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23A long time later, after GOD had given Israel rest from all their surrounding enemies, and Joshua was a venerable old man,H7227H3117H310H3068H5117H3478H341H5439H3091H2204H935H3117 2Joshua called all Israel together—elders, chiefs, judges, and officers. Then he spoke to them: "I'm an old man. I've lived a long time.H3091H7121H3478H2205H7218H8199H7860H559H2204H935H3117 3You have seen everything that GOD has done to these nations because of you. He did it because he's GOD, your God. He fought for you.H7200H3068H430H6213H1471H6440H3068H430H3898 4"Stay alert: I have assigned to you by lot these nations that remain as an inheritance to your tribes—these in addition to the nations I have already cut down—from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.H7200H5307H1471H7604H5159H7626H3383H1471H3772H1419H3220H3996H8121 5GOD, your God, will drive them out of your path until there's nothing left of them and you'll take over their land just as GOD, your God, promised you.H3068H430H1920H6440H3423H6440H3423H776H3068H430H1696 6"Now, stay strong and steady. Obediently do everything written in the Book of The Revelation of Moses—don't miss a detail.H3966H2388H8104H6213H3789H5612H8451H4872H5493H3225H8040 7Don't get mixed up with the nations that are still around. Don't so much as speak the names of their gods or swear by them. And by all means don't worship or pray to them.H935H1471H7604H2142H8034H430H7650H5647H7812 8Hold tight to GOD, your God, just as you've done up to now.H1692H3068H430H6213H3117 9"GOD has driven out superpower nations before you. And up to now, no one has been able to stand up to you.H3068H3423H6440H1419H1471H6099H376H5975H6440H3117 10Think of it—one of you, single-handedly, putting a thousand on the run! Because GOD is GOD, your God. Because he fights for you, just as he promised you.H259H376H7291H505H3068H430H3898H1696 11"Now, vigilantly guard your souls: Love GOD, your God.H3966H8104H5315H157H3068H430 12Because if you wander off and start taking up with these remaining nations still among you (intermarry, say, and have other dealings with them),H7725H7725H1692H3499H1471H7604H2859H935 13know for certain that GOD, your God, will not get rid of these nations for you. They'll be nothing but trouble to you—horsewhips on your backs and sand in your eyes—until you're the ones who will be driven out of this good land that GOD, your God, has given you.H3045H3045H3068H430H3254H3423H1471H6440H6341H4170H7850H6654H6796H5869H6H2896H127H3068H430H5414 14"As you can see, I'm about to go the way we all end up going. Know this with all your heart, with everything in you, that not one detail has failed of all the good things GOD, your God, promised you. It has all happened. Nothing's left undone—not so much as a word.H3117H1980H1870H776H3045H3824H5315H259H1697H5307H2896H1697H3068H430H1696H935H259H1697H5307 15"But just as sure as everything good that GOD, your God, has promised has come true, so also GOD will bring to pass every bad thing until there's nothing left of you in this good land that GOD has given you.H2896H1697H935H3068H430H1696H3068H935H7451H1697H8045H2896H127H3068H430H5414 16If you leave the path of the Covenant of GOD, your God, that he commanded you, go off and serve and worship other gods, GOD's anger will blaze out against you. In no time at all there'll be nothing left of you, no sign that you've ever been in this good land he gave you."H5674H1285H3068H430H6680H1980H5647H312H430H7812H639H3068H2734H6H4120H2896H776H5414


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