Joshua 12

Kings Defeated by Moses

¹Now these are the kings of the land whom the people of Israel defeated and took possession of their land beyond the Jordan toward the sunrise, from othe Valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, with all pthe Arabah eastward: ²qSihon king of the Amorites who lived at Heshbon and ruled from Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and rfrom the middle of the valley as far as the sriver Jabbok, the boundary of the Ammonites, that is, half of Gilead, ³and pthe Arabah tto the Sea of Chinneroth eastward, and in the direction of Beth-jeshimoth, to the Sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, southward to the foot of uthe slopes of Pisgah; ⁴and vOg1 king of Bashan, one of the remnant of wthe Rephaim, xwho lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei ⁵and ruled over yMount Hermon and zSalecah and all Bashan ato the boundary of the Geshurites and the Maacathites, and over half of Gilead to the boundary of Sihon king of Heshbon. ⁶bMoses, the servant of the Lord, and the people of Israel defeated them. And Moses the servant of the Lord cgave their land for a possession to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh.

Kings Defeated by Joshua

⁷And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the people of Israel defeated on the west side of the Jordan, from Baal-gad in the Valley of Lebanon to dMount Halak, that rises toward Seir (and Joshua gave their land to the tribes of Israel as a possession eaccording to their allotments, ⁸fin the hill country, in the lowland, in the Arabah, in the slopes, in the wilderness, and in the Negeb, the land of gthe Hittites, the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites): ⁹hthe king of Jericho, one; ithe king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one; ¹⁰jthe king of Jerusalem, one; jthe king of Hebron, one; ¹¹jthe king of Jarmuth, one; jthe king of Lachish, one; ¹²jthe king of Eglon, one; kthe king of Gezer, one; ¹³lthe king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one; ¹⁴the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; ¹⁵mthe king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one; ¹⁶nthe king of Makkedah, one; othe king of Bethel, one; ¹⁷the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one; ¹⁸the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one; ¹⁹pthe king of Madon, one; qthe king of Hazor, one; ²⁰pthe king of Shimron-meron, one; pthe king of Achshaph, one; ²¹rthe king of Taanach, one; rthe king of Megiddo, one; ²²the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one; ²³rthe king of Dor in sNaphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Galilee,2 one; ²⁴the king of Tirzah, one: in all, thirty-one kings.

Joshua 13

Land Still to Be Conquered

¹Now Joshua twas old and advanced in years, and the Lord said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land uto possess. ²vThis is the land that yet remains: all the wregions of the Philistines, and all those of the Geshurites ³(from the xShihor, which is east of Egypt, northward to the boundary of Ekron, it is counted as Canaanite; ythere are five rulers of the Philistines, those of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron), and those of zthe Avvim, ⁴in the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the boundary of athe Amorites, ⁵and the land of the bGebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from cBaal-gad below Mount Hermon to dLebo-hamath, ⁶all the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to eMisrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians. I myself will drive fthem out from before the people of Israel. Only gallot the land to Israel hfor an inheritance, as I have commanded you. ⁷Now therefore idivide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.”

The Inheritance East of the Jordan

⁸With the other half of the tribe of Manasseh1 the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, jwhich Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, as Moses the servant of the Lord gave them: ⁹kfrom Aroer, which is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and lall the tableland of Medeba as far as Dibon; ¹⁰mand all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites; ¹¹and Gilead, and the nregion of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and nall Bashan to Salecah; ¹²nall the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he alone was left of nthe remnant of the Rephaim); othese Moses had struck and driven out. ¹³pYet the people of Israel did not drive out the Geshurites or the Maacathites, but Geshur and Maacath dwell in the midst of Israel to this day.

¹⁴qTo the tribe of Levi alone Moses gave no inheritance. The offerings by fire to the Lord God of Israel are their inheritance, as he said to him.

¹⁵And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the people of Reuben according to their clans. ¹⁶So their territory was from Aroer, rwhich is on the edge of the Valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the tableland by sMedeba; ¹⁷with Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the tableland; sDibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon, ¹⁸tand Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath, ¹⁹and uKiriathaim, and uSibmah, and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley, ²⁰and vBeth-peor, and wthe slopes of Pisgah, and wBeth-jeshimoth, ²¹that is, xall the cities of the tableland, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, ywhom Moses defeated with zthe leaders of Midian, Evi and Rekem and Zur and Hur and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land. ²²zBalaam also, the son of Beor, the one who practiced divination, was killed with the sword by the people of Israel among the rest of their slain. ²³And the border of the people of Reuben was the Jordan as a boundary. This was the inheritance of the people of Reuben, according to their clans with their cities and villages.

²⁴Moses gave an inheritance also to the tribe of Gad, to the people of Gad, according to their clans. ²⁵aTheir territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer, which is east of bRabbah, ²⁶and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from cMahanaim to the territory of Debir,2 ²⁷and in the valley Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, dSuccoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of eChinnereth, eastward beyond the Jordan. ²⁸This is the inheritance of the people of Gad according to their clans, with their cities and villages.

