Israel. 14:15In earlier times the name of Hebron had been Kiriath-arba, named after Arba, the greatest of the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.
15:1Now the part of the land marked out for the children of Judah by families, went up to the edge of Edom, as far as the waste land of Zin to the south, to the farthest point of it on the south. 15:2Their south limit was from the farthest part of the Salt Sea, from the inlet looking to the south: 15:3From there it goes south of the slope up to Akrabbim, and on to Zin, then south past Kadesh-barnea, and on by Hezron and up to Addar, turning in the direction of Karka: 15:4Then on to Azmon, ending at the stream of Egypt: and the end of the limit is at the sea; this will be your limit on the south. 15:5And the east limit is the Salt Sea as far as the end of Jordan. And the limit of the north part of the land is from the inlet of the sea at the end of Jordan: 15:6Then the line goes up to Beth-hoglah, past the north of Beth-arabah, and up to the stone of Bohan, the son of Reuben; 15:7Then the line goes up to Debir from the valley of Achor, and so to the north, in the direction of Gilgal, which is opposite the slope up to Adummim, on the south side of the river: and the line goes on to the waters of En-shemesh, ending at En-rogel: 15:8Then the line goes up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the south side of the Jebusite (which is Jerusalem): then up to the top of the mountain in front of the valley of Hinnom to the west, which is at the farthest point of the valley of Rephaim on the north: 15:9And the limit is marked out from the top of the mountain to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah, and out to the towns of Mount Ephron, as far as Baalah (which is Kiriath-jearim): 15:10Then turning west, the line goes from Baalah to Mount Seir, and on to the side of Mount Jearim (which is Chesalon) on the north, then down to Beth-shemesh, and on past Timnah: 15:11And out to the side of Ekron to the north: then it is marked out to Shikkeron and on to Mount Baalah, ending at Jabneel; the end of the line is at the sea. 15:12And the limit on the west is the edge of the Great Sea. This is the line going round the land marked out for the children of Judah, by their families. 15:13And to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, he gave a part among the children of Judah, as the Lord had given orders to Joshua, that is, Kiriath-arba, named after Arba, the father of Anak which is Hebron. 15:14And the three sons of Anak, Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the children of Anak, were forced out from there by Caleb. 15:15From there he went up against the people of Debir: (now the name of Debir before that was Kiriath-sepher.) 15:16And Caleb said, I will give Achsah, my daughter, as wife to the man who overcomes Kiriath-sepher and takes it. 15:17And Othniel, the son of Kenaz, Caleb's brother, took it: so he gave him his daughter Achsah for his wife. 15:18Now when she came to him, he put into her mind the idea of requesting a field from her father: and she got down from her ass; and Caleb said to her, What is it? 15:19And she said, Give me a blessing; because you have put me in dry south-land, now give me springs of water. So he gave her the higher spring and the lower spring. 15:20This is the heritage of the tribe of Judah, by their families. 15:21The farthest towns of the tribe of Judah in the direction of the limits of Edom to the south, were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur; 15:22And Kinah, and Dimonah, and Adadah; 15:23And Kedesh, and Hazor, and Ithnan; 15:24Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth; 15:25And Hazor-hadattah, and Kerioth-hezron (which is Hazor); 15:26Amam, and Shema, and Moladah; 15:27And Hazar-gaddah, and Heshmon, and Beth-pelet; 15:28And Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Biziothiah; 15:29Baalah, and Iim, and Ezem; 15:30And Eltolad, and Chesil, and Hormah; 15:31And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah; 15:32And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon; all the towns are twenty-nine, with their unwalled places. 15:33In the lowland, Eshtaol, and Zorah, and Ashnah; 15:34And Zanoah, and En-gannim, Tappuah, and Enam; 15:35Jarmuth, and Adullam, Socoh, and Azekah; 15:36And Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen towns with their unwalled places. 15:37Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal-gad; 15:38And Dilan, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel; 15:39Lachish, and Bozkath, and Eglon; 15:40And Cabbon, and Lahmas, and Chithlish; 15:41And Gederoth, Beth-dagon, and Naamah, and Makkedah; sixteen towns with their unwalled places. 15:42Libnah, and Ether, and Ashan; 15:43And Iphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib; 15:44And Keilah, and Achzib, and Mareshah; nine towns with their unwalled places. 15:45Ekron, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places; 15:46From Ekron to the sea, all the towns by the side of Ashdod, with their unwalled places. 15:47Ashdod, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places; Gaza, with her daughter-towns and her unwalled places, to the stream of Egypt, with the Great Sea as a limit. 15:48And in the hill-country, Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh; 15:49And Dannah, and Kiriath-sannah (which is Debir); 15:50And Anab, and Eshtemoh, and Anim; 15:51And Goshen, and Holon, and Giloh; eleven towns with their unwalled places. 15:52Arab, and Dumah, and Eshan; 15:53And Janim, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah; 15:54And Humtah, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron), and Zior; nine towns with their unwalled places. 15:55Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Jutah; 15:56And Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah; 15:57Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah; ten towns with their unwalled places. 15:58Halhul, Beth-zur, and Gedor; 15:59And Maarath, and Beth-anoth, and Eltekon; six towns with their unwalled places. 15:60Kiriath-baal (which is Kiriath-jearim), and Rabbah; two towns with their unwalled places. 15:61In the waste land, Beth-arabah, Middin, and Secacah; 15:62And Nibshan, and the Town of Salt, and En-gedi; six towns with their unwalled places. 15:63And as for the Jebusites living in Jerusalem, the children of Judah were unable to make them go out; but the Jebusites are living with the children of Judah at Jerusalem, to this day.
