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The Lord alone led them, and there was no foreign god helping him.

Israel grew fat and kicked; they were fat and full and firm. They left the God who made them and rejected the Rock who saved them.

They made God jealous with foreign gods and angry with hateful idols.

They made sacrifices to demons, not God, to gods they had never known, new gods from nearby, gods your ancestors did not fear.

You left God who is the Rock, your Father, and you forgot the God who gave you birth.

"Now you will see that I am the one God! There is no god but me. I send life and death; I can hurt, and I can heal. No one can escape from me.

Moses, the man of God, gave this blessing to the Israelites before he died.

Moses said this about the people of Gad: "Praise God who gives Gad more land! Gad lives there like a lion, who tears off arms and heads.

"There is no one like the God of Israel, who rides through the skies to help you, who rides on the clouds in his majesty.

The everlasting God is your place of safety, and his arms will hold you up forever. He will force your enemy out ahead of you, saying, ‘Destroy the enemy!'

Remember that I commanded you to be strong and brave. Don't be afraid, because the Lord your God will be with you everywhere you go."

"Go through the camp and tell the people, ‘Get your supplies ready. Three days from now you will cross the Jordan River and take the land the Lord your God is giving you.'"

"Remember what Moses, the servant of the Lord , told you. He said the Lord your God would give you rest and would give you this land.

The Lord has given you a place to rest and will do the same for your brothers. But you must help them until they take the land the Lord their God is giving them. Then you may return to your own land east of the Jordan River, the land that Moses, the servant of the Lord , gave you."

Just as we fully obeyed Moses, we will obey you. We ask only that the Lord your God be with you just as he was with Moses.

When we heard this, we were very frightened. Now our men are afraid to fight you because the Lord your God rules the heavens above and the earth below!

and gave orders to the people: "When you see the priests and Levites carrying the Ark of the Agreement with the Lord your God, leave where you are and follow it.

Then Joshua said to the Israelites, "Come here and listen to the words of the Lord your God.

Here is proof that the living God is with you and that he will force out the Canaanites, Hittites, Hivites, Perizzites, Girgashites, Amorites, and Jebusites.

and said to them, "Go out into the river where the Ark of the Lord your God is. Each of you bring back one rock, one for each tribe of Israel, and carry it on your shoulder.