And the things that are to come upon them shall make haste.
^For the LORD will judge His people, And repent Himself for His serv- ants; When He seeth that their stay is gone, And there is none remaining, shut up or left at large. 87And it is said: Where are their gods, The rock in whom they trusted; 38Who did eat the fat of their sacri- fices, And drank the wine of their drink- offering?
Let him rise up and help you, Let him be your protection.
39See now that I, even I, am He, And there is no god with Me; I kill, and I make alive; I have wounded, and I heal; And there is none that can deliver out of My hand. 40For I lift up My hand to heaven, And say: As I live for ever, ttlf I whet My glittering sword, And My hand take hold on judg- ment; I will render vengeance to Mine adversaries, And will recompense them that hate Me. 42I will make Mine arrows drunk with blood, And My sword shall devour flesh; With the blood of the skin and the captives, From the long-haired heads of the enemy.* aloud, 0 ye nations, of His people; For He doth avenge the blood of His servants, And doth render vengeance to His adversaries, And doth make expiation for the land of His people.
* **And Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the ears of the people, he, and Hoshea the son of Nun. ^And when Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel, ^he said unto them: 'Set your heart unto all the words wherewith I testify against you this day; that ye may charge your children therewith to observe to do all the words of this law. 4]For it is no vain thing for you; because it is your life, and through this thing ye shall pro- long your days upon the land, whither ye go over the Jordan to possess it.'
48And the LORD spoke unto Moses that selfsaine day, saying: 49'Get thee up into this mountain of Abarim, unto mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Canaan, which I give unto the children of Israel for a possession; 50and die in the mount whither thou goest up, and be gath- ered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people. 51Becaussye DEUTER0NOMY trespassed against Me in the midst of the children of Israel at the waters of Meribath-kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified Me not in the midst of the children of Israel. KFor thou shalt see the land afar off; but thou shalt not go thither into the land which I give the children of Israel.'
O O And this is the blessing, where- with Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death. 2And he said: The LORD came from Sinai, And rose from Seir unto them; He shined forth from mount Paran, And He came from the myriads holy, At His right hand was a fiery law unto them.
3Yea, He loveth the peofJles, All His holy ones — they are in Thy hand; And they sit down at Thy feet, Receiving of Thy words. 4Moses commanded us a law, An inheritance of the congregation of Jacob.
5And there was a king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people were gathered, All the tribes of Israel together.
6Let Reuben live, and not die In that his men become few.
7And this for Judah, and he said: Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah, And bring him in unto his people; His hands shall contend for him, And Thou shalt be a help against his adversaries.
8And of Leyi he said: Thy Thummim and Thy Urim be with Thy holy one, Whom Thou didst prove at Massah, With whom Thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah; 9Who said of his father, and of his mother: 'I have not seen him', Neither did he acknowledge his brethren, Nor knew he his own children; For they have observed Thy word, And keep Thy covenant. 10They shall teach Jacob Thine ordi- nances, And Israel Thy law; They shall put incense before Thee, And whole burnt-offering upon Thine altar.
nBless, LORD, his substance, And accept the work of his hands; Smite through the loins of them that rise up against him, And of them that hate him, that they rise not again.
120f Benjamin he said: The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by Him; He covereth him all the day, And He dwelleth between his shoul- ders.
"And of Joseph he said: Blessed of the LORD be his land; For the precious things of heaven, for the dew, And for the deep that coucheth beneath, 14And for the precious things of the fruits of the sun, And for the precious things of the yield of the moons,' 15And for the tops of the ancient mountains, And for the precious things of the everlasting hills, 16And for the precious things of the earth and the fulness thereof, And the good will of Him that dwelt in the bush; DEUTERONOMY Let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, And upon the crown of the head of him that is prince among his brethren.
17His firstling bullock, majesty is his, And his horns are the horns of the wild-ox; With them he shall gore the peoples all of them, even the ends of the earth; And they are the ten thousands of Ephraim, And they are the thousands of Manasseh.
18And of Zebulun he said: Rejoice, Zebulun, in thy going out, And, Issachar, in thy tents. 19They shall call peoples unto the mountain; There shall they offer sacrifices of righteousness; For they shall suck the abundance of the seas, And the hidden treasures of the sand.
