Joshua · Unlocked Literal Bible
Joshua 23 Unlocked Literal Bible
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1 After many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all their enemies that around them, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years.
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 Joshua called for all Israel—for their elders, for their leaders, for their judges, and for their officers—and he said to them, “I am very old.
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 have seen everything that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations for your sake, for it is Yahweh your God who has fought 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 Look! I have assigned to you the nations that remain to be conquered as an inheritance for your tribes, along with all the nations I have already destroyed, from the Jordan to the Great Sea in the west.
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 Yahweh your God will drive them out. He will push them out from you. He will seize their land, and you will take possession of their land, just as Yahweh your God promised to 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 So be very strong, so that you keep and do all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, turning aside from it neither to the right hand nor to the left,
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 so you may not mix with these nations that remain among you or mention the names of their gods, 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 Instead, you must cling to Yahweh your God just as you have done to this day.
8 but hold fast to Yahweh your God, as you have done to this day.
9 For Yahweh has driven out before you large, strong nations. As for you, no one has been able to stand before you to this present 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 Any single man of your number will make a thousand run away, for Yahweh your God, is the one who fights for you, just 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 Pay particular attention, so that you love Yahweh your God.
11 Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.
12 But if you turn back and cling to the survivors of these nations who remain among you, or if you intermarry with them, or if you come together with them and they with you,
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 then know for certain that Yahweh your God will no longer drive these nations out from among you. Instead, they will become a snare and a trap for you, whips on your backs and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that Yahweh 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 going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your hearts and souls that not one word has failed to come true of all the good things that Yahweh your God promised about you. All these things have come about for you. Not one of them 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 just as every word Yahweh your God promised you has been fulfilled, so Yahweh will bring on you all the evil things until he has destroyed you from this good land that Yahweh your God has given 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 He will do this if you break the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you to keep. If you go and worship other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you, and you will quickly perish from the good land that 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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