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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 23 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/23.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/23-1.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 23</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/22.htm" title="Joshua 22">◄</a> Joshua 23 <a href="../joshua/24.htm" title="Joshua 24">►</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/23.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">Joshua’s Final Words to Israel</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/23-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>The years passed, and the LORD had given the people of Israel rest from all their enemies. Joshua, who was now very old, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/23-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>called together all the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel. He said to them, “I am now a very old man. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/23-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>You have seen everything the LORD your God has done for you during my lifetime. The LORD your God has fought for you against your enemies. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I have allotted to you as your homeland all the land of the nations yet unconquered, as well as the land of those we have already conquered—from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> in the west. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>This land will be yours, for the LORD your God will himself drive out all the people living there now. You will take possession of their land, just as the LORD your God promised you.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“So be very careful to follow everything Moses wrote in the Book of Instruction. Do not deviate from it, turning either to the right or to the left. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Make sure you do not associate with the other people still remaining in the land. Do not even mention the names of their gods, much less swear by them or serve them or worship them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Rather, cling tightly to the LORD your God as you have done until now.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“For the LORD has driven out great and powerful nations for you, and no one has yet been able to defeat you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Each one of you will put to flight a thousand of the enemy, for the LORD your God fights for you, just as he has promised. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>So be very careful to love the LORD your God.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“But if you turn away from him and cling to the customs of the survivors of these nations remaining among you, and if you intermarry with them, <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>then know for certain that the LORD your God will no longer drive them out of your land. Instead, they will be a snare and a trap to you, a whip for your backs and thorny brambles in your eyes, and you will vanish from this good land the LORD your God has given you.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“Soon I will die, going the way of everything on earth. Deep in your hearts you know that every promise of the LORD your God has come true. Not a single one has failed! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/23-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>But as surely as the LORD your God has given you the good things he promised, he will also bring disaster on you if you disobey him. He will completely destroy you from this good land he has given you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/joshua/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>If you break the covenant of the LORD your God by worshiping and serving other gods, his anger will burn against you, and you will quickly vanish from the good land he has given you.”</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">23:4 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">the Great Sea.</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. Used by permission of <a href="http://www.tyndale.com">Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.</a>, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. 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