23After a long time had passed and the LORD had given Israel rest from all their enemies around them, Joshua, by then old and well advanced in years,H7227H3117H310H3068H5117H3478H341H5439H3091H2204H935H31172summoned all Israel—their elders, leaders, judges and officials—and said to them: "I am old and well advanced in years.H3091H7121H3478H2205H7218H8199H7860H559H2204H935H31173You yourselves have seen everything the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake; it was the LORD your God who fought for you.H7200H3068H430H6213H1471H6440H3068H430H38984Remember how I have allotted as an inheritance for your tribes all the land of the nations that remain—the nations I conquered—between the Jordan and the Great Sea in the west.H7200H5307H1471H7604H5159H7626H3383H1471H3772H1419H3220H3996H81215The LORD your God himself will drive them out of your way. He will push them out before you, and you will take possession of their land, as the LORD your God promised you.H3068H430H1920H6440H3423H6440H3423H776H3068H430H16966"Be very strong; be careful to obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, without turning aside to the right or to the left.H3966H2388H8104H6213H3789H5612H8451H4872H5493H3225H80407Do not associate with these nations that remain among you; do not invoke the names of their gods or swear by them. You must not serve them or bow down to them.H935H1471H7604H2142H8034H430H7650H5647H78128But you are to hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have until now.H1692H3068H430H6213H31179"The LORD has driven out before you great and powerful nations; to this day no one has been able to withstand you.H3068H3423H6440H1419H1471H6099H376H5975H6440H311710One of you routs a thousand, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as he promised.H259H376H7291H505H3068H430H3898H169611So be very careful to love the LORD your God.H3966H8104H5315H157H3068H43012"But if you turn away and ally yourselves with the survivors of these nations that remain among you and if you intermarry with them and associate with them,H7725H7725H1692H3499H1471H7604H2859H93513then you may be sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become snares and traps for you, whips on your backs and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land, which the LORD your God has given you.H3045H3045H3068H430H3254H3423H1471H6440H6341H4170H7850H6654H6796H5869H6H2896H127H3068H430H541414"Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the LORD your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed.H3117H1980H1870H776H3045H3824H5315H259H1697H5307H2896H1697H3068H430H1696H935H259H1697H530715But just as every good promise of the LORD your God has come true, so the LORD will bring on you all the evil he has threatened, until he has destroyed you from this good land he has given you.H2896H1697H935H3068H430H1696H3068H935H7451H1697H8045H2896H127H3068H430H541416If you violate the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the LORD'S anger will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from the good land he has given you."H5674H1285H3068H430H6680H1980H5647H312H430H7812H639H3068H2734H6H4120H2896H776H5414