Joshua 24:15
If it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose today whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
World English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
16The people answered, “Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
Cross References
Exodus 23:2“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.
Exodus 23:32You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
Leviticus 14:42They shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall plaster the house.
Deuteronomy 29:18lest there should be among you man, woman, family, or tribe whose heart turns away today from the LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that produces bitter poison;
Ruth 1:15She said, “Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law.”
1 Chronicles 1:14the Jebusite, the Amorite, the Girgashite,
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 →