Joshua 23

Revised Geneva Translation

23 And long after the LORD had given rest to Israel from all their enemies all around, when Joshua was old and stricken in age,

² then Joshua called all Israel, their elders, and their heads, and their judges, and their officers, and said to them, “I am old and stricken in age.

³ “You have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations before you, how the LORD your God Himself has fought for you.

⁴ “Behold, I have divided to you, by lot, these nations that remain, to be an inheritance according to your tribes, from Jordan, with all the nations that I have destroyed, even to the Great Sea, westward.

⁵ “And the LORD your God shall expel them before you and cast them out of your sight. And you shall possess their land, as the LORD your God has said to you.

⁶ “Be, therefore, of a valiant courage, to observe and do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, so that you do not turn from there to the right hand or to the left,

⁷ “or associate with these nations, with those who are left with you, or make mention of the name of their gods, or swear by them, or serve them, or bow to them.

⁸ “But hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day.

⁹ “For the LORD has cast out before you great nations and mighty; and no man has stood before your face to this day.

¹⁰ “One man of you shall chase a thousand. For the LORD your God, He fights for you, as He has promised you.

¹¹ “Take good heed, therefore, to yourselves, that you love the LORD your God.

¹² “Or else, if you go back and cling to the rest of these nations, of those that remain with you, and make marriages with them, and go to them, and they to you,

¹³ “know for certain that the LORD your God will cast out no more of these nations from before you. But they shall be a snare and destruction to you, and a whip on your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish out of this good land which the LORD your God has given you.

¹⁴ And behold, this day I enter into the way of all the world. And you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that nothing has failed of all the good things which the LORD your God promised you. All has come to pass to you. Nothing of it has failed.

¹⁵ “Therefore, as all good things have come upon you which the LORD your God promised you, so shall the LORD bring upon you every miserable thing, until He has destroyed you out of this good land which the LORD your God has given you.

¹⁶ “When you shall transgress the Covenant of the LORD your God, which He Commanded you, and shall go and serve other gods, and bow yourselves to them, then shall the wrath of the LORD grow hot against you. And you shall quickly perish out of the good land which He has given you.”