16:1And the limit of the land marked out for the children of Joseph went out from Jordan at Jericho, at the waters of Jericho on the east, in the waste land, going up from Jericho through the hill-country to Beth-el; 16:2And it goes out from Beth-el to Luz, and on as far as the limit of the Archites to Ataroth; 16:3And it goes down to the west to the limit of the Japhletites, to the limit of Beth-horon the lower, as far as Gezer; ending at the sea. 16:4And the children of Joseph, Manasseh and Ephraim, took their heritage. 16:5And the limit of the land of the children of Ephraim by their families was marked out in this way: the limit of their heritage to the east was Ataroth-addar, to Beth-horon the higher; 16:6The line goes out to the west at Michmethath on the north; then turning to the east to Taanath-shiloh, going past it on the east of Janoah; 16:7And from Janoah down to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and touching Jericho, it goes on to Jordan. 16:8From Tappuah the line goes on to the west to the river of Kanah; ending at the sea. This is the heritage of the children of Ephraim by their families; 16:9Together with the towns marked out for the children of Ephraim in the heritage of Manasseh, all the towns with their unwalled places. 16:10And the Canaanites who were living in Gezer were not forced out; but the Canaanites have been living among Ephraim, to this day, as servants, doing forced work.
17:1And this was the part marked out for the tribe of Manasseh, because he was the oldest son of Joseph. As for Machir, the oldest son of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, because he was a man of war he had Gilead and Bashan. 17:2And as for the rest of the children of Manasseh, their heritage was given to them by families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, by their families. 17:3But Zelophehad, the son of Hepher, the son of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, had no sons, but only daughters; and these are the names of his daughters: Mahlah, and Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah. 17:4And they came before Eleazar the priest, and Joshua, the son of Nun, and before the chiefs, saying, The Lord gave orders to Moses to give us a heritage among our brothers: so in agreement with the orders of the Lord he gave them a heritage among their father's brothers. 17:5And ten parts were given to Manasseh, in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan, which is on the other side of Jordan; 17:6Because the daughters of Manasseh had a heritage among his sons, and the land of Gilead was the property of the other sons of Manasseh. 17:7And the limit of Manasseh's land was from Asher to Michmethath, which is before Shechem; the line goes on to the right hand, to the people of En-tappuah. 17:8The land of Tappuah was the property of Manasseh; but Tappuah on the edge of Manasseh was the property of the children of Ephraim. 17:9And the limit goes down to the stream Kanah, to the south of the stream: these towns were Ephraim's among the towns of Manasseh; Manasseh's limit was on the north side of the stream, ending at the sea: 17:10To the south it is Ephraim's, and to the north it is Manasseh's, and the sea is his limit; and they are touching Asher on the north, and Issachar on the east. 17:11In Issachar and Asher, Manasseh had Beth-shean and its daughter-towns, and Ibleam and its daughter-towns, and the people of Dor and its daughter-towns, and the people of En-dor and its daughter-towns, and the people of Taanach and its daughter-towns, and the people of Megiddo and its daughter-towns, that is, the three hills. 17:12But the children of Manasseh were not able to make the people of those towns go out; but the Canaanites would go on living in that land. 17:13And when the children of Israel had become strong, they put the Canaanites to forced work, in place of driving them out. 17:14Then the children of Joseph said to Joshua, Why have you given me only one part and one stretch of land for my heritage? For through the blessing given to me by the Lord up to now, I am a great people. 17:15Then Joshua said to them, If you are such a great people, go up into the woodlands, clearing a place there for yourselves in the land of the Perizzites and the Rephaim, if the hill-country of Ephraim is not wide enough for you. 17:16And the children of Joseph said, The hill-country is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites living in the valley have iron war-carriages, those in Beth-shean and its towns as well as those in the valley of Jezreel. 17:17Then Joshua said to the children of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, You are a great people, and have great power: you are not to have one property only, 17:18For the hill-country of Gilead will be yours ... the woodland and cut down ... its outskirts will be yours ... get the Canaanites out, for they have iron war-carriages ... strong.
18:1And all the meeting of the children of Israel came together at Shiloh and put up the Tent of meeting there: and the land was crushed before them. 18:2But there were still seven tribes among the children of Israel who had not taken up their heritage. 18:3Then Joshua said to the children of Israel, Why are you so slow to go in and take up your heritage in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you? 18:4Take from among you three men from every tribe; and I will send them to go through the land and make a record of it for distribution as their heritage; then let them come back to me. 18:5And let them make division of it into seven parts: let Judah keep inside his limit on the south, and let the children of Joseph keep inside their limit on the north. 18:6And you are to have the land marked out in seven parts, and come back to me with the record; and I will make the distribution for you here by the decision of the Lord our God. 18:7For the Levites have no part among you; to be the Lord's priests is their heritage; and Gad and Reuben and the half-tribe of Manasseh have had their heritage on the east side of Jordan, given to them by Moses, the servant of the Lord. 18:8So the men got up and went; and Joshua gave orders to those who went, to make a record of the land, saying, Go up and down through the land, and make a record of it and come back here to me, and I will make the distribution for you here by the decision of the Lord in Shiloh. 18:9So the men went, travelling through the land, and made a record of it by towns in seven parts in a book, and came back to Joshua to the tent-circle at Shiloh. 18:10And Joshua made the distribution for them in Shiloh by the decision of the Lord, marking out the land for the children of Israel by their divisions. 18:11And the first heritage came out for the tribe of Benjamin by their families: and the limit of their heritage went between the children of Judah and the children of Joseph. 18:12And their limit on the north was from the Jordan, and the line goes up to the side of Jericho on the north and through the hill-country to the west, ending at the waste land of Beth-aven. 18:13And from there the line goes south to Luz, to the side of Luz (which is Beth-el), then down to Ataroth-addar, by the mountain to the south of Beth-horon the lower. 18:14And the limit is marked as coming round to the south on the west side from the mountain which is south of Beth-horon, and ending at Kiriath-baal (which is Kiriath-jearim), a town of the children of Judah: this is the west part. 18:15And the south part is from the farthest point of Kiriath-jearim, and the line goes out to the west to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoah: 18:16And the line goes down to the farthest part of the mountain facing the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is on the north of the valley of Rephaim: from there it goes down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite on the south as far as En-rogel; 18:17And it goes to En-shemesh and on to Geliloth, opposite the way up to Adummim, and it goes down to the stone of Bohan, the son of Reuben; 18:18And it goes on to the side facing the Arabah to the north, and down to the Arabah; 18:19And on to the north side of Beth-hoglah, ending at the north inlet of the Salt Sea at the south end of Jordan; this is their limit on the south. 18:20And the limit of the east part is the Jordan. This is the heritage of the children of Benjamin, marked out for their families by these limits on all sides. 18:21And the towns of the children of Benjamin, given to them in the order of their families, are Jericho and Beth-hoglah and Emek-kezziz 18:22And Beth-arabah and Zemaraim and Beth-el 18:23And Avvim and Parah and Ophrah 18:24And Chephar-Ammoni and Ophni and Geba; twelve towns with their unwalled places; 18:25Gibeon and Ramah and Beeroth 18:26And Mizpeh and Chephirah and Mozah 18:27And Rekem and Irpeel and Taralah 18:28And Zela, Eleph and the Jebusite (which is Jerusalem), Gibeath and Kiriath; fourteen towns with their unwalled places. This is the heritage of the children of Benjamin by their families.
