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\s1 What Yahweh commanded Joshua
\p
\v 1 After Moses, who served Yahweh well, died, Yahweh said this to Nun's son Joshua, who had been Moses' assistant:
\v 2 “\add You know that\add* my servant Moses is  \add now\add* dead. So now get ready to lead all these  \add Israeli\add* people across the Jordan  \add River\add*. Enter the land that I will soon give to you.
\v 3 I will give to you all the land that you walk on, as I promised Moses.
\v 4 That land will extend from the desert  \add in the south\add*, to the Lebanon mountains  \add in the northwest\add*, and to the big Euphrates River  \add in the northeast\add*, and to the Mediterranean Sea on the west. \add It will include\add* all the land where the descendants of Heth  \add live\add*.
\v 5 No group will be able to oppose  \add and defeat\add* you during your life. I will help you as I helped Moses. I will always be with [LIT] you; I will never forsake you.
\p
\v 6 Be strong and courageous, because you are the one who will lead these Israeli people  \add and enable them\add* to possess the land that I solemnly promised to their ancestors that I would give them.
\v 7 Just be strong and very courageous. Be sure to obey all the laws that my servant Moses gave to you. In order that you 4 be successful wherever you go, do not stop obeying any of them [IDM].
\v 8 Make sure to habitually read  \add to the people part of\add* the laws  \add that God gave Moses\add*. Meditate on those laws  \add every\add* day and  \add every\add* night. And be sure to obey all those laws. If you do that, you will be successful in all that you do [DOU].
\v 9 Do not forget [RHQ] that I have commanded you to be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid, and do not be discouraged, because I, Yahweh, your God, will ◄be with/help► you wherever you go.”
\p
\v 10 Then Joshua commanded the leaders of the people of Israel,
\v 11 “Go throughout the camp and tell the people this: ‘Prepare all the food that you will take with you, because the day after tomorrow you will cross this Jordan  \add River\add*, in order to possess the land that Yahweh, our God, is about to give you.’”
\s1 What Joshua commanded the eastern tribes
\p
\v 12 But to the  \add clans that were\add* descendants of Reuben and Gad, and to the half clan  \add that were descendants\add* of Manasseh, Joshua said,
\v 13 “Do not forget what Moses, the servant of Yahweh, commanded you: ‘Yahweh, your God, has given you this land in order that you can  \add live here\add* safely/peacefully.’
\v 14 Your wives and your children and your livestock may stay  \add here\add* in this land on the east side of the Jordan  \add River\add*, but all your soldiers must cross  \add the river\add*, ahead of the people of the other tribes. They must take all their weapons with them. You must continue to help your fellow Israelis
\v 15 until they are able to live there safely/peacefully, as Yahweh has enabled you to do. You must help them until after they have conquered all the people in the land that Yahweh, your God, is giving them. After that, your soldiers may return to live in this land that Moses gave to you here on the east side of the Jordan  \add River\add*.”
\p
\v 16 The people answered Joshua, “We will do everything that you have commanded us to do, and we will go wherever you tell us to go.
\v 17 As we obeyed all that Moses told us to do, we will obey all that you tell us to do. We pray that Yahweh will ◄be with/help► you as he ◄was with/helped► Moses.
\v 18 Anyone who ◄rejects what you say/opposes you► and does not obey what you command [DOU], we will execute. But we want you to be strong and courageous!”
\c 2
\s1 How Rahab helped the Israeli spies
\p
\v 1 Then Joshua  \add chose\add* two men from  \add their camp at\add* Acacia. He told them, “Go  \add across the Jordan River\add* and secretly find out all that you can about the land on that side of the river, especially about Jericho  \add city\add*.” So the two men crossed  \add the river and entered Jericho\add*. They entered the house of a prostitute, whose name was Rahab. They stayed in her house  \add that night\add*.
\v 2 But someone  \add saw them and\add* told the king of Jericho, “Some Israeli men have come here tonight to spy out the land!”
\v 3 So the king sent some messengers to tell Rahab, “Bring out the men who came and entered your house, \add so that we can kill them\add*, because they have come  \add here\add* to ◄spy out/find out all they can about► this land!”
\v 4 She told them that the two men had gone to her house. But she had hidden the two men there. So when the messengers came to her house, she told them, “Two men came here, but I did not know where they had come from.
\v 5 At dusk, just before ◄guards closed the city gate/the city gates were closed►, the two men left. I do not know where they went. So, go quickly and search for them! Perhaps you may catch them!”
\v 6 But  \add she was lying\add*; she had taken the two men up to the  \add flat\add* roof of her house and had hidden them under the piles of flax that she had laid on the roof.
\v 7 The messengers went out of the city to search for the two men. Immediately, the guards shut the city gate. The messengers went along the road that leads down to the place where people can walk across the Jordan  \add River\add*, \add but they did not find the two men\add*.
\p
\v 8 Before the two men lay down  \add to sleep\add* that night, Rahab went up to the roof
\v 9 and said to them, “We know that Yahweh is  \add about to\add* give this land to you Israelis, and as a result all the people living in this land are terrified because of you.
\v 10 We have heard about how Yahweh dried up the water of the Red Sea for you to cross it when you left Egypt. And we have heard how you killed Sihon and Og, the two kings of the tribe of Amor who lived east of the Jordan  \add River\add*. You  \add Israelis\add* totally destroyed everyone and  \add everything in their kingdom\add*.
\v 11 When we heard about those things, we were very dismayed. We no longer have courage to fight against you, because we know that Yahweh, the God  \add whom you worship\add*, is helping you. \add And we know that\add* he rules everything up in heaven and here on earth.
\v 12 So now  \add I want you to\add* solemnly promise me, and ask Yahweh to punish you if you do not do what you promise. Solemnly promise me that you will act kindly to me and my family, because I have acted kindly to you.
\v 13 Do something to prove that you will ◄spare the lives of/not kill► my father and my mother, my brothers and sisters, and all of their families. Promise me that you  \add Israelis\add* will not kill us  \add when you destroy this city\add*.”
\v 14 The two men replied, “We desire that God will cause us to die if we do not do as we say! If you do not tell others what we are  \add planning to\add* do, we will act kindly toward you all when Yahweh enables us to possess the land.”
\v 15 \add One of\add* the outside walls of the house where Rahab lived was part of the wall  \add that was around\add* the city. So she fastened a rope outside the window  \add that was in that wall\add*, by which the men could climb down the wall.
\v 16 Then she said to them, “When you leave the city, go up into the hills so that the men who are searching for you will not find you. Hide in caves in the hills for three days, until the men who are searching for you return to the city. Then you can return safely to your camp.”
\v 17 The two men  \add gave her a red cord, and\add* said to her, “This is what you must do; if you do not do this, we will not be required to do what we have solemnly promised.
\v 18 You must tie this red cord in the window that has the rope by which we will climb down. You must let the cord hang there. And you must bring your father and your mother and your brothers and all the others in your family inside the house. Then, when our army enters your land, we will see the cord, and we will not kill the people in your house.
\v 19 If anyone in your family goes outside this house into the street, \add our soldiers\add* will kill them, and we will not be guilty [MTY] for doing that. But if anyone who is in this house with you is injured, we will be guilty for causing that.
\v 20 But if you tell anyone what we are  \add planning to\add* do, we are not required to do what we have solemnly promised.”
\v 21 Rahab said, “I agree to do what you say.” So they climbed down the rope and left. And she left the red cord tied in the window.
\v 22 When the two men left the city, they went up into the hills. They stayed there for three days, while the men  \add who had been sent by the king\add* continued to search for them. They searched all along the road, but they did not find the two men. So they returned to the city.
\v 23 Then the two men started back toward their camp. They went down from the hills, went down to the river, crossed it at the place where people can walk across it, and returned to their camp. They told Joshua everything that had happened to them.
\v 24 They said to Joshua, “We are sure that Yahweh is going to enable us to possess everything that is in that land. The people there are terrified [IDI] because of us.”
\c 3
\s1 The Israelis crossed the Jordan River
\p
\v 1 Joshua  \add and all the other Israelis\add* got up early the  \add next\add* morning. They left  \add their camp at\add* Acacia and went  \add down\add* to the Jordan  \add River\add*. They camped there for two nights.
\v 2 Then the leaders went throughout the camp,
\v 3 telling the people, “You will see some of the priests, who are descendants of Levi, carrying the chest that contains the Ten Commandments that Yahweh our God gave us. When you see them, you leave the places where you are camped and follow them.
\v 4 You have not been ◄here/along this road► before, \add so you must follow the priests\add*. But do not walk close to the chest. Stay ◄1,000 yards/900 meters► from the chest. \add The chest is sacred, so ◄God will punish you/you will be punished► if you come close to it\add*.”
\p
\v 5 Then Joshua told the people, “Perform the ceremonies needed to make yourselves acceptable to Yahweh, because tomorrow he is going to do things for you that will amaze you.”
\p
\v 6 Then Joshua said to the priests, “Carry the chest and go in front of the  \add rest of the\add* people.” So they lifted up the chest and went ahead.
\p
\v 7 Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “This is the day that I will begin to show all the Israeli people that you are a great leader. Then they will honor you, and know that I am with/helping you as I ◄was with/helped► Moses.
\v 8 Tell the priests who are carrying the chest that contains the Ten Commandments, ‘When you come to the edge of the Jordan  \add River\add*, stand in the water.’”
\v 9 Then Joshua said to the Israeli people, “Come close to me in order that you can listen to what Yahweh, your God, is saying.”
\v 10 \add When they came near\add*, he said to them, “This is how you will know that God, who is all-powerful, is among you, and that he will expel for you the descendants of Canaan, Heth, Hiv, Periz, Girgash, Amor, and Jebus  \add who are now living in that land\add*.
\v 11 Keep in mind that Yahweh is the one who rules over all the earth. The chest belongs to him, and it will be carried into the Jordan River ahead of you.
\v 12 So choose twelve men, \add one from each\add* of the tribes of Israel, \add and I will tell you later what I want them to do\add*.
\v 13 As for the priests who are carrying the chest, as soon as they put their feet into the Jordan  \add River\add*, the water will stop flowing. It will pile up because I will cause it to be blocked upstream.”
\p
\v 14 So when the  \add Israeli\add* people packed up their tents in order to cross the river, the priests who were carrying the chest containing the Ten Commandments went in front of them.
\v 15 It  \add was springtime\add*, when people harvest their crops, and at that time the river floods over its banks. But as soon as the priests reached the edge of the river and stepped into the water,
\v 16 the water stopped flowing. The water piled up far  \add upstream\add*, at a town named Adam, near Zarethan. The water stopped flowing down to the Dead Sea. So the people were able to cross the river near Jericho.
\v 17 The priests who were carrying the chest containing the Ten Commandments that Yahweh  \add had given them\add* stood on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan  \add riverbed\add*, while the rest of the Israeli people crossed the river  \add as though they were crossing\add* dry ground.
\c 4
\s1 The Israeli people and Joshua set up memorials
\p
\v 1 After all the people of the Israeli nation had finished crossing the Jordan  \add River\add*, Yahweh said to Joshua,
\v 2 “When you choose the twelve men, one from each tribe, whom I mentioned previously, tell them to pick up  \add large\add* stones from the middle of the Jordan riverbed, where the priests are  \add still\add* standing.
\v 3 Tell them to carry the stones with you and put them down at the place where you will stay tonight.”
\p
\v 4 So Joshua chose twelve men, one from each tribe. He called them together, and said to them,
\v 5 “Go into the middle of the Jordan riverbed, to where  \add the priests are standing, holding\add* the chest that Yahweh, your God, gave you. Each of you must pick up a  \add large\add* stone, one for each tribe, \add and carry it\add* on your shoulder  \add to our camp\add*.
\v 6 \add Then pile them up\add* to be a memorial for you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean?’,
\v 7 tell them that the water in the Jordan River was blocked off when the priests were carrying the chest  \add that contained\add* the Ten Commandments that Yahweh  \add gave us\add*. When the chest was carried into the Jordan  \add River\add*, the water was blocked off  \add so that we could cross the riverbed\add*. These stones will be a memorial to the descendants of us Israeli people forever.”
\p
\v 8 So those Israeli men did what Joshua told them to do. They went and picked up twelve  \add large\add* stones from the middle of the Jordan  \add riverbed\add*, one stone for each of the tribes, just as Yahweh had told Joshua. They carried the stones to their camp and put them down.
\v 9 Then Joshua set up twelve  \add other large\add* stones  \add in a pile\add*, in the middle of the Jordan  \add riverbed\add*, where the priests who carried the chest containing the Ten Commandments were standing. And those stones are still there.
\p
\v 10 The priests who carried the chest remained standing in the middle of the Jordan  \add riverbed\add* until the people had finished doing everything that Yahweh had commanded Joshua to tell them to do. Those were the same instructions that Moses had given to Joshua. The Israeli people crossed  \add the riverbed\add* quickly.
\v 11 As soon as all of them had crossed, as the people watched, the priests carried the chest  \add the rest of the way across the river\add*.
\v 12 The soldiers of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and of half of the soldiers of the tribe of Manasseh, crossed over ahead of the rest of the Israeli people, carrying their weapons, as Moses had commanded.
\v 13 As Yahweh was watching, there were about forty thousand of those soldiers, carrying weapons ready for battle, who crossed the riverbed to the plains near Jericho, \add ready\add* to fight.
\p
\v 14 On that day, all the people of Israel saw that Yahweh had made Joshua to be a great leader. And they honored Joshua for the rest of his life, just as they had honored Moses.
\v 15 Yahweh said to Joshua,
\v 16 “\add Now\add* tell the priests who are carrying the chest containing the Ten Commandments to come up from the Jordan  \add riverbed\add*.”
\v 17 So Joshua commanded the priests to do that.
\v 18 Then the priests, carrying the chest containing the Ten Commandments that Yahweh  \add had given to Moses\add*, came up out of the riverbed. And as soon as they walked up out of the riverbed onto the riverbank, the water of the Jordan  \add River\add* flowed again, and flooded  \add over the river banks\add* as it had done before.
