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cised the children of Israel at Galgala, as the Lord commanded them, when he had brought them out of Egypt. And there they are at this day.

Now the children of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, the bones of Joseph, and they buried them at Sikimoi, in that portion of the field which Jacob purchased of the Amorites who dwelt at Sikimoi, for a hundred lambs, and which he gave to Joseph for an inheritance.

And after these things, Eleazar son of Aaron, the chief priest, died, and was buried in Gabaar, which belonged to Phineas his son, which he had given him on mount Ephraim. At that time the children of Israel took up the ark of God, and carried it about among them. And Phineas officiated as priest in the room of his father Eleazar. And when he died, he was buried in Gabaar, which belonged to him. As for the children of Israel, they had gone to their several homes, and to their respective cities. And when the children of Israel fell to worshipping Astarte, and Astaroth, and the gods of the nations around them, the Lord delivered them into the hands of Eglon king of Moab, and he exercised dominion over them eighteen years.

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Now, after the decease of Joshua,the children of Israel inquired of the Lord, saying, Who shall go up for us as our leader against the Chananites, to conduct the war against them? 2 And the Lord said, Juda shall go up. Behold I have delivered 3 the land into his hand. Whereupon Juda said to his brother

Symeon, Come up with me in my lot, and let us array ourselves against the Chananites, and I will go up with thee in 4 thy lot. So Symeon went up with him. And Juda went up, and the Lord delivered into their hands the Chananites, and the Pherezites, and they smote them in Bezek, to the num5 ber of ten thousand men. When they came up with Adonibezek, in Bezek, they drew up in array against him, and 6 smote the Chananites and the Pherezites. And Adonibezek fled, and they pursued him, and took him, and cut off his 7 thumbs and his great toes. Whereupon Adonibezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut

off, have been under my table, gathering up the offals thereof; therefore as I have done, so hath God requited me: And they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

8 (Now the children of Juda had fought against Jerusalem, and taken it, and smitten it with the edge of the sword, and 9 burned the city with fire; And, after that, the children of Juda had gone down to wage war with the Chananites, who 10 inhabited the hilly country, and the south, and the plain. And when Juda went against the Chananites who dwelt in Chebron, (the name of which city formerly was Kariath-arbok-sepher,) Chebron came out against them; and they smote Sessi, and Achiman, and Tholmi, descendants of Enak, and they went 11 up thence against the inhabitants of Dabir, (now the name of 12 Dabir formerly was Kariath-sepher [city of letters]) and Cha

leb said, whoever will smite the city of letters, and take it, I 13 will give him my daughter Ascha for a wife; whereupon Go

thoniel, the younger son of Kenez, Chaleb's brother, took it, 14 and Chaleb gave him his daughter Ascha for a wife, and when she was going home to him, Gothoniel persuaded her to ask a field of her father: so she murmured, and with a loud voice said, as she was riding, Thou hast sent me away to the land of the south. And Chaleb said to her, What is the matter with 15 thee? And Ascha said to him, Give me, I beseech thee, a blessing. Since thou hast sent me away to the land of the south, thou shouldst therefore give me a portion of water. Thereupon Chaleb gave her according to her desire, a portion 16 of high lands, and a portion of low grounds. Now the children of Jothor, the Kenite, Moses' father in law, went up from the city of palm trees, with the children of Juda, into the wilderness, which is in the south of Juda, at the steep of Arad, and dwelt with this tribe.)

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Then Juda went with his brother Symeon, and smote the Chananites who dwelt in Sepheth, and utterly destroyed them, 18 and called the name of that city Anathema. Though Juda did not take possession of Gaza, nor the borders thereof, nor of Ascalon nor its borders, nor of Akkaron, nor its borders, nor 19 of Azotus, nor the grounds about it; yet the Lord was with him, and he took possession of the mountain, for they were not enabled to drive out the inhabitants of the vale, because

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20 Rechab dissuaded them. Now when Chebron was given to Chaleb, as Moses had said, he had from thence taken possession of the three cities of the children of Enak.

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Neither did the children of Benjamin dispossess the Jebusites, who dwelt at Jerusalem; so the Jebusites have continued to dwell at Jerusalem, with the children of Benjamin, to this day.

