여호수아 24

1여호수아가 이스라엘 모든 지파를 세겜에 모으고 이스라엘 장로들과 그 두령들과 재판장들과 유사들을 부르매 그들이 하나님 앞에 보인지라 2여호수아가 모든 백성에게 이르되 이스라엘 하나님 여호와의 말씀에 옛적에 너희 조상들 곧 아브라함의 아비, 나홀의 아비 데라 가 강 저편에 거하여 다른 신들을 섬겼으나 3내가 너희 조상 아브라함을 강 저편에서 이끌어내어 가나안으로 인도하여 온 땅을 두루 행하게 하고 그 씨를 번성케 하려고 그에게 이삭을 주었고 4이삭에게는 야곱과 에서를 주었으며 에서에게는 세일 산을 소유로 주었으나 야곱과 그 자손들은 애굽으로 내려갔으므로 5내가 모세와 아론을 보내었고 또 애굽에 재앙을 내렸나니 곧 내가 그 가운데 행한 것과 같고 그 후에 너희를 인도하여 내었었노라 6내가 너희 열조를 애굽에서 인도하여 내어 바다에 이르게 한즉 애굽 사람이 병거와 마병을 거느리고 너희 열조를 홍해까지 따르므로 7너희 열조가 나 여호와께 부르짖기로 내가 너희와 애굽 사람 사이에 흑암을 두고 바다를 이끌어 그들을 덮었었나니 내가 애굽에서 행한 일을 너희가 목도하였으며 또 너희가 여러 날을 광야에 거하였었느니라 8내가 또 너희를 인도하여 요단 저편에 거하는 아모리 사람의 땅으로 들어가게 하매 그들이 너희와 싸우기로 내가 그들을 너희 손에 붙이매 너희가 그 땅을 점령하였고 나는 그들을 너희 앞에서 멸절시켰으며 9때에 모압 왕 십볼의 아들 발락이 일어나 이스라엘을 대적하여 사람을 보내어 브올의 아들 발람을 불러다가 너희를 저주케 하려 하였으나 10내가 발람을 듣기를 원치 아니한고로 그가 오히려 너희에게 축복하였고 나는 너희를 그 손에서 건져 내었으며 11너희가 요단을 건너 여리고에 이른즉 여리고 사람과 아모리 사람과 브리스 사람과 가나안 사람과 헷 사람과 기르가스 사람과 히위 사람과 여부스 사람들이 너희와 싸우기로 내가 그들을 너희의 손에 붙였으며 12내가 왕벌을 너희 앞에 보내어 그 아모리 사람의 두 왕을 너희 앞에서 쫓아내게 하였나니 너희 칼로나 너희 활로나 이같이 한 것이 아니며 13내가 또 너희의 수고하지 아니한 땅과 너희가 건축지 아니한 성읍을 너희에게 주었더니 너희가 그 가운데 거하며 너희가 또 자기의 심지 아니한 포도원과 감람원의 과실을 먹는다 하셨느니라 14그러므로 이제는 여호와를 경외하며 성실과 진정으로 그를 섬길 것이라 너희의 열조가 강 저편과 애굽에서 섬기던 신들을 제하여 버리고 여호와만 섬기라 15만일 여호와를 섬기는 것이 너희에게 좋지 않게 보이거든 너희 열조가 강 저편에서 섬기던 신이든지 혹 너희의 거하는 땅 아모리 사람의 신이든지 너희 섬길 자를 오늘날 택하라 오직 나와 내 집은 여호와를 섬기겠노라 16백성이 대답하여 가로되 여호와를 버리고 다른 신들 섬기는 일을 우리가 결단코 하지 아니하오리니 17이는 우리 하나님 여호와 그가 우리와 우리 열조를 인도하여 애굽 땅 종 되었던 집에서 나오게 하시고 우리 목전에서 그 큰 이적들을 행하시고 우리가 행한 모든 길에서, 우리의 지난 모든 백성 중에서 우리를 보호하셨음이며 18여호와께서 또 모든 백성 곧 이 땅에 거하던 아모리 사람을 우리 앞에서 쫓아내셨음이라 그러므로 우리도 여호와를 섬기리니 그는 우리 하나님이심이니이다 19여호수아가 백성에게 이르되 너희가 여호와를 능히 섬기지 못할 것은 그는 거룩하신 하나님이시요 질투하는 하나님이시니 너희 허물과 죄를 사하지 아니하실 것임이라 20만일 너희가 여호와를 버리고 이방신들을 섬기면 너희에게 복을 내리신 후에라도 돌이켜 너희에게 화를 내리시고 너희를 멸하시리라 21백성이 여호수아에게 말하되 아니니이다 우리가 정녕 여호와를 섬기겠나이다 22여호수아가 백성에게 이르되 너희가 여호와를 택하고 그를 섬기리라 하였으니 스스로 증인이 되었느니라 그들이 가로되 우리가 증인이 되었나이다 23여호수아가 가로되 그러면 이제 너희 중에 있는 이방신들을 제하여 버리고 너희 마음을 이스라엘의 하나님 여호와께로 향하라 24백성이 여호수아에게 말하되 우리 하나님 여호와를 우리가 섬기고 그 목소리를 우리가 청종하리이다 한지라 25그 날에 여호수아가 세겜에서 백성으로 더불어 언약을 세우고 그들을 위하여 율례와 법도를 베풀었더라 26여호수아가 이 모든 말씀을 하나님의 율법책에 기록하고 큰 돌을 취하여 거기 여호와의 성소 곁에 있는 상수리나무 아래 세우고 27모든 백성에게 이르되 보라 이 돌이 우리에게 증거가 되리니 이는 여호와께서 우리에게 하신 모든 말씀을 이 돌이 들었음이라 그런즉 너희로 너희 하나님을 배반치 않게 하도록 이 돌이 증거가 되리라 하고 28백성을 보내어 각기 기업으로 돌아가게 하였더라 29이 일 후에 여호와의 종 눈의 아들 여호수아가 일백십 세에 죽으매 30무리가 그를 그의 기업의 경내 딤낫 세라에 장사하였으니 딤낫 세라는 에브라임 산지 가아스 산 북이었더라 31이스라엘이 여호수아의 사는 날 동안과 여호수아 뒤에 생존한 장로들 곧 여호와께서 이스라엘을 위하여 행하신 모든 일을 아는 자의 사는 날 동안 여호와를 섬겼더라 32이스라엘 자손이 애굽에서 이끌어 낸 요셉의 뼈를 세겜에 장사하였으니 이곳은 야곱이 세겜의 아비 하몰의 자손에게 금 일백 개를 주고 산 땅이라 그것이 요셉 자손의 기업이 되었더라 33아론의 아들 엘르아살도 죽으매 무리가 그를 그 아들 비느하스가 에브라임 산지에서 받은 산에 장사하였더라

1Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. 2Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods. 3I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac. 4I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it. Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. 5“‘I sent Moses and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did in its midst: and afterward I brought you out. 6I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and you came to the sea. The Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and with horsemen to the Red Sea. 7When they cried out to Yahweh, he put darkness between you and the Egyptians, and brought the sea on them, and covered them; and your eyes saw what I did in Egypt: and you lived in the wilderness many days. 8“‘I brought you into the land of the Amorites, that lived beyond the Jordan: and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand. You possessed their land; and I destroyed them from before you. 9Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel. He sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you; 10but I would not listen to Balaam; therefore he blessed you still. So I delivered you out of his hand. 11“‘You went over the Jordan, and came to Jericho. The men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite; and I delivered them into your hand. 12I sent the hornet before you, which drove them out from before you, even the two kings of the Amorites; not with your sword, nor with your bow. 13I gave you a land whereon you had not labored, and cities which you didn’t build, and you live in them. You eat of vineyards and olive groves which you didn’t plant.’ 14“Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh. 15If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.” 16The people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods; 17for it is Yahweh our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the midst of whom we passed. 18Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God.” 19Joshua said to the people, “You can’t serve Yahweh; for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins. 20If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.” 21The people said to Joshua, “No; but we will serve Yahweh.” 22Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him.” They said, “We are witnesses.” 23“Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel.” 24The people said to Joshua, “We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice.” 25So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. 26Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh. 27Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all Yahweh’s words which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.” 28So Joshua sent the people away, every man to his inheritance. 29After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being one hundred and ten years old. 30They buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of the mountain of Gaash. 31Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that he had worked for Israel. 32They buried the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, in Shechem, in the parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money. They became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. 33Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.

1Daarna verzamelde Jozua al de stammen van Israel te Sichem, en hij riep de oudsten van Israel, en deszelfs hoofden, en deszelfs richters, en deszelfs ambtlieden; en zij stelden zich voor het aangezicht van God. 2Toen zeide Jozua tot het ganse volk: Alzo zegt de HEERE, de God Israels: Over gene zijde der rivier hebben uw vaders van ouds gewoond, namelijk Terah, de vader van Abraham, en de vader van Nahor; en zij hebben andere goden gediend. 3Toen nam Ik uw vader Abraham van gene zijde der rivier, en deed hem wandelen door het ganse land Kanaan; Ik vermeerderde ook zijn zaad en gaf hem Izak. 4En aan Izak gaf Ik Jakob en Ezau; en Ik gaf aan Ezau het gebergte Seir, om dat erfelijk te bezitten; maar Jakob en zijn kinderen togen af in Egypte. 5Toen zond Ik Mozes en Aaron, en Ik plaagde Egypte, gelijk als Ik in deszelfs midden gedaan heb; en daarna leidde Ik u daaruit. 6Als Ik uw vaders uit Egypte gevoerd had, zo kwaamt gij aan de zee, en de Egyptenaars jaagden uw vaderen na met wagens en met ruiters, tot de Schelfzee. 7Zij nu riepen tot den HEERE, en Hij stelde een duisternis tussen u en tussen de Egyptenaars, en Hij bracht de zee over hen, en bedekte hen; en uw ogen hebben gezien, wat Ik in Egypte gedaan heb. Daarna hebt gij vele dagen in de woestijn gewoond. 8Toen bracht Ik u in het land der Amorieten, die over gene zijde van de Jordaan woonden, die streden tegen u; maar Ik gaf hen in uw hand, en gij bezat hun land erfelijk, en Ik verdelgde hen voor ulieder aangezicht. 9Ook maakt zich Balak op, de zoon van Zippor, de koning der Moabieten, en hij streed tegen Israel; en hij zond heen, en deed Bileam, den zoon van Beor, roepen, opdat hij u vervloeken zou. 10Maar Ik wilde Bileam niet horen; dies zegende hij u gestadig, en Ik verloste u uit zijn hand. 11Toen gij over de Jordaan getrokken waart, en te Jericho kwaamt, zo krijgden de burgers van Jericho tegen u, de Amorieten, en de Ferezieten, en de Kanaanieten, en de Hethieten, en de Girgazieten, de Hevieten en de Jebusieten; doch Ik gaf hen in ulieder hand. 12En Ik zond horzelen voor u heen; die dreven hen weg van ulieder aangezicht, gelijk de beide koningen der Amorieten, niet door uw zwaard, noch door uw boog. 13Dus heb Ik u een land gegeven, waaraan gij niet gearbeid hebt, en steden, die gij niet gebouwd hebt, en gij woont in dezelve; gij eet van de wijngaarden en olijfbomen, die gij niet geplant hebt. 14En nu, vreest den HEERE, en dient Hem in oprechtheid en in waarheid; en doet weg de goden, die uw vaders gediend hebben, aan gene zijde der rivier, en in Egypte; en dient den HEERE. 15Doch zo het kwaad is in uw ogen den HEERE te dienen, kiest u heden, wien gij dienen zult; hetzij de goden, welke uw vaders, die aan de andere zijde der rivier waren, gediend hebben, of de goden der Amorieten, in welker land gij woont; maar aangaande mij, en mijn huis, wij zullen den HEERE dienen! 16Toen antwoordde het volk en zeide: Het zij verre van ons, dat wij den HEERE verlaten zouden, om andere goden te dienen. 17Want de HEERE is onze God; Hij is het, Die ons en onze vaderen uit het land van Egypte, uit het diensthuis heeft opgebracht, en Die deze grote tekenen voor onze ogen gedaan heeft, en ons bewaard heeft op al den weg, door welken wij getogen zijn, en onder alle volken, door welker midden wij getrokken zijn. 18En de HEERE heeft voor ons aangezicht uitgestoten al die volken, zelfs den Amoriet, inwoner des lands. Wij zullen ook den HEERE dienen, want Hij is onze God. 19Toen zeide Jozua tot het volk: Gij zult den HEERE niet kunnen dienen, want Hij is een heilig God; Hij is een ijverig God; Hij zal uw overtredingen en uw zonden niet vergeven. 20Indien gij den HEERE verlaten en vreemde goden dienen zult, zo zal Hij Zich omkeren, en Hij zal u kwaad doen, en Hij zal u verdoen, naar dat Hij u goed gedaan zal hebben. 21Toen zeide het volk tot Jozua: Neen, maar wij zullen den HEERE dienen. 22Jozua nu zeide tot het volk: Gij zijt getuigen over uzelven, dat gij u den HEERE verkoren hebt, om Hem te dienen. En zij zeiden: Wij zijn getuigen. 23En nu, doet de vreemde goden weg, die in het midden van u zijn, en neigt uw harten tot den HEERE, den God van Israel. 24En het volk zeide tot Jozua: Wij zullen den HEERE, onzen God, dienen, en wij zullen Zijner stem gehoorzamen. 25Alzo maakt Jozua op dienzelven dag een verbond met het volk; en hij stelde het hun tot een inzetting en recht te Sichem. 26En Jozua schreef deze woorden in het wetboek Gods; en hij nam een groten steen, en hij richtte dien daar op onder den eik, die bij het heiligdom des HEEREN was. 27En Jozua zeide tot het ganse volk: Ziet, deze steen zal ons tot een getuigenis zijn; want hij heeft gehoord al de redenen des HEEREN, die Hij tot ons gesproken heeft; ja, hij zal tot een getuigenis tegen ulieden zijn, opdat gij uw God niet liegt. 28Toen zond Jozua het volk weg, een ieder naar zijn erfdeel. 29En het geschiedde na deze dingen, dat Jozua, de zoon van Nun, de knecht des HEEREN, stierf, oud zijnde honderd en tien jaren. 30En zij begroeven hem in de landpale zijns erfdeels, te Timnath-Serah, welke is op een berg van Efraim, aan het noorden van den berg Gaas. 31Israel nu diende den HEERE al de dagen van Jozua, en al de dagen van de oudsten, die lang na Jozua leefden, en die al het werk des HEEREN wisten, hetwelk Hij aan Israel gedaan had. 32Zij begroeven ook de beenderen van Jozef, die de kinderen Israel uit Egypte opgebracht hadden, te Sichem, in dat stuk velds, hetwelk Jakob gekocht had van de kinderen van Hemor, den vader van Sichem, voor honderd stukken gelds, want zij waren aan de kinderen van Jozef ter erfenis geworden. 33Ook stierf Eleazar, de zoon van Aaron; en zij begroeven hem op den heuvel van Pinehas, zijn zoon, die hem gegeven was geweest op het gebergte van Efraim.