The Old Testament of the
King James Version of the Bible
20:1 The LORD also spake unto Joshua,
saying, 20:2 Speak to the
children of Israel, saying, Appoint out for
you cities of refuge,
whereof I spake unto you by the hand of
Moses: 20:3 That the slayer
that killeth any person unawares and
unwittingly may flee thither: and
they shall be your refuge from the avenger
of blood.
20:4 And when he that doth flee unto one of
those cities shall stand
at the entering of the gate of the city, and
shall declare his cause
in the ears of the elders of that city, they
shall take him into the
city unto them, and give him a place, that
he may dwell among them.
20:5 And if the avenger of blood pursue
after him, then they shall not
deliver the slayer up into his hand; because
he smote his neighbour
unwittingly, and hated him not beforetime.
20:6 And he shall dwell in that city, until
he stand before the
congregation for judgment, and until the
death of the high priest that
shall be in those days: then shall the
slayer return, and come unto
his own city, and unto his own house, unto
the city from whence he
fled.
20:7 And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in
mount Naphtali, and
Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjatharba,
which is Hebron, in the
mountain of Judah.
20:8 And on the other side Jordan by Jericho
eastward, they assigned
Bezer in the wilderness upon the plain out
of the tribe of Reuben, and
Ramoth in Gilead out of the tribe of Gad,
and Golan in Bashan out of
the tribe of Manasseh.
20:9 These were the cities appointed for all
the children of Israel,
and for the stranger that sojourneth among
them, that whosoever
killeth any person at unawares might flee
thither, and not die by the
hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood
before the congregation.
21:1 Then came near the heads of the fathers
of the Levites unto
Eleazar the priest, and unto Joshua the son
of Nun, and unto the heads
of the fathers of the tribes of the children
of Israel; 21:2 And they
spake unto them at Shiloh in the land of
Canaan, saying, The LORD
commanded by the hand of Moses to give us
cities to dwell in, with the
suburbs thereof for our cattle.
21:3 And the children of Israel gave unto
the Levites out of their
inheritance, at the commandment of the LORD,
these cities and their
suburbs.
21:4 And the lot came out for the families
of the Kohathites: and the
children of Aaron the priest, which were of
the Levites, had by lot
out of the tribe of Judah, and out of the
tribe of Simeon, and out of
the tribe of Benjamin, thirteen cities.
21:5 And the rest of the children of Kohath
had by lot out of the
families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of
the tribe of Dan, and out
of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
21:6 And the children of Gershon had by lot
out of the families of the
tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of
Asher, and out of the tribe
of Naphtali, and out of the half tribe of
Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen
cities.
21:7 The children of Merari by their
families had out of the tribe of
Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out
of the tribe of Zebulun,
twelve cities.
21:8 And the children of Israel gave by lot
unto the Levites these
cities with their suburbs, as the LORD
commanded by the hand of Moses.
21:9 And they gave out of the tribe of the
children of Judah, and out
of the tribe of the children of Simeon,
these cities which are here
mentioned by name.
21:10 Which the children of Aaron, being of
the families of the
Kohathites, who were of the children of
Levi, had: for theirs was the
first lot.
21:11 And they gave them the city of Arba
the father of Anak, which
city is Hebron, in the hill country of
Judah, with the suburbs thereof
round about it.
21:12 But the fields of the city, and the
villages thereof, gave they
to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his
possession.
21:13 Thus they gave to the children of
Aaron the priest Hebron with
her suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the
slayer; and Libnah with
her suburbs, 21:14 And Jattir with her
suburbs, and Eshtemoa with her
suburbs, 21:15 And Holon with her suburbs,
and Debir with her suburbs,
21:16 And Ain with her suburbs, and Juttah
with her suburbs, and
Bethshemesh with her suburbs; nine cities
out of those two tribes.
21:17 And out of the tribe of Benjamin,
Gibeon with her suburbs, Geba
with her suburbs, 21:18 Anathoth with her
suburbs, and Almon with her
suburbs; four cities.
21:19 All the cities of the children of
Aaron, the priests, were
thirteen cities with their suburbs.
