# Joshua’s warning to Israel’s leaders Conquest & Judges · Draft · BSB Content revision: 6b85b5dabb531bb3 · No editorial review date recorded [Citation / readable page](https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/joshua-farewell/) [Open interactive map](https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?event=joshua-farewell) [Markdown](https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/joshua-farewell/index.md) [JSON](https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/joshua-farewell/index.json) Date: Long after the campaigns · Joshua in old age In old age, Joshua reminds Israel’s leaders of what the LORD has done and urges them to hold fast to Him. The fulfilled promises do not remove the danger of abandoning the covenant: the same land can be lost through unfaithfulness. Joshua 23 comes long after the campaigns. Its assembly location is not named, so it is not automatically assigned to the Shechem gathering in chapter 24. Remaining nations are still present in Joshua’s warning. ## Primary Scripture [Joshua 23:1–16 (BSB)](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Joshua%2023%3A1%E2%80%9316&version=BSB) 23:1 A long time after the LORD had given Israel rest from all the enemies around them, when Joshua was old and well along in years, 23:2 he summoned all Israel, including its elders, leaders, judges, and officers. “I am old and well along in years,” he said, 23:3 “and you have seen everything that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, because it was the LORD your God who fought for you. 23:4 See, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea. 23:5 The LORD your God will push them out of your way and drive them out before you, so that you can take possession of their land, as the LORD your God promised you. 23:6 Be very strong, then, so that you can keep and obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, not turning aside from it to the right or to the left. 23:7 So you are not to associate with these nations that remain among you. You must not call on the names of their gods or swear by them, and you must not serve them or bow down to them. 23:8 Instead, you shall hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day. 23:9 The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you. 23:10 One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised. 23:11 Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God. 23:12 For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them, 23:13 know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you. 23:14 Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed. 23:15 But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you. 23:16 If you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from this good land He has given you.” ## Related Scripture [Deuteronomy 30:15–20 · teaching](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2030%3A15%E2%80%9320&version=BSB) Moses similarly joins life in the land with loving and holding fast to the LORD. [Deuteronomy 7:1–5 · teaching](https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%207%3A1%E2%80%935&version=BSB) Joshua repeats concerns about covenant loyalty and the worship of other gods. ## Location evidence This farewell has no named venue. The map leaves it unpinned rather than borrowing the location of the next chapter. No event map marker is assigned. Do not infer an exact venue from related places. ## For the class How does remembering fulfilled promises sharpen the call to faithfulness? ## Interpretation and reuse Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review. Record source: editorial (content/authored/conquest-judges.json) Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0. 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