Joshua 24:5-14
24:5 I sent Moses and Aaron, and I struck Egypt down when I intervened in their land.
Then I brought you out.
24:6 When I brought your fathers out of Egypt, you arrived at the sea. The Egyptians chased your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea.
24:7 Your fathers
cried out for help to the
Lord; he made the area between you and the Egyptians dark,
and then drowned them in the sea.
You witnessed with your very own eyes
what I did in Egypt. You lived in the wilderness for a long time.
24:8 Then I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived east of the Jordan. They fought with you, but I handed them over to you; you conquered
their land and I destroyed them from before you.
24:9 Balak son of Zippor, king of Moab, launched an attack
against Israel. He summoned
Balaam son of Beor to call down judgment
on you.
24:10 I refused to respond to Balaam; he kept
prophesying good things about
you, and I rescued you from his power.
24:11 You crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho.
The leaders
of Jericho, as well as the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, fought with you, but I handed them over to you.
24:12 I sent terror
ahead of you to drive out before you the two
Amorite kings. I gave you the victory; it was not by your swords or bows.
24:13 I gave you a land in
which you had not worked hard; you took up residence in cities you did not build and you are eating the produce of
vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.’
24:14 Now obey the Lord and worship him with integrity and loyalty. Put aside the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt and worship the Lord.