¹And it came to pass, when Jabin king of Hazor heard these things, that he sent to Jobab king of Madon, to the king of Shimron, to the king of Achshaph, ²and to the kings who were from the north, in the mountains, in the plain south of Chinneroth, in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west, ³to the Canaanites in the east and in the west, the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite in the mountains, and the Hivite below Hermon in the land of Mizpah. ⁴So they went out, they and all their armies with them, as many people as the sand that is on the seashore in multitude, with very many horses and chariots. ⁵And when all these kings had met together, they came and camped together at the waters of Merom to fight against Israel. ⁶But the Lᴏʀᴅ said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow about this time I will deliver all of them slain before Israel. You shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire.” ⁷So Joshua and all the people of war with him came against them suddenly by the waters of Merom, and they attacked them. ⁸And the Lᴏʀᴅ delivered them into the hand of Israel, who defeated them and chased them to Greater Sidon, to the Brook Misrephoth, and to the Valley of Mizpah eastward; they attacked them until they left none of them remaining. ⁹So Joshua did to them as the Lᴏʀᴅ had told him: he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire. ¹⁰Joshua turned back at that time and took Hazor, and struck its king with the sword; for Hazor was formerly the head of all those kingdoms. ¹¹And they struck all the people who were in it with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them. There was none left breathing. Then he burned Hazor with fire. ¹²So all the cities of those kings, and all their kings, Joshua took and struck with the edge of the sword. He utterly destroyed them, as Moses the servant of the Lᴏʀᴅ had commanded. ¹³But as for the cities that stood on their mounds, Israel burned none of them, except Hazor only, which Joshua burned. ¹⁴And all the spoil of these cities and the livestock, the children of Israel took as booty for themselves; but they struck every man with the edge of the sword until they had destroyed them, and they left none breathing. ¹⁵As the Lᴏʀᴅ had commanded Moses his servant, so Moses commanded Joshua, and so Joshua did. He left nothing undone of all that the Lᴏʀᴅ had commanded Moses. ¹⁶Thus Joshua took all this land: the mountain country, all the South, all the land of Goshen, the lowland, and the Jordan plain—the mountains of Israel and its lowlands, ¹⁷from Mount Halak and the ascent to Seir, even as far as Baal Gad in the Valley of Lebanon below Mount Hermon. He captured all their kings, and struck them down and killed them. ¹⁸Joshua made war a long time with all those kings. ¹⁹There was not a city that made peace with the children of Israel, except the Hivites, the inhabitants of Gibeon. All the others they took in battle. ²⁰For it was of the Lᴏʀᴅ to harden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that He might utterly destroy them, and that they might receive no mercy, but that He might destroy them, as the Lᴏʀᴅ had commanded Moses. ²¹And at that time Joshua came and cut off the Anakim from the mountains: from Hebron, from Debir, from Anab, from all the mountains of Judah, and from all the mountains of Israel; Joshua utterly destroyed them with their cities. ²²None of the Anakim were left in the land of the children of Israel; they remained only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod. ²³So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lᴏʀᴅ had said to Moses; and Joshua gave it as an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Then the land rested from war.

¹A Psalm of David. Blessed be the Lᴏʀᴅ my Rock, Who trains my hands for war, And my fingers for battle— ²My lovingkindness and my fortress, My high tower and my deliverer, My shield and the One in whom I take refuge, Who subdues my people under me. ³Lord, what is man, that You take knowledge of him? Or the son of man, that You are mindful of him? ⁴Man is like a breath; His days are like a passing shadow. ⁵Bow down Your heavens, O Lᴏʀᴅ, and come down; Touch the mountains, and they shall smoke. ⁶Flash forth lightning and scatter them; Shoot out Your arrows and destroy them. ⁷Stretch out Your hand from above; Rescue me and deliver me out of great waters, From the hand of foreigners, ⁸Whose mouth speaks vain words, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood. ⁹I will sing a new song to You, O God; On a harp of ten strings I will sing praises to You, ¹⁰The One who gives salvation to kings, Who delivers David His servant From the deadly sword. ¹¹Rescue me and deliver me from the hand of foreigners, Whose mouth speaks lying words, And whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood— ¹²That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; That our daughters may be as pillars, Sculptured in palace style; ¹³That our barns may be full, Supplying all kinds of produce; That our sheep may bring forth thousands And ten thousands in our fields; ¹⁴That our oxen may be well-laden; That there be no breaking in or going out; That there be no outcry in our streets. ¹⁵Happy are the people who are in such a state; Happy are the people whose God is the Lᴏʀᴅ!

