Hello, and welcome
to HIS WORDS ARE LIFE.
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I'm Kelly Mowrer, and thank
you for coming apart with me
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again to read the word of
God. Let's pray before we start.
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Dear God, thank you so
much for showing us the way
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that we should walk
and for giving us a light
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so that we may walk in your
word safely and on solid ground.
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Please be with now as we read.
Help us to understand and to do
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what we believe.
We love you. Amen.
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We've been reading the book
of Joshua, and we're coming now
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to chapter 24. And in my bible
it is titled, Joshua's address.
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Joshua is about to do
the same thing that Moses did
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with the children of Israel:
call them together and review
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with them God's
leading in their lives.
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And I think that's something
God would have each of us to do
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in our lives, to look
back at over how he has brought
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us safely, to remember the
times when he has blessed us,
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and to remember his words
and his commandments to us.
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And then ask his help in obeying
this so that we may be blessed
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by him. We pick up in Joshua 24.
This is the King James Version.
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And Joshua gathered all the
tribes of Israel to Shechem,
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and called for the elders
of Israel, and for their heads,
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and for their judges,
and for their officers;
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and they presented
themselves before God.
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And Joshua said unto all the
people, Thus saith the Lord God
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of Israel, Your fathers dwelt
on the other side of the flood
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in old time, even
Terah, the father of Abraham,
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and the father of Nachor:
and they served other gods.
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And I took your father, Abraham,
from the other side of the flood
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and led him throughout all the
land of Canaan, and multiplied
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his seed, and gave him
Isaac. And I gave unto Isaac,
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Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto
Esau mount Seir, to possess it;
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but Jacob and his
children went down into Egypt.
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I sent Moses also and
Aaron, and I plagued Egypt,
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according to that which I
did among them and afterward
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I brought you out. And I brought
your fathers out of Egypt:
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and ye came unto the sea;
and the Egyptians pursued after
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your fathers with chariots
and horsemen unto the Red sea.
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And when they cried unto the
Lord, he put darkness between
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you and the Egyptians,
and brought the sea upon them,
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and covered them; and your eyes
have seen what I have done in
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Egypt: and ye dwelt in
the wilderness a long season.
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And I brought you into the land
of the Amorites, which dwelt
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on the other side Jordan;
and they fought with you:
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and I gave them unto your hand,
that ye might possess their land
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and I destroyed
them from before you.
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Then Balak the son
of Zippor, king of Moab,
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arose and warred against Israel,
and sent and called Balaam,
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the son of Beor, to curse
you: But I would not hearken
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unto Balaam;
therefore he blessed you still:
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so I delivered you out of his
hand. And ye went over Jordan,
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and came unto Jericho: and the
men of Jericho fought against
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you, the Amorites, and the
Perizzites, and the Canaanites,
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and the Hittites, and the
Girgashites, and the Hivites,
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and the Jebusites; and I
delivered them into your hand.
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And I sent the hornet before you
which drave them out from before
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you, even the two
kings of the Amorites;
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but not with thy
sword, nor with thy bow.
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And I have given you a land
for which ye did not labour,
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and cities which ye built
not, and ye dwell in them;
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of the vineyards and oliveyards
which ye planted not, do ye eat.
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Now therefore fear the
Lord, and serve him in sincerity
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and in truth: and put away the
gods which your fathers served
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on the other side of
the flood, and in Egypt;
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and serve ye the Lord.
And if it seem evil unto you
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to serve the Lord, choose
you this day whom ye will serve;
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whether the gods which
your fathers served that were on
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the other side of the flood,
or the gods of the Amorites,
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in whose land ye dwell:
but as for me and my house,
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we will serve the Lord. And
the people answered and said,
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God forbid that we
should forsake the Lord,
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to serve other gods; For
the Lord our God, he it is that
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brought us up and our fathers
out of the land of Egypt,
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from the house of bondage,
and which did those great signs
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in our sight, and preserved us
in all the way wherein we went,
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and among all the
people through whom we passed:
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And the Lord drave out
from before us all the people,
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even the Amorites
which dwelt in the land:
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Therefore will we also serve
the Lord; for he is our God.
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And Joshua said unto the people,
Ye cannot serve the Lord:
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for he is an holy
God; he is a jealous God;
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He will not forgive your
transgressions nor your sins.
