Josue — Chapter 7

the towne of Bethel, he faid to (tie: Goevp ,a.d view the Land: who accompluiisg his command- ments , viewed Hai. 3. And returning they faid to niin ; Let not al the people goe vp, butiet two or tarce thoufand men goe, and deitroy.the citie : why thal ai the people be vexed in vaine againit verie few cne- mics ?.4. There went vp thertore three thoufand fighting men. Who immicdiately turning cheir backes , 5. were flrucken of the men ofthe citie of Hai, and there fel of chem (4) Gixand thirtie men : and the (4)S0 God aducrfarics purfued them trom the gate as tarre as Sabarin) , and reinpered bis they {trucke them fying away by the defcent : : andthe hart of the that but few people was much atrayd , and melted like vnte water. 6. Bur Lo- were laine , &t fue rent his garments, and fel flat on the zround before the arkeofour afterwards — } Lord vnnil cuening, as wel he as. alche ancients of Lfrael:and they caft S2uethe towne dult vpen their neads,7,2nd Tofue faid.: Alas, o Lord God , why woul- iwithousialle dei thou bring this people over the riuer of lordan,,to deliuer vs into ‘of any of their} the Gass ofthe Amorrheite,& to dettroy vs2 Would God as we began, jmea we had taricd bevondlordan.e. My LordGod wihat ial I fay, fecing It ‘ Taelturning their beckes to their enemies:9, The Chananeites sial heare ort, & althe mhabitants ot the Lad, and being cathe: ed together ina plump thal compafle vs about,& thai dedtroy our name trom rhe earth: Lil 2 aud aro lee aaa (6)Prayer will not auaile til Nuttice be firlt done, . ned , and tranfgreffed my couenant: and they haue taken of the ana- _becaufe he is polluted with the anathema. I wil be no more with you, tabernacle foundal things hidin the fame place , and the filuer withal. they brought them to the valley of Achor:25.\where lofue faid ; Becaufe = - = 454 Ios V E. Achanpanithed, and what wilt thou doe to thy great name? ro. And our Lord faid to Tofue : Arife (6) why lieft chou flat on the ground > 11.1frael hati fin- thema , amd haue ftolen and lied , and haue hidit among their veffels. r2. Neither can Ifrael ftand before his enemies, and he jhal dy them: til you difpatch him, that is guiltic of this wicked fact,1;.Arife, fanctifie the people, and fay to them : Be fanctifed againft to morrow, for thus faith our Lord God of Ifrael : There is anathema in che middes of thee, o Ifrael : thou canft not ftand before thyne enemies,til he be dedtroyed out of thee thatiscontaminared with this wicked fact.14.And you thal come in the morning euerie one by your tribes : and whattribe foeuer the lot fhal find, it fhal come by the kinreds therof , the kinred by the houfes, & the houfe by the men. 15, And whofocuer he be that {hal be taken in this fad he thal be burnt in-the tyre with al his fubftance , be- caufe he hath tranfereffed the conuenant of our Lord,& hath done abo- mination in Ifracl.16.lofue therfore ryling in the morning made Ifrael te come by their tribes , and it was found the tribe of Iuda.17. Which being prefented by the families therof,it was found the familie of Zare. Prefenting that alfoby the houfes, he found it Zabdi :18, whofe houfe diuiding into euerie man,het6neAchan the fonne of Charmi,the fonne of Zabdi , the fonne of Zare of the tribe of Iuda. 19, And Ictue faid to Achan : My fonne, giue glorie to our Lord Cod of I{rael, and confeffe, and tel me what thou hatt done, hide it not. 2o.And Achan anfwered lofue,& {aid to him:Indeed I haue finned to our Lord the God of Ifrael, and thus and thus haue I done, 21. For I fav among the fpoiles-a cloke of {carler verie good and two hundred ticles of filuer,and a golden rule of hiftie ficles : and coucting I tooke it away, and hid ir in the ground againft the middes of my tabernacle , and the {iluer i couered with the earth diyged vp. 22. Iofue therfore fent minitters ; who ruoning to his

We thertore flying , and they purfuing , you thal rife out of the am- buthments , and thal wait the citic : and our Lord your God wil deliuer it into your ‘hands. 8 And when you thal take it, burne it, and you thal doe al things fo.as 1 haue commanded.g. And he : difmiffed them away, and they went on to the place ot the ambuihinents , and fate between Bethel and Hat, atthe Weit fide of the citre of Hai, But Iofue that night itayed in the middes of the people, ro, and ryiinzcarly he muttered ‘his foldiers , and went vp with the ancients in the tront of the hoite, enui- roned with the ayd ot the fahting men, 11.And when they were come and were gone vp directly againit the citie,they ftood on she North fide of the citie , between wiicn and them wasa valley inthe middes. 