¹“Run to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem; See now and know; And seek in her open places If you can find a man, If there is anyone who executes judgment, Who seeks the truth, And I will pardon her. ²Though they say, ‘As the Lᴏʀᴅ lives,’ Surely they swear falsely.” ³O Lᴏʀᴅ, are not Your eyes on the truth? You have stricken them, But they have not grieved; You have consumed them, But they have refused to receive correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; They have refused to return. ⁴Therefore I said, “Surely these are poor. They are foolish; For they do not know the way of the Lᴏʀᴅ, The judgment of their God. ⁵I will go to the great men and speak to them, For they have known the way of the Lᴏʀᴅ, The judgment of their God.” But these have altogether broken the yoke And burst the bonds. ⁶Therefore a lion from the forest shall slay them, A wolf of the deserts shall destroy them; A leopard will watch over their cities. Everyone who goes out from there shall be torn in pieces, Because their transgressions are many; Their backslidings have increased. ⁷“How shall I pardon you for this? Your children have forsaken Me And sworn by those that are not gods. When I had fed them to the full, Then they committed adultery And assembled themselves by troops in the harlots’ houses. ⁸They were like well-fed lusty stallions; Every one neighed after his neighbor’s wife. ⁹Shall I not punish them for these things?” says the Lᴏʀᴅ. “And shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this? ¹⁰“Go up on her walls and destroy, But do not make a complete end. Take away her branches, For they are not the Lᴏʀᴅ’s. ¹¹For the house of Israel and the house of Judah Have dealt very treacherously with Me,” says the Lᴏʀᴅ. ¹²They have lied about the Lᴏʀᴅ, And said, “It is not He. Neither will evil come upon us, Nor shall we see sword or famine. ¹³And the prophets become wind, For the word is not in them. Thus shall it be done to them.” ¹⁴Therefore thus says the Lᴏʀᴅ God of hosts: “Because you speak this word, Behold, I will make My words in your mouth fire, And this people wood, And it shall devour them. ¹⁵Behold, I will bring a nation against you from afar, O house of Israel,” says the Lᴏʀᴅ. “It is a mighty nation, It is an ancient nation, A nation whose language you do not know, Nor can you understand what they say. ¹⁶Their quiver is like an open tomb; They are all mighty men. ¹⁷And they shall eat up your harvest and your bread, Which your sons and daughters should eat. They shall eat up your flocks and your herds; They shall eat up your vines and your fig trees; They shall destroy your fortified cities, In which you trust, with the sword. ¹⁸“Nevertheless in those days,” says the Lᴏʀᴅ, “I will not make a complete end of you. ¹⁹And it will be when you say, ‘Why does the Lᴏʀᴅ our God do all these things to us?’ then you shall answer them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so you shall serve aliens in a land that is not yours.’ ²⁰“Declare this in the house of Jacob And proclaim it in Judah, saying, ²¹‘Hear this now, O foolish people, Without understanding, Who have eyes and see not, And who have ears and hear not: ²²Do you not fear Me?’ says the Lᴏʀᴅ. ‘Will you not tremble at My presence, Who have placed the sand as the bound of the sea, By a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass beyond it? And though its waves toss to and fro, Yet they cannot prevail; Though they roar, yet they cannot pass over it. ²³But this people has a defiant and rebellious heart; They have revolted and departed. ²⁴They do not say in their heart, “Let us now fear the Lᴏʀᴅ our God, Who gives rain, both the former and the latter, in its season. He reserves for us the appointed weeks of the harvest.” ²⁵Your iniquities have turned these things away, And your sins have withheld good from you. ²⁶‘For among My people are found wicked men; They lie in wait as one who sets snares; They set a trap; They catch men. ²⁷As a cage is full of birds, So their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become great and grown rich. ²⁸They have grown fat, they are sleek; Yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked; They do not plead the cause, The cause of the fatherless; Yet they prosper, And the right of the needy they do not defend. ²⁹Shall I not punish them for these things?’ says the Lᴏʀᴅ. ‘Shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?’ ³⁰“An astonishing and horrible thing Has been committed in the land: ³¹The prophets prophesy falsely, And the priests rule by their own power; And My people love to have it so. But what will you do in the end?

¹Now it came to pass, when Jesus had finished these sayings, that He departed from Galilee and came to the region of Judea beyond the Jordan. ²And great multitudes followed Him, and He healed them there. ³The Pharisees also came to Him, testing Him, and saying to Him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for just any reason?” ⁴And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’ ⁵and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? ⁶So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.” ⁷They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?” ⁸He said to them, “Moses, because of the hardness of your hearts, permitted you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. ⁹And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery; and whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.” ¹⁰His disciples said to Him, “If such is the case of the man with his wife, it is better not to marry.” ¹¹But He said to them, “All cannot accept this saying, but only those to whom it has been given: ¹²For there are eunuchs who were born thus from their mother’s womb, and there are eunuchs who were made eunuchs by men, and there are eunuchs who have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He who is able to accept it, let him accept it.” ¹³Then little children were brought to Him that He might put His hands on them and pray, but the disciples rebuked them. ¹⁴But Jesus said, “Let the little children come to Me, and do not forbid them; for of such is the kingdom of heaven.” ¹⁵And He laid His hands on them and departed from there. ¹⁶Now behold, one came and said to Him, “Good Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life?” ¹⁷So He said to him, “Why do you call Me good? No one is good but One, that is, God. But if you want to enter into life, keep the commandments.” ¹⁸He said to Him, “Which ones?” Jesus said, “‘You shall not murder,’ ‘You shall not commit adultery,’ ‘You shall not steal,’ ‘You shall not bear false witness,’ ¹⁹‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ ” ²⁰The young man said to Him, “All these things I have kept from my youth. What do I still lack?” ²¹Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.” ²²But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. ²³Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Assuredly, I say to you that it is hard for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven. ²⁴And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.” ²⁵When His disciples heard it, they were greatly astonished, saying, “Who then can be saved?” ²⁶But Jesus looked at them and said to them, “With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.” ²⁷Then Peter answered and said to Him, “See, we have left all and followed You. Therefore what shall we have?” ²⁸So Jesus said to them, “Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. ²⁹And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life. ³⁰But many who are first will be last, and the last first.