The rest of the people will hear and become afraid to keep doing such evil among you.

This is how you are to deal with all those cities located far from you, those that do not belong to these nearby nations.

When evening arrives he must wash himself with water and then at sunset he may reenter the camp.

‘Cursed is the one who kills his neighbor in private.’ Then all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

You will bear sons and daughters but not keep them, because they will be taken into captivity.

The foreigners who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.

“Because you have not served the Lord your God joyfully and wholeheartedly with the abundance of everything you have,

He will infect you with all the diseases of Egypt that you dreaded, and they will persistently afflict you.

Then the Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies, on those who hate you and persecute you.

Joshua told the people, “Ritually consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the Lord will perform miraculous deeds among you.”

Now Jericho was shut tightly because of the Israelites. No one was allowed to leave or enter.

Joshua sent messengers who ran to the tent. The things were hidden right in his tent, with the silver underneath.

He took five thousand men and set an ambush west of the city between Bethel and Ai.

Joshua and all Israel pretended to be defeated by them and they retreated along the way to the desert.

Joshua captured in one campaign all these kings and their lands, for the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel.

Now, divide up this land among the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.”

Manasseh was allotted ten shares of land, in addition to the land of Gilead and Bashan east of the Jordan,

It then turned on the north to Hannathon and ended at the Valley of Iphtah El.

Not one of the Lord’s faithful promises to the family of Israel was left unfulfilled; every one was realized.