Kings Defeated by Moses

1 Now 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: 2 ^qSihon 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, 3 and ^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; 4 and ^vOg¹ king of Bashan, one of the remnant of ^wthe Rephaim, ^xwho lived at Ashtaroth and at Edrei 5 and 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. 6 ^bMoses, 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

7 And 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, 8 ^fin 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): 9 ^hthe king of Jericho, one; ⁱthe king of Ai, which is beside Bethel, one; 10 ^jthe king of Jerusalem, one; ^jthe king of Hebron, one; 11 ^jthe king of Jarmuth, one; ^jthe king of Lachish, one; 12 ^jthe king of Eglon, one; ^kthe king of Gezer, one; 13 ^lthe king of Debir, one; the king of Geder, one; 14 the king of Hormah, one; the king of Arad, one; 15 ^mthe king of Libnah, one; the king of Adullam, one; 16 ⁿthe king of Makkedah, one; ^othe king of Bethel, one; 17 the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one; 18 the king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one; 19 ^pthe king of Madon, one; ^qthe king of Hazor, one; 20 ^pthe king of Shimron-meron, one; ^pthe king of Achshaph, one; 21 ^rthe king of Taanach, one; ^rthe king of Megiddo, one; 22 the king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam in Carmel, one; 23 ^rthe king of Dor in ^sNaphath-dor, one; the king of Goiim in Galilee,² one; 24 the king of Tirzah, one: in all, thirty-one kings.

Land Still to Be Conquered

1 Now 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. 2 ^vThis 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, 4 in the south, all the land of the Canaanites, and Mearah that belongs to the Sidonians, to Aphek, to the boundary of ^athe Amorites, 5 and the land of the ^bGebalites, and all Lebanon, toward the sunrise, from ^cBaal-gad below Mount Hermon to ^dLebo-hamath, 6 all 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. 7 Now therefore ⁱdivide this land for an inheritance to the nine tribes and half the tribe of Manasseh.”

The Inheritance East of the Jordan

8 With the other half of the tribe of Manasseh³ 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: 9 ^kfrom 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; 10 ^mand all the cities of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, as far as the boundary of the Ammonites; 11 and Gilead, and the ⁿregion of the Geshurites and Maacathites, and all Mount Hermon, and ⁿall Bashan to Salecah; 12 ⁿall 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. 13 ^pYet 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.

14 ^qTo 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.

15 And Moses gave an inheritance to the tribe of the people of Reuben according to their clans. 16 So 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; 17 with Heshbon, and all its cities that are in the tableland; ^sDibon, and Bamoth-baal, and Beth-baal-meon, 18 ^tand Jahaz, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath, 19 and ^uKiriathaim, and ^uSibmah, and Zereth-shahar on the hill of the valley, 20 and ^vBeth-peor, and ^wthe slopes of Pisgah, and ^wBeth-jeshimoth, 21 that 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. 22 ^zBalaam 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. 23 And 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.

24 Moses gave an inheritance also to the tribe of Gad, to the people of Gad, according to their clans. 25 ^aTheir territory was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the Ammonites, to Aroer, which is east of ^bRabbah, 26 and from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh and Betonim, and from ^cMahanaim to the territory of Debir,⁴ 27 and 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. 28 This is the inheritance of the people of Gad according to their clans, with their cities and villages.

29 And 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. 30 Their 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, 31 and 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.

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

Do Not Hide Your Face from Me

A Prayer of one afflicted, when he is ^xfaint and ^ypours out his complaint before the Lord.

Paul Sails for Rome

1 And when it was decided ^athat ^bwe should sail for Italy, they delivered Paul and some other prisoners to a centurion of the Augustan ^cCohort named Julius. 2 And embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail to the ports along the coast of Asia, we put to sea, accompanied by ^dAristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica. 3 The next day we put in at Sidon. And ^eJulius ^ftreated Paul kindly and ^ggave him leave to go to his friends and be cared for. 4 And putting out to sea from there we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were against us. 5 And when we had sailed across the open sea along the coast of Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra in Lycia. 6 There the centurion found ^ha ship of Alexandria sailing for Italy and put us on board. 7 We sailed slowly for a number of days and arrived with difficulty off Cnidus, and as the wind did not allow us to go farther, we sailed under the lee of Crete off Salmone. 8 Coasting along it with difficulty, we came to a place called Fair Havens, near which was the city of Lasea.

