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for the house of my God.
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And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy
servants, how that the L
ORD
thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and
to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives
because of you, and have done this thing.
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And now, behold, we
are
in thine hand: as it seemeth
good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.
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And so did he unto them, and delivered them out of
the hand of the children of Israel, that they slew them not.
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And Joshua made them that day hewers
of wood and drawers of water for the congregation, and for the altar of the L
ORD
, even unto this
day, in the place which he should choose.
CHAPTER 10
Now it came to pass, when Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai,
and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Jericho and her king, so he had done to Ai and her
king; and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel, and were among them;
2
That
they feared greatly, because Gibeon
was
a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it
was
greater than Ai, and all the men thereof
were
mighty.
3
Wherefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem
sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish,
and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,
4
Come up unto me, and help me, that we may smite Gibeon:
for it hath made peace with Joshua and with the children of Israel.
5
Therefore the five kings of the
Amorites, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, the
king of Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, they and all their hosts, and encamped
before Gibeon, and made war against it.
6
And the men of Gibeon sent unto Joshua to the camp to Gilgal, saying, Slack not thy hand
from thy servants; come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us: for all the kings of the Amorites
that dwell in the mountains are gathered together against us.
7
So Joshua ascended from Gilgal, he,
and all the people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valour.
8
And the L
ORD
said unto Joshua, Fear them not: for I have delivered them into thine hand; there
shall not a man of them stand before thee.
9
Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly,
and
went
up from Gilgal all night.
10
And the L
ORD
discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a
great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth-horon, and smote
them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.
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And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel,
and
were in the going down to Beth-horon, that the L
ORD
cast down great stones from heaven upon
them unto Azekah, and they died:
they were
more which died with hailstones than they whom the
children of Israel slew with the sword.
12
Then spake Joshua to the L
ORD
in the day when the L
ORD
delivered up the Amorites before
the children of Israel, and he said in the sight of Israel, Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon; and thou,
Moon, in the valley of Ajalon.
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And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had
avenged themselves upon their enemies.
Is
not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood
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