20And of Gad he said: Blessed be He that enlargeth Gad, He dwelleth as a lioness, And teareth the arm, yea, the crown of the head. 21 And he chose a first part for himself, For there a portion of a ruler was reserved; And there came the heads of the people, He executed the righteousness of the LORD, And His ordinances with Israel.
of Dan he said: Dan is a lion's whelp, That leapeth forth from Bashan.
of Naphtali he said: 0 Naphtali, satisfied with favour, And full with the blessing of the LORD: Possess thou the sea and the south.
24And of Asher he said: Blessed be Asher above sons; Let him be the favoured of his breth- ren, And let him dip his foot in oil. ^Iron and brass shall be thy bars; And as thy days, so shall thy strength be.
26There is none like unto God, 0 Jeshurun, Who rideth upon the heaven as thy help, And in His excellency on the skies.
27The eternal God is a dwelling-place, And underneath are the everlasting arms; And He thrust out the enemy from before thee, And said: ' Destroy.7 ^And Israel dwelleth in safety, The fountain of Jacob alone, In a land of corn and wine; Yea, his heavens drop down dew. 29Happy art thou, 0 Israel, who is like unto thee? A people saved by the LORD, The shield of thy help, And that is the sword of thy ex- cellency! And thine enemies shall dwindle away before thee; And thou shait tread upon their high places.
QA And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto mount Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the LORD showed him all the land, even Gilead as far as Dan; 2and all Naphtali, and DEUTERONOMY the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah as far as the hinder sea; 3and the South, and the Plain, even the valley of Jericho the city of palm-trees, as far as Zoar. 4And the LORD said unto him: 'This is the land which I swore unto Abra- ham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying: I will give it unto thy seed; I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thith- er.3 5So Moses the servant of the LORD died there in the land of Moab, according to the word of the LORD. 6And he was buried in the valley in the land of Moab over against Beth- peor; and no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day. 7And Moses was a hundred and twenty years old when he died; his eye was not dim, nor his natural force abated. 8And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days^so the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended. 9And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the^ spirit of wisdom; for Moses had ^laid his hands upon him; and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Moses. 10And there hath not arisen a prophet since in Israel like unto Moses, whom the LORD knew face to face; uin ^all the signs and the wonders, which the LORD sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land; %nd in all the mighty hand, and in all the great terror, which Moses wrought in the sight of all Israel.
THE PROPHETS JOSHUA PAGE JOEL JUDGES AMOS.
I SAMUEL OBADIAH.
II SAMUEL JONAH.
I KINGS.
MICAH.
II KINGS NAHUM ISAIAH HABAKKUK JEREMIAH ZEPHANIAH EZEKIEL HAGGAI THE TWELVE ZECHARIAH HOSEA.
MALACHI.
JOSHUA 1 Now it came to pass after the -*- death of Moses the servant of the LORD, that the LORD spoke unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses7 minis- ter, saying: 2' Moses My servant is dead; now therefore arise, go over this Jordan, thou, and all this people, unto the land which I do give to them, even to the children of Israel 3Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, to you have I given it, as I spoke unto Moses. 4From the wilderness, and this Lebanon, even unto the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and unto the Great Sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border, ^here shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life; as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee; I will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. 6Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt cause this people to inherit the land which I swore unto their fathers to give them. 70nly be strong and very courageous, to observe to do accord- ing to all the law, which Moses My servant commanded thee; turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest have good success whithersoever thou goest. 8This book of the law shall riot depart out of thy mouth, but thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written therein; for then thou shalt make thy ways prosperous, and then thou shalt have good success.
9Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not affrighted, neither be- thou dismayed; for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.'
10Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying: u'Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people, saying: Prepare you victuals; for within three days ye are to pass over this Jordan, to'go in to possess the land, which the LORD your God giveth you to possess it/ ^And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh, spoke Joshua, saying: 13' Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying: The LORD your God giveth you rest, and will give you this land. 14Your wives, your little ones, and your cattle, shall abide in the land which Moses gave you beyond the Jordan; but ye shall pass over be- fore your brethren armed, all the mighty men of valour, and shall help them; 15until the LORD have given your brethren rest, as unto you, and they also have possessed the land which the LORD your God giveth them; then ye shall return unto the land of your possession, and possess it, which Moses the servant of the LORD gave you beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising.'
