WEBVTT NOTE This file was generated by Descript 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.140 Ethan: Welcome to Immerse: the daily bible reading experience. 00:00:03.257 --> 00:00:04.817 Day 100 and 72 00:00:05.137 --> 00:00:08.917 the years passed and the Lord had given the people of Israel 00:00:08.977 --> 00:00:10.567 rest from all their enemies. 00:00:11.437 --> 00:00:17.077 Joshua, who was now very old, called together all the elders, leaders, 00:00:17.377 --> 00:00:19.447 judges, and officers of Israel. 00:00:20.137 --> 00:00:23.527 He said to them, I am now a very old man. 00:00:24.247 --> 00:00:28.537 You have seen everything the Lord your God has done for you during my lifetime. 00:00:29.212 --> 00:00:32.332 The Lord your God has fought for you against your enemies. 00:00:33.172 --> 00:00:36.622 I have allotted to you as your homeland, all the land of the 00:00:36.622 --> 00:00:40.762 nations, yet unconquered as well as the land of those we have already 00:00:40.762 --> 00:00:45.052 conquered from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea in the West. 00:00:45.952 --> 00:00:50.962 This land will be yours for the Lord Your God will himself drive out all 00:00:50.962 --> 00:00:55.822 the people living there now you will take possession of their land just 00:00:55.822 --> 00:00:57.472 as the Lord your God promised you. 00:00:58.957 --> 00:01:03.997 Be very careful to follow everything Moses wrote in the book of instruction. 00:01:04.777 --> 00:01:08.767 Do not deviate from it turning either to the right or to the left. 00:01:09.517 --> 00:01:13.807 Make sure you do not associate with the other people still remaining in the land. 00:01:14.497 --> 00:01:19.057 Do not even mention the names of their Gods much less swear by them 00:01:19.147 --> 00:01:21.607 or serve them or worship them. 00:01:22.507 --> 00:01:27.037 Rather clinging tightly to the Lord your God, as you have done until now. 00:01:28.507 --> 00:01:33.277 For the Lord has driven out great and powerful nations for you and no 00:01:33.277 --> 00:01:35.227 one has yet been able to defeat you. 00:01:36.127 --> 00:01:41.287 Each one of you will put to flight a thousand of the enemy for the Lord. 00:01:41.287 --> 00:01:44.707 Your God fights for you just as he has promised. 00:01:45.247 --> 00:01:47.827 So be very careful to love the Lord your God. 00:01:49.867 --> 00:01:54.127 But if you turn away from him and clinging to the customs of the survivors of 00:01:54.127 --> 00:01:59.527 these nations remaining among you, and if you intermarry with them, then know 00:01:59.527 --> 00:02:03.847 for certain that the Lord your God will no longer drive them out of your land. 00:02:04.507 --> 00:02:09.817 Instead, they will be a snare and a trapped to you, a whip for your backs 00:02:09.997 --> 00:02:14.917 and thorny brambles in your eyes, and you will vanish from this good land. 00:02:14.917 --> 00:02:16.357 The Lord your God has given you. 00:02:17.647 --> 00:02:21.487 Soon I will die going the way of everything on Earth. 00:02:22.597 --> 00:02:25.837 Deep in your hearts, you know that every promise of the 00:02:25.837 --> 00:02:27.457 Lord your God has come true. 00:02:28.147 --> 00:02:32.887 Not a single one has failed, but as surely as the Lord, your God has 00:02:32.887 --> 00:02:34.927 given you the good things he promised. 00:02:35.557 --> 00:02:37.927 He will also bring disaster on you. 00:02:38.227 --> 00:02:42.427 If you disobey him, he will completely destroy you from 00:02:42.427 --> 00:02:43.837 this good land he has given you. 00:02:44.767 --> 00:02:48.847 If you break the covenant of a Lord your God, by worshiping and serving 00:02:48.907 --> 00:02:54.907 other gods, his anger will burn against you and you will quickly vanish 00:02:55.027 --> 00:02:56.737 from the good land he has given you. 00:02:58.477 --> 00:03:03.067 Then Joshua summoned all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, including their 00:03:03.067 --> 00:03:06.187 elders, leaders, judges, and officers. 