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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 Catholic Public Domain Version</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="../">CPDV</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 width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><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">Catholic Public Domain Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/joshua/24-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Joshua Reviews Israel’s History<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And Joshua gathered together all the tribes of Israel at Shechem, and he called those greater by birth, and the leaders and judges and teachers. And they stood in the sight of the Lord. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And he spoke to the people in this way: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: ‘Your fathers lived, in the beginning, across the river: Terah, the father of Abraham, and Nahor. And they served strange gods. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Then I brought your father Abraham from the parts of Mesopotamia, and I led him into the land of Canaan. And I multiplied his offspring, <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>and I gave to him Isaac. And to him, I gave again Jacob and Esau. And I gave mount Seir to Esau as a possession. Yet truly, Jacob and his sons descended into Egypt. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I struck Egypt with many signs and portents. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And I led you and your fathers away from Egypt, and you arrived at the sea. And the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen, as far as the Red Sea. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Then the sons of Israel cried out to the Lord. And he stationed a darkness between you and the Egyptians, and he led the sea over them, and he covered them. Your eyes saw all that I did in Egypt, and you lived in the wilderness for a long time. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And I led you into the land of the Amorite, who was living beyond the Jordan. And when they fought against you, I delivered them into your hands, and you possessed their land, and you put them to death. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then Balak, the son of Zippor, the king of Moab, rose up and fought against Israel. And he sent and called for Balaam, the son of Beor, so that he might curse you. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And I was not willing to listen to him, but on the contrary, I blessed you through him, and I freed you from his hand. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And you crossed over the Jordan, and you arrived at Jericho. And the men of that city fought against you: the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite. And I delivered them into your hands. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And I sent wasps before you. And I drove them from their places, the two kings of the Amorites, but not by your sword, and not by your bow. <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And I gave you a land, in which you did not labor, and cities, which you did not build, so that you might live in them, and vineyards and olive groves, which you did not plant.’<p> <A name="15"></a><p class="hdg">Choose Whom You Will Serve<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../deuteronomy/10.htm#12">Deuteronomy 10:12–22</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Now therefore, fear the Lord, and serve him with a perfect and very sincere heart. And take away the gods that your fathers served in Mesopotamia and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But if it seems evil to you that you would serve the Lord, a choice is given to you. Choose today what pleases you, and whom you ought to serve above all else, either the gods that your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And the people responded, and they said: “Far be it from us that we would forsake the Lord, and serve foreign gods. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The Lord our God himself led us and our fathers away from the land of Egypt, from the house of servitude. And he accomplished immense signs in our sight, and he preserved us along the entire way by which we journeyed, and among all the people through whom we passed. <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And he cast out all the nations, the Amorite, the inhabitant of the land that we entered. And so, we will serve the Lord, for he is our God.”<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And Joshua said to the people: “You will not be able to serve the Lord. For he is a holy and powerful God, and he is jealous, and he will not ignore your wickedness and sins. <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>If you leave behind the Lord, and you serve foreign gods, he will turn himself, and he will afflict you, and he will overthrow you, after all the good that he has offered to you.” <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And the people said to Joshua, “By no means will it be as you are saying, but we will serve the Lord.” <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Joshua said to the people, “You yourselves are witnesses, that you have chosen the Lord so that you may serve him.” And they answered, “We are witnesses.” <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>“Now therefore,” he said, “take away strange gods from among yourselves, and incline your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.” <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the Lord our God, and we will be obedient to his precepts.” <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Therefore, on that day, Joshua struck a covenant, and he set before the people at Shechem the precepts and the judgments. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>He also wrote all these things in the volume of the law of the Lord. And he took a very great stone, and he stationed it under the oak that was in the Sanctuary of the Lord. <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And he said to all the people, “Lo, this stone shall be to you as a testimony, which has heard all the words of the Lord that he has spoken to you, lest perhaps, afterward, you might choose to deny it, and to lie to the Lord your God.” <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And he dismissed the people, each one to their own possession.<p> <A name="30"></a><p class="hdg">Joshua’s Death and Burial<br /><span class="cross">(<a href ="../judges/2.htm#6">Judges 2:6–9</a>)</span><p><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And after these things, Joshua, the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being one hundred and ten years old. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And they buried him within the borders of his possession at Timnath-Serah, which is situated on mount Ephraim, before the northern side of mount Gaash.<p> <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And Israel served the Lord during all the days of Joshua, and of the elders who lived for a long time after Joshua, and who had known all the works of the Lord that he had accomplished in Israel.<p> <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel had brought from Egypt, they buried at Shechem, in a portion of the field that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for one hundred young female sheep, and so it was in the possession of the sons of Joseph. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>Likewise, Eleazar, the son of Aaron, died. 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