Joshua 24:15
But if it seems evil to you that you would serve the Lord, a choice is given to you. Choose today what pleases you, and whom you ought to serve above all else, either the gods that your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you live: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”
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Exodus 23:2You shall not follow the crowd in doing evil. Neither shall you go astray in judgment, by agreeing with the majority opinion, apart from the truth.
Exodus 23:32You shall not enter into a pact with them, nor with their gods.
Leviticus 14:42and that other stones be put back, in place of those which had been taken away, and that the house be plastered with other mortar.
Deuteronomy 29:18so that there would not be among you man or woman, family or tribe, whose heart has been turned away this day from the Lord our God, so as to go and serve the gods of those nations. For then there would be among you a root springing forth gall and bitterness.
Ruth 1:15Naomi said to her, “See, your kinswoman returns to her people, and to her gods. Hurry after her.”
1 Chronicles 1:14and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,
Matthew Henry on Joshua 24:2-15
Joshua's Farewell Address to Israel. ( b. c. 1427.) 1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God. 2 And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods. 3 And I took your father Abraham… Read the whole commentary →