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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Joshua 24 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/joshua/24.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/joshua/24-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Joshua 24</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../joshua/23.htm" title="Joshua 23">◄</a> Joshua 24 <a href="../judges/1.htm" title="Judges 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/joshua/24.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">The LORD’s Covenant Renewed</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Then Joshua summoned all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, including their elders, leaders, judges, and officers. So they came and presented themselves to God.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Joshua said to the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Long ago your ancestors, including Terah, the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates River,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> and they worshiped other gods. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>But I took your ancestor Abraham from the land beyond the Euphrates and led him into the land of Canaan. I gave him many descendants through his son Isaac. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>To Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. To Esau I gave the mountains of Seir, while Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I brought terrible plagues on Egypt; and afterward I brought you out as a free people. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>But when your ancestors arrived at the Red Sea,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> the Egyptians chased after you with chariots and charioteers. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>When your ancestors cried out to the LORD, I put darkness between you and the Egyptians. I brought the sea crashing down on the Egyptians, drowning them. With your very own eyes you saw what I did. Then you lived in the wilderness for many years.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“Finally, I brought you into the land of the Amorites on the east side of the Jordan. They fought against you, but I destroyed them before you. I gave you victory over them, and you took possession of their land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, started a war against Israel. He summoned Balaam son of Beor to curse you, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>but I would not listen to him. Instead, I made Balaam bless you, and so I rescued you from Balak.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“When you crossed the Jordan River and came to Jericho, the men of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. But I gave you victory over them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And I sent terror<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> ahead of you to drive out the two kings of the Amorites. It was not your swords or bows that brought you victory. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I gave you land you had not worked on, and I gave you towns you did not build—the towns where you are now living. I gave you vineyards and olive groves for food, though you did not plant them.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“So fear the LORD and serve him wholeheartedly. Put away forever the idols your ancestors worshiped when they lived beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD alone. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But if you refuse to serve the LORD, then choose today whom you will serve. Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates? Or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? But as for me and my family, we will serve the LORD.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>The people replied, “We would never abandon the LORD and serve other gods. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For the LORD our God is the one who rescued us and our ancestors from slavery in the land of Egypt. He performed mighty miracles before our very eyes. As we traveled through the wilderness among our enemies, he preserved us. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>It was the LORD who drove out the Amorites and the other nations living here in the land. So we, too, will serve the LORD, for he alone is our God.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Then Joshua warned the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD, for he is a holy and jealous God. He will not forgive your rebellion and your sins. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>If you abandon the LORD and serve other gods, he will turn against you and destroy you, even though he has been so good to you.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But the people answered Joshua, “No, we will serve the LORD!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“You are a witness to your own decision,” Joshua said. “You have chosen to serve the LORD.”</p><p class="reg">“Yes,” they replied, “we are witnesses to what we have said.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>“All right then,” Joshua said, “destroy the idols among you, and turn your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>The people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God. We will obey him alone.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day at Shechem, committing them to follow the decrees and regulations of the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Joshua recorded these things in the Book of God’s Instructions. As a reminder of their agreement, he took a huge stone and rolled it beneath the terebinth tree beside the Tabernacle of the LORD.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Joshua said to all the people, “This stone has heard everything the LORD said to us. It will be a witness to testify against you if you go back on your word to God.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Then Joshua sent all the people away to their own homelands.</p><p class="hdg">Leaders Buried in the Promised Land</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>After this, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>They buried him in the land he had been allocated, at Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>The people of Israel served the LORD throughout the lifetime of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him—those who had personally experienced all that the LORD had done for Israel.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought along with them when they left Egypt, were buried at Shechem, in the plot of land Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor for 100 pieces of silver.<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">d</span></a> This land was located in the territory allotted to the descendants of Joseph.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Eleazar son of Aaron also died. He was buried in the hill country of Ephraim, in the town of Gibeah, which had been given to his son Phinehas.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">24:2 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">the river;</span><span class="ft"> also in 24:3, 14, 15.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">24:6 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">sea of reeds.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">24:12 </span><span class="ft">Often rendered </span><span class="it">the hornet.</span><span class="ft"> The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain.</span><br><span class="fn">d</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">24:32 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">100 kesitahs;</span><span class="ft"> the value or weight of the kesitah is no longer known.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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