The Bible and Holy Scriptures conteyned in the Olde and Newe Testament. Translated according to the Ebrue and Greke, and conferred with the best translations in diuers languges. VVith moste profitable annotations vpon all the hard places, and other things of great importance as may appeare in the epistle to the reader

CHAP. XXIIII.

2 Ioshua rehearséth Gods benefites. 14 And exhorteth the people to feare God. 25 The league renued betwen God and the people. 29 Ioshua dyeth. 32 The bones of Io∣séph are 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 33 Eleazár dyeth.

1 ANd Ioshua assembled (agayne) all thea 1.1 tribes of Israél to Shechem, and called the Elders of Israêl, and their heades, and their iudges, and their officers, and they pre sented them selues beforeb 1.2 God.

2 Then Ioshua said vnto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israêl, * Your fathers dwelt beyonde thec 1.3 flood in old time, (euē) Térah the father of Abrahám, ād the Father of Nachór, and serued other gods.* 1.4 * 1.5

3 And I toke your father Abrahám from be∣yonde the flood, and broght hym through all the lande of Canáan, and multiplied hys sede, and * gaue him Izhák.* 1.6

4 And I gaue vnto Izhák, Iaakób and Esáu: and I gaue vnto * Esáu mount Seir, to poses∣se* 1.7 * 1.8 it: but * Iaakôb and hys chyldren wente

downe into Egypt.

5 * I sent Mosés also and Aaron, and I plagued* 1.9 Egypt: and whē I had (so) done among them, I broght you out.

6 So I * broght your fathers out of Egypt, and* 1.10 ye came vnto the Sea, and the Egyptians pur sued after your fathers with charrets ād hor∣semen vnto * the red Sea.* 1.11

7 Then they cryed vnto the Lord, and he put “ 1.12 a darcknes betwene you and the Egypti∣ans, and broght the Sea vpon them, and co∣uered them: so your eyes haue sene what I haue done in Egypte: also ye dwelt in the wildernesd 1.13 a long season.

8 After I broght you into the land of the Amo rites, whiche dwelt beyonde Iordén, * and* 1.14 they fought with you: but I gaue them into your hand, and ye possessed their countrey, and I destroyed them out of your sight.

9 * Also Balák the sonne of Zippor Kynge of* 1.15 Moáb arose and warred agaynst Israél, and* 1.16 sent to call Balaám the sonne of Beór for to curse you.

10 But 〈◊〉〈◊〉 wold not heare Balaā: therfore he bles sed you, and I deliuered you out of his hād.

11 And ye went ouer Iordén, and came vnto Ierichó, and thee 1.17 men of Ierichó, fought a∣gainst you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites and the Girgashites, the Heuites and the Iebusites, and I deliuered them into your hand.

12 And I sent * hornets before you, which cast them out before you, (euen) the two Kings of the Amorites, (and) not with thy sworde,* 1.18 * 1.19 nor with thy bowe.* 1.20

13 And I haue giuen you a lande, wherein ye did not labour, ād cities which ye buylt not, and ye dwel in them, and eat of the vine yar∣des and oliue trees, whiche ye planted not.

14 Nowe thereforef 1.21 feare the Lorde, and ser∣ue hym in vpryghtenes and in trueth, and put away the gods, whiche your fathers ser∣ued beyonde the flood and in Egypt, and ser ue ye the Lord.

15 And“ 1.22 if it seme euyll vnto you to serue the Lord, chuse you this day whom ye wil serue, whether the gods whiche your fathers ser∣ued [that were beyonde the floode] or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwel:g 1.23 but I and mine house wil serue the Lord.

16 Then the people answered and sayd, God forbid, that we shulde forsake the Lorde, to serue other gods.

17 For the Lord our GOD, he broght vs and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, frome the house of bondage, and he dyd those great miracles in our sight, and preserued vs in all the waye that we went, and among all the people through whome we came.

18 And the Lorde did cast out before vs all the people, euen the Amorites whiche dwelt in the lande: (therefore) will we also serue the Lord,h 1.24 for he is our God.

19 And Ioshua sayd vnto the people, Ye can not serue the Lord: for he is an holy God: he is a ielous God: he will not pardon your ini∣quitie nor your sinnes.

20 If ye forsake the Lorde and serue straunge gods, * then he will returne and bring euill* 1.25 vpon you, and consume you, after that he hathe done you good.

21 And the people said vnto Ioshua, Nay, but we will serue the Lord.

22 And Ioshua sayd vnto the people, Ye are witnessesi 1.26 agaynste your selues, that ye haue chosen you the Lord, to serue him: and they said, (We are) witnesses.

