2월 28일: Joshua 5-7

Joshua 5-7

The Message

5When all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and the Canaanite kings along the seacoast heard how GOD had stopped the Jordan River before the People of Israel until they had crossed over, their hearts sank; the courage drained out of them just thinking about the People of Israel.

2At that time GOD said to Joshua, "Make stone knives and circumcise the People of Israel a second time." 

3So Joshua made stone knives and circumcised the People of Israel at Foreskins Hill. 

4This is why Joshua conducted the circumcision. All the males who had left Egypt, the soldiers, had died in the wilderness on the journey out of Egypt. 

5All the people who had come out of Egypt, of course, had been circumcised, but all those born in the wilderness along the way since leaving Egypt had not been. 

6The fact is that the People of Israel had walked through that wilderness for forty years until the entire nation died out, all the men of military age who had come out of Egypt but had disobeyed the call of GOD. GOD vowed that these would never lay eyes on the land GOD had solemnly promised their ancestors to give us, a land flowing with milk and honey. 

7But their children had replaced them. These are the ones Joshua circumcised. They had never been circumcised; no one had circumcised them along the way. 

8When they had completed the circumcising of the whole nation, they stayed where they were in camp until they were healed. 

9GOD said to Joshua, "Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt." That's why the place is called The Gilgal. It's still called that. 

10The People of Israel continued to camp at The Gilgal. They celebrated the Passover on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month on the plains of Jericho. 

11Right away, the day after the Passover, they started eating the produce of that country, unraised bread and roasted grain. 

12And then no more manna; the manna stopped. As soon as they started eating food grown in the land, there was no more manna for the People of Israel. That year they ate from the crops of Canaan. 

13And then this, while Joshua was there near Jericho： He looked up and saw right in front of him a man standing, holding his drawn sword. Joshua stepped up to him and said, "Whose side are you on—ours or our enemies'?" 

14He said, "Neither. I'm commander of GOD's army. I've just arrived." Joshua fell, face to the ground, and worshiped. He asked, "What orders does my Master have for his servant?" 

15GOD's army commander ordered Joshua, "Take your sandals off your feet. The place you are standing is holy." Joshua did it. 

6Jericho was shut up tight as a drum because of the People of Israel： no one going in, no one coming out.

2GOD spoke to Joshua, "Look sharp now. I've already given Jericho to you, along with its king and its crack troops. 

3Here's what you are to do： March around the city, all your soldiers. Circle the city once. Repeat this for six days. 

4Have seven priests carry seven ram's horn trumpets in front of the Chest. On the seventh day march around the city seven times, the priests blowing away on the trumpets. 

5And then, a long blast on the ram's horn—when you hear that, all the people are to shout at the top of their lungs. The city wall will collapse at once. All the people are to enter, every man straight on in." 

6So Joshua son of Nun called the priests and told them, "Take up the Chest of the Covenant. Seven priests are to carry seven ram's horn trumpets leading GOD's Chest." 

7Then he told the people, "Set out! March around the city. Have the armed guard march before the Chest of GOD." 

8And it happened. Joshua spoke, the people moved： Seven priests with their seven ram's horn trumpets set out before GOD. They blew the trumpets, leading GOD's Chest of the Covenant. 

9The armed guard marched ahead of the trumpet-blowing priests; the rear guard was marching after the Chest, marching and blowing their trumpets. 

10Joshua had given orders to the people, "Don't shout. In fact, don't even speak—not so much as a whisper until you hear me say, 'Shout!'—then shout away!" 

11He sent the Chest of GOD on its way around the city. It circled once, came back to camp, and stayed for the night. 

12Joshua was up early the next morning and the priests took up the Chest of GOD. 

13The seven priests carrying the seven ram's horn trumpets marched before the Chest of GOD, marching and blowing the trumpets, with the armed guard marching before and the rear guard marching after. Marching and blowing of trumpets! 

14On the second day they again circled the city once and returned to camp. They did this six days. 

15When the seventh day came, they got up early and marched around the city this same way but seven times—yes, this day they circled the city seven times. 

16On the seventh time around the priests blew the trumpets and Joshua signaled the people, "Shout!—GOD has given you the city! 

17The city and everything in it is under a holy curse and offered up to GOD. "Except for Rahab the harlot—she is to live, she and everyone in her house with her, because she hid the agents we sent. 

18"As for you, watch yourselves in the city under holy curse. Be careful that you don't covet anything in it and take something that's cursed, endangering the camp of Israel with the curse and making trouble for everyone. 

19All silver and gold, all vessels of bronze and iron are holy to GOD. Put them in GOD's treasury." 