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If ye forsake the
Lord, and serve strange gods,
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then he will turn and do
you hurt, and consume you,
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after that he
hath done you good.
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And the people said unto Joshua,
Nay; but we will serve the Lord.
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And Joshua said unto the
people, Ye are witnesses against
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yourselves that ye have
chosen the Lord, to serve him.
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And they said, We are witnesses.
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Now therefore put away,
said he, the strange gods
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which are among you, and incline
your heart unto the Lord God
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of Israel, And the
people said unto Joshua,
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The Lord our God will we serve,
and his voice will we obey.
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So Joshua made a covenant
with the people that day,
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and set them a statute
and an ordinance in Shechem.
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And Joshua wrote these words
in the book of the law of God,
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and took a great stone, and
set it up there under an oak,
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that was by the
sanctuary of the Lord.
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And Joshua said unto all
the people, Behold; this stone
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shall be a witness unto us;
for it hath heard all the words
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of the Lord which he spake
unto us: it shall be therefore
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a witness unto you,
lest ye deny your God.
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So Joshua let the people depart,
every man unto his inheritance.
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And it came to pass
after these things, that Joshua
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the son of Num, the
servant of the Lord, died,
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being an hundred
and ten years old.
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And they buried him in
the border of his inheritance
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in Timnathserah,
which is in mount Ephraim,
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on the north side
of the hill of Gaash.
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And Israel served the
Lord all the days of Joshua,
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and all the days of the
elders that overlived Joshua,
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and which had known
all the works of the Lord,
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that he had done for Israel.
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And the bones of Joseph,
which the children of Israel
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brought up out of
Egypt, buried they in Shechem,
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in a parcel of ground which
Jacob bought of the sons of
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Hamor, the father of Shechem,
for a hundred pieces of silver:
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and it became the inheritance
of the children of Joseph.
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And Eleazar the son of
Aaron died; and they buried him
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in a hill that
pertained to Phinehas his son,
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which was given
him in mount Ephraim.
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We're moving now
to the book of Judges.
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This is the King James
Version. Judges, chapter one.
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Now after the death of
Joshua it came to pass,
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that the children of
Israel asked the Lord, saying,
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Who shall go up for us
against the Canaanites first,
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to fight against them? And the
Lord said, Judah shall go up:
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behold, I have delivered
the land into his hand.
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And Judah said unto Simeon
his brother, Come up with me
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into my lot, that we may
fight against the Canaanites;
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and I likewise will go
with thee into thy lot.
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So Simeon went with
him. And Judah went up;
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and the Lord delivered the
Canaanites and the Perizzites
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unto their hand: and they slew
of them in Bezek, 10,000 men.
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And they found
Adonibezek in Bezek;
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and they fought against him,
and they slew the Canaanites and
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the Perizzites. But Adonibezek
fled; and they pursued after him
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and caught him, and cut off
his thumbs and his great toes.
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And Adonibezek said,
Threescore and ten kings,
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having their thumbs and
their great toes cut off,
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gathered their meat
under my table: as I have done,
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so God hath requited me. And
they brought him to Jerusalem,
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and there he died. Now the
children of Judah had fought
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against Jerusalem, and had taken
it, and smitten it with the edge
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of the sword, and
set the city on fire.
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And afterward the children of
Judah went down to fight against
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the Canaanites, that dwelt in
the mountain, and in the south,
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and in the valley. And Judah
went against the Canaanites,
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that dwelt in Hebron: now
the name of Hebron before was
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Kirjatharba. And they slew
Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.
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And from thence he went against
the inhabitants of Debir:
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and the name of Debir
before was Kirjathsepher:
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And Caleb said, He that smiteth
Kirjathsepher, and taketh it,
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to him will I give
Achsah my daughter to wife.
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And Othniel, the son of
Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother,
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took it: and he gave him
Achsah his daughter to wife.
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And it came to pass, when she
came to him, that she moved him
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to ask of her father a
field: and she lighted from off
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her ass; and Caleb said
unto her, What wilt thou?
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And she said unto him, Give me
a blessing: for thou hast given
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me a south land; give
me also springs of water.
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And Caleb gave her the upper
springs and the nether springs.
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And the children of the
Kenite, Moses' father in law,
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went up out of
the city of palm trees
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with the children of Judah
into the wilderness of Judah,
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which lies in the south of Arad;
and they went and dwelt among
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the people. And Judah
went with Simeon his brother,
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and they slew the Canaanites
that inhabited Zephath,
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and utterly destroyed
it. And the name of the city
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was called Hormah. Also Judah
took Gaza with the coast thereof
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and Askelon with
the coast thereof,
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and Ekron with
the coast thereof.
