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and they presented themselves before God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-2.htm" target="_top"><b>2</b></a></span>Joshua said to all the people, Thus says the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, the God of Israel, From ancient times your fathers lived beyond the River, <i>namely,</i> Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants and gave him Isaac. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>To Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau, and to Esau I gave Mount Seir to possess it; but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt by what I did in its midst; and afterward I brought you out. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea; and Egypt pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>But when they cried out to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them and covered them; and your own eyes saw what I did in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness for a long time. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Then I brought you into the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan, and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land when I destroyed them before you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel, and he sent and summoned Balaam the son of Beor to curse you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>But I was not willing to listen to Balaam. So he had to bless you, and I delivered you from his hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>You crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho; and the citizens of Jericho fought against you, <i>and</i> the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Girgashite, the Hivite and the Jebusite. Thus I gave them into your hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>Then I sent the hornet before you and it drove out the two kings of the Amorites from before you, <i>but</i> not by your sword or your bow. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities which you had not built, and you have lived in them; you are eating of vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>We Will Serve the L<font size="1">ORD</font></i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>Now, therefore, fear the L<font size="1">ORD</font> and serve Him in sincerity and truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the L<font size="1">ORD</font>.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>The people answered and said, Far be it from us that we should forsake the L<font size="1">ORD</font> to serve other gods; <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>for the L<font size="1">ORD</font> our God is He who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did these great signs in our sight and preserved us through all the way in which we went and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>The L<font size="1">ORD</font> drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. We also will serve the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, for He is our God.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>Then Joshua said to the people, You will not be able to serve the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgression or your sins. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>If you forsake the L<font size="1">ORD</font> and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you after He has done good to you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>The people said to Joshua, No, but we will serve the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, to serve Him. And they said, We are witnesses. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-23.htm" target="_top"><b>23</b></a></span>Now therefore, put away the foreign gods which are in your midst, and incline your hearts to the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, the God of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-24.htm" target="_top"><b>24</b></a></span>The people said to Joshua, We will serve the L<font size="1">ORD</font> our God and we will obey His voice. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-25.htm" target="_top"><b>25</b></a></span>So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-26.htm" target="_top"><b>26</b></a></span>And Joshua 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 that was by the sanctuary of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-27.htm" target="_top"><b>27</b></a></span>Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be for a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> which He spoke to us; thus it shall be for a witness against you, so that you do not deny your God. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-28.htm" target="_top"><b>28</b></a></span>Then Joshua dismissed the people, each to his inheritance.<p> <font size="1"><br><br></font><font color="#000000"><b><i>Joshuas Death and Burial</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font>      <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-29.htm" target="_top"><b>29</b></a></span>It came about after these things that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the L<font size="1">ORD</font>, died, being one hundred and ten years old. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-30.htm" target="_top"><b>30</b></a></span>And they buried him in the territory of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of Mount Gaash.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-31.htm" target="_top"><b>31</b></a></span>Israel served the L<font size="1">ORD</font> all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who survived Joshua, and had known all the deeds of the L<font size="1">ORD</font> which He had done for Israel.<p>       <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-32.htm" target="_top"><b>32</b></a></span>Now they buried the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel brought up from Egypt, at Shechem, in the piece of ground which Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for one hundred pieces of money; and they became the inheritance of Josephs sons. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/24-33.htm" target="_top"><b>33</b></a></span>And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him at Gibeah of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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