Joshua 24:22

So Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord to serve him.” “Yes, we are!” they responded.

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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

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

23“Then here and now,” he said, “put away the foreign gods which are among you and give your hearts to the Lord the God of Israel.”

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Cross References

Psalms 119:173Let your hand be ready to help me, for your precepts have been my choice.

Luke 19:22The master answered ‘Out of your own mouth I judge you, you worthless servant. You knew that I am a stern man, that I take what I have not planted, and reap what I have not sown?

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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