00:03:06.877 --> 00:03:09.637 So they came and presented themselves to God. 00:03:10.867 --> 00:03:15.772 Joshua said to the people, This is what the Lord the God of Israel says 00:03:16.852 --> 00:03:22.222 long ago, your ancestors, including terror, the father of Abraham and 00:03:22.227 --> 00:03:27.562 Naor lived beyond the Euphrates River and they worshiped other gods. 00:03:28.372 --> 00:03:32.482 But I took your ancestor Abraham from the land beyond the Euphrates 00:03:32.962 --> 00:03:34.912 and led him into the land of Canaan. 00:03:35.812 --> 00:03:38.872 I gave him many descendants through his son, Isaac. 00:03:39.532 --> 00:03:43.492 To Isaac, I gave Jacob and Esau to Esau. 00:03:43.882 --> 00:03:45.502 I gave the mountains of Sr. 00:03:46.072 --> 00:03:49.042 While Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. 00:03:50.512 --> 00:03:55.072 Then I sent Moses and Aaron and I brought terrible plagues on Egypt. 00:03:55.702 --> 00:03:59.002 And afterward I brought you out as a free people. 00:03:59.842 --> 00:04:04.132 But when your ancestors arrived at the Red Sea, the Egyptians chased after 00:04:04.132 --> 00:04:05.722 you with chariots and charioteers. 00:04:07.012 --> 00:04:10.552 When your ancestors cried out to the Lord, I put darkness 00:04:10.552 --> 00:04:12.172 between you and the Egyptians. 00:04:12.712 --> 00:04:16.462 I brought the sea crashing down on the Egyptians, drowning 00:04:16.462 --> 00:04:19.252 them with your very own eyes. 00:04:19.252 --> 00:04:20.392 You saw what I did. 00:04:21.352 --> 00:04:24.262 Then you lived in the wilderness for many years. 00:04:25.282 --> 00:04:28.792 Finally, I brought you into the land of the Amorites on 00:04:28.792 --> 00:04:29.992 the east side of the Jordan. 00:04:30.712 --> 00:04:34.012 They fought against you, but I destroyed them before you. 00:04:34.777 --> 00:04:38.767 I gave you victory over them, and you took possession of their land. 00:04:39.817 --> 00:04:45.037 Then Blac son of zip or King of Moab, started a war against Israel. 00:04:45.757 --> 00:04:50.707 He summoned Baalam, son of bor to curse you, but I would not listen to him. 00:04:51.277 --> 00:04:56.527 Instead, I made Balam bless you, and so I rescued you from Blac. 00:04:57.577 --> 00:05:01.117 When you crossed the Jordan River and came to Jericho, the men 00:05:01.122 --> 00:05:02.647 of Jericho fought against you. 00:05:03.187 --> 00:05:08.437 As did the Amorites, the parasites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the 00:05:08.437 --> 00:05:11.347 Gsites, the Hivites and the Jebusites. 00:05:12.247 --> 00:05:17.497 But I gave you victory over them, and I sent terror ahead of you to drive 00:05:17.497 --> 00:05:19.267 out the two kings of the Amorites. 00:05:20.077 --> 00:05:23.497 It was not your swords or bows that brought you victory. 00:05:24.337 --> 00:05:29.497 I gave you land you had not worked on, and I gave you towns you did not build 00:05:30.307 --> 00:05:31.807 the towns where you are now living. 00:05:32.662 --> 00:05:37.282 I gave you vineyards and olive groves for food, though you did not plant them. 00:05:38.662 --> 00:05:42.712 So fear the Lord and serve him wholeheartedly. 00:05:43.882 --> 00:05:48.262 Put away forever the idols your ancestors worshiped when they lived 00:05:48.262 --> 00:05:50.632 beyond the Euphrates River and in Egypt. 00:05:51.472 --> 00:05:53.212 Serve the Lord alone. 00:05:54.412 --> 00:05:59.482 But if you refuse to serve the Lord, then choose today whom you will serve. 00:06:00.382 --> 00:06:04.132 Would you prefer the gods your ancestors served beyond the Euphrates, 00:06:04.822 --> 00:06:08.602 or will it be the gods of the Amorites in whose land you now live? 00:06:09.442 --> 00:06:13.342 But as for me and my family, we will serve the Lord. 00:06:15.742 --> 00:06:19.462 The people replied, we would never abandon the Lord and 00:06:19.462 --> 00:06:21.832 serve other gods for the Lord. 00:06:21.832 --> 00:06:25.582 Our God is the one who rescued us and our ancestors from 00:06:25.582 --> 00:06:27.382 slavery in the land of Egypt. 