7 And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and
brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt:
and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long season.
8 And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and
they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I
destroyed them from before you.
9 Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and
called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:
10 But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of
his hand.
11 And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the 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 the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you, eventhe two kings
of the Amorites; butnot with thy sword, nor with thy bow.
13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye
dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods
which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve;
whether the gods which your fathers served that wereon the other side of the flood, or the gods
of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve
other gods;
17 For the LORD our God, he it isthat brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt,
from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all
the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:
18 And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the
land: thereforewill we also serve the LORD; for he isour God.
19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he isan holy God; he isa
jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
20 If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and
consume you, after that he hath done you good.
21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD.
22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye arewitnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen
you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We arewitnesses.
23 Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which areamong you, and incline your
heart unto the LORD God of Israel.
24 And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
25 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance
in Shechem.
26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set
it up there under an oak, that wasby the sanctuary of the LORD.
27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath
heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you,
lest ye deny your God.
28 So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.
29 And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD,
an hundred and ten years old.
30 And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which isin mount
Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.
31 And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that
overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
32 And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in
Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem
for an hundred pieces of silver: and it became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.
33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that pertained toPhinehas
his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.
