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.