\p
\v 19 It was on the tenth day of the first month  \add of that year\add* that the people crossed over the Jordan  \add River\add* and camped at  \add a place called\add* Gilgal, on the east side of  \add the land near\add* Jericho  \add city\add*.
\v 20 The men  \add who were carrying\add* the twelve  \add large\add* stones from the Jordan  \add riverbed brought them to\add* Joshua, \add and he set them up at Gilgal\add*.
\v 21 Joshua said to the Israeli people, “In the future, when your children and grandchildren ask, ‘◄What do these stones  \add mean/Why are these stones here►\add*?’,
\v 22 tell them, ‘We Israeli people crossed the Jordan  \add River as though\add* we were crossing on dry ground.
\v 23 As we were watching, Yahweh, your God, dried up the river until we had all crossed over. Yahweh, the God whom we worship, did to the Jordan  \add River\add* just like he did to the Red Sea, when he caused it to become dry as  \add our parents\add* were watching, until they all crossed over.
\v 24 Yahweh did that in order that all the people-groups of the earth may know that he [MTY] is very powerful, and in order that you may always ◄be in awe of/revere► Yahweh, your God.’”
\c 5
\p
\v 1 All the kings of the people-groups to the west of the Jordan River and all the kings of the groups who were descendants of Canaan and who lived close to the  \add Mediterranean\add* Sea heard about how Yahweh had dried up the water of the Jordan  \add River\add* until all we Israeli people had crossed over. So they became very dismayed. They no longer had the courage to fight us.
\s1 The Israeli males were circumcised at Gilgal
\p
\v 2 While  \add they were camped at Gilgal\add*, Yahweh said to Joshua, “\add The Israeli males who lived in Egypt were circumcised before they left there\add*. \add Now\add* make knives from flint stones and circumcise all the Israeli males  \add who have been born since then\add*.”
\v 3 So Joshua  \add made knives and\add* circumcised the Israeli males at a place that is now called ❛Circumcision Hill❜.
\v 4 \add The reason they did that is that all the men who left Egypt\add*, those who were old enough to be soldiers, died in the desert after they left Egypt.
\v 5 They had been circumcised in Egypt, but the baby boys who had been born while their parents were camping in the desert after they left Egypt had not been circumcised.
\v 6 Our Israeli ancestors traveled around in the desert for forty years, and all the men who were old enough to be soldiers had died. \add The women had also died\add*. They had not obeyed Yahweh, so Yahweh solemnly said that they would not arrive at the land that he had promised to our ancestors that he would give to us, a land that was very fertile [MTY].
\v 7 The sons of those who had disobeyed Yahweh were the ones whom Joshua circumcised at Gilgal. They were circumcised because they had not been circumcised  \add while they were traveling in the desert\add*.
\v 8 After all the Israeli males had been circumcised, they remained in the camp and rested until their wounds were healed.
\v 9 Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “\add Because your forefathers were slaves in Egypt\add*, the Egyptians felt disgusted toward you. But today I have taken away the reproach the Egyptians have had toward you.” Because of that, the people called the place ❛Gilgal❜,  \add which sounds like the Hebrew word ❛taken away❜,\add* and it still has that name.
\p
\v 10 In the evening of the fourteenth day of that month, while the Israeli people were camped at Gilgal, on the plain near Jericho  \add city\add*, they celebrated the Passover  \add Festival\add*.
\v 11 The next day, they found some barley grain in the fields in that area. So they took that and roasted it and ate it with bread that was made without yeast.
\v 12 The next day, \add God stopped sending\add* manna from the sky for the Israeli people to eat. After that, they ate food that was grown in Canaan.
\s1 The commander of Yahweh's army appeared to Joshua.
\p
\v 13 One day when Joshua came near to Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him. The man was holding a sword in his hand. Joshua approached him and asked him, “Are you  \add going to fight\add* for us or against us?”
\v 14 The man replied, “I am not  \add planning to fight with you\add* or  \add against you\add*. Instead, I am the commander of Yahweh's army  \add in heaven\add*, and I have come down  \add from there to assure you that Yahweh will help you\add*.” Then Joshua bowed down with his face on the ground ◄to show his respect for/to worship► the man, and said to him, “Tell me what  \add you want me to do\add*.”
\v 15 The commander of Yahweh's army replied, “Take off your sandals! \add I am Yahweh, and\add* the ground on which you are standing is holy because I am here.” So Joshua took off his sandals.
\c 6
\s1 The walls of Jericho collapsed and the Israelis captured the city.
\p
\v 1 Meanwhile, the guards of Jericho shut the gates of the city tightly, because \add they were afraid\add* of the Israeli \add army\add*. No one was allowed to go into the city or go out of it.
\v 2 Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “Listen \add to what I say\add* I am going to enable your army [SYN] to capture/conquer [MTY] Jericho and its king and its soldiers.
\v 3 So your army must march around the city for six days, once each day.
\v 4 Tell seven priests to march around with them. Each priest must carry a trumpet. Four other priests must carry the sacred chest, and they must walk behind the priests who are carrying the trumpets. On the seventh day, the army must march around the city seven times, and the priests must be blowing the trumpets while they march.
\v 5 After \add they have all marched around the city seven times\add*, the priests must blow their trumpets \add once\add*, very loudly. When the Israeli people/soldiers hear that, they must shout loudly. Then the wall of the city will collapse, and all the Israeli people/soldiers will go straight into the city.”
\p
\v 6 So Joshua summoned the priests and said to them, “Tell four priests to carry the chest \add that contains\add* the Ten Commandments that Yahweh \add gave to us\add*. \add Tell\add* seven \add other\add* priests to carry trumpets and walk in front of them.”
\v 7 And Joshua told the soldiers, “Start marching! March around the city, with several soldiers with weapons marching in front. Behind them will march the seven priests with trumpets, and behind them will march the four priests carrying Yahweh's \add sacred\add* chest.”
\p
\v 8 After Joshua told that to the army, the seven priests, each carrying a sacred trumpet, started marching, blowing their trumpets. The four priests who were carrying Yahweh's sacred chest followed them.
\v 9 The group of soldiers carrying weapons marched in front of the priests who were blowing their trumpets, and the rest of the soldiers followed \add the four men carrying\add* the chest. While \add they were all marching\add*, \add the seven priests\add* were blowing their trumpets.
\v 10 But \add the rest of the people were silent, because\add* Joshua had commanded them, “Do not make a war cry. Do not yell or say anything until the day when I tell you to shout. On that day, you must shout \add loudly\add*!”
\v 11 So the men carrying Yahweh's sacred chest and all the others did what Joshua told them to do. They marched around the city once. Then they all returned to the camp and stayed there that night.
\p
\v 12 The next morning, Joshua and the priests got up early, and the four priests carried Yahweh's sacred chest \add again\add*.
\v 13 The seven priests who were carrying trumpets went in front of \add the men carrying\add* the chest. The seven priests were blowing their trumpets as they marched. The group of soldiers carrying weapons went in front of all the others, and the rest of the army followed all the others. All the time, the seven priests were blowing their trumpets.
\v 14 So on that second day they again marched around the city once and then returned to the camp. They did the same thing for six days.
\p
\v 15 On the seventh day, they got up at dawn, and they all marched around the city the same way that they had done before, but this time they marched around the city seven times.
\v 16 As they were marching around the seventh time, when the priests were about to blow the long/loud blast on their trumpets, Joshua commanded the people, “Shout, because Yahweh is going to enable you to capture the city!
\v 17 Yahweh has declared that you must destroy [IDI] the city and everything in it \add to show that it belongs to him\add*. You must spare only Rahab the prostitute and the others who are in her house, because she hid the spies whom we sent there.
\v 18 And because Yahweh has declared that everything must be destroyed [IDI], you must not take [EUP] any of the things in the city. If you take anything, you will cause Yahweh to destroy our own camp and cause terrible things to happen to us.
\v 19 But all the silver and gold and articles made from iron and bronze that you find, you must set apart for Yahweh. You must put those things in his treasury.”
\p
\v 20 So they did what Joshua told them to do. When the priests blew a long blast on their trumpets, the people/army shouted loudly, and the wall of the city collapsed! Then the Israeli soldiers rushed in and captured the city.
\v 21 They killed [IDI] every living thing in the city—men and women, young people and old people, even cattle and sheep and donkeys.
\p
\v 22 Then Joshua said to the two men ◄who had spied on/whom he had sent to learn all they could about► the land, “Go to the prostitute's house. Bring her out, along with all her family, just you solemnly promised to her.”
\v 23-25 So those two spies/men went into Rahab's house and brought her out. They also brought out her father and mother and her brothers, and all the rest of her family. Joshua's men spared Rahab the prostitute. They also did not kill all her relatives, because she had hidden and protected the spies/men whom Joshua had sent to Jericho. The two men brought them all out and put them in a place outside the camp of the Israelis. Rahab still lives among us Israeli people. Then the soldiers gathered the articles made from silver, gold, bronze, and iron that they found and they put them all into Yahweh's treasury. But they burned everything else that was in the city.
\p
\v 26 At that time, Joshua declared this very solemnly: “Yahweh will curse/punish anyone who tries to rebuild this city, Jericho. When that person lays/builds its foundation, his oldest son will die. And when he finishes building the city wall and sets up its gates, his youngest son will die.”
\p
\v 27 Because of what happened that day, it was clear that Yahweh was with/helped Joshua, and Joshua became famous throughout the land.
\c 7
\s1 The men of Ai defeated the Israelis
\p
\v 1 Yahweh had commanded that all the things that  \add they had captured in Jericho\add* should be  \add destroyed to show that they belong\add* to him. But there was a man from the tribe of Judah named Achan. He was the son of Carmi and grandson of Zabdi and great-grandson of Zerah. He disobeyed what Yahweh  \add had commanded\add* and took for himself some of those things. So Yahweh was very angry with the Israelis.
\p
\v 2 Joshua told some of his men to go from Jericho to Ai  \add town\add*, which was east of Bethel  \add city\add* and near Beth-Aven  \add town\add*. He said to them, “Go to Ai and ◄spy out the area/see what the area is like►.” So the men went.
\p
\v 3 When they returned to Joshua they said, “There are only a few people in Ai. So we do not need to send all of our soldiers to defeat them. Send two thousand or three thousand men to attack them. That will be enough.”
\v 4 So about three thousand Israeli men went  \add to attack Ai\add*. But the men of Ai defeated them badly.
\v 5 They killed about thirty-six Israelis and chased the rest of Israeli men from the city gate to the bottom of the hill. When the other Israelis saw that this had happened, they became very discouraged.
\p
\v 6 Joshua and the other Israeli leaders tore their clothes  \add because they were very sad about being defeated\add*. They prostrated themselves on the ground in front of the  \add Sacred Tent in which was\add* the sacred chest. They stayed there until that evening. They also threw dirt on their heads  \add to show that they were very sad about what had happened\add*.
\v 7 Then Joshua prayed and said, “Lord God, you brought us Israelis  \add safely\add* across the Jordan River. So why are you now allowing the Amor people-group to defeat us [RHQ]? \add This would not have happened\add* if we had stayed on the other side of the Jordan River!
\v 8 Lord, we Israelis have been defeated by our enemies, so I do not know what to say now [RHQ].
\v 9 The Canaan people-group and all the other people who are living in this land will hear about this. Then they will surround us and kill all of us! Then what will you do ◄to defend your reputation [MTY]/to show that you are a powerful God►?”
\p
\v 10 But Yahweh said to Joshua, “Stand up! Stop lying there with your face on the ground [RHQ]!
\v 11 You Israelis have sinned! You have disobeyed the commands that I told you to obey. \add One of\add* your men has taken some of the things that I told you to destroy. He has stolen them and taken them for himself and lied  \add about it\add*.
\v 12 That is why you Israelis have been unable to be strong when you went to attack your enemies. That is why you have run away from them. And now you yourselves may be destroyed. If you do not do as I commanded you and destroy everything  \add that you captured in Jericho\add* I will not help you anymore!”
\s1 Achan was punished for his sin
\p
\v 13 “Now go and tell this to the people: ‘Tomorrow you must  \add perform the rituals\add* that will cause yourselves to become acceptable to Yahweh again. Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis  \add worship\add*, says that one of you has kept things that he told you to destroy. You will never defeat your enemies until you get rid of those things.
\p
\v 14 Tomorrow morning you must present yourselves before Yahweh, tribe by tribe. Then Yahweh will indicate to which tribe  \add the man who took those things belongs\add*. Then Yahweh will indicate to which clan from that tribe  \add the guilty man belongs\add*. Then Yahweh will indicate to which family he belongs. And then he will indicate which person  \add in that family took those things\add*.
\v 15 Then the one who has taken some of the things that should have been destroyed will be destroyed in a fire. And everything he owns will be destroyed with him, because he has disobeyed the command that Yahweh gave us and has done something that is disgraceful to us Israeli people.’”
\p
\v 16 Early the next morning, Joshua told all the Israeli people to stand before the Sacred Tent, tribe by tribe. \add When they did that\add*, Yahweh indicated that a man from the tribe of Judah  \add was the one who had taken the things\add*.
\v 17 Then the clans of Judah presented themselves, and Yahweh indicated that someone from the clan of Zerah was the guilty one. Then the families of Zerah's clan presented themselves, and Yahweh indicated that someone from the family of Zabdi  \add was the guilty one\add*.
\v 18 Then Joshua told the men from that family to present themselves. And Yahweh indicated that Achan was guilty.
\p
\v 19 Then Joshua said to Achan, “Son, tell the truth [IDI]. Confess to Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis  \add worship, what you have done\add*. And tell me what you did, and do not try to ◄conceal anything/prevent me from knowing what you did►.”
\p
\v 20 Achan replied, “It is true. I have sinned against Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis  \add worship\add*.
\v 21 Among the things  \add in Jericho\add* that I saw was a beautiful coat from Babylonia. I also saw 200 pieces of silver and some gold that weighed as much as 50 pieces of silver. I wanted those things very much for myself, so I took them. I buried them all in the ground under my tent. You will find them there. The silver is buried under the other things.”
\p
\v 22 So Joshua sent some men  \add to find those things\add*. They ran to Achan's tent and found all the things hidden there.
