“Therefore you will say to them, ‘When you offer up the best of it, then it will be credited to the Levites as the product of the threshing floor and as the product of the winepress.

the Lord’s tribute from the sheep was 675.

From the Israelites’ half-share that Moses had separated from the fighting men,

“‘And this will be your northern border: From the Great Sea you will draw a line to Mount Hor;

I thought this was a good idea, so I sent twelve men from among you, one from each tribe.

If you think, “These nations are more numerous than I – how can I dispossess them?”

From there they traveled to Gudgodah, and from Gudgodah to Jotbathah, a place of flowing streams.

then he will drive out all these nations ahead of you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.

Then all the peoples of the earth will see that you belong to the Lord, and they will respect you.

Bless, O Lord, his goods, and be pleased with his efforts; undercut the legs of any who attack him, and of those who hate him, so that they cannot stand.

“Select for yourselves twelve men from the people, one per tribe.

“Instruct the priests carrying the ark of the covenantal laws to come up from the Jordan.”

The people went up from the Jordan on the tenth day of the first month and camped in Gilgal on the eastern border of Jericho.

Now Joshua set up in Gilgal the twelve stones they had taken from the Jordan.

So about three thousand men went up, but they fled from the men of Ai.

So Joshua and his whole army, including the bravest warriors, marched up from Gilgal.

Joshua attacked them by surprise after marching all night from Gilgal.

Their southern border started at the southern tip of the Salt Sea,

They took all the Amorite territory from the Arnon River on the south to the Jabbok River on the north, from the desert in the east to the Jordan in the west.

The Benjaminites came from their cities and assembled at Gibeah to make war against the Israelites.