00:06:27.757 --> 00:06:31.147 He performed mighty miracles before our very eyes. 00:06:32.017 --> 00:06:36.007 As we traveled through the wilderness among our enemies, he preserved us. 00:06:36.727 --> 00:06:39.727 It was the Lord who drove out the Amorites and the other 00:06:39.727 --> 00:06:41.767 nations living here in the land. 00:06:42.517 --> 00:06:46.627 So we too will serve the Lord for he alone is our God. 00:06:48.127 --> 00:06:52.927 Then Joshua warned the people you are not able to serve the Lord 00:06:53.587 --> 00:06:55.867 for He is a holy and jealous God. 00:06:56.617 --> 00:06:59.767 He will not forgive your rebellion and your sins. 00:07:00.517 --> 00:07:04.987 If you abandon the Lord and serve other gods, he will turn against 00:07:04.992 --> 00:07:09.817 you and destroy you, even though he has been so good to you. 00:07:10.867 --> 00:07:13.477 But the people answer, Joshua, no. 00:07:13.657 --> 00:07:15.097 We will serve the Lord. 00:07:16.207 --> 00:07:18.127 You are a witness to your own decision. 00:07:18.277 --> 00:07:21.487 Joshua said You have chosen to serve the Lord. 00:07:22.552 --> 00:07:26.032 Yes, they replied, we are witnesses to what we have said. 00:07:27.832 --> 00:07:33.142 All right then Joshua said, destroy the idols among you and 00:07:33.142 --> 00:07:34.762 turn your hearts to the Lord. 00:07:34.822 --> 00:07:35.962 The God of Israel. 00:07:37.342 --> 00:07:41.302 The people said to Joshua, we will serve the Lord our God. 00:07:41.692 --> 00:07:43.582 We will obey him alone. 00:07:45.232 --> 00:07:47.812 So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day at Shechem. 00:07:48.667 --> 00:07:52.087 Committing them to follow the decrees and regulations of the Lord. 00:07:53.047 --> 00:07:56.287 Joshua recorded these things in the Book of God's instructions. 00:07:56.947 --> 00:08:01.147 As a reminder of their agreement, he took a huge stone and rolled 00:08:01.147 --> 00:08:05.047 it beneath the Rabin tree beside the tabernacle of the Lord. 00:08:06.127 --> 00:08:11.287 Joshua said to all the people, this stone has heard everything the Lord said to us. 00:08:11.917 --> 00:08:16.477 It will be a witness to testify against you if you go back on your word to God. 00:08:19.087 --> 00:08:22.567 Then Joshua sent all the people away to their own homelands. 00:08:23.917 --> 00:08:27.787 After this Joshua's son of none, the servant of the 00:08:27.787 --> 00:08:31.537 Lord died at the age of 110. 00:08:32.617 --> 00:08:33.937 They buried him in the land. 00:08:33.937 --> 00:08:37.837 He had been allocated at Tim Nasra in the hill country of 00:08:37.837 --> 00:08:40.297 Efraim, north of Mount Gay Ash. 00:08:41.827 --> 00:08:45.367 The people of Israel served the Lord throughout the lifetime of Joshua 00:08:45.637 --> 00:08:47.437 and of the elders who outlived him. 00:08:48.157 --> 00:08:52.507 Those who had personally experienced all that the Lord had done for Israel. 00:08:54.067 --> 00:08:58.447 The bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought along with them when they 00:08:58.447 --> 00:09:03.697 left Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land Jacob had bought from the 00:09:03.697 --> 00:09:06.337 sons of Haymore for 100 pieces of silver. 00:09:07.207 --> 00:09:10.057 This land was located in the territory allotted to the 00:09:10.057 --> 00:09:13.387 descendants of Joseph Azar. 00:09:13.387 --> 00:09:15.277 Son of Aaron also died. 00:09:15.877 --> 00:09:20.617 He was buried in the hill country of Efraim in the town of Gibeah, which 00:09:20.617 --> 00:09:22.807 had been given to his son Phineas. 00:09:27.117 --> 00:09:30.337 This concludes today's immerse reading experience. 00:09:30.457 --> 00:09:31.687 Thank you for joining us.