Joshua:8

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drb @Joshua:8:1 @And the Lord said to Josue : Fear not , nor be thou dismayed : take with thee all the multitude of fighting men , arise and go up to the town of Hai . Behold I have delivered into thy hand the king thereof , and the people , and the city , and the land . drb @Joshua:8:2 @And thou shalt do to the city of Hai , and to the king thereof , as thou hast done to Jericho , and to the king thereof : but the spoils and all the cattle you shall take for a prey to yourselves : lay an ambush for the city behind it . drb @Joshua:8:3 @And Josue arose , and all the army of the fighting men with him , to go up against Hai : and he sent thirty thousand chosen valiant men in the night , drb @Joshua:8:4 @And commanded them , saying : Lay an ambush behind the city : and go not very far from it : and be ye all ready . drb @Joshua:8:5 @But I and the rest of the multitude which is with me ; will approach on the contrary side against the city . And when they shall come out against us , we will flee , and turn our backs , as we did before : drb @Joshua:8:6 @Till they pursuing us be drawn farther from the city : for they will think that we flee as before . drb @Joshua:8:7 @And whilst we are fleeing , and they pursuing , you shall arise out of the ambush , and shall destroy the city : and the Lord your God will deliver it into our hands . drb @Joshua:8:8 @And when you shall have taken it , set it on fire , and you shall do all things so as I have commanded . drb @Joshua:8:9 @And he sent them away , and they went on to the place of the ambush , and abode between Bethel and Hai , on the west side of the city of Hai . But Josue stayed that night in the midst of the people , drb @Joshua:8:10 @And rising early in the morning , he mustered his soldiers , and went up with the ancients in the front of the army environed with the aid of the fighting men . drb @Joshua:8:11 @And when they were come , and were gone up over against the city , they stood on the north side of the city , between which and them there was a valley in the midst . drb @Joshua:8:12 @And he had chosen five thousand men , and set them to lie in ambush between Bethel and Hai , on the west side of the same city : drb @Joshua:8:13 @But all the rest of the army went in battle array on the north side , so that the last of that multitude reached to the west side of the city . So Josue went that night , and stood in the midst of the valley . drb @Joshua:8:14 @And when the king of Hai saw this , he made haste in the morning , and went out with all the army of the city , and set it in battle array toward the desert , not knowing that there lay an ambush behind his back . drb @Joshua:8:15 @But Josue , and all Israel gave back , making as if they were afraid , and fleeing by the way of the wilderness . drb @Joshua:8:16 @But they shouting together , and encouraging one another , pursued them . And when they were come from the city , drb @Joshua:8:17 @And not one remained in the city of Hai and of Bethel , that did not pursue after Israel , leaving the towns open as they had rushed out , drb @Joshua:8:18 @The Lord said to Josue : Lift up the shield that is in thy hand , towards the city of Hai , for I will deliver it to thee drb @Joshua:8:19 @And when he had lifted up his shield towards the city , the ambush that lay hid , rose up immediately : and going to the city , took it and set it on fire . drb @Joshua:8:20 @And the men of the city , that pursued after Josue , looking back and seeing the smoke of the city rise up to heaven , had no more power to flee this way or that way : especially as they that had counterfeited flight , end were going toward the wilderness , turned back most valiantly against them that pursued . drb @Joshua:8:21 @So Josue and all Israel seeing that the city was taken , and that the smoke of the city rose up , returned and slew the men of Hai . drb @Joshua:8:22 @And they also that had taken and set the city on fire , issuing out of the city to meet their own men , began to cut off the enemies who were surrounded by them . So that the enemies being cut off on both sides , not one of so great a multitude was saved . drb @Joshua:8:23 @And they took the king of the city of Hai alive , and brought him to Josue . drb @Joshua:8:24 @So all being slain that had pursued after Israel in his flight to the wilderness , and tailing by the sword in the same place , the children of Israel returned and laid waste the city . drb @Joshua:8:25 @And the number of them that fell that day , both of men and women , was twelve thousand persons all of the city of Hai . drb @Joshua:8:26 @But Josue drew not back his hand , which he had stretched out on high , holding the shield , till all the inhabitants of Hai were slain . drb @Joshua:8:27 @And the children of Israel divided among them the cattle and the prey of the city , as the Lord had commanded Josue . drb @Joshua:8:28 @And he burned the city , and made it a heap for ever : drb @Joshua:8:29 @And he hung the king thereof on a gibbet until the evening and the going down of the sun . Then Josue commanded , and they took down his carcass from the gibbet : and threw it in the very entrance of the city , heaping upon it a great heap of stones , which remaineth until this present day . drb @Joshua:8:30 @Then Josue built an altar to the Lord the God of Israel in mount Hebal , drb @Joshua:8:31 @As Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the children of Israel , and it is written in the book of the law of Moses : an altar of unhewn stones which iron had not touched : and he offered upon it holocausts to the Lord , and immolated victims of peace offerings . drb @Joshua:8:32 @And he wrote upon stones the Deuteronomy of the law of Moses , which he had ordered before the children of Israel . drb @Joshua:8:33 @And all the people , and the ancients , and the princes and judges stood on both sides of the ark , before the priests that carried the ark of the covenant of the Lord , both the stranger and he that was born among them , half of them by mount Garizim , and half by mount Hebal , as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded . And first he blessed the people of Israel . drb @Joshua:8:34 @After this he read all the words of the blessing and the cursing and all things that were written in the hook of the law . drb @Joshua:8:35 @He left out nothing of those things which Moses had commanded , but he repeated all before all the people of Israel , with the women and children and strangers that dwelt among them .

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