Hi, and welcome to
His Words Are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and thank
you for joining with me today to
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read the word of God together.
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Before we start let's pray.
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Dear Lord, thank You so
much for Your merciful loving
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kindness to each one of us.
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Please send Your Holy
Spirit now to open our minds
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as we read Your word.
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We love You so much.
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Thank You for loving us.
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Amen.
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When we were last together
we were reading in the book of
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Joshua, and the children
of Israel had just passed over
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Jordan on dry ground.
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And Joshua has called one man
out of each of the twelve tribes
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and instructed them to gather
up, each of them, a stone.
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We're going to pick up in
Joshua, chapter 4, verse 6.
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That this may be a sign among
you, that when your children ask
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their fathers in time to
come, saying, What mean ye by
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these stones?
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Then ye shall answer them,
That the waters of Jordan were
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cut off before the ark of the
covenant of the Lord; when it
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passed over Jordan, the
waters of Jordan were cut off:
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and these stones shall be for
a memorial unto the children of
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Israel for ever.
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And the children of Israel
did so as Joshua commanded,
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and took up twelve stones out of
the midst of Jordan, as the Lord
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spake unto Joshua, according
to the number of the tribes of
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the children of Israel, and
carried them over with them unto
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the place where they lodged,
and laid them down there.
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And Joshua set up twelve
stones in the midst of Jordan,
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in the place where the feet of
the priests which bare the ark
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of the covenant stood: and
they are there unto this day.
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For the priests which bare
the ark stood in the midst of
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Jordan, until every thing was
finished that the Lord commanded
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Joshua to speak unto the people,
according to all that Moses
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commanded Joshua: and the
people hasted and passed over.
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And it came to pass, when
all the people were clean passed
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over, that the ark of the Lord
passed over, and the priests,
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in the presence of the people.
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And the children of
Reuben, and the children of Gad,
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and half the tribe of Manasseh,
passed over armed before the
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children of Israel, as Moses
spake unto them: about forty
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thousand prepared for war
passed over before the Lord unto
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battle, to the
plains of Jericho.
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On that day the Lord magnified
Joshua in the sight of all
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Israel; and they feared him, as
they feared Moses, all the days
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of his life.
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And the Lord spake unto Joshua,
saying, Command the priests that
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bear the ark of the testimony,
that they come up out of Jordan.
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Joshua therefore
commanded the priests, saying,
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Come ye up out of Jordan.
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And it came to pass, when the
priests that bare the ark of the
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covenant of the Lord were come
up out of the midst of Jordan,
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and the soles of the priests'
feet were lifted up unto the dry
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land, that the waters of Jordan
returned unto their place,
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and flowed over all his
banks, as they did before.
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And the people came up out of
Jordan on the tenth day of the
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first month, and encamped
in Gilgal, in the east border
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of Jericho.
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And those twelve stones,
which they took out of Jordan,
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did Joshua pitch in Gilgal.
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And he spake unto the children
of Israel, saying, When your
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children shall ask their
fathers in time to come, saying,
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What mean these stones?
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Then ye shall let your children
know, saying, Israel came over
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this Jordan on dry land.
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For the Lord your God
dried up the waters of Jordan
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from before you, until ye were
passed over, as the Lord your
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God did to the Red sea, which
he dried up from before us,
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until we were gone over:
that all the people of the earth
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might know the hand of
the Lord, that it is mighty:
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that ye might fear
the Lord your God forever.
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Continuing in the book of
Joshua, chapter 5, and this is
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the King James Version.
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And it came to pass, when
all the kings of the Amorites,
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which were on the side of Jordan
westward, and all the kings
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of the Canaanites, which were by
the sea, heard that the Lord had
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dried up the waters of Jordan
from before the children of
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Israel, until we were passed
over, that their heart melted,
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neither was there spirit in
them any more, because of the
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children of Israel.
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At that time the Lord said unto
Joshua, Make thee sharp knives,
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and circumcise again
the children of Israel
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the second time.
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And Joshua made him sharp
knives, and circumcised the
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children of Israel at
the hill of the foreskins.
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And this is the cause why Joshua
did circumcise: all the people
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that came out of Egypt,
that were males, even all the
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men of war, died in
the wilderness by the way,
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after they came out of Egypt.
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Now all the people that came out
were circumcised: but all the
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people that were born in the
wilderness by the way as they
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came forth out of Egypt,
them they had not circumcised.
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For the children of
Israel walked forty years in the
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wilderness, till all the people
that were men of war, which came
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out of Egypt, were consumed,
because they obeyed not the
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voice of the Lord: unto whom
the Lord sware that he would not
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show them the land, which the
Lord sware unto their fathers
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that he would give us,
a land that floweth with
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milk and honey.
