Joshua 24
Joshua's Farewell
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And Joshua gathered all the tribes of
Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for
their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they
presented themselves before God.
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And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus
saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers
dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, Gen. 11.27 the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they
served other gods.
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And I took your father Abraham from the
other side of the flood, Gen. 12.1-9 and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied
his seed, and gave him Isaac. Gen. 21.1-3
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And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: Gen. 25.24-26 and I gave unto Esau mount Se'ir, to possess it; Gen.
36.8 but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. Gen.
46.1-7
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I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I
plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: Ex.
3.1--12.42 and
afterward I brought you out.
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And I brought your fathers out of Egypt:
and ye came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your
fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.
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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: Ex. 14.1-31 and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.
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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. Num. 21.21-35
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Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of
Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Ba'laam
the son of Be'or to curse you:
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but I would not hearken unto Ba'laam,
therefore he blessed you still: Num. 22.1--24.25 so
I delivered you out of his hand.
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And ye went over Jordan, Josh. 3.14-17 and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against
you, Josh. 6.1-21 the Amorites, and the Per'izzites, and the Canaanites, and
the Hittites, and the Gir'gashites, the Hivites, and the Jeb'usites;
and I delivered them into your hand.
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And I sent the hornet Ex. 23.28 · Deut. 7.20 before you, which drave them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor
with thy bow.
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And I have given you a land for which ye
did not labor, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them;
of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat. Deut. 6.10, 11
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Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth; and put
away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the
flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
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And if it seem evil unto you to serve the
LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve;
whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the
other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land
ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
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And the people answered and said, God
forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to
serve other gods;
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for the LORD our
God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the
land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great
signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went,
and among all the people through whom we passed:
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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.
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And Joshua said unto the people, Ye
cannot serve the LORD: for he is a holy
God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your
transgressions nor your sins.
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If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do
you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you
good.
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And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but
we will serve the LORD.
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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.
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Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart
unto the LORD God of Israel.
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And the people said unto Joshua, The
LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will
we obey.
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So Joshua made a covenant with the people
that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in
Shechem.
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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.
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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.
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So Joshua let the people depart, every
man unto his inheritance.
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The Death of
Joshua |
Judg. 2.6-10 |
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And it came to pass after these things,
that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being a hundred and ten years
old.
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And they buried him in the border of his
inheritance in Tim'nath-se'rah, Josh. 19.49, 50 which is in mount E'phra-im, on the north side of the hill of
Ga'ash.
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And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the
elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of
the LORD, that he had done for
Israel.
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Joseph's Bones Buried
at Shechem |
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And the bones of Joseph, which the
children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, Gen. 50.24, 25 · Ex. 13.19 buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob
bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred
pieces of silver; Gen. 33.19 · Joh. 4.5 · Acts 7.16 and it became the inheritance of the children of
Joseph.
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The Death of
Eleazar |
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And Ele-a'zar the son of Aaron died;
and they buried him in a hill that pertained to Phin'ehas his
son, which was given him in mount E'phra-im.
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