Hello, and welcome
to His Words Are Life.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and before
we start to read the word of God
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today, let's pray together.
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Dear Lord, thank You for Your
precious word that is a light
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and life to us.
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May we not just hear the word
but may it take deep root in our
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hearts and bear
fruit to Your glory.
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We love You so much and
thank You for loving us.
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Amen.
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When we read last Joshua had
sent a few of the children of
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Israel up against Ai
and had been completely
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routed and defeated.
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The Lord has told Joshua
that the cause of this defeat is
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because there
is sin in the camp.
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Someone has stolen and lied,
and Joshua has gathered the
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people together and
he said prepare yourself.
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Tomorrow I'm going to begin to
draw names, and we're going to
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start with the tribes, and with
the families, and then to the
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men within the
individual families.
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We're going to pick up now
in the story; Joshua, chapter 7,
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verse 16.
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This is the King James Version.
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So Joshua rose up early in the
morning, and brought Israel by
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their tribes; and the tribe of
Judah was taken: and he brought
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the family of Judah; and he
took the family of the Zarhites:
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and he brought the family
of the Zarhites man by man;
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and Zabdi was taken: and he
brought his household man by
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man; and Achan, the son
of Carmi, the son of Zabdi,
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the son of Zerah, of the
tribe of Judah, was taken.
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And Joshua said unto Achan, My
son, give, I pray thee, glory to
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the Lord God of Israel, and make
confession unto him; and tell me
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now what thou hast
done; hide it not from me.
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And Achan answered Joshua,
and said, Indeed I have sinned
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against the Lord God of Israel,
and thus and thus have I done:
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when I saw among the spoils
a goodly Babylonish garment,
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and two hundred shekels of
silver, and a wedge of gold of
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fifty shekels weight, then
I coveted them, and took them;
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and, behold, they are hid in the
earth in the midst of my tent,
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and the silver under it.
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So Joshua sent messengers,
and they ran unto the tent; and,
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behold, it was hid in his
tent, and the silver under it.
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And they took them out of the
midst of the tent, and brought
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them unto Joshua, and unto
all the children of Israel,
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and laid them
out before the Lord.
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And Joshua, and all Israel
with him, took Achan the son of
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Zerah, and the silver, and the
garment, and the wedge of gold,
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and his sons, and his daughters,
and his oxen, and his asses,
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and his sheep, and his
tent, and all that he had:
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and they brought them
unto the Valley of Achor.
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And Joshua said, Why hast
thou troubled us? the Lord shall
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trouble thee this day.
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And all Israel stoned him with
stones, and burned them with
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fire, after they had
stoned them with stones.
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And they raised over him a great
heap of stones unto this day.
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So the Lord turned from
the fierceness of his anger.
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Wherefore the name of that place
was called, The valley of Achor,
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unto this day.
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We're continuing now in Joshua,
chapter 8, and this is the
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King James Version.
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And the Lord said unto Joshua,
Fear not, neither be thou
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dismayed: take all the people
of war with thee, and arise,
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go up to Ai: see, I have given
into thy hand the king of Ai,
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and his people, and his city,
and his land: and thou shalt do
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to Ai and her king as thou
didst unto Jericho and her king:
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only the spoil thereof, and the
cattle thereof, shall ye take
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for a prey unto
yourselves: lay thee an ambush
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for the city behind it.
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So Joshua arose, and all the
people of war, to go up against
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Ai: and Joshua chose out thirty
thousand mighty men of valor,
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and sent them away by night.
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And he commanded them, saying,
Behold, ye shall lie in wait
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against the city, even behind
the city: go not very far from
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the city, but be ye all ready:
and I, and all the people that
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are with me, will approach unto
the city: and it shall come to
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pass, when they come out
against us, as at the first,
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that we will flee before them,
(for they will come out after
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us,) till we have
drawn them from the city;
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for they will say, They
flee before us, as at the first:
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therefore we
will flee before them.
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Then ye shall rise up from the
ambush, and seize upon the city:
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for the Lord your God
will deliver it into your hand.
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And it shall be, when ye have
taken the city, that ye shall
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set the city on fire:
according to the Commandment
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of the Lord shall ye do.
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See, I have commanded you.
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Joshua therefore sent them
forth: and they went to lie in
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ambush, and abode between
Bethel and Ai, on the west side
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of Ai: but Joshua lodged
that night among the people.