9 Since much time had passed, and the voyage was now dangerous because even ⁱthe Fast¹ was already over, Paul advised them, 10 saying, “Sirs, I perceive that the voyage will be with ^jinjury and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.” 11 But the centurion paid more attention to ^kthe pilot and to the owner of the ship than to what Paul said. 12 And because the harbor was not suitable to spend the winter in, the majority decided to put out to sea from there, on the chance that somehow they could reach Phoenix, a harbor of Crete, facing both southwest and northwest, and spend the winter there.

The Storm at Sea

13 Now when the south wind blew gently, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to the shore. 14 But soon a tempestuous wind, called the northeaster, ^lstruck down from the land. 15 And when the ship was caught and could not face the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along. 16 Running under the lee of a small island called Cauda,² we managed with difficulty to secure the ship’s boat. 17 After hoisting it up, they used supports to undergird the ship. Then, fearing that they would ^mrun aground on the Syrtis, they lowered the gear,³ and thus they were driven along. 18 Since we were violently storm-tossed, they began the next day ⁿto jettison the cargo. 19 And on the third day they threw the ship’s tackle overboard with their own hands. 20 When neither sun nor stars appeared for many days, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope of our being saved was at last abandoned.

21 Since they had been without food for a long time, Paul stood up among them and said, “Men, ^oyou should have listened to me and not have set sail from Crete and incurred this ^oinjury and loss. 22 Yet now I urge you to ^ptake heart, for there will be no loss of life among you, but only of the ship. 23 For this very night ^qthere ^rstood before me ^san angel of the God ^tto whom I belong and ^uwhom I worship, 24 and he said, ‘Do not be afraid, Paul; ^vyou must stand before Caesar. And behold, ^wGod has granted you all those who sail with you.’ 25 So take heart, men, for I have faith in God that it will be exactly as I have been told. 26 But ^xwe must ^yrun aground on some island.”

27 When the fourteenth night had come, as we were being driven across the Adriatic Sea, about midnight the sailors suspected that they were nearing land. 28 So they took a sounding and found twenty fathoms.⁴ A little farther on they took a sounding again and found fifteen fathoms.⁵ 29 And fearing that we might ^zrun on the rocks, they let down four anchors from the stern and prayed for day to come. 30 And as the sailors were seeking to escape from the ship, and had lowered ^athe ship’s boat into the sea under pretense of laying out anchors from the bow, 31 Paul said to the centurion and the soldiers, “Unless these men stay in the ship, you cannot be saved.” 32 Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the ship’s boat and let it go.

33 As day was about to dawn, Paul urged them all to take some food, saying, “Today is the fourteenth day that you have continued in suspense and without food, having taken nothing. 34 Therefore I urge you to take some food. For it will give you strength,⁶ for ^bnot a hair is to perish from the head of any of you.” 35 And when he had said these things, he took bread, and ^cgiving thanks to God in the presence of all he broke it and began to eat. 36 Then they all ^dwere encouraged and ate some food themselves. 37 (We were in all 276^{7 e}persons in the ship.) 38 And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, ^fthrowing out the wheat into the sea.

The Shipwreck

39 Now when it was day, ^gthey did not recognize the land, but they noticed a bay with a beach, on which they planned if possible to run the ship ashore. 40 So they cast off the anchors and left them in the sea, at the same time loosening the ropes that tied the rudders. Then hoisting the foresail to the wind they made for the beach. 41 But striking a reef,^{8 h}they ran the vessel aground. The bow stuck and remained immovable, and the stern was being broken up by the surf. 42 ⁱThe soldiers’ plan was to kill the prisoners, lest any should swim away and escape. 43 But the centurion, ^jwishing to save Paul, kept them from carrying out their plan. He ordered those who could swim to jump overboard first and make for the land, 44 and the rest on planks or on pieces of the ship. And so it was that ^kall were brought safely to land.