1. Much later the Lord gave Israel security from their enemies around them. By that time Joshua was very old,
2. so he called all Israel, the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of the people, and said, “I am very old now.
3. You have seen everything that the Lord your God has done to all these nations because of you. The Lord your God has been fighting for you.
4. I have assigned as the possession of your tribes the land of the nations that are still left, as well as of all the nations that I have already conquered, from the River Jordan in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.
5. The Lord your God will make them retreat from you, and he will drive them away as you advance. You shall have their land, as the Lord your God has promised you.