19:1And the second heritage came out for the tribe of Simeon by their families; and their heritage was in the middle of the heritage of the children of Judah. 19:2And they had for their heritage Beer-sheba and Shema and Moladah 19:3And Hazar-shual and Balah and Ezem 19:4And Eltolad and Bethul and Hormah 19:5And Ziklag and Beth-marcaboth and Hazar-susah 19:6And Beth-lebaoth and Sharuhen; thirteen towns with their unwalled places; 19:7Ain, Rimmon, and Ether and Ashan; four towns with their unwalled places; 19:8And all the unwalled places round about these towns as far as Baalath-beer-ramah to the south. This is the heritage of the tribe of Simeon by their families. 19:9The heritage of Simeon was taken out of Judah's stretch of land, for Judah's part was more than they had need of, so the heritage of the children of Simeon was inside their heritage. 19:10And the third heritage came out for Zebulun by their families; the limit of their heritage was as far as Sarid; 19:11And their limit goes up to the west to Maralah, stretching to Dabbesheth, and to the stream in front of Jokneam; 19:12Then turning east from Sarid to the limit of Chisloth-tabor, it goes out to Daberath, and up to Japhia; 19:13And from there it goes on east to Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin; ending at Rimmon which goes as far as Neah; 19:14And the line goes round it on the north to Hannathon, ending at the valley of Iphtah-el; 19:15And Kattath and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Beth-lehem; twelve towns with their unwalled places. 19:16This is the heritage of the children of Zebulun by their families, these towns with their unwalled places. 19:17For Issachar the fourth heritage came out, for the children of Issachar by their families; 19:18And their limit was to Jezreel and Chesulloth and Shunem 19:19And Hapharaim and Shion and Anaharath 19:20And Rabbith and Kishion and Ebez 19:21And Remeth and En-gannim and En-haddah and Beth-pazzez; 19:22And their limit goes as far as Tabor and Shahazimah and Beth-shemesh, ending at Jordan; sixteen towns with their unwalled places. 19:23This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Issachar by their families, these towns with their unwalled places. 19:24And the fifth heritage came out for the tribe of Asher by their families. 19:25And their limit was Helkath and Hali and Beten and Achshaph 19:26And Alammelech and Amad and Mishal, stretching to Carmel on the west and Shihor-libnath; 19:27Turning to the east to Beth-dagon and stretching to Zebulun and the valley of Iphtah-el as far as Beth-emek and Neiel to the north; on the left it goes as far as Cabul 19:28And Ebron and Rehob and Hammon and Kanah, to great Zidon; 19:29And the limit goes round to Ramah and the walled town of Tyre and Hosah, ending at the sea by Heleb and Achzib; 19:30And Ummah and Aphek and Rehob; twenty-two towns with their unwalled places. 19:31This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Asher by their families, these towns with their unwalled places. 19:32For the children of Naphtali the sixth heritage came out, for the children of Naphtali by their families; 19:33And their limit was from Heleph, from the oak-tree in Zaanannim, and Adami-hannekeb and Jabneel, as far as Lakkum, ending at Jordan; 19:34And turning west to Aznoth-tabor, the limit goes out from there to Hukkok, stretching to Zebulun on the south, and Asher on the west, and Judah at Jordan on the east. 19:35And the walled towns are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth 19:36And Adamah and Ramah and Hazor 19:37And Kedesh and Edrei and En-Hazor 19:38And Iron and Migdal-el, Horem and Beth-anath and Beth-shemesh; nineteen towns with their unwalled places. 19:39This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Naphtali by their families, these towns with their unwalled places. 19:40For the tribe of Dan by their families the seventh heritage came out; 19:41And the limit of their heritage was Zorah and Eshtaol and Ir-shemesh 19:42And Shaalabbin and Aijalon and Ithlah 19:43And Elon and Timnah and Ekron 19:44And Eltekeh and Gibbethon and Baalath 19:45And Jehud and Bene-berak and Gath-rimmon; 19:46And on the west was ... opposite Joppa. 19:47(But the limit of the children of Dan was not wide enough for them; so the children of Dan went up and made war on Leshem and took it, putting it to the sword without mercy, and they took it for their heritage and made a place for themselves there, giving it the name of Leshem-dan, after the name of their father, Dan.) 19:48This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Dan by their families, these towns with their unwalled places. 19:49So the distribution of the land and its limits was complete; and the children of Israel gave Joshua, the son of Nun, a heritage among them; 19:50By the orders of the Lord they gave him the town for which he made request, Timnath-serah in the hill-country of Ephraim: there, after building the town, he made his living-place. 19:51These are the heritages which Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun, and the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel gave out at Shiloh, by the decision of the Lord, at the door of the Tent of meeting. So the distribution of the land was complete.
20:1And the Lord said to Joshua, 20:2Say to the children of Israel, Let certain towns be marked out as safe places, as I said to you by the mouth of Moses, 20:3So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood. 20:4And if anyone goes in flight to one of those towns, and comes into the public place of the town, and puts his cause before the responsible men of the town, they will take him into the town and give him a place among them where he may be safe. 20:5And if the one who has the right of punishment comes after him, they are not to give the taker of life up to him; because he was the cause of his neighbour's death without designing it and not in hate. 20:6And he is to go on living in that town till he has to come before the meeting of the people to be judged; (till the death of him who is high priest at that time:) then the taker of life may come back to his town and to his house, to the town from which he had gone in flight. 20:7So they made selection of Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah. 20:8And on the east side of Jordan at Jericho, they made selection of Bezer in the waste land, in the table-land, out of the tribe of Reuben, and Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad, and Golan in Bashan out of the tribe of Manasseh. 20:9These were the towns marked out for all the children of Israel and for the man from a strange country living among them, so that anyone causing the death of another in error, might go in flight there, and not be put to death by him who has the right of punishment for blood till he had come before the meeting of the people.
