Joshua:23-24
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And it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about ,
that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age .
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And Joshua called for all Israel ,
and for their elders ,
and for their heads ,
and for their judges ,
and for their officers ,
and said unto them ,
I am old and stricken in age :
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And ye have seen all that the LORD your God hath done unto all these nations because of you ;
for the LORD your God is he that hath fought for you .
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Behold ,
I have divided unto you by lot these nations that remain ,
to be an inheritance for your tribes ,
from Jordan ,
with all the nations that I have cut off ,
even unto the great sea westward .
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And the LORD your God ,
he shall expel them from before you ,
and drive them from out of your sight ;
and ye shall possess their land ,
as the LORD your God hath promised unto you .
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Be ye therefore very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses ,
that ye turn not aside therefrom to the right hand or to the left ;
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That ye come not among these nations ,
these that remain among you ;
neither make mention of the name of their gods ,
nor cause to swear by them ,
neither serve them ,
nor bow yourselves unto them :
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But cleave unto the LORD your God ,
as ye have done unto this day .
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For the LORD hath driven out from before you great nations and strong :
but as for you ,
no man hath been able to stand before you unto this day .
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One man of you shall chase a thousand :
for the LORD your God ,
he it is that fighteth for you ,
as he hath promised you .
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Take good heed therefore unto yourselves ,
that ye love the LORD your God .
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Else if ye do in any wise go back ,
and cleave unto the remnant of these nations ,
even these that remain among you ,
and shall make marriages with them ,
and go in unto them ,
and they to you :
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Know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you ;
but they shall be snares and traps unto you ,
and scourges in your sides ,
and thorns in your eyes ,
until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you .
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And ,
behold ,
this day I am going the way of all the earth :
and ye know in all your hearts and in all your souls ,
that not one thing hath failed of all the good things which the LORD your God spake concerning you ;
all are come to pass unto you ,
and not one thing hath failed thereof .
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Therefore it shall come to pass ,
that as all good things are come upon you ,
which the LORD your God promised you ;
so shall the LORD bring upon you all evil things ,
until he have destroyed you from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you .
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When ye have transgressed the covenant of the LORD your God ,
which he commanded you ,
and have gone and served other gods ,
and bowed yourselves to them ;
then shall the anger of the LORD be kindled against you ,
and ye shall perish quickly from off the good land which he hath given unto you .
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And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem ,
and called for the elders of Israel ,
and for their heads ,
and for their judges ,
and for their officers ;
and they presented themselves before God .
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And Joshua said unto all the people ,
Thus saith the LORD God of Israel ,
Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time ,
even Terah ,
the father of Abraham ,
and the father of Nachor :
and they served other gods .
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And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood ,
and led him throughout all the land of Canaan ,
and multiplied his seed ,
and gave him Isaac .
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And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau :
and I gave unto Esau mount Seir ,
to possess it ;
but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt .
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I sent Moses also and Aaron ,
and I plagued Egypt ,
according to that which I did among them :
and afterward I brought you out .
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And I brought your fathers out of Egypt :
and ye came unto the sea ;
and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea .
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And when they cried unto the LORD ,
he put darkness between you and the Egyptians ,
and brought the sea upon them ,
and covered them ;
and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt :
and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season .
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And I brought you into the land of the Amorites ,
which dwelt on the other side Jordan ;
and they fought with you :
and I gave them into your hand ,
that ye might possess their land ;
and I destroyed them from before you .
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Then Balak the son of Zippor ,
king of Moab ,
arose and warred against Israel ,
and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you :
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But I would not hearken unto Balaam ;
therefore he blessed you still :
so I delivered you out of his hand .
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And ye went over Jordan ,
and came unto Jericho :
and the men of Jericho fought against you ,
the Amorites ,
and the Perizzites ,
and the Canaanites ,
and the Hittites ,
and the Girgashites ,
the Hivites ,
and the Jebusites ;
and I delivered them into your hand .
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And I sent the hornet before you ,
which drave them out from before you ,
even the two kings of the Amorites ;
but not with thy sword ,
nor with thy bow .
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And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour ,
and cities which ye built not ,
and ye dwell in them ;
of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat .
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Now therefore fear the LORD ,
and serve him in sincerity and in truth :
and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood ,
and in Egypt ;
and serve ye the LORD .
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And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD ,
choose you this day whom ye will serve ;
whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood ,
or the gods of the Amorites ,
in whose land ye dwell :
but as for me and my house ,
we will serve the LORD .
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And the people answered and said ,
God forbid that we should forsake the LORD ,
to serve other gods ;
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For the LORD our God ,
he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt ,
from the house of bondage ,
and which did those great signs in our sight ,
and preserved us in all the way wherein we went ,
and among all the people through whom we passed :
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And the LORD drave out from before us all the people ,
even the Amorites which dwelt in the land :
therefore will we also serve the LORD ;
for he is our God .