21:20 And the families of the children of
Kohath, the Levites which
remained of the children of Kohath, even
they had the cities of their
lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
21:21 For they gave them Shechem with her
suburbs in mount Ephraim, to
be a city of refuge for the slayer; and
Gezer with her suburbs, 21:22
And Kibzaim with her suburbs, and Bethhoron
with her suburbs; four
cities.
21:23 And out of the tribe of Dan, Eltekeh
with her suburbs, Gibbethon
with her suburbs, 21:24 Aijalon with her
suburbs, Gathrimmon with her
suburbs; four cities.
21:25 And out of the half tribe of Manasseh,
Tanach with her suburbs,
and Gathrimmon with her suburbs; two cities.
21:26 All the cities were ten with their
suburbs for the families of
the children of Kohath that remained.
21:27 And unto the children of Gershon, of
the families of the
Levites, out of the other half tribe of
Manasseh they gave Golan in
Bashan with her suburbs, to be a city of
refuge for the slayer; and
Beeshterah with her suburbs; two cities.
21:28 And out of the tribe of Issachar,
Kishon with her suburbs,
Dabareh with her suburbs, 21:29 Jarmuth with
her suburbs, Engannim
with her suburbs; four cities.
21:30 And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal
with her suburbs, Abdon
with her suburbs, 21:31 Helkath with her
suburbs, and Rehob with her
suburbs; four cities.
21:32 And out of the tribe of Naphtali,
Kedesh in Galilee with her
suburbs, to be a city of refuge for the
slayer; and Hammothdor with
her suburbs, and Kartan with her suburbs;
three cities.
21:33 All the cities of the Gershonites
according to their families
were thirteen cities with their suburbs.
21:34 And unto the families of the children
of Merari, the rest of the
Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun,
Jokneam with her suburbs, and
Kartah with her suburbs, 21:35 Dimnah with
her suburbs, Nahalal with
her suburbs; four cities.
21:36 And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer
with her suburbs, and
Jahazah with her suburbs, 21:37 Kedemoth
with her suburbs, and
Mephaath with her suburbs; four cities.
21:38 And out of the tribe of Gad, Ramoth in
Gilead with her suburbs,
to be a city of refuge for the slayer; and
Mahanaim with her suburbs,
21:39 Heshbon with her suburbs, Jazer with
her suburbs; four cities in
all.
21:40 So all the cities for the children of
Merari by their families,
which were remaining of the families of the
Levites, were by their lot
twelve cities.
21:41 All the cities of the Levites within
the possession of the
children of Israel were forty and eight
cities with their suburbs.
21:42 These cities were every one with their
suburbs round about them:
thus were all these cities.
21:43 And the LORD gave unto Israel all the
land which he sware to
give unto their fathers; and they possessed
it, and dwelt therein.
21:44 And the LORD gave them rest round
about, according to all that
he sware unto their fathers: and there stood
not a man of all their
enemies before them; the LORD delivered all
their enemies into their
hand.
21:45 There failed not ought of any good
thing which the LORD had
spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to
pass.
22:1 Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and
the Gadites, and the half
tribe of Manasseh, 22:2 And said unto them,
Ye have kept all that
Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you,
and have obeyed my voice
in all that I commanded you: 22:3 Ye have
not left your brethren these
many days unto this day, but have kept the
charge of the commandment
of the LORD your God.
22:4 And now the LORD your God hath given
rest unto your brethren, as
he promised them: therefore now return ye,
and get you unto your
tents, and unto the land of your possession,
which Moses the servant
of the LORD gave you on the other side
Jordan.
22:5 But take diligent heed to do the
commandment and the law, which
Moses the servant of the LORD charged you,
to love the LORD your God,
and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his
commandments, and to
cleave unto him, and to serve him with all
your heart and with all
your soul.
22:6 So Joshua blessed them, and sent them
away: and they went unto
their tents.
