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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:21

And the people said unto Joshua, nay ,.... We will not serve strange gods: but we will serve the Lord ; according to his revealed will, and him only. read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:22

And Joshua said unto the people ,.... In reply to their answer and resolution: ye are witnesses against yourselves, that ye have chosen you the Lord God to serve him ; that is, should they, after this choice of him, which they had so publicly declared, desert his service, and go into idolatry, their testimony would rise up against them, and they would, be self-condemned: and they said, we are witnesses ; should we ever apostatize from the Lord and his worship, we are content to... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:23

Now therefore put away, said he ,.... Which last words are rightly supplied, for they are the words of Joshua: the strange gods which are among you ; not their private notions and secret sentiments that some of them had imbibed in favour of idols, and the worship of them, as Ben Gersom thinks; but, as the Targum expresses it,"the idols of the Gentiles;'either such as they had brought out of Egypt, or had found among the plunder of the Canaanites, and had secretly retained; or, as... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:24

And the people said unto Joshua ,.... A third time, that as by the mouth of two or three witnesses everything is confirmed, so by three testimonies of the same persons: the Lord our God will we serve ; as they had before declared, and to which they add: and his voice will we obey ; or his word, as the Targum, not only his word of command, but his essential Word, the Son of God. read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:25

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day ,.... Proposing to them what was most eligible, and their duty to do, and they agreeing to it, this formally constituted a covenant, of which they selves were both parties and witnesses: and set statute and an ordinance in Shechem ; either made this covenant to have the nature of a statute and ordinance binding upon them, or repeated and renewed the laws of Moses, both moral and ceremonial, which had been delivered at Mount Sinai, and... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:26

And Joshua wrote these words ,.... Which had passed between him and the people: in the book of the law of God ; written by Moses, and which he ordered to be put in the side of the ark, and that being now present, the book could be easily taken out, and these words inserted in it, Deuteronomy 31:26 , and took a great stone : on which also might be inscribed the same words: and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the Lord ; or "in it" F1 במקדש "in... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:27

And Joshua said unto all the people ,.... The chief of them now gathered together, and who represented the whole body: behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us ; of the covenant now made, and the agreement entered into, as the heap of stones were between Jacob and Laban, Genesis 31:45 , for it hath heard all the words of the Lord which he spake unto us ; this is said by a figure called "prosopopaeia", frequent in Scripture, by which inanimate creatures are represented as... read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:28

So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance. Dismissed them, and took his final leave and farewell of them, dying soon after; upon which they returned to the possessions and inheritances assigned by lot to the several tribes, of which they were the heads and princes. read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:29

And it came to pass, after these things ,.... Some little time after, very probably the same year: that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the Lord, died, being an hundred and ten years old ; he wanted ten years of Moses his predecessor, Deuteronomy 34:7 , and just the age of Joseph, Genesis 50:22 , from whom he sprung, being of the tribe of Ephraim, Numbers 13:8 . read more

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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:30

And they buried him in the border of his inheritance ,.... In a field belonging to his estate; for they buried not in towns and cities in those times. The Greek version adds,"and they put into the tomb, in which he was buried, the stone knives with which he circumcised the children of Israel at Gilgal, when he brought them out of Egypt;'and an Arabic writer F5 Patricides, p. 31. apud Hottinger. Smegma, p. 523. affirms the same, but without any foundation: in Timnathserah, which is ... read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:21

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:22

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:23

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:24

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:25

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:26

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:27

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:29

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:30

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