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Joshua Chapter 24

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Joshua

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In this chapter Joshua addresses the people of Israel, reminding them of their covenant with God and warning that they must not follow other gods or abandon their vows. He declares that God will be their judge and that He will keep His promises to those who obey Him.

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(1) 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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Genesis 12:6Genesis 33:18Genesis 33:19Genesis 35:4Judges 9:1Judges 9:2Judges 9:3I Kings 12:1Joshua 23:2Exodus 18:25Exodus 18:26I Samuel 10:19

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Joshua 23:2Deuteronomy 1:15Joshua 21:1Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32Deuteronomy 33:5

(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.
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Genesis 11:26Genesis 11:31Genesis 12:1Genesis 31:53Deuteronomy 26:5Isaiah 51:2Ezekiel 16:3Joshua 24:15Genesis 31:19Genesis 31:30Genesis 31:32Genesis 35:4

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Judges 10:6Joshua 24:15Deuteronomy 29:26Joshua 24:14Genesis 22:19Joshua 24:31

(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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Genesis 12:1Genesis 12:2Genesis 12:3Genesis 12:4Nehemiah 9:7Nehemiah 9:8Acts 7:2Acts 7:3Genesis 21:2Genesis 21:3Psalms 127:3

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Jeremiah 33:26Exodus 32:13Romans 9:7Genesis 21:12Genesis 26:4Genesis 28:4

(4) 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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Genesis 25:24Genesis 25:25Genesis 25:26Genesis 32:3Genesis 36:8Deuteronomy 2:5Genesis 46:1Genesis 46:2Genesis 46:3Genesis 46:4Genesis 46:5Genesis 46:6

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Genesis 36:8Obadiah 1:19Genesis 27:5Genesis 36:9Deuteronomy 2:5Obadiah 1:21

(5) I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.
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Exodus 3:10Exodus 4:12Exodus 4:13Psalms 105:26Exodus 7:1Exodus 7:2Exodus 7:3Exodus 7:4Exodus 7:5Exodus 7:6Exodus 7:7Exodus 7:8

(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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Exodus 12:37Exodus 12:51Micah 6:4Exodus 14:1Exodus 14:2Exodus 14:3Exodus 14:4Exodus 14:5Exodus 14:6Exodus 14:7Exodus 14:8Exodus 14:9

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I Kings 10:26Exodus 14:9Exodus 14:23II Chronicles 1:14Genesis 43:32Exodus 14:17

(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.
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Exodus 14:10Exodus 14:20Exodus 14:27Exodus 14:28Exodus 14:31Deuteronomy 4:34Deuteronomy 29:2Joshua 5:6Numbers 14:33Numbers 14:34Nehemiah 9:12Nehemiah 9:13

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Job 10:22Job 23:17Ecclesiastes 6:4Matthew 6:23I John 2:11Numbers 20:15

(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.
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Joshua 13:10Numbers 21:21Numbers 21:22Numbers 21:23Numbers 21:24Numbers 21:25Numbers 21:26Numbers 21:27Numbers 21:28Numbers 21:29Numbers 21:30Numbers 21:31

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Joshua 7:7Deuteronomy 1:4Deuteronomy 1:44Deuteronomy 2:12Deuteronomy 2:22Deuteronomy 2:23

(9) 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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Numbers 22:5Numbers 22:6Numbers 22:7Numbers 22:8Numbers 22:9Numbers 22:10Numbers 22:11Numbers 22:12Numbers 22:13Numbers 22:14Numbers 22:15Numbers 22:16

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(10) But I would not hearken unto Balaam; therefore he blessed you still: so I delivered you out of his hand.
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Numbers 22:11Numbers 22:12Numbers 22:18Numbers 22:19Numbers 22:20Numbers 22:35Numbers 23:3Numbers 23:4Numbers 23:5Numbers 23:6Numbers 23:7Numbers 23:8

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(11) And ye 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.
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Joshua 3:14Joshua 3:15Joshua 3:16Joshua 3:17Joshua 4:10Joshua 4:11Joshua 4:12Joshua 4:23Psalms 114:3Psalms 114:5Joshua 6:1Joshua 6:2

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Deuteronomy 7:1Joshua 3:10Joshua 16:1Exodus 3:8Exodus 3:17Exodus 23:23

(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.
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Exodus 23:28Deuteronomy 7:20Psalms 44:3Psalms 44:4Psalms 44:5Psalms 44:6

(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.
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Joshua 21:45Joshua 11:13Deuteronomy 6:10Deuteronomy 6:11Deuteronomy 6:12Deuteronomy 8:7Proverbs 13:22

