23:1 Now it came about after many days, when the LORD had given rest to Israel from all their enemies on every side, and Joshua was old, advanced in years,
23:2 that Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders, their heads, their judges, and their officers, and said to them, “I am old, advanced in years.
23:3 And you have seen all that the LORD your God has done to all these nations because of you, for the LORD your God is He who has been fighting for you.
23:4 See, I have apportioned to you these nations which remain as an inheritance for your tribes, with all the nations which I have eliminated, from the Jordan even to the Great Sea toward the ①west.
▷ ①Lit sunset
23:5 And the LORD your God, He will thrust them away from you and ①drive them from you; and you will take possession of their land, just as the LORD your God ②promised you.
▷ ①Or dispossess ②Lit spoke to
23:6 Be very determined, then, to keep and do everything that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, so that you will not turn aside from it to the right or to the left,
23:7 so that you will not ①associate with these nations, these which remain with you, or mention the name of their gods, or make anyone swear by them, or serve them, or bow down to them.
▷ ①Lit come among
23:8 But you are to cling to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day.
23:9 For the LORD has ①driven out great and mighty nations from before you; and as for you, no one has stood against you to this day.
▷ ①Or dispossessed
23:10 One of your men puts to flight a thousand, for the LORD your God is He who fights for you, just as He ①promised you.
▷ ①Lit spoke to
23:11 So take great care for yourselves that you love the LORD your God.
23:12 For if you ever go back and cling to the rest of these nations, these which remain with you, and intermarry with them, so that you ①associate with them and they with you,
▷ ①Lit come among
23:13 know with certainty that the LORD your God will not continue to ①drive these nations out from before you; but they will be a snare and a trap to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
▷ ①Or dispossess
23:14 “Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one word of all the good words which the LORD your God spoke concerning you has failed; they all have ①been fulfilled for you, not ②one of them has failed.
▷ ①Lit come ②Lit one word
23:15 But it will come about that just as all the good words which the LORD your God spoke to you have come upon you, so the LORD will bring upon you ①all the warnings, until He has eliminated you from this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
▷ ①Lit every bad word
23:16 When you violate the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and you go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will perish quickly from the good land which He has given you.”