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And Joshua rose up early in
the morning, and numbered the
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people, and went up, he and
the elders of Israel, before the
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people to Ai.
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And all the people, even
the people of war that were with
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him, went up, and drew
nigh, and came before the city,
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and pitched on the north side
of Ai: now there was a valley
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between them and Ai.
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And he took about five thousand
men, and set them to lie in
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ambush between Bethel and Ai,
on the west side of the city.
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And when they had set the
people, even all the host that
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was on the north of the city,
and their liers in wait on the
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west of the city, Joshua
went that night into the midst
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of the valley.
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And it came to pass, when
the king of Ai saw it, that they
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hasted and rose up early,
and the men of the city went out
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against Israel to battle, he
and all his people, at a time
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appointed, before the plain;
but he wist not that there were
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liers in ambush
against him behind the city.
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And Joshua and all Israel made
as if they were beaten before
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them, and fled by the
way of the wilderness.
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And all the people that were
in Ai were called together to
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pursue after them: and they
pursued after Joshua, and were
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drawn away from the city.
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And there was not a man left in
Ai or Bethel, that went not out
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after Israel: and they
left the city open, and pursued
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after Israel.
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And the Lord said unto Joshua,
Stretch out the spear that is in
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thy hand toward Ai; for I
will give it into thine hand.
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And Joshua stretched out the
spear that he had in his hand
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toward the city.
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And the ambush arose quickly out
of their place, and they ran as
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soon as he had stretched out his
hand: and they entered into the
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city, and took it, and
hasted and set the city on fire.
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And when the men of Ai looked
behind them, they saw, and,
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behold, the smoke of the city
ascended up to heaven, and they
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had no power to flee this way
or that way: and the people that
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fled to the wilderness
turned back upon the pursuers.
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And when Joshua and all Israel
saw that the ambush had taken
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the city, and that the smoke
of the city ascended, then they
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turned again, and
slew the men of Ai.
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And the other issued out of the
city against them; so they were
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in the midst of Israel, some
on this side, and some on that
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side: and they smote them,
so that they let none of them
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remain or escape.
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And the king of Ai they
took alive, and brought him
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to Joshua.
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And it came to pass, when Israel
had made an end of slaying all
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the inhabitants of Ai in the
field, in the wilderness wherein
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they chased them, and when they
were all fallen on the edge of
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the sword, until they
were consumed, that all the
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Israelites returned
unto Ai, and smote it with
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the edge of the sword.
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And so it was, that all that
fell that day, both of men and
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women, were twelve thousand,
even all the men of Ai.
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For Joshua drew not his hand
back, wherewith he stretched out
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the spear, until he had
utterly destroyed all the
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inhabitants of Ai.
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Only the cattle and the spoil of
that city Israel took for a prey
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unto themselves, according unto
the word of the Lord which he
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commanded Joshua.
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And Joshua burnt Ai, and
made it a heap for ever, even a
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desolation unto this day.
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And the king of Ai he
hanged on a tree until eventide:
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and as soon as the sun was
down, Joshua commanded that they
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should take his carcass down
from the tree, and cast it at
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the entering of the gate of the
city, and raise thereon a great
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heap of stones, that
remaineth unto this day.
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Then Joshua built an altar
unto the Lord God of Israel
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in Mount Ebal, as Moses the
servant of the Lord commanded
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the children of Israel, as it is
written in the book of the law
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of Moses, an altar of whole
stones, over which no man hath
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lifted up any iron: and they
offered thereon burnt offerings
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unto the Lord, and
sacrificed peace offerings.
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And he wrote there upon
the stones a copy of the law of
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Moses, which he
wrote in the presence
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of the children of Israel.
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And all Israel, and their
elders, and officers, and their
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judges, stood on this side the
ark and on that side before the
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priests the Levites, which bare
the ark of the covenant of the
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Lord, as well the stranger,
as he that was born among them;
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half of them over against mount
Gerizim, and half of them over
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against mount Ebal; as Moses
the servant of the Lord had
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commanded before,
that they should bless
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the people of Israel.
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And afterward he read all the
words of the law, the blessings
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and cursings,
according to all that is written
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in the book of the law.
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There was not a word of
all that Moses commanded,
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which Joshua read not before
all the congregation of Israel,
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with the women, and the
little ones, and the strangers
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that were conversant among them.