\v 23 The men brought them all out of the tent and took them to Joshua and the rest of the Israeli people. Then they spread/laid them out on the ground, where Yahweh could see them.
\p
\v 24 Then Joshua and the rest of the people led Achan down to the valley. They also took down there the silver, the coat, the gold, Achan's  \add wife and\add* sons and daughters, and his cattle and donkeys and sheep, and his tent, and everything else that he owned.
\v 25 Joshua said, “◄I do not know why you caused so much trouble for us/You have caused a lot of trouble for us► [RHQ], but now Yahweh will bring trouble to you.” Then all the people threw stones at Achan and his family until they all died. Then the people burned their corpses.
\p
\v 26 They piled rocks over  \add the ashes of their corpses\add*, and those rocks are still there. That is why that valley is called Trouble Valley. After that, Yahweh was no longer angry  \add with the Israeli people\add*.
\c 8
\s1 The town of Ai is destroyed
\p
\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid or discouraged  \add because of what happened\add* at Ai. Lead all of your soldiers and go there again. I will help you to defeat the king of Ai, his people, and his city, and  \add enable you to take\add* his land.
\v 2 Your army will do to the people of Ai and their king like what you did to the people of Jericho and their king. But this time  \add I will permit\add* you to take all their possessions and keep them for yourselves. But first, tell some of your soldiers to  \add hide behind\add* the city and prepare to suddenly attack it.”
\p
\v 3 So Joshua led all his army toward Ai. He chose 30,000 of his best fighters/warriors and prepared to send them out during the night.
\v 4 He said to them, “Listen carefully. Some of you must hide on the other side of the city. Do not go far from the city. Just be ready  \add to attack\add*.
\v 5 I and the men who are with me will march toward the city  \add in the morning\add*. The men in the city will come out to fight us, like they did before. Then we will turn around and start to run away from them.
\v 6 They will think that we are running away from them like we did before. So they will chase us away from the city. While we are running away,
\v 7 \add those of you who are hiding come out\add* and rush into the city and capture it. Yahweh your God will enable you to conquer it.
\v 8 After you capture the city, burn it. Do what Yahweh has commanded us to do. Those are the orders I am giving to you.”
\p
\v 9 Then Joshua  \add prepared to\add* send some of them to  \add hide and\add* wait between Ai and Bethel, which was west of Ai. But Joshua stayed with his other soldiers that night.
\p
\v 10 Early the next morning, Joshua gathered his soldiers together. Then he and the other Israeli leaders led them up to Ai.
\v 11 They all set up their tents close to Ai, just to the north of the city, where all the people of the city could see them. There was a valley between them and the city.
\v 12 Then Joshua chose about 5,000 men and told them to go and hide just west of the city, between Ai and Bethel.
\v 13 So those men did that. The main group of soldiers was north of the city, and the others were hiding west of the city. That night Joshua went down into the valley.
\p
\v 14 When the king of Ai saw the Israeli army, he and his soldiers got up early the next morning and quickly went out of the city to fight them. They went to a place east of the city, but they did not know that some Israeli soldiers were hiding behind the city.
\v 15 Joshua and the Israeli soldiers  \add who were with him\add* allowed the army of Ai to push them back. They ran toward the desert.
\v 16 The men in Ai were ordered to chase after Joshua and his men. So they left the city and started to pursue the Israelis.
\v 17 All the men of Ai and the men of Bethel pursued the Israeli army. They did not leave even one man in Ai to defend it. The  \add gates of\add* the city were left wide open.
\p
\v 18 Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “\add Lift up\add* your spear and point it toward Ai, because I am going to enable your soldiers to capture it!” So Joshua pointed  \add his spear\add* toward Ai.
\v 19 When the Israeli men who were hiding saw that, they rushed out from the places where they were hiding and ran into the city. They quickly captured it and set it on fire.
\p
\v 20 When the men of Ai looked back, they saw smoke rising from their city. But they could not escape, because the Israeli troops stopped running away.
\v 21 Joshua and his men saw that the men who had been hiding had captured the city and were burning it, and they saw the smoke rising. So they turned around and started to attack the men of Ai.
\v 22 Meanwhile, the soldiers who had captured the city came out  \add and attacked them from the rear\add*. So the men of Ai were caught between the two groups of Israeli soldiers. None of the men of Ai escaped. The Israelis fought until they killed all of them. Only the king of Ai was still alive.
\v 23 Then they seized the king of Ai and brought him to Joshua.
\s1 A summary of the battle
\p
\v 24 While they were fighting, the Israeli army pursued the men of Ai into the fields and into the desert, and killed all of them. Then they went to Ai and killed everyone who was there.
\v 25 They killed 12,000 men and women.
\v 26 Joshua continued to point his spear [LIT] toward Ai, until all the people in Ai had been killed.
\v 27 The Israeli soldiers took for themselves the animals and the other things that had belonged to the people of Ai, just like Yahweh had told Joshua that they should do.
\p
\v 28 Joshua and his soldiers burned Ai city and caused it to become a pile of ruins. It is still like that today.
\v 29 Joshua hanged the king of Ai on a tree and left his corpse hang there until the evening. At sunset Joshua told his men to take the king's corpse down from the tree and to throw it at the city gate. \add After they did that\add*, they piled a lot of rocks on top of the corpse, and that pile of rocks is still there.
\s1 Joshua repeated Yahweh's agreement with the Israeli people
\p
\v 30 Joshua  \add told his men to\add* build on Ebal Mountain an altar for Yahweh, the God  \add who is worshiped by\add* the Israeli people.
\v 31 They built it just like Moses, the man who served God  \add well\add*, had written previously in the laws  \add that God had given to him\add*. They made it from stones that had not been cut, stones on which  \add they had done no work\add* using iron tools. The Israelis then offered sacrifices to Yahweh that were burned completely on the altar. They also offered sacrifices to restore fellowship with Yahweh.
\v 32 As the Israelis watched, Joshua wrote on stones the laws that  \add Yahweh had given\add* to Moses previously.
\v 33 The Israeli leaders, the officials, the judges, and other Israelis were there, standing nearby. Many people who were not Israelis were also there. Half of the people stood  \add on one side of the valley below\add* Ebal Mountain, and the other half of the people stood  \add on the other side of the valley below\add* Gerizim Mountain. The sacred chest was  \add in the valley\add* between the two groups. That was what Moses had previously commanded that the people should do when  \add Yahweh was about to\add* bless them.
\p
\v 34 Then Joshua read  \add to the people\add* all that  \add Moses had\add* written previously. That included what Yahweh had taught them and the ways that  \add he promised to\add* bless them  \add if they obeyed his commands\add*, or to curse them  \add if they disobeyed them\add*.
\v 35 All the Israelis gathered together  \add to listen \add*—the men, the women, and the children. The ◄foreigners/people who were not Israelis► who were living among them also listened, while Joshua read all the commands that Moses had written.
\c 9
\s1 The Gibeonites tricked the Israelis
\p
\v 1 There were several kings  \add who ruled in lands\add* that are on the west side of the Jordan River. They were the kings of the Heth people-group, the Amor people-group, the Canaan people-group, the Periz people-group, the Hiv people-group, and the Jebus people-group. They lived in the hilly area, in the foothills further west, and  \add on the plains\add* along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. They heard  \add about what happened at Ai\add*.
\v 2 So they all gathered  \add their armies\add* to fight Joshua and the Israeli army.
\p
\v 3 When the people who lived in Gibeon  \add city\add* heard that Joshua's army had defeated the people of Jericho and Ai,
\v 4 they decided to trick the Israelis. They gathered some old sacks and some old leather wine bags that had been mended after they were cracked, and they put these on the backs of their donkeys.
\v 5 They put on old sandals that had been patched, and wore old ragged clothes. And they took along bread that was dry and moldy.
\v 6 They traveled to where Joshua  \add and the other Israelis\add* had set up their tents near Gilgal. They said to Joshua and the other Israeli leaders, “We have traveled from a distant land. We want you to make a peace agreement with us.”
\p
\v 7 The Israeli leaders said to those men from  \add Gilead who were from\add* the Hiv people-group, “\add We do not know if you truly live far from us\add*. If you live near us, we cannot [RHQ] make a peace agreement with you, \add because God has commanded us to get rid of the people that are living near us\add*.”
\p
\v 8 They replied to Joshua, “\add If you make a peace agreement with us\add*, we will be your servants.”
\p But Joshua answered, “What people-group are you? Where do you come from?”
\p
\v 9 The men from Gibeon answered, “We  \add want to\add* be your servants. We have come here from a distant land, because we have heard about the great things that your god has done. We have heard about everything that he did in Egypt  \add to help you\add*.
\v 10 We have heard that he  \add enabled you to\add* defeat  \add the armies of\add* two kings of the Amor people-group, on the east side of the Jordan River—Sihon, the king who ruled in Heshbon  \add city\add*, and Og, the king who ruled in Ashtaroth in the Bashan  \add area\add*.
\v 11 So our leaders and the rest of our people said to us, ‘Take some food and go to talk with the Israelis. Tell them, “We want to be your servants. So make a peace agreement with us.”’
\v 12 Look at our bread. It was fresh and warm  \add from having been baked\add* on the day that we left our area, but now it is dry and moldy.
\v 13 Look at our leather wine bags. They were new when we filled them with wine  \add before we left\add*, but now they are cracked and old. Our clothes and our sandals are worn out from traveling  \add on the long road\add* to come here.”
\p
\v 14 The Israeli leaders tasted the bread, but they did not ask Yahweh what to do.
\v 15 So Joshua agreed to make a peace agreement with the men from Gibeon to not kill them. All the Israeli leaders solemnly promised to do what Joshua said in the agreement. \add Then the men from Gibeon returned home\add*.
\p
\v 16 Three days later the Israelis found out that the men from Gibeon lived nearby.
\v 17 So they went to where the men from Gibeon lived. After traveling  \add only\add* three days, they came to their cities: Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath-Jearim.
\v 18 But the Israelis did not attack the people of those cities, because they had made a solemn promise  \add to live peacefully with them\add*, and Yahweh had heard them promise to do that.
\p All the Israeli people grumbled against their leaders  \add for doing that\add*.
\v 19 But the leaders answered, “We promised to  \add live peacefully with them\add*, and Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis  \add worship\add*, heard us promise to do that. So now we cannot attack [EUP] them.
\v 20 This is what we will do: We will not kill them. If we kill them, God will be very angry with us  \add and punish us\add* because of not doing what we solemnly promised to do.
\v 21 So we must allow them to live. But they will cut wood for us, and they will carry water for us.” So the Israeli leaders did what they had solemnly promised.
\p
\v 22 Then Joshua summoned the men from Gibeon and asked them, “Why did you lie to us? Your land was near to where we had set up our tents, but you told us that you were from a distant land!
\v 23 So now you will become our slaves. You will always be forced to cut wood and carry water for  \add us Israeli people who worship in\add* the temple of our God.”
\p
\v 24 The men from Gibeon replied, “We lied to you because we were afraid that you would kill us. We heard that Yahweh, your God, declared to his servant Moses that he would enable you to conquer all the people in this land and to kill all the people who lived in it.
\v 25 So now you can decide what you will do with us. Do what you think is right.”
\p
\v 26 So Joshua saved the lives of the people of Gibeon by not allowing the Israelis to kill them.
\v 27 Instead, he forced them to become the Israelis' slaves. They cut wood and carried water for the Israelis. They also brought the wood and water  \add that was needed for\add* the sacred altar of Yahweh, to whatever place Yahweh decided that they should build one. And the people of Gibeon are still doing that.
\c 10
\s1 Joshua's army defeated the descendants of Amor when God made the sun stand still
\p
\v 1 Later, Adonizedek, the king of Jerusalem, heard that Joshua's army had captured Ai town and had destroyed everything in the town. He heard that they had done to the people of Ai and to their king the same thing that they had done to the people of Jericho and their king. He also heard that the people of Gibeon  \add city\add* had made a peace treaty with the Israeli people, and that the people of Gibeon were now living near the Israelis and being protected by them.
\v 2 Because of that, he and the people whom he ruled became very afraid, because Gibeon was an important city, like the other cities that had kings. And even though Gibeon was a larger city than Ai and all its soldiers were good fighters, they thought Joshua's army might defeat them.
\v 3 So King Adonizedek sent a message to Hosham the king of Hebron  \add city\add*, to Piram the king of Jarmuth  \add city\add*, to Jarmuth the king of Lachish  \add city\add*, and to Debir the king of Eglon  \add city\add*.
\v 4 In the message he said, “Please come up with your armies and help me to attack Gibeon, because the people of Gibeon have made a peace treaty with Joshua and the Israelis.”
\p
\v 5 So those five kings who ruled all the groups who were descendants of Amor—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Debir—came up with all of their soldiers and surrounded the city. Then they prepared to attack it.
\p
\v 6 So the people of Gibeon sent a message to Joshua while he was in the camp at Gilgal. They said, “We are your servants. So do not forsake us. Come up to us quickly and save us! Help us, because the kings of all of the groups descended from Amor and their armies have joined their forces and have come from the hilly area to attack us!”
\p
\v 7 So Joshua and all his army, including the soldiers who were his best fighting men, marched up from Gilgal.
\v 8 Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of those armies! I will enable your army to defeat them [IDI]. None of them will be able to ◄resist/fight and defeat► your army.”
\p
\v 9 Joshua's army marched all night and arrived very early in the morning.
\v 10 They attacked their enemies before anyone knew that they had come. Yahweh caused their enemies to ◄become very confused/start running in all directions► when they saw the Israeli army. As a result, the Israeli army defeated them very severely at Gibeon  \add and killed many of them\add*. The rest of them fled along the road that goes up to Beth-Horon. But the Israeli army pursued them and killed them all along the road that goes to Azekah and Makkedah towns.
\v 11 As they fled in front of the Israeli army, Yahweh threw down huge hailstones from the sky. As a result, more of them died from hailstones falling on them than died as a result of the Israeli army killing them with swords.
