{
"book": "josue",
"book_title": null,
"hebrew_title": null,
"chapters": [
{
"chapter": 1,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And [1] it came to pass after the death of Moyses the servant of our Lord, that our Lord spake to Josue the son of Nun, the minister of Moyses, and said to him:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The first part. Of the passage of Israel over Jordan."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Moyses my servant is dead: arise, and pass over this Jordan thou and all the people with thee into the Land, which I will give to the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Every place the step of your foot shall tread, will I deliver to you, as I have spoken to Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "From the desert and Libanus unto the great river Euphrates, all the land of the Hetheites unto the great sea against the going down of the sun, shall be your border."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "No man shall be able to resist you all the days of thy life: as I have been with Moyses, so will I be with thee: I will not leave nor forsake thee."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Take courage, and be strong: for thou shalt by lot divide to this people the Land, for the which I sware to their fathers, that I would deliver it to them."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Take courage therefore, and be very strong: that thou keep and do all the Law, which Moyses my servant hath commanded thee: decline not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest understand all things which thou doest."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Let not the volume of this law depart from thy mouth: but thou shalt meditate in it days and nights, that thou mayest keep and do all things that be written in it: then shalt thou direct thy way, and understand it."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Behold I command thee, take courage, and be strong. Fear not, and dread not: because the Lord thy God is with thee in all the things to whatsoever thou shalt go."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And Josue commanded the Princes of the people, saying: Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people, and say:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Prepare for yourselves (a) victuals: for after the third day you shall pass over Jordan, and shall enter to possess the Land which our Lord your God will give you.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Besides Manna, which yet ceased not, they might if they would provide other meat: prefiguring that in the primitive Church, it should be lawful to use legal ceremonies with evangelical rites for a time, till the old law were buried with honour."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "To the Rubenites also & Gaddites, & half tribe of Manasses he said:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Remember the word which Moyses the servant of our Lord commanded you, saying: Our Lord your God hath given you rest, and all this Land."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Your wives, and children, and cattle shall tarry in the Land, which Moyses delivered to you beyond Jordan: but pass you over armed before your brethren, all that are strong of hand, and fight for them,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "until our Lord give rest to your brethren, as to you also he hath given, and they also possess the Land which our Lord your God will give them: and so return into the Land of your possession, & you shall dwell in it, which Moyses the servant of our Lord gave you beyond Jordan, against the rising of the sun."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And they made answer to Josue, & said: all things that thou hast commanded us we will do: and whither soever thou shalt send us, we will go."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "As we obeyed Moyses in all things, so will we obey thee also: only be our Lord thy God with thee, as he was with Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "He that shall gainsay thy mouth, and not obey all thy words that thou shalt command him, let him die. Thou only take courage, and do manfully."
}
],
"summary": "Two discoverers sent into Hiericho are hid and concealed by Rahab: 8. and upon promise of like safety to her whole family, 21. she helpeth them secretly away."
},
{
"chapter": 2,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Therefore Josue the son of Nun sent from Setim two men, to spy in secret, and said to them: Go, and view the Land, & the city of Jericho. Who going entered into the house of a woman, a harlot, named Rahab, and rested with her."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And it was told the king of Jericho, & said: Behold there are men come in hither by night of the children of Israel, to spy the Land."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying: Bring forth the men that came to thee, and are entered into thy house, for they be spies, and are come to view all the Land."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And the woman taking the men, hid them, & said: I confess they came to me, but (b) I knew not whence they were:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Notwithstanding this officious lie, (which is a venial sin) S. Paul, Heb. 11. and S. James (c. 2.) testify, that she was justified by her faith in God, and by good works towards these men. S. Aug. cont. Mendac. c. 17. See Annot. Iac. 2. v. 25."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and when the gate was a shutting in the dark, and they withal went out, I know not whither they be gone: pursue quickly, and you shall overtake them."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "But she made the men to go up into the roof of her house, and covered them with the stalk of flax, which was there."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And they that were sent, followed them, the way that leadeth to the ford of Jordan: and they being gone out, the gate forthwith was shut."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "Neither were they yet asleep that lay hid, and behold the woman went up to them, and said:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "I know that the Lord hath given this Land to you: for your terror is fallen upon us, & all the inhabitants of the Land are become faint."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "We have heard that the Lord dried up the water of the Red sea at your entering, when you came out of Aegypt: and what things you did to the two kings of the Amorrheites, that were beyond Jordan, Sehon and Og, whom you slew."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And hearing these things we greatly feared, and our heart fainted, neither did there remain spirit in us at your entering in: for the Lord your God he is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Now therefore swear to me by the Lord, that as I have done mercy with you, so you also do with my father's house: and you give me a true sign,"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "that you save my father and mother, my brethren and sisters, and all things that be theirs, and deliver our souls from death."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Who answered her: Be our lives for you unto death, only if thou betray us not. And when our Lord shall have delivered us the land, we will do in thee mercy and truth."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "She therefore did let them down by a cord out of a window: for her house joined fast to the wall."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And she said to them: Go up to the mountains, lest perhaps they meet you returning: and there lie hid three days, till they return, and so you shall go on your way."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Who said to her: We shall be quit from this oath wherewith thou hast sworn us,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "if we entering the Land, there be this purple cord a sign, and thou tie it in the window, by the which thou hast let us down: & gather thy father and mother, & brethren, & all thy kindred into thy house."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "He that shall go forth of the door of thy house, his blood shall be upon his head, & we shall be quit. But the blood of all that shall be with thee in the house, shall redound upon our head, if any man touch them."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "But if thou wilt betray us, and utter this talk abroad, we shall be quit from this oath, wherewith thou hast adjured us."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And she answered: As you have spoken, so be it done, and dismissing them to go, she hung the purple cord in the window."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "But they walking came to the mountains, and tarried there three days, till they returned that pursued them: for seeking every way, they found them not."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Who being entered into the city, the discoverers returned, and came down from the mountain: and passing over Jordan, they came to Josue the son of Nun, and told him all things that had chanced to them,"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "and said: Our Lord hath delivered all this land into our hands, and all the inhabitants thereof are overthrown with fear."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 3,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 0,
"text": "15. the upper part miraculously standeth and swelleth, the lower running away, they go into the mid channel, and there stay, whiles all the people pass over dry foot."
},
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Josue therefore rising up in the night, removed the camp: and departing from Setim, they came to Jordan, he and all the children of Israel, & abode there for three days."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Which being passed, the heralds went through the midst of the camp,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "and began to proclaim: (a) When you shall see the ark of covenant of our Lord your God, and (b) the Priests of the Levitical stock carrying it, rise you also, & follow them going before:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "In place of the cloud and pillar of fire, the ark is now carried for their guide & direction."
},
{
"label": "b",
"text": "It pertained to the Levites' office to carry the ark, Num. 4. but in this special service & miraculous passage the Priests did carry it: so the greater may do the office of the less, not contrarywise."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "& let there be between you & the ark the space of two thousand cubits: that you may see it a far off, & know which way you may go: because you have not walked by it before: & beware you approach not to the ark."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And Josue said to the people: Be sanctified, for tomorrow our Lord will do among you marvelous things."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And he said to the Priests: Take up the ark of the covenant, & go before the people. Who fulfilling his commandments, took it, and walked before them."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And our Lord said to Josue: This day will I begin to exalt thee before all Israel: (c) that they may know as I was with Moyses, so am I with thee also.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "God shewed by this miracle, that Josue had special commission from him, & that under his government the people should prosper."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And do thou command the Priests, that carry the ark of the testament, and say to them: When you shall be entered into part of the water of Jordan, stand in it.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And Josue said to the children of Israel: Come hither, and hear the word of our Lord your God."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And again he said: In this you shall know that our Lord the living God is in the midst of you, and shall destroy in your sight the Chananite and Hetheite, the Heveite and Pherezite, the Gergesite also and the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Behold the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth shall go before you into Jordan."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Prepare twelve men of the tribes of Israel, one of every tribe."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And when the Priests that carry the ark of the Lord of the whole earth shall set the steps of their feet in the waters of Jordan, the waters that are beneath shall run down and decay: and those that come from above, shall stand together in one heap."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Therefore the people went out of their tabernacles to pass over Jordan: and the Priests that carried the ark of the covenant, went on before them."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And they being entered into Jordan, and their feet dipped in part of the water (and Jordan in the harvest time had filled the banks of his channel)"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "the waters that came downward stood in one place, and like a mountain swelling up appeared far from the city, that is called Adom, to the place of Sarthan: but those that were beneath ran down into the Sea of the wilderness (which now is called the dead sea) until they wholly decayed."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And the people went against Jericho: and the Priests that carried the ark of the covenant of our Lord, stood girded upon the dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the people passed over through the dry channel."
}
],
"summary": "After three days abode by the banks of Jordan, 3. the Priests with the Ark of God entering first into the river,"
},
{
"chapter": 4,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Who being passed over, our Lord said to Josue:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Choose twelve men, one in every tribe:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "& command them that they take up out of the midst of the channel of Jordan, where the feet of the Priests stood, twelve most hard stones, which you shall put in the place of the camp, where you shall pitch tents this night."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And Josue called twelve men, whom he had chosen out of the children of Israel, one of every tribe,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and he said to them: Go before the ark of our Lord your God to the midst of Jordan, and carry from thence every man a stone on your shoulders, according to the number of the children of Israel,"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "that it may be (a) a sign among you: and when your children shall ask you tomorrow, saying: What mean these stones?",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Is not the form of a cross as convenient a sign, to put Christians in mind, how our Saviour redeemed us, as these stones were to the Jews, how God brought their fathers over Jordan?"
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "You shall answer them: The waters of Jordan decayed before the ark of the covenant of our Lord, when it passed over the same: therefore were these stones set for a monument of the children of Israel for ever."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "The children of Israel therefore did as Josue commanded them, carrying out of the channel of Jordan twelve stones, as our Lord had commanded him, according to the number of the children of Israel, unto the place, wherein they camped, and there they set them."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Other twelve stones also Josue put in the midst of the channel of Jordan, where the Priests stood, that carried the ark of the covenant: and they be there until this present day."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "But the Priests that carried the ark, stood in the midst of Jordan, till all things were accomplished which our Lord had commanded Josue to speak to the people, and Moyses had said to him. And the people made haste, and passed over."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And when they had all passed over, the ark also of our Lord passed over, the Priests also went before the people."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "The children of Ruben also and Gad, & the half tribe of Manasses, went armed before the children of Israel, as Moyses had commanded them:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "and forty thousand fighting men by troops, and bands marched through the plain and champion country of the city of Jericho."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "In that day our Lord magnified Josue before all Israel, that they should fear him, as they had feared Moyses, whiles he yet lived."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And he said to him:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Command the Priests that carry the ark of the covenant, that they come up out of Jordan."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Who commanded them, saying: Come ye up out of Jordan."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And when they that carried the ark of the covenant of our Lord were come up, & began to tread on the dry ground, the waters returned into their channel, and ran as they were wont before."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And the people came up out of Jordan the tenth day of the first month, and camped in Galgal against the East side of the city of Jericho."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "The twelve stones also, which they had taken out of the channel of Jordan, Josue set in Galgal,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "and said to the children of Israel: When your children shall ask their fathers tomorrow, and shall say to them: What mean these stones?"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "You shall teach them, and say: By the dry channel did Israel pass over this Jordan,"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "your Lord God drying the waters thereof in your sight, until you passed over:"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "as he had done before in the red sea, which he dried till we passed through:"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "that all the people of the earth may learn the most strong hand of our Lord, that you also may fear our Lord your God."
}
],
"summary": "In memory of their miraculous passage, twelve chief men, of the twelve tribes, take so many great stones from the midst of Jordan, 9. and put other twelve, where the Priests stood with the ark. 18. The waters return to their former course. And the twelve stones are erected for a monument."
},
{
"chapter": 5,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Therefore after that all the kings of the Ammorrheites, which dwelt beyond Jordan at the west side, and all the kings of Chanaan, which possessed the places nigh to the great sea, had heard that our Lord had dried the streams of Jordan before the children of Israel, till they passed over, their heart failed, and there remained no spirit in them, fearing the entering of the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "At that time our Lord said (a) to Josue: Make thee knives of stone, and circumcise (b) the second time the children of Israel.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "See annotations c. 3. v. 8."
