Joshua 24:2
And Joshua said unto all the people: 'Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel: Your fathers dwelt of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor; and they served other gods.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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Genesis 11:22And Serug lived thirty years, and begot Nahor.
Genesis 11:27Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot.
Genesis 31:30And now that thou art surely gone, because thou sore longest after thy father's house, wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?'
Genesis 31:53The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us.' And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
Deuteronomy 26:5And thou shalt speak and say before the LORD thy God: 'A wandering Aramean was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
1 Chronicles 1:27Abram — the same is Abraham.
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 →