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9:26. So Josue did as he had said, and delivered them from the hand of
the children of Israel, that they should not be slain.
9:27. And he gave orders in that day, that they should be in the service
of all the people, and of the altar of the Lord, hewing wood, and
carrying water, until this present time, in the place which the Lord
hath chosen.
Josue Chapter 10
Five kings war against Gabaon. Josue defeateth them: many are slain with
hailstones. At the prayer of Josue the sun and moon stand still the
space of one day. The five kings are hanged. Divers cities are taken.
10:1. When Adonisedec, king of Jerusalem, had heard these things, to
wit, that Josue had taken Hai, and had destroyed it, (for as he had done
to Jericho and the king thereof, so did he to Hai and its king) and that
the Gabaonites were gone over to Israel, and were their confederates,
10:2. He was exceedingly afraid. For Gabaon was a great city, and one of
the royal cities, and greater than the town of Hai, and all its fighting
men were most valiant.
10:3. Therefore Adonisedec, king of Jerusalem, sent to Oham, king of
Hebron, and to Pharam, king of Jerimoth, and to Japhia, king of Lachis,
and to Dabir, king of Eglon, saying:
10:4. Come up to me, and bring help, that we may take Gabaon, because it
hath gone over to Josue, and to the children of Israel.
10:5. So the five kings of the Amorrhites being assembled together, went
up: the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jerimoth, the
king of Lachis, the king of Eglon, they and their armies, and camped
about Gabaon, laying siege to it.
10:6. But the inhabitants of the city of Gabaon, which was besieged,
sent to Josue, who then abode in the camp at Galgal, and said to him:
Withdraw not thy hands from helping thy servants: come up quickly, and
save us, and bring us succour: for all the kings of the Amorrhites, who
dwell in the mountains, are gathered together against us.
10:7. And Josue went up from Galgal, and all the army of the warriors
with him, most valiant men.
10:8. But the Lord said to Josue: Fear them not: for I have delivered
them into thy hands: none of them shall be able to stand against thee.
10:9. So Josue going up from Galgal all the night, came upon them
suddenly.
10:10. And the Lord troubled them, at the sight of Israel: and he slew
them with a great slaughter, in Gabaon, and pursued them by the way of
the ascent to Bethoron, and cut them off all the way to Azeca and
Maceda.
10:11. And when they were fleeing from the children of Israel, and were
in the descent of Bethoron, the Lord cast down upon them great stones
from heaven, as far as Azeca: and many more were killed with the
hailstones, than were slain by the swords of the children of Israel,
10:12. Then Josue spoke to the Lord, in the day that he delivered the
Amorrhite in the sight of the children of Israel, and he said before
them: Move not, O sun, toward Gabaon, nor thou, O moon, toward the
valley of Ajalon.
10:13. And the sun and the moon stood still, till the people revenged
themselves of their enemies. Is not this written in the book of the
just? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to
go down the space of one day.
The book of the just... In Hebrew Jasher: an ancient book long since
lost.
10:14. There was not before, nor after, so long a day, the Lord obeying
the voice of a man, and fighting for Israel.
10:15. And Josue returned, with all Israel, into the camp of Galgal.
10:16. For the five kings were fled, and had hid themselves in a cave of
the city of Maceda.
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