Joshua chapter 23 Joshua's charge to Israel's leaders.

A long time afterward when the Lord had given rest to Israel, from all their surrounding enemies,

and Joshua was old and well-advanced in years, Joshua summoned all Israel, its elders and heads,

its judges and officers, and said to them,

I am now old and well advanced in years, and you have seen all that the Lord your God has

done to all these nations for your sake, for it is the Lord your God who has fought for you.

Behold, I have allotted to you as an inheritance for your tribes, those nations that remain.

Along with all the nations that I have already cut off from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the West,

the Lord your God will push them back before you and drive them out of your sight.

And you shall possess their land, just as the Lord your God promised you.

Therefore be very strong to keep and to do all that

is written in the book of the Law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right hand

nor to the left, that you may not mix with these nations remaining among you or make mention

of the names of their gods, or swear by them, or serve them, or bow down to them, but you shall

cling to the Lord, your God, just as you have done to this day, for the Lord has driven out

before you great and strong nations, and as for you, no man has been able to stand before you

to this day. One man of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the

Lord your God who fights for you, just as He promised you, be very careful, therefore,

to love the Lord your God, for if you turn back and cling to the remnant of these nations

remaining among you, and make marriages with them, so that you associate with them and they with you,

know for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you,

but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes,

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