Joshua 24:14-28
1599 Geneva Bible
14 Now therefore [a]fear the Lord, and serve him in uprightness and in truth, and put away the gods, which your fathers served beyond the flood, and in Egypt, and serve ye the Lord.
15 And [b]if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served (that were beyond the flood) or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: [c]but I and mine house will serve the Lord.
16 Then the people answered and said, God forbid, that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods.
17 For the Lord our God, he brought us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and he did those great miracles in our sight, and preserved us in all the way that we went, and among all the people through whom we came.
18 And the Lord did cast out before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the Lord, [d]for he is our God.
19 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the Lord: for he is an holy God: he is a jealous God: he will not pardon your iniquity nor your sins.
20 If ye forsake the Lord and serve strange gods, (A)then he will return and bring evil upon you, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
21 And the people said unto Joshua, Nay, but we will serve the Lord.
22 And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses [e]against yourselves, that ye have chosen you the Lord, to serve him: and they said, We are witnesses.
23 Then put away now, said he, the strange [f]gods which are among you, and bow your hearts unto the Lord God of Israel.
24 And the people said unto Joshua, The Lord our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
25 So Joshua [g]made a covenant with the people the same day, and gave them an ordinance and law in Shechem.
26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the Law of God and took a great stone, and pitched it there under an [h]oak that was in the Sanctuary of the Lord.
27 And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us: for it [i]hath heard all the words of the Lord which he spake with us: it shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.
28 Then Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.
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- Joshua 24:14 This is the true use of God’s benefits, to learn thereby to fear and serve him with an upright conscience.
- Joshua 24:15 Hebrew, if it be evil in your sight.
- Joshua 24:15 This teacheth us that if all the world would go from God, yet every one of us particularly is bound to cleave unto him.
- Joshua 24:18 How much more are we bound to serve God in Christ, by whom we have received the redemption of our souls?
- Joshua 24:22 If you do the contrary, your own mouths shall condemn you.
- Joshua 24:23 Out of your hearts and otherwise.
- Joshua 24:25 By joining God and the people together: also he repeated the promises and threatenings out of the Law.
- Joshua 24:26 Or, elm.
- Joshua 24:27 Rather than man’s dissimulation should not be punished, the dumb creatures shall cry for vengeance.
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