Joshua 24:23-26 WEB

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 24:25

Joshua 24:25. So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day Engaged them to make good this solemn profession, by renewing the covenant they had formerly entered into, both in the days of Moses and in his time, wherein they promised to worship God alone, and be obedient to him. Some think this covenant was now established by sacrifice, as it was when they came out of Egypt, (Exodus 24:4-5,) and when they came into Canaan, Joshua 8:31. But as there is no mention of an altar or any... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 24:26

Joshua 24:26. Joshua wrote these words Namely, this covenant, or agreement of the people with the Lord. In the book of the law of God That is, in the volume which was kept in the ark, (Deuteronomy 31:9; Deuteronomy 31:26,) whence it was taken and put into this book of Joshua; this he did for the perpetual remembrance of this great and solemn action, to lay the greater obligation upon the people to be true to their engagement; and as a witness for God against the people, if afterward he... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:1-33

23:1-24:33 JOSHUA’S FAREWELLNothing is recorded of events that occurred between Joshua’s division of the land and his farewell addresses to the nation many years later. His life was now drawing to a close (see v. 14), and he called Israel’s leaders together to pass on some encouragement and warning (23:1-2). He assured them that God would continue to fight for his people till all the remaining Canaanites were destroyed, provided his people remained true to the covenant. They were to love God,... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Joshua 24:23

strange gods = strangers' (or foreigners') gods. read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Joshua 24:25

made a covenant: i.e. by sacrifice. Compare Jeremiah 34:18 , Jeremiah 34:19 . read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Joshua 24:26

the Book of the Law. See note on Exodus 17:14 and App-47 . an = the. read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Joshua 24:23

Ver. 23. Now, therefore, put away—the strange gods— See ver. 14. All this evidently shews, that Joshua was a prophet, that he could penetrate the secret intentions of the Israelites, and was certain of their propensity to idolatry. Publicly they worshipped only the true God, but in secret they had their penates (as the Romans termed them), their household gods; idols which they worshipped clandestinely, teraphim, little statues, magical rings, and other such instruments of superstition. See... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Joshua 24:25

Ver. 25. So Joshua made a covenant with the people, &c.— The Israelites having a third time repeated that they were resolved only to serve the Lord, and being thereby bound more strictly than ever to obey him, Joshua, in order to bind, in the most indissoluble manner, those ties whereon their happiness depended, proposes to them a solemn renewal of the covenant which they had made first by the ministry of Moses, and afterwards by his own; in consequence of which, the Israelites rigorously... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Joshua 24:26

Ver. 26. And Joshua wrote these words in the book, &c.— To perpetuate the memory of this renewal of the covenant; to convince the Israelites of the reverence due to that obligation which they had assembled to enforce; and to leave such an immortal testimony as might witness against them for the Lord, in case they forsook his holy religion; Joshua caused a particular account of all that had passed to be written down, and added to the book of the law which Moses had ordered to be kept in the... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Joshua 24:26

26. Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God—registered the engagements of that solemn covenant in the book of sacred history. took a great stone—according to the usage of ancient times to erect stone pillars as monuments of public transactions. set it up there under an oak—or terebinth, in all likelihood, the same as that at the root of which Jacob buried the idols and charms found in his family. that was by the sanctuary of the Lord—either the spot where the ark had stood, or... read more

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 24:25

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 24:26

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:1-33

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Joshua 24:23

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Joshua 24:25

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Joshua 24:26

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Joshua 24:23

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Joshua 24:25

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Joshua 24:26

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Joshua 24:26

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