21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD.

22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.

30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.

31 And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD that he had done for Israel.

23 Now therefore put away said he the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel. 32 And the bones of Joseph, 24 And the people said unto which the children of Israel Joshua, The LORD our God will brought up out of Egypt, buried we serve, and his voice will we obey.

25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took great stone, and set it up there under an oak that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.

27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD

which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.

28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inherit

ance.

29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun the servant of the LORD died, being an hundred and ten years old.

they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of She

chem for an hundred pieces of silver; and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his

son,

which was given him in mount Ephraim.

6 And when Joshua had let 14 And the anger of the LORD the people go, the children of Is- was hot against Israel, and he derael went every man unto his in-livered them into the hands of heritance to possess the land. spoilers that spoiled them, and he sold them into the hands of their enemies round about, so that they could not any longer stand before their enemies.

*Judges 2:1-23-The Lord portraying the HEART-CHARACTER of the Children of Israel.

18 And when the LORD raised

them up judges, then the LORD JUDGES IV:1-17—B. C. 1296

was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the LORD because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.

19 And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.

20 And the anger of the LORD was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto voice;

my

21 I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:

22 That through them I may prove Israel, whether they will keep the way of the LORD to walk therein, as their fathers did keep it, or not.

23 Therefore the LORD left those nations, without driving them out hastily, neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua.

1 And the children of Israel

again did evil in the sgiht of the LORD, when Ehud was dead.

2 And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.

3 And the children of Israel cried unto the LORD; for he had nine hundred chariots of iron: and twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.

4 ¶ And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.

5 And she dwelt under the palmtree of Deborah, between Ramah and Bethel in mount Ephraim; and the children of Israel came up to her for judgment.

6 And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali, and said unto him, Hath not the LORD God of Israel comward mount Tabor, and take with manded, saying, Go and draw tothee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali, and of the children of Zebulun;

7 And I will draw unto thee, to the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand?

8 And Barak said unto her, If thou wilt go with me, then I will go; but if thou wilt not go with me, then I will not go.

9 And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.

10 And Barak called Zebulun and Naphtali to Kedesh; and he went up with ten thousand men at his feet and Deborah went up with him.

11 Now Heber the Kenite, which was of the children of Hobab, the father-in-law of Moses, had severed himself from the Kenites, and pitched his tent unto the plain of Zaanaim, which is by Kedesh.

12 And they showed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.

all his host, with the edge of the sword, before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.

16 But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.

17 Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

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the son of Abnoam on that day, 1 Then sang Deborah and Barak saying,

2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.

13 And Sisera gathered together ye princes; I, even 1, will sing 3 Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O all his chariots, even nine hundred unto the LORD; I will sing praise chariots of iron, and all the peo-to the LORD God of Israel. ple that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles, unto the river of Kishon.

4 LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out

water.

14 And Deborah said unto Ba- of the field of Edom, the earth and the heavens rak, Up; for this is the day in trembled, and which the LORD hath delivered dropped, the clouds also dropped Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.

15 And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and

5 The mountains melted from before the LORD, even that Sinai from before the LORD God of Israel.

6 In the days of Shamgar the son of Anath, in the days of Jael,

the highways were unoccupied, after thee, Benjamin, among thy and the travellers walked through people; out of Machir came down by-ways. governors, and out of Zebulun 7 The inhabitants of the villages they that handle the pen of the ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.

14 Out of Ephraim was there a 31 And he said to Jeroboam, root of them against Amalek; | Take thee ten pieces: for thus

*1st Kings 11:26-40-The Lord portraying the HEART-CHARACTER of Jeroboam of the Tribe of Joseph.