},
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Circumcision had been omitted forty years, whiles they were in the desert, always uncertain when to march, & so it is now commanded the second time."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "He did that which our Lord had commanded, and he circumcised the children of Israel in the hill of the prepuces."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And this is the cause of the second circumcision: All the people, that came out of Aegypt of the malekind, all the fighting men died in the desert by the long circuits of the way,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "who were all circumcised. But the people that was born in the desert,"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "during the forty years of the journey in the wide wilderness was uncircumcised: till they were consumed that had not heard the voice of our Lord, and to whom he had sworn before, that he would not shew them a land flowing with milk and honey."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "The children of these succeeded in the place of the fathers, and were circumcised of Josue: for they were in the prepuce even as they were born, neither had any circumcised them in the way."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And after that they were all circumcised, they abode in the same place of the camp, until they were whole."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And our Lord said to Josue: This day have I taken away the reproach of Aegypt from you. And the name of that place was called Galgal, until this present day."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And the children of Israel abode in Galgal, & they made the Phase, the fourteenth day of the month at even, in the champion of Jericho:"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "and they did eat of the corn of the Land the next day, azyme loaves and [1] polent of the same year.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "* Frumenty."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And Manna failed after they did eat of the corn of the Land, neither did the children of Israel use that meat any more, but they did eat of the corn of the present Land of Chanaan."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And when Josue was in the field of the city of Jericho, he lifted up his eyes, and saw a man standing against him, holding a drawn sword, and he went to him, and said: Art thou ours, or our adversaries'?"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Who answered: No: but I am a (c) prince of the host of our Lord, and now I come.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Not God, but of God's host."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Josue fell flat on the ground. And adoring he said: What speaketh my Lord to his servant?",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Loose, saith he, thy shoe from thy feet: for the place wherein thou dost stand, is holy, And Josue did as it was commanded him.",
"has_annotation": true
}
],
"summary": "The kings of Chanaan are sore affrighted with the news of Israel's passage over Jordan. 2. Circumcision is again commanded, and observed, which had been omitted in the desert forty years. 10. They make their Pasch. 12. Manna ceaseth. 13. And an Angel appeareth to Josue."
},
{
"chapter": 6,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And Jericho was shut and fenced, for fear of the children of Israel, and no man durst go out or come in."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And our Lord said to Josue: Behold I have given into thy hands Jericho, & the king thereof, & all the valiant men."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "(a) Go round about the city all you that be men of war once a day: so shall you do six days.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "God appointed this long and solemn procession, to the end it might appear that the walls of Jericho fell not by chance, not by force of man's industry, but by the mighty hand of God."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And the seventh day the Priests shall take up the seven trumpets, which are used in the Jubilee, and shall go before the ark of the covenant: and you shall go about the city seven times, and the Priests shall sound with trumpets."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And when the voice of the trumpet shall sound in length and with a broken tune, and shall sound in your ears, all the people shall cry together with a very great shout, and the walls of the city shall fall to the ground, and they shall enter in every one at the place against which they shall stand."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Josue therefore the son of Nun called the Priests, and said to them: Take up the ark of the covenant: and let seven other Priests take up the seven trumpets of the Jubilees, and march before the ark of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "To the people also he said: Go and compass the city, the armed going before the ark of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And when Josue had ended his words, and the seven Priests sounded with seven trumpets before the ark of the covenant of our Lord,"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "and all the armed host went before, the rest of the common people followed the ark, and all places sounded with the trumpets."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "But Josue had commanded the people, saying: You shall not cry, neither shall your voice be heard, nor any word go out of your mouth, until the day come wherein I shall say to you: Cry, and shout."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Therefore the ark of our Lord went about the city once a day, & returning into the camp, abode there."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Josue therefore rising in the night, the Priests took the ark of our Lord,"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "and seven of them seven trumpets, which are used in the jubilee: and they went before the ark of our Lord walking and sounding: and the armed people went before them, and the rest of the common people followed the ark, and they sounded with trumpets."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And they went round about the city the second day once, and returned into the camp. So did they six days."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "But the seventh day, rising up early they went about the city, as it was ordained, seven times."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And when in the seventh going about the priests sounded with the trumpets, Josue said to all Israel: Make a shout, for our Lord hath delivered to you the city:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "and let this city be anathema: and all things that are in it, to our Lord. Only Rahab the harlot let her live, with all that be with her in the house: for she hid the messengers whom we sent."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "But you, beware you touch not ought of those things, that are commanded, and be guilty of prevarication, and (b) all the camp of Israel be under sin, and be troubled.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Many are held guilty of sin, and are justly punished for the fact of one or few, either because they consented or concealed, or neglected to punish the offenders: or else they suffer temporal affliction for their warning to abhor sin, & for increase of their merit. S. Aug. q. 8. & 9. in Josue."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "But whatsoever gold or silver there shall be, and of brazen vessels and iron, let it be consecrated to our Lord, laid up in his treasures."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Therefore all the people making a shout, and the trumpets sounding, after that the voice and the sound thundered in the ears of the multitude, the walls forthwith fell: and every man went up by the place that was against him, and they took the city,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "and killed all things that were in it, from man to woman, from the infant to the old man. The oxen also and sheep, and the asses they struck in the edge of the sword."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "But to the two men that had been sent for spies, Josue said: Go into the house of the woman the harlot, and bring her forth, and all things that be hers, as you assured her by oath."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And the young men going in, brought out Rahab, and her parents, her brethren also, and all her stuff and kindred, and made them to tarry without the camp."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "But the city, and all things that were found therein they burnt; except the gold and silver, and brazen vessels, and iron, which they consecrated unto the treasury of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "But Rahab the harlot and the house of her father, and all that she had, Josue caused to live, and they dwelt in the midst of Israel until this present day: for that she hid the messengers, which he had sent to view Jericho. At that time Josue pronounced a curse, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "(c) Cursed be the man before our Lord, that shall raise up and build the city of Jericho. In his first born lay he the foundations thereof, and in the last of his children set he up the gates thereof.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Hiel fell into this curse for repairing Jericho. 3. Reg. 16. v. 34."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "Our Lord therefore was with Josue, and his name was bruited in all the earth."
}
],
"summary": "Some Priests carrying the ark, others sounding Jubilee trumpets, armed men going before, and the rest of the people following, go every day once, six days together, and the seventh day seven times, round about Jericho. 16. At last all making a great shout, the walls fall down, and they entering in kill and destroy all (22. saving Rahab and her kindred.) The gold, silver, brass, and iron are brought into the treasury. 26. And he is cursed that shall build the city again. [1]",
"summary_notes": [
{
"marker": 1,
"text": "The second part. Of conquering the Land of promise."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 7,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "But the children of Israel transgressed the commandment, and usurped of the anathema: For Achan the son of Charmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zare of the tribe of Juda, took somewhat of the anathema: and our Lord was angry against the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And when Josue sent from Jericho men against Hai, which is beside Bethaven, at the East side of the town of Bethel, he said to them: Go up, and view the Land: who accomplishing his commandments, viewed Hai."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "and returning they said to him: Let not all the people go up, but let two or three thousand men go, and destroy the city: why shall all the people be vexed in vain against very few enemies?"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "There went up therefore three thousand fighting men. Who immediately turning their backs,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "were strucken of the men of the city of Hai, and there fell of them (a) six and thirty men: and the adversaries pursued them from the gate as far as Sabarim, and they struck them flying away by the descent: and the heart of the people was much afraid, and melted like unto water.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "So God tempered his punishment that but few were slain, & afterwards gave the town to the Israelites without loss of any of their men."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "But Josue rent his garments, and fell flat on the ground before the ark of our Lord until evening, as well he as all the ancients of Israel: and they cast dust upon their heads,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and Josue said: Alas, o Lord God, why wouldst thou bring this people over the river of Jordan, to deliver us into the hands of the Amorrhite, & to destroy us? Would God as we began, we had tarried beyond Jordan."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "My Lord God what shall I say, seeing Israel turning their backs to their enemies."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "The Chananites shall hear of it, & all the inhabitants of the Land, and being gathered together in a plump shall compass us about, & shall destroy our name from the earth: and what wilt thou do to thy great name?"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And our Lord said to Josue: Arise (b) why liest thou flat on the ground?",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Prayer will not avail till justice be first done."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Israel hath sinned, and transgressed my covenant: and they have taken of the anathema, and have stolen and lied, and have hid it among their vessels."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Neither can Israel stand before his enemies, and he shall fly them: because he is polluted with the anathema. I will be no more with you, till you dispatch him, that is guilty of this wicked fact."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Arise, sanctify the people, and say to them: Be sanctified against tomorrow, for thus saith our Lord God of Israel: There is anathema in the midst of thee, o Israel: thou canst not stand before thine enemies, till he be destroyed out of thee that is contaminated with this wicked fact."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And you shall come in the morning every one by your tribes: and what tribe soever the lot shall find, it shall come by the kindreds thereof, the kindred by the houses, & the house by the men."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And whosoever he be that shall be taken in this fact, he shall be burnt in the fire with all his substance, because he hath transgressed the covenant of our Lord, & hath done abomination in Israel."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Josue therefore rising in the morning, made Israel to come by their tribes, and it was found the tribe of Juda."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Which being presented by the families thereof, it was found the family of Zare. Presenting that also by the houses, he found it Zabdi:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Whose house dividing into every man, he found Achan the son of Charmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zare of the tribe of Juda."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And Josue said to Achan: My son, give glory to our Lord God of Israel, and confess, and tell me what thou hast done, hide it not."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And Achan answered Josue, & said to him: Indeed I have sinned to our Lord the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "For I saw among the spoils a cloak of scarlet very good, and two hundred sicles of silver, and a golden rule of fifty sicles: and coveting I took it away, and hid it in the ground against the midst of my tabernacle, and the silver I covered with the earth digged up."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Josue therefore sent ministers: who running to his tabernacle found all things hid in the same place, and the silver withal."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And taking it away out of the tent, brought it to Josue, and to all the children of Israel, and threw it before our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Josue therefore taking Achan the son of Zare, and the silver and the cloak, and the golden rule, his sons also and daughters, his oxen, and asses, and sheep, and the tabernacle it-self, and all the stuff: (and all Israel with him) they brought them to the valley of Achor:"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Where Josue said: Because thou hast disturbed us, our Lord disturb thee in this day. And all Israel stoned him: and all things that were his, were consumed with fire."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And they gathered together upon him a great heap of stones, which remaineth until this present day. And the fury of our Lord was averted from them. And the name of that place was called, the valley of Achor, until this day."
}
],
"summary": "For the sin of Achan, reserving secretly to himself certain money, and other precious things, the Israelites are beaten in battle. 13. But the offender being found out, and stoned to death, God's wrath is turned from them."
