Joshua 24:21

And HaAm said unto Yehoshua, No; but we will serve Hashem.

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD.

In Context

20If ye forsake Hashem, and serve elohei nekhar (foreign g-ds), then He will turn and bring you rah, and consume you, after that He hath done you tov.

22And Yehoshua said unto HaAm, Ye are edim against yourselves that ye have chosen for you Hashem, to serve Him. And they said, We are edim.

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Cross References

Exodus 19:8And kol HaAm answered together, and said, All that Hashem hath spoken we will do. And Moshe brought back the words of HaAm unto Hashem.

Exodus 24:3And Moshe came and told HaAm kol divrei Hashem, and all the mishpatim; and kol HaAm answered with one voice, and said, All the words which Hashem hath said will we do.

Deuteronomy 5:27Go say to them, Get you into your oholim again.

Isaiah 44:5One shall say, I belong to Hashem; 1 and another shall call himself by the shem of Ya'akov; 1 and another shall write + 44:5 in witness with his yad, Hashemʼs, 1 and surname himself by the shem Yisroel. 1

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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