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And she said to them: Get ye up to the mountains, lest perhaps they meet you as they return: and there lie ye hid three days, till they come back, and so you shall go on your way.

And she answered: As you have spoken, so be it done: and sending them on their way, she hung the scarlet cord in the window.

And the Lord said to Josue: This day will I begin to exalt thee before Israel: that they may know that as I was with Moses, so I am with thee also.

So the people went out of their tents, to pass over the Jordan: and the priests that carried the ark of the covenant, went on before them.

And the Prince of the Lord’s host said to Joshua, Acts 10:25, 26; Rev. 19:10), and still further in the command, 'Loose thy shoe from off thy foot'" (KJV) (Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown, A Commentary). The New Bible Commentary supports this position (as do J.P. Lange, The Cambridge Bible, Charles Ellicott, and many others) when it says, "We believe that this was the Son of God Himself."">[fn] oose your shoes from off your feet, for the place where you stand is holy. And Joshua did so. Exod. 3:5.">[fn]

Go round about the city all ye fighting men once a day: so shall ye do for six days.

So the ark of the Lord went about the city once a day, and returning into the camp, abode there.

And they went round about the city the second day once, and returned into the camp. So they did six days.

So all the people making a shout, and the trumpets sounding, when the voice and the sound thundered in the ears of the multitude, the walls forthwith fell down: and every man went up by the place that was over against him: and they took the city,

And when you shall have taken it, set it on fire, and you shall do all things so as I have commanded.

But all the rest of the army went in battle array on the north side, so that the last of that multitude reached to the west side of the city. So Josue went that night, and stood in the midst of the valley.

So Josue, and all Israel, seeing that the city was taken, and that the smoke of the city rose up, returned, and slew the men of Hai.

And they also that had taken and set the city on fire, issuing out of the city to meet their own men, began to cut off the enemies who were surrounded by them. So that the enemies being cut off on both sides, not one of so great a multitude was saved.

So all being slain that had pursued after Israel, in his flight to the wilderness, and falling by the sword in the same place, the children of Israel returned and laid waste the city.

Perhaps you dwell in the land which falls to our lot; if so, we can make no league with you.

But so let them live, as to serve the whole multitude in hewing wood, and bringing in water. As they were speaking these things,

So Josue did as he had said, and delivered them from the hand of the children of Israel, that they should not be slain.

When Adonisedec, king of Jerusalem, had heard these things, to wit, that Josue had taken Hai, and had destroyed it, (for as he had done to Jericho and the king thereof, so did he to Hai and its king) and that the Gabaonites were gone over to Israel, and were their confederates,

So the five kings of the Amorrhites being assembled together, went up: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jerimoth, the king of Lachis, the king of Eglon, they and their armies, and camped about Gabaon, laying siege to it.

So Josue going up from Galgal all the night, came upon them suddenly.