21:1Then the heads of the families of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel; 21:2And said to them in Shiloh in the land of Canaan, The Lord gave orders by Moses that we were to have towns for living in, with their grass-lands for our cattle. 21:3And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord. 21:4And the heritage came out for the families of the Kohathites: the children of Aaron the priest, who were of the Levites, were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin. 21:5The rest of the children of Kohath by their families were given ten towns from the tribes of Ephraim and Dan and the half-tribe of Manasseh. 21:6The children of Gershon by their families were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Issachar and Asher and Naphtali and the half-tribe of Manasseh which was in Bashan. 21:7The children of Merari by their families were given twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben and Gad and Zebulun. 21:8All these towns with their grass-lands the children of Israel gave by the decision of the Lord to the Levites, as the Lord had given orders by Moses. 21:9From the tribes of the children of Judah and the children of Simeon they gave these towns, listed here by name: 21:10These were for the children of Aaron among the families of the Kohathites, of the children of Levi: for they came first in the distribution. 21:11They gave them Kiriath-arba, the town of Arba, the father of Anak, (which is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah, with its grass-lands. 21:12But the open country round the town, and its unwalled places, they gave to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, as his property. 21:13And to the children of Aaron the priest they gave Hebron with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Libnah with its grass-lands; 21:14And Jattir with its grass-lands, and Eshtemoa with its grass-lands; 21:15And Holon with its grass-lands, and Debir with its grass-lands; 21:16And Ain, and Juttah, and Beth-shemesh, with their grass-lands; nine towns from those two tribes. 21:17And from the tribe of Benjamin they gave Gibeon and Geba with their grass-lands; 21:18Anathoth and Almon with their grass-lands, four towns. 21:19Thirteen towns with their grass-lands were given to the children of Aaron, the priests. 21:20The rest of the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites, were given towns from the tribe of Ephraim. 21:21And they gave them Shechem with its grass-lands in the hill-country of Ephraim, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Gezer with its grass-lands; 21:22And Kibzaim and Beth-horon with their grass-lands, four towns. 21:23And from the tribe of Dan, Elteke and Gibbethon with their grass-lands; 21:24Aijalon and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, four towns. 21:25And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, two towns. 21:26All the towns of the rest of the families of the children of Kohath were ten with their grass-lands. 21:27And to the children of Gershon, of the families of the Levites, they gave from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Ashtaroth with its grass-lands, two towns. 21:28And from the tribe of Issachar, Kishion and Daberath with their grass-lands; 21:29Jarmuth and En-gannim with their grass-lands, four towns. 21:30And from the tribe of Asher, Mishal and Abdon, with their grass-lands: 21:31Helkath and Rehob with their grass-lands, four towns. 21:32And from the tribe of Naphtali, Kedesh in Galilee with its grass-lands, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Hammoth-dor and Kartan with their grass-lands, three towns. 21:33All the towns of the Gershonites with their families were thirteen with their grass-lands. 21:34And to the rest of the Levites, that is, the families of the children of Merari, they gave from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam and Kartah with their grass-lands; 21:35Dimnah and Nahalal with their grass-lands, four towns. 21:36And from the tribe of Reuben, Bezer and Jahaz with their grass-lands; 21:37Kedemoth and Mephaath with their grass-lands, four towns. 21:38And from the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in Gilead, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Mahanaim with their grass-lands; 21:39Heshbon and Jazer with their grass-lands, four towns. 21:40All these towns were given to the children of Merari by their families, that is, the rest of the families of the Levites; and their heritage was twelve towns. 21:41All the towns of the Levites, among the heritage of the children of Israel, were forty-eight towns with their grass-lands. 21:42Every one of these towns had grass-lands round it. 21:43So the Lord gave to Israel all the land which he gave by oath to their fathers; so it became their heritage and their living-place. 21:44And the Lord gave them peace on every side, as he had said to their fathers: all those who were against them gave way before them, for the Lord gave them all up into their hands. 21:45The Lord kept faith with the house of Israel about all the good which he said he would do for them, and all his words came true.