22:7 Now to the one half of the tribe of
Manasseh Moses had given
possession in Bashan: but unto the other
half thereof gave Joshua
among their brethren on this side Jordan
westward. And when Joshua
sent them away also unto their tents, then
he blessed them, 22:8 And
he spake unto them, saying, Return with much
riches unto your tents,
and with very much cattle, with silver, and
with gold, and with brass,
and with iron, and with very much raiment:
divide the spoil of your
enemies with your brethren.
22:9 And the children of Reuben and the
children of Gad and the half
tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed
from the children of Israel
out of Shiloh, which is in the land of
Canaan, to go unto the country
of Gilead, to the land of their possession,
whereof they were
possessed, according to the word of the LORD
by the hand of Moses.
22:10 And when they came unto the borders of
Jordan, that are in the
land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and
the children of Gad and the
half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar
by Jordan, a great altar
to see to.
22:11 And the children of Israel heard say,
Behold, the children of
Reuben and the children of Gad and the half
tribe of Manasseh have
built an altar over against the land of
Canaan, in the borders of
Jordan, at the passage of the children of
Israel.
22:12 And when the children of Israel heard
of it, the whole
congregation of the children of Israel
gathered themselves together at
Shiloh, to go up to war against them.
22:13 And the children of Israel sent unto
the children of Reuben, and
to the children of Gad, and to the half
tribe of Manasseh, into the
land of Gilead, Phinehas the son of Eleazar
the priest, 22:14 And with
him ten princes, of each chief house a
prince throughout all the
tribes of Israel; and each one was an head
of the house of their
fathers among the thousands of Israel.
22:15 And they came unto the children of
Reuben, and to the children
of Gad, and to the half tribe of Manasseh,
unto the land of Gilead,
and they spake with them, saying, 22:16 Thus
saith the whole
congregation of the LORD, What trespass is
this that ye have committed
against the God of Israel, to turn away this
day from following the
LORD, in that ye have builded you an altar,
that ye might rebel this
day against the LORD? 22:17 Is the iniquity
of Peor too little for
us, from which we are not cleansed until
this day, although there was
a plague in the congregation of the LORD,
22:18 But that ye must turn
away this day from following the LORD? and
it will be, seeing ye rebel
to day against the LORD, that to morrow he
will be wroth with the
whole congregation of Israel.
22:19 Notwithstanding, if the land of your
possession be unclean, then
pass ye over unto the land of the possession
of the LORD, wherein the
LORD's tabernacle dwelleth, and take
possession among us: but rebel
not against the LORD, nor rebel against us,
in building you an altar
beside the altar of the LORD our God.
22:20 Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit
a trespass in the accursed
thing, and wrath fell on all the
congregation of Israel? and that man
perished not alone in his iniquity.
22:21 Then the children of Reuben and the
children of Gad and the half
tribe of Manasseh answered, and said unto
the heads of the thousands
of Israel, 22:22 The LORD God of gods, the
LORD God of gods, he
knoweth, and Israel he shall know; if it be
in rebellion, or if in
transgression against the LORD, (save us not
this day,) 22:23 That we
have built us an altar to turn from
following the LORD, or if to offer
thereon burnt offering or meat offering, or
if to offer peace
offerings thereon, let the LORD himself
require it; 22:24 And if we
have not rather done it for fear of this
thing, saying, In time to
come your children might speak unto our
children, saying, What have ye
to do with the LORD God of Israel? 22:25 For
the LORD hath made
Jordan a border between us and you, ye
children of Reuben and children
of Gad; ye have no part in the LORD: so
shall your children make our
children cease from fearing the LORD.
22:26 Therefore we said, Let us now prepare
to build us an altar, not
for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice: 22:27
But that it may be a
witness between us, and you, and our
generations after us, that we
might do the service of the LORD before him
with our burnt offerings,
and with our sacrifices, and with our peace
offerings; that your
children may not say to our children in time
to come, Ye have no part
in the LORD.
22:28 Therefore said we, that it shall be,
when they should so say to
us or to our generations in time to come,
that we may say again,
Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD,
which our fathers made,
not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices;
but it is a witness
between us and you.
