06:024:011 And you went over 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.
06:024:012 And I sent the hornet before you, which
drave them out from
before
you, even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with
thy
sword, nor with thy bow.
06:024:013 And I have given you a land for which ye
did not labour, and
cities
which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the
vineyards
and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
06:024:014 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 flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the lord.
06:024:015 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the
lord, choose you
this
day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your
fathers
served that were on the other side of the flood, or
the
gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell:
but as for
me
and my house, we will serve the lord.
06:024:016 And the people answered and said, God forbid
that we should
forsake
the lord, to serve other gods;
06:024:017 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
which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved
us
in
all the way wherein we went, and among all the people
through
whom we passed:
06:024:018 And the lord drave out from before
us all the people, even the
Amorites
which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also
serve
the
lord; for he is our God.
06:024:019 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot
serve the lord: for
he
is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive
your
transgressions nor your sins.
06:024:020 If ye forsake the lord, and serve
strange gods, then he will
turn
and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath
done
you
good.
06:024:021 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but
we will serve the
lord.
06:024:022 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are
witnesses against
yourselves
that ye have chosen you the lord, to serve him.
And
they
said, We are witnesses.
06:024:023 Now therefore put away, said he, the strange
gods which are
among
you, and incline your heart unto the lord God
of Israel.


