Hosea 2 - Listen
1
Say
ye unto your brethren,
Ammi;
and to your sisters,
Ruhamah.
2
Plead
with your mother,
plead:
for she is not my wife,
neither am I her husband:
let her therefore put away
her whoredoms
out of her sight,
and her adulteries
from between her breasts;
3
Lest I strip
her naked,
and set
her as in the day
that she was born,
and make
her as a wilderness,
and set
her like a dry
land,
and slay
her with thirst.
4
And I will not have mercy
upon her children;
for they be the children
of whoredoms.
5
For their mother
hath played the harlot:
she that conceived
them hath done shamefully:
for she said,
I will go
after
my lovers,
that give
me my bread
and my water,
my wool
and my flax,
mine oil
and my drink.
6
Therefore, behold, I will hedge
up thy way
with thorns,
and make
a wall,
that she shall not find
her paths.
7
And she shall follow
after her lovers,
but she shall not overtake
them; and she shall seek
them, but shall not find
them: then shall she say,
I will go
and return
to my first
husband;
for then was it better
with me than now.
8
For she did not know
that I gave
her corn,
and wine,
and oil,
and multiplied
her silver
and gold,
which they prepared
for Baal.
9
Therefore will I return,
and take away
my corn
in the time
thereof, and my wine
in the season
thereof, and will recover
my wool
and my flax
given to cover
her nakedness.
10
And now will I discover
her lewdness
in the sight
of her lovers,
and none
shall deliver
her out of mine hand.
11
I will also cause all her mirth
to cease,
her feast days,
her new moons,
and her sabbaths,
and all her solemn feasts.
12
And I will destroy
her vines
and her fig trees,
whereof she hath said,
These are my rewards
that my lovers
have given
me: and I will make
them a forest,
and the beasts
of the field
shall eat
13
And I will visit
upon her the days
of Baalim,
wherein she burned incense
to them, and she decked
herself with her earrings
and her jewels,
and she went
after
her lovers,
and forgat
me, saith
the LORD.
14
Therefore, behold, I will allure
her, and bring
her into the wilderness,
and speak
comfortably
15
And I will give
her her vineyards
from thence, and the valley
of Achor
for a door
of hope:
and she shall sing
there, as in the days
of her youth,
and as in the day
when she came up
out of the land
of Egypt.
16
And it shall be at that day,
saith
the LORD,
that thou shalt call
me Ishi;
and shalt call
me no more Baali.
17
For I will take away
the names
of Baalim
out of her mouth,
and they shall no more be remembered
by their name.
18
And in that day
will I make
a covenant
for them with the beasts
of the field,
and with the fowls
of heaven,
and with the creeping things
of the ground:
and I will break
the bow
and the sword
and the battle
out of the earth,
and will make them to lie down
safely.
19
And I will betroth
thee unto me for ever;
yea, I will betroth
thee unto me in righteousness,
and in judgment,
and in lovingkindness,
and in mercies.
20
I will even betroth
thee unto me in faithfulness:
and thou shalt know
the LORD.
21
And it shall come to pass in that day,
I will hear,
saith
the LORD,
I will hear
the heavens,
and they shall hear
the earth;
22
And the earth
shall hear
the corn,
and the wine,
and the oil;
and they shall hear
Jezreel.
23
And I will sow
her unto me in the earth;
and I will have mercy
upon her that had not obtained mercy;
*
and I will say
to them which were not my people,
Thou art my people;
and they shall say,
Thou art my God.
21
I will hear
the heavens,
and they shall hear
the earth;
22
And the earth
shall hear
the corn,
and the wine,
and the oil;
and they shall hear
Jezreel.
23
And I will sow
her unto me in the earth;
and I will have mercy
upon her that had not obtained mercy;
*
and I will say
to them which were not my people,
Thou art my people;
and they shall say,
Thou art my God.
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Joshua 8 - Listen
1
And the LORD
said
unto Joshua,
Fear
not, neither be thou dismayed:
take
all the people
of war
with thee, and arise,
go up
to Ai:
see,
I have given
into thy hand
the king
of Ai,
and his people,
and his city,
and his land:
2
And thou shalt do
to Ai
and her king
as thou didst
unto Jericho
and her king:
only the spoil
thereof, and the cattle
thereof, shall ye take for a prey
unto yourselves: lay
thee an ambush
for the city
behind
3
So Joshua
arose,
and all the people
of war,
to go up
against Ai:
and Joshua
chose out
thirty
thousand
mighty
men
of valour,
and sent them away
by night.
4
And he commanded
them, saying,
Behold,
ye shall lie in wait
against the city,
even behind
the city:
go
*
not very
far
from the city,
but be ye all ready:
5
And I, and all the people
that are with me, will approach
unto the city:
and it shall come to pass, when they come out
against
us, as at the first,
that we will flee
before
6
(For they will come out
after
us) till we have drawn
them from the city;
for they will say,
They flee
before
us, as at the first:
therefore we will flee
before
7
Then ye shall rise up
from the ambush,
and seize
upon the city:
for the LORD
your God
will deliver
it into your hand.
