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Now when Adoni-zedek King of Ierusalem had heard how Ioshua had taken Ai and had destroyed it , (
for as he had done to Iericho and to the King thereof ,
so he had done to Ai and to the King thereof )
and howe the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel ,
and were among them ,
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Then they feared exceedingly :
for Gibeon was a great citie ,
as one of the royall cities :
for it was greater then Ai ,
and all the men thereof were mightie .
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Wherefore (
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That is , «
Lord of justice »,
so tyrants take for themselves glorious names ,
when indeed they are the very enemies of God and all justice .(:
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Adonizedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron ,
and unto Piram king of Jarmuth ,
and unto Japhia king of Lachish ,
and unto Debir king of Eglon ,
saying ,
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Come vp vnto me ,
and helpe me ,
that we may smite Gibeon :
for they haue made peace with Ioshua and with the children of Israel .
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Therefore the five kings of the Amorites ,
the king of Jerusalem ,
the king of Hebron ,
the king of Jarmuth ,
the king of Lachish ,
the king of Eglon ,
gathered themselves together ,
and went up ,
they and all their hosts ,
and encamped before Gibeon ,
and made (
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So envious the wicked are ,
when any depart from their hand .(:
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war against it .
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And the men of Gibeon sent vnto Ioshua ,
euen to the hoste to Gilgal ,
saying ,
Withdrawe not thine hand from thy seruants :
come vp to vs quickly ,
and saue vs , &
amp ;
helpe vs :
for all the Kings of the Amorites which dwell in the mountaines ,
are gathered together against vs .
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So Ioshua ascended from Gilgal ,
he ,
and all the people of warre with him ,
and all the men of might .
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And the LORD said unto Joshua , (
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Lest Joshua should have thought that God had sent this great power against him for his unlawful league with the Gibeonites ,
the Lord here strengthens him .(:
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Fear them not :
for I have delivered them into thine hand ;
there shall not a man of them stand before thee .
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Ioshua therefore came vnto them suddenly :
for he went vp from Gilgal all the night .
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And the Lord discomfited them before Israel ,
and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon ,
and chased them along the way that goeth vp to Beth-horon ,
and smote them to Azekah and to Makkedah .
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And it came to pass ,
as they fled from before Israel , [
and ]
were in the going down to Bethhoron ,
that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah ,
and they died : [
they were ]
more which died with (
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So we see that all things serve to execute God '
s vengeance against the wicked .(:
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hailstones than [
they ]
whom the children of Israel slew with the sword .
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Then spake Ioshua to the Lord ,
in the day when the Lord gaue the Amorites before the children of Israel ,
and he sayd in the sight of Israel ,
Sunne ,
stay thou in Gibeon ,
and thou moone ,
in the valley of Aialon .
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And the sun stood still ,
and the moon stayed ,
until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies . [
Is ]
not this written in the book of (
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Some read ,
the book of the righteous ,
meaning Moses :
the Chaldea text reads ,
in the book of the Law ,
but it is likely that it was a book thus named ,
which is now lost .(:
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Jasher ?
So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven ,
and hasted not to go down about a whole day .
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And there was no day like that before it or after it ,
that the LORD hearkened unto the voice of a man :
for the LORD (
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By taking away the enemies hearts and destroying them with the hail stones .(:
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fought for Israel .
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After ,
Ioshua returned ,
and all Israel with him vnto the campe to Gilgal :