1. The years passed, and the lord had given the people of Israel rest from all their enemies. Joshua, who was now very old,
2. called together all the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel. He said to them, “I am now a very old man.
3. You have seen everything the lord your God has done for you during my lifetime. The lord your God has fought for you against your enemies.
4. I have allotted to you as your homeland all the land of the nations yet unconquered, as well as the land of those we have already conquered—from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea in the west.