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1Joshua called the tribes of Israel together for a meeting at Shechem. He asked the leaders, including the old men, the judges, and the officials, to come up and stand near the sacred tent.[#24.1 Or “in front of the sacred chest”; Hebrew “in the presence of God.”]
2Then Joshua told everyone to listen to this message from the Lord , the God of Israel:[#Gn 11.26-28.]
14Then Joshua told the people:
16The people answered:
19Joshua said:
21But the people shouted, “We won't worship any other gods. We will worship and obey only the Lord !”
22Joshua said, “You have heard yourselves say that you will worship and obey the Lord . Isn't that true?”
“Yes, it's true,” they answered.
23Joshua said, “But you still have some idols, like those the other nations worship. Get rid of your idols! You must decide once and for all that you really want to obey the Lord God of Israel.”
24The people said, “The Lord is our God, and we will worship and obey only him.”
25Joshua helped Israel make an agreement with the Lord that day at Shechem. Joshua made laws for Israel
26and wrote them down in The Book of the Law of God . Then he set up a large stone under the oak tree at the place of worship in Shechem[#24.26 See the note at 8.30-32.]
27and told the people, “Look at this stone. It has heard everything that the Lord has said to us. Our God can call this stone as a witness if we ever reject him.”
28Joshua sent everyone back to their homes.
29Not long afterwards, the Lord 's servant Joshua died at the age of 110.
30The Israelites buried him in his own land at Timnath-Serah, north of Mount Gaash in the hill country of Ephraim.[#Js 19.49-51.]
31As long as Joshua lived, Israel worshiped and obeyed the Lord . There were other leaders old enough to remember everything that the Lord had done for Israel. And for as long as these men lived, Israel continued to worship and obey the Lord .
32When the people of Israel left Egypt, they brought the bones of Joseph along with them. They took the bones to the town of Shechem and buried them in the field that Jacob had bought for 100 pieces of silver from Hamor, the founder of Shechem. The town and the field both became part of the land belonging to the descendants of Joseph.[#Gn 33.19; 50.24,25; Ex 13.19; Jn 4.5; Ac 7.16.; #24.32 One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew word.; #24.32 One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.]
33When Eleazar the priest died, he was buried in the hill country of Ephraim on a hill that belonged to his son Phinehas.[#24.33 Hebrew “Eleazar the son of Aaron.”]