Joshua’s Charge to Leaders 1 ULT And it happened from many days afterward, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from all of their enemies from all around, that Joshua had aged, he had come into days. BSB BSB: A long time after the LORD had given Israel rest from all the enemies around them, when Joshua was old and well along in years,
2 ULT And Joshua called to all of Israel, to its elders and to its heads and to its judges and to its officers, and he said to them,“I have aged, I have come into days. BSB BSB: he summoned all Israel, including its elders, leaders, judges, and officers. “I am old and well along in years,” he said,
3 ULT But you yourselves have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all of these nations from your faces. For Yahweh your God, he{ is} the one having fought for you. BSB BSB: “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.
4 ULT See, I have caused to fall for you these remaining nations as an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, and all of the nations that I cut off, and the Great Sea from the going of the sun. BSB BSB: See, 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.
5 ULT And Yahweh your God, he will push them from your face, and he will dispossess them from to your face. And you will possess their land, just as Yahweh your God has spoken to you. BSB BSB: The 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.
6 ULT And you shall be very strong to keep and to do everything written in the book of the instruction of Moses, not to turn aside from it right or left, BSB BSB: Be 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.
7 ULT not to come among these nations, these ones remaining with you. And by the name of their gods you shall not invoke and you shall not swear, and you shall not serve them and you shall not bow down to them. BSB BSB: So 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.
8 ULT If not to Yahweh your God you shall cling, just as you have done to this day. BSB BSB: Instead, you shall hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day.
9 ULT And Yahweh has dispossessed great and powerful nations from your faces. And you, a man has not stood against your faces to this day. BSB BSB: The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you.
10 ULT One man from you pursues a thousand, for Yahweh your God, he is the one fighting for you, just as he has spoken to you. BSB BSB: One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised.
11 ULT And you shall keep yourselves exceedingly to yourselves, to love Yahweh your God. BSB BSB: Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.
12 ULT For if turning, you turn and cling to the remnant of these nations, these ones remaining with you, and you intermarry with them and you go among them and they among you, BSB BSB: For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,
13 ULT knowing, may you know that Yahweh your God will not continue to dispossess these nations from to your face. And they will be to you for a snare and for a trap and for a whip on your sides and for thorns in your eyes, until you perish from upon this good ground that Yahweh your God has given to you. BSB BSB: know 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.
14 ULT And behold, today I myself am going in the way of all of the earth. And you know with all of your heart and with all of your soul that not one word has fallen from all of the good words that Yahweh your God spoke concerning you. The whole has come to you. Not one word has fallen from it. BSB BSB: Now 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.
15 ULT And it will happen, just as all of the good word that Yahweh your God spoke to you has come upon you, thus Yahweh will bring upon you all of the evil word until he has destroyed you from upon this good ground that Yahweh your God has given to you. BSB BSB: But 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.
16 ULT In your transgressing the covenant of Yahweh your God that he commanded you and you go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the nose of Yahweh will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from upon the good land that he has given to you.” BSB BSB: If 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.”
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