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<span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>that Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and well stricken in years: <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>and ye have seen all that Jehovah your God hath done unto all these nations because of you; for Jehovah your God, he it is that hath fought for you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Behold, I have allotted unto you these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And Jehovah your God, he will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight; and ye shall possess their land, as Jehovah your God spake unto you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Therefore be ye very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left; <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>that ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them , neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves unto them; <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>but cleave unto Jehovah your God, as ye have done unto this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>For Jehovah hath driven out from before you great nations and strong: but as for you, no man hath stood before you unto this day. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>One man of you shall chase a thousand; for Jehovah your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he spake unto you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love Jehovah your God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Else if ye do at all go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you; <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>know for a certainty that Jehovah your God will no more drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap unto you, and a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which Jehovah your God hath given you.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls, that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which Jehovah your God spake concerning you; all are come to pass unto you, not one thing hath failed thereof. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And it shall come to pass, that as all the good things are come upon you of which Jehovah your God spake unto you, so will Jehovah bring upon you all the evil things, until he have destroyed you from off this good land which Jehovah your God hath given you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>When ye transgress the covenant of Jehovah your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them; then will the anger of Jehovah be kindled against you, and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">American Standard Version, 1901<br /><br /><a href="//bereanbible.com">Section Headings Courtesy BereanBible.com<br />© 2013, 2014 Used by Permission</a><span class="p"><br /><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../joshua/22.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Joshua 22"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Joshua 22" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../joshua/24.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Joshua 24"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Joshua 24" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpad/joshua/23-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe src="//biblemenus.com/adframe120.htm" width="122" height="602" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe><br /><br /></td></tr></table></div></div></div> <div align="center"><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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