23 Then put away now, (sayd he,) the strangek 1.27 gods which are among you, and bow your hearts vnto the Lord God of Israél.

24 And the people said vnto Ioshua, The Lord our God will we serue, and his voyce wil we obey.

25 So Ioshual 1.28 made a couenant with the peo∣ple the same day, and gaue them an ordinan ce and lawe in Shechém.

26 And Ioshua wrote these wordes in the boke of the Lawe of God, and toke a great stone, and pitched it there vnder an“ 1.29 oke that was in the Sanctuarie of the Lord.

27 And Ioshua sayd vnto all the people, Be∣holde, this stone shalbe a witnes vnto vs: for itm 1.30 hathe heard all the wordes of the Lorde which he spake with vs: it shalbe therefore a witnes against you, lest ye deny your God.

28 Then Ioshúa let the people departe, euerie man vnto his inheritance.

29 And after these things Ioshua the sonne of Nun, the seruant of the Lord dyed, beyng an hundreth and ten yeres olde.

30 And they buryed him in the border of hys inheritance in * Timnath-seráh, whiche is* 1.31 in mount Ephráim, on the Northside of mount Gáash.

31 And Israéln 1.32 serued the Lorde all the dayes of Ioshua, and all the dayes of the Elders that ouer lyued Ioshua, and whiche had knowen all the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 of the Lorde that he had done for Israél.

32 And the * bones of Ioséph, which the chil* 1.33 dren of Israél broght out of Egypt, buryed* 1.34 they in Shechém in a parcell of grounde which laak ob boght of the * sonnes of Ha∣mór* 1.35 the father of Shechém, for an hūdreth pieces of siluer, and the children of Ioséph had them in their inheritance.

33 Also Eleazár the sonne of Aarón dyed, whō they buried in” 1.36 the hill of Phinehás his son∣ne, which was giuē him in mount Ephraim.

Notes

• a 1.1

  That is, the nine tribes and the halfe.
• b 1.2

  Before the Ar∣ke, whiche was 〈◊〉〈◊〉 to She∣chem, when they went to bury 〈◊〉〈◊〉 sephs bones.
• c 1.3

  Euphrates 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Mesopotamia Gene. 11. 26.
• * 1.4

  Gene. 11. 31.
• * 1.5

  〈◊〉〈◊〉. 5. 6.
• * 1.6

  Gene. 21. 2. and 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 26.
• * 1.7

  Gene. 36. 8.
• * 1.8

  Gene. 46. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• * 1.9

  Exod. 3. 10.
• * 1.10

  Exod. 12. 37.
• * 1.11

  Exod. 14. 9.
• “ 1.12

  Or, a cloude.
• d 1.13

  Euen fourtie yeres.
• * 1.14

  Nom. 21. 29.
• * 1.15

  Nom. 22. 5.
• * 1.16

  Deut. 23. 4.
• e 1.17

  Because it was the chief citie, vnder it he con∣teyneth all the 〈◊〉〈◊〉: els they of the citie fou∣ght not. Chap 3. 14.
• * 1.18

  Exod. 〈◊〉〈◊〉. 28.
• * 1.19

  Deut. 7. 20.
• * 1.20

  Chap. 11. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• f 1.21

  This is the true vse of Gods bene fites, to learne thereby to feare and serue hym with an vpright conscience.
• “ 1.22

  Ebr. if it be euil in your sight.
• g 1.23

  This 〈◊〉〈◊〉 vs that if all the worlde wold go from God, yet euerie one of vs particularlye is bonde to cleaue vnto him.
• h 1.24

  Howe muche more are we bonde to serue God in Christ, by whome we haue receiued the re∣demption of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 soules?
• * 1.25

  Chap. 23. 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• i 1.26

  If you do 〈◊〉〈◊〉 contrarie, your owne 〈◊〉〈◊〉 shall condemne you.
• k 1.27

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 heartes ād 〈◊〉〈◊〉 wise.
• l 1.28

  By 〈◊〉〈◊〉 God and the peo ple together: al∣so he repeated the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 ād threatnings out of the 〈◊〉〈◊〉.
• “ 1.29

  Or, alme.
• m 1.30

  Rather then 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 shulde not be punyshed, the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 crea∣tures shall crye for vengeance.
• * 1.31

  Chap. 19. 50.
• n 1.32

  Suche are the people common ly as 〈◊〉〈◊〉 〈◊〉〈◊〉 are.
• * 1.33

  Gene. 50. 25.
• * 1.34

  Exod. 13. 19.
• * 1.35

  Gene. 33. 19.
• ” 1.36

  Ebr. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Phinehas.