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And their children, whom
he raised up in their stead,
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them Joshua circumcised:
for they were uncircumcised,
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because they had not
circumcised them by the way.
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And it came to pass, when they
had done circumcising all the
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people, that they abode
in their places in the camp,
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till they were whole.
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And the Lord said unto Joshua,
This day have I rolled away the
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reproach of Egypt from off you.
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Wherefore the name of the place
is called Gilgal unto this day.
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And the children of Israel
encamped in Gilgal, and kept the
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Passover on the fourteenth
day of the month at even in the
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plains of Jericho.
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And they did eat of the old corn
of the land on the morrow after
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the Passover, unleavened
cakes, and parched corn in the
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selfsame day.
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And the manna ceased on the
morrow after they had eaten of
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the old corn of the land;
neither had the children of
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Israel manna any more; but they
did eat of the fruit of the land
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of Canaan that year.
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And it came to pass, when Joshua
was by Jericho, that he lifted
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up his eyes and looked, and,
behold, there stood a man over
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against him with his sword drawn
in his hand: and Joshua went
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unto him, and said
unto him, Art thou for us,
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or for our adversaries?
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And he said, Nay; but
as captain of the host
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of the Lord am I now come.
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And Joshua fell on his face
to the earth, and did worship,
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and said unto him, What
saith my lord unto his servant?
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And the captain of the
Lord's host said unto Joshua,
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Loose thy shoe from off thy
foot; for the place whereon thou
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standest is holy.
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And Joshua did so.
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We're continuing in the
book of Joshua, chapter 6.
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Now Jericho was straitly shut
up because of the children of
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Israel: none went
out, and none came in.
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And the Lord said unto Joshua,
See, I have given into thine
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hand Jericho, and the
king thereof, and the mighty
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men of valor.
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And ye shall compass the city,
all ye men of war, and go round
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about the city once.
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Thus shalt thou do six days.
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And seven priests shall bear
before the ark seven trumpets of
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rams' horns: and the seventh
day ye shall compass the city
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seven times, and the priests
shall blow with the trumpets.
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And it shall come to pass,
that when they make a long blast
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with the ram's horn, and when ye
hear the sound of the trumpet,
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all the people shall shout with
a great shout; and the wall of
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the city shall fall down flat,
and the people shall ascend up
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every man straight before him.
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And Joshua the son of Nun called
the priests, and said unto them,
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Take up the ark of the covenant,
and let seven priests bear seven
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trumpets of rams' horns
before the ark of the Lord.
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And he said unto the people,
Pass on, and compass the city,
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and let him that is armed pass
on before the ark of the Lord.
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And it came to pass, when Joshua
had spoken unto the people,
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that the seven priests bearing
the seven trumpets of rams'
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horns passed on before the Lord,
and blew with the trumpets:
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and the ark of the covenant
of the Lord followed them.
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And the armed men went before
the priests that blew with the
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trumpets, and the rereward came
after the ark, the priests going
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on, and blowing
with the trumpets.
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And Joshua had commanded
the people, saying, Ye shall not
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shout, nor make any noise with
your voice, neither shall any
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word proceed out of your mouth,
until the day I bid you shout;
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then shall ye shout.
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So the ark of the Lord compassed
the city, going about it once:
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and they came into the
camp, and lodged in the camp.
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And Joshua rose early in the
morning, and the priests took
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up the ark of the Lord.
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And seven priests bearing seven
trumpets of rams' horns before
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the ark of the Lord went on
continually, and blew with the
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trumpets: and the
armed men went before them;
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but the rereward came after
the ark of the Lord, the priests
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going on, and
blowing with the trumpets.
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And the second day they
compassed the city once,
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and returned into the
camp: so they did six days.
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And it came to pass on the
seventh day, that they rose
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early about the dawning of
the day, and compassed the city
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after the same manner seven
times: only on that day they
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compassed the city seven times.
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And it came to pass at the
seventh time, when the priests
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blew with the trumpets, Joshua
said unto the people, Shout;
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for the Lord hath
given you the city.
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And the city shall be accursed,
even it, and all that are
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therein, to the Lord: only
Rahab the harlot shall live,
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she and all that are with her in
the house, because she hid the
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messengers that we sent.
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And ye, in any wise keep
yourselves from the accursed
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thing, lest ye make yourselves
accursed, when ye take of the
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accursed thing, and make
the camp of Israel a curse,
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and trouble it.
