Joshua 24:24 KJV — MannaFest

Joshua 24:24

And the people said unto Joshua, The Lord our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.

KJV

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ASV

And the people said unto Joshua, Jehovah our God will we serve, and unto his voice will we hearken.

WEB

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

YLT

And the people say unto Joshua, `Jehovah our God we serve, and to His voice we hearken.'

DBT

And the people said unto Joshua, Jehovah ourGod will we serve, and to his voice will we hearken.

About this book

Old Testament

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Joshua — The entry narrative — Israel crosses the Jordan, takes the Land through three conquest campaigns, and renews covenant at Shechem. The hinge between Torah's promises and the historical record of those promises unfolding.

Author: Joshua himself at least in part (24:26 — ‘Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God’); later editorial framing traditional
Date: Events c. 1400 BC (early) or 1230 BC (late); compilation across the early-monarchy period

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Cross-references

12 verses on the floor

Exodus 23:25
And ye shall serve the Lord your God, and he shall bless thy bread, and thy water; and I will take sickness away from the midst of thee.
Exodus 19:5
Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people: for all the earth is mine:
Exodus 19:8
And all the people answered together, and said, All that the Lord hath spoken we will do. And Moses returned the words of the people unto the Lord.
Psalms 119:57
Thou art my portion, O Lord: I have said that I would keep thy words.
Exodus 24:7
And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Voices2

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): " The Lord our God will we serve, not only be called his servants and wear his livery, but our religion shall rule us in every thing, and his voice will we obey. " And in vain do we call him Master and Lord, if we do not the things which he saith, Luke vi. This last promise they make in answer to the charge Joshua gave them (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth--After having enumerated so many grounds for national gratitude, Joshua calls on them to declare, in a public and solemn manner, whether they will be faithful and obedient to the God of Israel.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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Words2

Word trails from this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H3091218× in canon H5647288× in canon

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The walk8

Where the connections lead

Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

JOS 24:24EXO 19:8 EXO 24:7
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
JOS 24:24EXO 24:3 EXO 19:8
JOS 24:24EXO 19:8 EXO 24:3
JOS 24:24EXO 24:7 DEU 31:11-13
JOS 24:24EXO 24:7 HEB 9:18-23
JOS 24:24EXO 24:3 JOS 24:22
JOS 24:24EXO 24:7 EXO 24:3-4
JOS 24:24EXO 24:7 ACT 13:15

The whole web at once: see the Arc.

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