Joshua 23:11 KJV — MannaFest

Joshua 23:11

Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God.

KJV

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ASV

Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love Jehovah your God.

WEB

Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.

YLT

and ye have been very watchful for yourselves to love Jehovah your God.

DBT

Take great heed therefore unto your souls, that ye love Jehovah yourGod.

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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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Hebrews 2:1
Therefore we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest at any time we should let them slip.
Joshua 22:5
But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the Lord charged you, to love the Lord your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.
Exodus 23:13
And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.
Deuteronomy 6:5–12
And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.
Jude 1:20–21
But ye, beloved, building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost,

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the Lord your God, he shall expel them from before you, as the Lord your God hath promised you, &c.--The actual possessions which God had given were a pledge of the complete fulfilment of His promise in giving them the parts of the country still unconquered.

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

What we do in religion we must do from a principle of love, not by constraint or from a slavish fear of God, but of choice and with delight. " Lord the Lord your God, and you will not leave him." II. He urges God's fidelity to them as an argument why they should be faithful to him (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Take good heed, therefore, that ye love the Lord your God--The sum of his exhortation is comprised in the love of God, which is the end or fulfilment of the law (De 6:5;

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

Take heed - Now it requires more watchfulness and diligence than it did in the wilderness, because your temptations are now stronger; from the examples and insinuations of your bad neighbours, the remainders of this wicked people; and from your own peace and prosperity: and the pride, security, forgetfulness of God, and luxury, which usually attend that condition.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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