^18 (A)At that time I charged you: The Lord, your God, has given you this land as your possession. But all your troops equipped for battle must cross over in the vanguard of your fellow Israelites. ¹⁹ But your wives and children, as well as your livestock, of which I know you have a large number, shall remain behind in the towns I have given you, ²⁰ until the Lord has settled your relatives as well, and they too possess the land which the Lord, your God, will give them on the other side of the Jordan. Then you may all return to the possessions I have given you.

^22 (A)For if you are careful to observe this entire commandment I am giving you, loving the Lord, your God, following his ways exactly, and holding fast to him, ²³ the Lord will dispossess all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and mightier than yourselves. ^24 (B)Every place where you set foot shall be yours: from the wilderness and the Lebanon, from the Euphrates River to the Western Sea,^[a] shall be your territory. ²⁵ None shall stand up against you; the Lord, your God, will spread the fear and dread of you through any land where you set foot, as he promised you.^(C)

Chapter 23

Joshua’s Final Plea. ¹ Many years later, after the Lord had given the Israelites rest from all their enemies round about them, and when Joshua was old and advanced in years,^(A)

Chapter 7

The Oracle of Nathan. ^1 (A)After the king had taken up residence in his house, and the Lord had given him rest from his enemies on every side,^(B)

^17 (A)“You know that David my father, because of the wars that beset him, could not build a house for the name of the Lord his God until such time as the Lord should put his enemies under the soles of his feet. ¹⁸ But now the Lord, my God, has given me rest on all sides, without adversary or misfortune.