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So the Lord was with Joshua; and news of him went through all the land.

שָׁמְע֖וֹ (וֹ) O “him”

Then Joshua, in great grief, went down on the earth before the ark of the Lord till the evening, and all the chiefs of Israel with him, and they put dust on their heads.

שִׂמְלֹתָ֗יו (ו) v “his”פָּנָ֨יו (ו) v “his”

O Lord, what am I to say now that Israel have given way before their attackers?

אֹיְבָֽיו׃ (ו) v “its”

So Joshua got up early in the morning, and made Israel come before him by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken;

לִשְׁבָטָ֑יו (ו) v “its”

Then the house of Zabdi came forward man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.

בֵּית֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it.

מִשְׁקָל֔וֹ (וֹ) o “its”

So Joshua sent men quickly, and looking in his tent, they saw where the robe had been put away secretly with the silver under it.

בְּאָהֳל֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, the son of Zerah, and the silver and the robe and the mass of gold, and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and everything he had; and they took them up into the valley o

בָּנָ֡יו (ו) v “his”בְּנֹתָ֡יו (ו) v “his”שׁוֹרוֹ֩ (וֹ֩) o “his”חֲמֹר֨וֹ (וֹ) o “his”צֹאנ֤וֹ (וֹ) o “his”אָהֳלוֹ֙ (וֹ֙) o “his”

And over him they put a great mass of stones, which is there to this day; then the heat of the Lord's wrath was turned away. So that place was named, The Valley of Achor, to this day.

אַפּ֑וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

Then the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear and do not be troubled: take with you all the fighting-men and go up against Ai: for I have given into your hands the king of Ai and his people and his town and his land:

עַמּ֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”עִיר֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”אַרְצֽוֹ׃ (וֹ) o “his”

So all the people were in their places, the army on the north side of the town and the secret force on the west; and that night Joshua went down into the valley.

עֲקֵב֖וֹ (וֹ) o “its”

Now when the king of Ai saw it, he got up quickly and went out to war against Israel, he and all his people, to the slope going down to the valley; but he had no idea that a secret force was waiting at the back of the town.

עַמּ֛וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

And the Lord said to Joshua, Let your spear be stretched out against Ai; for I will give it into your hands. So Joshua took up his spear, stretching it out in the direction of the town.

בְּיָד֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

Then the secret force came quickly from their place, and running forward when they saw his hand stretched out, went into the town and took it, and put fire to it straight away.

מִמְּקוֹמ֤וֹ (וֹ) o “its”יָד֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

For Joshua did not take back his hand with the outstretched spear till the destruction of the people of Ai was complete.

יָד֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

And he put the king of Ai to death, hanging him on a tree till evening: and when the sun went down, Joshua gave them orders to take his body down from the tree, and put it in the public place of the town, covering it with a great mass of stones, which is

נִבְלָת֣וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

And all Israel, those who were Israelites by birth, as well as the men from other lands living with them, and their responsible men and their overseers and judges, took their places round the ark, in front of the priests, the Levites, whose work it was t

וּזְקֵנָ֡יו (ו) v “its”חֶצְיוֹ֙ (וֹ֙) o “it”וְהַֽחֶצְי֖וֹ (וֹ) o “it”

And they said to him, Your servants have come from a very far country, because of the name of the Lord your God: for the story of his great name, and of all he did in Egypt has come to our ears,

שָׁמְע֔וֹ (וֹ) O “him”

Now three days after, when they had made this agreement with them, they had word that these men were their neighbours, living near them.

וּבְקִרְבּ֖וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

And, answering Joshua, they said, Because it came to the ears of your servants that the Lord your God had given orders to his servant Moses to give you all this land, and to send destruction on all the people living in it, because of you; so, fearing gre

עַבְדּ֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

And the sun was at rest and the moon kept its place till the nation had given punishment to their attackers. (Is it not recorded in the book of Jashar?) So the sun kept its place in the middle of the heavens, and was waiting, and did not go down, for the

אֹֽיְבָ֔יו (ו) v “its”

And there was no day like that, before it or after it, when the Lord gave ear to the voice of a man; for the Lord was fighting for Israel.

לְפָנָ֣יו (ו) v “it”

All the people went back to Joshua to the tent-circle at Makkedah in peace: and no one said a word against the children of Israel.

לְשֹׁנֽוֹ׃ (וֹ) o “his”

Then Horam, king of Gezer, came up to the help of Lachish; and Joshua overcame him and his people, putting all of them to death.

עַמּ֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”

As the Lord had given orders to Moses his servant, so Moses gave orders to Joshua, and so Joshua did; every order which the Lord had given to Moses was done.

עַבְדּ֔וֹ (וֹ) o “his”