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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)
No command Moses gave was passed over, he repeated them all in the presence of Israel there assembled, with their wives and the children and the aliens who dwelt among them. (Joshua 8, 35)
News of this was brought to all the other kings that lived west of Jordan, some in the hill country, some down on the plains, some on the coast by the shores of the open sea, or on the spurs of Lebanon. And all of them, Hethite and Amorrhite, Chanaanite and Pherezite, Hevite and Jebusite, (Joshua 9, 1)
made common cause against Josue and the people of Israel; all were minded to offer a common resistance, (Joshua 9, 2)
In such guise, they made their way into the presence of Josue, who was then in camp at Galgal.To him, and to the assembly of Israel, they gave out that they had come from far away, to make an alliance. The Israelites were in doubt of them; (Joshua 9, 6)
of all that befell the two Amorrhite kings beyond Jordan, Sehon king of Hesebon, and Og king of Basan, who reigned once at Astaroth. (Joshua 9, 10)
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)
So Josue made good his word; he would not let Israel slay them, (Joshua 9, 26)
The king of Jerusalem, Adonisedec, was told of what had befallen; how Josue had taken Hai and overthrown it, making an end of city and king, there as at Jericho; how the Gabaonites had gone over to Israel and become their allies. (Joshua 10, 1)