22:1Then Joshua sent for the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, 22:2And said to them, You have kept all the orders of Moses, the Lord's servant, and have done everything I gave you orders to do: 22:3You have now been with your brothers for a long time; till this day you have been doing the orders of the Lord your God. 22:4And now the Lord your God has given your brothers rest, as he said: so now you may go back to your tents, to the land of your heritage, which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave to you on the other side of Jordan. 22:5Only take great care to do the orders and the law which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave you; to have love for the Lord your God and to go in all his ways; and to keep his laws and to be true to him and to be his servants with all your heart and with all your soul. 22:6Then Joshua gave them his blessing and sent them away: and they went back to their tents. 22:7Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh, Moses had given a heritage in Bashan; but to the other half, Joshua gave a heritage among their brothers on the west side of Jordan. Now when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he gave them his blessing, 22:8And said to them, Go back with much wealth to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver and gold and brass and iron, and with a very great store of clothing; give your brothers a part of the goods taken in the war. 22:9So Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went back, parting from the children of Israel at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their heritage which had been given to them by the Lord's order to Moses. 22:10Now when they came to the country by Jordan in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh put up there, by Jordan, a great altar, seen from far. 22:11And news came to the children of Israel, See, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh have put up an altar opposite the land of Canaan, in the country by Jordan on the side which is Israel's. 22:12Then all the meeting of the children of Israel, hearing this, came together at Shiloh to go up against them to war. 22:13And the children of Israel sent Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, 22:14And with him they sent ten chiefs, one for every tribe of the children of Israel, every one of them the head of his house among the families of Israel. 22:15And they came to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh, to the land of Gilead, and said to them, 22:16This is what all the meeting of the people of the Lord has said, What is this wrong which you have done against the God of Israel, turning back this day from the Lord and building an altar for yourselves, and being false to the Lord? 22:17Was not the sin of Baal-peor great enough, from which we are not clear even to this day, though punishment came on the people of the Lord, 22:18That now you are turned back from the Lord? and, because you are false to him today, tomorrow his wrath will be let loose on all the people of Israel. 22:19But if the land you now have is unclean, come over into the Lord's land where his House is, and take up your heritage among us: but do not be false to the Lord and to us by building yourselves an altar in addition to the altar of the Lord our God. 22:20Did not Achan, the son of Zerah, do wrong about the cursed thing, causing wrath to come on all the people of Israel? And not on him only came the punishment of death. 22:21Then the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh said in answer to the heads of the families of Israel, 22:22God, even God the Lord, God, even God the Lord, he sees, and Israel will see--if it is in pride or in sin against the Lord, 22:23That we have made ourselves an altar, being false to the Lord, keep us not safe from death this day; and if for the purpose of offering burned offerings on it and meal offerings, or peace-offerings, let the Lord himself send punishment for it; 22:24And if we have not, in fact, done this designedly and with purpose, having in our minds the fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel? 22:25For the Lord has made Jordan a line of division between us and you, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad; you have no part in the Lord: so your children will make our children give up fearing the Lord. 22:26So we said, Let us now make an altar for ourselves, not for burned offerings or for the offerings of beasts: 22:27But to be a witness between us and you, and between the future generations, that we have the right of worshipping the Lord with our burned offerings and our offerings of beasts and our peace-offerings; so that your children will not be able to say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the Lord. 22:28For we said to ourselves, If they say this to us or to future generations, then we will say, See this copy of the Lord's altar which our fathers made, not for burned offerings or offerings of beasts, but for a witness between us and you. 22:29Never let it be said that we were false to the Lord, turning back this day from him and building an altar for burned offerings and meal offerings and offerings of beasts, in addition to the altar of the Lord our God which is before his House. 22:30Then Phinehas the priest and the chiefs of the meeting and the heads of the families of Israel who were with him, hearing what the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh said, were pleased. 22:31And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, said to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh, Now we are certain that the Lord is among us, because you have not done this wrong against the Lord: and you have kept us from falling into the hands of the Lord. 22:32Then Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, and the chiefs went back from the land of Gilead, from the children of Reuben and the children of Gad, and came to the children of Israel in Canaan and gave them the news. 22:33And the children of Israel were pleased about this; and they gave praise to God, and had no more thought of going to war against the children of Reuben and the children of Gad for the destruction of their land. 22:34And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad gave to that altar the name of Ed. For, they said, It is a witness between us that the Lord is God.
23:1Now after a long time, when the Lord had given Israel rest from wars on every side, and Joshua was old and full of years, 23:2Joshua sent for all Israel, for their responsible men and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers, and said to them, I am old, and full of years: 23:3You have seen everything the Lord your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is the Lord your God who has been fighting for you. 23:4Now I have given to you, as the heritage of your tribes, all these nations which are still in the land, together with those cut off by me, from Jordan as far as the Great Sea on the west. 23:5The Lord your God will send them away by force, driving them out before you; and you are to take their land for your heritage, as the Lord your God said to you. 23:6So be very strong to keep and do whatever is recorded in the book of the law of Moses, not turning away from it to the right or to the left; 23:7Have nothing to do with these nations who still are living among you; let not their gods be named by you or used in your oaths; do not be their servants or give them worship: 23:8But be true to the Lord your God as you have been till this day. 23:9For the Lord has sent out from before you nations great and strong: and they have all given way before you till this day. 23:10One man of you is able to put to flight a thousand; for it is the Lord your God who is fighting for you, as he has said to you. 23:11So keep watch on yourselves, and see that you have love for the Lord your God. 23:12For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you: 23:13Then you may be certain that the Lord your God will not go on driving these nations out from before you; but they will become a danger and a cause of sin to you, a whip for your sides and thorns in your eyes, till you are cut off from this good land which the Lord your God has given you. 23:14Now I am about to go the way of all the earth: and you have seen and are certain, all of you, in your hearts and souls, that in all the good things which the Lord said about you, he has kept faith with you; everything has come true for you. 23:15And you will see that, as all the good things which the Lord your God undertook to do for you, have come to you, so the Lord will send down on you all the evil things till he has made your destruction complete, and you are cut off from the good land which the Lord your God has given you. 23:16If the agreement of the Lord your God, which was given to you by his orders, is broken, and you become the servants of other gods and give them worship, then the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and you will quickly be cut off from the good land which he has given you.
