Joshua 23:8
Good News Translation
Instead, be faithful to the LORD, as you have been till now.

New Revised Standard Version
but hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day.

Contemporary English Version
Be as faithful to the LORD as you have always been.

New American Bible
but you must hold fast to the LORD, your God, as you have done up to this day.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But cleave ye unto the Lord your God, as you have done until this day.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But cleave ye unto the Lord your God, as you have done until this day.

or, For if ye will cleave, etc.

Joshua 22:5 Yet so that you observe attentively, and in work fulfil the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you: that you love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, and keep all his commandments, and cleave to him, and serve him with all your heart, and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 4:4 But you that adhere to the Lord your God, are all alive until this present day.

Deuteronomy 10:20 Thou shalt fear the Lord thy God, and serve him only: to him thou shalt adhere, and shalt swear by his name.

Deuteronomy 11:22 For if you keep the commandments which I command you, and do them, to love the Lord your God, and walk in all his ways, cleaving unto him,

Deuteronomy 13:4 Follow the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and hear his voice: him you shall serve, and to him you shall cleave.

Acts 11:23 Who, when he was come and had seen the grace of God, rejoiced. And he exhorted them all with purpose of heart to continue in the Lord.

Context
Joshua's Charge to Leaders
7Lest after that you are come in among the Gentiles, who will remain among you, you should swear by the name of their gods, and serve them, and adore them: 8But cleave ye unto the Lord your God, as you have done until this day.9And then the Lord God will take away before your eyes nations that are great and very strong, and no man shall be able to resist you.…
Cross References
Joshua 23:7
Lest after that you are come in among the Gentiles, who will remain among you, you should swear by the name of their gods, and serve them, and adore them:

Joshua 23:9
And then the Lord God will take away before your eyes nations that are great and very strong, and no man shall be able to resist you.

2 Kings 18:6
And he stuck to the Lord, and departed not from his steps, but kept his commandments, which the Lord commanded Moses.

Joshua 23:7
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