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A warrior, son of valor, Yehoshua son of Nun, minister to Moshe in prophecy; who was made a guardian in his days, a great salvation to His chosen ones.

Joshua the son of Nave was valiant in the wars, And was the successor of Moses in prophecies, Who according to his name was made great For the saving of the elect of God, And taking vengeance of the enemies that rose up against them, That he might set Israel in their inheritance.

To avenge vengeance on the enemies, and to inherit Israel. How admirable when he stretched his hand, when he waved his javelin at a city.

How great glory got he, when he did lift up his hands, And stretched out his sword against the cities!

Who is it who could stand against him? For the wars of ADONAI were fought.

Who before him has so stood? For the Lord himself brought his enemies over to him.

Was it not by his hand that the sun stood still, a single day as if it were two?

Did not the sun go back by his means? And was not one day as long as two?

For he called to God the Highest, as his enemies surrounding forced him; and God the Highest answered him, with stones of ice and hail.

He called upon the most high Lord, When the enemies pressed upon him on every side; And the great Lord heard him.

He threw them down on the enemy nation, and as they fled destroyed them all; so that all battling nations knew, that ADONAI guards their wars.

And with hailstones of mighty power He made the battle to fall violently upon the nations, And by their falling he destroyed them that resisted, That the nations might know all their strength, Because he fought in the sight of the Lord, And he followed the Mighty One.

And he also was fully following God, and in the days of Moses did piety; he and Kalev son of Yefuneh, to hold fast against the wild assembly.

In the time of Moses also he did a work of mercy, He and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, In that they withstood the enemy, And withheld the people from sin, And appeased the wicked murmuring.

To turn anger from the congregation, and to end their evil report; thus the two of them were spared from the six hundred thousand infantry. To bring them to their inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey; and He gave to Kalev wisdom and until old age it stayed with him.

And of six hundred thousand people on foot, they two alone were preserved To bring them into the heritage, Even unto the land that floweth with milk and honey.

The Lord gave strength also unto Caleb, Which remained with him unto his old age: So that he entered upon the high places of the land, And his seed obtained it for a heritage:

To guide him upon the heights of the land, and also his seed took an inheritance; that all the seed of Yaakov know that it is good to fully follow after Adonai.

That all the children of Israel might see That it is good to follow the Lord.

And the judges, each man by his name, every one who didn't self-glorify; and didn't durn away from following God, may their memories be blessed.

And concerning the judges, every one by name, Whose heart went not a-whoring, Nor departed from the Lord, Let their memory be blessed.

[May their essences flower as a rose], and may their names pass on to their children!

Let their bones flourish out of their place, And let the name of them that were honored be continued upon their children.

Beloved of his people, desired of deeds, chosen from the womb of his mother; a nazirite of ADONAI in prophecy, Shmuel, the priestly judge. At the word of God he established a monarchy, and he anointed princes over hte people.

Samuel, the prophet of the Lord, beloved of his Lord, Established a kingdom, and anointed princes over his people.

With the commandment of ADONAI he commanded the congregation, and the God of Yaakov took note of them.

By the law of the Lord he judged the congregation, And the Lord had respect unto Jacob.

In his faithful mouth he expounded a vision, and in his trusted word guidance.

By his faithfulness he was found a true prophet, And by his word he was known to be faithful in vision.

And he also called to God, as his enemies surrounding forced him; as he offered up a lamb's suet, ADONAI thundered from heaven.

He called upon the mighty Lord, When his enemies pressed upon him on every side, When he offered the sucking lamb.

With a mighty crash His voice was heard, and He subdued the nobility of the enemy, and destroyed all the Philistine tyrants.

And the Lord thundered from heaven, And with a great noise made his voice to be heard.

And he destroyed the rulers of the Tyrians, And all the princes of the Philistines.

And when it came time for his final rest, he testified to ADONAI and His anointed. Did I take bribes or secret payments from anyone? And not one person answered him. And until the the end of his time, he was found right in the eyes of ADONAI.

And before his long sleep he made protestation in the sight of the Lord and his anointed, I have not taken any man’s goods, so much as a shoe: And no man did accuse him.

And in the eyes of all life, and also after his death he expounded. And he told the king his ways and lifted from the ground his voice in prophecy.

And after his death he prophesied, And showed the king his end, And lifted up his voice from the earth in prophecy, To blot out the wickedness of the people.