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and they presented themselves before God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Joshua said to all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>And I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red sea. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And when they cried to the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, who dwelt on the other side of Jordan, and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you: <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>But I would not hearken to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And ye went over Jordan, and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy bow. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>And I have given you a land for which ye did not labor, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and olive-yards which ye planted not do ye eat.</p> <a name="14" id="14"></a><p class="hdg">Choose Whom You will Serve<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../deuteronomy/10.htm#12">Deuteronomy 10:12-22</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>And if it seemeth evil to you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And the people answered, and said, Be it far from us that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods; <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us, and our fathers, out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the people through whom we passed: <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>And the LORD drove out from before us all the people, even the Amorites who dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And Joshua said to the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions, nor your sins. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>And the people said to Joshua, No; but we will serve the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And Joshua said to the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Now therefore put away (said he) the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart to the LORD God of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>And the people said to Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness to us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spoke to us, it shall be therefore a witness to you, lest ye deny your God. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>So Joshua let the people depart, every man to his inheritance.</p> <a name="29" id="29"></a><p class="hdg">Joshua's Death and Burial<br /><p class="cross">(<a href="../judges/2.htm#6">Judges 2:6-10</a>)</p></p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun the servant of the LORD died, being a hundred and ten years old. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, and who had known all the works of the LORD that he had done for Israel.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>And the bones of Joseph which the children of Israel brought out of Egypt, they buried in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver; and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/24-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Webster Bible Translation<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/23.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Joshua 23"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Joshua 23" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../judges/1.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Judges 1"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Judges 1" /></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/24-1.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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