H9033–וֹ–o

Now when Joshua was near Jericho, lifting up his eyes he saw a man in front of him, with his sword uncovered in his hand: and Joshua went up to him and said, Are you for us or against us?

לְנֶגְדּ֔וֹ (וֹ) o “him”אֵלָיו֙ (ו֙) v “him”ל֔וֹ (וֹ) o “him”

And he said, No; but I have come as captain of the armies of the Lord. Then Joshua, falling down with his face to the earth in worship, said, What has my lord to say to his servant?

ל֔וֹ (וֹ) o “him”

And the captain of the Lord's army said to Joshua, Take off your shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy. And Joshua did so.

עָלָ֖יו (ו) v “it”

And at the sound of a long note on the horns, let all the people give a loud cry; and the wall of the town will come down flat, and all the people are to go straight forward.

נֶגְדּֽוֹ׃ (וֹ) o “himself”

And as for you, keep yourselves from the cursed thing, for fear that you may get a desire for it and take some of it for yourselves, and so be the cause of a curse and great trouble on the tents of Israel.

אוֹתֽוֹ׃ (וֹ) o “it”

So the people gave a loud cry, and the horns were sounded; and on hearing the horns the people gave a loud cry, and the wall came down flat, so that the people went up into the town, every man going straight before him, and they took the town.

נֶגְדּ֔וֹ (וֹ) o “himself”

Then they came back to Joshua and said to him, Do not send all the people up, but let about two or three thousand men go up and make an attack on Ai; there is no need for all the people to be tired with the journey there, for it is only a small town.

אֵלָיו֮ (ו֮) v “him”

So in the morning you are to come near, tribe by tribe; and the tribe marked out by the Lord is to come near, family by family; and the family marked out by the Lord is to come near, house by house; and the house marked out by the Lord is to come near, m

יִלְכְּדֶ֨נּוּ (נּוּ) nu “it”יִלְכְּדֶ֣נּוּ (נּוּ) nu “it”

Then the man who is taken with the cursed thing is to be burned, with everything which is his; because he has gone against the agreement of the Lord and has done an act of shame in Israel.

אֹת֖וֹ (וֹ) o “him”ל֑וֹ (וֹ) o “him”

And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give glory and praise to the Lord, the God of Israel; give me word now of what you have done, and keep nothing back from me.

ל֣וֹ (וֹ) o “him”

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

ל֔וֹ (וֹ) o “him”עִמּ֑וֹ (וֹ) o “him”

And Joshua said, Why have you been a cause of trouble to us? Today the Lord will send trouble on you. And all Israel took part in stoning him; they had him stoned to death and then burned with fire.

אֹת֤וֹ (וֹ) o “him”

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.

עָלָ֜יו (ו) v “him”

And all the fighting-men who were with him went up and came near the town, and took up a position on the north side of Ai facing the town, with a valley between him and the town.

אִתּ֗וֹ (וֹ) o “him”בֵּינָ֥יו (ו) v “it”

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.

ל֖וֹ (וֹ) o “him”

Then the other force came out of the town against them, so that they were being attacked on this side and on that: and Israel overcame them and let not one of them get away with his life.

ל֖וֹ (וֹ) o “him”

But the king of Ai they made prisoner, and took him to Joshua.

אֹת֖וֹ (וֹ) o “him”

Then, after the destruction of all the people of Ai in the field and in the waste land where they went after them, and when all the people had been put to death without mercy, all Israel went back to Ai, and put to death all who were in it without mercy.

בּ֔וֹ (וֹ) o “it”

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

עָלָיו֙ (ו֙) v “him”

In the way ordered by Moses, the servant of the Lord, as it is recorded in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, untouched by any iron instrument: and on it they made burned offerings and peace-offerings to the Lord.

עָלָ֤יו (ו) v “it”

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

וְשֹׁפְטָ֡יו (ו) v “its”

And they came to Joshua to the tent-circle at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, We have come from a far country: so now make an agreement with us.

אֵלָ֜יו (ו) v “him”

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,

אֵלָ֗יו (ו) v “him”

This bread which we have with us for our food, we took warm and new from our houses when starting on our journey to you; but now see, it has become dry and broken up.

אֹתוֹ֙ (וֹ֙) o “it”

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

אֵלָ֔יו (ו) v “him”