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Joshua 24:18

in Joshua 24

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!”

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

and Jehovah drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites that dwelt in the land: therefore we also will serve Jehovah; for he is our God.

KJV

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.

This verse in Joshua 24

Commentary

6 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

The people replied

on Joshua 24:16-18

The people answer with an accurate recital: "the house of slavery" is the phrase of Exodus 20:2. Nothing in it is wrong, which makes Joshua's answer hard to read. Judges 2:7 says they served the Lord all Joshua's days, and Judges 2:10 says the next generation did not know him.

This site's exposition

We too will serve the LORD

We too will serve the LORD ends on the words of Joshua's own pledge for his house in verse 15. The people name the Amorites as a nation the LORD drove out, the same Amorites whose gods verse 15 set before them. Those gods had lost their own land.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

), for he is our God, who has graciously engaged himself by promise to us, and to whom we have by solemn vow engaged ourselves." 2. He brings them to embrace their religion resolutely, and to express a full purpose of heart to cleave to the Lord.

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A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

proposed

Thus they repeat to themselves Joshua's sermon, and then express their sincere compliance with the intentions of it. Secondly, Of the relation they stood in to God, and his covenant with them: "We will serve the Lord (

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And the Lord drave out from before us all the people,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

proposed

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.

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • וַיְגָ֨רֶשׁand he drove out

    vaygareshH1644 →

  • יְהוָ֜הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָעַמִּ֗יםthe peoples

    haamimH5971 →1873 times

  • וְאֶת־and <obj.>

    veetH853 →10935 times

  • הָאֱמֹרִ֛יthe Amorite[s]

    haemoriH567 →87 times

  • יֹשֵׁ֥ב[who] dwelt

    yoshevH3427 →1079 times

  • הָאָ֖רֶץof the land

    haaretzH776 →2504 times

  • מִפָּנֵ֑ינוּfrom before us

    mipaneinuH6440 →2123 times

  • גַּם־also

    gam-H1571 →769 times

  • אֲנַ֙חְנוּ֙we

    ʾanachnuH587 →120 times

  • נַעֲבֹ֣דwe will serve

    naavodH5647 →288 times

  • אֶת־<obj.>

    ʾet-H853 →10935 times

  • יְהוָ֔הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • כִּי־for

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • ה֖וּאhe

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • אֱלֹהֵֽינוּ׃ ס[is] God our

    ʾeloheinuH430 →2601 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Micah 4:2

    And many nations will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways, so that…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 2:3

      And many peoples will come and say: “Come, let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, to the house of the God of Jacob. He will teach us His ways so that…

    • Jeremiah 31:6

      For there will be a day when watchmen will call out on the hills of Ephraim, ‘Arise, let us go up to Zion, to the LORD our God!’”

    • Isaiah 54:13

      Then all your sons will be taught by the LORD, and great will be their prosperity.

  • Through

    Zechariah 8:23

    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “In those days ten men from the nations of every tongue will tightly grasp the robe of a Jew, saying, ‘Let us go with you, for…

    it leads to

    • Isaiah 55:5

      Surely you will summon a nation you do not know, and nations who do not know you will run to you. For the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, has bestowed glory…

    • Isaiah 45:14

      This is what the LORD says: “The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, along with the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge…

    • 1 Corinthians 14:25

      and the secrets of his heart will be made known. So he will fall facedown and worship God, proclaiming, “God is truly among you!”

    • Isaiah 60:3

      Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your dawn.

  • Through

    Psalms 116:16

    Truly, O LORD, I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have broken my bonds.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 86:16

      Turn to me and have mercy; grant Your strength to Your servant; save the son of Your maidservant.

Where this verse is studied

About Joshua

Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, John Martin, 1816, National Gallery of Art. Public domain.
Joshua Commanding the Sun to Stand Still upon Gibeon, John Martin, 1816, National Gallery of Art. Public domain.

This page draws on Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); Keil and Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament: Joshua, Judges, Ruth and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.