24:1 Joshua
gathered
all
the
tribes
of
Israel
to
Shechem
and
summoned
the
elders,
the
heads,
the
judges,
and
the
officers
of
Israel.
And
they
presented
themselves
before
God.
24:2 And
Joshua
said
to
all
the
people,
"Thus
says
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel,
'Long
ago,
your
fathers
lived
beyond
the
Euphrates,
Terah,
the
father
of
Abraham
and
of
Nahor;
and
they
served
other
gods.
24:3 Then
I
took
your
father
Abraham
from
beyond
the
River
and
led
him
through
all
the
land
of
Canaan,
and
made
his
offspring
many.
I
gave
him
Isaac.
24:4 And
to
Isaac
I
gave
Jacob
and
Esau.
And
I
gave
Esau
the
hill
country
of
Seir
to
possess,
but
Jacob
and
his
children
went
down
to
Egypt.
24:5 And
I
sent
Moses
and
Aaron,
and
I
plagued
Egypt
with
what
I
did
in
the
midst
of
it,
and
afterward
I
brought
you
out.
24:6 "'Then
I
brought
your
fathers
out
of
Egypt,
and
you
came
to
the
sea.
And
the
Egyptians
pursued
your
fathers
with
chariots
and
horsemen
to
the
Red
Sea.
24:7 And
when
they
cried
to
the
LORD,
he
put
darkness
between
you
and
the
Egyptians
and
made
the
sea
come
upon
them
and
cover
them;
and
your
eyes
saw
what
I
did
in
Egypt.
And
you
lived
in
the
wilderness
a
long
time.
24:8 Then
I
brought
you
to
the
land
of
the
Amorites,
who
lived
on
the
other
side
of
the
Jordan.
They
fought
with
you,
and
I
gave
them
into
your
hand,
and
you
took
possession
of
their
land,
and
I
destroyed
them
before
you.
24:9 Then
Balak
the
son
of
Zippor,
king
of
Moab,
arose
and
fought
against
Israel.
And
he
sent
and
invited
Balaam
the
son
of
Beor
to
curse
you,
24:10 but
I
would
not
listen
to
Balaam.
Indeed,
he
blessed
you.
So
I
delivered
you
out
of
his
hand.
24:11 And
you
went
over
the
Jordan
and
came
to
Jericho,
and
the
leaders
of
Jericho
fought
against
you,
and
also
the
Amorites,
the
Perizzites,
the
Canaanites,
the
Hittites,
the
Girgashites,
the
Hivites,
and
the
Jebusites.
And
I
gave
them
into
your
hand.
24:12 And
I
sent
the
hornet
before
you,
which
drove
them
out
before
you,
the
two
kings
of
the
Amorites;
it
was
not
by
your
sword
or
by
your
bow.
24:13 I
gave
you
a
land
on
which
you
had
not
labored
and
cities
that
you
had
not
built,
and
you
dwell
in
them.
You
eat
the
fruit
of
vineyards
and
olive
orchards
that
you
did
not
plant.'
24:14 "Now
therefore
fear
the
LORD
and
serve
him
in
sincerity
and
in
faithfulness.
Put
away
the
gods
that
your
fathers
served
beyond
the
River
and
in
Egypt,
and
serve
the
LORD.
24:15 And
if
it
is
evil
in
your
eyes
to
serve
the
LORD,
choose
this
day
whom
you
will
serve,
whether
the
gods
your
fathers
served
in
the
region
beyond
the
River,
or
the
gods
of
the
Amorites
in
whose
land
you
dwell.
But
as
for
me
and
my
house,
we
will
serve
the
LORD."
24:16 Then
the
people
answered,
"Far
be
it
from
us
that
we
should
forsake
the
LORD
to
serve
other
gods,
24:17 for
it
is
the
LORD
our
God
who
brought
us
and
our
fathers
up
from
the
land
of
Egypt,
out
of
the
house
of
slavery,
and
who
did
those
great
signs
in
our
sight
and
preserved
us
in
all
the
way
that
we
went,
and
among
all
the
peoples
through
whom
we
passed.
24:18 And
the
LORD
drove
out
before
us
all
the
peoples,
the
Amorites
who
lived
in
the
land.
Therefore
we
also
will
serve
the
LORD,
for
he
is
our
God."
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
transgressions
or
your
sins.
24:20 If
you
forsake
the
LORD
and
serve
foreign
gods,
then
he
will
turn
and
do
you
harm
and
consume
you,
after
having
done
you
good."
24:21 And
the
people
said
to
Joshua,
"No,
but
we
will
serve
the
LORD."
24:22 Then
Joshua
said
to
the
people,
"You
are
witnesses
against
yourselves
that
you
have
chosen
the
LORD,
to
serve
him."
And
they
said,
"We
are
witnesses."
24:23 He
said,
"Then
put
away
the
foreign
gods
that
are
among
you,
and
incline
your
heart
to
the
LORD,
the
God
of
Israel."
24:24 And
the
people
said
to
Joshua,
"The
LORD
our
God
we
will
serve,
and
his
voice
we
will
obey."
24:25 So
Joshua
made
a
covenant
with
the
people
that
day,
and
put
in
place
statutes
and
rules
for
them
at
Shechem.
24:26 And
Joshua
wrote
these
words
in
the
Book
of
the
Law
of
God.
And
he
took
a
large
stone
and
set
it
up
there
under
the
terebinth
that
was
by
the
sanctuary
of
the
LORD.
24:27 And
Joshua
said
to
all
the
people,
"Behold,
this
stone
shall
be
a
witness
against
us,
for
it
has
heard
all
the
words
of
the
LORD
that
he
spoke
to
us.
Therefore
it
shall
be
a
witness
against
you,
lest
you
deal
falsely
with
your
God."
24:28 So
Joshua
sent
the
people
away,
every
man
to
his
inheritance.
24:29 After
these
things
Joshua
the
son
of
Nun,
the
servant
of
the
LORD,
died,
being
110
years
old.
24:30 And
they
buried
him
in
his
own
inheritance
at
Timnath-serah,
which
is
in
the
hill
country
of
Ephraim,
north
of
the
mountain
of
Gaash.
24:31 Israel
served
the
LORD
all
the
days
of
Joshua,
and
all
the
days
of
the
elders
who
outlived
Joshua
and
had
known
all
the
work
that
the
LORD
did
for
Israel.
24:32 As
for
the
bones
of
Joseph,
which
the
people
of
Israel
brought
up
from
Egypt,
they
buried
them
at
Shechem,
in
the
piece
of
land
that
Jacob
bought
from
the
sons
of
Hamor
the
father
of
Shechem
for
a
hundred
pieces
of
money.
It
became
an
inheritance
of
the
descendants
of
Joseph.
24:33 And
Eleazar
the
son
of
Aaron
died,
and
they
buried
him
at
Gibeah,
the
town
of
Phinehas
his
son,
which
had
been
given
him
in
the
hill
country
of
Ephraim.