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Joshua's Farewell Exhortation and Warning

Joshua 23:1-16

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Chapter 23
1 And it was after many days, after the LORD had given rest to Israel from all their enemies around them, and Joshua was old, advanced in days. 2 And Joshua called all Israel, its elders and its heads and its judges and its officers, and said to them, "I have become old. I have advanced in days." 3 And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations before you, for the LORD your God—he is the one fighting for you. 4 See, I have allotted to you these remaining nations as an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan and all the nations which I have cut off, to the Great Sea toward the setting sun. 5 And the LORD your God will drive them out from before you and dispossess them from before you, and you shall possess their land just as the LORD your God spoke to you. 6 And you shall strengthen yourselves very much to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the Torah of Moses, so as not to turn from it to the right or to the left. 7 so as not to go among these remaining nations with you, and in the name of their gods you shall not mention, nor swear, nor serve them, nor bow down to them. 8 for if you cling to the LORD your God as you have done until this day. 9 And the LORD dispossessed from before you great and mighty nations, and no man has stood before you until this day. 10 One man of you will pursue a thousand, for the LORD your God is the one fighting for you, just as he spoke to you. 11 So take good care of yourselves, to love the LORD your God. 12 For if you turn back and cling to the rest of these nations—these remaining with you—and intermarry with them and come into them and they in you. 13 Know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer continue to dispossess these nations from before you, and they will be to you for a snare and for a trap and for a goad in your sides and for thorns in your eyes, until your perishing from upon this good land which the LORD your God has given to you. 14 And behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and with all your soul that not one word has failed from all the good words that the LORD your God spoke concerning you; all have come to pass, not one word has failed from them. 15 And it will be just as all the good word that the LORD your God spoke to you has come upon you, so the LORD will bring upon you all the evil word until they destroy you from upon this good land that the LORD your God has given to you. 16 When you cross over the covenant of the LORD your God which he commanded you and you go and serve other gods and prostrate to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you and you will perish quickly from the good land which he gave you.