Joshua 24:22

And Josue said to the people: You are witnesses, that you yourselves have chosen you the Lord to serve him. And they answered: We are witnesses.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.

In Context

21And the people said to Josue: No, it shall not be so as thou sayest, but we will serve the Lord.

23Now therefore, said he, put away strange gods from among you, and incline your hearts to the Lord the God of Israel.

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Cross References

Job 15:6Thy own mouth shall condemn thee, and not I: and thy own lips shall answer thee.

Luke 19:22He saith to him: Out of thy own mouth I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up what I laid not down, and reaping that which I did not sow:

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 →

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