Then you rise up from your hiding place<n id="1" /> and seize<n id="2" /> the city. The <sc>Lordsc> your God will hand it over to you.

Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanently uninhabited mound (it remains that way to this very day).<n id="1" />

<p class="bodytext">When the residents of Gibeon heard what Joshua did to Jericho<n id="1" /> and Ai,

Joshua did as they said; he kept the Israelites from killing them<n id="1" />

Joshua conquered the area between Kadesh Barnea and Gaza and the whole region of Goshen, all the way to Gibeon.<n id="1" />

Now, divide up this land<n id="1" /> among the nine tribes and the half-tribe of Manasseh.&#8221;p>

The Israelites killed Balaam son of Beor, the omen reader,<n id="1" /> along with the others.<n id="2" />

Joshua asked God to empower Caleb son of Jephunneh and assigned him Hebron.<n id="1" />

When Othniel son of Kenaz, Caleb&#8217;s brother,<n id="1" /> captured it, Caleb<n id="2" /> gave Acsah his daughter to him as a wife.p>

Whenever the Israelites were strong militarily, they forced the Canaanites to do hard labor, but they never totally conquered them.<n id="1" />p>

seven Israelite tribes had not been assigned their allotted land.<n id="1" />

The Jordan River borders it on the east. These were the borders of the land assigned to the tribe of Benjamin by its clans.<n id="1" />p>

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

So we decided to build this altar, not for burnt offerings and sacrifices,

<p class="bodytext">The people responded, &#8220;Far be it from us to abandon the <sc>Lordsc> so we can<n id="1" /> worship<n id="2" /> other gods!

<p class="bodytext">The people said to Joshua, &#8220;No! We really will<n id="1" /> worship<n id="2" /> the <sc>Lordsc>!&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">The people said to Joshua, &#8220;We will worship<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc> our God and obey him.&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

They buried him in his allotted territory<n id="1" /> in Timnath Serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Joshua son of Nun sent two spies out from Shittim secretly and instructed them:<n id="1" /> &#8220;Find out what you can about the land, especially Jericho.&#8221;<n id="2" /> They stopped at the house of a prostitute named Rahab and spent the night there.<n id="3" />

The men said to her, &#8220;If you<n id="1" /> die, may we die too!<n id="2" /> If you do not report what we&#8217;ve been up to,<n id="3" /> then, when the <sc>Lordsc> hands the land over to us, we will show unswerving allegiance<n id="4" /> to you.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>