Joshua 23:2-11

2One day, Joshua called all the leaders to meet with him. They were the leaders of Israel's tribes and clans, the judges and the officers. He said to them, ‘I am now very old.

3You yourselves have seen what the Lord has done to these other nations. It was the Lord who fought against them on your behalf.

4Remember how I have given land to each of your tribes. The land is between the Jordan River in the east, and the Mediterranean Sea in the west. It is land that belonged to different nations. Some of those people we have chased away, but some of them still remain in the land.

5The Lord himself will chase those people out of the land, so that you can live there. The Lord your God has promised you all this.

6Be very strong. Be careful that you obey everything that Moses wrote in the Book of the Law. Do not turn away from any of those rules.

7Do not become friends of the nations that live near you. Do not call out to their gods. Do not use the names of their gods to make a promise. You must not serve them or worship them.

8But you must always serve the Lord your God, as you have until now.

9The Lord has chased out in front of you nations that are great and strong. None of them has been strong enough to win against you.

10Because the Lord your God fights on your behalf, one of you can chase away 1,000 men! The Lord has promised to do this for you.

11You must be very careful that you continue to love the Lord your God.