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And now the Lord said to Josue, No need for terror and shrinking back. Take thy whole strength of fighting men with thee, and set about the conquest of Hai; king and people, city and territory, I mean to put them all in thy power. (Joshua 8, 1)
Our flight, and their pursuit, is the signal for you to rise from your ambush and storm the city; the Lord your God will make you masters of it. (Joshua 8, 7)
With that, the Lord said to Josue, Lift up the shield on thy arm, pointing towards the city of Hai; it lies in thy power. (Joshua 8, 18)
Then Josue built an altar to the Lord God of Israel on mount Hebal, (Joshua 8, 30)
in pursuance of the command given to Israel by God’s servant Moses, when he wrote down the law; an altar of unpolished stones, that no iron tool had touched. On this he offered the Lord burnt-sacrifice, and slew victims by way of welcome-offering. (Joshua 8, 31)
And now all the people, with their elders, chieftains and judges, stood up in the presence of the priests that bore the ark, with its record of the Lord’s covenant, some on this side, some on that, native Israelites and alien-born alike. In obedience to Moses’ command half of them were on the side of mount Hebal, half on the side of mount Garizim. First Josue blessed the people of Israel,✻ (Joshua 8, 33)
they answered, My Lord, we have come from a land far away, to do honour to the name of the Lord thy God. How strong a God, we learned from the story of all he did in Egypt, (Joshua 9, 9)
The victuals passed from hand to hand, and the Lord was never asked for guidance. (Joshua 9, 14)
Shed blood they might not; had not the chieftains pledged themselves by an oath in the name of the Lord God of Israel? When the common folk assailed them with reproaches, (Joshua 9, 18)
the chieftains could only answer, We have taken an oath in the name of the Lord God of Israel; how can we touch them? (Joshua 9, 19)
Only one way is left; we must keep them alive, so as not to provoke the Lord’s anger by forswearing ourselves, (Joshua 9, 20)
And they answered, My Lord, we had heard of the promise made by the Lord thy God to his servant Moses, that he would give you all these lands for your own, and dispossess the inhabitants. In terror of our lives at your approach, we devised this stratagem. (Joshua 9, 24)
