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The Lord your God caused the water to stop flowing until you finished crossing it, just as the Lord did to the Red Sea. He stopped the water until we crossed it.

The Lord did this so all people would know he has great power and so you would always respect the Lord your God.'"

Then Joshua said, "Lord God , you brought our people across the Jordan River. Why did you bring us this far and then let the Amorites destroy us? We would have been happy to stay on the other side of the Jordan.

"Now go! Make the people holy. Tell them, ‘Set yourselves apart to the Lord for tomorrow. The Lord , the God of Israel, says some of you are keeping things he commanded you to destroy. You will never defeat your enemies until you throw away those things.

Then Joshua said to Achan, "My son, tell the truth. Confess to the Lord , the God of Israel. Tell me what you did, and don't try to hide anything from me."

Achan answered, "It is true! I have sinned against the Lord , the God of Israel. This is what I did:

come out from your ambush and take the city. The Lord your God will give you the power to win.

Joshua built an altar for the Lord , the God of Israel, on Mount Ebal, as

The men answered, "We are your servants who have come from a far country, because we heard of the fame of the Lord your God. We heard about what he has done and everything he did in Egypt.

But the Israelites did not attack those cities, because they had made a promise to them before the Lord , the God of Israel. All the Israelites grumbled against the leaders.

But the leaders answered, "We have given our promise before the Lord , the God of Israel, so we cannot attack them now.

Now, you will be placed under a curse to be our slaves. You will have to cut wood and carry water for the house of my God."

The Gibeonites answered Joshua, "We lied to you because we were afraid you would kill us. We heard that the Lord your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all of this land and to kill all the people who lived in it. That is why we did this.

but don't stay there yourselves. Continue chasing the enemy and attacking them from behind. Don't let them get to their cities, because the Lord your God will hand them over to you."

So Joshua defeated all the kings of the cities of these areas: the mountains, southern Canaan, the western hills, and the slopes. The Lord , the God of Israel, had told Joshua to completely destroy all the people as an offering to the Lord , so he left no one alive in those places.

He captured all these cities and their kings on one trip, because the Lord , the God of Israel, was fighting for Israel.

The tribe of Levi was the only one that did not get any land. Instead, they were given all the burned sacrifices made to the Lord , the God of Israel, as he had promised them.

But Moses had given no land to the tribe of Levi because the Lord , the God of Israel, promised that he himself would be the gift for the Levites.

So that day Moses promised me, ‘The land where you went will become your land, and your children will own it forever. I will give you that land because you fully believed in the Lord , my God.'

Hebron still belongs to the family of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite because he had faith and obeyed the Lord , the God of Israel.