1A long time after the Lord had given Israel rest from all the enemies around them, when Joshua was old and well along in years,[ † ]Joshua 21:44Joshua 22:4Joshua 13:1Joshua 24:29 2he summoned all Israel, including its elders, leaders, judges, and officers. “I am old and well along in years,” he said,[ † ]Deuteronomy 31:28 3“and you have seen everything that the Lord your God has done to all these nations for your sake, because it was the Lord your God who fought for you.[ † ]Psalms 44:3Exodus 14:14Deuteronomy 1:30Joshua 10:14-42
4See, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea.[ † ]Joshua 13:2-6Joshua 18:10 5The Lord your God will push them out of your way and drive them out before you, so that you can take possession of their land, as the Lord your God promised you.[ † ]Exodus 23:30Exodus 33:2Numbers 33:53
6Be very strong, then, so that you can keep and obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, not turning aside from it to the right or to the left.[ † ]Joshua 1:7Deuteronomy 5:32 7So you are not to associate with these nations that remain among you. You must not call on the names of their gods or swear by them, and you must not serve them or bow down to them.[ † ]Exodus 23:33Deuteronomy 7:2-3Proverbs 4:14Ephesians 5:11Exodus 23:13Psalms 16:4Jeremiah 5:7Hosea 2:17Deuteronomy 6:13Deuteronomy 10:20Exodus 20:5 8Instead, you shall hold fast to the Lord your God, as you have done to this day.[ † ]Deuteronomy 10:20
9The Lord has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you.[ † ]Deuteronomy 7:24Deuteronomy 11:23Joshua 1:5 10One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the Lord your God fights for you, just as He promised.[ † ]Leviticus 26:8Deuteronomy 28:7Isaiah 30:17Exodus 14:14 11Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the Lord your God.[ † ]Joshua 22:5 12For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,[ † ]2 Peter 2:20-21Deuteronomy 7:3-4Ezra 9:2Nehemiah 13:25 13know for sure that the Lord your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the Lord your God has given you.[ † ]Judges 2:3Exodus 23:33Exodus 34:12Deuteronomy 7:16
14Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the Lord your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed.[ † ]1 Kings 2:2Joshua 21:45Luke 21:33 15But just as every good thing the Lord your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the Lord will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you.[ † ]Deuteronomy 28:63Leviticus 26:14-39Deuteronomy 28:15-68 16If you transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the Lord will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from this good land He has given you.”[ † ]Deuteronomy 4:24-28