},
{
"chapter": 8,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord said to Josue: Fear not, neither do thou dread: take with thee all the multitude of fighting men, and rising go up unto the town of Hai. Behold I have delivered into thy hand the king thereof, & the people, and the city and the land."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "And thou shalt do to the city of Hai, and to the king thereof, as thou hast done to Jericho, and to the king thereof: but the prey and all the cattle you shall spoil for yourselves: (a) lay ambushments to the city behind it.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Deceits & stratagems are lawful in just war; but not falsehood, nor breach of promise. S. Aug. q. 10. in Iosue."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And Josue arose, and all the host of the men of war with him, to go up into Hai: and thirty thousand chosen valiant men he sent in the night,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "and commanded them, saying: Lay ambushments behind the city: neither retire you far off: and you shall all be ready."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "But I and the rest of the multitude, which is with me, will go up on the contrary side against the city. And when they shall issue out against us, as we did before, we will fly, and turn our backs:"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "till pursuing they be drawn forward far from the city: for they will think that we fly as before."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "We therefore flying, and they pursuing, you shall rise out of the ambushments, and shall waste the city: and our Lord your God will deliver it into your hands."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And when you shall take it, burn it, and you shall do all things so, as I have commanded."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And he dismissed them away, and they went on to the place of the ambushments, and sat between Bethel and Hai, at the West side of the city of Hai. But Josue that night stayed in the midst of the people,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "and rising early he mustered his soldiers, and went up with the ancients in the front of the host, environed with the aid of the fighting men."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And when they were come, and were gone up directly against the city, they stood on the North side of the city, between which and them was a valley in the midst."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And (b) five thousand men had he chosen, and set in the ambushments between Bethel and Hai, on the West side of the same city:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "These five thousand were of the thirty thousand, which were first sent. v. 3. The other 25000 joined with Iosue's troop, & entered into the city."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "but all the rest of the host went in battle array on the North side, so that the last of the multitude did reach to the West side of the city. Josue therefore went that night, and stood in the midst of the valley."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Which when the king of Hai had seen, he made haste in the morning, and issued forth with all the host of the city, and bent his arm toward the desert, being ignorant that there lay embushments secretly behind his back."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "But Josue and all Israel gave back, feigning fear, and flying by the way of the wilderness."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "But they cried aloud together, & encouraging one another, pursued them. And when they were gone from the city,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "and (c) not one remained in the city of Hai and Bethel that pursued not Israel (even as they had rushed out leaving the towns open,)",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Not one fit to bear arms was left."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "our Lord said to Josue: (d) Lift up the shield, that is in thy hand, against the city of Hai, for I will deliver it to thee.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "He lifted his shield upon a long pike or lance, that it might be seen afar off."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And when he had lifted up his shield against the city, the embushments, that lay hid, rose up immediately: and going to the city, took and burnt it."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "And the men of the city, that pursued Josue, looking back & seeing the smoke of the city rise up even to heaven, they could no more fly hither and thither: especially whereas they, that had feigned running away, and went toward the wilderness, most valiantly resisted against the pursuers."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And Josue and all Israel seeing that the city was taken, and the smoke of the city rose up, returning he struck the men of Hai."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "For they also that had taken and burnt the city, issuing out of the city against their own men, began to strike the enemies in the midst of them. When the adversaries therefore were slain on both sides, so that none of so great a multitude was saved,"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "they took the king of the city of Hai alive, and presented him to Josue."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Therefore all being slain, that had pursued Israel flying to the deserts, and falling by the sword in the same place, the children of Israel returning struck the city."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And there were that fell that same day from man unto woman, twelve thousand men, all of the city of Hai."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "But Josue plucked not in his hand, which he had stretched forth on high, holding the shield till all the inhabitants of Hai were slain."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And the cattle and the prey of the city the children of Israel divided among them, as our Lord had commanded Josue."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Who burnt the city, and made it a heap for ever:"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "the king also thereof he hung on a gibbet until evening and the going down of the sun. And he commanded, and they took down his corpse from the gibbet: and threw it in the very entering of the city, heaping upon it a great heap of stones, which remaineth until this present day."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Then Josue built an altar to our Lord the God of Israel in mount Hebal,"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "as Moyses the servant of our Lord had commanded the children of Israel, and it is written in the volume of the law of Moyses: an Altar of unhewed stones which iron hath not touched; and he offered upon it holocausts to our Lord, and immolated pacific victims."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And he wrote upon stones the Deuteronomy of the law of Moyses, which he had ordered before the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And all the people, and the ancients, and the Princes and judges stood on both sides of the ark, in the sight of the Priests that carried the ark of the covenant of our Lord, as well the stranger as also the man of the same country. The half part of them beside mount Garizim [1] and half beside mount Hebal, as Moyses the servant of our Lord had commanded. And first indeed he (e) blessed the people of Israel.",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Deut. 27."
}
],
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "All superiors may bless their subjects, Princes their people, & parents their children."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "After this he read all the words of the blessing and the cursing, and all things that were written in the volume of the law."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "Nothing of those things, which Moyses had commanded, did he leave untouched, but he repeated all things before all the multitude of Israel, the women and children and strangers, that dwelt among them."
}
],
"summary": "By stratagem of an ambushment the city of Hai is taken and burned, and all the inhabitants slain. 20. The king hanged. 30. An altar built, Sacrifice offered, 32. the law written in stones, the people blessed, and the blessings and cursings read before them all."
},
{
"chapter": 9,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Which things being heard, all the kings beyond Jordan, that dwelt in the mountains and champion countries, in the places by the sea side and the shore of the great sea, they also that dwelt beside Libanus, the Hetheite and Amorrhite, the Chananite, the Pherezite, and the Heveite, and the Jebusite,"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "were gathered to fight against Josue and Israel with one mind and one sentence."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "But they that dwelt in Gabaon, hearing all things that Josue had done to Jericho and Hai:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "subtly devising took provision for themselves, laying old sacks upon their asses, & bottles of wine rent and sowed again,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and shoes very old which for a shew of oldness were clouted with specks, putting on them old garments: the loaves also, which they carried for provision by the way, were hard, and broken into pieces:"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "and they went on to Josue, who then abode in the camp at Galgal, and said to him, and withal to all Israel: We are come from a far country, desirous to make peace with you. And the children of Israel answered them, and said:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Lest perhaps you dwell in the Land which is due to us by lot, and we cannot enter a league with you."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "But they said to Josue: We are thy servants. To whom Josue said: Who are you? & whence came you?"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "They answered: From a very far country are thy servants come, in the name of the Lord thy God. For we have heard the fame of his might, all things that he did in Aegypt,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "and to the two kings of the Amorrheites that were beyond Jordan, Sehon the king of Hesebon, and Og the king of Basan, that were in Astaroth,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "and our ancients, and all the inhabitants of our Land said to us: Take in your hands victuals for a very long way, and go meet them, and say: We are your servants, enter a league with us."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Behold, these loaves we took hot, when we departed from our houses to come to you, now they are become dry, and broken for over-much oldness."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "The bottles of wine was filled being new, now they are burst and dissolved. The garments and shoes that we have upon us, & which we have on our feet, for the length of the long way are worn, and almost consumed."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "They took therefore of their victuals, & (a) asked not the mouth of our Lord.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "In such a case they ought to have consulted God, to wit, the high-Priest putting on the Ephod & Rationale, should have prayed at the door of the tabernacle, where our Lord appointed to speak unto him. Exo. 29. v. 42. It was also ordained. Num. 27. v. 21. that Eleazar should consult our Lord, when any things was to be done by Iosue, which omitting to do they were deceived by these Gabaonites."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And Josue made peace with them, and entering a league promised that they should not be slain: the princes also of the multitude sware to them."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "But three days after that the league was made, they heard that they dwelt nigh, and they should be among them."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And the children of Israel removed the camp, and came into their cities the third day, whose names are these, Gabaon, and Chaphira, and Beroth, and Chariathiarim."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And they struck them not, because the princes of the multitude had sworn in the name of our Lord the God of Israel. Therefore all the common people murmured against the princes."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "Who answered them: We have sworn to them in the name of our Lord the God of Israel, and therefore we may not touch them."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "But this we will do to them: Let them be reserved indeed alive, lest the wrath of God be stirred against us, if we shall be forsworn:"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "but so let them live, that for the uses of the whole multitude they hew wood, and carry in water. Who speaking these things,"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Josue called the Gabaonites, and said to them: Why would you deceive us by fraud to say: We dwell very far off from you, whereas you are in the midst of us?"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Therefore you shall be under a curse, and there shall not fail of your stock a hewer of wood, and a carrier of water into the house of my God."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Who answered: It was told us thy servants, that the Lord thy God had promised Moyses his servant, that he would deliver you all the Land and would destroy all the inhabitants thereof. Therefore we feared exceedingly and provided for our lives, compelled by your terror, and we took this counsel."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "And now we are in thy hand: that which seemeth unto thee good and right, do to us."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Josue therefore did as he had said, and delivered them from the hand of the children of Israel, that they should not be slain."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And he decreed in that day, that (b) they should be in the ministry of all the people, and of the altar of our Lord, hewing wood, and carrying water, until this present time, in the place which our Lord had chosen.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "In these Gabaonites of Chanaan's race was fulfilled Noe's prophecy Gen. 9. that Chanaan should be a servant to his brethren."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "Other nations fearing Israel join their forces to fight against them, 3. but the Gabaonites send Ambassadors, feigning craftily to come far off, 14. with whom Josue and the ancients of Israel make league binding it by oath. 16. Within three days they are detected to be near inhabitants. Whereupon the people murmur against their Princes. Who yet for their oath, let the Gabaonites live, 20. only making them and their progeny perpetual servants, to cut wood, and carry water."
},
{
"chapter": 10,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Which things when Adonisedec king of Jerusalem had heard, to wit, that Josue had taken Hai, and had subverted it (for as he had done to Jericho and the king thereof, so did he to Hai and their king) and that the Gabaonites were fled to Israel, and were their confederates,"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "he was sore afraid. For Gabaon was a great city, and one of the kingly cities, and greater than the town of Hai, and all their men of war most valiant."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Therefore Adonisedec king of Jerusalem sent to Oham king of Hebron, and to Pharam king of Jerimoth, to Japhia also king of Lachis, and to Dabir king of Eglon, saying:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Come up to me, and bring aid, that we may overcome Gabaon, because it revolted to Josue, and to the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Therefore the five kings of the Amorrheites being assembled went up: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jerimoth, the king of Lachis, the king of Eglon, together with their hosts, & camped about Gabaon, assaulting it."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "But the inhabitants of the city Gabaon which was besieged, sent to Josue, who then abode in the camp at Galgal, and said to him: withdraw not thy hands from the help of thy servants: come up quickly & deliver us, and bring aid: for there are assembled against us all the kings of the Amorrheites, which dwell in the mountains,"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And Josue went up from Galgal, & all the host of the men of war with him most valiant men."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And our Lord said to Josue: Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thy hands: none of them shall be able to resist thee."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Josue therefore came in upon them suddenly, going up all the night from Galgal."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And our Lord troubled them at the sight of Israel: and destroyed them with a great slaughter in Gabaon, & pursued them by the way of the ascent of Beth-horon, & struck them unto Azeca & Maceda."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And when they fled the children of Israel, and were in the descent of Beth-horon, our Lord sent upon them great stones from heaven as far as Azeca: and there died far more with the stones of hail, than they whom the children of Israel had strucken with the sword."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Then spake Josue to our Lord in the day, that he delivered the Amorrhite in the sight of Israel, & said before them: Thou sun against Gabaon move not, and thou (a) Moon against the valley of Aialon.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Josue did think if the moon moved the sun also must necessarily move, so he obtained the stay of both."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And the Sun & Moon stood still, till the people revenged themselves of their enemies. Is not this written in the book of the just? The Sun therefore stood still in the midst of heaven, & hastened not to go down the space of one day."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "There was not before nor (b) after so long a day, our Lord (c) obeying the voice of a man, and fighting for Israel.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Till after the time this book was written."
