Read Joshua 23.1-16
In 23.1-16: Joshua's farewell.
In verse 1: Joshua's great age (13.1) motivates an exhortation to faithfulness and a warning about the future.
Rest signals the end of the conquest (21.44; 22.4).
In verse 4: In spite of many victories, some enemy nations remain.
They represent both opportunities for further success (v. 5) and dangerous enticements to infidelity (vv. 7, 12-13).
In verse 6: Future success requires that the whole nation show the same undeviating obedience to the book of the law (Deuteronomy) that was enjoined on Joshua in 1.7-8.
In verse 12: Intermarriage would establish complex relationships between families resulting in religious disloyalty (Deut 7.3-4).
In verse 13: The metaphors of a snare and a trap signify loss of freedom, and a scourge communicates political oppression (1 Kings 12.11).
Exile from this good land is threatened three times (vv. 13, 15, 16).
In verses 14-15: The Lord has been trustworthy in keeping past promises (see 21.45), but this means that the Lord's threatened punishments are equally certain to take place.
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