THE
BOOK OF JOSHUA
Joshua Chapter 24
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¶ And Joshua gathered all the tribes of
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And Joshua said to all the people, Thus saith the
LORD God of Israel, Long ago your ancestors lived on the other side of the
river, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and Nahor: and they served other gods.
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And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river, and led him
through all the
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And I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau mount Seir, as a possession; but Jacob and his children went down
into
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I also sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued
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And I brought your fathers out of
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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
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And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, who lived on the other side of
the
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Then Balak the son of Zippor,
king of
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But I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you instead: so I
delivered you out of his hand.
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And you crossed the
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And I sent terror ahead of you, which drove them out from before you, even
the two kings of the Amorites; but not with your sword, or with your
bow.
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And I have given you a land for which you did not
labor, and cities which you did not build, and you live in them; and you
eat of vineyards and oliveyards that you did not
plant.
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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 river, and in
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¶ But if you think that it is not good to serve the
LORD, then choose this day whom you will serve; the idols that your fathers
served on the other side of the river, or the idols of the Amorites, in whose
land you 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 it is the LORD our God, who brought us and our fathers out of the
land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage, and who did those great miracles in
our sight, and preserved us all along the way 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
lived in the land: therefore we will also serve the LORD; for he is
our God.
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And Joshua said to the people, You cannot serve the
LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not
overlook your transgressions or your sins.
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If you forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you
harm, and consume you, after he has 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, You are
witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD. And they
said, We are witnesses.
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Then, Joshua said, put away, the strange gods that are among you,
and incline your heart to the LORD God of
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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 made statutes and laws
for them 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 has heard all the words that the LORD spoke to us: therefore it shall be
a witness to you, lest you 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 an hundred and ten
years old.
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And they buried him at the edge of his inheritance in Timnathserah,
which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north side of the hill
of Gaash.
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And
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And they buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up
out of Egypt, in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which
Jacob bought from 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 on the hill of Phinehas his
son, which was given to him in the hill country of Ephraim.