Joshua 23 Free Bible Version
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1 A long time later, after the Lord had given peace to the Israelites from conflict with their enemies around them, Joshua, by now really old,
1 After many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,
2 summoned all the Israelites—the elders, leaders, judges, and officials—and told them, “I'm old, getting on in years.
2 Joshua 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.
3 You've seen everything the Lord your God has done to all the nations on your behalf—the Lord your God has been fighting for you.
3 You 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.
4 I have allotted the land of the remaining nations for you to own, as well as the nations already conquered, from the Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea.
4 Behold, 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.
5 The Lord your God will make them retreat from you. He will drive them out before you and you will take possession of their land, as the Lord your God promised you.
5 Yahweh 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.
6 Be sure to observe everything that is written in the book of the Law of Moses. Don't stray from it, either to the left or to the right.
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;
7 Don't associate with the nations that are left. Don't mention the names of their gods, and don't swear by them, worship them, or bow down to them.
7 that 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;
8 Stay close to the Lord your God, as you have done up to now.
8 but hold fast to Yahweh your God, as you have done to this day.
9 The Lord has driven out strong, powerful nations before you. No one has been able to stand up to you to this day.
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.
10 Just one of you can chase away a thousand enemies, for the Lord your God is fighting for you, as he promised you.
10 One man of you shall chase a thousand; for it is Yahweh your God who fights for you, as he spoke to you.
11 Take great care to love the Lord your God.
11 Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.
12 For if you do turn from him, and adopt the ways of the nations that are left, if you intermarry with them, associating with one another,
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;
13 you can be absolutely sure that the Lord your God will definitely not drive out these nations before you. On the contrary, they will be a trap and a snare to you, a whip on your back and thorns in your eyes until you die out completely from this good land the Lord your God has given you.
13 know 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.
14 Now I am about to die, which is the fate of every living thing on the earth. Deep down you know that not a single one of the Lord's good promises has failed. Everything has come true. Not a single one has failed.
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.
15 But in the same way that you received all the good things that the Lord your God promised, the Lord will bring on you all the bad things he has threatened until you're completely wiped out from this good land the Lord your God has given to you.
15 It 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,
16 If you break the agreement the Lord your God made with you, and you go and worship other gods, bowing down before them, then the Lord will become angry with you, and you will be quickly wiped out from the good land he has given you.”
16 when 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 (16)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Joshua 13:1; Joshua 21:44; Joshua 11:23; Psalm 46:9; Genesis 25:8
- 2 Joshua 24:1; 1 Chronicles 28:1; Deuteronomy 31:28; Acts 20:17–35
- 3 Exodus 14:14; Joshua 10:42; Joshua 10:14; Malachi 1:5; Psalm 44:1–3
- 4 Joshua 18:10; Joshua 13:6–7; Joshua 13:2
- 5 Exodus 33:2; Joshua 13:6; Exodus 34:11; Deuteronomy 11:23; Numbers 33:52–53
- 6 Deuteronomy 28:14; Deuteronomy 5:32; Hebrews 12:4; Joshua 1:7–9; Ephesians 6:10–19
- 7 Exodus 23:13; Psalm 16:4; Deuteronomy 7:2–3; Jeremiah 5:7; Joshua 23:12
- 8 Deuteronomy 10:20; Joshua 22:5; Deuteronomy 13:4; Deuteronomy 11:22; Acts 11:23
- 9 Joshua 1:5; Deuteronomy 11:23; Joshua 23:5; Exodus 23:30; Joshua 1:8–9
- 10 Deuteronomy 32:30; Leviticus 26:8; Deuteronomy 3:22; Exodus 14:14; Psalm 35:1
- 11 Joshua 22:5; Deuteronomy 6:5–12; Romans 8:28; Jude 20–21; 1 Corinthians 8:3
- 12 Deuteronomy 7:3; Zephaniah 1:6; Ezekiel 18:24; Isaiah 1:4; Genesis 2:24
- 13 Deuteronomy 7:16; Numbers 33:55; Exodus 23:33; Judges 2:2–3; 2 Kings 17:22–23
- 14 Luke 21:33; 1 Kings 2:2; Leviticus 26:3–13; Joshua 21:43–45; Ecclesiastes 9:10
- 15 Deuteronomy 28:15–68; 1 Thessalonians 2:16; Judges 13:1; 2 Chronicles 36:16–17; Leviticus 26:14–46
- 16 Deuteronomy 4:25–26; 2 Kings 24:20
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