Hosea 4 - Listen
1
Hear
the word
of the LORD,
ye children
of Israel:
for the LORD
hath a controversy
with the inhabitants
of the land,
because there is no truth,
nor mercy,
nor knowledge
of God
in the land.
2
By swearing,
and lying,
and killing,
and stealing,
and committing adultery,
they break out,
and blood
toucheth
blood.
3
Therefore shall the land
mourn,
and every one that dwelleth
therein shall languish,
with the beasts
of the field,
and with the fowls
of heaven;
yea, the fishes
of the sea
also shall be taken away.
4
Yet let no man
strive,
nor reprove
another:
for thy people
are as they that strive
with the priest.
5
Therefore shalt thou fall
in the day,
and the prophet
also shall fall
with thee in the night,
and I will destroy
thy mother.
6
My people
are destroyed
for lack of knowledge:
because thou hast rejected
knowledge,
I will also reject
thee, that thou shalt be no priest
to me: seeing thou hast forgotten
the law
of thy God,
I will also forget
thy children.
7
As they were increased,
so they sinned
against me: therefore will I change
their glory
into shame.
8
They eat up
the sin
of my people,
and they set
their heart
on their iniquity.
9
And there shall be, like people,
like priest:
and I will punish
them for their ways,
and reward
them their doings.
10
For they shall eat,
and not have enough:
they shall commit whoredom,
and shall not increase:
because they have left off
to take heed
to the LORD.
11
Whoredom
and wine
and new wine
take away
the heart.
12
My people
ask
counsel at their stocks,
and their staff
declareth
unto them: for the spirit
of whoredoms
hath caused them to err,
and they have gone a whoring
from under their God.
13
They sacrifice
upon the tops
of the mountains,
and burn incense
upon the hills,
under oaks
and poplars
and elms,
because the shadow
thereof is good:
therefore your daughters
shall commit whoredom,
and your spouses
shall commit adultery.
14
I will not punish
your daughters
when they commit whoredom,
nor your spouses
when they commit adultery:
for themselves are separated
with whores,
and they sacrifice
with harlots:
therefore the people
that doth not understand
shall fall.
15
Though thou, Israel,
play the harlot,
yet let not Judah
offend;
and come
not ye unto Gilgal,
neither go ye up
to Bethaven,
nor swear,
The LORD
liveth.
16
For Israel
slideth back
as a backsliding
heifer:
now the LORD
will feed
them as a lamb
in a large place.
17
Ephraim
is joined
to idols:
let him alone.
18
Their drink
is sour:
they have committed whoredom
continually:
her rulers
with shame
do love,
Give
19
The wind
hath bound her up
in her wings,
and they shall be ashamed
because of their sacrifices. |
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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