Joshua 23

1After many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,Cross-references: Gen 25:8 · Deut 31:2 · Josh 11:23 · Josh 13:1 · Josh 21:44 · Josh 22:4 · +1 more

2Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, “I am old and well advanced in years.Cross-references: Deut 31:28 · Josh 24:1 · 1Chr 28:1 · Acts 20:17

3You have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is Yahweh your God who has fought for you.Cross-references: Ex 14:14 · Deut 4:9 · Deut 20:4 · Josh 10:14 · Josh 10:42 · Ps 44:1 · +1 more

4Behold, I have allotted to you these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea toward the going down of the sun.Cross-references: Josh 13:2 · Josh 13:6 · Josh 18:10

5Yahweh your God will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight. You shall possess their land, as Yahweh your God spoke to you.Cross-references: Ex 23:30 · Ex 33:2 · Ex 34:11 · Num 33:52 · Deut 11:23 · Josh 13:6 · +1 more

6“Therefore be very courageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that you not turn away from it to the right hand or to the left;Cross-references: Deut 5:32 · Deut 12:32 · Deut 17:20 · Deut 28:14 · Josh 1:7 · Prov 4:26 · +5 more

7that you not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them;Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · Ex 23:13 · Ex 23:33 · Num 32:38 · Deut 7:2 · Josh 23:12 · +8 more

8but hold fast to Yahweh your God, as you have done to this day.Cross-references: Deut 4:4 · Deut 10:20 · Deut 11:22 · Deut 13:4 · Josh 22:5 · Acts 11:23

9“For Yahweh has driven great and strong nations out from before you. But as for you, no man has stood before you to this day.Cross-references: Ex 23:30 · Deut 7:24 · Deut 11:23 · Josh 1:5 · Josh 1:8 · Josh 15:14 · +2 more

10One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.Cross-references: Ex 14:14 · Ex 23:27 · Lev 26:8 · Deut 3:22 · Deut 20:4 · Deut 32:30 · +12 more

11Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.Cross-references: Ex 20:6 · Deut 4:9 · Deut 6:5 · Josh 22:5 · Prov 4:23 · Luke 21:34 · +6 more

12“But if you do at all go back, and hold fast to the remnant of these nations, even these who remain among you, and make marriages with them, and go in to them, and they to you;Cross-references: Gen 2:24 · Gen 34:3 · Ex 34:12 · Deut 7:3 · 1Sam 18:1 · 1Ki 11:2 · +17 more

13know for a certainty that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations from out of your sight; but they shall be a snare and a trap to you, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.Cross-references: Ex 23:33 · Lev 26:31 · Num 33:55 · Deut 4:26 · Deut 7:16 · Deut 28:63 · +11 more

14“Behold, today I am going the way of all the earth. You know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. All have happened to you. Not one thing has failed of it.Cross-references: Ex 3:8 · Ex 23:27 · Lev 26:3 · Num 23:19 · Deut 28:1 · Josh 21:43 · +8 more

15It shall happen that as all the good things have come on you of which Yahweh your God spoke to you, so Yahweh will bring on you all the evil things, until he has destroyed you from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you,Cross-references: Lev 26:14 · Deut 28:15 · Judg 3:8 · Judg 3:12 · Judg 4:1 · Judg 6:1 · +5 more

16when you disobey the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them. Then Yahweh’s anger will be kindled against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you.”Cross-references: Deut 4:25 · 2Ki 24:20