20The priests blew the trumpets. When the people heard the blast of the trumpets, they gave a thunderclap shout. The wall fell at once. The people rushed straight into the city and took it. 

21They put everything in the city under the holy curse, killing man and woman, young and old, ox and sheep and donkey. 

22Joshua ordered the two men who had spied out the land, "Enter the house of the harlot and rescue the woman and everyone connected with her, just as you promised her." 

23So the young spies went in and brought out Rahab, her father, mother, and brothers—everyone connected with her. They got the whole family out and gave them a place outside the camp of Israel. 

24But they burned down the city and everything in it, except for the gold and silver and the bronze and iron vessels—all that they put in the treasury of GOD's house. 

25But Joshua let Rahab the harlot live—Rahab and her father's household and everyone connected to her. She is still alive and well in Israel because she hid the agents whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho. 

26Joshua swore a solemn oath at that time： Cursed before GOD is the man who sets out to rebuild this city Jericho. He'll pay for the foundation with his firstborn son, he'll pay for the gates with his youngest son. 

27GOD was with Joshua. He became famous all over the land. 

7Then the People of Israel violated the holy curse. Achan son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah of the tribe of Judah, took some of the cursed things. GOD became angry with the People of Israel.

2Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai (The Ruin), which is near Beth Aven just east of Bethel. He instructed them, "Go up and spy out the land." The men went up and spied out Ai. 

3They returned to Joshua and reported, "Don't bother sending a lot of people—two or three thousand men are enough to defeat Ai. Don't wear out the whole army; there aren't that many people there." 

4So three thousand men went up—and then fled in defeat before the men of Ai! 

5The men of Ai killed thirty-six—chased them from the city gate as far as The Quarries, killing them at the descent. The heart of the people sank, all spirit knocked out of them. 

6Joshua ripped his clothes and fell on his face to the ground before the Chest of GOD, he and the leaders throwing dirt on their heads, prostrate until evening. 

7Joshua said, "Oh, oh, oh . . . Master, GOD. Why did you insist on bringing this people across the Jordan? To make us victims of the Amorites? To wipe us out? Why didn't we just settle down on the east side of the Jordan? 

8Oh, Master, what can I say after this, after Israel has been run off by its enemies? 

9When the Canaanites and all the others living here get wind of this, they'll gang up on us and make short work of us—and then how will you keep up your reputation?" 

10GOD said to Joshua, "Get up. Why are you groveling? 

11Israel has sinned： They've broken the covenant I commanded them; they've taken forbidden plunder—stolen and then covered up the theft, squirreling it away with their own stuff. 

12The People of Israel can no longer look their enemies in the eye—they themselves are plunder. I can't continue with you if you don't rid yourselves of the cursed things. 

13"So get started. Purify the people. Tell them： Get ready for tomorrow by purifying yourselves. For this is what GOD, the God of Israel, says： There are cursed things in the camp. You won't be able to face your enemies until you have gotten rid of these cursed things. 

14"First thing in the morning you will be called up by tribes. The tribe GOD names will come up clan by clan; the clan GOD names will come up family by family; and the family GOD names will come up man by man. 

15The person found with the cursed things will be burned, he and everything he has, because he broke GOD's covenant and did this despicable thing in Israel." 

16Joshua was up at the crack of dawn and called Israel up tribe by tribe. The tribe of Judah was singled out. 

17Then he called up the clans and singled out the Zerahites. He called up the Zerahite families and singled out the Zabdi family. 

18He called up the family members one by one and singled out Achan son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah of the tribe of Judah. 

19Joshua spoke to Achan, "My son, give glory to GOD, the God of Israel. Make your confession to him. Tell me what you did. Don't keep back anything from me." 

20Achan answered Joshua, "It's true. I sinned against GOD, the God of Israel. This is how I did it. 

21In the plunder I spotted a beautiful Shinar robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a fifty-shekel bar of gold, and I coveted and took them. They are buried in my tent with the silver at the bottom." 

22Joshua sent off messengers. They ran to the tent. And there it was, buried in the tent with the silver at the bottom. 

23They took the stuff from the tent and brought it to Joshua and to all the People of Israel and spread it out before GOD. 

24Joshua took Achan son of Zerah, took the silver, the robe, the gold bar, his sons and daughters, his ox, donkey, sheep, and tent—everything connected with him. All Israel was there. They led them off to the Valley of Achor (Trouble Valley). 

25Joshua said, "Why have you troubled us? GOD will now trouble you. Today!" And all Israel stoned him—burned him with fire and stoned him with stones. 

26They piled a huge pile of stones over him. It's still there. Only then did GOD turn from his hot anger. That's how the place came to be called Trouble Valley right up to the present time. 

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