Joshua 24:20
If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
In Context
21And the people said to Joshua, No! But we will be the servants of the Lord.
Cross References
1 Samuel 12:25But if you still do evil, destruction will overtake you and your king.
1 Chronicles 28:9And you, Solomon my son, get knowledge of the God of your father, and be his servant with a true heart and with a strong desire, for the Lord is the searcher of all hearts, and has knowledge of all the designs of men's thoughts; if you make search for him, he will be near you; but if you are turned away from him, he will give you up for ever.
Ezra 8:22For I would not, for shame, make request to the king for a band of armed men and horsemen to give us help against those who might make attacks on us on the way: for we had said to the king, The hand of our God is on his servants for good, but his power and his wrath are against all those who are turned away from him.
Isaiah 1:28But a common destruction will overtake sinners and evil-doers together, and those who have gone away from the Lord will be cut off.
Isaiah 65:11\64:12\In view of all this, will you still do nothing, O Lord? will you keep quiet, and go on increasing our punishment?
Ezekiel 18:24But when the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, like all the disgusting things which the evil man does, will he have life? Not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory: in the wrong which he has done and in his sin death will overtake him.
Matthew Henry on Joshua 24:16-29
15 And 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 on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord . 16 And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the Lord , to serve other gods; 17 For the Lord our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which… Read the whole commentary →