Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. Jos 23:21Sa 10:191Ki 12:1Act 10:33Exo 18:25-26Gen 12:6Gen 33:18-19Jdg 9:1-3 Joshua said to all the people, “The LORD, the God of Israel, says, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor. They served other gods. Jos 24:15Ezk 16:3Gen 31:30Deu 26:5Gen 31:19Gen 31:32Gen 31:53Gen 35:4 I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his offspring, 1 and gave him Isaac. Gen 12:1-4Gen 21:2-3Act 7:2-3Gen 15:5Neh 9:7-8Psa 127:3 I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. Deu 2:5Gen 36:8Act 7:15Gen 25:24-26Gen 32:3Gen 46:1-7Psa 105:23
“‘I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out. Exo 3:10Exo 7:1-12Exo 12:37Exo 12:51Exo 4:12-14Psa 105:26-36Psa 135:8-9Psa 136:10 I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea. The Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea. Act 7:36Heb 11:29Exo 12:37Exo 12:51Exo 14:1-15Isa 63:12-13Mic 6:4Neh 9:11 When they cried out to the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness many days. Deu 4:34Exo 14:10Exo 14:20Exo 14:27-28Exo 14:31Neh 9:12-21Psa 95:9-10Deu 1:46
“‘I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that lived beyond the Jordan. They fought with you, and I gave them into your hand. You possessed their land, and I destroyed them from before you. Num 21:21-35Deu 2:32Jos 13:10Neh 9:22Psa 135:10-11Psa 136:17-22 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you, Jdg 11:25Mic 6:5Num 22:2Deu 23:4-5Num 22:5-21 but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand. Deu 23:5Isa 54:17Num 24:5-10Num 22:11-12Num 22:35Num 23:3-12Num 23:15-26Num 22:18-20
“‘You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand. Jos 3:14-17Jos 4:10-12Act 13:19Act 7:45Deu 7:1Exo 23:23Jos 10:1-11Jos 4:23 I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow. Deu 7:20Exo 23:28Psa 44:3-6 I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities which you didn’t build, and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you didn’t plant.’ Deu 6:10-12Deu 8:7Jos 21:45Pro 13:22Jos 11:13
“Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve the LORD. 1Sa 12:24Deu 10:12Gen 35:2Jos 24:232Co 1:12Psa 119:1Jhn 4:23-24Ezk 20:18 If it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were 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.” 1Ki 18:21Jhn 6:67-68Rut 1:15-16Deu 29:18Ezk 20:39Act 11:23Exo 23:32-33Jdg 6:10
The people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods; Heb 10:38-391Sa 12:23Rom 3:6Rom 6:2 for it is the LORD our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the middle of whom we passed. Exo 19:4Isa 63:7-14Amo 2:9-10Deu 32:11-12Isa 46:4Jos 24:5-14 The LORD drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the LORD; for he is our God.” Exo 10:2Mic 4:2Psa 116:16Luk 1:73-75Zec 8:23Exo 15:2
Joshua said to the people, “You can’t serve the LORD, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins. Exo 23:21Isa 5:16Psa 99:5Psa 99:9Exo 20:5Lev 19:21Sa 6:20Exo 34:14 If you forsake the LORD, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.” Heb 10:26-271Ch 28:9Act 7:42Ezk 18:24Jer 17:132Ch 15:2Ezr 8:22Isa 1:28
The people said to Joshua, “No, but we will serve the LORD.” Deu 5:27-28Exo 19:8Exo 20:19Isa 44:5Exo 24:3Exo 24:7Deu 26:17 Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD yourselves, to serve him.” Psa 119:173Psa 119:11Job 15:6Luk 10:42Deu 26:17Luk 19:22
They said, “We are witnesses.”
“Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to the LORD, the God of Israel.” 2Co 6:16-18Jos 24:141Sa 7:3-4Gen 35:2-4Heb 12:28-29Jdg 10:15-16Pro 2:21Co 10:19-21
The people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God, and we will listen to his voice.” Exo 24:7Exo 24:3Deu 5:27-29Exo 19:8
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. 2Ch 23:16Exo 15:25Neh 9:382Ki 11:172Ch 15:122Ch 15:152Ch 29:102Ch 34:29-32 Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the LORD. Jdg 9:6Gen 35:4Deu 31:24-26Exo 24:4Gen 28:18-22Gen 35:8Jos 4:20-24Jos 4:3-9 Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us, for it has heard all the LORD’s words which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.” Luk 19:40Jos 22:34Deu 31:26Jos 22:27-28Mat 10:331Sa 7:122Ti 2:12-13Deu 31:21 So Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance. Jdg 2:6
After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred ten years old. Jdg 2:82Ti 4:7-8Deu 34:5Gen 50:22Gen 50:26Psa 115:17Rev 14:13 They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash. Jos 19:502Sa 23:30Jdg 2:9 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 of the LORD, that he had worked for Israel. Jdg 2:7Deu 31:13Deu 11:2Deu 31:292Ch 24:17-182Ch 24:2Act 20:29Deu 11:7 They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver. 2 They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. Gen 50:25Gen 33:19Exo 13:19Act 7:16Gen 48:22Heb 11:22Jhn 4:5 Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim. Exo 6:25Jos 22:13Act 13:36Exo 6:23Heb 7:24Heb 9:26-27Isa 57:1-2Jdg 20:28