the teeth of beafts upon them, with the poifon of ferpents of the duft. 29 25 The fword without and terror within fhall deftroy both the young man and the virgin, the fuckling alfo with the man of gray hairs. 26, I faid, I would fcatter them into corners, I would make the remem brance of them to cease from among men: 27 Were it not that I feared the wrath of the enemy, left their adverfaries fhould behave themfelves ftranges ly, and left they fhould fay, Our hand is high, and the LORD hath not done all chis. 28 For they are a nation void of counfel, neither is there any understanding in them. 29 O that they were wife, that they understood this, that they would confider their latter end! 30 How fhould one chafe a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, ex cept their Rock had fold them, and the LORD had thut them up? 18 34 For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges. 32 For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter. 33 Their wine is the poifon of dragons, and the cruel venom of afps.in 34 Is not this laid up in ftore with me, and fealed up among my treasures? 35 To me belongezh vengeance, and recompence, their foot fhall flide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that fhall come upon them make haste. 36 For the LORD fhall judge his people, and repent himself for his fervants; when he feeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left. 37 And he fhall fay, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trufted, 38 Which did eat the fat of their facrifices, and drank the wine of their drink-offerings? let them rife up and help you, and be your protection. 39 See now that I, even I am he, and there is no god with me: I kill and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand. mercy and judgment. 41 If I whet my glittering fword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me... 42 I will make mine arrows drunk with blood (and my fword fhall devour fleth) and that with the blood of the flain, and of the captives, from the beginning of revenges upon the enemy. 43 Rejoyce, O ye nations, with his people: for he will avenge the blood of his fervants, and will render vengeance to his adverfaries, and will be merciful unto his land, and to his people. 44 And Mofes came and fpake all the words of this fong in the cars of the people, he and Hofhea the fon of Nun. 45 And Mofes made and end of fpeaking all these words to all Ifrael. 46 And he faid unto them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I teftifie among you this day; which ye fhall command your children to obferve to do all the words of this law. 47 For it is not a vain thing for you: because it is your life; and through this thing ye fhall prolong your days in the land whither ye go over Jordan to poffefs it. 48 And the LORD fpake unto Mofes that felf-fame day, faying, 49 Get thee up into this mountain Abarim, u to mount Nebo, which is in the land of Moab, that is over against Jericho; and behold the land of Caanan which I give unto the children of Ifra el for a poffeflion. 50 And die in the mount whither thou go ftup, and be gathered unto thy people; as Aaron thy brother died in mount Hor, and was gathered unto his people: 51 Becaufe ye trefpaffed againft me among the children of Ifrael, at the waters of Meribah-kadefh, in the wil dernefs of Zin; becaufe ye fanctified me not in the midft of the children of Ifrael. 52 Yet thou fhalt fee the land before thee, but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Krael. CHA P. XXXIII. The majefty of God. 6 The bleffings of the twelve tribes. 26 The excellency of Ifrael. Nd this is the bleffing, wherewith 40 For I lift up my hand to heaven, A Mofes the man of God b and fay, I live forever.vo 1 A YO The majesty of God. Deuteronomy the children of Ifrael before his death. 2. And he faid, The LORD came from Sinai, and rofe up from Seir unto them; he fined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of faints from his right hand went a fiery law for them. : J 3 Yea, he loved the people; all his faints are in thy hand and they fat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words. 4 Mofes commanded us a law: even the inheritance of the congregation of Jacob. 5 And he was king in Jefhurun, when the heads of the prople and the tribes of Ifrael were gathered together! 6 Let Reuben live, and not die and let not his men be few. 7 And this is the bleffing of Judah; and he faid, Hear, LORD, the voice of Judah and bring him unto his people: let his hands be fufficient for him, and be thou an help to him from his enemies. 8 And of Levi he faid, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Maffah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah; The twelve tribes bleffed. the earth, and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bufh: let the bleffing come upon the head of Jofeph, and upon the top of the head of him that was feparated from his brethren. 17 His glory is like the firftling of his bullock, and his horns are like the horns of unicorns: with them he hall push the people together, to the ends of the earth and they are the ten thoufands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manaffeh. : 18 And of Zebulun he said, Rejoyce, Zebulun, in thy going out; and Iffachar, in thy tents. 