²⁹And Moses gave an inheritance to the half-tribe of Manasseh. It was allotted to the half-tribe of the people of Manasseh according to their clans. ³⁰Their region extended from fMahanaim, through all Bashan, the whole kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all gthe towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities, ³¹and half Gilead, and hAshtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan. These were allotted to the people of iMachir the son of Manasseh for the half of the people of Machir according to their clans.

³²These are the inheritances that Moses distributed jin the plains of Moab, beyond the Jordan east of Jericho. ³³kBut to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance; the Lord God of Israel is their inheritance, kjust as he said to them.

Great Is the Lord

1 A Song of Praise. Of David.

¹jI will extol you, my God and kKing,

and bless your name forever and ever.

²Every day I will bless you

land praise your name forever and ever.

³mGreat is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,

and his ngreatness is unsearchable.

⁴oOne generation shall commend your works to another,

and shall declare your mighty acts.

⁵On pthe glorious splendor of your majesty,

and on your wondrous works, I will meditate.

⁶They shall speak of qthe might of your awesome deeds,

and I will declare your greatness.

⁷They shall pour forth the fame of your rabundant goodness

and shall sing aloud of your righteousness.

⁸The Lord is sgracious and merciful,

slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love.

⁹The Lord is tgood to all,

and his mercy is over all that he has made.

¹⁰uAll your works shall give thanks to you, O Lord,

and all your vsaints shall bless you!

¹¹They shall speak of the glory of your kingdom

and tell of your power,

¹²to wmake known to the children of man your2 xmighty deeds,

and ythe glorious splendor of your kingdom.

¹³zYour kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,

and your dominion endures throughout all generations.

[The Lord is faithful in all his words

and kind in all his works.]3

¹⁴The Lord aupholds all who are falling

and braises up all who are bowed down.

¹⁵The eyes of all clook to you,

and you give them their food in due season.

¹⁶You dopen your hand;

you esatisfy the desire of every living thing.

¹⁷The Lord is frighteous in all his ways

and gkind in all his works.

¹⁸The Lord is hnear to all who call on him,

to all who call on him iin truth.

¹⁹He jfulfills the desire of those who fear him;

he also khears their cry and saves them.

²⁰The Lord lpreserves all who love him,

but all the wicked he will destroy.

²¹My mouth will speak the praise of the Lord,

and mlet all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.

Impending Disaster for Jerusalem

¹Flee for safety, zO people of Benjamin,

from the midst of Jerusalem!

Blow the trumpet in aTekoa,

and raise a signal on bBeth-haccherem,

for disaster looms cout of the north,

and great destruction.

²The lovely and delicately bred I will destroy,

dthe daughter of Zion.1

³eShepherds with their flocks shall come against her;

fthey shall pitch their tents around her;

they shall pasture, each in his place.

⁴g“Prepare war against her;

arise, and let us attack hat noon!

Woe to us, for the day declines,

for the shadows of evening lengthen!

⁵Arise, and let us attack by night

and destroy her palaces!”

⁶For thus says the Lord of hosts:

i“Cut down her trees;

jcast up a siege mound against Jerusalem.

This is the city that must be kpunished;

there is nothing but oppression within her.

⁷lAs a well keeps its water fresh,

so she keeps fresh her evil;

mviolence and destruction are heard within her;

sickness and wounds are ever before me.

⁸Be warned, O Jerusalem,

nlest I turn from you in disgust,

lest I make you oa desolation,

an uninhabited land.”

⁹Thus says the Lord of hosts:

p“They shall glean thoroughly as a vine

the remnant of Israel;

like a grape gatherer pass your hand again

over its branches.”

¹⁰qTo whom shall I speak and give warning,

that they may hear?

rBehold, their ears are uncircumcised,

sthey cannot listen;

behold, tthe word of the Lord is to them an object of scorn;

they take no pleasure in it.

¹¹Therefore I am full of the wrath of the Lord;

uI am weary of holding it in.

v“Pour it out upon the children in the street,

and upon the gatherings of young men, also;

wboth husband and wife xshall be taken,

the elderly and the very aged.

¹²yTheir houses shall be turned over to others,

their fields and wives together,

for I will stretch out my hand

against the inhabitants of the land,”

declares the Lord.

¹³z“For from the least to the greatest of them,

everyone ais greedy for unjust gain;

and from bprophet to priest,

everyone deals falsely.

¹⁴They have healed the wound of my people lightly,

saying, c‘Peace, peace,’

dwhen there is no peace.

¹⁵eWere they ashamed when they committed abomination?

No, they were not at all ashamed;

they did not know how to blush.

Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;

fat the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown,”

says the Lord.

¹⁶Thus says the Lord:

“Stand by the roads, and look,

and ask for gthe ancient paths,

where the good way is; and walk in it,

hand find rest for your souls.

But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’

¹⁷iI set watchmen over you, saying,

‘Pay attention to jthe sound of the trumpet!’

