Joshua 24:1-13
1599 Geneva Bible
24 2 Joshua rehearseth God’s benefits, 14 and exhorteth the people to fear God. 25 The league renewed between God and the people. 29 Joshua dieth. 32 The bones of Joseph are buried. 33 Eleazar dieth.
1 And Joshua assembled again all the [a]tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called the Elders of Israel, and their heads, and their Judges, and their officers, and they presented themselves before [b]God.
2 Then Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, (A)Your fathers dwelt beyond the [c]flood in old time, even Terah the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor, and served other gods.
3 And I took your father Abraham from beyond the flood, and brought him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and (B)gave him Isaac.
4 And I gave unto Isaac, (C)Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto (D)Esau mount Seir, to possess it: but (E)Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
5 (F)I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt: and when I had so done among them, I brought you out.
6 So I (G)brought your fathers out of Egypt, and ye came unto the Sea, and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto (H)the red Sea.
7 Then they cried unto the Lord, and he put [d]a darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the Sea upon them, and covered them: so your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: also ye dwelt in the wilderness a [e]long season.
8 After, I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt beyond Jordan, (I)and they fought with you: but I gave them into your hand, and ye possessed their country, and I destroyed them out of your sight.
9 (J)Also Balak the son of Zippor king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent to Balaam the son of Beor for to curse you,
10 But I would not hear Balaam: therefore he blessed you, and I delivered you out of his hand.
11 And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho, and the [f]men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand.
12 And I sent (K)hornets before you, which cast them out before you, even the two kings of the Amorites, and not with thy sword, nor with thy bow.
13 And I have given you a land, wherein ye did not labor, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them, and eat of the vineyards and olive trees, which ye planted not.
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- Joshua 24:1 That is, the nine tribes and the half.
- Joshua 24:1 Before the Ark which was brought to Shechem, when they went to bury Joseph’s bones.
- Joshua 24:2 Euphrates in Mesopotamia, Gen. 11:26.
- Joshua 24:7 Or, a cloud.
- Joshua 24:7 Even forty years.
- Joshua 24:11 Because it was the chief city, under it he containeth all the country: else they of the city fought not.
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