22:29 God forbid that we should rebel
against the LORD, and turn this
day from following the LORD, to build an
altar for burnt offerings,
for meat offerings, or for sacrifices,
beside the altar of the LORD
our God that is before his tabernacle.
22:30 And when Phinehas the priest, and the
princes of the
congregation and heads of the thousands of
Israel which were with him,
heard the words that the children of Reuben
and the children of Gad
and the children of Manasseh spake, it
pleased them.
22:31 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the
priest said unto the
children of Reuben, and to the children of
Gad, and to the children of
Manasseh, This day we perceive that the LORD
is among us, because ye
have not committed this trespass against the
LORD: now ye have
delivered the children of Israel out of the
hand of the LORD.
22:32 And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the
priest, and the princes,
returned from the children of Reuben, and
from the children of Gad,
out of the land of Gilead, unto the land of
Canaan, to the children of
Israel, and brought them word again.
22:33 And the thing pleased the children of
Israel; and the children
of Israel blessed God, and did not intend to
go up against them in
battle, to destroy the land wherein the
children of Reuben and Gad
dwelt.
22:34 And the children of Reuben and the
children of Gad called the
altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between
us that the LORD is God.
23:1 And it came to pass a long time after
that the LORD had given
rest unto Israel from all their enemies
round about, that Joshua waxed
old and stricken in age.
23:2 And Joshua called for all Israel, and
for their elders, and for
their heads, and for their judges, and for
their officers, and said
unto them, I am old and stricken in age:
23:3 And ye have seen all
that the LORD your God hath done unto all
these nations because of
you; for the LORD your God is he that hath
fought for you.
23:4 Behold, I have divided unto you by lot
these nations that remain,
to be an inheritance for your tribes, from
Jordan, with all the
nations that I have cut off, even unto the
great sea westward.
23:5 And the LORD your God, he shall expel
them from before you, and
drive them from out of your sight; and ye
shall possess their land, as
the LORD your God hath promised unto you.
23:6 Be ye therefore very courageous to keep
and to do all that is
written in the book of the law of Moses,
that ye turn not aside
therefrom to the right hand or to the left;
23:7 That ye come not
among these nations, these that remain among
you; neither make mention
of the name of their gods, nor cause to
swear by them, neither serve
them, nor bow yourselves unto them: 23:8 But
cleave unto the LORD your
God, as ye have done unto this day.
23:9 For the LORD hath driven out from
before you great nations and
strong: but as for you, no man hath been
able to stand before you unto
this day.
23:10 One man of you shall chase a thousand:
for the LORD your God, he
it is that fighteth for you, as he hath
promised you.
23:11 Take good heed therefore unto
yourselves, that ye love the LORD
your God.
23:12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and
cleave unto the remnant
of these nations, even these that remain
among you, and shall make
marriages with them, and go in unto them,
and they to you: 23:13 Know
for a certainty that the LORD your God will
no more drive out any of
these nations from before you; but they
shall be snares and traps unto
you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns
in your eyes, until ye
perish from off this good land which the
LORD your God hath given you.
23:14 And, behold, this day I am going the
way of all the earth: and
ye know in all your hearts and in all your
souls, that not one thing
hath failed of all the good things which the
LORD your God spake
concerning you; all are come to pass unto
you, and not one thing hath
failed thereof.
23:15 Therefore it shall come to pass, that
as all good things are
come upon you, which the LORD your God
promised you; so shall the LORD
bring upon you all evil things, until he
have destroyed you from off
this good land which the LORD your God hath
given you.
23:16 When ye have transgressed the covenant
of the LORD your God,
which he commanded you, and have gone and
served other gods, and bowed
yourselves to them; then shall the anger of
the LORD be kindled
against you, and ye shall perish quickly
from off the good land which
he hath given unto you.
24:1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of
Israel to Shechem, and
called for the elders of Israel, and for
their heads, and for their
judges, and for their officers; and they
presented themselves before
God.
24:2 And Joshua said unto all the people,
Thus saith the LORD God of
Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side
of the flood in old time,
even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the
father of Nachor: and they
served other gods.
