Review of Israel’s History Joshua 24:1–13 1 Joshua 24:1. Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.2 Joshua 24:2. And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.3 Joshua 24:3. But I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,4 Joshua 24:4. and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau Mount Seir to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.5 Joshua 24:5. Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I afflicted the Egyptians by what I did there, and afterward I brought you out.6 Joshua 24:6. When I brought your fathers out of Egypt and you reached the Red Sea, the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and horsemen as far as the Red Sea.7 Joshua 24:7. So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.8 Joshua 24:8. Later, I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan. They fought against you, but I delivered them into your hand, that you should possess their land when I destroyed them before you.9 Joshua 24:9. Then Balak son of Zippor, the king of Moab, set out to fight against Israel. He sent for Balaam son of Beor to curse you,10 Joshua 24:10. but I would not listen to Balaam. So he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you from his hand.11 Joshua 24:11. After this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand.12 Joshua 24:12. I sent the hornet ahead of you, and it drove out the two Amorite kings before you, but not by your own sword or bow.13 Joshua 24:13. So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities that you did not build, and now you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.’
The Covenant Renewal Joshua 24:14–28 14 Joshua 24:14. Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.15 Joshua 24:15. But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”16 Joshua 24:16. The people replied, “Far be it from us to forsake the LORD to serve other gods!17 Joshua 24:17. For the LORD our God brought us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and performed these great signs before our eyes. He also protected us throughout our journey and among all the nations through which we traveled.18 Joshua 24:18. And the LORD drove out before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. We too will serve the LORD, because He is our God!”19 Joshua 24:19. But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD, for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.20 Joshua 24:20. If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, He will turn and bring disaster on you and consume you, even after He has been good to you.”21 Joshua 24:21. “No!” replied the people. “We will serve the LORD!”22 Joshua 24:22. Then Joshua told them, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD.” “We are witnesses!” they said.23 Joshua 24:23. “Now, therefore,” he said, “get rid of the foreign gods among you and incline your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel.”24 Joshua 24:24. So the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God and obey His voice.”25 Joshua 24:25. On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance.26 Joshua 24:26. Joshua recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak that was near the sanctuary of the LORD.27 Joshua 24:27. And Joshua said to all the people, “You see this stone. It will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words the LORD has spoken to us, and it will be a witness against you if you ever deny your God.”28 Joshua 24:28. Then Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.
Burial of Three Leaders Joshua 24:29 29 Joshua 24:29. Some time later, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110.30 Joshua 24:30. And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.31 Joshua 24:31. Israel had served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had experienced all the works that the LORD had done for Israel.32 Joshua 24:32. And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So it became an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.33 Joshua 24:33. Eleazar son of Aaron also died, and they buried him at Gibeah, which had been given to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim.
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