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and the Lord was with Judah;
and he drave out the inhabitants
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of the mountain; but could
not drive out the inhabitants
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of the valley, because
they had chariots of iron.
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And they gave Hebron
unto Caleb, as Moses said:
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and he expelled thence
the three sons of Anak.
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And the children of Benjamin
did not drive out the Jebusites
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that inhabited Jerusalem;
but the Jebusites dwell
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with the children of Benjamin
in Jerusalem unto this day.
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And the house of Joseph, they
also went up against Bethel:
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and the Lord was with
them. And the house of Joseph
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sent to descry Bethel. Now the
name of the city before was Luz.
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And the spies saw a man
come forth out of the city,
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and they said unto him, Shew
us, we pray thee, the entrance
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into the city and we
will shew thee mercy.
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And when he shewed them
the entrance into the city,
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they smote the city
with the edge of the sword;
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but they let go the
man and all his family.
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And the man went into the land
of the Hittites and built a city
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and called the name thereof
Luz: which is the name thereof
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unto this day. Neither
did Manasseh drive out the
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inhabitants of Bethshean
and her towns, nor Taanach
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and her towns, nor the
inhabitants of Dor and her towns
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nor the inhabitants
of Ibleam and her towns.
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nor the inhabitants
of Megiddo and her towns:
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but the Cannanites
would dwell in that land.
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And it came to pass,
when Israel was strong,
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that they put the Canaanites
to tribute, and did not utterly
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drive them out. Neither did
Ephraim drive out the Canaanites
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that dwelt in Gezer; but
the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer
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among them. Neither did Zebulun
drive out the inhabitants
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of Kitron, nor the
inhabitants of Nahalol;
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but the Canaanites dwelt among
them, and became tributaries.
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Neither did Asher drive
out the inhabitants of Accho,
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nor the inhabitants of Zidon,
nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib,
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nor of Helbah, nor
of Aphik, nor of Rehob:
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But the Asherites
dwelt among the Canaanites,
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the inhabitants of the land:
for they did not drive them out.
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Neither did Naphtali drive out
the inhabitants of Bethshemesh,
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nor the
inhabitants of Bethanath;
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but he dwelt among the
Canaanites, the inhabitants
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of the land: nevertheless
the inhabitants of Bethshemesh
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and of Bethanath
became tributaries unto them.
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And the Amorites
forced the children of Dan
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into the mountain: for
they would not suffer them
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to come down to the valley:
But the Amorites would dwell
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in mount Heres in
Aijalon, and in Shaalbim:
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yet the hand of the
house of Joseph prevailed,
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so that they became tributaries.
And the coast of the Amorites
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was from the going up
to Akrabbim, from the rock,
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and upward.
Continuing now with Judges,
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chapter two and this
is the King James Version.
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And an angel of the Lord came up
from Gilgal to Bochim, and said,
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I made you to go up out
of Egypt and have brought you
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unto the land which I sware
unto your fathers; and I said,
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I will never break
my covenant with you.
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And ye shall make no
league with the inhabitants
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of this land; ye shall
throw down their altars:
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but ye have not obeyed my
voice: why have ye done this?
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Wherefore I also said,
I will not drive them out
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from before you: but they
shall be as thorns in your sides
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and their gods
shall be a snare unto you.
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And it came to pass, when
the angel of the Lord spake
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these words unto all
the children of Israel,
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that the people lifted
up their voice and wept,
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And they called the
name of that place Bochim:
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and they sacrificed
there unto the Lord.
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And when Joshua,
had let the people go,
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the children of Israel went
every man unto his inheritance
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to possess the land. And
the people served the Lord
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all the days of Joshua,
and all the days of the elders
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that outlived Joshua, who
had seen all the great works
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of the Lord, that
he did for Israel.
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And Joshua the son of Nun,
the servant of the Lord, died,
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being an hundred
and ten years old.
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and they buried him in
the borders of his inheritance
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in Timnathheres, in the mount
of Ephraim, on the north side
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of the hill Gaash. - Thank
you for joining with me today,
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to read the Book.
Please come back and read
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with me again
next time. Goodbye.
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