\p
\v 12 On the day that Yahweh enabled the Israeli army to defeat the groups who were descendants of Amor, Joshua said to Yahweh while the Israeli people were listening, “Yahweh, cause the sun to stand still over Gibeon, and cause the moon to not move when it is over Aijalon Valley.”
\v 13 And that is what happened. The sun stood still, and the moon did not move, until the Israeli army defeated their enemies. That is what has been written in the book that Jashar wrote. The sun stopped while it was in the middle of the sky, and did not ◄set/go down► for about a whole day.
\v 14 On that day Yahweh did a great miracle that someone asked him to do. There was never a day like that previously, and there has never been a day like that since. Yahweh was certainly fighting for the Israeli people!
\p
\v 15 After Joshua's army defeated their enemies, they all returned to their camp at Gilgal.
\s1 Joshua's army defeated the armies of five kings
\p
\v 16 While the enemy soldiers were fleeing from Joshua's army, their five kings also fled and hid in a cave at Makkedah  \add town\add*.
\v 17 Then someone told Joshua, “We found those five kings, hiding in a cave at Makkedah!”
\v 18 When Joshua heard that, he said, “Roll some very large rocks to the entrance of the cave so that the kings cannot escape, and leave some soldiers there to guard it.
\v 19 But do not stay there! Pursue our enemies! Attack them from behind! Do not allow them to escape to their cities, because Yahweh, our God, will enable you to defeat/kill them. [IDI]”
\p
\v 20 So Joshua's army did what he told them to do. They killed almost all of the enemy soldiers, but a few of them were able to reach their cities and be safe inside the walls of the cities.
\v 21 Then Joshua's army returned to Joshua, who was still in their camp at Makkedah. No one in the land dared to criticize [MTY] the Israelis.
\p
\v 22 Then Joshua said, “Open the entrance of the cave, and bring out to me those five kings!”
\v 23 So the soldiers brought those five kings out of the cave—the kings of Jerusalem, Hebron, Jarmuth, Lachish, and Eglon.
\v 24 When they brought those kings to Joshua  \add and forced them to lie on the ground\add*, he summoned all the Israeli soldiers, and then he said to the army commanders, “Come here and put your feet on the necks of these kings!” So the commanders did that.
\v 25 Then Joshua said to them, “Do not be afraid of any of our enemies! Never be discouraged! Be strong and courageous. This is what Yahweh will do to all the enemies you will fight!”
\v 26 Then Joshua killed each of the five kings with his sword, and told his soldiers to hang the bodies of the five kings on trees. So they did that, and they left the bodies hanging on the trees until sunset.
\v 27 At sunset, Joshua told them to take the bodies down from the trees and throw them into the cave where they had been hiding. So the soldiers did that, and then they put those large rocks at the entrance of the cave again. Those rocks are still there.
\p
\v 28 That is how Joshua's army attacked and captured Makkedah. They killed the king and everyone else in the town. They did not leave anyone alive. They did to the king of Makkedah the same thing that they had done to the king of Jericho.
\s1 They conquered the southern cities
\p
\v 29 That same day, Joshua and his Israeli army went  \add southwest\add* from Makkedah to Libnah  \add city\add* and attacked it.
\v 30 Yahweh enabled the Israelis to conquer [MTY] that city and its king. They killed everyone in the city; they did not ◄spare anyone/allow anyone to remain alive►. They  \add killed\add* the king of Libnah just like they had killed the king of Jericho.
\p
\v 31 Then Joshua and his army went  \add south\add* from Libnah to Lachish  \add city\add*. They surrounded the city and attacked it.
\v 32 On the second day of the battle, Yahweh enabled the Israelis to conquer [MTY] the city. And like they had done at Libnah, they killed everyone [DOU] in the city.
\v 33 King Horam from Gezer  \add city and his army\add* came to help  \add the soldiers of\add* Lachish, but Joshua's  \add army\add* defeated Horam and his army, and did not allow any of them to remain alive.
\p
\v 34 Then Joshua and his army went  \add west\add* from Lachish to Eglon  \add city\add*. They surrounded the city and attacked it.
\v 35 On that day, they captured the city and killed [MTY] everyone in it [DOU], just like they had done at Lachish.
\p
\v 36 Then Joshua and his army went  \add west from Eglon\add* up  \add into the hills\add* to Hebron  \add city\add*. They attacked the city
\v 37 and captured it. They killed the king and everyone else, just like they had done at Eglon. They did not allow anyone to remain alive.
\p
\v 38 Then Joshua and his army turned  \add south\add* and went to Debir  \add city\add* and attacked it.
\v 39 They captured the city and its king, and also captured the nearby towns. Then they killed everyone [DOU]; they did to the people there the same thing that they had done at Hebron and Libnah.
\p
\v 40 Thus, Joshua  \add and his army\add* conquered the entire southern part of Canaan. They defeated the kings  \add who ruled\add* the hilly area, the dry southern area, the  \add western\add* foothills, and the  \add eastern\add* slopes. They killed everyone [DOU] in those areas; they did not allow anyone to remain alive.
\v 41 Joshua's soldiers captured all the cities from Kadesh-Barnea  \add city\add* in the far south to Gaza  \add city\add* near the coast, including all the Goshen area, and north to Gibeon  \add city\add*.
\v 42 At that one time, Joshua's army conquered all the kings and captured all the territory that they  \add ruled\add*. They were able to do that because Yahweh, the God whom the Israeli people  \add worship\add*, was fighting for them.
\p
\v 43 Then Joshua and his army returned to their camp at Gilgal.
\c 11
\s1 Joshua's army captured towns in the north
\p
\v 1 When King Jabin of Hazor  \add city\add* heard about  \add all those things that had happened\add*, he sent messages to Jobab, the king of Madon  \add city\add*, to the king of Shimron  \add city\add*, and to the king of Acshaph  \add city\add*, \add requesting them to send their armies to come and help him fight against the Israelis\add*.
\v 2 He also sent messages to the kings in the northern hilly area and to the kings in the Jordan River Valley, south of Galilee  \add Lake\add* and in the western hills. He sent a message to the king of Naphoth-Dor  \add in the west\add* 
\v 3 and to the kings of the Canaan people-group in the eastern and western parts of the land. He sent messages to the Amor people-group and the Heth people-group and the Periz people-group and the Jebus people-group who lived in the hilly area. He also sent a message to the Hiv people-group who lived below Hermon Mountain in the Mizpah area.
\v 4 So the armies of all those kings gathered together, bringing their horses and chariots. There  \add seemed to be\add* [HYP] as many soldiers as grains of sand on the seashore.
\v 5 All of those kings  \add and their armies\add* gathered together at Merom Pond, and they set up their tents there. Then they made plans to fight against the Israelis.
\p
\v 6 Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, because at this time tomorrow I will enable your men to defeat them. Your men must also cripple their horses and burn their chariots.”
\p
\v 7 So Joshua and his army traveled to Merom Pond and attacked their enemies ◄by surprise/before they were ready to fight►.
\v 8 Yahweh enabled the Israelis to defeat them. They pursued them to Sidon city  \add in the far north\add*, and to Misrephoth-Maim  \add in the northwest\add*, and to Mizpah Valley in the northeast. The Israelis fought them until ◄they were all dead/there were no survivors►.
\v 9 Then Joshua and his men did what Yahweh told them to do: They crippled their enemies' horses and burned their chariots.
\p
\v 10 The king of Hazor had ruled the people of all the kingdoms whose armies had fought against the Israelis. So Joshua's army went back to Hazor and captured that city and killed their king.
\v 11 They killed everyone in Hazor; ◄they did not spare anyone/no one was left alive► [DOU]. Then they burned the city.
\p
\v 12 Joshua's army captured all of those cities and killed all of their kings. They did that like Moses, the man who served Yahweh  \add well\add*, had commanded them to do.
\v 13 Joshua's men burned Hazor  \add city\add*, but they did not burn any of the other cities that were built on small hills.
\v 14 The Israelis took for themselves the animals that they found in those cities and everything else  \add that was valuable\add* [DOU]. But they killed all the people.
\v 15 \add Many years before\add*, Yahweh had told Moses to do that, and then Moses told Joshua to do it. So Joshua did everything that Yahweh had commanded Moses to do.
\p
\v 16 Joshua's  \add army\add* defeated all the people who were living in that land. They took control over the hilly area and the area in the southern part of Canaan, all the area of Goshen, the western foothills, and the Jordan River Valley. They took control over all the mountains in Israel and all the hills near the mountains.
\v 17 They took control over all the land from Halak Mountain  \add in the south\add* to Baal-Gaal in Lebanon Valley  \add in the north\add*, at the bottom of Hermon Mountain. They captured all the kings of those areas and killed them.
\v 18 Joshua's men fought against those groups for many years.
\v 19 There was only one group that made a peace agreement with the Israelis; they were the people of the Hiv people-group who lived in Gibeon. The Israelis captured all the other towns in battles.
\v 20 Yahweh caused the people in all those other groups to be stubborn [IDI], with the result that they fought against the Israeli army, and the Israelis killed them all. They were not merciful to any of them. That is what Yahweh had commanded Moses to do.
\p
\v 21 Joshua's army also fought the Anak people-group who lived in the hills near Hebron, Debir, and Anah  \add cities\add*. They also fought against the people who lived in the hilly area of Judah and Israel, and they killed all of those people and destroyed their cities.
\v 22 As a result, there were no descendants of Anak who remained alive in Israel. Only a few remained alive in Gaza, Gath, and Ashdod  \add cities\add*.
\v 23 Joshua's army took control of all the land, just as Yahweh long ago had told Moses to do. Yahweh gave the land to the Israelis, because he had promised to give it to them. Then Joshua divided the land among the Israeli tribes. After that, there was ◄peace/no more battles► in the land.
\c 12
\s1 The kings defeated by the Israelis
\p
\v 1 The Israelis took control of the land that was east of the Jordan River, from the Arnon River gorge  \add in the south\add* to Hermon Mountain  \add in the north\add*, including all the land on the eastern side of the Jordan  \add River\add* Valley. That land previously belonged to the two kings whose armies the Israelis defeated.
\m
\v 2 One of them was Sihon, the king of the Amor people-group. He lived in Heshbon  \add city\add* and ruled over the area from Aroer  \add town\add* along the Arnon River gorge, north to the Jabbok River. His land started in the middle of the gorge, which was the border between his land and the land of the Ammon people-group. Sihon also ruled over  \add the southern\add* half of the Gilead region,
\v 3 and over the land on the eastern side of the Jordan River Valley, from Galilee  \add Lake south\add* to the Dead Sea. He also ruled over the land  \add east of the Dead Sea\add* from Beth-Jeshimoth south to the side of Pisgah Mountain.
\m
\v 4 The other king whom the Israeli army defeated was Og, the king of the Bashan  \add region\add*. He was the last of the descendants of  \add the giant\add* Rapha. He ruled that land, living alternatively in Ashtaroth and Edrei  \add cities\add*.
\v 5 He ruled over the area from Hermon Mountain and Salecah  \add in the north\add*, and over all the Bashan area in the east, and to the borders of the kingdoms of Geshur and Maacah to the west. Og ruled  \add the northern\add* half of the Gilead region, as far as the border of the land ruled by King Sihon.
\p
\v 6 Moses, the man who served Yahweh  \add well\add*, and all the Israeli army defeated the armies of those kings. Then Moses gave that land to the tribes of Reuben and Gad and half of the tribe of Manasseh.
\p
\v 7 Joshua and the Israeli army also defeated kings who ruled over the land on the west side of the Jordan  \add River\add*. He gave that land to the Israeli people, dividing it among the other tribes. That land was between Baal-Gad  \add city\add* in the Lebanon Valley  \add in the far north all the way south\add* to Halak Mountain, which is near the land of the Edom people-group.
\v 8 That land included the mountains, the western hilly area, the Jordan River Valley, the  \add western\add* slopes of the mountains, the desert  \add in Judea\add*, and the Negev  \add desert in the south\add*. That whole area was the land where the Heth, Amor, Canaan, Periz, Hiv, and Jebus people-groups lived. The Israeli army defeated the armies of the kings of each of these cities:
\v 9 Jericho, Ai (which was near Bethel),
\v 10 Jerusalem, Hebron,
\v 11 Jarmuth, Lachish,
\v 12 Eglon, Gezer,
\v 13 Debir, Geder,
\v 14 Hormah, Arad,
\v 15 Libnah, Adullam,
\v 16 Makkedah, Bethel,
\v 17 Tappuah, Hepher,
\v 18 Aphek, Lasharon,
\v 19 Madon, Hazor,
\v 20 Shimron Meron, Acshaph,
\v 21 Taanach, Megiddo,
\v 22 Kedesh, Jokneam in the Carmel area,
\v 23 Dor in the Naphoth-Dor area, Goyim in the Gilgal area,
\v 24 and Tirzah.
\m There was a total of thirty-one kings  \add that the Israeli army defeated\add*.
\c 13
\s1 The areas that the Israelis had not yet captured
\p
\v 1 When Joshua was very old, Yahweh said to him, “Joshua, you are now an old man, but there is still a lot of land  \add for your army\add* to capture.
\v 2 Here is a list of the land that remains: The Geshur region and all the area where the Philistia people-group live;
\v 3 the area where the Canaan people-group live, from the Shihor River  \add in the south\add* at the  \add eastern\add* border of Egypt, to Ekron  \add city\add* in the north; the rulers of the five  \add cities\add* of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron; the area where the Avva people-group live,
\v 4 which is south of the area where the Canaan people-group live;
\v 5 the area where the Gebal people-group live; and all the Lebanon area east of Baal-Gad  \add city\add* at the bottom of Hermon Mountain, as far as Lebo-Hamath.
\p
\v 6 All the people of the Sidon people-group live in the hilly area from Lebanon to Misrephoth-Maim, but I will force them to leave that area before you Israelis arrive there. Be sure to give that area to the Israeli people when you divide the land among them, like I told you to do.
\v 7 Divide all that land among the nine Israeli tribes and half of the tribe of Manasseh, \add the tribes that do not have land on the east side of the Jordan River\add*.”
