BRAGADAYJAH 663

BRAGADAYJAH 663

The only people that the Israelites did not expel, but rather allowed to live among them continually were the Maachathites and the Geshurites.  And the countries which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan which was distributed to them by Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel was as follows:  For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim, the Levites not getting a share of the land except cities to dwell in with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance. Then the children of Judah came to Joshua in Gilgal and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite and said unto him. “Thou knoweth the thing the Lord said unto Moses the man of God, concerning me and thee in Kadesh-barnea.  Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh-barnea to spy out the land and I brought him word again as was in my heart.  Nevertheless my brethren that went up with me made the heart of the people melt; but I wholly followed the Lord my God. And now behold the Lord hath kept me alive as He said these forty years ever since the Lord spoke this word unto Moses while the children of Israel wandered and now lo I am this day fourscore and five years old  

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BRAGADAYJAH 662

BRAGADAYJAH 662

So God directed Joshua to divide the land between the nine tribes of Israel plus the half tribe of Manasseh, reminding him that the Reubenites and the Gadites had already received their inheritance from Moses beyond Jordan eastward which Moses had given them back then at their request. God then pointed out the area to be shared, which included the land from Aroer at the bank of Aron and the city that is in the midst of the river and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon. And all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites which reigned in Heshbon unto the border of the children of Ammon. And Gilead and the border of the Geshurites and Maachathites and all mount Hermon, and all Bashan unto Salcah. And all the kingdom of Og, in Bashan which reigned in Ashtaroth, and in Edrei who remained of the remnant of the giants for these did Moses smite and cast them out.

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BRAGADAYJAH 661

BRAGADAYJAH 661

Now when Joshua was old and stricken in years, the Lord told him there was still much land to be possessed, namely all the land of the Philistines, and all Geshuri from Sihor which is before Egypt even unto the borders of Ekron northward, which is counted to the Canaanites, five lords of Philistines, the Gazathites, and the Ashdothites, the Eshkalonites, the Gittites and the Ekronites and the Avites.  And from the south all the lands of the Canaanites and Mearah that is beside the Sidonians unto Aphek to the borders of the Amorites And the land of the Giblites and all Lebanon toward the sun rising from Baalgad under mount Hermon unto the entrance to Hamath.  All the inhabitants of the Hill country from Lebanon unto Misrephothmaim and all the Sidonians. Them will I drive out from before the children of Israel, only divide thou it by lot unto the children of Israel for an inheritance I have commanded you.    

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BRAGADAYJAH 660

Bragadayjah660

So Joshua spent many years in battle with the kings of the surrounding nations, and there was none that made peace with the children of Israel except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon, all others being conquered in battle.  For it was God’s will that all the others would be destroyed in battle in that he hardened their hearts and made them to wage war against Israel, that He might utterly destroy them, not having found any favor with Him and left it to Joshua to destroy them, as Moses commanded. And at that time came Joshua and cut off the Anakims from the mountains from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab and from the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel: Joshua destroyed them utterly and their cities. There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: Only in Gaza, and in Ashdod there remained. So Joshua took the whole land according to all the LORD said unto Moses and Joshua gave it as an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.   

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BRAGADAYJAH 659

BRAGADAYJAH 659

After that, Joshua turned his attention to Hazor and took that city; he smote the king with the sword for Hazor was of former times the king of those kingdoms that had aligned themselves against Israel. And he smote all the inhabitants of that city so that none were left alive; and afterwards he burnt the city with fire. And all the cities of those kingdoms were destroyed as Moses the servant of the Lord had directed him to do.  But of the cities that stood still in their strength Joshua burnt none except Hazor. And all the spoils of those cities and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword until there were none left. So Joshua took all the lands, the hills and all the south country and all the land of Goshen and the valley and the plain and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same. from Mount Halak, that goes up to Seir even unto Baalgad in the valley of Lebanon under mount Hermon and all their kings he took and smote them.

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BRAGADAYJAH 658

BRAGADAYJAH 658

With the host of several armies encamped against Israel, the Lord spoke to Joshua and said, “Be not afraid because of them. For tomorrow by this time I will deliver them up all slain before Israel. Thou shall hough their horses and burn their chariots with fire. So Joshua came and all Israel with him against them by the waters of Merom and fell upon them suddenly. And the Lord delivered them into the hand of Israel who smote them and chased them unto great Zidon and unto Misrephothmaim and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left none of them remaining. And Joshua did unto them as the Lord bade him; he houghed their horses and burnt their chariots with fire.

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BRAGADAYJAH 657

BRAGADAYJAH 657

Now it came to pass that when Jabin, king of Hazor heard about the conquests of Israel and how Joshua had dealt with the defeated lands, that he summoned together Jobab, king of Madon, and the king of Shimron, the king Achshaph, the kings that were on the North of the mountains, and the kings of the plains, south of Chinneroth, the kinks of the valley and in the borders of Dor on the West, and to the Canaanites on the East and on the West, and to the Amorites and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Jebusites in the mountains, and to the Hivites under Hermon, in the land of Mizpeh.  And they went out, they and all their hosts, a large array of people as numerous as the sands of the seashore with much horses and chariots; and after gathering together they marched together and pitched their camps at the waters of Merom in preparation to attack Israel.

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