24:1Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; and he sent for the responsible men of Israel and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers; and they took their place before God. 24:2And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they were worshipping other gods. 24:3And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, guiding him through all the land of Canaan; I made his offspring great in number, and gave him Isaac. 24:4And to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau: to Esau I gave Mount Seir, as his heritage; but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt. 24:5And I sent Moses and Aaron, troubling Egypt by all the signs I did among them: and after that I took you out. 24:6I took your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the Red Sea; and the Egyptians came after your fathers to the Red Sea, with their war-carriages and their horsemen. 24:7And at their cry, the Lord made it dark between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea go over them, covering them with its waters; your eyes have seen what I did in Egypt: then for a long time you were living in the waste land. 24:8And I took you into the lands of the Amorites on the other side of Jordan; and they made war on you, and I gave them into your hands and you took their land; and I sent destruction on them before you. 24:9Then Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, went up to war against Israel; and he sent for Balaam, the son of Beor, to put a curse on you: 24:10But I did not give ear to Balaam; and so he went on blessing you; and I kept you safe from him. 24:11Then you went over Jordan and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho made war on you, the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Hivites and the Jebusites: and I gave them up into your hands. 24:12And I sent the hornet before you, driving out the two kings of the Amorites before you, not with your sword and your bow. 24:13And I gave you a land on which you had done no work, and towns not of your building, and you are now living in them; and your food comes from vine-gardens and olive-gardens not of your planting. 24:14So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped by your fathers across the River and in Egypt, and be servants of the Lord. 24:15And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord. 24:16Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up the Lord to be the servants of other gods; 24:17For it is the Lord our God who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house, and who did all those great signs before our eyes, and kept us safe on all our journeys, and among all the peoples through whom we went: 24:18And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites living in the land: so we will be the servants of the Lord, for he is our God. 24:19And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins. 24:20If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good. 24:21And the people said to Joshua, No! But we will be the servants of the Lord. 24:22And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision to be the servants of the Lord. And they said, We are witnesses. 24:23Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel. 24:24And the people said to Joshua, We will be the servants of the Lord our God, and we will give ear to his voice. 24:25So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem. 24:26And Joshua put these words on record, writing them in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and put it up there under the oak-tree which was in the holy place of the Lord. 24:27And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us; for all the words of the Lord have been said to us in its hearing: so it will be a witness against you if you are false to the Lord your God. 24:28Then Joshua let the people go away, every man to his heritage. 24:29Now after these things, the death of Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, took place, he being then a hundred and ten years old. 24:30And they put his body in the earth in the land of his heritage in Timnath-serah, in the hill-country of Ephraim, to the north of Mount Gaash. 24:31And Israel was true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the older men who were still living after Joshua's death, and had seen what the Lord had done for Israel. 24:32And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had taken up from Egypt, they put in the earth in Shechem, in the property which Jacob had got from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred shekels: and they became the heritage of the children of Joseph. 24:33Then the death of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, took place; and his body was put in the earth in the hill of Phinehas his son, which had been given to him in the hill-country of Ephraim.
Judges
1:1Now after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel made request to the Lord, saying, Who is to go up first to make war for us against the Canaanites? 1:2And the Lord said, Judah is to go up: see, I have given the land into his hands. 1:3Then Judah said to Simeon his brother, Come up with me into my heritage, so that we may make war against the Canaanites; and I will then go with you into your heritage. So Simeon went with him. 1:4And Judah went up; and the Lord gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hands; and they overcame ten thousand of them in Bezek. 1:5And they came across Adoni-zedek, and made war on him; and they overcame the Canaanites and the Perizzites. 1:6But Adoni-zedek went in flight; and they went after him and overtook him, and had his thumbs and his great toes cut off. 1:7And Adoni-zedek said, Seventy kings, whose thumbs and great toes had been cut off, got broken meat under my table: as I have done, so has God done to me in full. And they took him to Jerusalem, and he came to his end there. 1:8Then the children of Judah made an attack on Jerusalem, and took it, burning down the town after they had put its people to the sword without mercy. 1:9After that the children of Judah went down to make war on the Canaanites living in the hill-country and in the south and in the lowlands. 1:10And Caleb went against the Canaanites of Hebron: (now in earlier times Hebron was named Kiriath-arba:) and he put Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai to the sword. 1:11And from there he went up against the people of Debir. (Now the name of Debir in earlier times was Kiriath-sepher.) 1:12And Caleb said, I will give Achsah, my daughter, as wife to the man who overcomes Kiriath-sepher and takes it. 1:13And Othniel, the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it; so he gave him his daughter Achsah for his wife. 1:14Now when she came to him, he put into her mind the idea of requesting a field from her father: and she got down from her ass; and Caleb said to her, What is it? 1:15And she said to him, Give me a blessing; because you have put me in a dry south-land, now give me springs of water. So Caleb gave her the higher spring and the lower spring. 1:16Now Hobab the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, had come up out of the town of palm-trees, with the children of Judah, into the waste land of Arad; and he went and was living among the Amalekites; 1:17And Judah went with Simeon, his brother, and overcame the Canaanites living in Zephath, and put it under the curse; and he gave the town the name of Hormah. 1:18Then Judah took Gaza and its limit, and Ashkelon and its limit, and Ekron and its limit. 1:19And the Lord was with Judah; and he took the hill-country for his heritage; but he was unable to make the people of the valley go out, for they had war-carriages of iron. 1:20And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses had said; and he took the land of the three sons of Anak, driving them out from there. 1:21And the children of Judah did not make the Jebusites who were living in Jerusalem go out; the Jebusites are still living with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem. 1:22And the family of Joseph went up against Beth-el, and the Lord was with them. 1:23So they sent men to make a search round Beth-el. (Now the name of the town in earlier times was Luz.) 1:24And the watchers saw a man coming out of the town, and said to him, If you will make clear to us the way into the town, we will be kind to you. 1:25So he made clear to them the way into the town, and they put it to the sword; but they let the man and all his family get away safe. 1:26And he went into the land of the Hittites, building a town there and naming it Luz: which is its name to this day. 1:27And Manasseh did not take away the land of the people of Beth-shean and its daughter-towns, or of Taanach and its daughter-towns, or of the people of Dor and its daughter-towns, or of the people of Ibleam and its daughter-towns, or of the people of Megiddo and its daughter-towns, driving them out; but the Canaanites would go on living in that land. 1:28And whenever Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced work, without driving them out completely. 1:29And Ephraim did not make the Canaanites who were living in Gezer go out; but the Canaanites went on living in Gezer among them. 1:30Zebulun did not make the people of Kitron or the people of Nahalol go out; but the Canaanites went on living among them and were put to forced work. 1:31And Asher did not take the land of the people of Acco, or Zidon, or Ahlab, or Achzib, or Helbah, or Aphik, or Rehob, driving them out; 1:32But the Asherites went on living among the Canaanites, the people of the land, without driving them out. 1:33Naphtali did not take the land of the people of Beth-shemesh or of Beth-anath, driving them out; but he was living among the Canaanites in the land; however, the people of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath were put to forced work. 1:34And the children of Dan were forced into the hill-country by the Amorites, who would not let them come down into the valley; 1:35For the Amorites would go on living in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim; but the children of Joseph became stronger than they, and put them to forced work. 1:36And the limit of the Edomites went from the slope of Akrabbim from Sela and up.