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But all the silver, and gold,
and vessels of brass and iron,
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are consecrated unto the
Lord: they shall come into the
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treasury of the Lord.
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So the people shouted when the
priests blew with the trumpets:
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and it came to pass, when the
people heard the sound of the
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trumpet, and the people
shouted with a great shout,
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that the wall fell down flat, so
that the people went up into the
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city, every man straight before
him, and they took the city.
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And they utterly destroyed
all that was in the city,
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both man and woman, young
and old, and ox, and sheep,
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and ass, with the
edge of the sword.
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But Joshua had said unto the
two men that had spied out the
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country, Go into the harlot's
house, and bring out thence the
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woman, and all that she
hath, as ye sware unto her.
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And the young men that were
spies went in, and brought out
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Rahab, and her father, and
her mother, and her brethren,
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and all that she had; and they
brought out all her kindred,
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and left them
without the camp of Israel.
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And they burnt the city with
fire, and all that was therein:
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only the silver, and the gold,
and the vessels of brass and of
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iron, they put into the treasury
of the house of the Lord.
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And Joshua saved Rahab the
harlot alive, and her father's
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household, and all that she had;
and she dwelleth in Israel even
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unto this day; because she
hid the messengers, which Joshua
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sent to spy out Jericho.
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And Joshua adjured them at that
time, saying, Cursed be the man
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before the Lord, that riseth up
and buildeth this city Jericho:
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he shall lay the foundation
thereof in his firstborn,
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and in his youngest son
shall he set up the gates of it.
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So the Lord was with
Joshua; and his fame was noised
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throughout all the country.
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We're continuing on in
the book of Joshua, chapter 7.
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But the children of Israel
committed a trespass in the
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accursed thing: for Achan, the
son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi,
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the son of Zerah, of the tribe
of Judah, took of the accursed
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thing: and the anger of the
Lord was kindled against the
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children of Israel.
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And Joshua sent men from Jericho
to Ai, which is beside Bethaven,
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on the east side of Bethel,
and spake unto them, saying,
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Go up and view the country.
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And the men went
up and viewed Ai.
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And they returned to Joshua,
and said unto him, Let not all
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the people go up; but let about
two or three thousand men go up
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and smite Ai; and make not
all the people to labor thither;
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for they are but few.
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So there went up thither of the
people about three thousand men:
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and they fled
before the men of Ai.
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And the men of Ai smote of
them about thirty and six men:
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for they chased them from before
the gate even unto Shebarim,
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and smote them in the going
down: wherefore the hearts of
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the people melted,
and became as water.
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And Joshua rent his clothes, and
fell to the earth unto his face
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before the ark of the Lord until
the eventide, he and the elders
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of Israel, and put
dust upon their heads.
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And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord
God, wherefore hast thou at all
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brought this people over Jordan,
to deliver us into the hand
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of the Amorites, to destroy
us? would to God we had been
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content, and dwelt on
the other side Jordan!
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O Lord, what shall I say,
when Israel turneth their backs
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before their enemies!
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For the Canaanites and all the
inhabitants of the land shall
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hear of it, and shall environ us
round, and cut off our name from
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the earth: and what wilt
thou do unto thy great name?
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And the Lord said unto Joshua,
Get thee up; wherefore liest
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thou thus upon thy face?
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Israel hath sinned, and
they have also transgressed my
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covenant which I commanded them:
for they have even taken of the
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accursed thing, and have also
stolen, and dissembled also,
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and they have put it
even among their own stuff.
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Therefore the children of Israel
could not stand before their
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enemies, but turned their backs
before their enemies, because
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they were accursed: neither
will I be with you any more,
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except ye destroy the
accursed from among you.
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Up, sanctify the people, and
say, Sanctify yourselves against
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tomorrow: for thus saith the
Lord God of Israel, There is an
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accursed thing in the midst of
thee, O Israel: thou canst not
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stand before thine enemies,
until ye take away the accursed
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thing from among you.
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In the morning therefore ye
shall be brought according to
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your tribes: and it shall be,
that the tribe which the Lord
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taketh shall come according
to the families thereof; and the
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family which the Lord shall
take shall come by households;
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and the household which
the Lord shall take shall come
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man by man.
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And it shall be, that he that
is taken with the accursed thing
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shall be burnt with fire, he
and all that he hath: because he
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hath transgressed the covenant
of the Lord, and because he hath
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wrought folly in Israel.
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Thank you for joining with me
today to read the word of God.
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Please join me
again the next time.
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And until that time may we
be obedient to the word of the
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Lord, that His blessings
may rest on us and our families.
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