19 They fhall call the people unto the mountain, there they fhall offer facri fices of righteoufnefs: for they fhall fuck of the abundance of the feas, and of treafures hid in the fand. 20 And of Gad he faid, Bleffed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as axlion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head. 21 And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the law-giver was he feated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the juftice of the LORD, and his judgments with Ifrael. 9 Who faid unto his father and to his mother, I have not feen him, nei- 22 And of Dan he faid, Dan is a lither did he acknowledge his brethren, ons whelp: he fhall leap from Bafhan. nor knew his own children: for they23 And of Naphtali he faid, O have obferved thy word, and kept thy covenant. 10 They fhall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Ifrael thy law they fhall put: incenfe before thee, and whole burnt-facrifice upon thine altar. 11 Blfs, LORD, his fubfiftance, and accept the work of his hands: fmite through the loyns of them that rife againft him, and of them that hate him, that they rife not again. 12. And of Benjamin he faid, The beloved of the LORD fhall dwell in fatety by him; and the LORD fhall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his thoulders. 13 And of Jofeph he faid, Bleffed of the LORD be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath, 14 And for the precious fruits brought forth by the fun, and for the precious chings put forth by the moon, 15 And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, and for the precious things of the lafting hills, 6 And for the precious things of Naphtali, fatisfied with favour, and full with the bleffing of the LORD: poffefs thou the weft and the fouth. 24 And of Afhet hefaid, Let Ather be bleffed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oyl. 25 Thy fhoes fall be iron and brafs; and as thy days, fo ball thy ftrength be. 26. There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the hea ven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky. 27 The eternal God is hy refuge, and underneath are the everlafting arms: and he ball thruft out the enemy from before thee, and fhall fay, Destroy them. 28 Ifrael then fhall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob fball be upon a land of corn and wine, alfo his heavens fhall drop down dew, 29 Happy are thou, O Ifrael: who is like unto thee, O people faved by the LORD, the field of thy help, and who is the fword of thy excellency and thine enemies Fojbua Jucceedeth bim. 10 The Naphtali, and the land of he LORD faid unto him, and which I fware urto Anto Ifaac, and unto Jacob, ll give it unto thy feed: I thee to fee it with thine hou shalt not go over thi Mofes the fervant of the there in the land of Moab, twenty years old w 8 And the children of Ifrael wept for Mofes in the plains of Moab thirty days: fo the days of weeping and mourning for Mofes were ended. 19 And Jofhua the fon of Nun was full of the fpirit of wildom; for Mo fes had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Ifrael hearkned unto him, and did as the LORD commanded Mofes. 10 And there arofe not a prophet fince in Ifrael like unto Mofes, whom the LORD knew face to face: 11 In all the figns and the wonders which the LORD fent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his fervants, and to all his land, 12 And in all that mighty hand, and in all the great terror which Mofes fhewed in the fight of all Ifrael. The Book of JOSHUA CHAP. I. 6 Be ftrong and of a good courage: appointeth Fofbua to fucceed for unto this people fhalt thou divide The borders of the promised for an inheritance the land which I 9 God promifeth to aflift ofware unto their fathers to give them. de giveth him inftructions." after the death of Mofes efervant of the LORD, it me to pafs, that the LORD ake unto Jofhua the fon of = minifter, faying, my fervant is dead; now Fife, go over this Jordan, thou people, unto the land which them, even to the children lace that the fole of your foot upon, that have I given unto id unto Mofes. he wilderness and this Lebanto the great river the river all the land of the Hittites, great fea, toward the gothe fun, fhall be your coaft. hall not any man be able Fore thee all the days of thy as with Mofes, fo I will be 17 Only be thou ftrong and very cou rageous, that thou mayft obferve to do according to all the law which Mofes my fervant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayft profper whitherfoever thou goeft. -8 This book of the law fhall not depart out of thy mouth, but thou halt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayft obferve to do according to all that is written therein: for then thou fhalt make thy way profperous, and then thou shalt have good fuccefs. 9 Have not I commanded thee? Be ftrong and of a good courage, be not afraid, neither be thou difmayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee, whitherfoever chou goeft. 