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(14) Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
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Deuteronomy 10:12I Samuel 12:24Job 1:1Job 28:28Psalms 111:10Psalms 130:4Hosea 3:5Acts 9:31Joshua 24:23Genesis 17:1Genesis 20:5Genesis 20:6

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Joshua 24:15Judges 10:6Judges 9:28II Samuel 16:19Deuteronomy 12:30Jeremiah 5:19

(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.
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Ruth 1:15Ruth 1:16I Kings 18:21Ezekiel 20:39John 6:67Exodus 23:24Exodus 23:32Exodus 23:33Exodus 34:15Deuteronomy 13:7Deuteronomy 29:18Judges 6:10

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Judges 10:6Joshua 24:14Judges 9:28Deuteronomy 12:30II Samuel 16:19Deuteronomy 29:18

(16) And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
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I Samuel 12:23Romans 3:6Romans 6:2Hebrews 10:38Hebrews 10:39

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(17) 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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Joshua 24:5Joshua 24:6Joshua 24:7Joshua 24:8Joshua 24:9Joshua 24:10Joshua 24:11Joshua 24:12Joshua 24:13Joshua 24:14Exodus 19:4Deuteronomy 32:11

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I Samuel 9:4Judges 11:29II Samuel 15:23

(18) 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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Exodus 10:2Exodus 15:2Psalms 116:16Micah 4:2Zechariah 8:23Luke 1:73Luke 1:74Luke 1:75

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(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.
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Joshua 24:23Ruth 1:15Matthew 6:24Luke 14:25Luke 14:26Luke 14:27Luke 14:28Luke 14:29Luke 14:30Luke 14:31Luke 14:32Luke 14:33

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Joshua 24:15Judges 9:28Matthew 6:24Luke 16:13Luke 11:4I John 1:9

(20) 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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Joshua 23:12Joshua 23:13Joshua 23:14Joshua 23:15I Chronicles 28:9II Chronicles 15:2Ezra 8:22Isaiah 1:28Isaiah 63:10Isaiah 65:11Isaiah 65:12Jeremiah 17:13

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Joshua 24:15Judges 10:6II Chronicles 7:19Deuteronomy 7:4Deuteronomy 7:16Deuteronomy 11:16

(21) And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD.
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Exodus 19:8Exodus 20:19Exodus 24:3Exodus 24:7Deuteronomy 5:27Deuteronomy 5:28Deuteronomy 26:17Isaiah 44:5

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Joshua 24:15Judges 9:28

(22) 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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Deuteronomy 26:17Job 15:6Luke 19:22Psalms 119:11Psalms 119:173Luke 10:42

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(23) 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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Joshua 24:14Genesis 35:2Genesis 35:3Genesis 35:4Exodus 20:23Judges 10:15Judges 10:16I Samuel 7:3I Samuel 7:4Hosea 14:2Hosea 14:3Hosea 14:8

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(24) And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
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Deuteronomy 5:28Deuteronomy 5:29

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(25) So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
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Exodus 15:25Exodus 24:3Exodus 24:7Exodus 24:8Deuteronomy 5:2Deuteronomy 5:3Deuteronomy 29:1Deuteronomy 29:10Deuteronomy 29:11Deuteronomy 29:12Deuteronomy 29:13Deuteronomy 29:14

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(26) 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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Exodus 24:4Deuteronomy 31:24Deuteronomy 31:25Deuteronomy 31:26Judges 9:6Joshua 4:3Joshua 4:4Joshua 4:5Joshua 4:6Joshua 4:7Joshua 4:8Joshua 4:9

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(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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Joshua 22:27Joshua 22:28Joshua 22:34Genesis 31:44Genesis 31:45Genesis 31:46Genesis 31:47Genesis 31:48Genesis 31:49Genesis 31:50Genesis 31:51Genesis 31:52

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(28) So Joshua let the people depart, every man unto his inheritance.
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Judges 2:6

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(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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Deuteronomy 34:5Judges 2:8Psalms 115:17II Timothy 4:7II Timothy 4:8Revelation 14:13Genesis 50:22Genesis 50:26

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(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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Joshua 19:50Judges 2:9II Samuel 23:30

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(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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Deuteronomy 31:29Judges 2:7II Chronicles 24:2II Chronicles 24:17II Chronicles 24:18Acts 20:29Philippians 2:12Deuteronomy 11:2Deuteronomy 11:7Deuteronomy 31:13

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(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.
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(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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