Joshua 23:2-11

2Joshua summoned all Israel, its elders and heads, its judges and officers, and said to them, "I am now old and well advanced in years.

3And 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.

4Behold, 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.

5The 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.

6Therefore, 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,

7that 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,

8but you shall cling to the Lord your God just as you have done to this day.

9For 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.

10One man of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the Lord your God who fights for you, just as he promised you.

11Be very careful, therefore, to love the Lord your God.