\s1 The land east of the Jordan River
\m
\v 8 Half of the tribe of Manasseh and the tribes of Reuben and Gad had already been told what land they would receive, because Moses, the man who served Yahweh  \add well\add*, had already assigned to them the land on the east side of the Jordan  \add River\add*.
\v 9 Their land extended from Aroer  \add town\add* at the Arnon River gorge to the town in the middle of the gorge. It included the whole plain from Medeba  \add town south\add* to Dibon  \add town\add*.
\v 10 All the towns ruled by King Sihon were in that area. The land extended to where the Ammon people-group lived.
\v 11 The Gilead area was also there, and the regions where the people of the Geshur and Maacah people-groups lived, and all of Hermon Mountain and all the Bashan region  \add south\add* to Salecah.
\v 12 All the land ruled by Og, the king who ruled the Bashan  \add region\add*, was in that land. Og was one of the last descendants of Repha; previously he had ruled in Ashtaroth and Edrei  \add cities\add*, but  \add the armies of\add* Moses had defeated their armies and had taken their land from them.
\v 13 But the Israelis did not force the people of the Geshur and Maacah  \add people-groups\add* to leave their land, so they still live among the Israeli people.
\p
\v 14 The tribe of Levi was the only tribe that did not get any land. Instead, just like Yahweh promised, they continued to receive  \add food from\add* the sacrifices that were given to Yahweh, the God whom the Israelis  \add worship\add*, the sacrifices that were burned  \add on the sacred altar\add*.
\p
\v 15 Moses had allotted land to each clan in the tribe of Reuben.
\v 16 Their land extended from Aroer  \add town\add* near the Arnon River gorge to Medeba  \add town\add*. That included all of the plain  \add that is near Medeba\add* and the town in the middle of the gorge.
\v 17 It also included Heshbon  \add city\add* and all the nearby towns on the plain—Dibon, Bamioth-Baal, Beth-Baal-Meon,
\v 18 Jahaz, Kedemoth, Mephaath,
\v 19 Kiriathaim, Sibmah, Zereth-Shahar on the hill overlooking the valley,
\v 20 Beth-Peor, the hills in the Pisgah area, and Beth-Jeshimoth.
\v 21 That land included all the towns on the plain and all the area that King Sihon had previously ruled. But  \add the army of\add* Moses had defeated him and the rulers of the Midian people-group: Evi, Rekem, Zur, Hur, and Reba. The armies of all those rulers fought battles along with the army of Sihon, and they lived in that country.
\v 22 The Israeli army killed many people during those battles, including Balaam  \add the prophet\add* from Beor, who tried to use magic to predict/tell what would happen in the future.
\v 23 The  \add western\add* boundary of the land that was allotted to the clans of the tribe of Reuben was the Jordan  \add River\add*.
\p
\v 24 Moses also allotted some land to each clan in the tribe of Gad.
\v 25 Their land included the Jazer  \add area\add* and all the towns of the Gilead  \add area\add*; half of the land where the Ammon people-group lived, as far as Aroer  \add town which is\add* near Rabbah  \add town\add*; 
\v 26 the area from Heshbon  \add city\add* to Ramath-Mizpah and Betonim  \add towns; the area\add* from Mahanaim  \add town\add* to the Debir region;
\v 27 Beth-Haram, Beth-Nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon  \add cities\add* in the valley; and the other area that King Sihon had ruled on the east side of the Jordan River. That area extended  \add north to\add* the southern end of Galilee  \add Lake\add*.
\v 28 All this land, including the towns and villages, was allotted to the tribe of Gad.
\p
\v 29 Moses also had allotted some of the land  \add on the east side of the Jordan River\add* to half of the tribe of Manasseh.
\v 30 Their land extended  \add north\add* from Mahanaim  \add city\add*. It included all the Bashan region, all the land that King Og had ruled, and all the towns in the Jair area in Bashan. Altogether that area included sixty towns.
\v 31 Their area also included half of the Gilead region, and the cities of Ashtaroth and Edrei where King Og had ruled. All that area was allotted to the clans descended from Manasseh's son Makir.
\p
\v 32 Moses had allotted to those tribes the land that was on the plain of the Moab  \add region\add*, on the east side of the Jordan  \add River\add*, across from Jericho.
\v 33 But Moses did not allot any land to the tribe of Levi because Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis worship, promised that he himself would always provide for them.
\c 14
\s1 The land west of the Jordan River
\p
\v 1 Eleazar the Supreme Priest, Joshua, and the leaders of the  \add twelve\add* tribes repeated what land would be allotted to each of the Israeli tribes in Canaan.
\v 2-5 Yahweh had told Moses many years previously in what way he wanted the division of the land to be decided. Moses had already declared that two and a half tribes would be allotted land on the east side of the Jordan  \add River\add*. Joseph had two sons, Manasseh and Ephraim. \add Half of the tribe descended from Manasseh was allotted land on the east side of the Jordan, along with the tribes of Reuben and Gad\add*. The people belonging to the nine and a half other tribes  \add on the west side of the Jordan River\add* threw ◄lots/stones that had been marked► to decide which land each tribe would receive. The tribe of Levi was not allotted any land. They received only towns  \add that already existed\add*, towns in which to live, and ◄pastures/fields of grass► for their animals.
\s1 Land for Caleb
\p
\v 6 One day some men from the tribe of Judah went to Joshua while he and all the Israelis were at Gilgal. Among those men was Jephunneh's son Caleb. He said to Joshua, “\add I am sure that\add* you remember what Yahweh said to the prophet Moses concerning you and me when we were at Kadesh-Barnea.
\v 7 I was forty years old at that time. Moses sent me  \add and you and some other men\add* to explore this land. When we returned, I gave to Moses a true report [IDI] about what we had seen.
\v 8 The other men who went with us  \add gave a report that\add* caused the people to be afraid [IDI]. But I fully/completely believed that Yahweh  \add would enable us to take the land from the people who lived there\add*.
\v 9 So on that day, Moses solemnly promised me, ‘\add Some of\add* the land on which you walked will become yours. It will belong to your descendants forever. I am giving it to you because you fully trusted in Yahweh, my God.’
\p
\v 10 Now Yahweh has done for me what he promised. Forty-five years have passed since Moses said that to me during the time that we were wandering around in the desert. And just like Yahweh promised, he has kept me alive and well all during that time. Now I am eighty-five years old.
\v 11 I am as strong today as I was on the day that Moses sent me  \add to explore this land\add*. I am as ready to fight now as I was then.
\v 12 So please give me the hilly area that Yahweh promised to give to me on that day long ago. At that time, you heard  \add me say\add* that the Amalek people-group lived there. You heard me say that their cities were large, and they had walls around them  \add to protect them from attacks by their enemies\add*. But now, Yahweh will help me, and as a result I will force them to leave, just like Yahweh said would happen.”
\p
\v 13 So Joshua  \add asked God to\add* bless Caleb, and he gave to Caleb the city of Hebron.
\v 14-15 Previously that city was called Kiriath-Arba, because Arba was the greatest man among the Amalek people-group. Hebron still belongs to the descendants of Caleb, because Caleb completely/fully trusted in Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis  \add worship\add*, and obeyed him.
\p After that happened, there was ◄peace/no battles► in  \add Canaan\add* land  \add for many years\add*.
\c 15
\s1 Land for the tribe of Judah
\p
\v 1 The land that was allotted to the tribe of Judah was divided among its clans. That land extended south to the Zin Desert, at the border of the Edom region.
\pi
\v 2 The southern border of the land that was allotted to the tribe of Judah started at the south end of the Dead Sea  \add and extended west\add*.
\v 3 It extended south of Scorpion Pass to Zin Desert, and from there west to a place south of Kadesh-Barnea, past Hezron  \add town\add*, to Addar  \add town\add*, and from there it turned  \add northwest\add* to Karka  \add town\add*.
\v 4 From there it continued to Azmon, and from there to the dry riverbed on the border of Egypt, and from there  \add west to the Mediterranean Sea\add*. That was the southern border.
\pi
\v 5 The eastern border of the land of the tribe of Judah was the Dead Sea, and it extended  \add north\add* to  \add where the Jordan River ends at\add* the Dead Sea.
\pi
\v 6 The northern border started where the Jordan River ends at the Dead Sea. It extended  \add north\add* to Beth-Hoglah  \add town\add*, and from there it extended north of Beth-Arabah  \add town\add* to the  \add big\add* stone  \add set up by\add* Reuben's son Bohan.
\v 7 From there the border continued west through Achor Valley to Debir  \add city\add*. From there it turned north to Gilgal  \add city\add*. Gilgal is north of the road that goes through Adummim Pass, on the south side of the valley. From Gilgal the border extended west to the springs at En-Shemesh, and from there to En-Rogel. From there it extended through Ben-Hinnom Valley, south of the city where the Jebus people-group lived. (That city is now named Jerusalem.)
\v 8 From there the border extended to the top of the hill on the west side of Hinnom Valley, at the northern end of the valley where the Repha  \add giants\add* lived.
\v 9 From there the border extended  \add northwest\add* to Nephtoah Spring, and from there to the cities near Ephron Mountain. From there the border extended  \add west\add* toward Baalah, which is now named Kiriath-Jearim.
\v 10 Then the border continued to extend west to Seir Mountain. Then it continued  \add southwest\add* along the north side of Jearim Mountain, which is also named Kesalon, to Beth-Shemesh  \add city\add*. From there it extended  \add northwest\add* past Timnah  \add city\add*, 
\v 11 to the hill north of Ekron  \add city\add*. From there it extended  \add west\add* to Shikkeron  \add town\add* and past Baalah Mountain to Jabneel  \add town\add*, then  \add northwest\add* to the  \add Mediterranean\add* Sea.
\pi
\v 12 The western border of the land that was allotted to the tribe of Judah was the  \add Mediterranean Sea\add*. All the clans of Judah lived inside those borders.
\p
\v 13 Yahweh commanded Joshua to give part of the land for the tribe of Judah to Caleb. So he gave to Caleb Kiriath-Arba  \add city\add*, which is now named Hebron. (Arba was the ancestor of the Anak people-group.)
\v 14 Caleb forced the three clans of the Anak people-group to leave Hebron. Those were the Sheshai, Ahiman, and Talmai clans.
\v 15 Then Caleb left there and went to fight against the people living in Debir  \add city\add*, which was previously named Kiriath-Sepher.
\v 16 Caleb said, “If someone attacks  \add the people in\add* Kiriath-Sepher and captures their city, I will give my daughter Acsah to him to be his wife.”
\v 17 Othniel, the son of Caleb's brother Kenaz, captured the city. So Caleb gave his daughter to him.
\p
\v 18 When Caleb's daughter married Othniel, she told him to ask her father to give her a field. Then Acsah went to talk with her father Caleb. As she got down from her donkey, Caleb asked her, “Do you want something?”
\p
\v 19 Acsah replied, “Yes, I want you to do something for me. You have given me some land in the southern part of Canaan, \add but there is no water there\add*. So please give me some  \add land that has\add* springs.” So Caleb gave her the upper and lower springs  \add near Hebron\add*.
\p
\v 20 \add Here is a list of the towns in\add* the land that  \add God had promised to\add* give to the tribe of Judah. Each clan was allotted some of the land.
\m
\v 21 The tribe of Judah was allotted all these towns in the southern  \add desert area of Canaan\add*, near the border of the Edom  \add region\add*: 
\pi Kabzeel, Eder, Jagur,
\v 22 Kinah, Dimonah, Adadah,
\v 23 Kedesh, Hazor, Ithnan,
\v 24 Ziph, Telem, Bealoth,
\v 25 Hazor-Hadattah, Kerioth-Hezron (which is also named Hazor),
\v 26 Amam, Shema, Molodah,
\v 27 Hazar-Gaddah, Heshmon, Beth-Pelet,
\v 28 Hazar-Shual, Beersheba, Biziothiah,
\v 29 Baalah, Iim, Ezem,
\v 30 Eltolad, Kesil, Hormah,
\v 31 Ziklag, Madmannah, Sansannah,
\v 32 Lebaoth, Shilhim, Ain, and Rimmon. There were twenty-nine towns altogether and their surrounding villages.
\m
\v 33 The tribe of Judah was allotted these towns in the  \add northern part of the western\add* foothills: Eshtaol, Zorah, Ashnah,
\pi
\v 34 Zanoah, En-Gannim, Tappuah, Enam,
\v 35 Jarmuth, Adullam, Socoh, Azekah,
\v 36 Shaaraim, Adithaim, and Gederah (which is also named Gederothaim). Altogether there were fourteen towns and their surrounding villages.
\pi
\v 37 The tribe of Judah was also  \add allotted these towns in the southern part of the western foothills\add*:  Zenan, Hadashah, Migdal-Gad,
\v 38 Dilean, Mizpah, Joktheel,
\v 39 Lachish, Bozkath, Eglon,
\v 40 Cabbon, Lahmas, Kitlish,
\v 41 Gederoth, Beth-Dagon, Naamah, and Makkedah.
\pi There were sixteen towns altogether and their surrounding villages.
\pi
\v 42 The tribe of Judah was also allotted these towns in  \add the central part of\add* the western foothills: Libnah, Ether, Ashan,
\v 43 Iphtah, Ashnah, Nezib,
\v 44 Keilah, Aczib, and Mareshah. There were nine town altogether, with their surrounding villages.
\pi
\v 45-47 The tribe of Judah was also allotted these towns  \add close to the Mediterranean Sea\add* with their surrounding villages: Ekron and the towns between Ekron and the coast, Ashdod, and Gaza. The area extended south to the dry riverbed on the border of Egypt.
\pi
\v 48 The tribe of Judah was also  \add allotted these towns in the southwest part of the hilly region\add*:  Shamir, Jattir, Socoh,
\v 49 Dannah, Kiriath-Sannah (which is now named Debir),
\v 50 Anab, Eshtemoh, Anim,
\v 51 Goshen, Holon, and Giloh. There were eleven towns with their surrounding villages.
\pi
\v 52 The tribe of Judah was also allotted these towns in  \add the south-central part of\add* the hilly region: Arab, Dumah, Eshan,
\v 53 Janim, Beth-Tappuah, Aphekah,
\v 54 Humtah, Kiriath-Arba (which is now named Hebron), and Zior. There were nine towns altogether with their surrounding villages.
