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Joshua 23 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

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Joshua Calls All Israel

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:1 -

Now it happened after many days, after Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all their enemies [fn]on every side, and Joshua was old, advanced in years,

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:2 - that Joshua 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:3 - “And you have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations because of you, for Yahweh your God is He who has been fighting for you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:4 - “See, I have allotted 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.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:5 - “And Yahweh your God, He will thrust them out from before you and dispossess them before you; and you will possess their land, just as Yahweh your God [fn]promised you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:6 - “Be very strong, then, to keep and to 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,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:7 - so that you will not go along with these nations, these which remain among you, and you will not mention the name of their gods, and you will not make anyone swear by them, and you will not serve them, and you will not bow down to them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:8 - “But you are to cling to Yahweh your God, as you have done to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:9 - “For Yahweh has dispossessed great and mighty nations from before you; and as for you, no man has stood before you to this day.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:10 - “One of your men will pursue one thousand, for Yahweh your God is He who fights for you, just as He [fn]promised you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:11 - “So keep your souls very carefully to love Yahweh your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:12 - “For if you ever turn back and cling to the rest of these nations, these which remain among you, and intermarry with them, so that you go along with them and they with you,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:13 - know with certainty that Yahweh your God will not continue to dispossess these nations from before you; but they will be a snare and a trap to you and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:14 -

“Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one word of all the good words which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you has failed; all have come to pass for you; not one word of them has failed.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:15 - “And it will be that just as all the good words which Yahweh your God spoke to you have come upon you, so Yahweh will bring upon you all the calamitous words, until He has destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:16 - “When you trespass against the covenant of Yahweh your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of Yahweh will burn against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which He has given you.”
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