12, And (2) fiue thoufand men had he chofen, and fet ia the ambuth- ments ‘betivecn Bethel and Hai,oa the Weit lide of the fame citic: 13.bur al the reft of the hoite went in pattel aray on the North fide, fo that the 'laft of the multitude did reach to the Wert fide of the citic, Tofue ther- fore went that night , and itood in the middes of the valley, 1.4. Which when the King of Hat hadieen, he made hait in the morning , and © iffued forth with althe hoit of the cizic , and bent his armie toward Lil 3 red, 32. the law written wm fones, the people bleed . and che vlefings and tne (a) Deceipts & ftratagems ‘are lawful in ‘intt warre;buc ‘not falfhood, ‘nor breach of promife, S. cAug. 4.10. i Lofue. (b) Thefe fine theufand were of the thirtie thoufand, which were ‘frit fent, v.3, The other 25000, toyned, with Lofues troup, & ente~ red Into the citre, --- PAGE 454 --- (c)Notone fit to beare armes was left, 4d He lifted his fhicld vpona long pike or lance, that it might be {cena farre off, And when he had -lfted vp -his fhield againft the citie , the embulh- 456 IOS VE. ‘Hai deftroyed, the defert, being ignorant that there lay embufhments fecretly behind his backe. 15. But lofue and al Iftael gaue backe, feyning feare, and flying by the way of the wildernes. 16. But they cried aloud together, & encouraging one an other, purfyed them, And when they were gone from the citie,17. and ( ¢ ) not oneremained in the citre of Hai and Be- thel that purfued not Ifrael (euen as they had rufhed out leauing the townes open ) 18. our Lord faid to lofue: (d) Lift vp the fhield , that isin thy hand, againft the citie of Hai, for 1 wil deliuer it to thee. 19. ments, that lay hid , rofe vp immediately:and going to the citie, tooke and burnt it, 20, And the men of the citie, that purfued Iofue, looking backe & feeing the fmoke of the citie rife vp euen to heauen,they could no more fly hither and thither : efpecially whereas they,that had feyned running away, and went toward the wildernes , moft valiantly refifted again{t the purfuers. 21, And Iofue and al Irael feeing thatthe citie was taken, and the {moke of the citie rofe vp, returning he ftrucke the men of Hai, 22, For they alfo that had taken and burnt the citie iffuing out of the citie againft their owne men , began to ftrike the enetnies iv the middes of them. When the aduerfaries therfore were flaine enborh. fides, fo that none of fo great a multitude was faued , 23. they tooke the King of the citie of Hai aliue, and prefented him to Iofue, 24. Therfore -al being flaine , that had purfued Ifrael flying to the deferts, and falling by the {word in the fame place,the children of Ifrael returning ftruck the citie. 25. Ard there were that fel that fame day from man vnto wo- man, tweluc thoufand men, al of the citre of Hai. 26. Butlofue plucked not ia his hand,which he had ftretched forth on hy gh, holding the fhield til al che inhabitants of Hai were flainc. 2 7-And the cattel and the pre oft the citie the children of Ifrack dinided among them,as our Lord had commanded Iofue. 28. Who burnt the citic, and made ita heap for euct : 29, the King alfo therof he hung on agibbet vatil euening and the going downe of the funne. And he commanded » and they tooke downe _his corps trom the gibbet :and threw itin the verie entring of the citie, heaping vpon it a great heap of ftones., whichremaineth vntil this prefent day, 30, Then lofue built an altar to our Lord the God of Ifraclin mount Hebal , 31. as Moyfesthe feruant of our Lord had commaded the children of Irael, amd it is written in the volume of the Jaw of Moyfes : an Altar of vnhewed ftones which yron hath not touched ; and he effered vpon itholccauftsto our Lord,and imimolated pacifike vicrimes, 32. And he wrote vpon ftonesthe Deuteronomie of the law of Moyfes, which he had ordered before the children of Ifrael, 33- Aid al the people, and the ancients,and the Princes and ludges flood en both fides of tie arke,in the fight of the Priefis that caricd the atke of the couenant of our Lord , as wel the {iranger as alfo the man of the fame countric, the halt part of theun befide mount Garizim , and hale pelide mount Hebal,as Moyfes the feruant of our Lord had cOmanded. And t l 1 ‘Demt,27' i --- PAGE 455 --- ‘Gabaon ,, hearing al things thar Iofue had done to Iericho and Hai: King of Hefebon , and Og the King of Bafan ,that were ia Aftaroth, Gabaonites. IOS VE, 457 And firtt indeed he -(e) bleffed thepeople of Ifrael.. 34. After this he ce) AJ fupe- read al the words of rhe bleffing and the curfing , and al things that bene may which Moyfes had commanded, did he leaue vntouched , but he re- [ces their peo- peated al things betere al the multitude of Ifrael , the women and chil- ple, & parents dren and ftrangers , that dwelt among them, their children.