Joshua Chapter 24
24:1 | And Joshua gathered all the tribes of ![]() ![]() |
24:2 | And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of ![]() ![]() |
24:3 | And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac. |
24:4 | And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. |
24:5 | I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out. |
24:6 | And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with ![]() |
24:7 | And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season. |
24:8 | And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you. |
24:9 | Then Balak the son of Zippor, ![]() ![]() |
24:10 | But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand. |
24:11 | And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand. |
24:12 | And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, [even] the two ![]() ![]() |
24:13 | And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not ![]() |
24:14 | Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in ![]() |
24:15 | And if it seem ![]() ![]() ![]() |
24:16 | And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods; |
24:17 | For the LORD our God, he [it is] that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the ![]() ![]() |
24:18 | And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: [therefore] will we also serve the LORD; for he [is] our God. |
24:19 | And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he [is] an holy God; he [is] a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. |
24:20 | If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and ![]() |
24:21 | And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD. |
24:22 | And Joshua said unto the people, Ye [are] witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, [We are] witnesses. |
24:23 | Now therefore put away, [said he], the strange gods which [are] among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of ![]() |
24:24 | And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey. |
24:25 | So Joshua made a covenant with the people that ![]() |
24:26 | And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that [was] by the sanctuary of the LORD. |
24:27 | And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God. |
24:28 | So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance. |
24:29 | And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, [being] an hundred and ten years old. |
24:30 | And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which [is] in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash. |
24:31 | And ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
24:32 | And the bones of Joseph, which the children of ![]() |
24:33 | And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill [that pertained to] Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim. |