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And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, why hast thou caused this people to pass the Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? We should have been content and dwelt on the other side of the Jordan!
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O Lord, what shall I say now that Israel has turned their backs before their enemies!
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For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear
of it and shall compass us around and cut off our name from upon the earth; then what wilt thou do unto thy great name?
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And the LORD said unto Joshua, Get up; why dost thou lie thus upon thy face?
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Israel has sinned and has even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them; for they have even taken of the anathema and have also stolen and lied also, and they have even put
it in their own vessels.
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Therefore, the sons of Israel could not stand before their enemies,
but shall turn
their backs before their enemies because they have been in the anathema; neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the anathema from among you.
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Get up, sanctify the people and say, Sanctify yourselves against tomorrow; for thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
There is anathema in the midst of thee, O Israel; thou canst not stand before thy enemies until ye take away the anathema from among you.
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In the morning, therefore, ye shall come near according to your tribes, and it shall be
that the tribe which the LORD takes shall come according to the families
thereof, and the family which the LORD shall take shall come by households, and the household which the LORD shall take shall come man by man.
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And it shall be
that he that is taken in the anathema shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he has because he has broken the covenant of the LORD and because he has wrought folly in Israel.
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So Joshua rose up early in the morning and brought Israel by their tribes, and the tribe of Judah was taken;
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and bringing near the tribe of Judah, the family of the Zarhites was taken; and bringing near the family of the Zarhites man by man, Zabdi was taken;