},
{
"label": "c",
"text": "God condescending to work so great a miracle at the instance of his servant."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And Josue returned with all Israel into the camp of Galgal."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "For the five kings were fled, and had hid themselves in a cave of the city of Maceda."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And it was told Josue that the five kings were found lying hid in a cave of the city of Maceda."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Who commanded them saying: Roll great stones into the mouth of the cave, and set industrious men, which may keep them shut in:"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "and stand not you still, but pursue the enemies, and kill all the hindermost of them that fly, neither let them enter into the forts of their cities, whom our Lord God hath delivered into your hands."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "The adversaries therefore being slain with a great slaughter, and almost consumed to utter destruction, they that could escape from Israel (d) entered into fenced cities.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "God so disposed, that they should not conquer all in one year: lest the land had been brought into a wilderness, and beasts increased against them Exod. 23. v. 29. Morally it signifieth, that the children of God must be exercised in tribulations & mortification lest vices grow in them. Procop. in Exod."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And all the host returned to Josue in Maceda, where then the camp was, safe and the full number: and no man durst once mutter against the children of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And Josue commanded, saying: Open the mouth of the cave, & bring forth to me the five kings, that lie hid therein."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And the ministers did as it was commanded them: and they brought to him the five kings out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jerimoth, the king of Lachis, the king of Eglon."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And when they were brought forth to him, he called all the men of Israel, and said to the princes of the host that were with him: Go, and set your feet upon the necks of these kings. Who when they had gone, & trodden with their feet the necks of them lying under,"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "again he said to them: Fear ye not, neither dread, take courage and be strong: for so will our Lord do to all your enemies, against whom you fight."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "And Josue struck, and slew them, and hanged them upon five gibbets: and they hung until evening."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And when the sun was down, he commanded the soldiers to take them down from the gibbets. Who cast them being taken down into the cave, wherein they had lien hid, and put on the mouth thereof great stones, which continue until this present."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "The same day Josue took Maceda and struck it in the edge of the sword, and killed the king and all the inhabitants thereof: he left not in it so much as small relics. And he did to the king of Maceda, as he had done to the king of Jericho."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "and he passed with all Israel from Maceda unto Lebna, & fought against it:"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "which our Lord delivered with the king thereof into the hands of Israel: & they struck the city in the edge of the sword, & all the inhabitants thereof. They left not in it any remains. And they did to the king of Lebna, as they had done to the king of Jericho."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "From Lebna he passed unto Lachis with all Israel: & placing the host round about assaulted it."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And our Lord delivered Lachis into the hands of Israel, and he took it the day following, and struck it in the edge of the sword, and every soul that was in it, as he had done to Lebna."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "At that time went up Horam the king of Gazer, to aid Lachis: whom Josue struck with all his people to utter destruction."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And he passed from Lachis unto Eglon, & compassed it,"
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "and won it the same day: and struck in the edge of the sword all the souls that were in it, according to all things that he had done to Lachis."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "He went up also with all Israel from Eglon unto Hebron, and fought against it:"
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "took it, & struck it in the edge of the sword, the king also thereof, and all towns of that country, & all the souls that remained in it: he left not therein any remains: as he had done to Eglon, so did he also to Hebron, all things that he found in it consuming with the sword."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "Thence returning unto Dabir,"
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "he took it, and wasted it: the king also thereof and all towns round about he struck in the edge of the sword: he left not in it any remains: as he had done to Hebron & Lebna and to their kings, so did he to Dabir and the king thereof."
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "Josue therefore struck all the hilly country & south and champion, and Asedoth with their kings: he left not in it any relics, but every thing that could breathe he slew, as our Lord the God of Israel had commanded him,"
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "from Cadesbarne unto Gaza. All the Land of Gosen unto Gabaon,"
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "and all their kings, and countries he took and wasted at one assault: for our Lord the God of Israel fought for him."
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "And he returned with all Israel to the place of the camp in Galgal."
}
],
"summary": "Five kings of the Amorrheites besieging Gabaon, because it is confederate with Israel, 6. Josue with his army defeateth theirs, killing and pursuing them. 11. Many also are slain with hail stones. 12. At the prayer of Josue the sun and moon stand still the space of one day. 22. The five kings are hanged on gibbets. 29. He taketh also and subdueth diverse cities 40. and countries."
},
{
"chapter": 11,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Which things when Jabin the king of Asor had heard, he sent to Jobab the king of Madon, and to the king of Semeron, and to the king of Achsaph:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "to the kings also of the North, that dwelt in the mountains and in the plain against the south side of Ceneroth, in the champion also and countries of Dor by the sea side:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "the Chananite also on the East and West, and the Amorrhite and Hetheite and Pherezite and Jebusite in the mountains: the Heveite also which dwelt at the foot of Hermon in the Land of Maspha."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And they issued forth all with their troops, a people exceeding many as the sand that is in the shore of the sea, their horses also and chariots of passing great multitude."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And all these kings assembled together in one at the Waters of Merom, to fight against Israel."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And our Lord said to Josue: Fear them not: for tomorrow this self-same hour will I deliver all these to be wounded in the sight of Israel: their horses thou shalt houghsinew, and their chariots thou shalt burn with fire."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And Josue came, & all the host with him against them to the Waters of Merom suddenly, & ran in upon them,"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "and our Lord delivered them into the hands of Israel. Who struck them, and pursued them as far as great Sidon, and the Waters of Maserephoth, and the field of Masphe, which is on the East side thereof. Therefore he struck all, so that he left no relics of them:"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "and he did as our Lord had commanded him, their horses he houghsinewed, and their chariots he burnt."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And returning immediately he took Asor: and the king thereof he struck with the sword. For Asor in old time among all these Kingdoms held the principality."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And he struck all the souls, that abode there: he left not in it any remains, but to utter destruction he wasted all things, and the city it-self he destroyed with fire."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And all the cities round about, their kings also he took, struck & destroyed, as Moyses the servant of God had commanded him."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "Except the cities that were situated on hills and higher ground, the rest Israel burnt: one only Asor very well fenced he consumed with fire."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And all the prey of these cities and the cattle the children of Israel divided among themselves, all the men being slain."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "As our Lord had commanded Moyses his servant, so did Moyses command Josue, and he accomplished all things: he omitted not of all the commandments, not so much as one word, which our Lord had commanded Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "Josue therefore took all the hilly country, & south, & the land of Gosen, and the plain, and the West quarter, and the mountain of Israel, and the champion country thereof:"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "and the part of the mountain, that goeth up to Seir as far as Baalgad by the plain of Libanus under mount Hermon: all their kings he took, struck, & slew."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "(a) A great time did Josue fight against these kings.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "These wars continued near seven years, as appeareth chap. 14. v. 10."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "There was not a city that did deliver it-self to the children of Israel, except the Heveite, which dwelt in Gabaon: for he took all by fight."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "For it was (b) the sentence of our Lord, that their hearts should be indurate and they should fight against Israel, and fall, and should not deserve any clemency, and should perish, as our Lord had commanded Moyses.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "For their enormous sins God left them in their own reprobate sense, not imposing necessity of sinning, but permitting them to indurate their own hearts. See Annot. Exod. 7."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "At that time Josue came and slew the Enacims of the mountains, of Hebron, and Dabir, and Anab, and from all the mountain of Juda and Israel, and destroyed their cities."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "He left not any of the stock of the Enacims, in the Land of the children of Israel: saving the cities of Gaza, and Geth, and Azotus, in the which only they were left."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Josue therefore took all the Land, as our Lord spake to Moyses, and delivered it in possession to the children of Israel, according to their parts and tribes: and (c) the Land rested from battles.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "Hence-forth they had not general wars, but diverse tribes had particular, as appeareth cap. 15. &c."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "Jabin a more principal king summoneth other kings to join with him against Israel. 6. Josue animated with God's promise of victory, 7. overthroweth them all, 16. subdueth their country: 12. killeth also many of the giant's stock."
},
{
"chapter": 12,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "These are the kings, which the children of Israel struck, and possessed their Land beyond Jordan toward the rising of the sun, from the torrent Arnon unto mount Hermon, and all the East part, that looked toward the wilderness."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Sehon the king of the Amorrheites, which dwelt in Hesebon, had dominion from Aroer, which is situated upon the bank of the torrent Arnon, & of the middle part in the valley, and of half Galaad, as far as the torrent Iaboc, which is the border of the children of Ammon:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "and from the wilderness, unto the sea of Ceneroth against the East, and unto the Sea of the wilderness, which is the most salt sea, on the East side by the way that leadeth to Besimoth, & on the South side, which lieth under Asedoth, as far as Phasga."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "[1] The border of Og the king of Basan, of the remnant of the Raphaims who dwelt in Astaroth, and in Edrai, and had dominion in mount Hermon, and in Salecha, and in all Basan, unto the borders",
"cross_refs": [
{
"text": "Num. 21. Deut. 3."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "of Gessuri, and Machati, and of the half part of Galaad: the borders of Sehon the king of Hesebon."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Moyses the servant of our Lord, and the children of Israel struck them, and Moyses delivered their Land in possession to the Rubenites, and Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasses."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "These are the kings of the Land, whom Josue struck and the children of Israel beyond Jordan on the West side, from Balaalgad in the field of Libanus, unto the mount, part whereof goeth up into Seir: and Josue delivered it in possession to the tribes of Israel, to every one their portions."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "as well in the mountains as in the plain and champion countries. In Asedoth, and in the wilderness, and in the South was the Hetheite & the Amorrhite, the Chananite, and the Pherezite, the Heveite and the Jebusite."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "The king of Jericho one: the king of Hai, which is on the side of Bethel, one:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "the king of Jerusalem one, the king of Hebron one,"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "the king of Jerimoth one, the king of Lachis one,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "the king of Eglon one, the king of Gazer one,"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "the king of Dabir one, the king of Gader one,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "the king of Herma one, the king of Hered one,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "the king of Lebna one, the king of Adullam one,"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "the king of Maceda one, the king of Bethel one,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "the king of Taphua one, the king of Opher one,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "the king of Aphec one, the king of Saron one,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "the king of Madon one, the king of Asor one,"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "the king of Semeron one, the king of Achsaph one,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "the king of Thenac one, the king of Mageddo one,"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "the king of Cades one, the king of Iachanan one,"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "the king of Carmel one, the king of Dor, and of the province of Dor one, the king of the Nations of Galgal one,"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "the king of Thersa one: all the kings (a) thirty one.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Moyses slew two Kings, and Iosue thirty one."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "Besides Sehon and Og, kings of Hesebon and Basan slain by Moyses, 7. are reckoned thirty one kings slain by Josue."
},
{
"chapter": 13,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Josue [1] was old, and striken in age, and our Lord said to him: Thou art old, and of a great age, and there is a very large country left, which is not yet divided by lot:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "1",
"text": "The third part. Partition of the land among nine tribes and a half."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "to wit, all Galilee, Philisthiim, and all Gessuri."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "From the troubled river, that watereth Aegypt, unto the borders of Accaron against the North: the Land of Chanaan, which is divided unto five lords of the Philisthiims, the Gazeites, the Azotians, the Ascalonites, the Getheites, and the Accaronites."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "But on the South side are the Heveites, all the Land of Chanaan, and Maara of the Sidonians as far as Apheca, and the borders of the Amorrhite,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and his confines. The country also of Libanus against the East from Baalgad under mount Hermon, till thou enter into Emath."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Of all that dwell in the mountain from Libanus, unto the Waters Maserephoth, and all the Sidonians. I am he that will destroy them from the face of the children of Israel. (a) Let it come therefore into a portion of the inheritance of Israel, as I have commanded thee.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "These parts are designed though not yet conquered."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And now divide the Land in possession to the nine tribes, and to the half tribe of Manasses,"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "with the which Ruben & Gad have possessed the Land, which Moyses the servant of our Lord delivered to them beyond the streams of Jordan, on the east side."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "From Aroer, which is situate on the bank of the torrent Arnon, and in the midst of the valley, and all the champion of Medaba, as far as Dibon:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "and all the cities of Cehon, the king of the Amorrhite, which reigned in Hesebon, unto the borders of the children of Ammon."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And Galaad, and the border of Gessuri and Machati, and all mount Hermon, and all Basan, as far as Salecha,"
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "all the Kingdom of Og in Basan, which reigned in Astaroth and Edrai, he was of the relics of the Raphaims: and Moyses struck, and destroyed them."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And the children of Israel would not destroy Gessuri and Machati: and they have dwelt in the midst of Israel until this present day."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "But to the tribe of Levi he gave no possession: but the sacrifices and victims of our Lord the God of Israel, that is his inheritance, as he spake to him."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Moyses therefore gave possession to the children of Ruben according to their kindreds."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And their border was from Aroer, which is situate on the bank of the torrent Arnon, and in the midst of the valley of the same torrent: all the plain, that leadeth to Medaba,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "and Hesebon, and all their villages, which are in the champion. Dibon also, and Bamothbaal, and the town Baalmaon,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "and Jassa, and Cedimoth, and Mephaath,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "and Cariathaim, and Sabama, and Sarathasar in the mountain of the Valley."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Bethphogor and Asedoth, Phasga and Bethiesimoth,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "and all the champion cities, and all the Kingdoms of Sehon the king of the Amorrhite, that reigned in Hesebon, whom Moyses struck with the Princes of Madian: the Heveite, and Recem, and Sur, and Hur, and Rebe Dukes of Sehon inhabitants of the Land."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And Balaam the son of Beor the soothsayer, did the children of Israel kill by the sword, with the rest that were slain."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "And the river of Jordan was made the border of the children of Ruben. This is the possession of the Rubenites by their kindreds of cities and villages."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And Moyses gave to the tribe of Gad & to his children possession by their kindreds, the division whereof is this:"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "The border of Jaser, and all the cities of Galaad, and the half part of the Land of (b) the children of Ammon: as far as Aroer, which is against Rabba:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "This part the Amorrheites had taken and possessed; otherwise the Israelites were prohibited to take any thing from the Ammonites. Deut. 2."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "and from Hesebon unto Ramoth, Masphe and Betonim: and from Manaim unto the borders of Dabir."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "In the valley also Bethhara, and Bethnemra, and Socoth, and Saphon the other part of the Kingdom of Sehon the king of Hesebon: the end of this also is Jordan, unto the uttermost part of the sea Cenereth beyond Jordan on the east side."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "This is the possession of the children of Gad by their families, their cities, and villages."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "He gave also to the half tribe of Manasses and their children possession according to their kindreds,"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "the beginning whereof is this: From Manaim all Basan, and all the Kingdoms of Og the king of Basan, and all the villages of Jair, which are in Basan, threescore towns."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And the half part of Galaad, and Astaroth, and Edrai, cities of the Kingdom of Og in Basan: to the children of Machir, the son of Manasses, to the half part of the children of Machir according to their kindreds."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "This possession divided Moyses in the champion countries of Moab, beyond Jordan, against Jericho on the East side."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "But to the tribe of Levi he gave no possession: because our Lord the God of Israel himself is their possession, as he spake to them."
