So the Israelites assigned to the Levites by lot these cities and their grazing areas, as the Lord had instructed Moses.

So the Lord gave Israel all the land he had solemnly promised to their ancestors, and they conquered it and lived in it.

Not one of the Lord’s faithful promises to the family of Israel was left unfulfilled; every one was realized.

and told them: “You have carried out all the instructions of Moses the Lord’s servant, and you have obeyed all I have told you.

You have not abandoned your fellow Israelites this entire time, right up to this very day. You have completed the task given you by the Lord your God.

The sin we committed at Peor was bad enough. To this very day we have not purified ourselves; it even brought a plague on the community of the Lord.

Now today you dare to turn back from following the Lord! You are rebelling today against the Lord; tomorrow he may break out in anger against the entire community of Israel.

The Reubenites and Gadites named the altar, “Surely it is a Reminder to us that the Lord is God.”

A long time passed after the Lord made Israel secure from all their enemies, and Joshua was very old.

The Lord your God will drive them out from before you and remove them, so you can occupy their land as the Lord your God promised you.

“The Lord drove out from before you great and mighty nations; no one has been able to resist you to this very day.

One of you makes a thousand run away, for the Lord your God fights for you as he promised you he would.

If you abandon the Lord and worship foreign gods, he will turn against you; he will bring disaster on you and destroy you, though he once treated you well.”

Joshua said to the people, “Do you agree to be witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to worship the Lord?” They replied, “We are witnesses!”

Joshua said, “Now put aside the foreign gods that are among you and submit to the Lord God of Israel.”

Joshua wrote these words in the Law Scroll of God. He then took a large stone and set it up there under the oak tree near the Lord’s shrine.

After all this Joshua son of Nun, the Lord’s servant, died at the age of one hundred ten.

The men of Judah attacked, and the Lord handed the Canaanites and Perizzites over to them. They killed ten thousand men at Bezek.

The Lord was with the men of Judah. They conquered the hill country, but they could not conquer the people living in the coastal plain, because they had chariots with iron-rimmed wheels.

When the Lord’s messenger finished speaking these words to all the Israelites, the people wept loudly.