RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

21 And the leaders said to them, Let them live; but let
them be avadim as cutters of wood and drawers of mayim
for all the congregation; as the leaders had promised
them.
22 And Yahoshua called for them, and he spoke to them,
saying, Why have you tricked us, saying, We are very far
from you, when you dwell among us?
23 Now therefore you are cursed, and there shall none of
you be freed from being avadim, and cutters of wood and
drawers of mayim for the bayit of my Elohim.
24 And they answered Yahoshua, and said, Because it
was certainly told to your avadim, how vuvh your Elohim
commanded His eved Moshe to give you all the land, and
to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you,
therefore we were very afraid of our chayim because of
you, and have done this thing.
25 And now, see, we are in your hand: as it seems tov and
right to you to do to us, do.
26 And so he did to them, and delivered them out of the
hands of the children of Yisrael, that they killed them not.
27 And Yahoshua made them that day cutters of wood
and drawers of mayim for the congregation, and for the
altar of vuvh, even to this day, in the place that He would
choose.
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Now it came to pass, when Adoni-Tzedek, melech of
Yahrushalayim had heard how Yahoshua had taken Ai,
and had utterly destroyed it; as he had done to Yericho
and her melech, and as he had done to Ai and her melech;
and how the inhabitants of Giveon had made shalom with
Yisrael, and were among them;
2 That they feared greatly, because Giveon was a great
city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater
than Ai, and all the men there were mighty.
3 And Adoni-Tzedek melech of Yahrushalayim sent to
Hoham melech of Hevron, and to Piram melech of
Yarmuth, and to Yaphia, melech of Lachish, and to Devir
melech of Eglon, saying,
4 Come up to me, and help me, that we may smite
Giveon: for they have made shalom with Yahoshua and
with the children of Yisrael.
5 Therefore the five melechim of the Amorites, the
melech of Yahrushalayim, the melech of Hevron, the
melech of Yarmuth, the melech of Lachish, the melech of
Eglon, gathered themselves together, and went up, with
all their armies, and camped before Giveon, and made
war against them.
6 And the men of Giveon sent to Yahoshua to the camp to
Gilgal, saying, Hold not back your hand from your
avadim; come up to us quickly, and accept us, and help
us: for all the melechim of the Amorites that dwell in the
mountains are gathered together against us.
7 So Yahoshua ascended from Gilgal, he, and all the
people of war with him, and all the mighty men of valor.
8 And vuvh said to Yahoshua, Fear them not: for I have
delivered them into your hand; there shall not a man of
them stand before you.
9 Yahoshua therefore came to them suddenly, and went
up from Gilgal all night.
10 And vuvh confused them before Yisrael, and killed
them with a great slaughter at Giveon, and chased them
along the derech that goes up to Beth-Horon, and smote
them to Azekah, and to Makkedah.
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11 And it came to pass, as they fled from before Yisrael,
and were going down to Beth-Horon, that vuvh cast down
great stones from the shamayim upon them to Azekah,
and they died: there were more who died with hailstones
than those whom the children of Yisrael killed with the
sword.
12 Then spoke Yahoshua to vuvh in the day when vuvh
delivered up the Amorites before the children of Yisrael,
and he said in the sight of Yisrael, Sun, stand still over
Giveon; and, Moon, in the Valley of Ayalon.
13 And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed in place,
until the people had avenged themselves upon their
enemies. Is not this written in Sefer Yahshar? 688 So the
sun stood still in the midst of the shamayim, and did not
set for about a whole day.
14 And there was no day like that before it, or after it, that
vuvh listened to the voice of a man: for vuvh fought for
Yisrael.
15 And Yahoshua returned, and kol Yisrael with him, to
the camp to Gilgal.
16 But these five melechim fled, and hid themselves in a
cave at Makkedah.
17 And it was told Yahoshua, saying, The five melechim
have been found hiding in a cave at Makkedah.
18 And Yahoshua said, Roll great stones upon the
opening of the cave, and set men by it to guard them:
19 And don’t stay, but pursue after your enemies, and
smite in their rear guard; Do not allow them to enter into
their cities: for vuvh your Elohim has delivered them into
your hand.
20 And it came to pass, when Yahoshua and the children
of Yisrael had made an end of killing them with a very
great slaughter, until they were consumed, that the rest
which remained of them entered into fortified cities.
21 And all the people returned to the camp to Yahoshua at
Makkedah in shalom: none murmured against any of the
children of Yisrael.
22 Then said Yahoshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and
bring out those five melechim to me.
23 And they did so, and brought forth those five
melechim to him, the melech of Yahrushalayim, the
melech of Hevron, the melech of Yarmuth, the melech of
Lachish, and the melech of Eglon.
24 And it came to pass, when they brought out those
melechim to Yahoshua, that Yahoshua called for all the
men of Yisrael, and said to the captains of the men of war
who went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the
necks of these melechim. And they came near, and put
their feet upon their necks. 689
25 And Yahoshua said to them, Fear not, nor be
dismayed, be strong and courageous: for this is what vuvh
will do to all your enemies against whom you fight.
26 And afterward Yahoshua smote them, and killed them,
and hanged them on five eytzim: and they were hanging
upon the eytzim until the evening.
27 And it came to pass at the time of the going down of
the sun, that Yahoshua commanded, and they took them
down off the eytzim, and cast them into the cave where
they had been hidden, and laid great stones in the cave's
mouth, which remain until this very day.
28 And that day Yahoshua took Makkedah, and smote it
with the edge of the sword, and the melech he utterly
destroyed, and all the beings that were in it; he let none