Joshua 24:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Then Joshua got all the tribes of Israel together at Shechem; and he sent for the responsible men of Israel and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers; and they took their place before God.

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  • Josh 23:2 : 2 Joshua sent for all Israel, for their responsible men and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers, and said to them, I am old, and full of years:
  • 1 Sam 10:19 : 19 But today you are turned away from your God, who himself has been your saviour from all your troubles and sorrows; and you have said to him, Put a king over us. So now, take your places before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.
  • 1 Kgs 12:1 : 1 And Rehoboam went to Shechem, where all Israel had come together to make him king,
  • Acts 10:33 : 33 So, straight away, I sent for you; and you have done well to come. And now, we are all present before God, ready to give attention to all the things which the Lord has given you to say.
  • Judg 9:1-3 : 1 Now Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, went to Shechem to his mother's family, and said to them and to all the family of his mother's father, 2 Say now in the ears of all the townsmen of Shechem, Is it better for you to be ruled by all the seventy sons of Jerubbaal or by one man only? And keep in mind that I am your bone and your flesh. 3 So his mother's family said all this about him in the ears of all the townsmen of Shechem: and their hearts were turned to Abimelech, for they said, He is our brother.
  • Gen 12:6 : 6 And Abram went through the land till he came to Shechem, to the holy tree of Moreh. At that time, the Canaanites were still living in the land.
  • Gen 33:18-19 : 18 So Jacob came safely from Paddan-aram to the town of Shechem in the land of Canaan, and put up his tents near the town. 19 And for a hundred bits of money he got from the children of Hamor, the builder of Shechem, the field in which he had put up his tents.
  • Gen 35:4 : 4 Then they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which they had, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob put them away under the holy tree at Shechem.
  • Exod 18:25-26 : 25 And he made selection of able men out of all Israel, and made them heads over the people, captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens. 26 And they were judges in the causes of the people at all times: the hard questions they put before Moses; but on every small point they gave decisions themselves.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 23:1-2
    2 verses
    82%

    1 Now after a long time, when the Lord had given Israel rest from wars on every side, and Joshua was old and full of years,

    2 Joshua sent for all Israel, for their responsible men and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers, and said to them, I am old, and full of years:

  • Josh 24:22-26
    5 verses
    76%

    22 And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision to be the servants of the Lord. And they said, We are witnesses.

    23 Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.

    24 And the people said to Joshua, We will be the servants of the Lord our God, and we will give ear to his voice.

    25 So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem.

    26 And Joshua put these words on record, writing them in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and put it up there under the oak-tree which was in the holy place of the Lord.

  • Josh 21:1
    76%

    1 Then the heads of the families of the Levites came to Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel;

  • Josh 22:1
    76%

    1 Then Joshua sent for the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh,

  • Josh 3:9
    75%

    9 And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come to me here: and give ear to the words of the Lord your God.

  • Josh 24:2
    74%

    2 And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they were worshipping other gods.

  • Deut 31:28
    74%

    28 Get together before me all those who are in authority in your tribes, and your overseers, so that I may say these things in their hearing, and make heaven and earth my witnesses against them.

  • Deut 29:10
    73%

    10 You have come here today, all of you, before the Lord your God; the heads of your tribes, the overseers, and those who are in authority over you, with all the men of Israel,

  • Josh 4:4
    73%

    4 So Joshua sent for the twelve men, whom he had ready, one man out of every tribe of the children of Israel,

  • Josh 1:10
    72%

    10 Then Joshua gave their orders to those who were in authority over the people, saying,

  • Josh 7:23
    72%

    23 And they took them from the tent and came back with them to Joshua and the children of Israel, and put them before the Lord.

  • Num 27:22
    72%

    22 So Moses did as the Lord said: he took Joshua and put him before Eleazar the priest and the meeting of the people:

  • Josh 9:1-2
    2 verses
    71%

    1 Now on hearing the news of these things, all the kings on the west side of Jordan, in the hill-country and the lowlands and by the Great Sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites,

    2 Came together with one purpose, to make war against Joshua and Israel.

  • Josh 4:1
    71%

    1 Now when all the nation had come to the other side of Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua,

  • Num 32:28
    71%

    28 So Moses gave orders about them to Eleazar the priest and to Joshua, the son of Nun, and to the heads of families of the tribes of the children of Israel.

  • Josh 24:31
    71%

    31 And Israel was true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the older men who were still living after Joshua's death, and had seen what the Lord had done for Israel.

  • Judg 1:1
    71%

    1 Now after the death of Joshua, the children of Israel made request to the Lord, saying, Who is to go up first to make war for us against the Canaanites?

  • 1 Sam 8:4
    71%

    4 Then all the responsible men of Israel got together and went to Samuel at Ramah,

  • Num 27:19
    71%

    19 And take him before Eleazar the priest and all the meeting of the people, and give him his orders before their eyes.

  • Josh 18:1
    70%

    1 And all the meeting of the children of Israel came together at Shiloh and put up the Tent of meeting there: and the land was crushed before them.

  • Exod 19:7
    70%

    7 And Moses came and sent for the chiefs of the people and put before them all these words which the Lord had given him orders to say.

  • 2 Kgs 23:1
    70%

    1 Then the king sent and got together all the responsible men of Judah and of Jerusalem.

  • Josh 7:6
    70%

    6 Then Joshua, in great grief, went down on the earth before the ark of the Lord till the evening, and all the chiefs of Israel with him, and they put dust on their heads.

  • Josh 1:12
    70%

    12 And to the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh, Joshua said,

  • Josh 8:34-35
    2 verses
    70%

    34 And after, he gave them all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, as it is all recorded in the book of the law;

    35 Reading to all the meeting of Israel, with the women and the children and the men from other lands who were living among them, every word of the orders which Moses had given.

  • Josh 8:10
    70%

    10 And early in the morning Joshua got up, and put the people in order, and he and the chiefs of Israel went up before the people to Ai.

  • Josh 20:1
    70%

    1 And the Lord said to Joshua,

  • Josh 4:15
    70%

    15 Then the Lord said to Joshua,

  • Exod 4:29
    70%

    29 Then Moses and Aaron went and got together all the chiefs of the children of Israel:

  • Josh 10:24
    70%

    24 And when they had made those kings come out to Joshua, Joshua sent for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who had gone with him, Come near and put your feet on the necks of these kings. So they came near and put their feet on their necks.

  • 1 Chr 23:2
    70%

    2 And he got together all the chiefs of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

  • Josh 8:30
    69%

    30 Then Joshua put up an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,

  • Josh 3:1
    69%

    1 Then Joshua got up early in the morning, and, moving on from Shittim, he and all the children of Israel came to Jordan and were there for the night before going over.

  • Deut 31:14
    69%

    14 At that time the Lord said to Moses, The day of your death is near: send for Joshua, and come to the Tent of meeting so that I may give him his orders. So Moses and Joshua went to the Tent of meeting.

  • Josh 7:16
    69%

    16 So Joshua got up early in the morning, and made Israel come before him by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken;

  • Josh 22:12
    69%

    12 Then all the meeting of the children of Israel, hearing this, came together at Shiloh to go up against them to war.

  • Num 36:1
    69%

    1 Now the heads of the families of the children of Gilead, the son of Machir, the son of Manasseh, of the families of the sons of Joseph, came to Moses, the chiefs and the heads of families of the children of Israel being present,

  • Deut 31:7
    69%

    7 Then Moses sent for Joshua, and before the eyes of all Israel said to him, Be strong and take heart: for you are to go with this people into the land which the Lord, by his oath to their fathers, has given them; by your help they will take it for their heritage.