Joshua 24:21

But the people said to Joshua, “No, we will worship Yahweh.”

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

In Context

20If you forsake Yahweh and worship foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm. He will consume you, after he has done good to you.”

22Then Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves Yahweh, to worship him.” They said, “We are witnesses.”

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Cross References

Exodus 19:8All the people answered together and said, “We will do everything that Yahweh has said.” Then Moses came to report the people's words to Yahweh.

Exodus 24:3Moses went and told the people all of Yahweh's words and decrees. All the people answered with one voice and said, “We will do all the words that Yahweh has said.”

Deuteronomy 5:27As for you, you should go and listen to everything that Yahweh our God says; repeat to us everything that Yahweh our God says to you; we will listen to it and obey it.'

Isaiah 44:5One will say, 'I belong to Yahweh,' and another will call out the name of Jacob, 1 and another will write on his hand 'Belonging to Yahweh,' and name himself by the name of Israel.” 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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