Meanwhile<n id="1" /> the king&#8217;s men tried to find them on the road to the Jordan River<n id="2" /> near the fords.<n id="3" /> The city gate was shut as soon as they set out in pursuit of them.<n id="4" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Bright and early the next morning Joshua and the Israelites left Shittim and came to the Jordan.<n id="1" /> They camped there before crossing the river.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">So when the people left their tents to cross the Jordan, the priests carrying the ark of the covenant went<n id="1" /> ahead of them.

<t /><p class="bodytext">When the entire nation was on the other side,<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> told Joshua,

and all he did to the two Amorite kings on the other side of the Jordan &#8211; King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan in Ashtaroth.

<t /><p class="bodytext">The other half of Manasseh,<n id="1" /> Reuben, and Gad received their allotted tribal lands beyond the Jordan,<n id="2" /> just as Moses, the <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s servant, had assigned them.

The border of the tribe of Reuben was the Jordan. The land allotted to the tribe of Reuben by its clans included these cities and their towns.<n id="1" />p>

Now Moses had assigned land<n id="1" /> to the two-and-a-half tribes east of the Jordan, but he assigned no land<n id="2" /> to the Levites.<n id="3" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">The land allotted to Joseph&#8217;s descendants extended from the Jordan at Jericho<n id="1" /> to the waters of Jericho to the east, through the desert and on up from Jericho into the hill country of Bethel.<n id="2" />

Their border touched Tabor, Shahazumah, and Beth Shemesh, and ended at the Jordan. They had sixteen cities and their towns.

Their border started at Heleph and the oak of Zaanannim, went to Adami Nekeb, Jabneel and on to Lakkum,<n id="1" /> and ended at the Jordan River.<n id="2" />

It turned westward to Aznoth Tabor, extended from there to Hukok, touched Zebulun on the south, Asher on the west, and the Jordan<n id="1" /> on the east.

Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought with you, but I handed them over to you; you conquered<n id="1" /> their land and I destroyed them from before you.

<p class="bodytext">When all the Amorite kings on the west side of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the seacoast heard how the <sc>Lordsc> had dried up the water of the Jordan before the Israelites while they<n id="1" /> crossed, they lost their courage and could not even breathe for fear of the Israelites.<n id="2" />p>

&#8220;Moses my servant is dead. Get ready!<n id="1" /> Cross the Jordan River!<n id="2" /> Lead these people into the land which I am ready to hand over to them.<n id="3" />

&#8220;Go through the camp and command the people, &#8216;Prepare your supplies, for within three days you will cross the Jordan River and begin the conquest of the land the <sc>Lordsc> your God is ready to hand over to you.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

Your wives, children and cattle may stay in the land that Moses assigned to you east of the Jordan River. But all you warriors must cross over armed for battle ahead of your brothers.<n id="1" /> You must help them

For we heard how the <sc>Lordsc> dried up the water of the Red Sea before you when you left Egypt and how you annihilated the two Amorite kings, Sihon and Og, on the other side of the Jordan.<n id="1" />

Instruct them, &#8216;Pick up twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, from the very place where the priests<n id="1" /> stand firmly, and carry them over with you and put them in the place where you camp tonight.&#8217;&#8221;p>

Joshua told them, &#8220;Go in front of the ark of the <sc>Lordsc> your God to the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to put a stone on his shoulder, according to the number of the Israelite tribes.