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JEREMIAH 12 "JEREMIAH's QUESTION; The LORD ANSWERS JEREMIAH" recorded for your spiritual enrichment by vanderKOK

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JEREMIAH 12 "JEREMIAH's QUESTION; The LORD ANSWERS JEREMIAH" recorded for your spiritual enrichment by vanderKOK

"Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead with You;Yet let me talk with You about Your judgments.Why does the way of the wicked prosper?Why are those happy who deal so treacherously? 2 You have planted them, yes, they have taken root;They grow, yes, they bear fruit.You are near in their mouth But far from their mind. 3 But You, O LORD, know me;You have seen me,And You have tested my heart toward You.Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter,And prepare them for the day of slaughter. 4 How long will the land mourn,And the herbs of every field wither?The beasts and birds are consumed,For the wickedness of those who dwell there,Because they said, "He will not see our final end." 5 The LORD Answers Jeremiah "If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you,Then how can you contend with horses?And if in the land of peace,In which you trusted, they wearied you,Then how will you do in the floodplain of the Jordan? 6 For even your brothers, the house of your father,Even they have dealt treacherously with you;Yes, they have called a multitude after you.Do not believe them,Even though they speak smooth words to you. 7 "I have forsaken My house, I have left My heritage;I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies. 8 My heritage is to Me like a lion in the forest;It cries out against Me;Therefore I have hated it. 9 My heritage is to Me like a speckled vulture;The vultures all around are against her.Come, assemble all the beasts of the field,Bring them to devour! 10 "Many rulers have destroyed My vineyard,They have trodden My portion underfoot;They have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. 11 They have made it desolate;Desolate, it mourns to Me;The whole land is made desolate,Because no one takes it to heart. 12 The plunderers have come On all the desolate heights in the wilderness,For the sword of the LORD shall devour From one end of the land to the other end of the land;No flesh shall have peace. 13 They have sown wheat but reaped thorns;They have put themselves to pain but do not profit.But be ashamed of your harvest Because of the fierce anger of the LORD." 14 Thus says the LORD: "Against all My evil neighbors who touch the inheritance which I have caused My people Israel to inherit — behold, I will pluck them out of their land and pluck out the house of Judah from among them. 15 Then it shall be, after I have plucked them out, that I will return and have compassion on them and bring them back, everyone to his heritage and everyone to his land. 16 And it shall be, if they will learn carefully the ways of My people, to swear by My name, 'As the LORD lives,' as they taught My people to swear by Baal, then they shall be established in the midst of My people. 17 But if they do not obey, I will utterly pluck up and destroy that nation," says the LORD. NKJV

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JOSHUA 8.1-30 "The FALL of AI: after they KILLED ACHAN the TRANSGRESSOR GOD tells JOSHUA that the CITY of AI is NOW theirs to DEFEAT as they DID to JERICHO; & JOSHUA plans to DRAW the MEN of AI out of the CITY & AMBUSH them; & when the MEN of AI pursued I

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JOSHUA 8.1-30 "The FALL of AI: after they KILLED ACHAN the TRANSGRESSOR GOD tells JOSHUA that the CITY of AI is NOW theirs to DEFEAT as they DID to JERICHO; & JOSHUA plans to DRAW the MEN of AI out of the CITY & AMBUSH them; & when the MEN of AI pursued ISRAEL, ISRAEL's OTHER MEN snuck in & burned the CITY of AI & all the PEOPLE of AI, 12,000, died, but they KEPT the KING as a CAPTIVE & hanged him later" recorded for your spiritual enrichment by vanderKOK

"Now the LORD said to Joshua: 'Do not be afraid, nor be dismayed; take all the people of war with you, and arise, go up to Ai. See, I have given into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land. 2 And you shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king. Only its spoil and its cattle you shall take as booty for yourselves. Lay an ambush for the city behind it." 3 So Joshua arose, and all the people of war, to go up against Ai; and Joshua chose thirty thousand mighty men of valor and sent them away by night. 4 And he commanded them, saying: "Behold, you shall lie in ambush against the city, behind the city. Do not go very far from the city, but all of you be ready. 5 Then I and all the people who are with me will approach the city; and it will come about, when they come out against us as at the first, that we shall flee before them. 6 For they will come out after us till we have drawn them from the city, for they will say, 'They are fleeing before us as at the first.' Therefore we will flee before them. 7 Then you shall rise from the ambush and seize the city, for the LORD your God will deliver it into your hand. 8 And it will be, when you have taken the city, that you shall set the city on fire. According to the commandment of the LORD you shall do. See, I have commanded you." 9 Joshua therefore sent them out; and they went to lie in ambush, and stayed between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of Ai; but Joshua lodged that night among the people. 10 Then Joshua rose up early in the morning and mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai. 11 And all the people of war who were with him went up and drew near; and they came before the city and camped on the north side of Ai. Now a valley lay between them and Ai. 12 So he took about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, on the west side of the city. 13 And when they had set the people, all the army that was on the north of the city, and its rear guard on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley. 14 Now it happened, when the king of Ai saw it, that the men of the city hurried and rose early and went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at an appointed place before the plain. But he did not know that there was an ambush against him behind the city. 15 And Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled by the way of the wilderness. 16 So all the people who were in Ai were called together to pursue them. And they pursued Joshua and were drawn away from the city. 17 There was not a man left in Ai or Bethel who did not go out after Israel. So they left the city open and pursued Israel. 18 Then the LORD said to Joshua, "Stretch out the spear that is in your hand toward Ai, for I will give it into your hand." And Joshua stretched out the spear that was in his hand toward the city. 19 So those in ambush arose quickly out of their place; they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and they entered the city and took it, and hurried to set the city on fire. 20 And when the men of Ai looked behind them, they saw, and behold, the smoke of the city ascended to heaven. So they had no power to flee this way or that way, and the people who had fled to the wilderness turned back on the pursuers. 21 Now when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that the smoke of the city ascended, they turned back and struck down the men of Ai. 22 Then the others came out of the city against them; so they were caught in the midst of Israel, some on this side and some on that side. And they struck them down, so that they let none of them remain or escape. 23 But the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua. 24 And it came to pass when Israel had made an end of slaying all the inhabitants of Ai in the field, in the wilderness where they pursued them, and when they all had fallen by the edge of the sword until they were consumed, that all the Israelites returned to Ai and struck it with the edge of the sword. 25 So it was that all who fell that day, both men and women, were twelve thousand — all the people of Ai. 26 For Joshua did not draw back his hand, with which he stretched out the spear, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai. 27 Only the livestock and the spoil of that city Israel took as booty for themselves, according to the word of the LORD which He had commanded Joshua. 28 So Joshua burned Ai and made it a heap forever, a desolation to this day. 29 And the king of Ai he hanged on a tree until evening. And as soon as the sun was down, Joshua commanded that they should take his corpse down from the tree, cast it at the entrance of the gate of the city, and raise over it a great heap of stones that remains to this day. NKJV

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