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Joshua 24
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And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for
the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for
their officers; and they presented themselves before God. |
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| 24:2
And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel,
Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah,
the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods. |
"They served other gods."
How many gods are there?
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| 24:3
And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the flood, and led
him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him
Isaac. |
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And I gave unto Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave unto Esau mount Seir, to
possess it; but Jacob and his children went down into Egypt. |
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I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which
I did among them: and afterward I brought you out. |
 "I plagued Egypt."
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| 24:6
And I brought your fathers out of Egypt: and ye came unto the sea; and the
Egyptians pursued after your fathers with chariots and horsemen unto the Red
sea. |
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| 24:7
And when they cried unto the LORD, he put darkness between you and the
Egyptians, and brought the sea upon them, and covered them; and your eyes
have seen what I have done in Egypt: and ye dwelt in the wilderness a long
season. |
"The Lord ... brought the sea upon them."
God brags about drowning the Egyptians.
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| 24:8
And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other
side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that
ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you. |
"I gave them [the Amorites] into your hand, that
ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you."
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Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and warred against
Israel, and sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you: |
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But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I
delivered you out of his hand. |
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And you went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho
fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites,
and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I
delivered them into your hand. |
"I delivered them into your hand."
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| 24:12 And I sent the hornet before you, which drave them out from before you,
even the two kings of the Amorites; but not with thy sword, nor with thy
bow. |
"I sent the hornet before you."
God sent hornets to fight for the Israelites.
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| 24:13
And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which
ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye
planted not do ye eat. |
"I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which
ye built not."
God gave the Israelites other peoples' stuff (after killing them all).
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| 24:14
Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth:
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put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood,
and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. |
"Fear the Lord ... and put away the gods which your fathers served."
Should we fear God?
How many gods are there?
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| 24:15
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom
ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the
other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye
dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. |
"Choose you this day whom ye will serve."
Do humans have free will?
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| 24:16
And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the
LORD, to serve other gods; |
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For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of
the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great
signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and
among all the people through whom we passed: |
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And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites
which dwelt in the land: therefore will we also serve the LORD; for he is
our God. |
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| 24:19
And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an
holy God; he is a
jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins. |
God is jealous and will never forgive you
for your sins. And if you worship other gods, "He will turn and do you hurt, and consume you."
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If ye forsake the
LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and
consume you, after that he hath done you good. |
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| 24:21
And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD. |
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And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that
ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses. |
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Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and
incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel. |
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And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his
voice will we obey. |
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So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute
and an ordinance in Shechem. |
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And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a
great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of
the LORD. |
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| 24:27
And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness
unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us:
it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God. |
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| 24:28
So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance. |
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| 24:29
And it came to pass after these things, that Joshua the son of Nun, the
servant of the LORD, died, being an hundred and ten years old. |
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| 24:30
And they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timnathserah,
which is in mount Ephraim, on the north side of the hill of Gaash. |
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| 24:31
And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the
elders that overlived Joshua, and which had known all the works of the LORD,
that he had done for Israel. |
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| 24:32
And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of
Egypt, buried they in Shechem, in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of
Hamor the father of Shechem for an hundred pieces of silver: and it
became the inheritance of the children of Joseph. |
This verse says that Jacob purchased the sepulchre, but Acts 7:16 says that Abraham bought it.
Who bought the sepulcher?
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| 24:33
And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him in a hill that
pertained to Phinehas his son, which was given him in mount Ephraim.
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