Joshua 24:19

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins.

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  • Exod 20:5 : 5 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;
  • Exod 23:21 : 21 Give attention to him and give ear to his voice; do not go against him; for your wrongdoing will not be overlooked by him, because my name is in him.
  • Lev 19:2 : 2 Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.
  • Ps 99:5 : 5 Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping at his feet; holy is he.
  • Ps 99:9 : 9 Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping with your faces turned to his holy hill; for the Lord our God is holy.
  • Isa 5:16 : 16 But the Lord of armies is lifted up as judge, and the Holy God is seen to be holy in righteousness.
  • Exod 34:14 : 14 For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another.
  • 1 Sam 6:20 : 20 And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to keep his place before the Lord, this holy God? and to whom may he go from us?
  • 2 Chr 36:16 : 16 But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.
  • Lev 10:3 : 3 Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord said, I will be holy in the eyes of all those who come near to me, and I will be honoured before all the people. And Aaron said nothing.
  • Exod 34:7 : 7 Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.
  • Lev 20:26 : 26 And you are to be holy to me; for I the Lord am holy and have made you separate from the nations, so that you may be my people.
  • Josh 24:23 : 23 Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.
  • Ruth 1:15 : 15 And Naomi said, See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods: go back after your sister-in-law.
  • 1 Sam 3:14 : 14 So I have made an oath to the family of Eli that no offering of meat or of meal which they may make will ever take away the sin of his family.
  • Isa 6:3-5 : 3 And one said in a loud voice to another, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of armies: all the earth is full of his glory. 4 And the bases of the door-pillars were shaking at the sound of his cry, and the house was full of smoke. 5 Then I said, The curse is on me, and my fate is destruction; for I am a man of unclean lips, living among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of armies.
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.
  • Isa 30:11 : 11 Get out of the good way, turning from the right road; do not keep the Holy One of Israel before our minds.
  • Isa 30:15 : 15 For the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, said, In quiet and rest is your salvation: peace and hope are your strength: but you would not have it so.
  • Hab 1:13 : 13 Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
  • Luke 14:25-33 : 25 Now a great number of people went with him. 26 And turning round, he said to them, If any man comes to me, and has not hate for his father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, and even for his life, he may not be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not take up his cross and come after me may not be my disciple. 28 For which of you, desiring to put up a tower, does not first give much thought to the price, if he will have enough to make it complete? 29 For fear that if he makes a start and is not able to go on with it to the end, all who see it will be laughing at him, 30 And saying, This man made a start at building and is not able to make it complete. 31 Or what king, going to war with another king, will not first take thought if he will be strong enough, with ten thousand men, to keep off him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 Or while the other is still a great distance away, he sends representatives requesting conditions of peace. 33 And so whoever is not ready to give up all he has may not be my disciple.
  • 1 Cor 10:20-22 : 20 What I say is that the things offered by the Gentiles are offered to evil spirits and not to God; and it is not my desire for you to have any part with evil spirits. 21 It is not possible for you, at the same time, to take the cup of the Lord and the cup of evil spirits; you may not take part in the table of the Lord and the table of evil spirits. 22 Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?

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    20 If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good.

    21 And the people said to Joshua, No! But we will be the servants of the Lord.

    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.

  • Josh 24:18
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    18 And the Lord sent out from before us all the peoples, the Amorites living in the land: so we will be the servants of the Lord, for he is our God.

  • Exod 34:14-15
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    14 For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another.

    15 So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,

  • Deut 6:14-15
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    14 Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;

    15 For the Lord your God who is with you is a God who will not let his honour be given to another; or the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, causing your destruction from the face of the earth.

  • Deut 4:24
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    24 For the Lord your God is an all-burning fire, and he will not let the honour which is his be given to any other.

  • Deut 5:9
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    9 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

  • Exod 20:5
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    5 You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

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    14 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.

    15 And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.

    16 Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up the Lord to be the servants of other gods;

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    4 Do not so to the Lord your God.

  • Josh 9:23-24
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    23 Now because of this you are cursed, and you will for ever be our servants, cutting wood and getting water for the house of my God.

    24 And, answering Joshua, they said, Because it came to the ears of your servants that the Lord your God had given orders to his servant Moses to give you all this land, and to send destruction on all the people living in it, because of you; so, fearing greatly for our lives because of you, we have done this.

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    35 And the Lord made an agreement with them and gave them orders, saying, You are to have no other gods; you are not to give worship to them or be their servants or make them offerings:

  • Josh 23:16
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    16 If the agreement of the Lord your God, which was given to you by his orders, is broken, and you become the servants of other gods and give them worship, then the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, and you will quickly be cut off from the good land which he has given you.

  • Josh 3:9-10
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    9 And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come to me here: and give ear to the words of the Lord your God.

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    7 Have nothing to do with these nations who still are living among you; let not their gods be named by you or used in your oaths; do not be their servants or give them worship:

  • Exod 23:24
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    24 Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down.

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    6 Do not go after other gods to be their servants and to give them worship, and do not make me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.

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    12 And they made themselves servants of disgusting things, though the Lord had said, You are not to do this.

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    6 But if you are turned from my ways, you or your children, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods and give them worship:

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    4 Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.

  • Deut 7:16
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    16 And you are to send destruction on all the peoples which the Lord your God gives into your hands; have no pity on them, and do not give worship to their gods; for that will be a cause of sin to you.

  • Exod 23:32
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    32 Make no agreement with them or with their gods.

  • Josh 22:5
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    5 Only take great care to do the orders and the law which Moses, the Lord's servant, gave you; to have love for the Lord your God and to go in all his ways; and to keep his laws and to be true to him and to be his servants with all your heart and with all your soul.

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    5 And Joshua said to the people, Make yourselves holy, for tomorrow the Lord will do works of wonder among you.

  • 2 Chr 7:19
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  • Josh 24:27
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    38 And you are to keep in memory the agreement which I have made with you; and you are to have no other gods.

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    17 For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, strong in power and greatly to be feared, who has no respect for any man's position and takes no rewards:

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    3 The Lord your God, he will go over before you; he will send destruction on all those nations, and you will take their land as your heritage: and Joshua will go over at your head as the Lord has said.

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    17 But if your heart is turned away and your ear is shut, and you go after those who would make you servants and worshippers of other gods:

  • Josh 7:19
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    19 And Joshua said to Achan, My son, give glory and praise to the Lord, the God of Israel; give me word now of what you have done, and keep nothing back from me.

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    21 From now on I will not go on driving out from before them any of the nations which at the death of Joshua were still living in this land;

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    20 Let the fear of the Lord your God be before you, give him worship and be true to him at all times, taking your oaths in his name.