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Joshuachapter 23

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A.Joshua's charge: cleave to Jehovah, and love himvv. 1-11

1 A long time after the LORD had given Israel rest from all the enemies around them, when Joshua was old and well along in years, 2 he summoned all Israel, including its elders, leaders, judges, and officers. “I am old and well along in years,” he said, 3 “and you have seen everything that the LORD your God has done to all these nations for your sake, because it was the LORD your God who fought for you. 4 See, I have allotted as an inheritance to your tribes these remaining nations, including all the nations I have already cut off, from the Jordan westward to the Great Sea. 5 The LORD your God will push them out of your way and drive them out before you, so that you can take possession of their land, as the LORD your God promised you. 6 Be very strong, then, so that you can keep and obey all that is written in the Book of the Law of Moses, not turning aside from it to the right or to the left. 7 So you are not to associate with these nations that remain among you. You must not call on the names of their gods or swear by them, and you must not serve them or bow down to them. 8 Instead, you shall hold fast to the LORD your God, as you have done to this day. 9 The LORD has driven out great and powerful nations before you, and to this day no one can stand against you. 10 One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised. 11 Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.

B.Snares and scourges if you turn backvv. 12-16

12 For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them, 13 know for sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become for you a snare and a trap, a scourge in your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the LORD your God has given you. 14 Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know with all your heart and soul that not one of the good promises the LORD your God made to you has failed. Everything was fulfilled for you; not one promise has failed. 15 But just as every good thing the LORD your God promised you has come to pass, likewise the LORD will bring upon you the calamity He has threatened, until He has destroyed you from this good land He has given you. 16 If you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from this good land He has given you.”

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Chapter summary

Old and well stricken in years, Joshua calls Israel's elders, heads, judges, and officers and states the ground of everything they have seen: 'Jehovah your God, he it is that fighteth for you.' One man of them shall chase a thousand.

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Old and well stricken in years, Joshua calls Israel's elders, heads, judges, and officers and states the ground of everything they have seen: 'Jehovah your God, he it is that fighteth for you.' One man of them shall chase a thousand. He presses the accounting home (not one thing hath failed of all the good things Jehovah spake concerning them (23:14)) and turns the same arithmetic toward warning: the God who kept every good word will bring every threatened evil if they transgress. Cleave to Jehovah; do not marry into the remaining nations or make mention of their gods, or they become a snare, a scourge in your sides, and thorns in your eyes.

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

History · Joshua — Joshua overview

  • A. 1–11 Joshua's charge: cleave to Jehovah, and love him
  • B. 12–16 Snares and scourges if you turn back
Top cross-references8 chapters ▾
  • Joshua 133 verses
    • Joshua 13:1Now Joshua was old and well along in years, and the LORD said to him, “You are old and well along in years, but very much of the land remains to be possessed.
    • Joshua 13:2This is the land that remains:
    • Joshua 13:6All the inhabitants of the hill country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim—all the Sidonians—I Myself will drive out before the Israelites. Be sure to divide it by lot as an inheritance to Israel, as I have commanded you.
    • Read Joshua 13 →
  • Exodus 233 verses
    • Exodus 23:13Pay close attention to everything I have said to you. You must not invoke the names of other gods; they must not be heard on your lips.
    • Exodus 23:30Little by little I will drive them out ahead of you, until you become fruitful and possess the land.
    • Exodus 23:33They must not remain in your land, lest they cause you to sin against Me. For if you serve their gods, it will surely be a snare to you.”
    • Read Exodus 23 →
  • Joshua 102 verses
    • Joshua 10:14There has been no day like it before or since, when the LORD listened to the voice of a man, because the LORD fought for Israel.
    • Joshua 10:42And because the LORD, the God of Israel, fought for Israel, Joshua captured all these kings and their land in one campaign.
    • Read Joshua 10 →
  • Deuteronomy 282 verses
    • Deuteronomy 28:14Do not turn aside to the right or to the left from any of the words I command you today, and do not go after other gods to serve them.
    • Deuteronomy 28:15If, however, you do not obey the LORD your God by carefully following all His commandments and statutes I am giving you today, all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
    • Read Deuteronomy 28 →
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  • Leviticus 262 verses
  • Deuteronomy 72 verses
    • Deuteronomy 7:3Do not intermarry with them. Do not give your daughters to their sons or take their daughters for your sons,
    • Deuteronomy 7:16You must destroy all the peoples the LORD your God will deliver to you. Do not look on them with pity. Do not worship their gods, for that will be a snare to you.
    • Read Deuteronomy 7 →
  • Deuteronomy 111 verse
  • Joshua 221 verse
    • Joshua 22:5But be very careful to observe the commandment and the law that Moses the servant of the LORD gave you: to love the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, to keep His commandments, to hold fast to Him, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul.”
    • Read Joshua 22 →

Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.