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Joshua 24:1-33 — The Covenant Renewed at Shechem; Death of Joshua

Josh.24.1-33

¹Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem, and he called for the elders of Israel, its heads, its judges, and its officers; and they presented themselves before God. ²And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Long ago your fathers lived beyond the Euphrates River—Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor—and they served other gods. ³Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates River, and I led him through all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his offspring, and I gave him Isaac. ⁴To Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau; and I gave Mount Seir to Esau to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt. ⁵Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I struck Egypt with what I did in its midst; and afterward I brought you out. ⁶When I brought your fathers out of Egypt and you came to the sea, the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea. ⁷And they cried out to the LORD, and he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and he brought the sea upon them and covered them. Your own eyes saw what I did in Egypt, and afterward you lived in the wilderness many days. ⁸Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan. They fought against you, and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you. ⁹Then Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, rose up and fought against Israel, and he sent and called Balaam son of Beor to curse you. ¹⁰But I was not willing to listen to Balaam; indeed, he blessed you, and so I delivered you from his hand. ¹¹Then you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. And the men of Jericho fought against you, along with the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I gave them into your hand. ¹²And I sent the hornet before you, and it drove them out before you—the two kings of the Amorites—not by your sword and not by your bow. ¹³I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities that you had not built, and you dwell in them. You eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.' ¹⁴"Now therefore fear the LORD and serve him in wholeheartedness and truth. Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt, and serve the LORD. ¹⁵But if it seems wrong to you to serve the LORD, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods that your fathers served beyond the Euphrates River, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD." ¹⁶And the people answered, "Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD to serve other gods, ¹⁷for the LORD our God is the one who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and who did these great signs before our eyes, and kept us in all the way in which we went and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed. ¹⁸And the LORD drove out before us all the peoples, including the Amorites who lived in the land. We also will serve the LORD, for he is our God." ¹⁹But 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 bear with your transgressions and your sins. ²⁰If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and bring harm upon you and consume you, after he has done you good." ²¹And the people said to Joshua, “No, but we will serve the LORD.” ²²Then Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD for yourselves, to serve him.” And they said, “We are witnesses.” ²³“Now then, put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your heart to the LORD, the God of Israel.” ²⁴And the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God, and we will obey his voice.” ²⁵So Joshua made a covenant for the people that day, and there at Shechem he set before them a statute and an ordinance. ²⁶And Joshua wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak that was in the sanctuary of the LORD. ²⁷And Joshua said to all the people, “Look, this stone will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of the LORD that he spoke with us. And it shall be a witness against you, lest you deal falsely with your God.” ²⁸Then Joshua sent the people away, each man to his inheritance. ²⁹And after these things Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being a hundred and ten years old. ³⁰And they buried him within the territory of his inheritance, at Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash. ³¹Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua and who knew all the work of the LORD that he had done for Israel. ³²And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had brought up from Egypt, they buried at Shechem, in the portion of the field that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for a hundred pieces of silver ; and it became an inheritance for the sons of Joseph. ³³And Eleazar son of Aaron died, and they buried him at the Hill of Phinehas his son, which had been given to him in the hill country of Ephraim.

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4/11/2026

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