that you may enterinto the covenantwith the LORDyour God,and into His oathwhichthe LORDyour Godis makingwith you today,
Then Jehoiadamadea covenantbetweenthe LORDand the kingand the people,that they would be the LORD'Speople,also betweenthe kingand the people.
Then I will takeyou for My people,and I will be your God;and you shall knowthat I am the LORDyour God,who broughtyou out from underthe burdensof the Egyptians.
"Moreover, you tookyour sonsand daughterswhomyou had borneto Me and sacrificedthem to idols to be devoured.Were your harlotriessosmalla matter?
See,I have placedthe landbeforeyou; goin and possessthe landwhichthe LORDsworeto giveto your fathers,to Abraham,to Isaac,and to Jacob,to them and their descendantsafterthem.'
"You have todaydeclaredthe LORDto be your God,and that you would walkin His waysand keepHis statutes,His commandmentsand His ordinances,and listento His voice.
"The LORDwill establishyou as a holypeopleto Himself, as He sworeto you, ifyou keepthe commandmentsof the LORDyour Godand walkin His ways.
your littleones,your wives,and the alienwhois withinyour camps,from the one who chopsyour woodto the one who drawsyour water,
in orderthat He may establishyou todayas His peopleand that He may be your God,justas He spoketo you and as He sworeto your fathers,to Abraham,Isaac,and Jacob.
"Now not with you aloneam I makingthiscovenantand thisoath,
So Joshuamadea covenantwith the peoplethat day,and madefor them a statuteand an ordinancein Shechem.
