Joshua 24:20

If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, he will turn to do evil to you and consume you after he has been doing you good.”

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In The King James Version

If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.

In Context

19Joshua said to the people, “You may not be able to serve the Lord. He is a holy God, a jealous God, he will not forgive any sinful disloyalty of yours.

21“No,” said the people, “we will serve the Lord.”

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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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