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Continuing now
with Joshua, chapter 9.
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This is the King James Version.
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And it came to pass, when
all the kings which were on this
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side Jordan, in the hills, and
in the valleys, and in all the
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coasts of the great sea over
against Lebanon, the Hittite,
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and the Amorite, the Canaanite,
the Perizzite, the Hivite,
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and the Jebusite, heard thereof;
that they gathered themselves
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together, to fight
with Joshua and with Israel,
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with one accord.
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And when the inhabitants of
Gibeon heard what Joshua had
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done unto Jericho and to Ai
they did work wilily, and went
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and made as if they had been
ambassadors, and took old sacks
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upon their asses, and
wine bottles, old, and rent,
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and bound up; and old shoes
and clouted upon their feet,
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and old garments upon them; and
all the bread of their provision
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was dry and moldy.
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And they went to Joshua unto
the camp at Gilgal, and said
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unto him, and to the men of
Israel, We be come from a far
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country: now therefore
make ye a league with us.
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And the men of Israel said unto
the Hivites, Peradventure ye
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dwell among us; and how
shall we make a league with you?
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And they said unto
Joshua, We are thy servants.
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And Joshua said unto them, Who
are ye? and from whence come ye?
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And they said unto him, From
a very far country thy servants
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are come, because of the name
of the Lord thy God: for we have
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heard the fame of him,
and all that he did in Egypt,
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and all that he did to the two
kings of the Amorites, that were
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beyond Jordan, to Sihon king
of Heshbon, and to Og king of
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Bashan, which was at Ashtaroth.
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Wherefore our elders and all the
inhabitants of our country spake
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to us, saying, Take victuals
with you for the journey,
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and go to meet them, and say
unto them, We are your servants:
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therefore now make
ye a league with us.
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This our bread we took hot for
our provision out of our houses
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on the day we came forth to
go unto you; but now, behold,
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it is dry, and it is moldy: and
these bottles of wine, which we
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filled, were new; and, behold,
they be rent: and these our
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garments and our shoes are
become old by reason of the
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very long journey.
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And the men took of their
victuals, and asked not counsel
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at the mouth of the Lord.
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And Joshua made peace with them,
and made a league with them,
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to let them live: and the
princes of the congregation
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sware unto them.
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And it came to pass at the
end of three days after they had
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made a league with them, that
they heard that they were their
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neighbors, and that
they dwelt among them.
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And the children of Israel
journeyed, and came unto their
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cities on the third day.
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Now their cities were Gibeon,
and Chephirah, and Beeroth,
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and Kirjath-jearim.
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And the children of Israel smote
them not, because the princes of
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the congregation had sworn unto
them by the Lord God of Israel.
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And all the congregation
murmured against the princes.
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But all the princes said
unto all the congregation,
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We have sworn unto them
by the Lord God of Israel:
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now therefore we
may not touch them.
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This we will do to them; we will
even let them live, lest wrath
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be upon us, because of the
oath which we sware unto them.
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And the princes said unto them,
Let them live; but let them be
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hewers of wood and drawers of
water unto all the congregation;
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as the princes
had promised them.
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And Joshua called for them,
and he spake unto them, saying,
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Wherefore have ye beguiled
us, saying, We are very far from
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you; when ye dwell among us?
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Now therefore ye are cursed,
and there shall none of you be
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freed from being bondmen, and
hewers of wood and drawers of
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water for the house of my God.
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And they answered Joshua, and
said, Because it was certainly
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told thy servants, how that
the Lord thy God commanded his
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servant Moses to give you all
the land, and to destroy all the
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inhabitants of the land from
before you, therefore we were
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sore afraid of our
lives because of you,
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and have done this thing.
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And now, behold, we are in thine
hand: as it seemeth good and
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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
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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
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water for the congregation,
and for the altar of the Lord,
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even unto this day, in the
place which he should choose.
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Thank you for joining
with me today to read the word
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of God together.
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As I was reading through this
passage it struck me that even
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with all of God's leading, and
God's guidance, the princes of
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of the congregation, and Joshua,
did not seek the word of the
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Lord when they were
confronted with the decision.
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They went ahead on their own
and made a covenant with these
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people who deceived them.
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Until we meet again together,
let's turn to God always,
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for every council that
we need that we won't be
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deceived ourselves.
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Goodbye.
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