Dual PanelJoshua's farewell and death
1A LONG time had passed since the LORD had given Israel security from all their enemies around them, and Joshua was now very old.
2He summoned all Israel, their elders and heads of families, their judges and officers, and said to them, “I am now an old man, far advanced in years.
3You have seen for yourselves everything the LORD your God has done to all these peoples for your sake; it was the LORD God himself who fought for you.
4I have allotted to you tribe by tribe your holdings, the land of all the peoples that I have wiped out and of all these that remain between the Jordan and the Great Sea which lies towards the setting sun.
5The LORD your God himself drove them out at your approach; he dispossessed them to make way for you, and you occupied their land, as the LORD your God had promised you.
6“Be very resolute therefore to observe and perform everything written in the book of the law of Moses, without swerving either to the right or to the left.
7You must not associate with these peoples that are still here among you; you must not invoke their gods or swear by them or bow down to them in worship.
8You must hold fast to the LORD your God as you have done up to this day.
9“The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you; to this day not a man of them has withstood you.
10One of you can rout a thousand, because the LORD your God fights for you, as he promised.
11For your own sakes be very careful to love the LORD your God.
12But if you do turn away and attach yourselves to the peoples still remaining among you, and intermarry with them and associate with them and they with you,
13then be sure that the LORD will not continue to drive out those peoples from before you. They will be snares to entrap you, whips for your backs, and barbed hooks in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
14“Now, as you see, I am going the way of all mortals. You know in your heart of hearts, all of you, that nothing the LORD your God promised you has failed to come true, not one word of it.
15But the same LORD God who has kept his word to you to such good effect can equally bring every kind of evil on you, until he has rooted you out from this good land which he has given you.
16If you violate the covenant which the LORD your God has laid upon you and go and serve other gods and worship them, then the LORD's anger will be roused against you and the good land he has given you will soon see you no more.”