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And Joshua said unto the people ,
Ye cannot serve the LORD :
for he is an holy God ;
he is a jealous God ;
he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins .
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If ye forsake the LORD ,
and serve strange gods ,
then he will turn and do you hurt ,
and consume you ,
after that he hath done you good .
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And the people said unto Joshua ,
Nay ;
but we will serve the LORD .
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And Joshua said unto the people ,
Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD ,
to serve him .
And they said ,
We are witnesses .
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Now therefore put away ,
said he ,
the strange gods which are among you ,
and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel .
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And the people said unto Joshua ,
The LORD our God will we serve ,
and his voice will we obey .
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So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day ,
and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem .
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And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God ,
and took a great stone ,
and set it up there under an oak ,
that was by the sanctuary of the LORD .
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And Joshua said unto all the people ,
Behold ,
this stone shall be a witness unto us ;
for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us :
it shall be therefore a witness unto you ,
lest ye deny your God .
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So Joshua let the people depart ,
every man unto his inheritance .
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And it came to pass after these things ,
that Joshua the son of Nun ,
the servant of the LORD ,
died ,
being an hundred and ten years old .
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And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah ,
which is in mount Ephraim ,
on the north side of the hill of Gaash .
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And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua ,
and all the days of the elders that overlived Joshua ,
and which had known all the works of the LORD ,
that he had done for Israel .
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And the bones of Joseph ,
which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt ,
buried they in Shechem ,
in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver :
and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph .
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And Eleazar the son of Aaron died ;
and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phinehas his son ,
which was given him in mount Ephraim .
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Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass ,
that the children of Israel asked the LORD ,
saying ,
Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first ,
to fight against them ?
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And when Joshua had let the people go ,
the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land .
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And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua ,
and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua ,
who had seen all the great works of the LORD ,
that he did for Israel .
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And Joshua the son of Nun ,
the servant of the LORD ,
died ,
being an hundred and ten years old .
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I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died :
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Therefore the LORD left those nations ,
without driving them out hastily ;
neither delivered he them into the hand of Joshua .
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And the cart came into the field of Joshua ,
a Bethshemite ,
and stood there ,
where there was a great stone :
and they clave the wood of the cart ,
and offered the kine a burnt offering unto the LORD .
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And the golden mice ,
according to the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords ,
both of fenced cities ,
and of country villages ,
even unto the great stone of Abel ,
whereon they set down the ark of the LORD :
which stone remaineth unto this day in the field of Joshua ,
the Bethshemite .
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In his days did Hiel the Bethelite build Jericho :
he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn ,
and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub ,
according to the word of the LORD ,
which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun .
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And he brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah ,
and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense ,
from Geba to Beersheba ,
and brake down the high places of the gates that were in the entering in of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city ,
which were on a man '
s left hand at the gate of the city .
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In the second year of Darius the king ,
in the sixth month ,
in the first day of the month ,
came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel ,
governor of Judah ,
and to Joshua the son of Josedech ,
the high priest ,
saying ,
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Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel ,
and Joshua the son of Josedech ,
the high priest ,
with all the remnant of the people ,
obeyed the voice of the LORD their God ,
and the words of Haggai the prophet ,
as the LORD their God had sent him ,
and the people did fear before the LORD .
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And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel ,
governor of Judah ,
and the spirit of Joshua the son of Josedech ,
the high priest ,
and the spirit of all the remnant of the people ;
and they came and did work in the house of the LORD of hosts ,
their God ,
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Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel ,
governor of Judah ,
and to Joshua the son of Josedech ,
the high priest ,
and to the residue of the people ,
saying ,
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Yet now be strong ,
O Zerubbabel ,
saith the LORD ;
and be strong ,
O Joshua ,
son of Josedech ,
the high priest ;
and be strong ,
all ye people of the land ,
saith the LORD ,
and work :
for I am with you ,
saith the LORD of hosts :
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And he shewed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the LORD ,
and Satan standing at his right hand to resist him .
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Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments ,
and stood before the angel .
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And the angel of the LORD protested unto Joshua ,
saying ,
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Hear now ,
O Joshua the high priest ,
thou ,
and thy fellows that sit before thee :
for they are men wondered at :
for ,
behold ,
I will bring forth my servant the BRANCH .
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For behold the stone that I have laid before Joshua ;
upon one stone shall be seven eyes :
behold ,
I will engrave the graving thereof ,
saith the LORD of hosts ,
and I will remove the iniquity of that land in one day .
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Then take silver and gold ,
and make crowns ,
and set them upon the head of Joshua the son of Josedech ,
the high priest ;