But they said, k‘We will not pay attention.’

¹⁸Therefore hear, O nations,

and know, O congregation, what will happen to them.

¹⁹Hear, O earth; behold, I am bringing disaster upon this people,

lthe fruit of their devices,

because they have not paid attention to my words;

and as for my law, they have rejected it.

²⁰mWhat use to me is nfrankincense that comes from oSheba,

or sweet cane from a distant land?

pYour burnt offerings are not acceptable,

nor your sacrifices pleasing to me.

²¹Therefore thus says the Lord:

q‘Behold, I will lay before this people

stumbling blocks against which they shall stumble;

fathers and sons together,

neighbor and friend shall perish.’”

²²Thus says the Lord:

r“Behold, a people is coming sfrom the north country,

a great nation is stirring from tthe farthest parts of the earth.

²³They lay hold on bow and javelin;

they are ucruel and have no mercy;

vthe sound of them is like the roaring sea;

they ride on horses,

set in array as a man for battle,

against you, O daughter of Zion!”

²⁴We have heard the report of it;

wour hands fall helpless;

anguish has taken hold of us,

xpain as of a woman in labor.

²⁵Go not out into the field,

nor walk on the road,

for the enemy has a sword;

yterror is on every side.

²⁶O daughter of my people, zput on sackcloth,

and aroll in ashes;

bmake mourning as for an only son,

most bitter lamentation,

for suddenly the destroyer

will come upon us.

²⁷“I have made you ca tester of metals among my people,

that you may know and dtest their ways.

²⁸eThey are all stubbornly rebellious,

fgoing about with slanders;

they are gbronze and iron;

all of them act corruptly.

²⁹The gbellows blow fiercely;

the lead is consumed by the fire;

hin vain the refining goes on,

for the wicked are not removed.

³⁰iRejected silver they are called,

for the Lord has rejected them.”

Laborers in the Vineyard

¹“For the kingdom of heaven is like a master of a house who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. ²After agreeing with the laborers for a denarius1 a day, he sent them into his vineyard. ³And going out about the third hour he saw others standing idle in the marketplace, ⁴and to them he said, ‘You go into the vineyard too, and whatever is right I will give you.’ ⁵So they went. Going out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour, he did the same. ⁶And gabout the eleventh hour he went out and found others standing. And he said to them, ‘Why do you stand here idle all day?’ ⁷They said to him, ‘Because no one has hired us.’ He said to them, ‘You go into the vineyard too.’ ⁸And hwhen evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his iforeman, ‘Call the laborers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last, up to the first.’ ⁹And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, each of them received a denarius. ¹⁰Now when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more, but each of them also received a denarius. ¹¹And on receiving it they grumbled at the master of the house, ¹²saying, ‘These last worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the day and jthe scorching heat.’ ¹³But he replied to one of them, k‘Friend, I am doing you no wrong. Did you not agree with me for a denarius? ¹⁴Take lwhat belongs to you and go. I choose to give to this last worker as I give to you. ¹⁵mAm I not allowed to do what I choose with what belongs to me? Or ndo you begrudge my generosity?’2 ¹⁶So othe last will be first, and the first last.”

Jesus Foretells His Death a Third Time

¹⁷pAnd as Jesus was going up to Jerusalem, he took the twelve disciples aside, and on the way he said to them, ¹⁸“See, qwe are going up to Jerusalem. And the Son of Man will be delivered over to the chief priests and scribes, and they will rcondemn him to death ¹⁹and sdeliver him over to the Gentiles tto be mocked and flogged and ucrucified, and he will be raised on vthe third day.”

A Mother's Request

²⁰wThen xthe mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, and ykneeling before him she asked him for something. ²¹And he said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Say that these two sons of mine zare to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, ain your kingdom.” ²²Jesus answered, b“You do not know what you are asking. Are you able cto drink the cup that I am to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.” ²³He said to them, d“You will drink emy cup, but to sit at my right hand and at my left is not mine to grant, fbut it is for those for whom it has been gprepared by my Father.” ²⁴And when the ten heard it, they were indignant at the two brothers. ²⁵But Jesus called them to him and said, h“You know that the rulers of the Gentiles ilord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. ²⁶jIt shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant,3 ²⁷and whoever would be first among you must be your slave,4 ²⁸even as the Son of Man came not to be served but kto serve, and lto give his life as a ransom for mmany.”

Jesus Heals Two Blind Men

²⁹nAnd as they went out of Jericho, a great crowd followed him. ³⁰And behold, there were two blind men sitting by the roadside, and when they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, “Lord,5 have mercy on us, oSon of David!” ³¹The crowd prebuked them, telling them to be silent, but they cried out all the more, “Lord, have mercy on us, Son of David!” ³²And stopping, Jesus called them and said, “What do you want me to do for you?” ³³They said to him, “Lord, let our eyes be opened.” ³⁴And Jesus in pity touched their eyes, and immediately they recovered their sight and followed him.