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John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:19

And Joshua said unto the people ,.... To their heads and representatives now assembled together, and who had returned to him the preceding answer: ye cannot serve the Lord ; which he said not to discourage or deter them from serving the Lord, since it was his principal view, through the whole of this conversation with them, to engage them in it, but to observe to them their own inability and insufficiency of themselves to perform service acceptable to God; and therefore it became them to... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:20

If you forsake the Lord, and serve strange gods ,.... Joshua knew the proneness of this people to idolatry, and therefore expresses his jealousy of them, that they would not be able to continue in the service of God, and would be apt to be carried away after idols; and therefore, to make them the more cautious and watchful, he represents to them the danger they were in, and what would befall them should they forsake the Lord they now promised to serve, and follow after other gods, which... read more

John Gill

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

John Gill

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

John Gill

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

John Gill

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

John Gill

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:1

Joshua gathered all the tribes - This must have been a different assembly from that mentioned in the preceding chapter, though probably held not long after the former. To Shechem - As it is immediately added that they presented themselves before God, this must mean the tabernacle; but at this time the tabernacle was not at Shechem but at Shiloh. The Septuagint appear to have been struck with this difficulty, and therefore read Σηλω . Shiloh, both here and in Joshua 24:25 ,... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:2

On the other side of the flood - The river Euphrates. They served other gods - Probably Abraham as well as Terah his father was an idolater, till he received the call of God to leave that land. See on Genesis 11:31 ; (note); Genesis 12:1 ; (note). read more

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Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:9

Then Balak - arose and warred against Israel - This circumstance is not related in Numbers 22:1-41, nor does it appear in that history that the Moabites attacked the Israelites; and probably the warring here mentioned means no more than his attempts to destroy them by the curses of Balaam, and the wiles of the Midianitish women. read more

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:19

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:20

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:1

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:2

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:9

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