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that long outlived Joshua, and who had known all the works of Jehovah, that he had done for Israel.

And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a part of the field which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred kesitas; and it became the 33 inheritance of the children of Joseph. And Eleazar the son of Aaron died. And they buried him in Gibeah [the city] of Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.

V. 32. Kesitas. See the writer's note on Gen. 33: 19.

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BOOK OF THE JUDGES.

1 AND it came to pass after the death of Joshua, that the children of Israel inquired of Jehovah, saying: Who shall first go up for us against the Canaanites, to fight against 2 them? And Jehovah said: Judah shall go up. Behold, I 3 have given the land into his hand. And Judah said to Simeon his brother: Go up with me into my lot, and let us fight against the Canaanites; and I also will go with thee 4 into thy lot. And Simeon went with him. And Judah went up; and Jehovah gave the Canaanites and the Perizzites into their hand; and they smote of them in Bezek ten 5 thousand men. And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek; and they fought against him, and they smote the Canaanites and • the Perizzites. And Adoni-bezek fled. And they pursued after him, and caught him; and they cut off his thumbs and 7 his great toes. And Adoni-bezek said: Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered [food] under my table. As I have done, so God has requited me. And they brought him to Jerusalem, and 8 there he died. And the children of Judah fought against Jerusalem. And they took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and set the city on fire.

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And afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites, that dwelt in the hill country, and in 10 the south, and in the lowland. And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron; and the name of Hebron formerly was city of Arba; and they smote Sheshai, 11 and Ahiman, and Talmai. And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir; and the name of Debir formerly 12 was Kirjath-sepher. And Caleb said: He that smites KirjathV. 10. City of Arba. Or, Kirjath-arba.

sepher, and takes it, to him will I give Achsah my daughter 13 to wife. And Othniel, the son of Kenaz, Caleb's younger brother, took it. And he gave him Achsah his daughter to 14 wife. And it came to pass, when she had come, that she moved him to ask of her father the field. And she alighted from the ass; and Caleb said to her, What wouldest thou? 15 And she said to him: Give me a present. For thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. 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, went up out of the city of palm trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which lies in the south of Arad. 17 And they went and dwelt among the people. And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they smote the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the 18 name of the city was called Hormah. And Judah took

Gaza with the border thereof, and Ashkelon with the border 19 thereof, and Ekron with the border thereof. And Jehovah was with Judah; and he took possession of the hill country; for he could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, be20 cause they had chariots of iron. And they gave Hebron to Caleb, as Moses said; and he drove out thence the three sons of Anak.

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And the children of Benjamin did not drive out the Jebusites that inhabited Jerusalem; and the Jebusites dwell with the children of Benjamin in Jerusalem unto this day.

And the house of Joseph,

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they also went up to Beth-el;

And the house of Joseph sent out Beth-el. And the name of the city formerly was

to spy 24 Luz. And the watchers saw a man come forth out of the city. And they said to him: Show us, we pray thee, the entrance into the city, and we will deal kindly with thee. 25 And he showed them the entrance into the city. And they smote the city with the edge of the sword; and they let the 26 man go and all his family. And the man went into the land of the Hittites. And he built a city, and called its name Luz. That is its name to this day.

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Nor did Manasseh get possession of Beth-shean and her daughters, nor Taanach and her daughters, nor [drive out] the inhabitants of Dor and her daughters, nor the inhabitants of Ibleam and her daughters, nor the inhabitants of Megiddo and her daughters. And it was the will of the 28 Canaanites to dwell in that land. And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out.

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Nor did Ephraim drive out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; and the Canaanites dwelt in Gezer among them.

Nor did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; and the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributary.

Nor did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, and Ahlab, and Achzib, and Helbah, 32 and Aphik, and Rehob. And the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land; for they did not drive them out.

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Nor did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth-anath; and he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land. And the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and of Beth-anath became tributary to them. 34 And the Amorites crowded the children of Dan into the hill

country; for they would not suffer them to come down to the 35 valley. And it was the will of the Amorites to dwell in mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim. And the hand of the house of Joseph was heavy, and they became tribu36 tary. And the border of the Amorites was from the ascent to Akrabbim, from Sela, and upward.

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AND an angel of Jehovah came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said: I made you go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I had sworn to your fathers; and I 2 said, I will never break my covenant with you. And ye shall make no league with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall throw down their altars; and ye have not obeyed my voice.

V. 27. Daughters. See the note on Josh. 15:45.

3 What is this that ye have done? And I have also said: I will not thrust them out from before you; but they shall be your adversaries, and their gods shall be a snare to you. And it came to pass, when the angel of Jehovah had spoken these words to all the children of Israel, that the people lifted up their voice, and wept. And they called the name of that place Bochim. And they sacrificed there to Jehovah.

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And Joshua let the people go; and the children of Israel 7 went every man to his inheritance, to possess the land. And the people served Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that long outlived Joshua, who saw all the great works of Jehovah, that he wrought for Israel. And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died, being 9 a hundred and ten years old. And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-heres, in the mount of 10 Ephraim, on the north side of mount Gaash. And also all that generation were gathered to their fathers; and there arose another generation after them, which knew not Jehovah, nor yet the works which he had wrought for Israel.

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11 And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of Jehovah, 12 and served the Baals. And they forsook Jehovah, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and went after other gods, of the gods of the peoples that were round about them, and bowed themselves unto them, 13 and provoked Jehovah to anger. And they forsook Jehovah, and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.

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And the anger of Jehovah burned against Israel; and he gave them into the hand of plunderers that plundered them, and he sold them into the hand of their enemies round about, 15 and they could no longer stand before their enemies. Whithersoever they went out, the hand of Jehovah was against

V. 5. Bochim; Weepers.

V. 11. Baals. There were many temples of Baal, the supreme male divinity of those idolatrous nations; and he was worshipped under various local designations, and diversities of character and attributes. Baalim, in our common version, is the Hebrew plural of Baal. V. 13. Ashtoreth was the supreme female divinity of those nations. She was the goddess of licentiousness as well as of good fortune; and her numerous temples were thronged with her votaries. For Baal and Ashtoreth see the writer's note on Gen. 14: 5.