Joshua 24
24Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel; and they presented themselves before God.H3091H622H7626H3478H7927H7121H2205H3478H7218H8199H7860H3320H6440H4302And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Long ago your ancestors—Terah and his sons Abraham and Nahor—lived beyond the Euphrates and served other gods.H3091H559H5971H559H3068H430H3478H1H3427H5676H5104H5769H8646H1H85H1H5152H5647H312H4303Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River and led him through all the land of Canaan and made his offspring many. I gave him Isaac;H3947H1H85H5676H5104H3212H776H3667H7235H2233H5414H33274and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau the hill country of Seir to possess, but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.H5414H3327H3290H6215H5414H6215H2022H8165H3423H3290H1121H3381H47145Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt with what I did in its midst; and afterwards I brought you out.H7971H4872H175H5062H4714H834H6213H7130H310H33186When I brought your ancestors out of Egypt, you came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued your ancestors with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea.H3318H1H4714H935H3220H4714H7291H310H1H7393H6571H5488H32207When they cried out to the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and made the sea come upon them and cover them; and your eyes saw what I did to Egypt. Afterwards you lived in the wilderness a long time.H6817H3068H7760H3990H4713H935H3220H3680H5869H7200H6213H4714H3427H4057H7227H31178Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of the Jordan; they fought with you, and I handed them over to you, and you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you.H935H776H567H3427H5676H3383H3898H5414H3027H3423H776H8045H64409Then King Balak son of Zippor of Moab, set out to fight against Israel. He sent and invited Balaam son of Beor to curse you,H1111H1121H6834H4428H4124H6965H3898H3478H7971H7121H1109H1121H1160H704310but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you; so I rescued you out of his hand.H14H8085H1109H1288H1288H5337H302711When you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho, the citizens of Jericho fought against you, and also the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I handed them over to you.H5674H3383H935H3405H1167H3405H3898H567H6522H3669H2850H1622H2340H2983H5414H302712I sent the hornet ahead of you, which drove out before you the two kings of the Amorites; it was not by your sword or by your bow.H7971H6880H6440H1644H6440H8147H4428H567H2719H719813I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and towns that you had not built, and you live in them; you eat the fruit of vineyards and oliveyards that you did not plant.H5414H776H3021H5892H1129H3427H3754H2132H5193H39814"Now therefore revere the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness; put away the gods that your ancestors served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.H3372H3068H5647H8549H571H5493H430H1H5647H5676H5104H4714H5647H306815Now if you are unwilling to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your ancestors served in the region beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD."H7489H4310H5647H3068H977H3117H5869H5647H430H1H5647H5676H5104H430H567H776H3427H1004H5647H306816Then the people answered, "Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD to serve other gods;H5971H6030H559H2486H5800H3068H5647H312H43017for it is the LORD our God who brought us and our ancestors up from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and who did those great signs in our sight. He protected us along all the way that we went, and among all the peoples through whom we passed;H3068H430H5927H1H776H4714H1004H5650H6213H1419H226H5869H8104H1870H1980H5971H7130H567418and the LORD drove out before us all the peoples, the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the LORD, for he is our God."H3068H1644H6440H5971H567H3427H776H5647H3068H43019But Joshua said to the people, "You cannot serve the LORD, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.H3091H559H5971H3201H5647H3068H6918H430H7072H410H5375H6588H240320If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm, and consume you, after having done you good."H5800H3068H5647H5236H430H7725H7489H3615H310H319021And the people said to Joshua, "No, we will serve the LORD!"H5971H559H3091H5647H306822Then Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD, to serve him." And they said, "We are witnesses."H3091H559H5971H5707H977H3068H5647H559H570723He said, "Then put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel."H5493H5236H430H7130H5186H3824H3068H430H347824The people said to Joshua, "The LORD our God we will serve, and him we will obey."H5971H559H3091H3068H430H5647H6963H808525So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made statutes and ordinances for them at Shechem.H3091H3772H1285H5971H3117H7760H2706H4941H792726Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a large stone, and set it up there under the oak in the sanctuary of the LORD.H3091H3789H1697H5612H8451H430H3947H1419H68H6965H427H4720H306827Joshua said to all the people, "See, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of the LORD that he spoke to us; therefore it shall be a witness against you, if you deal falsely with your God."H3091H559H5971H68H5713H8085H561H3068H1696H5713H3584H43028So Joshua sent the people away to their inheritances.H3091H5971H7971H376H515929After these things Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred ten years old.H310H1697H3091H1121H5126H5650H3068H4191H3967H6235H8141H112130They buried him in his own inheritance at Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.H6912H1366H5159H8556H2022H669H6828H2022H160831Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua and had known all the work that the LORD did for Israel.H3478H5647H3068H3117H3091H3117H2205H748H3117H310H3091H3045H4639H3068H6213H347832The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up from Egypt, were buried at Shechem, in the portion of ground that Jacob had bought from the children of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred pieces of money; it became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.H6106H3130H1121H3478H5927H4714H6912H7927H2513H7704H3290H7069H1121H2544H1H7927H3967H7192H5159H1121H313033Eleazar son of Aaron died; and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of his son Phinehas, which had been given him in the hill country of Ephraim.H499H1121H175H4191H6912H1389H6372H1121H5414H2022H669
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