}
],
"summary": "God commandeth Josue to divide the land (describing the limits thereof) amongst nine tribes and a half, 8. with a recapitulation of the parts already given, on the other side Jordan to the other two tribes and a half. The tribe of Levi (v. 14. & 33.) hath their provision in other manner."
},
{
"chapter": 14,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "This is it, which the children of Israel possessed in the Land of Chanaan, which Eleazar the Priest, and Josue the son of Nun, and the Princes of the families by the tribes of Israel gave to them:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "dividing all things by lot, as our Lord had commanded in the hand of Moyses, to the nine tribes, and the half tribe."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "For to two tribes and a half Moyses had given possession beyond Jordan: besides the Levites, which received no land among their brethren:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "but (c) into their place succeeded the children of Joseph divided into two tribes, of Manasses and Ephraim: neither did the Levites receive other portion in the Land, but cities to inhabit, and their suburbs to feed their beasts and cattle.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "The Levites having their portions in other manner, yet there were twelve tribes to receive portions, by reason that Jacob adopted Joseph's two sons. Gen. 48."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "As our Lord had commanded Moyses, so did the children of Israel, and they divided the Land."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Therefore the children of Juda came to Josue in Galgal, and Caleb the son of Jephone the Cenezeite spake to him: Thou knowest what our Lord spake to Moyses the man of God concerning me and thee in Cadesbarne."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Forty years old was I when Moyses the servant of our Lord sent me from Cadesbarne, to view the Land, & I reported to him that which to me seemed true."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "But my brethren, that had gone up with me, discouraged the heart of the people: and I nevertheless followed our Lord God."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And Moyses sware in that day, saying: The Land, which thy foot hath trodden, shall be thy possession, and thy children's for ever, because thou hast followed our Lord my God."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Our Lord therefore hath granted me life, as he promised until this present day. It is (d) forty and five years, since our Lord spake this word to Moyses, when Israel walked through the wilderness: this day am I eighty and five years old,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "After the viewing of the land Num. 13. the Israelites remained in the desert 38. years: so they were near seven years in wars."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "so lusty, as I was at that time when I was sent to view: the strength of that time continueth in me until this day, as well to fight as to go."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Give me therefore this mountain, which our Lord promised, thyself also hearing it, wherein are the Enacims, and great cities and fenced: (e) if perhaps our Lord be with me, and I shall be able to destroy them, as he promised me.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "e",
"text": "God's promise is ever sure on his part, but because it is conditional, if we serve him sincerely, our will being free, he saith: If perhaps our Lord be with me."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And Josue blessed him, and delivered to him Hebron in possession."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And from thence-forth (f) Hebron belonged to Caleb the son of Jephone the Cenezeite, until this present day: because he followed our Lord the God of Israel.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "f",
"text": "Only the country of Hebron was given to Caleb, for the city itself and suburbs belonged to the Priests. c. 21. v. 11."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "The name of Hebron before was called Cariath Arbe: Adam the greatest among the Enacims was laid there: and (g) the Land ceased from battles.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "g",
"text": "See before chap. 11. v. 23."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "Caleb of the tribe of Juda (seeing some knew their lots already, and that the whole land was now to be divided) 6. demandeth, according to God's promise made by Moyses (for his true and good report of the same land, when he with others viewed it) that Hebron be given him and his seed to inherit, 13. which Josue confirmeth unto him."
},
{
"chapter": 15,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "Therefore the lot of the children of Judas by their kindreds was this: From the border of Edom, unto the desert of Sin against the South, and unto the uttermost part of the south coast."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "the beginning thereof was from the top of the most salt sea, and from the brink thereof, that looketh to the South."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And it goeth forth against the Ascent of the Scorpion, & passeth through into Sina: and riseth up into Cadesbarne, and reacheth into Esron, ascending to Addar, and compassing Carcaa,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "and thence passing through into Asemona, & reaching to the Torrent of Aegypt: and the borders thereof shall be the great sea. This shall be the end of the south coast."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "But on the East side the beginning shall be the most salt sea unto the utmost parts of Jordan: & those places that look to the North from the brink of the sea unto the same river of Jordan."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And the border goeth up into Beth Hagla, and passeth from the north into Beth Araba: ascending to the stone of Bohen the son of Ruben."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And reaching as far as the borders of Debera from the Valley of Achor, against the North looking toward Galgal, which is opposite to the Ascent of Adommim, on the south side of the torrent: and passeth the waters, that are called The Fountain of the sun: and the ends thereof shall be to the Fountain Rogel."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And it ascendeth by the Valley of the son of Ennom on the side of the Jebusite toward the South, this is Jerusalem: and thence rearing it-self to the top of the mountain, which is against Geennom toward the West in the top of the Valley of Raphaim against the North."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And it passeth through from the top of the mountain to the fountain of the water Nephtoa: and reacheth to the towns of mount Ephron: and bendeth into Baala, which is Cariathiarim, that is to say, a city of woods."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And it compasseth from Baala against the West, unto mount Seir: and passeth by the side of mount Iarim toward the North into Cheslon: and goeth down into Bethsames, and passeth into Thamna."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And it reacheth toward the North coast of a part of Accaron at the side: and bendeth to Sechrona, and passeth mount Baala: and cometh into Iebneel, and is shut up with the end of the great sea toward the West."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "These are the borders of the children of Judas in circuit in their kindreds."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "But to Caleb the son of Jephone he gave a portion in the midst of the children of Judas, as our Lord had commanded him: Cariath Arbe the father of Enac, that is Hebron."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And Caleb destroyed out of it the three sons of Enac, Sesai and Ahiman and Tholmai of the stock of Enac."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "And from thence going up he came to the inhabitants of Dabir, which before was called Cariath Sepher, that is to say, a city of letters."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And Caleb said: He that shall strike Cariath-sepher, and take it, I will give him Axa my daughter to wife."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And Othoniel the son of Cenez, the younger brother of Caleb took it: & he gave him (a) Axa his daughter to wife.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Though it was prohibited that the nephew should marry his aunt, yet the uncle was not expressly forbid to marry his niece by Moyses' law. Levit. 18. And albeit there is the same degree of consanguinity, yet not the same inconvenience, by reason the same person remaineth subject, that was inferior before marriage."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "Who going together, she was moved by her husband to ask a field of her father, and she sighed as she sat on her ass. To whom Caleb said: What aileth thee?"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "But she answered: Give me a blessing: (b) A South and dry Land thou hast given me, join also a watery. Caleb therefore gave her a watery ground above & beneath.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Because ordinarily the south part of the world is more dry and barren than other parts, a barren place is called a south land, in respect of more fertile ground."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "This is the possession of the tribe of the children of Judas by their kindreds."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And the cities from the uttermost parts of the children of Judas by the borders of Edom on the South were Cabseel and Eder and Iagur,"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "& Cina and Dimona and Adada,"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "and Cades, and Asor, and Iethnan,"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Ziph and Telem and Baloth,"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Asor the new and Carioth, Hesron, this is Asor."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "Amam, Sama, and Molada,"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "and Asergadda and Hassemon and Bethphelet,"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "and Hasersual and Bersabee and Baziothia"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "and Baala and Jim & Esem,"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "and Eltholad and Cesil and Harma"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "and Siceleg, and Medemena and Sensenna,"
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "Labaoth and Selim & Aen and Remon. All the cities twenty nine, and their villages."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "But in the champion countries: Estaol and Sarea and Asena,"
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "and Sanoe and Engannim and Taphua and Enaim,"
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "and Jerimoth, and Adullam, Socho & Azeca,"
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "& Saraim and Adithaim and Gedera and Gederothaim: fourteen cities, and their villages."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "Sanan and Hadassa and Magdalgad,"
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "Delean and Masepha and Iecthel,"
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "Lachis and Bascath and Eglon,"
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "Chebbon and Leheman and Cethlis"
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "and Gideroth and Bethdagon and Naama & Maceda: sixteen cities, and their villages."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "Labana and Ether and Asan,"
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "Iephtha and Esna and Nesib,"
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "and Ceila and Achzib and Mareza: nine cities, and their villages."
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "Accaron with the towns and villages thereof."
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "From Accaron unto the sea: all places that bend toward Azotus & the villages thereof."
},
{
"verse": 47,
"text": "Azotus with the towns & villages thereof. Gaza with the towns & villages thereof, unto the torrent of Aegypt, & the great sea is the border thereof."
},
{
"verse": 48,
"text": "And in the mountain: Samir & Jether & Socoth"
},
{
"verse": 49,
"text": "& Danna & Cariath senna, this is Dabir:"
},
{
"verse": 50,
"text": "Anab & Istemo & Anim,"
},
{
"verse": 51,
"text": "Gosen & Olon & Gilo: eleven cities & their villages."
},
{
"verse": 52,
"text": "Arab & Ruma & Esaan,"
},
{
"verse": 53,
"text": "& Ianum & Beth thaphua & Apheca,"
},
{
"verse": 54,
"text": "Athmatha and Cariath-arbe, this is Hebron, and Sior: nine cities and their villages."
},
{
"verse": 55,
"text": "Maon and Carmel and Ziph and Iota,"
},
{
"verse": 56,
"text": "Jezrael & Iucadam and Zanoe,"
},
{
"verse": 57,
"text": "Accain, Gabaa and Thamna: ten cities and their villages."
},
{
"verse": 58,
"text": "Halhul, and Bethsur, and Gedor,"
},
{
"verse": 59,
"text": "Mareth, and Beth-anoth, and Eltecon: six cities and their villages."
},
{
"verse": 60,
"text": "Cariathbaal, this is Cariathiarim the city of woods, and Arebba: two cities and their villages."
},
{
"verse": 61,
"text": "In the desert Beth-araba, Meddin, and Sachacha,"
},
{
"verse": 62,
"text": "and Nebsan, and the city of salt, and Engaddi: six cities, and their villages."
},
{
"verse": 63,
"text": "But the Jebusite the inhabitant of Jerusalem the children of Judas (c) could not destroy: and the Jebusite dwelt with the children of Judas in Jerusalem until this present day.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "The Jebuseites kept a strong castle in Jerusalem till King David took it from them. 2. Reg. 5."
}
]
}
],
"summary": "The borders of the lot of Juda, 13. including Caleb's particular inheritance (16. out of which he giveth Cariath Sepher, and his daughter to Othoniel, for winning it:) 21. with the names of the cities thereof, 63. the Jebuseite yet dwelling with Juda in Hierusalem."
