Joshua 23:9-13 ▼

9 For Yahweh has dispossessed great and mighty nations from before you; and as for you, no man has stood before you to this day.

10 One of your men will pursue one thousand, for Yahweh your God is He who fights for you, just as He promised you.

11 So keep your souls very carefully to love Yahweh your God.

12 For if you ever turn back and cling to the rest of these nations, these which remain among you, and intermarry with them, so that you go along with them and they with you,

13 know with certainty that Yahweh your God will not continue to dispossess these nations from before you; but they will be a snare and a trap to you and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from off this good land which Yahweh your God has given you.