Joshua 24:14

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So now, go in fear of the Lord, and be his servants with true hearts: put away the gods worshipped by your fathers across the River and in Egypt, and be servants of the Lord.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְעַתָּ֞ה יְר֧אוּ אֶת־יְהוָ֛ה וְעִבְד֥וּ אֹת֖וֹ בְּתָמִ֣ים וּבֶֽאֱמֶ֑ת וְהָסִ֣ירוּ אֶת־אֱלֹהִ֗ים אֲשֶׁר֩ עָבְד֨וּ אֲבוֹתֵיכֶ֜ם בְּעֵ֤בֶר הַנָּהָר֙ וּבְמִצְרַ֔יִם וְעִבְד֖וּ אֶת־יְהוָֽה׃

Transliteration

wə-ʿattāh yərʾû ʾet-YHWH wə-ʿibdû ʾōtô bə-tāmîm û-be-ʾĕmet wə-hāsîrû ʾet-ʾĕlōhîm ʾăšer ʿābdû ʾăbôtêkem bə-ʿēber ha-nāhār û-bə-miṣrayim wə-ʿibdû ʾet-YHWH

Grammar Details

• *wə-ʿattāh*: conjunction + adverb - and now
• *yərʾû*: qal imperative, masculine plural - fear/revere
• *ʾet*: direct object marker
• *YHWH*: divine name, tetragrammaton
• *wə-ʿibdû*: conjunction + qal imperative, masculine plural - and serve
• *ʾōtô*: direct object marker + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - him
• *bə-tāmîm*: preposition + noun, masculine singular - in completeness/integrity
• *û-be-ʾĕmet*: conjunction + preposition + noun, feminine singular - and in truth
• *wə-hāsîrû*: conjunction + hiphil imperative, masculine plural - and remove/put away
• *ʾĕlōhîm*: noun, masculine plural - gods
• *ʾăšer*: relative particle - which/that
• *ʿābdû*: qal perfect, 3rd person plural - they served
• *ʾăbôtêkem*: noun, masculine plural construct + 2nd person masculine plural suffix - your fathers
• *bə-ʿēber*: preposition + noun, masculine singular construct - in beyond/across
• *ha-nāhār*: definite article + noun, masculine singular - the river
• *û-bə-miṣrayim*: conjunction + preposition + proper noun - and in Egypt

Word Meanings

• *yərʾû*: fear/revere/be in awe of
• *bə-tāmîm*: in completeness/integrity/perfection/wholeness
• *ʾĕmet*: truth/faithfulness/reliability
• *hāsîrû*: remove/put away/turn aside
• *ʿēber ha-nāhār*: beyond the river/Mesopotamia/Euphrates region

Referenced Verses

• Josh 24:23 : 23 Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.
• 1 Sam 12:24 : 24 Only go in the fear of the Lord, and be his true servants with all your heart, keeping in mind what great things he has done for you.
• Deut 10:12 : 12 And now, Israel, what would the Lord your God have you do, but to go in the fear of the Lord your God, walking in all his ways and loving him and doing his pleasure with all your heart and all your soul,
• Deut 18:13 : 13 You are to be upright in heart before the Lord your God.
• Josh 24:2 : 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.
• 2 Cor 1:12 : 12 For our glory is in this, in the knowledge which we have that our way of life in the world, and most of all in relation to you, has been holy and true in the eyes of God; not in the wisdom of the flesh, but in the grace of God.
• Gen 35:2 : 2 Then Jacob said to all his people, Put away the strange gods which are among you, and make yourselves clean, and put on a change of clothing:
• Ezek 23:3 : 3 They were acting like loose women in Egypt; when they were young their behaviour was loose: there their breasts were crushed, even the points of their young breasts were crushed.
• Hos 3:5 : 5 And after that, the children of Israel will come back and go in search of the Lord their God and David their king; and they will come in fear to the Lord and to his mercies in the days to come.
• Amos 5:25-26 : 25 Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel? 26 Truly, you will take up Saccuth your king and Kaiwan your images, the star of your god, which you made for yourselves.
• Luke 8:15 : 15 And those in the good earth are those who, having given ear to the word, keep it with a good and true heart, and in quiet strength give fruit.
• John 4:23-24 : 23 But the time is coming, and is even now here, when the true worshippers will give worship to the Father in the true way of the spirit, for these are the worshippers desired by the Father. 24 God is Spirit: then let his worshippers give him worship in the true way of the spirit.
• Acts 9:31 : 31 And so the church through all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was made strong; and, living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, was increased greatly.
• Exod 20:3-4 : 3 You are to have no other gods but me. 4 You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:
• Lev 17:7 : 7 And let them make no more offerings to evil spirits, after which they have gone, turning away from the Lord. Let this be a law to them for ever, through all their generations.
• Gen 17:1 : 1 When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the Lord came to him, and said, I am God, Ruler of all; go in my ways and be upright in all things,
• Gen 20:5-6 : 5 Did he not say to me himself, She is my sister? and she herself said, He is my brother: with an upright heart and clean hands have I done this. 6 And God said to him in the dream, I see that you have done this with an upright heart, and I have kept you from sinning against me: for this reason I did not let you come near her.
• 2 Kgs 20:3 : 3 O Lord, keep in mind how I have been true to you with all my heart, and have done what is good in your eyes. And Hezekiah gave way to bitter weeping.
• Ezra 9:11 : 11 Which you gave to your servants the prophets, saying, The land into which you are going, to take it for a heritage, is an unclean land, because of the evil lives of the peoples of the land and their disgusting ways, which have made the land unclean from end to end.
• Job 1:1 : 1 There was a man in the land of Uz whose name was Job. He was without sin and upright, fearing God and keeping himself far from evil.
• Job 28:28 : 28 And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.
• Ps 111:10 : 10 The fear of the Lord is the best part of wisdom: all those who keep his laws are wise: his praise is eternal.
• Ps 119:1 : 1 <ALEPH> Happy are they who are without sin in their ways, walking in the law of the Lord.
• Ps 119:80 : 80 Let all my heart be given to your orders, so that I may not be put to shame.
• Ps 130:4 : 4 But there is forgiveness with you, so that you may be feared.
• Ezek 20:7-8 : 7 And I said to them, Let every man among you put away the disgusting things to which his eyes are turned, and do not make yourselves unclean with the images of Egypt; I am the Lord your God. 8 But they would not be controlled by me, and did not give ear to me; they did not put away the disgusting things to which their eyes were turned, or give up the images of Egypt: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the land of Egypt.
• Ezek 20:18 : 18 And I said to their children in the waste land, Do not be guided by the rules of your fathers or keep their orders or make yourselves unclean with their images:
• Eph 6:24 : 24 Grace be with all those who have true love for our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Phil 1:10 : 10 So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ;