1. Many years later, after the Lord had given the Israelites rest from all their enemies round about them, and when Joshua was old and advanced in years,
2. he summoned all Israel, including their elders, leaders, judges and officers, and said to them: “I am old and advanced in years.
3. You have seen all that the Lord, your God, has done for you against all these nations; for it has been the Lord, your God, who fought for you.
4. See, I have apportioned among your tribes as their heritage the nations that survive, as well as those I destroyed, between the Jordan and the Great Sea in the west.