Today the Lord your God is commanding you to keep these statutes and ordinances, something you must do with all your heart and soul.

You must obey him and keep his commandments and statutes that I am giving you today.”

then the Lord will increase your punishments and those of your descendants – great and long-lasting afflictions and severe, enduring illnesses.

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

“(For you know how we lived in the land of Egypt and how we crossed through the nations as we traveled.

The Lord your God will also cleanse your heart and the hearts of your descendants so that you may love him with all your mind and being and so that you may live.

Gather to me all your tribal elders and officials so I can speak to them directly about these things and call the heavens and the earth to witness against them.

He replaced them with their sons, whom Joshua circumcised. They were uncircumcised; their fathers had not circumcised them along the way.

The Lord told Joshua, “See, I am about to defeat Jericho for you, along with its king and its warriors.

The army was in position – the main army north of the city and the rear guard west of the city. That night Joshua went into the middle of the valley.

They told him, “Your subjects have come from a very distant land because of the reputation of the Lord your God, for we have heard the news about all he did in Egypt

and all he did to the two Amorite kings on the other side of the Jordan – King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan in Ashtaroth.

“Come to my aid so we can attack Gibeon, for it has made peace with Joshua and the Israelites.”

Then King Horam of Gezer came up to help Lachish, but Joshua struck down him and his army until no survivors remained.

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.

Joshua did to them as the Lord had commanded him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots.

They annihilated everyone who lived there with the sword – no one who breathed remained – and burned Hazor.

But the Israelites did not conquer the Geshurites and Maacathites; Geshur and Maacah live among Israel to this very day.

So the Israelites assigned these cities and their grazing areas to the Levites from their own holdings, as the Lord had instructed.

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