\pi
\v 55 The tribe of Judah was also allotted these towns in  \add the southeastern part of the hilly region\add*:  Maon, Carmel, Ziph, Juttah,
\v 56 Jezreel, Jokdeam, Zanoah,
\v 57 Kain, Gibeah, and Timnah. There were ten towns altogether with their surrounding villages.
\pi
\v 58 The tribe of Judah was also  \add allotted these towns in the central part of the hilly region\add*:  Halhul, Beth-Zur, Gedor,
\v 59 Maarath, Beth-Anoth, and Eltekon. There were six towns altogether with their surrounding villages.
\pi
\v 60 The tribe of Judah was also  \add allotted two towns in the northern part of the hilly region\add*, Rabbah and Kiriath-Baal (which is also named Kiriath-Jearim).
\pi
\v 61 The tribe of Judah was also  \add allotted these towns\add* in the desert  \add near the Dead Sea\add*:  Beth-Arabah, Middin, Secacah,
\v 62 Nibshan, Salt city, and En-Gedi. There were six towns altogether with their surrounding villages.
\p
\v 63 \add The army of the tribe of\add* Judah was not able to force the people of the Jebus people-group to leave Jerusalem. So the people of that group are still living among the tribe of Judah.
\c 16
\s1 Land for the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh
\p
\v 1 The land that was allotted to the  \add two tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh that were descended from\add* Joseph started at the Jordan  \add River\add*, east of the springs at Jericho.
\v 2 It extended west from Jericho to the hilly area near Bethel, which is also called Luz, to Ataroth, at the border of the land where the Arki people-group lived.
\v 3 From there it extended west to the border of the land where the Japhleti people-group lived, and then it extended west to the area near Lower Beth-Horon. From there it extended west to Gezer  \add city\add* and from there  \add to the Mediterranean\add* Sea.
\m
\v 4 That is the land that the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh were allotted.
\m
\v 5 The border of the land that was allotted to the clans of the tribe of Ephraim started at Ataroth-Addar  \add city\add* in the east. It extended to Upper Beth-Horon
\v 6 and from there  \add to the Mediterranean\add* Sea.
\v 7 From Michmethath  \add on the north\add* it extended east to Taanath and from there on to Janoah. From there it extended  \add south\add* to Ataroth  \add city\add* and to Naarah  \add town\add*. From there it extended to Jericho and from there to the Jordan  \add River\add*.
\v 8 The  \add northern\add* border extended from Tappuah west to Kanah Ravine, and ended at the  \add Mediterranean\add* Sea. That was the land that was allotted to the tribe of Ephraim.
\v 9 Many of those towns were really within the area allotted to the tribe of Manasseh.
\m
\v 10 The people of the tribe of Ephraim could not force the Canaan people-group to leave Gezer, so the Canaan people-group still live among the people of the tribe of Ephraim, but the Israelis forced the people of the Canaan people-group to become their slaves.
\c 17
\p
\v 1 \add This is a list of\add* the land that was allotted to the tribe of Manasseh. Manasseh's oldest son was Makir and his grandson was Gilead. Makir's descendants were great warriors, so the lands in the Gilead and Bashan regions were allotted to their clan.
\v 2 Land was also allotted to the other clans of the tribe of Manasseh: The clans of Abiezer, Helek, Asriel, Shechem, Hepher, and Shemida.
\p
\v 3 Hepher's son Zelophehad had no sons, but he had five daughters: Mahlah, Noah, Hoglah, Milcah, and Tirzah.
\v 4 They went to Eleazar the Supreme Priest, and to Joshua and to the other Israeli leaders. They said, “\add We want you to give us some land, because\add* Yahweh told Moses that he should give to us some land, just like you gave to the men.” So Eleazar did what Yahweh had commanded, and he allotted to them some land, just like he allotted to their uncles.
\v 5 So the tribe of Manasseh eventually had ten sections  \add of land west of the Jordan River\add* and  \add two sections\add*, Gilead and Bashan, on the east side of the Jordan  \add River\add*.
\v 6 So those female descendants of Manasseh also were allotted land  \add on the west side of the river\add* just like the men were allotted. The other parts of the Gilead area were allotted to the male descendants of Manasseh.
\pi
\v 7 The land allotted to the tribe of Manasseh was between the land where the tribe of Asher lives and Michmethath  \add town\add*, near Shechem  \add city\add*. The border extended south to the Tappuah Spring.
\v 8 The land near the Tappuah area belonged to the tribe of Manasseh, but the town of Tappuah, which was at the border of the land that was allotted to the tribe of Manasseh, was allotted to the tribe of Ephraim.
\v 9 The border  \add of the land allotted to the tribe of Manasseh\add* extended south to Kanah Gorge. From there it extended  \add west\add* along the north side of the gorge and ended at the  \add Mediterranean\add* Sea.
\v 10 The land on the south side of the gorge belonged to the tribe of Ephraim, and the land on the north side belonged to the tribe of Manasseh. The western border of the land allotted to the tribe of Manasseh was the  \add Mediterranean\add* Sea. To the north, the border of their land extended from the land allotted to the tribe of Asher  \add at the northwest\add* to the land allotted to the tribe of Issachar  \add at the north\add* east.
\pi
\v 11 But there are cities inside the area allotted to the tribes of Issachar and Asher, that along with their surrounding villages, were allotted to people from the tribe of Manasseh. These cities are Beth-Shan, Ibleam, Dor (which is also named Naphoth-Dor,) Endor, Taanach, and Megiddo.
\m
\v 12 The men of the tribe of Manasseh were not able to force the people who lived in those cities to leave, so the people of the Canaan people-group continued to live in those cities.
\v 13 But  \add years later\add* when the Israelis became better  \add warriors\add*, they forced the Canaan people-group to work for them as slaves, although they did not force them to leave the land.
\p
\v 14 The people of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh said to Joshua, “You allotted to us only one area of land, but we are very numerous. Yahweh has blessed us very much  \add with the result that our tribe has grown very large\add*. So why did you give us only a small part of the land [RHQ]?”
\p
\v 15 Joshua replied to them, “\add I agree that\add* you do not have enough land in the hilly area of the tribe of Ephraim. So, since you have a lot of people, I will allot more land to you, in the hilly region. But you will have to  \add cut down the trees\add* in the forest and make a place for yourselves in the land where the Periz and Repha people-groups live.”
\p
\v 16 The people of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh replied, “It is true that the land in the hilly area is not big enough for us, but the Canaan people-group who live in the lowlands, in Beth-Shan and the surrounding villages in that area, and in the Jezreel Valley, have iron chariots, \add so we will not be able to defeat them\add*!” 
\p
\v 17 Joshua replied to them, “Your tribe is very numerous and very powerful. So I will allot more land for you in the hilly area,
\v 18 but you will have to cut down the trees in order to make a place for you to live. \add It is true that\add* the Canaan people-group are strong and have iron chariots, but you will be able to force them to leave that valley.”
\c 18
\s1 The rest of the land was allotted
\p
\v 1-2 The Israeli people captured all the land  \add that they were able to\add*, but there were still seven tribes that had not been allotted any land. They all gathered at Shiloh, and they set up the Sacred Tent there.
\v 3 Joshua said to them, “Why are you waiting a long time to take control of the  \add rest of\add* the land that Yahweh, the God whom your ancestors  \add worshiped\add*, has promised to give to you [RHQ]?
\p
\v 4 Choose three men from each of your seven tribes. Then I will send them to explore the parts of the land  \add which you have not occupied yet\add*. \add When they finish exploring it\add*, they must write a report, in which they will ◄make a map/show the boundaries► of the land that each tribe wants to receive.
\v 5 They will divide the remaining land into seven parts. The tribe of Judah will keep its land in the south, and the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh will keep their land in the north.
\v 6 But in their report, the men from the seven tribes should describe the seven parts of the remaining land  \add that they wish to receive\add*, and bring the report to me. While Yahweh is watching, I will ◄cast lots/throw marked stones► \add to decide which land should be allotted to each tribe\add*.
\v 7 But the tribe of Levi will not be allotted any land, because their  \add reward is that they will be\add* Yahweh's priests. The tribes of Gad, Reuben, and half the tribe of Manasseh have already been allotted their land on the east side of the Jordan  \add River\add*, just as Moses, the man who served God  \add well\add*, decided, \add so they will not get any more land\add*.”
\p
\v 8 When the men who were chosen  \add got ready to\add* leave, Joshua told them, “Go and explore the land. Then write a report of what you have seen, and bring it back to me. Then while Yahweh is watching, I will ◄cast lots/throw marked stones► here at Shiloh, \add to determine what area each tribe will receive\add*.”
\v 9 So the men left and walked through the area. Then they described in a scroll each town that was in the seven parts  \add into which they had divided\add* the land. Then they returned to Joshua, who was still at Shiloh.
\v 10 \add After Joshua read their report\add*, while Yahweh was watching, he ◄cast lots/threw marked stones► to choose which land would be allotted to each of the seven Israeli tribes.
\s1 The land for the tribe of Benjamin
\m
\v 11 The first tribe that was allotted land was the tribe of Benjamin. Each clan in that tribe was allotted some of the land that was between the area that was allotted to the tribe of Judah and the area that was allotted to the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh.
\pi
\v 12 The northern border started at the Jordan  \add River\add* and extended west along the northern side of Jericho, into the hilly area. From there the border extended west to the desert near Beth-Aven  \add town\add*.
\v 13 From there it extended southwest to Luz (which is  \add now named\add* Bethel). From there it extended southwest to Ataroth-Addar  \add town\add*, which is on the hill south of Lower Beth-Horon  \add city\add*.
\pi
\v 14 At the hill south of Beth-Horon, the border turned and extended south to Kiriath-Baal  \add town\add*, which is  \add also named\add* Kiriath-Jearim. That is a town where people of the tribe of Judah live. That was the western border of the land allotted to the tribe of Benjamin.
\pi
\v 15 The southern border of their land started near Kiriath-Jearim and extended west to Nephtoah Springs.
\v 16 From there it extended south to the bottom of the hill, near Ben-Hinnom Valley, on the north side of Repha Valley. The border extended south along the Hinnom Valley, south of the city where the Jebus people-group lived, to En-Rogel.
\v 17 From there the border extended west to En-Shemesh, and continued to Geliloth near Adummim Pass. Then it extended to the great stone of Reuben's son Bohan.
\v 18 From there the border extended to the northern edge of Beth-Arabah  \add town\add* and down into the Jordan River Valley.
\v 19 From there it extended east to the northern edge of Beth-Hoglah  \add town\add* and ended at the north end of the Dead Sea, where the Jordan  \add River flows into the Dead Sea\add*. That was the southern boundary  \add of the land allotted to the tribe of Benjamin\add*.
\pi
\v 20 The Jordan  \add River\add* was the eastern boundary of the land allotted to the tribe of Benjamin. Those were the boundaries of the land allotted to them.
\m
\v 21 The cities in the land allotted to the tribe of Benjamin were Jericho, Beth-Hoglah, Emek-Keziz,
\v 22 Beth-Arabah, Zemaraim, Bethel,
\v 23 Avvim, Parah, Ophrah,
\v 24 Kephar-Ammoni, Ophni, and Geba. Altogether there were fourteen towns and the surrounding villages.
\pi
\v 25 The tribe of Benjamin also had the towns of Gibeon, Ramah, Beeroth,
\v 26 Mizpah, Kephirah, Mozah,
\v 27 Rekem, Irpeel, Taralah,
\v 28 Zelah, Haeleph, the city where the Jebus people-group lived (which is  \add now named\add* Jerusalem), Gibeah, and Kiriath. Altogether there were fourteen towns and the surrounding villages. All that area was allotted to the clans of the tribe of Benjamin.
\c 19
\s1 Land for the tribe of Simeon
\p
\v 1 The second/next tribe that was allotted land was the tribe of Simeon. Each clan in that tribe was allotted some land that was inside the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Judah.
\pi
\v 2 Their land included the towns of Beersheba (\add which is also named\add* Sheba), Moladah,
\v 3 Hazar-Shual, Balah, Ezem,
\v 4 Eltolad, Bethul, Hormah,
\v 5 Ziklag, Beth-Marcaboth. Hazar-Susah,
\v 6 Beth-Lebaoth, and Sharuhen. Altogether there were 13 towns and the surrounding villages.
\pi
\v 7 The land allotted to them also included the four cities of Ain, Rimmon, Ether, and Ashan, and their surrounding villages.
\v 8 They were also allotted some very small villages in an area that extended south to Baalath-Beer (which is \add also named\add* Ramah, in the southern desert). That was the land allotted to the clans of the tribe of Simeon.
\m
\v 9 The tribe of Judah had been allotted much more land than they needed, so part of their land was given to the tribe of Simeon.
\s1 Land for the tribe of Zebulun
\m
\v 10 The third/next tribe that was allotted land was the tribe of Zebulun. Each clan of that tribe was allotted some of the land.
\pi The southern border started at Sarid \add city\add*.
\v 11 It extended west to Maralah \add city\add* and on to Dabbesheth \add city\add*, and on to the brook just north of Jokneam \add city\add*.
\v 12 The border extended east from Sarid to the area near Kisloth-Tabor \add city\add* and on to Daberath \add town\add* and on to Japhia \add town\add*.
\v 13 From there it extended east to Gath-Hepher \add city\add* and Eth-Kazin \add town\add*, and north to Rimmon \add city\add*. From there the border extended \add west\add* to Neah \add town\add*.
\v 14 From Neah it extended south to Hannathon \add city\add* and from there to Iphtah-El Valley.
\v 15 Their area included the towns of Kattath, Nahalal, Shimron, Idalah, and Bethlehem. Altogether there were twelve towns and the surrounding villages.
\m
\v 16 That was the land that was allotted to the clans of the tribe of Zebulun.
\s1 Land for the tribe of Issachar
\m
\v 17 The fourth/next tribe that was allotted land was the tribe of Issachar. Each of the clans of that tribe was allotted some of the land.