16And they answered Joshua, say- ing: 'All that thou hast commanded us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us we will go. "According JOSHUA as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee; only the LORD thy God be with thee, as He was with Moses. "Whosoever he be that shall rebel against thy com- mandment, and shall not hearken unto thy words in all that thou com- mandest hi™, he shall be put to death; only be strong and of good courage/ 0 And Joshua the son of Nun sent put of Shittim two spies secretly, saying: 'Go view the land, and Jericho.' And they went, and came into the house of a harlot whose name was Eahab, and lay there. 2And it was told the king of Jericho, saying: t Behold, there came men in lather to-night of the children of Israel to search out the land.' 3And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying: 1 Bring forth the men that are come to thee, that are entered into thy house; for they are come to search out all the land.' 4And the woman took the two men, and hid them; and she said: 'Yea, the men came unto me, but I knew not whence they were; *and it came to pass about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out; whither the men went I know not; pursue after them quickly; for ye shall overtake them.' 6But she had brought them up to the roof, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had spread out upon the roof. 7And the men pur-sued after them the way to the Jordan unto the fords; and as soon as they that pursued after them were gone out, the gate was shut. 8And before they were laid down, she came up unto them upon the roof; 9and she said unto the men: 'I know that the LOBD hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land, melt away before you. 10For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red Sea before you, when ye came out of Egypt; and what ye did unto the two kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan, unto Sihon and to Og, whom ye utterly destroyed. nAnd as soon as we had heard it, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more spint in any man, because of you; for the LORD your God, He is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath. ^Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the LORD, since I have dealt kindly with you, that ye also will deal kindly with my father's house — and give me a true token — 13and save alive my father, and my mother, and my brethren, and my sisters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death.' 14And the men said unto her: 'Our Me for yours, if ye tell not this our business; and it shall be, when the LORD giveth us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.' 15Then she let them down by a cord through the window; for her house was upon the side of the wall, and she dwelt upon the wall. 16And she said unto them: ' Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers light upon you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned; and ' afterward may ye go your way.'
17And the men said unto her: 'We will be guiltless of this thine oath which thou hast made us to swear. 18Behold, when we come into the land, thou shalt bind this line of scarlet thread in the window which thou didst let us down by; and thou shalt gather unto thee into the house thy father, and thy mother, and thy brethren, and all thy father's house- hold. "And it shall be, that whosoever JOSHUA shall go out of the doors of thy house into the street, his blood shall be upon his head, and we will be guiltless; and whosoever shall be with thee in the house, his blood shall be on our head, if any hand be upon Mm. 20But if thou utter this our business, then we will be guiltless of thine oath which thou hast made us to swear.7 21And she said: 'According unto your words, so be it.' And she sent them away, and they departed; and she bound the scarlet line in the window. ^And they went, and came unto the mountain, and abode there three days, until the pursuers were returned; and the pursuers sought them throughout all the way, but found them not. ^Then the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun; and they told him all that had befallen them. ^And they said unto Joshua: "Truly the LORD hath delivered into our hands all the land; and moreover all the inhabitants of the land do melt away before us.'
O And Joshua rose up early in the ^ morning, and they removed from Shittim, and came to the Jordan, he and all the children of Israel; and they lodged there before they passed over. 2And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the midst of the camp; 3and they com- manded the people, saying: 'When ye see the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, and the priests the Levites bearing it, then ye shall re- move from your place, and go after it. 4Yet there snail be a space between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure; come not near unto it, that ye may know the way by which ye must go; for ye have not passed this way heretofore.'
5And Joshua said unto the people: 'Sanctify yourselves; for to-morrow the LORD will do wonders among you.' 6And Joshua spoke unto the priests, saying: 'Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass on before the people.' And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.
7And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'This day will I begin to magnify thee hi the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee. 8And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, saying: When ye are come to the brink of the waters of the Jordan, ye shall stand still in the Jordan.'
9And Joshua said unto the children of Israel: 'Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God.' 10And Joshua said: 'Hereby ye shall know that the living God is among you, and that He will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite. Be- hold, the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth passeth on before you over the Jordan. ^Now there- fore take you twelve men put of the tribes of Israel, for every tribe a man.
nd it shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap.' 14And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over the Jordan, the priests that bore the ark of the covenant being before the people; 15and when they that bore JOSHUA JOSHUA the ark were come unto the Jordan and the feet of the priests that bore the ark were dipped in the brink of the water — for the Jordan over- floweth all its banks all the time of harvest — 16that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off from Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan, and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off; and the people passed over right against Jericho. 17And the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan, while all Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the nation were passed clean over the Jordan. A And it came to pass, when all the nation were clean passed over the Jordan, that the LORD spoke unto Joshua, saying: *'Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a Tna.Ti, 3and command ye them, saying: Take you hence out of the midst of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood, twelve stones jmade ready, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging-place, where ye shall lodge this night.'
