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Covenant renewal at Shechem

Joshua gathered the tribes at Shechem, recounted the LORD's acts from Terah onward, and the people chose the LORD: as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD (Joshua 24:15). Scripture places it at the end of Joshua's life, without a year.

📖 Joshua 24:1–3

1Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel, and they presented themselves before God. 2And Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods. 3But I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,

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