8
And it shall be, when ye have taken
the city,
that ye shall set
the city
on fire:
according to the commandment
of the LORD
shall ye do.
See,
I have commanded
9
Joshua
therefore sent them forth:
and they went
to lie in ambush,
and abode
between Bethel
and Ai,
on the west side
of Ai:
but Joshua
lodged
that night
among
the people.
10
And Joshua
rose up early
in the morning,
and numbered
the people,
and went up,
he and the elders
of Israel,
before
the people
to Ai.
11
And all the people,
even the people of war
that were with him, went up,
and drew nigh,
and came
before the city,
and pitched
on the north side
of Ai:
now there was a valley
between them and Ai.
12
And he took
about five
thousand
men,
and set
them to lie in ambush
between Bethel
and Ai,
on the west side
of the city.
*
13
And when they had set
the people,
even all the host
that was on the north
of the city,
and their liers in wait
on the west
of the city,
Joshua
went
that night
into the midst
of the valley.
14
And it came to pass, when the king
of Ai
saw
it, that they hasted
and rose up early,
and the men
of the city
went out
against
Israel
to battle,
he and all his people,
at a time appointed,
before
the plain;
but he wist
not that there were liers in ambush
against him behind
the city.
15
And Joshua
and all Israel
made as if they were beaten
before
them, and fled
by the way
of the wilderness.
16
And all the people
that were in Ai
*
were called
together to pursue
after
them: and they pursued
after
Joshua,
and were drawn away
from the city.
17
And there was not a man
left
in Ai
or Bethel,
that went not out
after
Israel:
and they left
the city
open,
and pursued
after Israel.
18
And the LORD
said
unto Joshua,
Stretch out
the spear
that is in thy hand
toward Ai;
for I will give
it into thine hand.
And Joshua
stretched out
the spear
that he had in his hand
toward the city.
19
And the ambush
arose
quickly
out of their place,
and they ran
as soon as he had stretched out
his hand:
and they entered
into the city,
and took
it, and hasted
and set
the city
on fire.
20
And when the men
of Ai
looked
behind
them, they saw,
and, behold, the smoke
of the city
ascended up
to heaven,
and they had no power
to flee
this way or that way:
and the people
that fled
to the wilderness
turned back
upon the pursuers.
21
And when Joshua
and all Israel
saw
that the ambush
had taken
the city,
and that the smoke
of the city
ascended,
then they turned again,
and slew
the men
of Ai.
22
And the other
issued out
of the city
against
them; so they were in the midst
of Israel,
some on this side, and some on that side: and they smote
them, so that
they let
none of them remain
or escape.
23
And the king
of Ai
they took
alive,
and brought
him to Joshua.
24
And it came to pass, when Israel
had made an end
of slaying
all the inhabitants
of Ai
in the field,
in the wilderness
wherein they chased
them, and when they were all fallen
on the edge
of the sword,
until they were consumed,
that all the Israelites
returned
unto Ai,
and smote
it with the edge
of the sword.
25
And so it was, that all that fell
that day,
both of men
and women,
were twelve
*
thousand,
even all the men
of Ai.
26
For Joshua
drew
*
not his hand
back,
wherewith he stretched out
the spear,
until he had utterly destroyed
all the inhabitants
of Ai.
27
Only the cattle
and the spoil
of that city
Israel
took for a prey
unto themselves, according unto the word
of the LORD
which he commanded
Joshua.
28
And Joshua
burnt
Ai,
and made
it an heap
for ever,
even a desolation
unto this day.
29
And the king
of Ai
he hanged
on a tree
until eventide:
*
and as soon as the sun
was down,
Joshua
commanded
that they should take
*
his carcase
down
from the tree,
and cast
it at the entering
of the gate
of the city,
and raise
thereon a great
heap
of stones,
that remaineth unto this day.
30
Then Joshua
built
an altar
unto the LORD
God
of Israel
in mount
Ebal,
31
As Moses
the servant
of the LORD
commanded
the children
of Israel,
as it is written
in the book
of the law
of Moses,
an altar
of whole
stones,
over which no man hath lift up
any iron:
and they offered
thereon burnt offerings
unto the LORD,
and sacrificed
peace offerings.
32
And he wrote
there upon the stones
a copy
of the law
of Moses,
which he wrote
in the presence
of the children
of Israel.
33
And all Israel,
and their elders,
and officers,
and their judges,
stood
on this side the ark
and on that side before the priests
the Levites,
which bare
the ark
of the covenant
of the LORD,
as well the stranger,
as he that was born
among them; half
of them over
against
mount
Gerizim,
and half
of them over against
mount
Ebal;
as Moses
the servant
of the LORD
had commanded
before,
that they should bless
the people
of Israel.
34
And afterward
he read
all the words
of the law,
the blessings
and cursings,
according to all that is written
in the book
of the law.
35
There was not a word
of all that Moses
commanded,
which Joshua
read
not before all the congregation
of Israel,
with the women,
and the little ones,
and the strangers
that were conversant
among
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