2:1Now the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, *** I took you out of Egypt, guiding you into the land which I gave by an oath to your fathers; and I said, My agreement with you will never be broken by me: 2:2And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done? 2:3And so I have said, I will not send them out from before you; but they will be a danger to you, and their gods will be a cause of falling to you. 2:4Now on hearing these words which the angel of the Lord said to all the children of Israel, the people gave themselves up to loud crying and weeping. 2:5And they gave that place the name of Bochim, and made offerings there to the Lord. 2:6And Joshua let the people go away, and the children of Israel went, every man to his heritage, to take the land for themselves. 2:7And the people were true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the responsible men who were still living after the death of Joshua, and had seen all the great work of the Lord which he had done for Israel. 2:8And death came to Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, he being a hundred and ten years old. 2:9And they put his body in the earth in the land of his heritage in Timnath-heres, in the hill-country of Ephraim to the north of Mount Gaash. 2:10And in time death overtook all that generation; and another generation came after them, having no knowledge of the Lord or of the things which he had done for Israel. 2:11And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord and became servants to the Baals; 2:12And they gave up the Lord, the God of their fathers, who had taken them out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about them, worshipping them and moving the Lord to wrath. 2:13And they gave up the Lord, and became the servants of Baal and the Astartes. 2:14And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of those who violently took their property, and into the hands of their haters all round them, so that they were forced to give way before them. 2:15Wherever they went out, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had taken his oath it would be; and things became very hard for them. 2:16Then the Lord gave them judges, as their saviours from the hands of those who were cruel to them. 2:17But still they would not give ear to their judges, but went after other gods and gave them worship; quickly turning from the way in which their fathers had gone, keeping the orders of the Lord; but they did not do so. 2:18And whenever the Lord gave them judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and was their saviour from the hands of their haters all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved by their cries of grief because of those who were cruel to them. 2:19But whenever the judge was dead, they went back and did more evil than their fathers, going after other gods, to be their servants and their worshippers; giving up nothing of their sins and their hard-hearted ways. 2:20And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he said, Because this nation has not been true to my agreement which I made with their fathers, and has not given ear to my voice; 2:21From now on I will not go on driving out from before them any of the nations which at the death of Joshua were still living in this land; 2:22In order to put Israel to the test, and see if they will keep the way of the Lord, walking in it as their fathers did, or not. 2:23So the Lord let those nations go on living in the land, not driving them out quickly, and did not give them up into the hands of Joshua.
3:1Now these are the nations which the Lord kept in the land for the purpose of testing Israel by them, all those who had had no experience of all the wars of Canaan; 3:2Only because of the generations of the children of Israel, for the purpose of teaching them war--only those who up till then had no experience of it; 3:3The five chiefs of the Philistines, and all the Canaanites and the Zidonians and the Hivites living in Mount Lebanon, from the mountain Baal-hermon as far as Hamath: 3:4For the purpose of testing Israel by them, to see if they would give ear to the orders of the Lord, which he had given to their fathers by the hand of Moses. 3:5Now the children of Israel were living among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites: 3:6And they took as wives the daughters of these nations and gave their daughters to their sons, and became servants to their gods. 3:7And the children of Israel did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and put out of their minds the Lord their God, and became servants to the Baals and the Astartes. 3:8So the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia; and the children of Israel were his servants for eight years. 3:9And when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Othniel, the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother. 3:10And the spirit of the Lord came on him and he became judge of Israel, and went out to war, and the Lord gave up Cushan-rishathaim, king of Mesopotamia, into his hands and he overcame him. 3:11Then for forty years the land had peace, till the death of Othniel, the son of Kenaz. 3:12Then the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord; and the Lord made Eglon, king of Moab, strong against Israel, because they had done evil in the Lord's eyes. 3:13And Eglon got together the people of Ammon and Amalek, and they went and overcame Israel and took the town of palm-trees. 3:14And the children of Israel were servants to Eglon, king of Moab, for eighteen years. 3:15Then when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man; and the children of Israel sent an offering by him to Eglon, king of Moab. 3:16So Ehud made himself a two-edged sword, a cubit long, which he put on at his right side under his robe. 3:17And he took the offering to Eglon, king of Moab, who was a very fat man. 3:18And after giving the offering, he sent away the people who had come with the offering. 3:19But he himself, turning back from the stone images at Gilgal, said, I have something to say to you in secret, O king. And he said, Let there be quiet. Then all those who were waiting before him went out. 3:20Then Ehud came in to him while he was seated by himself in his summer-house. And Ehud said, I have a word from God for you. And he got up from his seat. 3:21And Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right side, and sent it into his stomach; 3:22And the hand-part went in after the blade, and the fat was joined up over the blade; for he did not take the sword out of his stomach. And he went out into the ... 3:23Then Ehud went out into the covered way, shutting the doors of the summer-house on him and locking them. 3:24Now when he had gone, the king's servants came, and saw that the doors of the summer-house were locked; and they said, It may be that he is in his summer-house for a private purpose. 3:25And they went on waiting till they were shamed, but the doors were still shut; so they took the key, and, opening them, saw their lord stretched out dead on the floor. 3:26But Ehud had got away while they were waiting and had gone past the stone images and got away to Seirah. 3:27And when he came there, he had a horn sounded in the hill-country of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel went down with him from the hill-country, and he at their head. 3:28And he said to them, Come after me; for the Lord has given the Moabites, your haters, into your hands. So they went down after him and took the crossing-places of Jordan against Moab, and let no one go across. 3:29At that time they put about ten thousand men of Moab to the sword, every strong man and every man of war; not a man got away. 3:30So Moab was broken that day under the hand of Israel. And for eighty years the land had peace. 3:31And after him came Shamgar, the son of Anath, who put to death six hundred Philistines with an ox-stick; and he was another saviour of Israel.
