Joshua:24
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And Joshua convened 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 to 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 Nahor :
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 to Isaac Jacob and Esau :
and I gave to 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 to the sea ;
and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red sea .
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And when they cried to 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 ,
who dwelt on the other side of 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 to 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 to 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 drove 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 labor ,
and cities which ye built not ,
and ye dwell in them ;
of the vineyards and olive-yards 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 seemeth evil to 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 ,
Be it far from us 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 ,
and our fathers ,
out of the land of Egypt ,
from the house of bondage ,
and who did those great signs in our sight ,
and preserved us in all the way in which we went ,
and among all the people through whom we passed :
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And the LORD drove out from before us all the people ,
even the Amorites who dwelt in the land :
therefore will we also serve the LORD ;
for he is our God .
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And Joshua said to the people ,
Ye cannot serve the LORD :
for he is a 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 to Joshua ,
No ;
but we will serve the LORD .
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And Joshua said to 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 to the LORD God of Israel .
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And the people said to 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 to all the people ,
Behold ,
this stone shall be a witness to us ;
for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spoke to us ,
it shall be therefore a witness to you ,
lest ye deny your God .
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So Joshua let the people depart ,
every man to 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 a hundred and ten years old .
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And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah ,
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 outlived Joshua ,
and who 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 out of Egypt ,
they buried in Shechem ,
in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a 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 .