Joshua’s Farewell Address
1   And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
2   And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the River in former times, even  Terah,  the  father  of  Abraham,  and  the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.
3   And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river, and led him throughout all the    land    of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants, and gave him Isaac.
4   And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
5   I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.
6   And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came unto the sea; and the Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red sea.
7   And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes have seen what I have done in Egypt: and you dwelt in the wilderness a long time.
8   And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, who dwelt on the other side of Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that you might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.
9   Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you:
10   But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.
11   And you went over the Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against  you,  the  Amorites,  and  the  Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.
12   And I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with your sword, nor with your bow.
13   And I have given you a land for which you did not labor, and cities which you built not, and you dwell  in  them;  of  the  vineyards  and  olive yards which you planted not do you eat.
14   Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River, and in Egypt; and serve you the LORD.
15   And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of 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.
16   And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
17   For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers 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 that we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:
18   And the LORD drove out from before us all the people, even the Amorites who dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is our God.
19   And  Joshua  said unto the people, You cannot serve the LORD: for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
20   If you forsake the LORD, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm, and consume you, after that he has done you good.
21   And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD.
22   And Joshua said unto the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.
23   Now  therefore  put  away,  said  he,  the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.
24   And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
25   So Joshua made a covenant  with  the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
26   And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
27   And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it has heard all the words of the LORD which he spoke unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest you deny your God.

Joshua’s Death
28   So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.
29   And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being a hundred and ten years old.
30   And they buried him within the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash.
31   And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua,  and  all  the  days  of  the  elders  that outlived  Joshua,  and  who  had  known  all  the works of the LORD, that he had done for Israel.
32   And  the  bones  of  Joseph,  which  the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of silver: and it became   the   inheritance   of   the   children   of Joseph.
33   And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they  buried  him  in  a  hill  that  belonged  to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.