12. Then I sent the hornet before you and it drove them out from before you—the two kings of the Amorites—not by your sword or your bow.
13. I gave you a land on which you had not labored, and cities that you had not built and you have settled in them, vineyards and olive groves that you had not planted, that you are eating.
14. “Now therefore, fear Adonai and worship Him in sincerity and in truth. Get rid of the gods that your fathers had worshipped beyond the River and in Egypt, and worship Adonai.
15. If it seems bad to you to worship Adonai, then choose for yourselves today whom you will serve—whether the gods that your fathers worshipped that were beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will worship Adonai!”
16. Then the people answered and said: “Far be it from us that we should forsake Adonai to worship other gods!
17. For it was Adonai our God who brought us and our fathers up from the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight and preserved us all along the way that we travelled and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed.
18. It was Adonai who drove out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites that lived in the land. Therefore we also will worship Adonai, for He is our God.”
19. But Joshua said to the people, “You will not be able to worship Adonai, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not pardon your transgression and your sins.
20. If you forsake Adonai and worship foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you, after He has done good to you.”
21. But the people said to Joshua, “No! For we will worship Adonai.”
22. So Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses to yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves Adonai, to worship Him.” “We are witnesses,” they responded.
23. “Now therefore, get rid of the foreign gods that are in your midst, and incline your hearts to Adonai, God of Israel.”
24. And the people said to Joshua, “We will worship none but Adonai our God, and we will obey none but His voice.”
25. So Joshua cut a covenant with the people that day, and set for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
26. Then Joshua wrote these words in the scroll of the Torah of God. Also he took a great stone and set it up there under the oak that was by the Sanctuary of Adonai.