여호수아 24:14-18 KRV

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 24:1-14

Joshua thought he had taken his last farewell of Israel in the solemn charge he gave them in the foregoing chapter, when he said, I go the way of all the earth; but God graciously continuing his life longer than expected, and renewing his strength, he was desirous to improve it for the good of Israel. He did not say, ?I have taken my leave of them once, and let that serve;? but, having yet a longer space given him, he summons them together again, that he might try what more he could do to... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 24:15-28

Never was any treaty carried on with better management, nor brought to a better issue, than this of Joshua with the people, to engage them to serve God. The manner of his dealing with them shows him to have been in earnest, and that his heart was much upon it, to leave them under all possible obligations to cleave to him, particularly the obligation of a choice and of a covenant. I. Would it be any obligation upon them if they made the service of God their choice?--he here puts them to their... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:14

Now therefore fear the Lord ,.... Since he has done such great and good things, fear the Lord and his goodness, fear him for his goodness sake; nothing so influences fear, or a reverential affection for God, as a sense of his goodness; this engages men sensible of it to fear the Lord, that is, to worship him both internally and externally in the exercise of every grace, and in the performance of every duty: and serve him in sincerity and in truth : in the uprightness of their souls,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:15

And if it seem evil to you to serve the Lord ,.... Irksome and troublesome, a burden, a weariness, and not a pleasure and delight: choose you this day whom you will serve ; say if you have found a better master, and whose service will be more pleasant and profitable: whether the gods your fathers served, that were on the other side of the flood ; the river Euphrates; these may bid rid rest for antiquity, but then they were such their fathers had relinquished, and for which... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:16

And the people answered and said ,.... To Joshua, upon his proposal to them, the option he gave them to serve the Lord or idols, and which was only done to try them: God forbid that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods ; they speak with the utmost abhorrence of idolatry, as a thing far from their hearts and thoughts, as the most abominable and execrable that could be thought or spoken of; to forsake the word, and worship, and ordinances of God, and serve the idols of the... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:17

For the Lord our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers, out of the land of Egypt ,.... When Pharaoh, the king of it, refused to let them go, yet he wrought such wonders in it and inflicted such plagues on it, as obliged Pharaoh and his people to dismiss them: from the house of bondage : where they were held in the greatest thraldom and slavery, and their lives made bitter and miserable: and which did those great signs in our sight ; meaning the wonders and marvellous... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:18

And the Lord drave out from before us all the people ,.... The seven nations of the land of Canaan: even the Amorites which dwelt in the land ; the strongest and most populous of the nations, Amos 2:9 , or especially the Amorites, so Vatablus; or "with the Amorites", as others; those that lived on the other side Jordan, over whom Sihon and Og reigned: therefore will we also serve the Lord : as well as Joshua and his house, for the reasons before given, because he had done such... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:14

Fear the Lord - Reverence him as the sole object of your religious worship. Serve him - Perform his will by obeying his commands. In sincerity - Having your whole heart engaged in his worship. And in truth - According to the directions he has given you in his infallible word. Put away the gods , etc. - From this exhortation of Joshua we learn of what sort the gods were, to the worship of whom these Israelites were still attached. Those which their... read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:15

Choose you this day whom ye will serve - Joshua well knew that all service that was not free and voluntary could be only deceit and hypocrisy, and that God loveth a cheerful giver. He therefore calls upon the people to make their choice, for God himself would not force them - they must serve him with all their heart if they served him at all. As for himself and family, he shows them that their choice was already fixed, for they had taken Jehovah for their portion. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:16

God forbid that we should forsake the Lord - That they were now sincere cannot be reasonably doubted, for they served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and the elders that outlived him, Joshua 24:31 ; but afterwards they turned aside, and did serve other gods. "It is ordinary," says Mr. Trapp, "for the many-headed multitude to turn with the stream - to be of the same religion with their superiors: thus at Rome, in Diocletian's time, they were pagans; in Constantine's... read more

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 24:1-14

Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary - Joshua 24:15-28

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:14

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:15

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:16

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:17

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:18

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:14

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:15

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:16

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