If the Lord your God enlarges your borders as he promised your ancestors and gives you all the land he pledged to them,

then both parties to the controversy must stand before the Lord, that is, before the priests and judges who will be in office in those days.

so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship their gods, causing you to sin against the Lord your God.

Be careful during an outbreak of leprosy to follow precisely all that the Levitical priests instruct you; as I have commanded them, so you should do.

You will celebrate all the good things that the Lord your God has given you and your family, along with the Levites and the resident foreigners among you.

Then he will elevate you above all the nations he has made and you will receive praise, fame, and honor. You will be a people holy to the Lord your God, as he has said.

The Lord will raise up a distant nation against you, one from the other side of the earth as the eagle flies, a nation whose language you will not understand,

You will then eat your own offspring, the flesh of the sons and daughters the Lord your God has given you, because of the severity of the siege by which your enemies will constrict you.

In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ And in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’ because of the things you will fear and the things you will see.

but with whoever stands with us here today before the Lord our God as well as those not with us here today.

Then people will say, “Because they abandoned the covenant of the Lord, the God of their ancestors, which he made with them when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.

The Lord will do to them just what he did to Sihon and Og, the Amorite kings, and to their land, which he destroyed.

You will die on the mountain that you ascend and join your deceased ancestors, just as Aaron your brother died on Mount Hor and joined his deceased ancestors,

I am handing over to you every place you set foot, as I promised Moses.

They told Joshua, “We will do everything you say. We will go wherever you send us.

Just as we obeyed Moses, so we will obey you. But may the Lord your God be with you as he was with Moses!

Any man who rebels against what you say and does not obey all your commands will be executed. But be strong and brave!”

I and all the troops who are with me will approach the city. When they come out to fight us like before, we will retreat from them.

Joshua kept holding out his curved sword until Israel had annihilated all who lived in Ai.

That day they captured it and put the sword to all who lived there. That day they annihilated it just as they had done to Lachish.