Joshua 24:25

So Ioshua made a couenant with the people the same day, and gaue them an ordinance and lawe in Shechem.

Geneva Bible 1599

In The King James Version

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

In Context

24And ye people saide vnto Ioshua, The Lord our God wil we serue, and his voyce wil we obey.

26And Ioshua wrote these woordes in the booke of the Lawe of God, and tooke a great stone, and pitched it there vnder an oke that was in the Sanctuarie of the Lord.

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Cross References

Exodus 15:25And he cried vnto the Lord, and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were sweete: there he made them an ordinance and a law, and there he proued them,

Exodus 24:7After he tooke the booke of the couenant, and read it in the audience of the people: who said, All that the Lord hath said, we will do, and be obedient.

Deuteronomy 29:1These are the wordes of the couenant which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the lande of Moab beside the couenant which hee had made with them in Horeb.

Deuteronomy 29:11Your children, your wiues, and thy stranger that is in thy campe from the hewer of thy wood, vnto the drawer of thy water,

Joshua 24:26And Ioshua wrote these woordes in the booke of the Lawe of God, and tooke a great stone, and pitched it there vnder an oke that was in the Sanctuarie of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 15:12And they made a couenant to seeke the Lord God of their fathers, with all their heart, and with all their soule.

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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