<p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> told Joshua, &#8220;This very day I will begin to honor you before all Israel<n id="1" /> so they will know that I am with you just as I was with Moses.

Joshua also set up twelve stones<n id="1" /> in the middle of the Jordan in the very place where the priests carrying the ark of the covenant stood. They remain there to this very day.p>

<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" />

Yet Joshua spared<n id="1" /> Rahab the prostitute, her father&#8217;s family,<n id="2" /> and all who belonged to her. She lives in Israel<n id="3" /> to this very day because she hid the messengers Joshua sent to spy on Jericho.<n id="4" />

Joshua prayed,<n id="1" /> &#8220;O, Master, <sc>Lordsc>! Why did you bring these people across the Jordan to hand us over to the Amorites so they could destroy us?

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" />

At sunset Joshua ordered his men to take them down from the trees.<n id="1" /> They threw them into the cave where they had hidden and piled large stones over the mouth of the cave. (They remain to this very day.)<n id="2" />p>

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;

So Hebron remains the assigned land of Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite to this very day<n id="1" /> because he remained loyal to the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel.

<p class="bodytext">The men of Judah were unable to conquer the Jebusites living in Jerusalem.<n id="1" /> The Jebusites live with the people of Judah in Jerusalem to this very day.<n id="2" />p>

&#8220;The entire community of the <sc>Lordsc> says, &#8216;Why have you disobeyed the God of Israel by turning back today from following the <sc>Lordsc>? You built an altar for yourselves and have rebelled today against the <sc>Lordsc>.<n id="1" />

&#8220;El, God, the <sc>Lordsc>!<n id="1" /> El, God, the <sc>Lordsc>! He knows the truth!<n id="2" /> Israel must also know! If we have rebelled or disobeyed the <sc>Lordsc>,<n id="3" /> don&#8217;t spare us<n id="4" /> today!

<t /><p class="bodytext">The <sc>Lordsc> was furious with Israel.<n id="1" /> He said, &#8220;This nation<n id="2" /> has violated the terms of the agreement I made with their ancestors<n id="3" /> by disobeying me.<n id="4" />

Then build an altar for the <sc>Lordsc> your God on the top of this stronghold according to the proper pattern.<n id="1" /> Take the second bull and offer it as a burnt sacrifice on the wood from the Asherah pole that you cut down.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">The Ephraimites said to him, &#8220;Why have you done such a thing to us? You did not summon us<n id="1" /> when you went to fight the Midianites!&#8221; They argued vehemently with him.

It was to you that God handed over the Midianite generals, Oreb and Zeeb! What did I accomplish to rival that?&#8221;<n id="1" /> When he said this, they calmed down.<n id="2" />p>

He had thirty sons who rode on thirty donkeys and possessed thirty cities. To this day these towns are called Havvoth Jair<n id="1" /> &#8211; they are in the land of Gilead.<n id="2" />

She then said to her father, &#8220;Please grant me this one wish.<n id="1" /> For two months allow me to walk through the hills with my friends and mourn my virginity.&#8221;<n id="2" />

When I saw that you were not going to help,<n id="1" /> I risked my life<n id="2" /> and advanced against<n id="3" /> the Ammonites, and the <sc>Lordsc> handed them over to me. Why have you come up<n id="4" /> to fight with me today?&#8221;

So God split open the basin<n id="1" /> at Lehi and water flowed out from it. When he took a drink, his strength<n id="2" /> was restored and he revived. For this reason he named the spring<n id="3" /> En Hakkore.<n id="4" /> It remains in Lehi to this very day.