1. After many days, when the Lord had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,
2. Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, “I am old and well advanced in years.
3. You have seen all that the Lord your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is the Lord your God who has fought for you.
4. Behold, I have allotted to you these nations that remain, to be an inheritance for your tribes, from the Jordan, with all the nations that I have cut off, even to the great sea towards the going down of the sun.
5. The Lord your God will thrust them out from before you, and drive them from out of your sight. You shall possess their land, as the Lord your God spoke to you.