With regard to the children of Joseph, they went up to 23 Baithel, and the Lord was with them; and they encamped near, and kept a watch upon Baithel. (Now the name of that 24 city formerly was Louza.) And they who kept watch, looked, and behold a man came out of the city; and they took him, and said to him, Shew us the way into the city, and we will 25 shew thee mercy. So he shewed them the entrance into the

city, and they smote the city with the edge of the sword: but 26 they suffered the man and his family to depart. And the man

went to the land of Chettin, and built there a city, and called its name Louza, and this continueth to be its name to this day. 27 But Manasses did not take Baithsan, [which is now called Scythopolis] nor its towns; nor the lands about it; nor Thanek, nor any of its towns; nor the inhabitants of Dor, nor any of its towns; nor the inhabitants of Balak, nor any of the habitations about it, nor its towns; nor the inhabitants of Magedo, nor any of the habitations around it, nor its towns; nor the inhabitants of Jeblaam, nor any of its surrounding habitations, nor its towns; 28 So the Chananites took the opportunity to settle in that land; but when Israel grew strong, they subjected the Chananites to 29 tribute, but did not utterly root them out. Neither did Ephraim drive out the Chananites who dwelt in Gazer. So the Chananites dwelt among them in Gazer, and became tributaries.

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Neither did Zabulon drive out the inhabitants of Kedron, nor the inhabitants of Domana; so the Chananites continued to dwell among them and became tributary to them.

Neither did Aser drive out the inhabitants of Akcho; but it became tributary to them; nor the inhabitants of Dor; nor the inhabitants of Sidon; nor the inhabitants of Dalaph; nor the Aschazites; nor the Chebdaites; nor the Naites; nor the Ereo32 ites. So Aser dwelt in the midst of the Chananites who inhabited that land, because he could not drive them out.

33 Neither did Nephthaleim drive out the inhabitants of Baithsamys, nor the inhabitants of Baithanach. So Nephthaleim dwelt in the midst of the Chananites who inhabited that land. And the inhabitants of Baithsamys and Baitheneth became tributary to them.

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As for the children of Dan, the Amorites harassed them on the mountains, for they did not suffer them to go down into 35 the vale. And the Amorites began to settle on the shelly mountains, on that frequented by bears, and on that frequented by foxes, namely on Myrsinoni, and on Thalabin. But the hand of the house of Joseph was heavy on the Amorites, and they 36 became tributary to them. Now the border of the Amorites reached from the steep of Akrabin, from that rock and upwards.

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So there went up a messenger of the Lord from Galgal to Wailing, namely to Baithel, to the house of Israel, and said to them, Thus saith the Lord, I caused you to come up out of Egypt, and brought you into this land which I solemnly promised your fathers, and I said I will never break my covenant 2 with you; therefore you shall not make a covenant with the inhabitants of this land, nor worship their gods; but you shall break to pieces their graven images, and demolish their al3 tars. But you have not hearkened to my voice. Because you have done these things, therefore I have said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be curbs for you; 4 and their gods shall be to you a stumbling block. And when the messenger of the Lord had spoken these words to all the 5 children of Israel, the people wept aloud. So they called the name of that place, Wailing, and there they sacrificed to the Lord.

6 Now when Joshua had dismissed the people, and every 7 man had gone to his inheritance to take possession of the land, though the people served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who had lived long with Joshua, and who knew all the great works which the Lord had done 8 for Israel; yet when Joshua son of Nave, the servant of the 9 Lord, died, at the age of a hundred and ten years, and they had buried him in the border of his inheritance at Thamnathares, on mount Ephraim, on the north side of mount Gaas; and

all that generation was gathered to their fathers, and another 10 generation arose after them, who knew not the Lord, nor the 11 works which he had done for Israel, the children of Israel did. 12 evil in the sight of the Lord, and served the Baalims. They

forsook the Lord the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, after some of the gods of the nations around, and worshipped them, 13 and provoked the Lord to wrath. So when they forsook him, 14 and served Baal, and the Astartees, the anger of the Lord was

kindled against Israel, and he delivered them into the hands of spoilers, who spoiled them, and sold them into the hands of 15 their enemies round about, so that they could no longer stand before their enemies. Wherever they went, the hand of the Lord was against them for evil, as the Lord had spoken, and 16 as the Lord had solemnly denounced to them. But when he had afflicted them grievously, the Lord raised up Judges, and the Lord saved them out of the hands of those who spoiled 17 them. When they indeed hearkened not to the judges, because they went a whoring after other gods, and worshipped them, and turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers had walked-did not act in obedience to the commands of the 18 Lord; still because the Lord raised up judges for them, therefore the Lord was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge, because the Lord was mollified by their groaning, by reason of them who 19 oppressed them and afflicted them. But when the judge died, and they returned and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, by going after other gods to serve them, and worship them, and would not quit their devices, nor their perverse ways, then was 20 the anger of the Lord kindled against Israel, and he said, Because

this nation have forsaken my covenant, which I gave in charge 21 to their fathers, and have not hearkened to my voice, therefore I will not henceforth drive out from before them a man of those nations which Joshua son of Nave left in the land.

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He indeed had spared them, that by them he might prove Israel whether they would, or would not, keep the ways of the Lord to walk therein, as their fathers had kept them: and having determined to spare those nations so as not to root them out speedily, the Lord did not deliver them into the hands of Joshua.

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