},
{
"chapter": 16,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "The lot also of (a) the children of Joseph fell from Jordan against Jericho and the Waters thereof, on the east: the wilderness which goeth up from Jericho to the mountain of Bethel:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Ruben for the sin of incest losing the privileges of birthright (Gen. 49.) Priesthood was given to Levi, the Kingdom to Juda, and double portion to Joseph. Paraph. Chald."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "and goeth out from Bethel to Luza: and passeth the border of Archia, to Atharoth."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And descendeth Westward, by the border of Iephleti, unto the borders of Beth horon the lower, and to Gazer: and their countries are ended by the great sea:"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "and Manasses and Ephraim the children of Joseph possessed it."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And the border of the children of Ephraim was made according to their kindreds: and their possession toward the East was Ataroth addar unto Beth-horon the higher."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And the confines go out unto the sea: but Machmethath looketh to the North, and it compasseth the borders against the East into Thanath-selo: and passeth through on the East side to Janoe."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "and it goeth down from Janoe into Ataroth and Naaratha: and it cometh into Jericho, & goeth out to Jordan."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "From Taphua it passeth through against the sea into the Valley of reeds, and the issues thereof are into the most salt sea. This is the possession of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And cities with their villages were separated to the children of Ephraim in the midst of the possession of the children of Manasses,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "and the children of Ephraim slew not the Chananite, which dwelt in Gazer: and the Chananite dwelt in the midst of Ephraim until this day tributary."
}
],
"summary": "The half tribe of Manasses (eldest son of Joseph) receive their lot, 3. including the daughters of Salphaad: 14. with an enlargement of inheritance to the same tribes of Ephraim and Manasses."
},
{
"chapter": 17,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And this lot fell to the tribe of Manasses (for he is the first born of Joseph:) To Machir the first born of Manasses the father of Galaad, who was a warlike man, and had for possession Galaad and Basan:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "and to the rest of the children of Manasses according to their families, to the children of Abiezer, & to the children of Helec, & to the children of Esriel, & to the children of Sechem, & to the children of Hepher, and to the children of Semida. These are the children of Manasses the son of Joseph, males by their kindreds."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "But Salphaad the son of Hepher the son of Galaad the son of Machir the son of Manasses had no sons, but only daughters: whose names be these, Maala & Noa and Hegla and Melcha and Thersa."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And they came in the presence of Eleazar the Priest, and of Josue the son of Nun, and of the Princes, saying: Our Lord commanded by the hand of Moyses, that a possession should be given us in the midst of our brethren. And he gave them according to the commandment of our Lord a possession in the midst of their father's brethren."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And the cords fell to Manasses, ten, beside the Land of Galaad and Basan beyond Jordan."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "For the daughters of Manasses possessed inheritance in the midst of his sons. And the Land of Galaad fell to the lot of the children of Manasses that remained."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And the border of Manasses from Aser, was Machmethath which looketh to Sichem: and goeth out on the right hand beside the inhabitants of the Fountain of Taphua."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "For in the lot of Manasses was fallen the Land of Taphua, (a) which is beside the borders of Manasses, the childrens of Ephraim.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "The land or territory of Taphua falling to the lot of Manasses, yet Taphua (that is the city itself) was the childrens of Ephraim."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And the border of the Reed valley went down into the south of the torrent of the cities of Ephraim, which are in the midst of the cities of Manasses: the border of Manasses on the North of the torrent, and the issue thereof goeth to the sea:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "so that the possession of Ephraim is on the south, and on the North of Manasses, and the sea encloseth both, and they be joined one to another in the tribe of Aser on the North, and in the tribe of Issachar on the East."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And the inheritance of Manasses in Issachar and in Aser was Bethsan and the villages thereof, and Jeblaam with the villages thereof, and the inhabitants of Dor with the towns thereof, the inhabitants also of Endor with the towns thereof, and in like manner the inhabitants of Thenac with the towns thereof, and the inhabitants of Mageddo with the towns thereof, and the third part of the city of Nopheth."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "Neither could the children of Manasses overthrow the cities, but the Chananite began to dwell in (b) his Land.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "The Chananeite remained in the Land of Manasses for a time."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "But after that the children of Israel grew to be strong, they subdued the Chananites, and made them their tributaries, neither did they kill them."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And the children of Joseph spake to Josue, and said: Why hast thou given me the possession of one lot and cord, whereas I am of so great a multitude, & our Lord hath blessed me?"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "To whom Josue said: If thou be a great people, go up into the wood, and cut thee room in the Land of the Pherezite and Raphaims: because the possession of mount Ephraim is narrow for thee."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "To whom the children of Joseph answered: We cannot go up to the mountains, whereas the Chananites that dwell in the champion country, wherein are situated Bethsan with the towns thereof and Jezrael possessing the midst of the valley, use iron chariots."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And Josue said to the house of Joseph, of Ephraim, and Manasses: Thou art a great people, and of great strength, thou shalt not have one lot,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "but thou shalt pass to the mountain, and shalt cut and make glades for thee to inhabit: and mayest proceed farther, when thou hast subverted the Chananite, whom thou sayest to have iron chariots, and to be very strong."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 18,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And all the children of Israel were assembled in Silo, and there they pitched the tabernacle of the testimony, & the Land was subdued to them."
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "But there remained seven tribes of the children of Israel, which as yet had not received their possessions."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "To whom Josue said: How long are you slack with cowardness, and enter not to posses the Land, which our Lord the God of your fathers hath given you?"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Choose of every tribe three men, that I may send them, and they may go and circuit the Land, and mark it out according to the number (a) of every multitude: and report unto me that which they have marked out.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Not equal but proportionable parts were assigned, for so it was commanded, Num. 26. v. 54. To the greater number to give a greater portion, and to the fewer a less."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Divide unto you the Land into seven parts: let Judas be in the bounds on the south quarter, and the house of Joseph on the North."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "The Land in the midst between these mark out into seven parts: and you shall come hither to me, that (b) before our Lord your God I may cast the lot for you:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "After the portions were appointed by men's industry & discretion, God confirmed the same by lot, to take away all occasion of discontentment."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "for the Levites' part is not among you, but the priesthood of our Lord is their inheritance. And Gad and Ruben, and the half tribe of Manasses had now received their possessions beyond Jordan at the East side: which Moyses the servant of our Lord gave them."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And when the men were risen up, that they might go to mark out the land, Josue commanded them, saying: Circuit the Land and mark it out, and return to me: that here before our Lord, in Silo I may cast the lot for you."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "They therefore went on: and going over it, divided it into seven parts, writing it in a volume. And they returned to Josue into the camp in Silo."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "Who did cast lots before our Lord in Silo, and divided the Land to the children of Israel into seven parts."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And first came up the lot of the children of Benjamin by their families, to possess the Land between the children of Judas and the children of Joseph."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And their border was against the North from Jordan: going forward by the side of Jericho on the North quarter, and thence Westward rising up unto the mountains, and reaching to the wilderness of Bethaven,"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "and passing through by Luza to the South, the same is Bethel: and goeth down into Ataroth addar unto the mountain, that is on the South of Beth-horon the lower."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And it bendeth compassing against the sea, Southward of the mountain that looketh to Beth-horon against the South: and the issues thereof are into Cariath baal, which is called also Cariathiarim, a city of the children of Judas. This is their coast against the sea, toward the West."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "But on the South from part of Cariathiarim the border issueth forth against the sea, and cometh to the fountain of the waters of Nephtoa."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And it goeth down into part of the mountain that looketh toward the Valley of the children of Ennom: and is against the North quarter in the uttermost part of the Valley Raphaim. And it goeth down into Gehennom (that is, the valley of Ennom) by the side of the Jebusite to the South: and cometh to the Fountain of Rogel,"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "passing to the North, and going forth to Ensemes, that is to say, the fountain of the sun:"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "and it passeth unto the little hills, that are against the ascent of Adommim: and goeth down to Abenboen, that is, the stone of Boen the son of Ruben: and it passeth on the North side to the champion countries: and goeth down into the plain,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "and passeth by against the North of Bethagla: and the issues thereof are against the brink of the most salt sea on the North in the end of Jordan to the south quarter:"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "which is the border thereof on the East. This is the possession of the children of Benjamin by their borders round about, and their families."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And their cities were, Jericho and Beth hagla and Vallis Casis,"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "Beth Araba and Samaraim and Bethel,"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "and Avim and Aphara and Ophera,"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "Town Emona and Ophni and Gabee: twelve cities, & their towns."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Gabaon and Rama and Beroth,"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "and Mesphe, and Caphara, and Amosa,"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "and Recem, Iarephel and Tharela,"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "and Sela, Eleph, and Jebus, which is Jerusalem, Gabaath and Cariath: fourteen cities, and their towns. This is the possession of the children of Benjamin by their families."
}
],
"summary": "From the camp of Israel in Silo surveyers are sent to divide the rest of the Land into seven parts, for the seven tribes yet without portions. 10. Which being done, Josue casteth lots for them, 11. and the first lot falleth to Benjamin, 12. whose part is described by the limits, 21. with the names of the principal cities."
},
{
"chapter": 19,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And the second lot came forth of the children of Simeon by their kindreds: and their inheritance was"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "in the midst of the possession of the children of Judas: Bersabee and Sabee and Molada,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "and Hasersual, Bala and Asem,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "and Eltholad, Bethul and Harma,"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "and Siceleg and Betmarchaboth and Hasersusa,"
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "and Bethlebaoth & Sarohen: thirteen cities, and their towns:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "Ain and Remmon and Athor and Asan: four cities, and their towns:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "all the little towns round about these cities unto Baalath Beer Ramath against the south quarter. This is the inheritance of the children of Simeon according to their kindreds,"
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "in the possession and cord of the children of Judas: because it was greater. And therefore the children of Simeon possessed in the midst of their inheritance."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And the third lot fell of the children of Zabulon by their kindreds: and the border of their possession was made as far as Sarid."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And it went up from the sea and Merala, and came into Debbaseth: as far as the torrent, which is against Ieconam."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And it returneth from Sared against the East into the ends of Ceseleth thabor: and it goeth out to Dabereth, and riseth up against Iaphie."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And thence it passeth along to the east side of Geth hepher and Thacasim: and goeth out into Remmon, Amthar and Noa."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "And it compasseth to the North of Hanathon: & the issues thereof are the valley Iephtahel,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "& Cateth & Naalol & Semeron & Ierala & Bethlehem: twelve cities, & their towns."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Zabulon by their kindreds, the cities and their little towns."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "The fourth lot came forth to Issachar by their kindreds."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And his inheritance was Jezrael and Casaloth and Sunem,"
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "and Hapharaim and Sehon, and Anaharath"
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "and Rabboth & Cesion, Abes,"
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "& Rameth, and Engannim, and Enhadda and Bethpheses."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And the border thereof cometh to Thabor & Sehesema and Bethsames: and their issues were Jordan: sixteen cities, and their towns."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "This is the possession of Issachar by their kindreds, the cities, and their little towns."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And the fifth lot fell to the tribe of the children of Aser by their kindreds:"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "and their border was Halcath and Chali and Beten and Axaph,"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "and Elmelec and Amaad and Messal: and it reacheth to Carmel of the sea and Sihor and Labanath."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "And it returneth against the east of Bethdagon: and passeth along to Zabulon and the Valley Iephthael against the North into Bethemec and Nehiel. And it goeth out to the left side of Cabul,"
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "and Abran and Rohob and Hamon and Cana, as far as great Sidon."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "And it returneth into Horma unto the very well fenced city Tyre, & unto Hosa: and the issues thereof shall be into the sea from the cord of Achziba:"
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "and Amma and Aphec & Rohob, cities twenty two, and their towns."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "This is the possession of the children of Aser by their kindreds, and the cities and their towns."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "Of the sons of Nephthali fell the sixth lot by their families:"
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "and the border began from Heleph and Elon into Saanaim, and Adami, which is Neceb, and Iebnael unto Lecum: and their issues unto Jordan:"
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "and the border returneth against the West into Azanotthabor, and thence goeth out into Hucuca, and passeth along into Zabulon against the South, and into Azer against the West, and into Juda unto Jordan against the rising of the sun."
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "cities very well fenced, Assedim, Ser, and Emath, and Reccath and Cenereth,"
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "and Edema and Arama, Asor,"
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "and Cedes and Edrai, Enhasor"
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "and Ieron and Magdalel, Horem and Bethanath and Bethsames: nineteen cities and their towns."
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "This is the possession of the tribe of the children of Nephthali by their kindreds, the cities and their towns."
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "To the tribe of the children of Dan by their families came forth the seventh lot:"
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "and the border of their possession was Sara and Esthaol, & Hirsemes, that is the city of the sun."
