That day they captured it and put the sword to all who lived there. That day they<n id="1" /> annihilated it just as they<n id="2" /> had done to Lachish.p>

<p class="bodytext">That day Joshua drew up an agreement<n id="1" /> for the people, and he established rules and regulations<n id="2" /> for them in Shechem.

<p class="bodytext">On the seventh day they were up at the crack of dawn<n id="1" /> and marched around the city as before &#8211; only this time they marched around it seven times.<n id="2" />

Now, assign me this hill country which the <sc>Lordsc> promised me at that time! No doubt you heard at that time that the Anakites live there in large, fortified cities.<n id="1" /> But, assuming the <sc>Lordsc> is with me, I will conquer<n id="2" /> them, as the <sc>Lordsc> promised.&#8221;

That day the <sc>Lordsc> brought honor to Joshua before all Israel. They respected<n id="1" /> him all his life,<n id="2" /> just as they had respected<n id="3" /> Moses.p>

They marched around the city one time on the second day, then returned to the camp. They did this six days in all.p>

Twelve thousand men and women died<n id="1" /> that day, including all the men of Ai.

This bread of ours was warm when we packed it in our homes the day we started out to meet you,<n id="1" /> but now it is dry and hard.<n id="2" />

So the Israelites set out and on the third day arrived at their cities &#8211; Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth, and Kiriath Jearim.

and that day made them woodcutters and water carriers for the community and for the altar of the <sc>Lordsc> at the divinely chosen site. (They continue in that capacity to this very day.)<n id="1" />p>

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.<n id="1" />

Joshua said, &#8220;Why have you brought disaster<n id="1" /> on us? The <sc>Lordsc> will bring disaster on you today!&#8221; All Israel stoned him to death. (They also stoned and burned the others.)<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">The day the <sc>Lordsc> delivered the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua prayed to the <sc>Lordsc> before Israel:<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">&#8220;O sun, stand still over Gibeon!p> <p class="poetry">O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon!&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">That day Joshua captured Makkedah and put the sword to it and its king. He annihilated everyone who lived in it; he left no survivors. He did to its king what he had done to the king of Jericho.<n id="1" />p>

The <sc>Lordsc> handed Lachish over to Israel and they<n id="1" /> captured it on the second day. They put the sword to all who lived there, just as they had done to Libnah.

That day Moses made this solemn promise:<n id="1" /> &#8216;Surely the land on which you walked<n id="2" /> will belong to you and your descendants permanently,<n id="3" /> for you remained loyal to the <sc>Lordsc> your God.&#8217;