And Joshuacalled for all Israel, and for theirelders, and for theirheads, and for theirjudges, and for theirofficers, and saiduntothem, I am old and stricken in age:
Behold, I havedividedunto you by lot thesenationsthatremain, to be an inheritance for yourtribes, fromJordan, with all the nationsthat I have cut off, evenunto the great sea westward.
And the LORDyour God, he shallexpelthemfrombefore you, and drivethemfrom out of yoursight; and ye shallpossesstheirland, as the LORDyour God hathpromisedunto you.
Be ye thereforeverycourageous to keep and to do all that is written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not asidetherefrom to the righthand or to the left;
That ye come not amongthesenations, thesethatremainamong you; neithermakemention of the name of theirgods, nor cause to swear by them, neitherservethem, nor bow yourselvesuntothem:
Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleaveunto the remnant of thesenations, eventhesethatremainamong you, and shallmakemarriageswiththem, and go in untothem, and they to you:
Know for a certaintythat the LORDyour God will no moredrive out any of thesenationsfrombefore you; but theyshall be snares and trapsunto you, and scourges in yoursides, and thorns in youreyes, until ye perishfrom off thisgoodlandwhich the LORDyour God hathgiven you.
And, behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth: and ye know in all yourhearts and in all yoursouls, that not one thinghathfailed of all the goodthingswhich the LORDyour God spakeconcerning you; all are come to passunto you, and not one thinghathfailedthereof.
Therefore it shallcome to pass, that as all goodthings are comeupon you, which the LORDyour God promised you; so shall the LORDbringupon you all evilthings, until he havedestroyed you from off thisgoodlandwhich the LORDyour God hathgiven you.
When ye havetransgressed the covenant of the LORDyour God, which he commanded you, and havegone and servedothergods, and bowedyourselves to them; thenshall the anger of the LORD be kindledagainst you, and ye shallperishquicklyfrom off the goodlandwhich he hathgivenunto you.