Joshua 23:1-11

1Now it came about after many days, when the Lord had given 1rest to Israel from all their enemies 2on every side, and Joshua was old, advanced in years,

2that 3Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and their heads and their judges and their officers, and said to them, “I am old, advanced in years.

3And you have seen all that the Lord your God has done to all these nations because of you, for 4the Lord your God is He who has been fighting for you.

4See, 5I have apportioned to you these nations which remain as an inheritance for your tribes, with all the nations which I have cut off, from the Jordan even to the Great Sea toward the setting of the sun.

5The Lord your God, He will thrust them out from before you and 67drive them from before you; and 8you will possess their land, just as the Lord your God 9promised you.

610Be very firm, then, to keep and do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, so that you may not turn aside from it to the right hand or to the left,

7so that you will not 11associate with these nations, these which remain among you, or 12mention the name of their gods, or 13make anyone swear by them, or 14serve them, or bow down to them.

8But you are to cling to the Lord your God, as you have done to this day.

915For the Lord has 16driven out great and strong nations from before you; and as for you, 17no man has stood before you to this day.

1018One of your men puts to flight a thousand, for the Lord your God is 19He who fights for you, just as He 20promised you.

11So take diligent heed to yourselves to love the Lord your God.