4:1And the children of Israel again did evil in the eyes of the Lord when Ehud was dead. 4:2And the Lord gave them up into the hands of Jabin, king of Canaan, who was ruling in Hazor; the captain of his army was Sisera, who was living in Harosheth of the Gentiles. 4:3Then the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord; for he had nine hundred iron war-carriages, and for twenty years he was very cruel to the children of Israel. 4:4Now Deborah, a woman prophet, the wife of Lapidoth, was judge of Israel at that time. 4:5(And she had her seat under the palm-tree of Deborah between Ramah and Beth-el in the hill-country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her to be judged.) 4:6And she sent for Barak, the son of Abinoam, from Kedesh-naphtali, and said to him, Has not the Lord, the God of Israel, given orders saying, Go and get your force into line in Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun? 4:7And I will make Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his war-carriages and his forces, come against you at the river Kishon, where I will give him into your hands. 4:8And Barak said to her, If you will go with me then I will go; but if you will not go with me I will not go. 4:9And she said, I will certainly go with you: though you will get no honour in your undertaking, for the Lord will give Sisera into the hands of a woman. So Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh. 4:10Then Barak sent for Zebulun and Naphtali to come to Kedesh; and ten thousand men went up after him, and Deborah went up with him. 4:11Now Heber the Kenite, separating himself from the rest of the Kenites, from the children of Hobab, the brother-in-law of Moses, had put up his tent as far away as the oak-tree in Zaanannim, by Kedesh. 4:12And word was given to Sisera that Barak, the son of Abinoam, had gone up to Mount Tabor. 4:13So Sisera got together all his war-carriages, nine hundred war-carriages of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles as far as the river Kishon. 4:14Then Deborah said to Barak, Up! for today the Lord has given Sisera into your hands: has not the Lord gone out before you? So Barak went down from Mount Tabor and ten thousand men after him. 4:15And the Lord sent fear on Sisera and all his war-carriages and all his army before Barak; and Sisera got down from his war-carriage and went in flight on foot. 4:16But Barak went after the war-carriages and the army as far as Harosheth of the Gentiles; and all Sisera's army was put to the sword; not a man got away. 4:17But Sisera went in flight on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin, king of Hazor, and the family of Heber the Kenite. 4:18And Jael went out to Sisera, and said to him, Come in, my lord, come in to me without fear. So he went into her tent, and she put a cover over him. 4:19Then he said to her, Give me now a little water, for I have need of a drink. And opening a skin of milk, she gave him drink, and put the cover over him again. 4:20And he said to her, Take your place at the door of the tent, and if anyone comes and says to you, Is there any man here, say, No. 4:21Then Jael, Heber's wife, took a tent-pin and a hammer and went up to him quietly, driving the pin into his head, and it went through his head into the earth, for he was in a deep sleep from weariness; and so he came to his end. 4:22Then Jael went out, and meeting Barak going after Sisera, said to him, Come, and I will let you see the man you are searching for. So he came into her tent and saw, and there was Sisera stretched out dead with the tent-pin in his head. 4:23So that day God overcame Jabin, king of Canaan, before the children of Israel. 4:24And the power of the children of Israel went on increasing against Jabin, king of Canaan, till he was cut off.
5:1At that time Deborah and Barak, the son of Abinoam, made this song, saying: 5:2Because of the flowing hair of the fighters in Israel, because the people gave themselves freely, give praise to the Lord. 5:3Give attention, O kings; give ear, O rulers; I, even I, will make a song to the Lord; I will make melody to the Lord, the God of Israel. 5:4Lord, when you went out from Seir, moving like an army from the field of Edom, the earth was shaking and the heavens were troubled, and the clouds were dropping water. 5:5The mountains were shaking before the Lord, before the Lord, the God of Israel. 5:6In the days of Shamgar, the son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were not used, and travellers went by side roads. 5:7Country towns were no more in Israel, *** were no more, till you, Deborah, came up, till you came up as a mother in Israel. 5:8They had no one to make arms, there were no more armed men in the towns; was there a body-cover or a spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel? 5:9Come, you rulers of Israel, you who gave yourselves freely among the people: give praise to the Lord. 5:10Let them give thought to it, who go on white asses, and those who are walking on the road. 5:11Give ear to the women laughing by the water-springs; there they will give again the story of the upright acts of the Lord, all the upright acts of his arm in Israel. 5:12Awake! awake! Deborah: awake! awake! give a song: Up! Barak, and take prisoner those who took you prisoner, O son of Abinoam. 5:13Then the chiefs went down to the doors; the Lord's people went down among the strong ones. 5:14Out of Ephraim they came down into the valley; after you, Benjamin, among your tribesmen; from Machir came down the captains, and from Zebulun those in whose hand is the ruler's rod. 5:15Your chiefs, Issachar, were with Deborah; and Naphtali was true to Barak; into the valley they went rushing out at his feet. In Reuben there were divisions, and great searchings of heart. 5:16Why did you keep quiet among the sheep, hearing nothing but the watchers piping to the flocks? 5:17Gilead was living over Jordan; and Dan was waiting in his ships; Asher kept in his place by the sea's edge, living by his inlets. 5:18It was the people of Zebulun who put their lives in danger, even to death, with Naphtali on the high places of the field. 5:19The kings came on to the fight, the kings of Canaan were warring; in Taanach by the waters of Megiddo: they took no profit in money. 5:20The stars from heaven were fighting; from their highways they were fighting against Sisera. 5:21The river Kishon took them violently away, stopping their flight, the river Kishon. Give praise, O my soul, to the strength of the Lord! 5:22Then loudly the feet of the horses were sounding with the stamping, the stamping of their war-horses. 5:23A curse, a curse on Meroz! said the angel of the Lord. A bitter curse on her townspeople! Because they came not to the help of the Lord, to the help of the Lord among the strong ones. 5:24Blessings be on Jael, more than on all women! Blessings greater than on any in the tents! 5:25His request was for water, she gave him milk; she put butter before him on a fair plate. 5:26She put out her hand to the tent-pin, and her right hand to the workman's hammer; and she gave Sisera a blow, crushing his head, wounding and driving through his brow. 5:27Bent at her feet he went down, he was stretched out; bent at her feet he went down; where he was bent down, there he went down in death. 5:28Looking out from the window she gave a cry, the mother of Sisera was crying out through the window, Why is his carriage so long in coming? When will the noise of his wheels be sounding? 5:29Her wise women gave answer to her, yes, she made answer again to herself, 5:30Are they not getting, are they not parting the goods among them: a young girl or two to every man; and to Sisera robes of coloured needlework, worked in fair colours on this side and on that, for the neck of the queen? 5:31So may destruction come on all your haters, O Lord; but let your lovers be like the sun going out in his strength. And for forty years the land had peace.