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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 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</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> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../">Brenton</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 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/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">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/joshua/23-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Joshua’s Charge to Leaders<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And it came to pass after many days after the Lord had given Israel rest from all his enemies round about, that Joshua was old and advanced in years. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And Joshua called together all the children of Israel, and their elders, and their chiefs, and their judges, and their officers; and said to them, I am old and advanced in years. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>And ye have seen all that the Lord our God has done to all these nations before us; <i>for it</i> is the Lord your God who has fought for you. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>See, that I have given to you these nations that are left to you by lots to your tribes, all the nations beginning at Jordan; and <i>some</i> I have destroyed; and the boundaries shall be at the great sea westward. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>And the Lord our God, he shall destroy them before us, until they utterly perish; and he shall send against them the wild beasts, until he shall have utterly destroyed them and their kings from before you; and ye shall inherit their land, as the Lord our God said to you. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Do ye therefore strive diligently to observe and do all things written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not to the right hand or to the left; <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>that ye go not in among these nations that are left; and the names of their gods shall not be named among you, neither shall ye serve them, neither shall ye bow down to them. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>But ye shall cleave to the Lord our God, as ye have done until this day. <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And the Lord shall destroy them before you, <i>even</i> great and strong nations; and no one has stood before us until this day. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>One of you has chased a thousand, for the Lord our God, he fought for you, as he said to us. <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And take ye great heed to love the Lord our God. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>For if ye shall turn aside and attach yourselves to these nations that are left with you, and make marriages with them, and become mingled with them and they with you, <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>know that the Lord will no more destroy these nations from before you; and they will be to you snares and stumbling-blocks, and nails in your heels, and darts in your eyes, until ye be destroyed from off this good land, which the Lord your God has given you.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>But I hasten to go the way <i>of death</i>, as all that are upon the earth also <i>do</i>: and ye know in your heart and in your soul, that not one word has fallen <i>to the ground</i> of all the words which the Lord our God has spoken respecting all that concerns us; there has not one of them failed. <A name="16"></a><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 us which the Lord God will bring upon you all the evil things, until he shall have destroyed you from off this good land, which the Lord has given you, <span class="reftext"><a href="/joshua/23-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>when ye transgress the covenant of the Lord our God, which he has charged us, and go and serve other gods, and bow down to them.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></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="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>