1   And our Lord said to Iosue: Feare not, neither doe thou dread: take with thee al the multitude of fighting men, and rysing goe vp vnto the towne of Hai. behold I haue deliuered into thy hand the King therof, & the people, and the citie and the land.

2   And thou shalt do to the citie of Hai, and to the King therof, as thou hast done to Iericho, and to the King therof: but the praye and al the cattel you shal spoyle for your selues: ^note lay ambushmentes to the citie behind it.

3   And Iosue arose, and al the hoste of the men of warre with him, to goe vp into Hai: and thirtie thousand chosen valiant men he sent in the night,

4   and commanded them, saying: Lay ambushmentes behinde the citie: neither retyre you farre of: and you shal al be readie.

5   But I and the rest of the multitude, which is with me, wil goe vp on the contrarie side against the citie. And when they shal issue out against vs, as we did before, we wil flee, and turne our backes:

6   til pursewing they be drawen forward farre from the citie: for they wil thinck that we flee as before.

7   We therfore fleeing, and they pursewing, you shal rise out of the ambushmentes, and shal waist the citie: and our Lord your God wil deliuer it into your handes.

8   And when you shal take it, burne it, and you shal doe al thinges so, as I haue commanded.

9   And he dismissed them away, and they went on to the place of the ambushment, and sate betwen Bethel and Hai, at the West side of the citie of Hai. But Iosue that night stayed in the middes of the people,

10   and rysing early he mustered his soldiars, and went vp with the ancientes in the fronte of the hoste, enuironed with the ayde of the fighting men.

11   And when they were come, and were gone vp directly against the citie, they stoode on the North side of the citie, betwen which and them was a valley in the middes.

12   And ^note fiue thousand men had he chosen, and sette in the

Hai destroyed. embushmentes betwen Bethel and Hai on the West side of the same citie:

13   but al the rest of the hoste went in battel aray on the North side, so that the last of the multitude did reach to the West side of the citie. Iosue therfore went that night, and stoode in the middes of the valley.

14   Which when the King of Hai had seene, he made hast in the mourning, and issued forth with al the host of the citie, and bent his armie toward the desert, being ignorant that there lay embushmentes secretly behind his backe.

15   But Iosue, and al Israel gaue backe, feyning feare, and fleeing by the way of the wildernes.

16   But they cried alowde together, and encouraging one an other, pursewed them. And when they were gone from the citie,

17   and ^note not one remained in the citie of Hai and Bethel, that pursewed not Israel (euen as they had rushed out leauing the townes open,)

18   our Lord said to Iosue: ^note Lift vp the shield, that is in thy hand, against the citie of Hai, for I wil deliuer it to thee.

19   And when he had lifted vp his shield against the citie, the embushementes, that lay hidde, rose vp immediatly: and going to the citie, tooke and burnt it.

20   And the men of the citie, that pursewed Iosue, looking backe and seeing the smoke of the citie rise vp euen to heauen, they could no more flee hither and thither: especially whereas they, that had feyned running away, and went toward the wildernes, most valiantly resisted against the pursewers.

21   And Iosue and al Israel seeing that the citie was taken, and the smoke of the citie rose vp, returning he stroke the men of Hai.

22   For they also that had taken and burnt the citie, issuing out of the citie against their owne men, beganne to strike the enemies in the middes of them. When the aduersaries therfore were slaine on both sides, so that none of so great a multitude was saued,

23   they tooke the King of the citie of Hai aliue, and presented him to Iosue.

24   Therfore al being slaine, that had pursewed Israel fleeing to the desertes, and falling by the sword in the same place, the children of Israel returning stoke the citie.

25   And there were that fel that same day from man vnto woman, twelue thousand men, al of the citie of Hai.

26   But Iosue plucked not in his hand, which he had strethched forth on high, holding the shield til al the inhabitantes of Hai were slaine.

27   And the cattel and the praye of the citie the children of Israel diuided among them, as our Lord had commanded

Gabaon Iosue.

28   Who burnt the citie, and made it a heape for euer:

29   the king also therof he hong on a gibbet vntil euening and the going downe of the sunne. And he commanded, and they tooke downe his corps from the gibbet: and threw it in the verie entring of the citie, heaping vpon it a great heape of stones, which remaineth vntil this present day.

30   Then Iosue built an altar to our Lord the God of Israel in mount Hebal,

31   as Moyses the seruant of our Lord had commanded the children of Israel, and it is written in the volume of the law of Moyses: an Altar of vnhewed stones which yron hath not touched; and he offered vpon it holocaustes to our Lord, and immolated pacifique victimes.

32   And he wrote vpon stones the Deuterenomie of the law of Moyses, which he had ordered before the children of Israel.

33   And al the people, and the ancientes, and the princes and iudjes stoode on both sides of the arke, in the sight of the priestes that caried the arke of the couenant of our Lord, as wel the stranger as also the man of the same countrie. the half part of them beside mount Garizim, and halfe beside mount Hebal, as Moyses the seruant of our Lord had commanded. And first in deede he ^note blessed the people of Israel.

34   After this he reade al the wordes of the blessing & the cursing, and al thinges that were written in the volume of the law.

35   Nothing of those thinges, which Moyses had commanded, did he leaue vntouched, but he repeated al thinges before al the multitude of Israel, the wemen and children and strangers, that dwelt among them.

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