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "Selebin & Aialon and Iethela,"
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "Elon and Themna and Acron,"
},
{
"verse": 44,
"text": "Elthece, Gebbethon and Balaath,"
},
{
"verse": 45,
"text": "and Jud and Bane and Barac and Gethremmon:"
},
{
"verse": 46,
"text": "and Meiarcon & Arecon, with the border that looketh toward Joppe,"
},
{
"verse": 47,
"text": "and is shut up with the same end. And the children of Dan went up, & fought against Lesem, and they took it: and they struck it in the edge of the sword, and possessed, and dwelt in it, calling the name of it Lesem Dan, by the name of Dan the father thereof."
},
{
"verse": 48,
"text": "This is the possession of the tribe of the sons of Dan, by their kindreds, the cities and their towns:"
},
{
"verse": 49,
"text": "And when he had made an end of dividing the Land by lot to every one by their tribes, (a) the children of Israel gave possession to Josue the son of Nun in the midst of them,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Of modesty Iosue would not assign to himself any place, but the whole people freely granted his request."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 50,
"text": "according to the commandment of our Lord, the city which he requested, Thamnath Saraa in mount Ephraim: and he built the city, and dwelt in it."
},
{
"verse": 51,
"text": "These are the possessions, which Eleazar the Priest, and Josue the son of Nun, and the Princes of the families and of the tribes of the children of Israel, divided by lot in Silo, before our Lord at the door of the tabernacle of testimony, and they parted the Land."
}
],
"summary": "The second lot falleth to the tribe of Simeon, the situation of whose inheritance is described, with the names of their principal cities. 10. The third in like sort to Zabulon. 17. The fourth to Issachar. 24. The fifth to Aser. 32. The sixth to Nephthali. 40. And the seventh to Dan. 49. All the Land being distributed among the tribes, with common consent they give a special city to Josue, in the midst of them."
},
{
"chapter": 20,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And our Lord spake to Josue, saying: Speak to the children of Israel, and say to them:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Separate the cities of the fugitives, of the which I spake to you by the hand of Moyses;"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "that he may fly to them whosoever shall strike a soul unwitting, and may escape the wrath of the nigh kinsman, which is the revenger of blood."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "When he shall be fled to one of these cities, he shall stand before the gate of the city & shall speak to the ancients of that city (a) those things that may prove himself innocent: & so they shall receive him, and give him place to inhabit.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "At first entering it sufficed to allege in general his innocency, but after he must be tried in particular."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And when the revenger of the blood shall pursue him, they shall not deliver him into his hands: because he struck his neighbour by ignorance, neither is he proved to be his enemy two or three days before."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And he shall dwell in that city till he stand before judgment rendering a cause of his fact, and the high priest die, which shall be at that time: then shall the manslayer return, & enter into the city and his house out of the which he had fled."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And they appointed Cedes in Galilee of the mount of Nephthali, and Sichem in the mount of Ephraim, and Cariatharbee, the same is Hebron, in the mount of Juda."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "And beyond Jordan against the East quarter of Jericho, they appointed Bosor, which is situated in the champion wilderness of the tribe of Ruben, and Ramoth in Galaad of the tribe of Gad, and Gaulon in Basan of the tribe of Manasses."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "These cities were appointed to all the children of Israel, and to the strangers, that dwelt among them: that he might fly to them which unwittingly had strucken a soul, and might not die in the hand of the kinsman, coveting to revenge the blood shed, until he might stand before the people to declare his cause."
}
],
"summary": "Cities with suburbs are assigned to the tribe of Levi. 4. To the sons of Caath by the line of Aaron being Priests, thirteen. 5. To the rest of Caath's progeny, being Levites, ten. 6. To the sons of Gerson Levites, thirteen. 7. To the sons of Merari Levites (34. of a lower degree) twelve; 9. with the names of all the cities: 39. in all forty eight. 41. So God's promise is fully performed having given the whole Land to Israel in peaceable possession."
},
{
"chapter": 21,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And the Princes of the families of Levi came to Eleazar the Priest, and Josue the son of Nun, and to the chief of the kindreds in every tribe of the children of Israel"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "and they spake to them in Silo of the Land of Chanaan, and said: Our Lord commanded by the hand of Moyses, that cities should be given us to inhabit, and their suburbs to feed cattle."
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "And the children of Israel gave of their possessions according to the commandment of our Lord, cities and their suburbs."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "And the lot came forth unto the family of Caath of the children of Aaron the Priest out of the tribe of Judas, and Simeon, and Benjamin, thirteen cities."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And to the rest of the children of Caath, that is to the Levites, which remained, out of the tribes of Ephraim, and Dan, and the half tribe of Manasses, ten cities."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Moreover to the children of Gerson came forth a lot, that they should take of the tribes of Issachar & Aser & Nephthali, & the half tribe of Manasses in Basan, cities in number thirteen."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And to the sons of Merari by their kindreds, of the tribe of Ruben and Gad & Zabulon, twelve cities."
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "and the children of Israel gave to the Levites cities and their suburbs, as our Lord commanded by the hand of Moyses, giving to every one by lot."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "Of the tribes of the children of Judas & Simeon Josue gave cities: whose names be these,"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "to the children of Aaron by the families of Caath of the Levitical stock (for the first lot came forth to them)"
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "Cariatharbe the father of Enac, which is called Hebron, in the mountain of Judas, & the suburbs thereof round about."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "But the fields and the towns thereof he had given to Caleb the son of Jephone to possess."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "He gave therefore to the children of Aaron the Priest Hebron a city of refuge, & the suburbs thereof: and Lobna with the suburbs thereof:"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "and Jether and Estemo,"
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "& Holon, & Dabir,"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "and Ain, & Ieta, and Bethsames, with the suburbs thereof: nine cities of two tribes, as hath been said."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "And of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, Gabaon, & Gabae,"
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "and Anathoth and Almon, with their suburbs: four cities."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "All the cities together of the children of Aaron the Priest, thirteen, with their suburbs."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "But to the rest by the families of the children of Caath of the Levitical stock was given this possession."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "Of the tribe of Ephraim the cities of refuge, Sichem with the suburbs thereof in the mountain of Ephraim, and Gazer"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "and Cibsaim, and Beth horon, with the suburbs thereof, four cities."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Of the tribe of Dan also, Eltheco and Gabathon,"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "& Aialon and Gethremmon, with the suburbs thereof, four cities."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Moreover of the half tribe of Manasses, Thanac and Gethremmon, with their suburbs, two cities."
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "All the cities ten, and their suburbs, were given to the children of Caath of the inferior degree."
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "To the children of Gerson also of the Levitical stock he gave of the half tribe of Manasses the cities of refuge, Gaulon in Basan, and Bosram, with their suburbs, two cities."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "Moreover of the tribe of Issachar, Cesion, and Dabereth,"
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "and Iaramoth, & Engannim, with their suburbs, four cities."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "And of the tribe of Aser, Masal and Abdon,"
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "and Helcath, & Rohob, with their suburbs, four cities."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "Of the tribe also of Nephthali the cities of refuge, Cedes in Galilee: and Hammoth Dor, and Carthan, with their suburbs, three cities."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "All the cities of the families of Gerson, thirteen, with their suburbs."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And to the children of Merari Levites of the inferior degree by their families was given of the tribe of Zabulon, Iecnam and Cartha"
},
{
"verse": 35,
"text": "and Damna and Naalol, four cities with their suburbs."
},
{
"verse": 36,
"text": "Of the tribe of Ruben beyond Jordan against Jericho the cities of refuge, Bosor in the wilderness, Misor and Jaser and Iethson and Mephaath, four cities with their suburbs."
},
{
"verse": 37,
"text": "Of the tribe of Gad the cities of refuge, Ramoth in Galaad, and Manaim & Hesebon & Jaser, four cities with their suburbs."
},
{
"verse": 38,
"text": "All the cities of the children of Merari by their families and kindreds, twelve."
},
{
"verse": 39,
"text": "Therefore all the cities of the Levites in the midst of the possession of the children of Israel were forty eight,"
},
{
"verse": 40,
"text": "with their suburbs, every one distributed by the families."
},
{
"verse": 41,
"text": "And our Lord God gave to Israel (a) all the Land, that he had sworn he would give to their fathers: and they possessed it, and dwelt in it.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "God gave all the land in due time, but not all at once, for the causes expressed Exo. 23. v. 29. Deut. 7. v. 22."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 42,
"text": "And peace was given by him on all nations round about: and none of their enemies durst resist them, but all were brought into their dominion."
},
{
"verse": 43,
"text": "Not so much certes as one word, which he had promised, that he would perform unto them, was frustrate, but all things were accomplished in deeds."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 22,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "The same time Josue called the Rubenites, and Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasses,"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "and said to them: You have done all things that Moyses the servant of our Lord commanded you: me also have you obeyed in all things,"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "neither have you left your brethren a long time, until this present day, keeping the commandment of our Lord your God."
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "Therefore because our Lord your God hath given your brethren quietness and peace, as he promised: return, and go into your tabernacles, and to the land of your possession, which Moyses the servant of our Lord delivered to you beyond Jordan:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "(a) always so that you keep attentively, and in work fulfill the commandment, and the law which Moyses the servant of our Lord commanded you, that you love our Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, and observe all his commandments, and cleave to him, and serve him in all your heart, and in all your soul.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "It pertaineth to all magistrates and other superiors, to admonish their subjects of their duty towards God, before all other things."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And Josue (b) blessed them, and dismissed them. Who returned into their tabernacles.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "All superiors may impart blessing to their subjects."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And to the half tribe of Manasses Moyses had given possession in Basan: and therefore to the half that remained Josue gave a lot among the rest of their brethren, beyond Jordan at the West side. And when he dismissed them into their tabernacles, and had blessed them,"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "he said to them: In much substance & riches return to your seats, with silver and gold, brass and iron, and variety of raiment: divide the prey of your enemies with your brethren."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And the children of Ruben, and the children of Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses returned, and went from the children of Israel in Silo, which is situated in Chanaan, to enter into Galaad the Land of their possession, which they had obtained according to the commandment of our Lord in the hand of Moyses."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "And when they were come to the little banks of Jordan, into the Land of Chanaan, they built beside Jordan an altar of an infinite greatness."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "(a) Which thing when the children of Israel had heard, and certain messengers had reported to them that the children of Ruben, and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses had builded and altar in the Land of Chanaan, upon the little banks of Jordan, against the children of Israel:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "So it behoveth all the servants of God to see in time, that no schism be made, and therefore orderly to inquire of every shew of evil. 1. Thes. 5."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "they assembled all in Silo, that they might go up, and fight against them."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And in the mean time they sent to them into the Land of Galaad, Phinees the son of Eleazar the Priest,"
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "and ten Princes with him, one of every tribe."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Who came to the children of Ruben, and Gad, and the half tribe of Manasses into the Land of Galaad, and said to them:"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "This message doth all the people of our Lord send to you: What is this transgression? Why have you forsaken our Lord the God of Israel, building a sacrilegious altar, and revolting from the worship of him?"
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Is it a small thing to (b) you that you sinned in Beelphegor, and until this present day the spot of this abomination abideth in us? And many of the people fell dead.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "Sins past are imputed to such as fall again as aggravating their new sins by reason of more ingratitude."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And you today have forsaken our Lord, and tomorrow his wrath will rage (c) against all Israel.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "As before chap. 7. so if these had been culpable all Israel might fear to be punished, except justice were done upon the offenders."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "But if you think the land of your possession to be unclean, pass to the Land wherein is the tabernacle of our Lord, and dwell among us: only that you depart not from our Lord, and from our company, an altar being built beside the altar of our Lord God."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "Did not Achan the son of Zare transgress the commandment of our Lord, and his wrath lay upon all the people of Israel? And he was one man, & I would he alone had perished in his wicked fact."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And the children of Ruben, and Gad, and of the half tribe of Manasses answered the Princes of the legacy of Israel:"
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "The most mighty God our Lord, the most mighty God our Lord, himself knoweth, and Israel together shall understand: If with the mind of prevarication we have erected this altar, let him not keep us, but punish us presently:"
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "and if we did it with that mind, that we might lay upon it holocausts, and sacrifice, and pacific victims, let himself examine it and judge:"
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "and not rather with that meaning and deliberation, that we said: Tomorrow your children will say to our children: What have you to do with our Lord the God of Israel?"