24:3 And I took your father Abraham from the
other side of the flood,
and led him throughout all the land of
Canaan, and multiplied his
seed, and gave him Isaac.
24:4 And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau:
and I gave unto Esau mount
Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his
children went down into Egypt.
24:5 I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I
plagued Egypt, according to
that which I did among them: and afterward I
brought you out.
24:6 And I brought your fathers out of
Egypt: and ye came unto the
sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your
fathers with chariots and
horsemen unto the Red sea.
24:7 And when they cried unto the LORD, he
put darkness between you
and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon
them, and covered them;
and your eyes have seen what I have done in
Egypt: and ye dwelt in the
wilderness a long season.
24:8 And I brought you into the land of the
Amorites, which dwelt on
the other side Jordan; and they fought with
you: and I gave them into
your hand, that ye might possess their land;
and I destroyed them from
before you.
24:9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of
Moab, arose and warred
against Israel, and sent and called Balaam
the son of Beor to curse
you: 24:10 But I would not hearken unto
Balaam; therefore he blessed
you still: so I delivered you out of his
hand.
24:11 And you went over Jordan, and came
unto Jericho: and the men of
Jericho fought against you, the Amorites,
and the Perizzites, and the
Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the
Girgashites, the Hivites, and
the Jebusites; and I delivered them into
your hand.
24:12 And I sent the hornet before you,
which drave them out from
before you, even the two kings of the
Amorites; but not with thy
sword, nor with thy bow.
24:13 And I have given you a land for which
ye did not labour, and
cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in
them; of the vineyards and
oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
24:14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve
him in sincerity and in
truth: and put away the gods which your
fathers served on the other
side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve
ye the LORD.
24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve
the LORD, choose you this
day whom ye will serve; whether the gods
which your fathers served
that were on the other side of the flood, or
the gods of the Amorites,
in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my
house, we will serve the
LORD.
24:16 And the people answered and said, God
forbid that we should
forsake the LORD, to serve other gods; 24:17
For the LORD our God, he
it is that brought us up and our fathers out
of the land of Egypt,
from the house of bondage, and which did
those great signs in our
sight, and preserved us in all the way
wherein we went, and among all
the people through whom we passed: 24:18 And
the LORD drave out from
before us all the people, even the Amorites
which dwelt in the land:
therefore will we also serve the LORD; for
he is our God.
24:19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye
cannot serve the LORD: for
he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he
will not forgive your
transgressions nor your sins.
24:20 If ye forsake the LORD, and serve
strange gods, then he will
turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after
that he hath done you
good.
24:21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay;
but we will serve the
LORD.
24:22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye
are witnesses against
yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD,
to serve him. And they
said, We are witnesses.
24:23 Now therefore put away, said he, the
strange gods which are
among you, and incline your heart unto the
LORD God of Israel.
24:24 And the people said unto Joshua, The
LORD our God will we serve,
and his voice will we obey.
24:25 So Joshua made a covenant with the
people that day, and set them
a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
24:26 And Joshua wrote these words in the
book of the law of God, and
took a great stone, and set it up there
under an oak, that was by the
sanctuary of the LORD.
24:27 And Joshua said unto all the people,
Behold, this stone shall be
a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the
words of the LORD which
he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a
witness unto you, lest ye
deny your God.
24:28 So Joshua let the people depart, every
man unto his inheritance.
24:29 And it came to pass after these
things, that Joshua the son of
Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being an
hundred and ten years
old.
24:30 And they buried him in the border of
his inheritance in
Timnathserah, which is in mount Ephraim, on
the north side of the hill
of Gaash.
24:31 And Israel served the LORD all the
days of Joshua, and all the
days of the elders that overlived Joshua,
and which had known all the
works of the LORD, that he had done for
Israel.
24:32 And the bones of Joseph, which the
children of Israel brought up
out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a
parcel of ground which
Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father
of Shechem for an hundred
pieces of silver: and it became the
inheritance of the children of
Joseph.
24:33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and
they buried him in a hill
that pertained to Phinehas his son, which
was given him in mount
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