Joshua 8-10
The Message
8GOD said to Joshua, "Don't be timid and don't so much as hesitate. Take all your soldiers with you and go back to Ai. I have turned the king of Ai over to you—his people, his city, and his land.
2"Do to Ai and its king what you did to Jericho and its king. Only this time you may plunder its stuff and cattle to your heart's content. Set an ambush behind the city."
3Joshua and all his soldiers got ready to march on Ai. Joshua chose thirty thousand men, tough, seasoned fighters, and sent them off at night
4with these orders： "Look sharp now. Lie in ambush behind the city. Get as close as you can. Stay alert.
5I and the troops with me will approach the city head-on. When they come out to meet us just as before, we'll turn and run.
6They'll come after us, leaving the city. As we are off and running, they'll say, 'They're running away just like the first time.'
7That's your signal to spring from your ambush and take the city. GOD, your God, will hand it to you on a platter.
8Once you have the city, burn it down. GOD says it, you do it. Go to it. I've given you your orders."
9Joshua sent them off. They set their ambush and waited between Bethel and Ai, just west of Ai. Joshua spent the night with the people.
10Joshua was up early in the morning and mustered his army. He and the leaders of Israel led the troops to Ai.
11The whole army, fighting men all, marched right up within sight of the city and set camp on the north side of Ai. There was a valley between them and Ai.
12He had taken about five thousand men and put them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, west of the city.
13They were all deployed, the main army to the north of the city and the ambush to the west. Joshua spent the night in the valley.
14So it happened that when the king of Ai saw all this, the men of the city lost no time; they were out of there at the crack of dawn to join Israel in battle, the king and his troops, at a field en route to the Arabah. The king didn't know of the ambush set against him behind the city.
16Everybody in the city was called to the chase. They pursued Joshua and were led away from the city.
17There wasn't a soul left in Ai or Bethel who wasn't out there chasing after Israel. The city was left empty and undefended as they were chasing Israel down.
18Then GOD spoke to Joshua： "Stretch out the javelin in your hand toward Ai—I'm giving it to you." Joshua stretched out the javelin in his hand toward Ai.
19At the signal the men in ambush sprang to their feet, ran to the city, took it, and quickly had it up in flames.
20The men of Ai looked back and, oh! saw the city going up in smoke. They found themselves trapped with nowhere to run.
21The army on the run toward the wilderness did an about-face—Joshua and all Israel, seeing that the ambush had taken the city, saw it going up in smoke, turned and attacked the men of Ai.
22Then the men in the ambush poured out of the city. The men of Ai were caught in the middle with Israelites on both sides—a real massacre. And not a single survivor.
24When it was all over, Israel had killed everyone in Ai, whether in the fields or in the wilderness where they had chased them. When the killing was complete, the Israelites returned to Ai and completed the devastation.
26Joshua didn't lower his outstretched javelin until the sacred destruction of Ai and all its people was completed.
27Israel did get to take the livestock and loot left in the city; GOD's instructions to Joshua allowed for that.
29He hanged the king of Ai from a tree. At evening, with the sun going down, Joshua ordered the corpse cut down. They dumped it at the entrance to the city and piled it high with stones—you can go see that also.
31He built it following the instructions of Moses the servant of GOD to the People of Israel and written in the Book of The Revelation of Moses, an altar of whole stones that hadn't been chiseled or shaped by an iron tool. On it they offered to GOD Whole-Burnt-Offerings and sacrificed Peace-Offerings.
32He also wrote out a copy of The Revelation of Moses on the stones. He wrote it with the People of Israel looking on.
33All Israel was there, foreigners and citizens alike, with their elders, officers, and judges, standing on opposite sides of the Chest, facing the Levitical priests who carry GOD's Covenant Chest. Half of the people stood with their backs to Mount Gerizim and half with their backs to Mount Ebal to bless the People of Israel, just as Moses the servant of GOD had instructed earlier.
34After that, he read out everything written in The Revelation, the Blessing and the Curse, everything in the Book of The Revelation.
35There wasn't a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua didn't read to the entire congregation—men, women, children, and foreigners who had been with them on the journey.
9All the kings west of the Jordan in the hills and foothills and along the Mediterranean seacoast north toward Lebanon—the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, Girgashites, and Jebusites—got the news.
4and cooked up a ruse. They posed as travelers： their donkeys loaded with patched sacks and mended wineskins,
5threadbare sandals on their feet, tattered clothes on their bodies, nothing but dry crusts and crumbs for food.
6They came to Joshua at Gilgal and spoke to the men of Israel, "We've come from a far-off country; make a covenant with us."
7The men of Israel said to these Hivites, "How do we know you aren't local people? How could we then make a covenant with you?"
8They said to Joshua, "We'll be your servants." Joshua said, "Who are you now? Where did you come from?"
9They said, "From a far-off country, very far away. Your servants came because we'd heard such great things about GOD, your God—all those things he did in Egypt!
10And the two Amorite kings across the Jordan, King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan, who ruled in Ashtaroth!
11Our leaders and everybody else in our country told us, 'Pack up some food for the road and go meet them. Tell them, We're your servants; make a covenant with us.'
12"This bread was warm from the oven when we packed it and left to come and see you. Now look at it—crusts and crumbs.