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Our Lord hath put a border between us and you, O ye children of Ruben, and children of Gad, the river Jordan: and therefore you have no part in our Lord. And by this occasion your children shall avert our children from the fear of our Lord. We therefore thought it better,"
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "and said: Let us build us an altar, (d) not for holocausts, nor to offer victims,",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "In the law of Moyses was one only altar for sacrifice, for the whole people of God, to avoid schism and idolatry. Now in the Church (being in all nations) are many altars, & but one only Sacrifice prefigured by all the former, as S. Augustine teacheth li. 17. c. 20. de civit. S. Leo. Ser. 8 de Passione."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "but for a testimony between us and you, and our issue and your progeny, that we may serve our Lord, and it may be our right to offer both holocausts, and victims, and pacific hosts: and that your children tomorrow say not to our children: You have no part in our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And if they will say so, they shall answer them: Behold the altar of our Lord, which our fathers made, not for holocausts, nor for sacrifice, but for our testimony and yours."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "God save us from this abomination that we should revolt from our lord, & leave his steps, erecting an altar to offer holocausts, and sacrifices, and victims, beside the altar of our Lord God, which is erected before his tabernacle."
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "Which things being heard, Phinees the priest, and the princes of the legacy, which were with him, were pacified: and they admitted most willingly the words of the children of Ruben, and Gad, and of the half tribe of Manasses."
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And Phinees the Priest the son of Eleazar said to them: Now we know that our Lord is with us, because you are not culpable of this prevarication, and have delivered the children of Israel from the hand of our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "And he returned with the Princes from the children of Ruben and Gad, out of the Land of Galaad, into the Land of Chanaan, to the children of Israel, and reported to them."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "And the saying pleased all that heard it. And the children of Israel praised God, and they did no more say, that they would go up against them, and fight, and destroy the Land of their possession."
},
{
"verse": 34,
"text": "And the children of Ruben, & the children of Gad called the altar which they had built, Our testimony, that our Lord he is God."
}
],
"summary": "The tribes of Ruben and Gad, and half Manasses return to their possessions. 10. Who building an altar by the side of Jordan, the other tribes suspect that they will make a schism, and therefore purpose to fight against them. 13. But first sending an ambassage to admonish them, 21. they answer that they made not an altar for sacrifice, but only for a monument, that notwithstanding they dwell on the other side of Jordan, yet they are of the same people of God 30. wherewith all Israel is satisfied. [1]",
"summary_notes": [
{
"marker": 1,
"text": "The fourth part."
}
]
},
{
"chapter": 23,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And when much time passed, after that our Lord had given peace to Israel, all the nations being subdued round about, and Josue now very ancient, and of a great age:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "Josue called all Israel, and the elders, and the Princes, and the judges, and the masters, and said to them: I am old, and far gone in age:"
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "and you see all things, that our Lord your God hath done to all the nations round about, (a) how himself hath fought for you:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "God fought for the Israelites three manner of ways: sometimes alone they not fighting at all; as when the Aegyptians were drowned in the red sea: sometimes, they doing his commandments he apparently assisted them, as in the siege of Jericho, the walls miraculously fell down (c. 6.) & hail stones killed their enemies (c. 10.) but most times invisibly, as well by giving them courage, as by striking their enemies with terror. And all these ways God also fighteth for his servants in spiritual wars against the devil, the flesh, and the world."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "and now because he hath by lot divided to you all the Land, from the East part of Jordan unto the great sea, and many nations yet remain:"
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "Our Lord your God will destroy them, and take them away from your face, and you shall possess the Land, as he hath promised you."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "Only take courage, and be careful that you keep all things which be written in the volume of the law of Moyses: and decline not from them neither to the right hand nor to the left:"
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "lest after that you are entered in to the Gentiles, which shall be among you, you swear in the name of their gods, and serve them, and adore them:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "but cleave to our Lord your God: which you have done until this day."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And then our Lord God will take away in your sight the great nations and very strong, and no man shall be able to resist you."
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "One of you shall pursue a thousand men of the enemies: because our Lord your God himself will fight for you, as he hath promised."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "This only beware very diligently beforehand, that you love our Lord your God."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "But if you will cleave to the error of these nations that dwell among you, and make marriages with them, and join amity:"
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "even now know ye that our Lord your God will not destroy them before your face, but they shall be a pit and a snare for you, and a stumbling block at your side, and stakes in your eyes, till he take you away and destroy you from his excellent Land, which he hath delivered to you."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Behold I this day enter into the way of all flesh, and you shall know with all your mind, that all the words which our Lord promised that he would perform to you, one is not escaped without effect."
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "Therefore as he hath fulfilled in deed that which he promised, and all things prosperous have come: so will he bring upon you what evils soever he hath threatened, till he take you away and destroy you from this excellent Land, which he hath delivered to you,"
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "because you have transgressed the covenant of our Lord your God, which he hath made with you, and have served strange gods, and adored them: quickly and in haste shall the fury of our Lord rise against you, and you shall be taken away from this excellent Land, which he hath delivered to you."
}
],
"summary": "Josue being old admonisheth the people to keep God's commandments, 12. and to avoid marriages, and all society with gentiles, lest falling to idolatry God as certainly punish them, as he hath been beneficial and bountiful to them."
},
{
"chapter": 24,
"verses": [
{
"verse": 1,
"text": "And Josue gathered together all the tribes of Israel into Sichem, and called the ancients, and Princes, and judges, and masters: and they stood in the sight of our Lord:"
},
{
"verse": 2,
"text": "and to the people he spake in this manner: Thus saith our Lord the God of Israel: Beyond the river did your fathers dwell from the beginning, Thare the father of Abraham, and (a) of Nachor: and they served strange gods.",
"has_annotation": true,
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "The Israelites descended also of Nachor, by Rebecca, his son's daughter, the wife of Isaac. Gen. 24."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 3,
"text": "Itook therefore your father Abraham from the coasts of Mesopotamia, and brought him into the Land of Chanaan, and multiplied his seed,"
},
{
"verse": 4,
"text": "and gave him Isaac: & again to him I gave Jacob and Esau. Of whom, to Esau I gave mount Seir to possess: but Jacob & his children went down into Aegypt."
},
{
"verse": 5,
"text": "And I sent Moyses & Aaron, & struck Aegypt with many signs and wonders."
},
{
"verse": 6,
"text": "And I brought you and your fathers out of Aegypt, and you came to the sea: and the Aegyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen, as far as the Red sea."
},
{
"verse": 7,
"text": "And the children of Israel cried to the Lord: who did put darkness between you and the Aegyptians, and brought the sea upon them, & overwhelmed them. Your eyes saw all things I did in Aegypt, and you dwelt in the wilderness a great time:"
},
{
"verse": 8,
"text": "& I brought you into the Land of the Amorrhite, which dwelt beyond Jordan. And when they fought against you, I delivered them into your hands, and you possessed their Land, and slew them."
},
{
"verse": 9,
"text": "And there rose Balac the son of Sephor king of Moab, and fought against Israel. And he sent and called Balaam the son of Beor, that he might curse you:"
},
{
"verse": 10,
"text": "& I would not hear him, but contrarywise by him I blessed you, and delivered you out of his hand."
},
{
"verse": 11,
"text": "And you passed Jordan, and came to Jericho. And the men of that city fought against you, the Amorrhite, and Pherezite, and Chananite, & the Hetheite, and Gergesite, and the Heveite, and Jebusite: & I delivered them into your hands."
},
{
"verse": 12,
"text": "And I sent before you hornets: and I cast them forth out of their places, the two kings of the Amorrheites, not in thy sword and bow."
},
{
"verse": 13,
"text": "And I gave you the Land, wherein you laboured not, and the cities which you built not, to dwell in them: vineyards and olive trees, which you planted not."
},
{
"verse": 14,
"text": "Now therefore fear our lord and serve him with a perfect and very true heart: and (a) take away the gods, which your fathers served in Mesopotamia and in Aegypt, and serve our Lord.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "a",
"text": "Iosue being a Prophet saw some of their hearts inclined to idols, though exteriorly they then had none among them. S. Aug. q. 29. in Iosue."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 15,
"text": "But if it like you not to serve our Lord, choice is given you: choose this day that which pleaseth you, whom you ought especially to serve, whether the gods, which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the gods of the Amorrheites, in whose Land you dwell: but I and my house will serve our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 16,
"text": "And the people answered, and said: God forbid we should leave our Lord, and serve strange gods."
},
{
"verse": 17,
"text": "Our Lord God he brought us and our fathers out of the Land of Aegypt, out of the house of servitude: and did in our sight great signs, & kept us in all the way by the which we walked, & among all the peoples, through which we passed."
},
{
"verse": 18,
"text": "And he hath cast out all the nations, the Amorrhite inhabiter of the Land, which we have entered. We therefore will serve our Lord, because he is our God."
},
{
"verse": 19,
"text": "And Josue said to the people: You cannot serve our Lord: for God is holy, and a mighty emulator, neither will he pardon your wickedness & sins."
},
{
"verse": 20,
"text": "If you leave our Lord, and serve strange gods, he will turn himself; and will afflict you, & overthrow you after he hath given you good things."
},
{
"verse": 21,
"text": "And the people said to Josue: No, it shall not be so as thou speakest, but we will serve our Lord."
},
{
"verse": 22,
"text": "And Josue said to the people: You are witnesses, that yourselves have chosen to you our Lord for to serve him. And they answered: Witnesses."
},
{
"verse": 23,
"text": "Now therefore, quoth he, take away strange gods out of the midst of you, and incline your hearts to our Lord the God of Israel."
},
{
"verse": 24,
"text": "And the people said to Josue: We will serve our Lord God, and will be obedient to his precepts."
},
{
"verse": 25,
"text": "Josue therefore in that day (b) made a covenant, and proposed to the people precepts and judgments in Sichem.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "b",
"text": "This renovation of the same covenant prefigured the law of the new Testament. S. Aug. q. 30. in Iosue."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 26,
"text": "He wrote also all these words in the volume of the law of our Lord: and he took a very great stone, and put it under the oak, that was in the Sanctuary of our Lord:"
},
{
"verse": 27,
"text": "and said to all the people: Behold this stone shall be a testimony for you, that (c) it hath heard all the words of our Lord, which he hath spoken to you: lest perhaps hereafter you will deny, and lie to our Lord your God.",
"notes": [
{
"label": "c",
"text": "To the more confusion of reasonable creatures willfully offending, unsensible things are made witnesses, because they ever obey God's will, which is the best manner of hearing. Theod. q. 19. in Iosue."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 28,
"text": "And he dismist the people, every one into their possession."
},
{
"verse": 29,
"text": "(d) And after these things Josue the Son of Nun the servant of our Lord died, being an hundred and ten years old:",
"notes": [
{
"label": "d",
"text": "If Iosue writ the rest of this book, then Samuel added these last verses. Hist. schol."
}
]
},
{
"verse": 30,
"text": "and they buried him in the coasts of his possession in Thamnathsare, which is situated in the mountain of Ephraim, on the North part of mount Gaas.",
"has_annotation": true
},
{
"verse": 31,
"text": "And Israel served our Lord all the days of Josue, and of the ancients, that lived a long time after Josue, & that had known all the works of our Lord which he had done in Israel."
},
{
"verse": 32,
"text": "The (e)[1] bones also of Joseph which the children of Israel had taken out of Aegypt, they buried in Sichem, in part of the field, which Jacob had bought of the sons of Hemor the father of Sichem, for a hundred young ewes, and it was in the possession of the sons of Joseph."
},
{
"verse": 33,
"text": "Eleazar also the son of Aaron died: and they buried him in Gabaath of Phinees his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim."
}
],
"summary": "In consideration of diverse principal benefits here recited, 14. Josue exhorteth the people to serve God sincerely, seeing it is in their choice to do well or evil. 16. They promise all true service and obedience to God. 25. Whereupon he reneweth the pact between God and them, writing it in the volume of the law, and erecting a great stone in testimony. 29. He dieth and is buried in mount Ephraim. 32. Joseph's bones are buried in Sichem. 33. Eliazar the high-Priest also dieth and is buried in Ephraim."
}
]
}