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Joshua chapter 23

A long time after Yahweh had given Israel from all their on every side, Joshua—now old and well along in years—called together all of Israel—their , leaders, , and officials—and said to them: “I’m old now. I’ve lived a long life.You’ve seen with your own eyes everything Yahweh your God has done to all these nations for your sake. Yahweh your God—He’s the one who .Look—I’ve allotted to you as an for your tribes all the territory of the nations that are left, along with all the nations I’ve already , from the Jordan to the in the west.Yahweh your God—He will ahead of you and drive them away from you. And you will take over their land, just as Yahweh your God promised you.So be very strong—hold tight to everything written in the book of the of Moses, and do everything it says. .Don’t these nations that are still among you. Don’t , don’t swear by them, don’t serve them, and don’t to them.Instead, Yahweh your God—exactly as you’ve been doing up to today.Yahweh has great and powerful nations ahead of you. To this day, no one has been able to .One man among you can , because Yahweh your God—He’s the one fighting for you, just as He promised.So — Yahweh your God.But if you do turn away and what’s left of these nations—the ones still living among you—and if you with them and mix in with them and they with you,then know for certain that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations out ahead of you. Instead, they’ll become a and a for you, a and , until you disappear from this good land that Yahweh your God has given you.“Look—today I’m . And you know—, every single one of you knows—that not one good thing out of everything Yahweh your God promised you has failed to happen. Every single one came true for you. Not one word has failed.But just as every good thing Yahweh your God promised you has come true, Yahweh can also bring every on you until He’s this good land that Yahweh your God has given you.If you break the of Yahweh your God that He commanded you to keep, and go serve other gods and bow down to them, then against you, and you’ll quickly from the good land He’s given you.”