Joshua 24:7-9

Contemporary English Version

⁷ Your people cried to me for help, so I put a dark cloud between them and the Egyptians. Then I opened up the sea and let your people walk across on dry ground. But when the Egyptians tried to follow, I commanded the sea to swallow them, and they drowned while you watched.

You lived in the desert for a long time, ^8 (A) then I brought you into the land east of the Jordan River. The Amorites were living there, and they fought you. But with my help, you defeated them, wiped them out, and took their land. ^9 (B) King Balak decided that his nation Moab would go to war against you, so he asked Balaam^[a] to come and put a curse on you.