joshua-24:19-20-bsb

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:19-20

‘ And Joshua said to the people, “You cannot serve YHWH, for he is a holy God, he is a jealous God, he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. If you forsake YHWH and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after having done you good.” ’ But Joshua wanted no superficial reply. So he challenged them by pointing out the danger of making a covenant with YHWH. This was no God Who would stand by and do nothing. He was holy, set apart by the very nature of... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 24:19

Ye cannot serve the Lord: he speaks not of an absolute impossibility, (for then both his resolution to serve God himself, and his exhortation to them to do so, had been vain and ridiculous,) but of a moral impossibility, or a very great difficulty, which he allegeth not to discourage them from God’s service, which is his great design to engage them in; but only to make them more considerate and cautious in obliging themselves, and more circumspect and resolved in answering their obligations.... read more

Matthew Poole

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 24:20

He will turn, i.e. he will alter his course and the manner of his dealing with you, and will be as severe as ever he was kind and gracious. Consume you, after that he hath done you good; he will repent of all his former kindness, and his goodness abused will be turned into fury. read more

Joseph Exell

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Joshua 24:19-28

CRITICAL NOTES.—Joshua 24:19. Ye cannot serve Jehovah] Joshua here bids the people count the cost of the decision expressed in Joshua 24:16. They could not serve Jehovah in the indifferent spirit of idolatry; for He was altogether unlike the gods which were no gods, and which therefore could not punish faithlessness. Jehovah was both holy and jealous, and Joshua would have the people weigh carefully their words of fealty. The idol gods which were no gods might be served godlessly, but Jehovah... read more

William Nicoll

Sermon Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:19

Joshua 24:19 We find here that Joshua offers a repulse to men who wish to avow themselves on the side of God. There is every ground for believing that he was under Divine direction, and as there was no evidence that the people were insincere in their promise, there must be some reason for the manner in which they are met. I. This procedure on the part of God is not unusual. A number of instances might easily be found in the Bible of obstacles thrown in the way of men who offer themselves to the... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:1-33

Chapter 24Chapter twenty-four, Joshua is continuing this final charge to the children of Israel. Picture now this old man he was. He was faithful to the Lord. He has done a good job, but now he is bent over with age. He has been weakened. His voice is probably shaky and trembling.And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, [Right in the heart of the land there between mount Ebal, and Gerezim.] and he called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 24:1-33

Joshua 24:1 . Shechem. Some think this was the Sychar where our Saviour talked with the woman. John 4:5. This place became far famed on account of the renewal of the covenant before Joshua’s death. He had built an altar here more than twenty years before. This town lies about eight miles from Samaria, and is now called Naplosa. Joshua 24:2 . Terah served other gods. Sabianism maintained that the world was eternal, and inculcated the worship of the planets as gods. The planets were also... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Joshua 24:1-33

Joshua 24:1-33Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem. Joshua’s last farewellI. God’s threefold mercies.1. Israel’s enlargement (verses 2-4).2. Israel’s exodus (verses 5-7).3. Israel’s entrance into Canaan (verses 8-12).II. Joshua’s threefold appeal.1. He exhorts them to fear and serve this great and this good God.2. To manifest in yet clearer light that the service of God is a reasonable service, and to show the utter folly of idolatry, Joshua, in the gravest irony, upholds the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Joshua 24:14-29

Joshua 24:14-29Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve Him.The last days of JoshuaI. The reasonableness of serving God (verses 14, 15). To serve God, to obey Him, to love Him, to submit heart and life to His control, is only a seemly and adequate acknowledgment of claims felt to be just. God’s character, His mercy, His grace in the gospel, His promises of pardon, the gift of eternal life through His Son, create an obligation which, if it be disregarded, makes our attitude towards God not only... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Joshua 24:19-28

Joshua 24:19-28Ye cannot serve the Lord: for He is an holy God. The covenant renewedI. The difficulty of serving God. “Ye cannot serve the Lord.” It was a staggering admonition. It embodied what theologians have called the doctrine of “moral inability.” The seat of the disorder is in the will. There is the conflict. Till that is established in the choice of holiness it will still be true, as in the case before us, that one can not serve God. “Ye cannot” should still read for many, loath to... read more

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:19-20

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 24:19

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Joshua 24:20

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Joshua 24:19-28

Sermon Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:19

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:1-33

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 24:1-33

The Biblical Illustrator - Joshua 24:1-33

The Biblical Illustrator - Joshua 24:14-29

The Biblical Illustrator - Joshua 24:19-28

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