1. The Lord let Israel live in peace with its neighbours for a long time, and Joshua lived to a ripe old age.
2. One day he called a meeting of the leaders of the tribes of Israel, including the old men, the judges, and the officials. Then he told them:I am now very old.
3. You have seen how the Lord your God fought for you and helped you defeat the nations who lived in this land.
6. Be sure that you carefully obey everything written in The Book of the Law of Moses and do exactly what it says.
7. Don't have anything to do with the nations that live around you. Don't worship their gods or pray to their idols or make promises in the names of their gods.
8. Be as faithful to the Lord as you have always been.
9. When you attacked powerful nations, the Lord made them run away, and no one has ever been able to stand up to you.
10. Any one of you can defeat a thousand enemy soldiers, because the Lord God fights for you, just as he promised.