Joshua’s Farewell Address
1 Now it came about after many days, when the Lordhad given rest to Israel from all their enemies on every side, and Joshua was old, advanced in years,
2 that Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and their heads and their judges and their officers, and said to them, “I am old, advanced in years.
3 And you have seen all that the Lordyour God has done to all these nations because of you, for the Lordyour God is He who has been fighting for you.
4 See, I have apportioned to you these nations which remain as an inheritance for your tribes, with all the nations which I have cut off, from the Jordan even to the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun.
5 The Lordyour God, He will thrust them out from before you and drive them from before you; and you will possess their land, just as the Lordyour God promised you.
6 Be very firm, then, to keep and do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, so that you may not turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left,
7 so that you will not associate with these nations, these which remain among you, or mention the name of their gods, or makeanyoneswearby them,or serve them, or bow down to them.
8 But you are to cling to the Lordyour God, as you have done to this day.
9 For the Lordhas driven out great and strong nations from before you; and as for you, no man has stood before you to this day.
10 One of your men puts to flight a thousand, for the Lordyour God is He who fights for you, just as He promised you.
11 So take diligent heed to yourselves to love the Lordyour God.
12 For if you ever go back and cling to the rest of these nations, these which remain among you, and intermarry with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,
13 know with certainty that the Lordyour God will not continue to drive these nations out from before you; but they will be a snare and a trap to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which the Lordyour God has given you.
14 “Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one word of all the good words which the Lordyour God spoke concerning you has failed; all have been fulfilled for you, not one of them has failed.
15 It shall come about that just as all the good words which the Lordyour God spoke to you have come upon you, so the Lordwill bring upon you all the threats, until He has destroyed you from off this good land which the Lordyour God has given you.
16 When you transgress the covenant of the Lordyour God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the Lordwill burn against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which He has given you.”
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