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Joshua
Reviews Israel's History |
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| Joshua 24:1 |
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Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel
to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel and for their heads and their
judges and their officers; and they presented themselves before God. |
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| Joshua 24:2 |
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Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the
LORD, the God of Israel, 'From ancient times your fathers lived beyond the River,
namely, 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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Then I took your father Abraham from beyond
the River, and led him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants
and gave him Isaac. |
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| Joshua 24:4 |
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To Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau, and to Esau
I gave Mount Seir to possess it; but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt. |
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| Joshua 24:5 |
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Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt
by what I did in its midst; and afterward I brought you out. |
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| Joshua 24:6 |
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I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you
came to the sea; and Egypt pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to
the Red Sea. |
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| Joshua 24:7 |
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But when they cried out to the LORD, He put
darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them and covered
them; and your own eyes saw what I did in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness
for a long time. |
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| Joshua 24:8 |
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Then I brought you into the land of the Amorites
who lived beyond the Jordan, and they fought with you; and I gave them into your
hand, and you took possession of their land when I destroyed them 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 summoned Balaam the son of Beor
to curse you. |
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| Joshua 24:10 |
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But I was not willing to listen to Balaam. So
he had to bless you, and I delivered you from his hand. |
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| Joshua 24:11 |
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You crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho;
and the citizens of Jericho fought against you, and the Amorite and the Perizzite
and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Girgashite, the Hivite and the Jebusite.
Thus I gave them into your hand. |
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| Joshua 24:12 |
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Then I sent the hornet before you and it drove
out the two kings of the Amorites from before you, but not by your sword or your
bow. |
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| Joshua 24:13 |
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I gave you a land on which you had not labored,
and cities which you had not built, and you have lived in them; you are eating
of vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.' |
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"We
Will Serve the LORD" |
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| Joshua 24:14 |
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"Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him
in sincerity and truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond
the River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD. |
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| Joshua 24:15 |
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If it is disagreeable in your sight to serve
the LORD, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which
your fathers served which were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites in
whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD." |
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| Joshua 24:16 |
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The people answered and said, "Far be it from
us that we should forsake the LORD to serve other gods; |
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| Joshua 24:17 |
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for the LORD our God is He who brought us and
our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did
these great signs in our sight and preserved us through all the way in which we
went and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed. |
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| Joshua 24:18 |
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The LORD drove out from before us all the peoples,
even the Amorites who lived in the land. We also will serve the LORD, for He is
our God." |
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| Joshua 24:19 |
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Then Joshua said to the people, "You will not
be able to serve the LORD, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will
not forgive your transgression or your sins. |
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| Joshua 24:20 |
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If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods,
then He will turn and do you harm and consume you after He has done good to you." |
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| Joshua 24:21 |
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The people said to Joshua, "No, but we will
serve the LORD." |
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| Joshua 24:22 |
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Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses
against yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves the LORD, to serve Him."
And they said, "We are witnesses." |
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| Joshua 24:23 |
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"Now therefore, put away the foreign gods which
are in your midst, and incline your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel." |
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| Joshua 24:24 |
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The people said to Joshua, "We will serve the
LORD our God and we will obey His voice." |
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| Joshua 24:25 |
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So Joshua made a covenant with the people that
day, and made for 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 large stone and set it up there under the oak that
was by the sanctuary of the LORD. |
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| Joshua 24:27 |
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Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this
stone shall be for a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of the
LORD which He spoke to us; thus it shall be for a witness against you, so that
you do not deny your God." |
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| Joshua 24:28 |
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Then Joshua dismissed the people, each to his
inheritance. |
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Joshua's
Death and Burial |
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| Joshua 24:29 |
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It came about after these things that Joshua
the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred and ten years
old. |
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| Joshua 24:30 |
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And they buried him in the territory of his
inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the
north of Mount Gaash. |
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| Joshua 24:31 |
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Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua
and all the days of the elders who survived Joshua, and had known all the deeds
of the LORD which He had done for Israel. |
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| Joshua 24:32 |
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Now they buried the bones of Joseph, which
the sons of Israel brought up from Egypt, at Shechem, in the piece of ground which
Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for one hundred
pieces of money; and they became the inheritance of Joseph's sons. |
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| Joshua 24:33 |
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And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they
buried him at Gibeah of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country
of Ephraim. |
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