\v 18 Their land included the cities of Jezreel, Kesulloth, Shunem,
\v 19 Hapharaim, Shion, Anaharath,
\v 20 Rabbith, Kishion, Ebez,
\v 21 Remeth, En-Gannim, En-Haddah, and Beth-Pazzez.
\v 22 The border of the area that was allotted to the tribe of Issachar was close to Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth-Shemesh \add cities\add*, and ended \add in the east\add* at the Jordan \add River\add*. Altogether there were sixteen cities and the surrounding villages.
\m
\v 23 Those cities and villages were in the land allotted to the clans of the tribe of Issachar.
\s1 Land for the tribe of Asher
\m
\v 24 The fifth/next tribe that was allotted land was the tribe of Asher. Each of the clans in that tribe was allotted some of the land.
\pi
\v 25 Their land included the towns of Helkath, Hali, Beten, Acshaph,
\v 26 Allammelech, Amad, and Mishal. The western border started at Carmel Mountain and Shihor-Libnath.
\v 27 From there it extended \add south\add* east to Beth-Dagon \add town\add*, and then to \add the area that was allotted to the tribe of\add* Zebulun and Iphtah-El Valley. From there the border extended east and then north to Beth-Emek \add town\add* and Neiel and Cabul \add towns\add*.
\v 28 From there it extended west to Abdon, Rehob, Hammon, and Kanah \add cities\add*, and continued to Sidon, which is a big city.
\v 29 From there the border extended south toward Ramah and to the big city of Tyre that had strong walls around it. From there the border extended \add west\add* to Hosah \add town\add* and ended at the \add Mediterranean\add* Sea. Within their area were the towns of Aczib,
\v 30 Ummah, Aphek, and Rehob. Altogether there were twenty-two towns and their surrounding villages.
\m
\v 31 Those cities and villages were within the land that was allotted to the clans of the tribe of Asher.
\s1 Land for the tribe of Naphtali
\m
\v 32 The sixth/next tribe that was allotted land was the tribe of Naphtali. Each of the clans in that tribe was allotted some of the land.
\pi
\v 33 The border of their land started \add in the west\add* at the \add huge\add* oak tree at Zaanannim, near Heleph \add town\add*. It extended \add east\add* through Adami-Nekeb \add city\add* and Jabneel, and then to Lakkum, and ended at the Jordan \add River\add*.
\v 34 The western boundary extended through Aznoth-Tabor as far as Hukkok \add city\add*. It extended to the borders of \add the tribe of\add* Zebulun at the south, to \add the border of the tribe of\add* Asher on the west, and the Jordan \add River\add* at the east.
\v 35 \add Within their land\add* were several cities with strong walls around them. They were Ziddim, Zer, Hammath, Rakkath, Kinnereth,
\v 36 Adamah, Ramah, Hazor,
\v 37 Kedesh, Edrei, En-Hazor,
\v 38 Iron, Migdal-El, Horem, Beth-Anath, and Beth-Shemesh. Altogether there were nineteen cities and the surrounding villages.
\m
\v 39 Those cities and surrounding villages were in the land that was allotted to the clans of the tribe of Naphtali.
\s1 Land for the tribe of Dan
\m
\v 40 The seventh/last tribe that was allotted land was the tribe of Dan. Each of the clans in that tribe was allotted some of the land.
\v 41 Their land included the towns of Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-Shemesh,
\v 42 Shaalabbin, Aijalon, Ithlah,
\v 43 Elon, Timnah, Ekron,
\v 44 Eltekeh, Gibbethon, Baalath,
\v 45 Jehud, Bene-Berak, Gath-Rimmon,
\v 46 Me-Jarkon, Rakkon, and the area near Joppa.
\p
\v 47 But the people of the tribe of Dan were unable to take control of the land that had been allotted to them. So they went \add northeast\add* and fought against the people in Leshem \add city\add*. They defeated and killed all the people who lived there. Then they began to live in Leshem, and changed the name of the city to Dan, the man from whom their tribe descended.
\m
\v 48 All of those towns and surrounding villages were in the land that was allotted to the clans in the tribe of Dan.
\s1 Land for Joshua
\p
\v 49 After the Israeli leaders divided the land among the tribes, they allotted some land to Joshua.
\v 50 They allotted to him Timnath-Serah. Yahweh had said that he could have whatever city he wanted, and that was the city that he chose. It was in the hilly region which was allotted to the tribe of Ephraim. Joshua rebuilt the city and lived there.
\p
\v 51 Those were the areas that were allotted to the various tribes of Israel. Eleazar the Supreme Priest and Joshua and the leaders of each tribe divided up the land while they were all at Shiloh, by ◄casting lots/throwing marked stones► \add to decide which area each tribe would receive\add*. They did that while Yahweh was watching, at the entrance of the Sacred Tent. In that way they completed dividing up the land.
\c 20
\s1 Cities of refuge
\p
\v 1 Then Yahweh said to Joshua,
\v 2 “Tell the Israeli people that they should choose some cities to which people  \add can run\add* in order to be safe/protected, like I told Moses that you should do.
\v 3 If someone kills another person accidentally, not intending to kill that person, the one who killed that person may run/escape to one of these cities and be safe/protected from someone trying to get revenge for that person's death [MTY].
\p
\v 4 When the one who killed someone arrives at the gate of one of those cities, he must stop there and tell the leaders of the city what happened. \add If they believe him\add*, they must allow him to enter the city, and they must give him a place to live among them.
\v 5 If some relative of the one who was killed comes to that city to get revenge, the leaders of that city must not allow the relative to take the killer, because what happened was accidental. He did not deliberately hate that person and as a result deliberately kill him.
\v 6 But the person who killed someone else must stay in that city until the city judges put him on trial. \add Only\add* if the judges decide  \add that the person who has run/escaped to their city did not deliberately kill the other person will they allow him to stay in that city\add*, and he must stay there until the Supreme Priest dies. Then he may safely go back to his own town, \add because the death of the Supreme Priest will be considered to atone/pay for the death of the person who was killed\add*.”
\p
\v 7 So the Israelis chose these cities to be cities to which people could run to be safe/protected: Kedesh in the Galilee district in the hilly area where the tribe of Naphtali lived; Shechem in the hilly area where the tribe of Ephraim lived; Kiriath-Arba (which is  \add now named\add* Hebron) in the hilly area where the tribe of Judah lived;
\v 8 Bezer, on the east side of the Jordan  \add River\add* near Jericho, in the flat land in the desert where the tribe of Reuben lived; Ramoth in the Gilead  \add region\add* in the land where the tribe of Gad lived; and Golan in the Bashan region where the tribe of Manasseh lived.
\v 9 Any Israeli or any foreigner who lived among us, anyone who killed someone ◄accidentally/without planning to do it►, was allowed to run to one of those cities, and be safe/protected from some relative of the person who died coming there and killing him to get revenge. He could stay in that city until there was a trial there  \add to decide whether he was telling the truth or not when he said that he did not plan to kill that person\add*.
\c 21
\s1 Towns for the Levites
\p
\v 1-2 While Eleazar the Supreme Priest and Joshua and the leaders of all the Israeli tribes were at Shiloh, the leaders of the clans of the tribe of Levi went to them and said, “Yahweh commanded Moses that you should give us towns where we can have pasture/fields/grassland for our animals, \add but you have not done these things yet\add*.”
\v 3 So the Israeli leaders obeyed this command from Yahweh. They agreed to give towns and pasturelands to the tribe of Levi.
\p
\v 4 \add First\add* they allotted some cities to the Kohath clans, who belonged to the tribe of Levi. To those who were descendants of the first Supreme Priest Aaron, they allotted 13 towns in the areas that had been allotted to the tribes of Judah, Simeon, and Benjamin.
\v 5 To the other members of the Kohath clan they allotted ten cities in the areas that had been allotted to the tribes of Ephraim, Dan, and the part of the tribe of Manasseh  \add that lives on the west side of the Jordan River\add*.
\p
\v 6 The people from the Gershon clans were allotted 13 cities in the areas that had been allotted to the tribes of Issachar, Asher, Naphtali, and the part of the tribe of Manasseh that lives on the east side of the Jordan  \add River\add*.
\p
\v 7 The people from the Merari clans were allotted twelve cities in the areas that had been allotted to the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and Zebulun.
\p
\v 8 So the Israeli leaders gave cities and pastureland to the tribe of Levi, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses that they should do.
\m
\v 9 These are the names of the cities and surrounding pasturelands that were allotted to them, that were in the areas where the tribes of Judah and Simeon lived.
\pi
\v 10 First, they allotted cities to the members of the Kohath clans.
\pi
\v 11 They allotted to them Kiriath-Arba (which is  \add now named\add* Hebron), in the hilly area of Judah. Arba received its name because Arba was the ancestor of  \add the giants of\add* the Anak people-group.
\v 12 But the fields and villages surrounding Arba had already been allotted to Caleb.
\pi
\v 13 They allotted to them Hebron, which was one of the cities to which people could run/escape to be safe/protected. They also allotted to the Kohath clan the cities of Libnah,
\v 14 Jattir, Eshtemoa,
\v 15 Holon, Debir,
\v 16 Ain, Juttah, and Beth-Shemesh. Altogether they were allotted those nine cities which were located in the areas that had been allotted to the tribes of Judah and Simeon.
\pi
\v 17 The Kohath clan was also allotted these four cities: Gibeon, Geba,
\v 18 Anathoth, and Almon. Those cities were in the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Benjamin.
\m
\v 19 Altogether those 13 towns and surrounding pastureland were allotted to the priests who were descended from Aaron.
\m
\v 20 The other members the Kohath clan were allotted four cities and the surrounding pastureland in the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Ephraim.
\pi
\v 21 Those cities were Shechem (which was one of the cities to which people could run/escape to be safe/protected), Gezer,
\v 22 Kibzaim, and Beth-Horon.
\pi
\v 23 They were also allotted four cities and surrounding pastureland in the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Dan. Those cities were Eltekeh, Gibbethon,
\v 24 Aijalon, and Gath-Rimmon.
\pi
\v 25 They were also allotted two towns and surrounding pastureland that had been allotted to the part of the tribe of Manasseh  \add that lived on the west side of the Jordan River\add*. Those cities were Taanach and Gath-Rimmon.
\m
\v 26 Those were the ten cities and surrounding pastureland that were allotted to the other members of the Kohath clan.
\m
\v 27 They also allotted towns and the surrounding pastureland to the Gershon clans. Those clans were also descended from Levi.
\pi They were allotted two cities from the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Manasseh  \add that is on the east side of the Jordan River\add*. Those cities were Golan in the Bashan region, which was one of the cities to which people could run/escape to be safe/protected, and Be-Eshtarah.
\pi
\v 28 From the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Issachar they were allotted four cities. Those cities were Kishion, Daberath,
\v 29 Jarmuth, and En-Gannim.
\pi
\v 30 From the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Asher they were allotted four cities. Those cities were Mishal, Abdon,
\v 31 Helkath, and Rehob.
\pi
\v 32 From the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Naphtali they were allotted three cities. Those cities were Kedesh in the Galilee region (it was one of the cities to which people could run/escape to be safe/protected,) Hammoth-Dor, and Kartan.
\m
\v 33 So altogether the Gershon clans were allotted 13 cities and the surrounding pasturelands.
\m
\v 34 The other descendants of Levi, the ones who belonged to the Merari clans, were also allotted towns and their surrounding pasturelands.
\p From the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Zebulun they were allotted four cities. They were Jokneam, Kartah,
\v 35 Dimnah, and Nahalal.
\p
\v 36 From the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Reuben they were allotted four cities. They were Bezer, Jahaz,
\v 37 Kedemoth, and Mephaath.
\p
\v 38 From the area that had been allotted to the tribe of Gad they were allotted four cities. They were Ramoth, which was one of the cities in the Gilead region to which people could run/escape to be safe/protected, Mahanaim,
\v 39 Heshbon, and Jazer.
\m
\v 40 Altogether twelve cities were allotted to the Merari clans.
\p
\v 41 So altogether forty-eight cities were allotted to the tribe of Levi,
\v 42 and each city had surrounding pastureland.
\p
\v 43 In that way Yahweh allotted to the Israeli people all the land that he had promised to give to their/our ancestors. The Israeli people took control of  \add most of\add* those areas and started to live there.
\v 44 Just like he had promised our ancestors, Yahweh allowed them/us to have peace with the enemies that surrounded them/us. None of their/our enemies defeated the Israelis/us. Yahweh enabled the Israelis/us to defeat their/our enemies.
\v 45 Yahweh did all the things that he had promised to the Israeli people/us. Everything that he said would happen did happen.
\c 22
\s1 The tribes east of the Jordan went home
\p
\v 1 Joshua then summoned the leaders of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half of the tribe of Manasseh.
\v 2 He said to them, “You have done everything that Moses, who served Yahweh  \add well\add*, told you to do. You have also done what I told you to do.
\v 3 For a long time you have helped the other tribes  \add to defeat their enemies\add*. You have obeyed everything that Yahweh your God commanded you to do.
\v 4 He promised to give peace to us Israelis, and he has done what he promised. So now you may go back to your homes, to the land that Moses gave to you, on the east side of the Jordan  \add River\add*.
\v 5 Moses also commanded you to love Yahweh your God and to obey his commands, and to continue to worship him and serve him by everything that you think and everything that you do.”
\p
\v 6 Then Joshua blessed them and said goodbye to them, and they  \add prepared to\add* leave and return to their homes  \add on the east side of the Jordan River\add*.
\v 7 Moses had given the Bashan region to half the tribe of Manasseh, and land on the west side of the Jordan  \add River\add* to the other half of the tribe. Before they left, he  \add asked God to\add* bless them.
\v 8 He said, “Go back to your homes and to all the things that you have taken from your enemies—the many animals and silver and gold and  \add things made of\add* bronze and iron, and many beautiful clothes. But you should share some of those things with other people of your tribe.”
\p
\v 9 So the people of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh left the other Israelis at Shiloh in Canaan land, to return to their homes in the Gilead region. That was the area that belonged to them. It had been allotted to them by Moses as Yahweh had commanded.
