Joshua 24:15
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom all of you 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 all of you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
16And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
Cross References
Exodus 23:2You shall not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shall you speak in a cause to decline after many to shift judgment:
Exodus 23:32You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
Leviticus 14:42And they shall take other stones, and put them in the place of those stones; and he shall take other mortar, and shall daubed the house.
Deuteronomy 29:18Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood;
Ruth 1:15And she said, Behold, your sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return you after your sister in law.
1 Chronicles 1:14The Jebusite also, and the Amorite, and 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 →