Joshua 24:15
But if it seem evil to you to serve the Lord, you have your choice: choose this day that which pleaseth you, whom you would rather serve, whether the gods which your fathers served in Mesopotamia, or the gods of the Amorrhites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
16And the people answered, and said: God forbid we should leave the Lord, and serve strange gods.
Cross References
Exodus 23:2Thou shalt not follow the multitude to do evil: neither shalt thou yield in judgment, to the opinion of the most part, to stray from the truth.
Exodus 23:32Thou shalt not enter into league with them, nor with their gods.
Leviticus 14:42And that other stones be laid in the place of them that were taken away, and the house be plastered with other mortar.
Deuteronomy 29:18Lest perhaps there should be among you a man or a woman, a family or a tribe, whose heart is turned away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations: and there should be among you a root bringing forth gall and bitterness.
Ruth 1:15And Noemi said to her: Behold thy kinswoman is returned to her people, and to her gods, go thou with her.
1 Chronicles 1:14And the Jebusite, and the Amorrhite, and the Gergesite,
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 →