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Joshua 24

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Joshua 24 . 1 , Joshua assembles the tribes at Shechem; Joshua 24 . 2 , A brief history of God’s benefits , from Terah; Joshua 24 . 14 , He renews the covenant between them and God; Joshua 24 . 26 , A stone the witness of the covenant; Joshua 24 . 29 , Joshua’s age , death , and burial; Joshua 24 . 32 , Joseph’s bones are buried; Joshua 24 . 33 , Eleazar dies.

Joshua 24:1

Then Joshua assembled all the tribes of Israel at Shechem. He summoned the elders, leaders, judges, and officers of Israel, and they presented themselves before God.

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As it is immediately added , that "they presented themselves before God ," which is supposed to mean at the tabernacle; some are of opinion that Joshua caused it to be conveyed from Shiloh to Shechem on this occasion , to give the greater solemnity to his last meeting with the people. The Vatican and Alexandrian copies of the Septuagint , however , read חכש , both here and in

  • Joshua 24:25 which many suppose to have been the original reading. Dr. Shuckford supposes that the covenant was made at Shechem , and that the people went to Shiloh to confirm it. But the most probable opinion seems to be that of Dr. Kennicott , that when all the tribes were assembled as Shechem , Joshua called the chiefs to him on that mount , which had before been consecrated by the law , and by the altar which he had erected
  • Genesis 12:6
  • Genesis 33:18
  • Genesis 33:19
  • Genesis 35:4
  • Judges 9:1-3
  • 1 Kings 12:1

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Joshua This must have been a different assembly from that mentioned in the preceding chapter , though probably held not long after the former.

Joshua 24:2

And Joshua said to all the people, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: 'Long ago your fathers, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.

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In the case of Abraham this was probably the case , till he was called to the knowledge of God , when above 70 years old

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Joshua 24:3

But I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and led him through all the land of Canaan, and I multiplied his descendants. I gave him Isaac,

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Joshua 24:4

and to Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau. I gave Esau Mount Seir to possess, but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.

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Joshua 24:5

Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I afflicted the Egyptians by what I did there, and afterward I brought you out.

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Joshua 24:6

When I brought your fathers out of Egypt and you reached the Red Sea, the Egyptians pursued them with chariots and horsemen as far as the Red Sea.

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Joshua 24:7

So your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.

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Joshua 24:8

Later, I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan. They fought against you, but I delivered them into your hand, that you should possess their land when I destroyed them before you.

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Joshua 24:9

Then Balak son of Zippor, the king of Moab, set out to fight against Israel. He sent for Balaam son of Beor to curse you,

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Joshua 24:10

but I would not listen to Balaam. So he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you from his hand.

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Joshua 24:11

After this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand.

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Joshua 24:12

I sent the hornet ahead of you, and it drove out the two Amorite kings before you, but not by your own sword or bow.

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Joshua 24:13

So I gave you a land on which you did not toil and cities that you did not build, and now you live in them and eat from vineyards and olive groves that you did not plant.'

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Joshua 24:14

Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.

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How astonishing is it , that after all that God had done for them , and all the miracles they had seen , there should still be found among them both idols and idolaters!

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put From this exhortation of Joshua , we not only learn that the Israelites still retained some relics of idolatry , but to what gods they were attached.

Joshua 24:15

But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!”

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Joshua 24:16

The people replied, “Far be it from us to forsake the LORD to serve other gods!

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Joshua 24:17

For the LORD our God brought us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, and performed these great signs before our eyes. He also protected us throughout our journey and among all the nations through which we traveled.

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Joshua 24:18

And the LORD drove out before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. We too will serve the LORD, because He is our God!”

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Joshua 24:19

But Joshua said to the people, “You are not able to serve the LORD, for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.

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Joshua 24:20

If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, He will turn and bring disaster on you and consume you, even after He has been good to you.”

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Joshua 24:21

“No!” replied the people. “We will serve the LORD!”

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Joshua 24:22

Then Joshua told them, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD.” “We are witnesses!” they said.

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Ye have been sufficiently apprised of the difficulties in your way . of God's holiness , and the nature of his service . your own weakness , inconstancy , and insufficiency . your need of the Divine help , and the hope of assistance held out in the law . and the awful consequences of apostasy , and now ye make your choice. Remember then that ye are witnesses against yourselves; and your own conscience will be witness , judge , and executioner

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Joshua 24:23

“Now, therefore,” he said, “get rid of the foreign gods among you and incline your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel.”

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Joshua 24:24

So the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God and obey His voice.”

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Joshua 24:25

On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance.

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Joshua 24:26

Jushua-Recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak that was near the sanctuary of the LORD.

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Joshua 24:27

And Joshua said to all the people, “You see this stone. It will be a witness against us, for it has heard all the words the LORD has spoken to us, and it will be a witness against you if you ever deny your God.”

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A curious coincidence of circumstances is related by Livy , the Roman historian10 parallels

he writes that "when three ambassadors were sent from Rome to complain of the perfidious conduct of the Aqui , the General informed them , that they might deliver their message to an oak which shaded his tent." On this one of the ambassadors turning away , said , "This venerable oak , and all the gods , shall know that you have violated the peace; they shall now hear our complaints; and may they also soon be witnesses , when we revenge with our arms the violation of divine and human rights." It is worthy of remark that Joshua merely set up a pillar under an oak . the one , perhaps , to protect the other; while the General directed the ambassadors to address the oak , perhaps with an idolatrous feeling that they were addressing one of the gods , who would aid his cause; while the Roman ambassadors caught the feeling , and really invoked the aid of the oak and the gods

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Joshua 24:28

Then Joshua sent the people away, each to his own inheritance.

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Joshua 24:29

Some time later, Joshua son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died at the age of 110.

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Joshua 24:30

And they buried him in the land of his inheritance, at Timnath-serah in the hill country of Ephraim, north of Mount Gaash.

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Joshua 24:31

Israel had served the LORD throughout the days of Joshua and of the elders who outlived him and who had experienced all the works that the LORD had done for Israel.

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Joshua 24:32

And the bones of Joseph, which the Israelites had brought up out of Egypt, were buried at Shechem in the plot of land that Jacob had purchased from the sons of Hamor, Shechem’s father, for a hundred pieces of silver. So it became an inheritance for Joseph’s descendants.

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Joshua 24:33

Eleazar son of Aaron also died, and they buried him at Gibeah, which had been given to his son Phinehas in the hill country of Ephraim.

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The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge is the classical cross-reference layer — centuries of catchword parallels beneath the site’s quotations, allusions, and echoes. Every reference above also flows into the wider web of connections.

In the wider web9 threads
Intertextuality Pairs
Quotations Judges 2:6 → Joshua 24:28, Judges 2:6-9 → Joshua 24:28-31
Allusions Joshua 24:12 → Exodus 23:28, Joshua 24:13 → Deuteronomy 6:10, Joshua 24:13 → Deuteronomy 6:10-11, Joshua 24:2 → Genesis 11:27-32
Trajectories
Conquest of Canaan (Victory in Christ), Joshua (Leader into Rest), Judges (Flawed Deliverers)
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