Joshua 23:2-11

2that 1Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders, their heads, 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 2the Lord your God is He who has been fighting for you.

4See, 3I have apportioned to you these nations which remain as an inheritance for your tribes, with all the nations which I have eliminated, from the Jordan even to the Great Sea toward the 4west.

5And the Lord your God, He will thrust them away from you and 56drive them from you; and 7you will take possession of their land, just as the Lord your God 8promised you.

69Be very determined, then, to keep and do everything that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, so that you will not turn aside from it to the right or to the left,

7so that you will not 10associate with these nations, these which remain with you, or 11mention the name of their gods, or 12make anyone swear by them, or 13serve them, or bow down to them.

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

914For the Lord has 15driven out great and mighty nations from before you; and as for you, 16no one has stood against you to this day.

1017One of your men puts to flight a thousand, for the Lord your God is 18He who fights for you, just as He 19promised you.

11So take great care for yourselves that you love the Lord your God.