10 Then fofhua commanded the officers of the people, faying, 11 Pafs through the hoft, and comwill not fail thee, nor formand the people, faying, Prepare you viduals for within three days ye hall eh, fpake Joshua, faying, 6 But the had brought them up to the emember the word which Mo-roof of the houfe, and hid them with Cervant of the LORD command the ftalks of flax, which the had laid - faying, The LORD your God in order upon the roof. ven you reft, and hath given you d: our wives, your little ones, and tle fhall remain in the land which ave you on this fide Jordan; but pafs before your brethren armed, mighty men of valour, and help ntil the LORD have given your reft, as he hath given you, and o have poffeffed the land which D your God giveth them: then re urn unto the land of your pofand enjoy it, which Mofes the ervant gave you on this fide Jorard the fun-rifing. And they answered Jofhua, fayI that thou commandeft us, we and whitherfoever thou fendeft will go. cording as we hearkned unto all things, fo will we hearken ce: only the LORD thy God be e, as he was with Mofes. hofoever be be that doth rebel by commandment, and will not unto thy words, in all that nmandeft him, he shall be pur only be ftrong and of a good CHA P. II. receiveth and concealeth the two ent from Shittim, 8 The covenant n her and them. Jofhua the fon of Nun fent out Shittim two men, to fpy feaying, Go view the land, even and they went, and came into ots houfe, named Rahab, and here. it was told the king of Jericho, Behold, there came men in hiight of the children of Ifrael, out the country. I the king of Jericho fent unto aying, Bring forth the men that e to thee, which are entred in 7 And themen purfued after them the way to Jordan, unto the fords: and af foon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they that the gate. 8. And before they were laid down, the came up unto them upon the roof; And the faid unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given you che land, and that your terror is fallen upon usy and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you. 10 For we have heard how the LORD dried up the water of the Red fea for you, when you came out of Egypt; and what you did unto the two kings of the Amorites that were on the other fide Jordan, Sihon and Og, whom ye utter ly destroyed. 11 And affoon as we had heard thefe things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, becaufe of you: for the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath. 12 Now therefore, I pray you, fwear unto me by the LORD, fince I have fhewed you kindness, that ye will alfo fhew kindness unto my fathers houses and give me a true token: 13 And that ye will fave alive my fa ther, and my mother, and my brethren, and my fifters, and all that they have, and deliver our lives from death. 14 And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye urter not this our bufinefs. And it shall be when the LORD hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee. 15 Then the let them down by a cord through the window: for her house was upon the town-wall, and fhe dwelt upon the wall. 16 And the faid unto them, Get you to the mountain, left the purfuers meet you; and hide your felves there three days, until the purfuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way. reer, his blood fall be upon and we will be guiltlefs and fhall be with thee in the lood fball be on our head, if e upon him. if thou utter this our bufinefs, ll be quit of chine oath which ade us to fwear. The faid, According unto your e it. And the fent them away, parted and the bound the in the window. they went, and came unto ain, and abode there three the purfuers were returned. rfuers fought them throughway, but found them not the two men returned, and From the mountains and paf and came to Jofhua the fon and told him all things that they laid unto Joshua, Truly ath delivered into our hands ; for even all the inhabicountry do faint becaufe of CHA P. III. meth to Fordan. 7 The Lord th Fofbua. 9 Fofbua encouraeople. fhua rofe early in the mornand they removed from Shit me to Jordan, he and all the Ifrael, and lodged there beaffed over. came to pafs after three days, icers went through the hoft; ey commanded the people, hen ye fee the ark of the of the LORD your God, and the Levites bearing it, then nove from your place, and go ere fhall be a space between , about two thoufand cubits : come for near unto it, that w die way by which ye muft havenot paffed this way here ofhua faid unto the people, our felves : for to morrow the know that as I was with Moses, so I will be with thee. 8 And thou shalt command the priests that bear the ark of the covenant, aying, When ye are come to the brink of the water of Jordan, ye fhall stand still in Jordan. 9And Joshua faid unto the children of Ifrael Come hither, and hear the words of the LORD your God. 10 And Joshua faid, Hereby ye fhall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgafhites, and the Amorires, and the Jebusites. 11 Behold the ark of the covenant of the Lord of all the earth, paffeth over before you into Jordan. 12 Now therefore take ye twelve men out of the tribes of Ifrael, out of every tribe a man. 13 And it fhall come to pafs, as foon as the foles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the LORD, the Lord of all the earth, fhall reft in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of Jordan fhall be cut off from the waters that come down from above: and they fhall ftand upon an heap. 14 And it came to pass when the people removed from their tents, to pals over Jordan, and the pricfts bearing the ark of the covenant before the people; I 15 And as they that bare the ark were come unto Jordan, and the feet of the priests that bare the ark were dipped in the brim of the water, (for Jordan overfloweth all his banks all the time of harvest } 16 That the waters which came down from above, ftood and rofe up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is befide Zaretan: and thofe that came down toward the fea of the plain,even the falt-fea, failed, and were cut off and the people paffed over right against Jericho. 17 And the pricfts that bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, ftood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Ifraelites paffed over on dry |