Joshua 23:9–16

⁹The Lord has driven great and powerful nations out as you advanced and no one has ever been able to stand against you. ^10*Any one of you can make a thousand men run away, because the Lord your God is fighting for you, just as he promised. ¹¹Be careful, then, to love the Lord your God. ¹²If you are disloyal and join with the nations that are still left among you and intermarry with them, ¹³you may be sure that the Lord your God will no longer drive these nations out as you advance. Rather, they will be as dangerous for you as a trap or a pit and as painful as a whip on your back or thorns in your eyes. And this will last until none of you are left in this good land which the Lord your God has given you.

¹⁴“Now my time has come to die. Every one of you knows in his heart and soul that the Lord your God has given you all the good things that he promised. Every promise he made has been kept; not one has failed. ¹⁵But just as he kept every promise that he made to you, so he will carry out every threat. ¹⁶If you do not keep the covenant which the Lord your God commanded you to keep and if you serve and worship other gods, then in his anger he will punish you, and soon none of you will be left in this good land that he has given you.”