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So that all the peoples of the earth might know that the hand of the LORD is mighty, and that you may worship the LORD your God for ever.

And Joshua said, Alas, O LORD God, why hast thou brought this people over the Jordan, to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites? Would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan!

Up, summon this people, and say, Be ready tomorrow; for thus says the LORD God of Israel, There is an accursed thing in the midst of you, O Israel; you cannot stand before your enemies any more until you remove the accursed thing from among you.

And Joshua said to Achar, Give glory to the LORD God of Israel, and give praise to him; and tell me now what you have done; and do not hide it from me.

Achar answered Joshua, and said, Truly I have sinned against the LORD God of Israel, and this is what I did:

Then you shall rise up from your ambush, and seize upon the city; for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hands.

Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD God of Israel in mount Gebal,

And they said to him, From a very far country your servants have come because of the name of the LORD your God; for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt.

And the children of Israel did not kill them, because the princes of the congregation had sworn to them by the LORD God of Israel. And the whole congregation murmured and were in an uproar against the princes.

But the princes said to the congregation, We have sworn to them by the LORD God of Israel; now therefore we cannot harm them.

Now therefore you are cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being gatherers of wood and drawers of water for the house of God.

And they answered and said to Joshua, Because it was certainly told your servants that the LORD your God commanded Moses his servant to give you all the land and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were exceedingly afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

Do not stay yourselves, but pursue your enemies and overtake them; and do not let them enter the city; for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hands.

So Joshua smote all the land, the mountain region, the southern region, the plain, and Ashdod, and all their kings; he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all their armies, as the LORD God of Israel had commanded him.

And Joshua conquered all these kings and their countries at one time; because the LORD God of Israel was with him, and it was he who fought for Israel.

Only to the tribe of Levi he gave no inheritance, because the offerings of the LORD God of Israel are their inheritance, as Moses had said.

But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; because, as he said to them, the LORD God of Israel was their inheritance.

Nevertheless our brethren who went up with us made the heart of the people quake; but I wholly followed the LORD my God.

And Moses swore at that time, saying, Surely the land on which your foot has trodden shall be your inheritance, and your childrens forever, because you have wholly followed the LORD God.

Hebron therefore and its environs became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jophaniah the Kenezite to this day, because he wholly followed the LORD God of Israel.