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But just as all the good things that the Lord your God promised concerning you have been fulfilled for you, so the Lord will bring upon you all the bad things, until he has destroyed you from this good land that the Lord your God has given you.

If you transgress the covenant of the Lord your God, which he enjoined on you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the Lord will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from the good land that he has given to you."

Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and summoned the elders, the heads, the judges, and the officers of Israel; and they presented themselves before God.

And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the Lord , the God of Israel: Long ago your ancestors—Terah and his sons Abraham and Nahor—lived beyond the Euphrates and served other gods.

for it is the Lord our God who brought us and our ancestors up from the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and who did those great signs in our sight. He protected us along all the way that we went, and among all the peoples through whom we passed;

and the Lord drove out before us all the peoples, the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve the Lord , for he is our God."

But Joshua said to the people, "You cannot serve the Lord , for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.

He said, "Then put away the foreign gods that are among you, and incline your hearts to the Lord , the God of Israel."

The people said to Joshua, "The Lord our God we will serve, and him we will obey."

Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a large stone, and set it up there under the oak in the sanctuary of the Lord .

Joshua said to all the people, "See, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of the Lord that he spoke to us; therefore it shall be a witness against you, if you deal falsely with your God."

Adoni-bezek said, "Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off used to pick up scraps under my table; as I have done, so God has paid me back." They brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.

and they abandoned the Lord , the God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt; they followed other gods, from among the gods of the peoples who were all around them, and bowed down to them; and they provoked the Lord to anger.

The Israelites did what was evil in the sight of the Lord , forgetting the Lord their God, and worshiping the Baals and the Asherahs.

Ehud came to him, while he was sitting alone in his cool roof chamber, and said, "I have a message from God for you." So he rose from his seat.

She sent and summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali, and said to him, "The Lord , the God of Israel, commands you, ‘Go, take position at Mount Tabor, bringing ten thousand from the tribe of Naphtali and the tribe of Zebulun.

So on that day God subdued King Jabin of Canaan before the Israelites.

"Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes; to the Lord I will sing, I will make melody to the Lord , the God of Israel.

The mountains quaked before the Lord , the One of Sinai, before the Lord , the God of Israel.

the Lord sent a prophet to the Israelites; and he said to them, "Thus says the Lord , the God of Israel: I led you up from Egypt, and brought you out of the house of slavery;