1 After a long time had passed and the Lord had given Israel rest from all their enemies around them, Joshua, by then a very old man,
2 summoned all Israel – their elders, leaders, judges and officials – and said to them: ‘I am very old.
3 You yourselves have seen everything the Lord your God has done to all these nations for your sake; it was the Lord your God who fought for you.
4 Remember how I have allotted as an inheritance for your tribes all the land of the nations that remain – the nations I conquered – between the Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea in the west.