Joshua 24:23-26 NIV

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 24:23

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

John Gill

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

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:23

Now therefore put away - As you have promised to reform, begin instantly the work of reformation. A man's promise to serve God soon loses its moral hold of his conscience if he do not instantaneously begin to put it in practice. The grace that enables him to promise is that by the strength of which he is to begin the performance. read more

Adam Clarke

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:25

Joshua made a covenant - Literally, Joshua cut the covenant, alluding to the sacrifice offered on the occasion. And set then a statute and an ordinance - He made a solemn and public act of the whole, which was signed and witnessed by himself and the people, in the presence of Jehovah; and having done so, he wrote the words of the covenant in the book of the law of God, probably in some part of the skin constituting the great roll, on which the laws of God were... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:23

Verse 23 23.Now, therefore, put away the strange gods, etc How can it be that those who were lately such stern avengers of superstition, have themselves given admission to idols? Yet the words expressly enjoin that they are to put away strange gods from the midst of them. If we interpret that their own houses were still polluted by idols, we may see, as in a bright mirror, how complacently the greater part of mankind can indulge in vices which they prosecute with inexorable severity in others.... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:25

Verse 25 25.So Joshua made a covenant, etc This passage demonstrates the end for which the meeting had been called, namely, to bind the people more completely and more solemnly to God, by the renewal of the covenant. Therefore, in this agreement, Joshua acted as if he had been appointed on the part of God to receive in his name the homage and obedience promised by the people. It is accordingly added, exegetically, in the second clause, that he set before them precept and judgment. For the... read more

John Calvin

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:26

Verse 26 26.And Joshua wrote these words, etc Understand that authentic volume which was kept near the ark of the covenant, as if it contained public records deposited for perpetual remembrance. And there is no doubt that when the Law was read, the promulgation of this covenant was also added. But as it often happens, that that which is written remains concealed in unopened books, (208) another aid is given to the memory, one which should always be exposed to the eye, namely, the stone under... read more

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

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

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:23

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:25

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:23

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:25

John Calvin's Commentary on the Bible - Joshua 24:26

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