\p
\v 10 The people from those three tribes arrived near the western side of the Jordan River, at a town called Geliloth. There they built a large altar. \add Then they crossed the Jordan River to the Gilead region\add*.
\v 11 But the other Israelis who were still at Shiloh heard about the altar that those men had built.
\v 12 They became very angry with the men of those tribes, so they decided to fight them.
\p
\v 13 The Israelis sent Phinehas, who was the son of Eleazar the Supreme Priest, to  \add talk with\add* the people of those three tribes.
\v 14 They also sent one leader from each of the ten tribes that were still at Shiloh. Each of them was a leader of his clan.
\p
\v 15 Those leaders went to the Gilead region to talk to the people of the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh. They said,
\v 16 “All the other Israelis are asking, ‘Why have you rebelled against the God whom we Israelis  \add worship\add* by building an altar for yourselves?
\v 17 Have you forgotten what happened at Peor, \add when some Israelis sinned by worshiping the god that the Moab people-group worship\add*? Many Israelis became very sick and died because of that sin, and we are still suffering because of their sin.
\v 18 Are you now turning away from obeying Yahweh and refusing to do what he wants? If you do not stop right now rebelling against Yahweh today, he will be angry with all of us Israelis tomorrow.’
\p
\v 19 If  \add you think that Yahweh considers that\add* your land here is not suitable for worshiping him, come back to our land where Yahweh's Sacred Tent is. We can share our land with you. But do not rebel against Yahweh and against us by building another altar for Yahweh our God.
\v 20 Do you remember what happened when Zerah's son Achan refused to obey  \add Yahweh's command to destroy everything in Jericho\add*? That one man disobeyed God's command, but many [HYP] other Israelis were punished. Achan died because of his sin, but other Israelis also died.”
\p
\v 21 The  \add leaders of\add* the tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh replied,
\v 22 “Yahweh, the Almighty God, knows  \add why we did that\add*, and we want you to know, too. If we have done something wrong  \add against Yahweh\add*, you may kill us.
\v 23 If we have disobeyed one of Yahweh's laws, we request that he should punish us. We did not build that new altar to completely burn animals as sacrifices to Yahweh, or to offer on it sacrifices of grain or sacrifices to maintain fellowship with God.
\p
\v 24 This is the reason that we built that altar: We were afraid/worried that some day your descendants would say that our descendants are not true Israelis. We were afraid that then they would say, ‘You are not allowed to worship Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis  \add worship\add*.
\v 25 Yahweh caused the Jordan River to be a boundary between us and you people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad. So you are not allowed to worship Yahweh.’ We were worried that your descendants would force our descendants to stop worshiping Yahweh.
\p
\v 26 That is the reason that we decided to build that  \add new\add* altar. But it is not an altar for completely burning sacrifices of animals and  \add burning other\add* sacrifices.
\v 27 We built that new altar to prove/show to you and to us and to all of our descendants that we worship Yahweh by completely burning animal sacrifices and offerings of grain and offerings to maintain fellowship with Yahweh  \add only at the place Yahweh chooses\add*. We do not want your descendants to say to our descendants, ‘You do not belong to Yahweh.’
\p
\v 28 In the future, if your descendants say that, our descendants can say, ‘Look at the altar that our ancestors made! It is exactly like Yahweh's altar  \add that our ancestors built\add*, but we do not burn sacrifices on it. It only shows that we are Israelis!’
\v 29 We certainly do not want to rebel against Yahweh or stop doing what he desires, by building an altar for completely burning some sacrifices and burning grain offerings and making  \add other\add* sacrifices. \add We know that\add* there is only one true altar for Yahweh our God, and it is in front of the Sacred Tent  \add at Shiloh\add*.”
\p
\v 30 When Phinehas the priest and the other  \add ten\add* leaders heard what they said, they were pleased.
\v 31 So Phinehas said to them, “Now we know that Yahweh is with all of us Israelis, and that you were not rebelling against him  \add when you built that altar\add*. And we know that Yahweh will not punish us Israelis  \add because of your having done that\add*.”
\p
\v 32 Then Phinehas and the Israeli leaders left the people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad in the Gilead region, and returned to Canaan. There they told the other Israelis what had happened.
\v 33 They were pleased, and they thanked God. And they did not talk anymore about fighting against the people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad and destroying everything in their land.
\p
\v 34 The people of the tribes of Reuben and Gad named their new altar ❛A reminder to us all that Yahweh is God❜.
\c 23
\s1 Joshua's final speech
\p
\v 1 Yahweh enabled the Israelis to live peacefully  \add for many years\add* with the people-groups that were around them. Then Joshua became very old.
\p
\v 2 \add One day\add* Joshua summoned the leaders of the tribes of Israel, the leaders of the clans, the judges, and  \add other\add* officials. He said to them, “I am now very old.
\v 3 You people have seen what Yahweh our God has done to help you defeat the people-groups  \add that lived in this land\add*. Yahweh our God has fought for you.
\v 4 But do not forget that he has given to you all this land, from the Jordan  \add River in the east\add* to the Mediterranean Sea in the west, all this land that I have allotted to you.
\v 5 Yahweh our God will compel the people who are still living there to leave. He will push them out as you advance. Then the land will be yours, as Yahweh has promised you.
\p
\v 6 Be sure that you obey all the laws that are in the book that Moses wrote. Do not disobey any part of it [IDI].
\v 7 Do not associate with the people who live among us  \add who are not Israelis and who worship other gods\add*. Do not mention the names of their gods, and do not use the names of their gods when you solemnly promise to do something. Do not serve their gods or worship them.
\v 8 You must continue to do what Yahweh our God wants us to do, as you have been doing.
\p
\v 9 Yahweh has forced  \add many\add* great and powerful people-groups to leave as you advanced. No people-group has been able to defeat you.
\v 10 Each of you will be able to cause a thousand of them to run away, because Yahweh your God will fight for you, just like he promised to do.
\v 11 So be sure that you continue to love Yahweh our God.
\p
\v 12 If you turn away from doing what Yahweh desires and you associate with the people who are not Israelis, and if you marry them,
\v 13 then you can be sure that Yahweh our God will not help you to expel those people-groups from your land. They will be  \add like\add* traps [DOU, MET] \add that will catch you\add*. They will be like whips  \add that strike\add* your backs, and like thorns  \add that will scratch\add* your eyes. As a result, none of you will be left in this good land that Yahweh our God is giving to you.
\p
\v 14 It is almost time for me to die, like everyone does [EUP]. You know in your inner beings [DOU] that Yahweh has done for you [LIT] everything that he promised to do.
\v 15 He has given to you all the good things that he promised. In the same way, the other things that he promised, \add things that are not good\add*, will also happen. He said that if you do what is evil, he will get rid of you and send you away from this good land that he has given to you.
\v 16 That will happen if you do not obey the commands that Yahweh our God told you to obey. If you go and serve other gods and worship them, Yahweh will become very angry with you. Very quickly  \add he will expel you from\add* this good land that he has given to you, and none of you will be left here.”
\c 24
\s1 Joshua encouraged the Israeli people to worship only Yahweh
\p
\v 1 \add Many years later\add*, Joshua summoned representatives of all the tribes of Israel. He gathered together the elders, the leaders, the judges, and the other officials at Shechem city. He told them to listen to what God wanted to tell them.
\v 2 Joshua said to all of them, “This is what Yahweh, the God we Israeli people worship, is saying: ‘Long ago, your ancestors, including Abraham's father Terah and Abraham's younger brother Nahor, lived on the east side of the Euphrates River.
\v 3 But I took your ancestor Abraham from that land east of the Euphrates River, and I led him as he lived in various places in this land of Canaan, and I enabled him to have many descendants. First, I enabled him to have a son, Isaac.
\v 4 When Isaac grew up, I enabled him to have twin sons, Jacob and Esau. I enabled Esau to live in the hilly area in Seir region, but many years later Jacob and his sons and their families went down to live in Egypt.
\p
\v 5 \add Many years later\add*, I sent Moses and his older brother Aaron to Egypt, and I caused \add the people of\add* Egypt to suffer very much because of what I did there. Then I enabled your ancestors to leave Egypt.
\v 6 When I brought your ancestors out of Egypt, they came to the Red Sea. The Egyptian army pursued them, some riding in chariots and others on horses, and they also arrived at the Red Sea.
\v 7 Then \add your ancestors\add* pleaded with me to help them. So he caused ◄darkness/a very dark cloud► to come between your ancestors and the Egyptian army, so that the Egyptian army could not see your ancestors. I separated the water so that your ancestors could cross it, but when the Egyptian army tried to cross in the same way to pursue them, I caused the water to come back and cover them, and the Egyptian soldiers all drowned, as your ancestors watched and were amazed [IDI]. But after that, you lived in the desert for many years.
\p
\v 8 Then I brought your \add ancestors\add* to the area where the groups who were descendants of Amor lived, east of the Jordan River. They fought against you, but I enabled you to defeat them [IDI]. I \add enabled you to\add* keep destroying them so that you could live in their land [IDI].
\v 9 Then, Zippor's son Balak, the King of Moab, ◄decided that his army would fight against/opposed► the Israelis. He summoned Beor's son Balaam and asked him to curse you.
\v 10 But I would not do what Balaam asked, so he ◄blessed/said that I would do great things for► you four times, and I did not enable the army of Moab to defeat you [IDI].
\p
\v 11 Then you all crossed the Jordan River and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho prepared to fight against you, and \add the armies of\add* the descendants of Amor, Periz, Canaan, Heth, Girgash, Hiv, and Jebus \add all prepared to do\add* the same thing, but I enabled you to defeat [IDI] them all.
\v 12 I am the one who caused them to panic as you advanced and enabled you to defeat them, as I had enabled you to do earlier to the two kings of the groups who were descendants of Amor. You did not defeat them by using your own bows and arrows and swords; \add it was I who defeated them\add*.
\v 13 So I gave you a land that you had not tilled/planted, and I gave you cities that you did not build. \add Now\add* you live in those \add cities\add* and you eat the grapes from the grapevines that you did not plant, and you eat olives from trees that you did not plant.’”
\p
\v 14 \add Then Joshua said to the people\add*, “\add Because of all that\add* Yahweh \add has done for you\add*, revere him, and serve/worship him very faithfully. Throw away the idols that your ancestors worshiped on the east/other side of the Euphrates River and in Egypt. Serve only Yahweh.
\v 15 But if you do not want to serve/worship Yahweh, you should decide today what \add gods\add* you will serve/worship. You should decide whether you will serve/worship the gods that your ancestors who lived on the other/east side of the Euphrates River served, or whether you will serve/worship the gods that the descendants of Amor, who previously lived in the land where you are now living, \add serve/worship\add*. But as for me and my family [MTY], we will serve/worship Yahweh!”
\p
\v 16 The Israeli people answered, “We will never quit \add serving/worshiping\add* Yahweh! We would never \add think of\add* [IDI] serving/worshiping other gods!
\v 17 It was our God, Yahweh, who brought our parents and grandparents up out of Egypt. \add He rescued them\add* from that land where they were slaves. As he rescued them, they saw him perform great miracles. He protected them all the time when they were traveling. He protected them from all the people-groups through whose territory they traveled.
\v 18 As our forefathers advanced, Yahweh expelled the descendants of Amor and the other people-groups who lived in this land. Yahweh is our God, so \add we are saying that\add* we also will serve/worship him.”
\p
\v 19 Joshua replied to the people, “\add I think that\add* you are not able to serve/worship Yahweh, because he is a holy God. He will not forgive your sinning and rebelling \add against him\add*. He demands that you serve/worship only him [IDI].
\v 20 He has been good to you \add before\add*, but if you turn away from him and serve/worship foreign/other gods, he will turn \add against you\add* and he will cause disasters to \add happen to\add* you. He will punish [IDI] you severely!”
\v 21 But the people replied to Joshua, “No, \add we will not turn away from worshiping/serving Yahweh\add* We will serve/worship Yahweh!”
\p
\v 22 Then Joshua said, “You yourselves are saying that you have decided to serve/worship Yahweh.” They replied, “Yes, we are saying that.”
\v 23 Then Joshua said, “Since \add you have decided\add* that, you must throw away all the other gods/idols that you have among you, and you must promise that you will wholeheartedly give yourselves to Yahweh, the God whom we Israelis \add serve/worship\add*.”
\v 24 The people replied, “We will serve/worship Yahweh, our God, and obey him.”
\p
\v 25 That day, Joshua made an agreement between the people and Yahweh. He wrote for them all the laws that they were required to obey.
\v 26 He wrote all those laws on a scroll. He called it ❛The laws of God❜. Then he \add told some men to\add* set up a large stone there at Shechem, under the \add large\add* oak tree near the place where \add they worshiped\add* Yahweh.
\v 27 He said to all the people, “Look! It is as though this stone has heard everything \add that Yahweh said\add* to you \add and that you promised Yahweh\add*. It will be a witness against you if you rebel against your God!”
\p
\v 28 Then Joshua sent the people away, and all of them returned to their own areas/homes.
\s1 \add Joshua died\add*
\p
\v 29 Some time after that, Nun's son Joshua, the faithful servant of Yahweh, died. He was 110 years old when he died.
\v 30 The Israeli people buried his body on his own property in Timnath-Serah \add town\add* town. It is north of Gaash Mountain in the hilly area of the tribe who were descendants of Ephraim.
\v 31 The Israeli people served/worshiped Yahweh as long as Joshua was alive. After Joshua died, they continued serving/worshiping Yahweh while the elders who had experienced everything that Yahweh had done for the Israeli people were still alive.
\v 32 Joseph's bones, which the Israeli people had brought up there from Egypt, were buried at Shechem. The people buried them in the piece of land that Jacob had bought long ago for a hundred pieces of silver from Hamor, the father of Shechem. That piece of land was in the area that was given to the people who were descendants of Ephraim and Manasseh, Joseph's sons.
\v 33 Eleazar, the Supreme Priest, the son of Aaron, also died. They buried his body at Gibeah, in the area that had been given to Eleazar's son Phinehas, in the hilly area that belonged to the people who were descendants of Ephraim.