4Then Joshua called the twelve men, whom he had prepared of the children of Israel, out of every tribe a man; ^nd Joshua said unto them: 'Pass on before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of the Jor- dan, and take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, ac- cording unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; ^hat this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in time to come, saying: What mean ye by these stones? 7then ye shall say unto them: Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the cove- nant of the LORD; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off; and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever/ 8And the children of Israel did so as Joshua com- manded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as the LORD spoke unto Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them unto the place where they lodged, and laid them down there. 9Joshua also set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests that bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there unto this day. 10And the priests that bore the ark stood in the midst of the Jordan, until every thing was finished that the LORD commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua; and the people hastened and passed over. uAnd it came to pass, when all the people were clean passed over, that the ark of the LORD passed on, and the priests, before the people. ^And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, passed on armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spoke unto them; 13about forty thousand ready armed for war passed on in the presence of the LORD unto battle, to the plains of Jericho.
140n that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life.
15And the LORD spoke unto Joshua, saying: 16' Command the priests that )ear the ark of the testimony, that ihey come up out of the Jordan.' 7Joshua therefore commanded the priests, saying: 'Come ye up out of JOSHUA the Jordan/ 18And it came to pass, as the priests that bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD came up out of the midst of the Jordan, as soon as the soles of the priests' feet were drawn up unto the dry ground, that the waters of the Jordan returned unto their place, and went over all its banks, as aforetime. 19And the people came up out of the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, on the east border of Jericho. 20And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal. aAnd he spoke unto the children of Israel, saying: 'When your children shall ask their fathers in tune to come, saying: What mean these stones? ssthen ye shall let your children know, saying: Israel came over this Jor- dan on dry land. ^For the LORD your God dried up the waters of Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as the LORD your God did to the Red Sea, which He dried up from before us, until we were passed over, ^hat all the peoples of the earth may, know the hand of the LORD, that it is' mighty; that ye may fear the LORD your God for ever.' K And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, that were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, that were by the sea, heard how that the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan from before the children of Israel, until they were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, be- cause of the children of Israel.
2At that time the LORD said unto Joshua: 'Make thee knives of flint, and circumcise again the children of Israel the second time/ 8And Joshua made him knives of flint, and circumcised the children of Israel at Kjribeath-ha-araloth. 4And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: all the people that came forth out of Egypt, that were^ males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came forth out of Egypt. 6For all the people that came out were circumcised; but all the people that were born in the wilderness by the way as they came forth out of Egypt, had not been circumcised, ^or the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilder- ness, till all the nation, even the men of war that came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they heark- ened not unto the voice of the LORD; unto whom the LORD swore that He would not let them see the land which the LORD swore unto their fathers that He would give us, a land flowing with rnilk and honey. 7And He raised up their children in their stead; them. did ^ Joshua circumcise; for they were uncircumcised, because they had not been circumcised by the way. 8And it came to pass, when all the nation were circumcised^ every one of them, that they abode in their places in the camp, till they were whole.
9And the LORD said unto Joshua: 'This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you/ Wherefore the name of that place was called bGilgal, unto this day.
10And the children of Israel en- camped in Gilgal; and they kept the passover on the fourteenth day of the month at even in the plains of Jericho. uAnd they did eat of the produce of the land on the morrow after the passover, unleavened cakes and parched corn, in the selfsame day. ^And the mnmm ceased on the mor- row, after they had eaten of the produce of the land; neither had the * That is, The hill of the foreskins. b That is, Rotting.
JOSHUA children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.
wAnd it came to pass, when Joshua- was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand; and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him: 'Art thou for us, or for our ad- versaries?' 14And he said: 'Nay, but I am captain of the host of the LOED; I am now come.* And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and bowed down, and said unto Mm: 'What saith my lord unto his servant?7 15And the captain of the LORD'S host said unto Joshua: Tut off thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon thou standest is holy/ And Joshua did so.