Joshua 24:2–13

²Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your ancestors, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor,^y lived beyond the Euphrates River and worshiped other gods.^{z 3}But I took your father Abraham from the land beyond the Euphrates and led him throughout Canaan^a and gave him many descendants.^b I gave him Isaac,^{c 4}and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau.^d I assigned the hill country of Seir^e to Esau, but Jacob and his family went down to Egypt.^f

⁵“ ‘Then I sent Moses and Aaron,^g and I afflicted the Egyptians by what I did there, and I brought you out.^{h 6}When I brought your people out of Egypt, you came to the sea,ⁱ and the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and horsemen^aj as far as the Red Sea.^{bk 7}But they cried^l to the Lord for help, and he put darkness^m between you and the Egyptians; he brought the sea over them and covered them.ⁿ You saw with your own eyes what I did to the Egyptians.^o Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.^p

⁸“ ‘I brought you to the land of the Amorites^q who lived east of the Jordan. They fought against you, but I gave them into your hands. I destroyed them from before you, and you took possession of their land.^{r 9}When Balak son of Zippor,^s the king of Moab, prepared to fight against Israel, he sent for Balaam son of Beor^t to put a curse on you.^{u 10}But I would not listen to Balaam, so he blessed you^v again and again, and I delivered you out of his hand.

¹¹“ ‘Then you crossed the Jordan^w and came to Jericho.^x The citizens of Jericho fought against you, as did also the Amorites, Perizzites,^y Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites and Jebusites,^z but I gave them into your hands.^{a 12}I sent the hornet^b ahead of you, which drove them out^c before you—also the two Amorite kings. You did not do it with your own sword and bow.^{d 13}So I gave you a land^e on which you did not toil and cities you did not build; and you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.’^f