1Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

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Joshua 23:2, Joshua 23:2, 1 Samuel 10:19, 1 Samuel 10:19, Acts 10:33

2Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, 'Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.

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Genesis 31:30, Joshua 24:15, Genesis 31:30, Joshua 24:15, Genesis 31:32

3I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

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Genesis 12:1, Genesis 12:4, Genesis 12:1, Genesis 12:4, Genesis 21:2

4I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.

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Genesis 36:8, Deuteronomy 2:5, Genesis 36:8, Deuteronomy 2:5, Acts 7:15

5I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did in its midst: and afterward I brought you out.

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Exodus 3:10, Exodus 3:10, Exodus 7:1, Exodus 7:12, Exodus 7:1

6I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea. The Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea.

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Nehemiah 9:11, Exodus 12:51, Hebrews 11:29, Exodus 14:1, Exodus 14:15

7When they cried out to the Lord, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and you lived in the wilderness many days.

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Exodus 14:10, Exodus 14:20, Deuteronomy 4:34, Exodus 14:10, Exodus 14:20

8I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that lived beyond the Jordan: and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand. You possessed their land; and I destroyed them from before you.

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Numbers 21:21, Numbers 21:35, Numbers 21:21, Numbers 21:35, Psalms 135:10

9Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you;

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Judges 11:25, Numbers 22:2, Micah 6:5, Judges 11:25, Numbers 22:2

10but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand.

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Numbers 22:11, Numbers 22:12, Numbers 23:3, Numbers 23:12, Deuteronomy 23:5

11You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand.

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Joshua 3:14, Joshua 3:17, Joshua 4:10, Joshua 4:12, Joshua 3:14

12I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow.

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Deuteronomy 7:20, Exodus 23:28, Deuteronomy 7:20, Exodus 23:28, Psalms 44:3

13I gave you a land whereon you had not labored, and cities which you did not build, and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.'

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Deuteronomy 6:10, Deuteronomy 6:12, Deuteronomy 6:10, Deuteronomy 6:12, Deuteronomy 8:7

14Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve the Lord.

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1 Samuel 12:24, 1 Samuel 12:24, Deuteronomy 10:12, Deuteronomy 10:12, Genesis 35:2

15If it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."

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1 Kings 18:21, 1 Kings 18:21, John 6:67, John 6:68, John 6:67

16The people answered, "Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods;

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Hebrews 10:38, Hebrews 10:39, Hebrews 10:38, Hebrews 10:39, 1 Samuel 12:23

17for it is the Lord our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the midst of whom we passed.

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Exodus 19:4, Exodus 19:4, Deuteronomy 32:11, Deuteronomy 32:12, Isaiah 46:4

18The Lord drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the Lord; for he is our God."

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Micah 4:2, Luke 1:73, Luke 1:75, Exodus 10:2, Exodus 15:2

19Joshua said to the people, "You can't serve the Lord; for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.

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Isaiah 5:16, Exodus 23:21, Isaiah 5:16, Exodus 23:21, Psalms 99:5

20If you forsake the Lord, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good."

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Hebrews 10:26, Hebrews 10:27, Hebrews 10:26, Hebrews 10:27, Acts 7:42

21The people said to Joshua, "No; but we will serve the Lord."

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Exodus 19:8, Deuteronomy 5:27, Deuteronomy 5:28, Isaiah 44:5, Exodus 20:19

22Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen you the Lord, to serve him." They said, "We are witnesses."

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Psalms 119:173, Psalms 119:173, Psalms 119:11, Psalms 119:11, Job 15:6

23"Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to the Lord, the God of Israel."

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2 Corinthians 6:16, 2 Corinthians 6:18, Joshua 24:14, 2 Corinthians 6:16, 2 Corinthians 6:18

24The people said to Joshua, "We will serve the Lord our God, and we will listen to his voice."

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Exodus 24:7, Exodus 24:7, Exodus 24:3, Exodus 24:3, Deuteronomy 5:27

25So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

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Exodus 15:25, Exodus 15:25, 2 Chronicles 23:16, 2 Kings 11:17, Nehemiah 9:38

26Joshua wrote these words in the scroll of the Law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the Lord.

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Judges 9:6, Judges 9:6, Genesis 35:4, Genesis 35:4, Deuteronomy 31:24

27Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of the Lord which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God."

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Luke 19:40, Luke 19:40, Joshua 22:34, Joshua 22:34, Matthew 10:33

28So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.

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Judges 2:6, Judges 2:6

29It happened after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being one hundred ten years old.

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Judges 2:8, Judges 2:8, 2 Timothy 4:7, 2 Timothy 4:8, Revelation 14:13

30They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash.

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Joshua 19:50, Joshua 19:50, 2 Samuel 23:30, Judges 2:9, 2 Samuel 23:30

31Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of the Lord, that he had worked for Israel.

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Deuteronomy 31:13, Judges 2:7, Deuteronomy 31:13, Judges 2:7, Deuteronomy 31:29

32They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph.

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Genesis 50:25, Genesis 33:19, Genesis 50:25, Genesis 33:19, Exodus 13:19

33Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.

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Exodus 6:25, Joshua 22:13, Exodus 6:25, Joshua 22:13, Isaiah 57:1