And she said unto them, get you into the mountains, lest the followers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned, and then may ye go your ways.

And the men said unto her, "We will be blameless of thy oath, which thou hast made us swear.

And even so if thou utter these our words, we will be quit of thy oath which thou hast made us swear."

that all the people of the world may know the hand of the LORD how mighty it is, and that ye might fear the LORD your God forever."

And Joshua made him knives of stone and circumcised the children of Israel in the hill of foreskins.

And when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabiters of Ai in the fields and in the wilderness by which they chased them, and when they were all fallen on the edge of the sword, until they were wasted, then all Israel returned unto Ai and smote it with the edge of the sword.

And Joshua set Ai on fire and made it a heap forever and a wilderness, even unto this day.

And Joshua made peace with them, and made a covenant with them, to save their lives: and the lords of the congregation sware unto them.

But three days after they had made peace with them, they heard that they were neighbours unto them, and that they dwelt among them.

And Joshua made them that same day hewers of wood and drawers of water unto the congregation and unto the altar of God unto this day, in the place which God should choose.

And when Adonizedek king of Jerusalem had heard how Joshua had taken Ai, and had destroyed it, and how that as he had done to Jericho and her king, even so he had done to Ai and her king, and how the inhabiters of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and did remain among them:

"Come up unto me and help me, that we may smite Gibeon: for they have made peace with Joshua and the children of Israel."

Then 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, both they and all their hosts and went up and besieged Gibeon, and made war against it.

And Joshua ascended from Gilgal, both he and all the people of war with him, and all the men of might,

And when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a great slaughter till they were wasted, yet there remained a certain of them, which entered into walled cities.

And all these kings met together, and came and pitched together upon the water of Merom, for to fight with Israel.

Joshua made war long time with those kings:

for there was no city that made peace with the children of Israel, save those Hittites that inhabited Gibeon. All other they took with battle,

and went down from Janoah to Ataroth and Naarah, and met at Jericho, and went out at Jordan.

so that the south pertained to Ephraim, and the north to Manasseh, and the sea is his border. And they met together in Asher northward, and in Issachar eastward.

and went up to the sea and to Mareal, and touched at Dabbesheth, and met at the river that lieth before Jokneam;

And his coasts met at Tabor, Shahazumah and at Bethshemesh and endeth at Jordan: Sixteen cities with their villages.

Allamelech, Amad, and Mishal; and met at Carmel on the sea, and at Shihor and at Libnath

and turneth toward the sun rising to Bethdagon, and met at Zebulun and in the valley of Iphtahel, and toward the northside of Bethemek and Neiel, and goeth out on the left side of Cabul;

When they had made an end of dividing the land by her coasts then the children of Israel gave an inheritance unto Joshua the son of Nun among them:

These are the inheritances which Eleazar the priest and Joshua the son of Nun, and the ancient fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel divided by lot in Shiloh before the LORD, in the door of the tabernacle of witness, and so made an end of dividing the country.

These were the cities appointed for all the children of Israel, and to the strangers that Sojourned among them that whosoever killed any person ignorantly, the same might flee thither and should not die by the hand of the avenger of blood, until he stood before the congregation.

Or else if we have built us an altar to turn from following the LORD, or to offer thereon burnt offering or meat offerings, or to offer peace offerings thereon: let the LORD require it.

Saying, 'That the LORD hath made Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Ruben and of Gad: ye have no part therefore in the LORD.' And so shall your children make our children cease from fearing the LORD.

And therefore we said, 'Let us cause an altar to be made, not for burnt offerings, nor sacrifices,

And we thought if they should so say to us, or to our generations in time to come, that we would say again, 'Behold the fashion of the altar which our fathers made, neither for burnt offerings nor sacrifices, but that it should be a witness between us and you.'

And so Joshua made a covenant with the people the same day and set ordinances and laws before them in Shechem.