Observe the month Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for in that month he brought you out of Egypt by night.

Then the father and mother of the young woman must produce the evidence of virginity for the elders of the city at the gate.

The Lord will cause your enemies who attack you to be struck down before you; they will attack you from one direction but flee from you in seven different directions.

“The Lord will allow you to be struck down before your enemies; you will attack them from one direction but flee from them in seven directions and will become an object of terror to all the kingdoms of the earth.

When you came to this place King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out to make war and we defeated them.

Then people will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

When it was time to shut the city gate for the night, the men left. I don’t know where they were heading. Chase after them quickly, for you have time to catch them!”

Meanwhile the king’s men tried to find them on the road to the Jordan River near the fords. The city gate was shut as soon as they set out in pursuit of them.

I and all the troops who are with me will approach the city. When they come out to fight us like before, we will retreat from them.

They will attack us until we have lured them from the city, for they will say, ‘They are retreating from us like before.’ We will retreat from them.

No men were left in Ai or Bethel; they all went out after Israel. They left the city wide open and chased Israel.

This bread of ours was warm when we packed it in our homes the day we started out to meet you, but now it is dry and hard.

Joshua said, “Open the cave’s mouth and bring the five kings out of the cave to me.”

These kings came out with their armies; they were as numerous as the sand on the seashore and had a large number of horses and chariots.

Today I am still as strong as when Moses sent me out. I can fight and go about my daily activities with the same energy I had then.

extended south of the Scorpion Ascent, crossed to Zin, went up from the south to Kadesh Barnea, crossed to Hezron, went up to Addar, and turned toward Karka.

It then crossed to Azmon, extended to the Stream of Egypt, and ended at the sea. This was their southern border.

The land allotted to Joseph’s descendants extended from the Jordan at Jericho to the waters of Jericho to the east, through the desert and on up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel.

It then extended on to the sea, with Micmethath on the north. It turned eastward to Taanath Shiloh and crossed it on the east to Janoah.

The first lot belonged to the tribe of Benjamin by its clans. Their allotted territory was between Judah and Joseph.