13And our cracked and mended wineskins, good as new when we filled them. And our clothes and sandals, in tatters from the long, hard traveling."
15So Joshua made peace with them and formalized it with a covenant to guarantee their lives. The leaders of the congregation swore to it.
16And then, three days after making this covenant, they learned that they were next-door neighbors who had been living there all along!
17The People of Israel broke camp and set out; three days later they reached their towns—Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.
18But the People of Israel didn't attack them; the leaders of the congregation had given their word before the GOD of Israel. But the congregation was up in arms over their leaders.
19The leaders were united in their response to the congregation： "We promised them in the presence of the GOD of Israel. We can't lay a hand on them now.
21Then the leaders continued, "We'll let them live, but they will be woodcutters and water carriers for the entire congregation." And that's what happened; the leaders' promise was kept.
22But Joshua called the Gibeonites together and said, "Why did you lie to us, telling us, 'We live far, far away from you,' when you're our next-door neighbors?
23For that you are cursed. From now on it's menial labor for you—woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God."
24They answered Joshua, "We got the message loud and clear that GOD, your God, commanded through his servant Moses： to give you the whole country and destroy everyone living in it. We were terrified because of you; that's why we did this.
26And that's what they did. Joshua delivered them from the power of the People of Israel so they didn't kill them.
27But he made them woodcutters and water carriers for the congregation and for the Altar of GOD at the place GOD chooses. They still are.
10It wasn't long before My-Master-Zedek king of Jerusalem heard that Joshua had taken Ai and destroyed it and its king under a holy curse, just as he had done to Jericho and its king. He also learned that the people of Gibeon had come to terms with Israel and were living as neighbors.
2He and his people were alarmed： Gibeon was a big city—as big as any with a king and bigger than Ai—and all its men were seasoned fighters.
3Adoni-Zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon：
5So the five Amorite (Western) kings—the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon—combined their armies and set out to attack Gibeon.
6The men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua camped at Gilgal, "Don't let us down now! Come up here quickly! Save us! Help us! All the Amorite kings who live up in the hills have ganged up on us."
8GOD told him, "Don't give them a second thought. I've put them under your thumb—not one of them will stand up to you."
10GOD threw them into total confusion before Israel, a major victory at Gibeon. Israel chased them along the ridge to Beth Horon and fought them all the way down to Azekah and Makkedah.
11As they ran from the People of Israel, down from the Beth Horon ridge and all the way to Azekah, GOD pitched huge stones on them out of the sky and many died. More died from the hailstones than the People of Israel killed with the sword.
12The day GOD gave the Amorites up to Israel, Joshua spoke to GOD, with all Israel listening： "Stop, Sun, over Gibeon; Halt, Moon, over Aijalon Valley."
13And Sun stopped, Moon stood stock still Until he defeated his enemies. (You can find this written in the Book of Jashar.) The sun stopped in its tracks in mid sky; just sat there all day.
14There's never been a day like that before or since—GOD took orders from a human voice! Truly, GOD fought for Israel.
19But don't you hang around—go after your enemies. Cut off their retreat. Don't let them back into their cities. GOD has given them to you."
20Joshua and the People of Israel then finished them off, total devastation. Only a few got away to the fortified towns.
21The whole army then returned intact to the camp and to Joshua at Makkedah. There was no criticism that day from the People of Israel!
23They did it. They brought him the five kings from the cave： the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.
24When they had them all there in front of Joshua, he called up the army and told the field commanders who had been with him, "Come here. Put your feet on the necks of these kings." They stepped up and put their feet on their necks.
25Joshua told them, "Don't hold back. Don't be timid. Be strong! Be confident! This is what GOD will do to all your enemies when you fight them."
26Then Joshua struck and killed the kings. He hung them on five trees where they remained until evening.
27At sunset Joshua gave the command. They took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden. They put large stones at the mouth of the cave. The kings are still in there.
28That same day Joshua captured Makkedah, a massacre that included the king. He carried out the holy curse. No survivors. Makkedah's king got the same treatment as Jericho's king.
30GOD gave Libnah to Israel. They captured city and king and massacred the lot. No survivors. Libnah's king got the same treatment as Jericho's king.
32GOD gave Lachish to Israel. Israel took it in two days and killed everyone. He carried out the holy curse, the same as with Libnah.
33Horam, king of Gezer, arrived to help Lachish. Joshua attacked him and his army until there was nothing left of them. No survivors.
35They captured it and killed everyone, carrying out the holy curse, the same as they had done with Lachish.
37and captured it. They killed everyone, including its king, its villages, and their people. No survivors, the same as with Eglon. They carried out the holy curse on city and people.
39He captured it, its king, and its villages. They killed everyone. They put everyone and everything under the holy curse. No survivors. Debir and its king got the same treatment as Hebron and its king, and Libnah and its king.
40Joshua took the whole country： hills, desert, foothills, and mountain slopes, including all kings. He left no survivors. He carried out the holy curse on everything that breathed, just as GOD, the God of Israel, had commanded.
41Joshua's conquest stretched from Kadesh Barnea to Gaza and from the entire region of Goshen to Gibeon.
42Joshua took all these kings and their lands in a single campaign because GOD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel.
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