RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they
saw, and, see, the smoke of the city ascended up to the
shamayim, and they had no power to flee in any direction:
and the people that fled to the wilderness turned back
towards the pursuers.
21 And when Yahoshua and kol Yisrael saw that the
ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city
ascended, then they turned again, and killed the men
of Ai.
22 And the others also ran out of the city; so they were in
the midst of Yisrael, 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 melech of Ai they took alive, and brought him
to Yahoshua.
24 And it came to pass, when Yisrael had made an end of
killing all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, and in the
wilderness where they chased them, and when they had
all fallen by the edge of the sword, until they were
consumed, that all the Yisraelites returned to 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 Yahoshua drew not his hand back, with which 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 Yisrael took
for a prey to themselves, according to the word of vuvh
which He commanded Yahoshua.
28 And Yahoshua burned Ai, and made it a heap
le-olam-va-ed, even a desolation to this day.
29 And the melech of Ai he hanged on an eytz until
evening: and as soon as the sun was down, Yahoshua
commanded that they should take his body down from the
eytz, and cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and
raised on it a great pile of stones, that remains to this day.
30 Then Yahoshua built an altar to vuvh Elohim of
Yisrael in Mount Eival,
31 As Moshe the eved of vuvh commanded the children
of Yisrael, as it is written in the scroll of the Torah of
Moshe, an altar of whole stones, over which no man has
lifted up any cutting tool: and they offered on it burnt
offerings to vuvh, and sacrificed shalom offerings.
32 And he wrote there on top of the stones a copy of the
Torah of Moshe, which he wrote in the presence of the
children of Yisrael.
33 And kol Yisrael, and their zechanim, and officers, and
their shophtim, stood on both sides of the Ark of the
Testimony before the Kohanim the Lewiym, who bore the
Ark of the Testimony of vuvh, the ger as well, as he that
was born among them; 685 half of them over against
Mount Gerizim, and half of them over against Mount
Eival; as Moshe the eved of vuvh had commanded before,
that they should bless the people of Yisrael.
34 And afterwards he read all the words of the Torah, the
brachot and klalot, according to all that is written in the
scroll of the Torah.
35 There was not a single word of all that Moshe
commanded, which Yahoshua did not read before all the
congregation of Yisrael, 686 with the women, and the little
ones, 687 and the gerim that were accompanying them.
YAHOSHUA - JOSHUA
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And it came to pass, when all the melechim which
were on this side of the Yarden River, in the hills, and in
the valleys, and in all the borders of the Great Sea toward
Levanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Kanaanite, the
Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Yevusite, heard of it;
2 That they gathered themselves together, to fight with
Yahoshua and with Yisrael, with one accord.
3 And when the inhabitants of Giveon heard what
Yahoshua had done to Yericho and to Ai,
4 They did work slyly, and went and pretended to be
ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their donkeys, and
wine skins, old, and torn, and patched up;
5 And old worn out shoes, with their feet bound with
sandals, and old garments upon them, and all the lechem
of their provision was dry and moldy.
6 And they went to Yahoshua to the camp at Gilgal, and
said to him, and to the men of Yisrael, We come from a
far land: now therefore make a brit with us.
7 And the men of Yisrael said to the Hivites, It is possible
that you dwell among us; and how shall we make a brit
with you?
8 And they said to Yahoshua, We are your avadim. And
Yahoshua said to them, Who are you? And from where do
you come?
9 And they said to him, From a very far land your avadim
have come because of the Name of vuvh your Elohim: for
we have heard of His fame, and all that He did in
Mitzrayim,
10 And all that He did to the two melechim of the
Amorites, that were beyond the Yarden River, to Sichon
melech of Cheshbon, and to Og melech of Bashan, who
was at Ashtaroth.
11 Why our zechanim and all the inhabitants of our land
spoke to us, saying, Take food with you for the journey,
and go to meet them, and say to them, We are your
avadim: therefore now make a brit with us.
12 This our lechem we took fresh for our provision out of
our houses on the day we left to go to you; but now, see,
it is dry, and it is moldy:
13 And these skins of wine, which we filled, were new;
and, see, they are torn: and these garments and our shoes
have become old because of the very long journey.
14 And the men took of their food, and asked not counsel
at the mouth of vuvh.
15 And Yahoshua made shalom with them, and made a
brit with them, to let them live: and the leaders of the
congregation swore to them.
16 And it came to pass at the end of three days after they
had made a brit with them, that they heard that they were
their neighbors, and that they dwelt among them.
17 And the children of Yisrael journeyed, and came to
their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Giveon,
and Khephirah, and Be-Eroth, and Kiryath-Yearim.
18 And the children of Yisrael smote them not, because
the leaders of the congregation had sworn to them by
vuvh Elohim of Yisrael. And the entire congregation
murmured against the leaders.
19 But all the leaders said to the entire congregation, We
have sworn to them by vuvh Elohim of Yisrael: now
therefore we may not touch them.
20 This we will do to them; we will even let them live,
lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath that we swore
to them.
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