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Joshua 24:1
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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. |
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| Joshua 24:2 |
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And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith
Jehovah, the God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt of old time beyond the River, even
Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.
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| Joshua 24:3 |
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And I took your father Abraham from beyond the
River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed,
and gave him Isaac. |
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| Joshua 24:4 |
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And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I
gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it: and Jacob and his children went down
into Egypt. |
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| Joshua 24:5 |
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And I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt,
according to that which I did in the midst thereof: and afterward I brought you
out. |
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| Joshua 24:6 |
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And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and
ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots
and with horsemen unto the Red Sea. |
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| Joshua 24:7 |
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And when they cried out unto Jehovah, he put
darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered
them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness many
days. |
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| Joshua 24:8 |
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And I brought you into the land of the Amorites,
that dwelt beyond the Jordan: and they fought with you; and I gave them into your
hand, and ye possessed their land; and I destroyed them from before you. |
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| Joshua 24:9 |
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Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab,
arose and fought against Israel: and he sent and called Baalim the son of Beor
to curse you; |
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| Joshua 24:10 |
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but I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore
he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand. |
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| Joshua 24:11 |
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And ye went over the Jordan, and came unto Jericho:
and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, and the Perizzite, and
the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite;
and I delivered them into your hand. |
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| Joshua 24:12 |
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And I sent the hornet before you, which drove
them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with thy sword,
nor with thy bow. |
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| Joshua 24:13 |
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And I gave you a land whereon thou hadst not
labored, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell therein; of vineyards and
oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat. |
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| Joshua 24:14 |
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Now therefore fear Jehovah, and serve him in
sincerity and in truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond
the River, and in Egypt; and serve ye Jehovah. |
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| Joshua 24:15 |
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And if it seem evil unto you to serve Jehovah,
choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served
that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell:
but as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah. |
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| Joshua 24:16 |
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And the people answered and said, Far be it
from us that we should forsake Jehovah, to serve other gods; |
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| Joshua 24:17 |
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for Jehovah our God, he it is that brought us
and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and that
did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we
went, and among all the peoples through the midst of whom we passed; |
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| Joshua 24:18 |
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and Jehovah drove out from before us all the
peoples, even the Amorites that dwelt in the land: therefore we also will serve
Jehovah; for he is our God. |
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| Joshua 24:19 |
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And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve
Jehovah; for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgression
nor your sins. |
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| Joshua 24:20 |
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If ye forsake Jehovah, and serve foreign gods,
then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after that he hath done you
good. |
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| Joshua 24:21 |
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And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we
will serve Jehovah. |
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| Joshua 24:22 |
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And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses
against yourselves that ye have chosen you Jehovah, to serve him. And they said,
We are witnesses. |
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| Joshua 24:23 |
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Now therefore put away, said he, the foreign
gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto Jehovah, the God of Israel.
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| Joshua 24:24 |
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And the people said unto Joshua, Jehovah our
God will we serve, and unto his voice will we hearken. |
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| Joshua 24:25 |
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So Joshua made a covenant with the people that
day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. |
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| Joshua 24:26 |
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And Joshua wrote these words in the book of
the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that
was by the sanctuary of Jehovah. |
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| Joshua 24:27 |
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And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold,
this stone shall be a witness against us; for it hath heard all the words of Jehovah
which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness against you, lest ye deny
your God. |
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| Joshua 24:28 |
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So Joshua sent the people away, every man unto
his inheritance. |
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| Joshua 24:29 |
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And it came to pass after these things, that
Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died, being a hundred and ten years
old. |
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| Joshua 24:30 |
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And they buried him in the border of his inheritance
in Timnathserah, which is in the hill-country of Ephraim, on the north of the
mountain of Gaash. |
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| Joshua 24:31 |
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And Israel served Jehovah all the days of Joshua,
and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, and had known all the work
of Jehovah, that he had wrought for Israel. |
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| Joshua 24:32 |
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And the bones of Joseph, which the children
of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in the parcel of ground
which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces
of money: and they became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. |
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| Joshua 24:33 |
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And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they
buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill-country
of Ephraim. |
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