Joshua 8:34 Cross References

Joshua 8:34

34: Joshua then read to them all the blessings and curses Moses had written in the Book of the Law.

So on October 8 Ezra the priest brought the scroll of the law before the assembly, which included the men and women and all the children old enough to understand.
He faced the square just inside the Water Gate from early morning until noon and read aloud to everyone who could understand. All the people paid close attention to the Book of the Law.

Study this Book of the Law continually. Meditate on it day and night so you may be sure to obey all that is written in it. Only then will you succeed.

On that same day, as the Book of Moses was being read, the people found a statement which said that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever be permitted to enter the assembly of God.

"Now listen! Today I am giving you a choice between prosperity and disaster, between life and death.
I have commanded you today to love the LORD your God and to keep his commands, laws, and regulations by walking in his ways. If you do this, you will live and become a great nation, and the LORD your God will bless you and the land you are about to enter and occupy.
But if your heart turns away and you refuse to listen, and if you are drawn away to serve and worship other gods,
then I warn you now that you will certainly be destroyed. You will not live a long, good life in the land you are crossing the Jordan to occupy.
"Today I have given you the choice between life and death, between blessings and curses. I call on heaven and earth to witness the choice you make. Oh, that you would choose life, that you and your descendants might live!

Then Moses gave them this command: "At the end of every seventh year, the Year of Release, during the Festival of Shelters,
you must read this law to all the people of Israel when they assemble before the LORD your God at the place he chooses.
Call them all together--men, women, children, and the foreigners living in your towns--so they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and carefully obey all the terms of this law.

Then the Levites must shout to all the people of Israel:
`Cursed is anyone who carves or casts idols and secretly sets them up. These idols, the work of craftsmen, are detestable to the LORD.' And all the people will reply, `Amen.'
`Cursed is anyone who despises father or mother.' And all the people will reply, `Amen.'
`Cursed is anyone who steals property from a neighbor by moving a boundary marker.' And all the people will reply, `Amen.'
`Cursed is anyone who leads a blind person astray on the road.' And all the people will reply, `Amen.'

The LORD will not pardon such people. His anger and jealousy will burn against them. All the curses written in this book will come down on them, and the LORD will erase their names from under heaven.
The LORD will separate them from all the tribes of Israel, to pour out on them all the covenant curses recorded in this Book of the Law.

The Book of the Law of the LORD their God was read aloud to them for about three hours. Then for three more hours they took turns confessing their sins and worshiping the LORD their God.

"Do not make idols or set up carved images, sacred pillars, or shaped stones to be worshiped in your land. I, the LORD, am your God.
You must keep my Sabbath days of rest and show reverence for my sanctuary. I am the LORD.
"If you keep my laws and are careful to obey my commands,
I will send the seasonal rains. The land will then yield its crops, and the trees will produce their fruit.
Your threshing season will extend until the grape harvest, and your grape harvest will extend until it is time to plant grain again. You will eat your fill and live securely in your land.

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