Mrs, George T. Sampson Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1839, by THOMAS H. GALLAUDET, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the Southern District of New-York. Right of publishing transferred to the American Tract Society. CONTENTS. CHAP. 1.-Joshua eminently qualified for his station. Chosen by God to be the successor of Moses. Command of God to him to cross the Jordan, and promise of future divine support, CHAP. 2.-Joshua begins the necessary preparations to cross the Jordan. The people are ready to obey him. Spies are sent to explore the country, CHAP. 3.-The spies promise security to Rahab. The Joshua gives them directions about crossing it, CHAP. 4. The passage of the Jordan. Stones are set up as a memorial at Gilgal and in the Jordan, CHAP. 5.-The rite of circumcision administered, and the passover observed at Gilgal. Joshua is CHAP. 6.-Jericho taken, and its inhabitants and the city destroyed, but Rahab spared with her kin- dred. Reflections on this event, CHAP. 7.-A moral lesson to the Israelites in the de- struction of Jericho. Their attack upon Ai un- successful, and the reason of it. The offender Page CHAP. 10. The league with the Gibeonites. Their city is attacked, and Joshua, with the Israelites, goes to its defence. The assailants are routed, CHAP. 11.-The sun and moon stand still, at the command of Joshua, at Gibeon. Further de- struction of the Canaanites, and of the five kings. Other victories of the Israelites, CHAP. 12.-The Israelites return to Gilgal. A north- ern confederacy against them. They are again victorious, and their wars, for the present, cease, CHAP. 13.-Joshua is directed to proceed to the divi- sion of Canaan among the tribes. It is in part effected. Caleb's portion. The Israelites remove to Shiloh. A survey of the land made, and the CHAP. 14.-Joshua has a portion. Cities of refuge, and those of the Levites. The two and a half tribes return and build an altar on the other side of the Jordan. An embassy is sent to inquire CHAP. 15.-Reasons for building the altar. Joshua one hundred and ten years of age. He assem- bles the heads of the Israelites, to give them his CHAP. 16.-Joshua's counsels. He dismisses the as- sembly. He convenes the Israelites at She- chem, and gives them his last advice. The Is- LIFE OF JOSHUA. CHAPTER I. Joshua eminently qualified for his station. Chosen by God to be the successor of Moses. Command of God to him to cross the Jordan, and promise of future divine support. The providence of God is seldom more conspicuous than in the preparation of individuals for the important stations which they are destined to occupy. This was eminently the case with regard to Joshua, the successor of Moses. Of the tribe of Ephraim, and the son of Nun, he was in the prime of manhood when the Israelites left Egypt. The wonderful scenes through which they passed at that time, and during the long course of their progress to the borders of the promised land,-with the various dealings of God with them, both in the way of mercies and of judgments,—were full of instruction to a reflecting mind. Joshua, undoubtedly, treasured up this instruction in his heart. He was early treated by Moses in a very confidential manner, and chosen from among the most prominent of his countrymen, for the discharge of peculiar and arduous duties. The band which fought at Rephidim against the Amalekites, was led forth by Joshua to the field of battle and of triumph. He alone attended Moses, when, leaving the elders at a distance, the latter went up the highest part of Mount Sinai, to receive the tables of the law from the hand of God himself. For six days they were together, before Moses approached still nearer the divine presence in the midst of the cloud. And when he descended, having abode there forty days, it was Joshua who again accompanied him; while, as they drew nigh the camp, they heard the shouting of the people, and discovered their idolatry in the worship of the golden calf. He was one of the spies who were sent from Kadesh-Barnea to explore Canaan. He remained faithful to the trust reposed in him, and was distinguished, together with Caleb, from the rest of their treacherous and unbelieving associates, and from the murmuring Israelites, by the divine assurance that they alone should enter the promised land, of all who were twenty years of age and upwards when they came out of Egypt. He doubtless, in addition to all the laws and ordinances, the instructions, promises and threatenings, which were communicated by God to the whole body of the people, received, for his per |