. The Bible panorama, or The Holy Scriptures in picture and story. f Gibeon to death, because they had promised, before the Lord,to let them live. But Joshua said they should be bondsmen, or slaves, andwork for the priests and the Levites, in cutting the wood and carrying the?water which would be needed at the tabernacle. And the king of a city, called Jerusalem, was angry with the people ofGibeon for making friends with the children of Israel. Therefore he and fourother kings of the land, gathered their armies together and came to the cityof Gibeon, to tight against it. Then the men of Gibeon
. The Bible panorama, or The Holy Scriptures in picture and story. f Gibeon to death, because they had promised, before the Lord,to let them live. But Joshua said they should be bondsmen, or slaves, andwork for the priests and the Levites, in cutting the wood and carrying the?water which would be needed at the tabernacle. And the king of a city, called Jerusalem, was angry with the people ofGibeon for making friends with the children of Israel. Therefore he and fourother kings of the land, gathered their armies together and came to the cityof Gibeon, to tight against it. Then the men of Gibeon sent to Joshua, saying, Come up to us quickly and help us, for the kings that live in the mountains are gathered together against us. So Joshua and all the men of war went out against the five kings. And the Lord made the kings and their armies afraid of the children of Israel, and they tied from them. As they fled, the Lord cast down great stones upon them, out of heaven, so that more died from the stones than the children of Israel killed with the sword. 86. THE LORD CASTS DOWX GREAT STONES BTtOM HEAVEN UPON THE AMOBITES. gi7 Joshua x n. Joshua Dies and the Israelites Serye their Enemies. JOSHUA gained the victory over many more kings in the land of Canaan,and yet there was much land left for the men of Israel to take. Eorthese kings did not rule over whole countries, like the kings that areliving now; they ruled over cities only, or small portions of the land. And Joshua grew old; he could no longer lead the men of Israel out to•war as he used to do. When he was one hundred and ten years old he they buried him in the part of the land that had been given him for hisown, on the side of the hill Gaash. After Joshua was dead, the men of Israel went out to war against theheathen nations, as he had commanded; and the Lord helped them and gavethem the victory. Yet they did not persevere until they had driven out allthose nations from Canaan; they allowed some of them st
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