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but I feared provocation by the enemy, for their adversaries might misunderstand and say, "Our hand is triumphant; it was not the Lord who did all this."

This is no trifling matter for you, but rather your very life; through it you may live long in the land that you are crossing over the Jordan to possess."

The Lord said to him, "This is the land of which I swore to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, saying, ‘I will give it to your descendants'; I have let you see it with your eyes, but you shall not cross over there."

He was buried in a valley in the land of Moab, opposite Beth-peor, but no one knows his burial place to this day.

Your wives, your little ones, and your livestock shall remain in the land that Moses gave you beyond the Jordan. But all the warriors among you shall cross over armed before your kindred and shall help them,

But the woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, "True, the men came to me, but I did not know where they came from.

If any of you go out of the doors of your house into the street, they shall be responsible for their own death, and we shall be innocent; but if a hand is laid upon any who are with you in the house, we shall bear the responsibility for their death.

But if you tell this business of ours, then we shall be released from this oath that you made us swear to you."

He replied, "Neither; but as commander of the army of the Lord I have now come." And Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worshiped, and he said to him, "What do you command your servant, my lord?"

But all silver and gold, and vessels of bronze and iron, are sacred to the Lord ; they shall go into the treasury of the Lord ."

But Rahab the prostitute, with her family and all who belonged to her, Joshua spared. Her family has lived in Israel ever since. For she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

But the Israelites broke faith in regard to the devoted things: Achan son of Carmi son of Zabdi son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things; and the anger of the Lord burned against the Israelites.

with the command, "You shall lie in ambush against the city, behind it; do not go very far from the city, but all of you stay alert.

So Joshua sent them out; and they went to the place of ambush, and lay between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai; but Joshua spent that night in the camp.

So they stationed the forces, the main encampment that was north of the city and its rear guard west of the city. But Joshua spent that night in the valley.

When the king of Ai saw this, he and all his people, the inhabitants of the city, hurried out early in the morning to the meeting place facing the Arabah to meet Israel in battle; but he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city.

But the king of Ai was taken alive and brought to Joshua.

But when the inhabitants of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and to Ai,

But the Israelites said to the Hivites, "Perhaps you live among us; then how can we make a treaty with you?"

Here is our bread; it was still warm when we took it from our houses as our food for the journey, on the day we set out to come to you, but now, see, it is dry and moldy;