Joshua:24

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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 . * And Joshua said unto all the people , Thus saith the LORD God of Israel , Your fathers 1 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * I sent Moses also and Aaron , and I plagued Egypt , according to that which I did among them : and afterward I brought you out . * And I brought your fathers 1 out of Egypt : and ye came unto the sea ; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers 1 with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 : * But I would not hearken unto Balaam ; therefore he blessed you still : so I delivered you out of his hand . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * Now therefore fear the LORD , and serve him in sincerity and in truth : and put away the gods which your fathers 1 served on the other side of the flood , and in Egypt ; and serve ye the LORD . * 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 1 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 . * And the people answered and said , God forbid that we should forsake the LORD , to serve other gods ; * For the LORD our God , he (it is ) that brought us up and our fathers 1 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 : * 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 . * 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 . * 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 . * And the people said unto Joshua , Nay ; but we will serve the LORD . * 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 . * Now therefore put away , (said he ), the strange gods which (are ) among you , and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel . * And the people said unto Joshua , The LORD our God will we serve , and his voice will we obey . * So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day , and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem . * 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 . * 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 . * So Joshua let the people depart , every man unto his inheritance . * 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 . * 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 . * 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 .(overlived : Heb . prolonged their days after Joshua ) * 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 1 of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver : and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph .(pieces : or , lambs ) * 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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