Joshua 23:5-13

⁵And the Lord our God, he shall destroy them before us, until they utterly perish; and he shall send against them the wild beasts, until he shall have utterly destroyed them and their kings from before you; and ye shall inherit their land, as the Lord our God said to you.

⁶Do ye therefore strive diligently to observe and do all things written in the book of the law of Moses, that ye turn not to the right hand or to the left;

⁷that ye go not in among these nations that are left; and the names of their gods shall not be named among you, neither shall ye serve them, neither shall ye bow down to them.

⁸But ye shall cleave to the Lord our God, as ye have done until this day.

⁹And the Lord shall destroy them before you, even great and strong nations; and no one has stood before us until this day.

¹⁰One of you has chased a thousand, for the Lord our God, he fought for you, as he said to you.

¹¹And take ye great heed to love the Lord our God.

¹²For if ye shall turn aside and attach yourselves to these nations that are left with you, and make marriages with them, and become mingled with them and they with you,

¹³know that the Lord will no more destroy these nations from before you; and they will be to you snares and stumbling blocks, and nails in your heels, and darts in your eyes, until ye be destroyed from off this good land, which the Lord your God has given you.