Joshua 24:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 119:173 : 173 Let your hand be near for my help; for I have given my heart to your orders.
  • Luke 10:42 : 42 Little is needed, or even one thing only: for Mary has taken that good part, which will not be taken away from her.
  • Luke 19:22 : 22 He said to him, By the words of your mouth you will be judged, you bad servant. You had knowledge that I am a hard man, taking up what I have not put down and getting in grain where I have not put seed;
  • Deut 26:17 : 17 Today you have given witness that the Lord is your God, and that you will go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions and give ear to his voice:
  • Job 15:6 : 6 It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.
  • Ps 119:11 : 11 I have kept your sayings secretly in my heart, so that I might do no sin against you.

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  • Josh 24:18-21
    4 verses
    85%

    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.

    19 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.

    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.

  • Josh 24:23-27
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    82%

    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.

    27 And Joshua said to all the people, See now, this stone is to be a witness against us; for all the words of the Lord have been said to us in its hearing: so it will be a witness against you if you are false to the Lord your God.

  • Josh 24:14-16
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    78%

    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;

  • Josh 9:22-25
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    74%

    22 Then Joshua sent for them, and said to them, Why have you been false to us, saying, We are very far from you, when you are living among us?

    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.

    25 And now we are in your hands: do to us whatever seems good and right to you.

  • Josh 22:1-2
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    1 Then Joshua sent for the Reubenites and the Gadites and the half-tribe of Manasseh,

    2 And said to them, You have kept all the orders of Moses, the Lord's servant, and have done everything I gave you orders to do:

  • Josh 1:16-17
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    73%

    16 Then they said to Joshua in answer, Whatever you say to us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.

    17 As we gave attention to Moses in all things, so we will give attention to you: and may the Lord your God be with you as he was with Moses.

  • Josh 9:8
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    8 And they said to Joshua, We are your servants. Then Joshua said to them, Who are you and where do you come from?

  • Deut 26:17-18
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    72%

    17 Today you have given witness that the Lord is your God, and that you will go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions and give ear to his voice:

    18 And the Lord has made it clear this day that you are a special people to him, as he gave you his word; and that you are to keep all his orders;

  • Josh 3:9
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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.

  • Judg 2:7
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    7 And the people were true to the Lord all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the responsible men who were still living after the death of Joshua, and had seen all the great work of the Lord which he had done for Israel.

  • Josh 23:2-3
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    71%

    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:

    3 You have seen everything the Lord your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is the Lord your God who has been fighting for you.

  • Judg 11:10
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    10 And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, May the Lord be our witness: we will certainly do as you say.

  • Josh 1:10
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    10 Then Joshua gave their orders to those who were in authority over the people, saying,

  • Josh 22:27-28
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    70%

    27 But to be a witness between us and you, and between the future generations, that we have the right of worshipping the Lord with our burned offerings and our offerings of beasts and our peace-offerings; so that your children will not be able to say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the Lord.

    28 For we said to ourselves, If they say this to us or to future generations, then we will say, See this copy of the Lord's altar which our fathers made, not for burned offerings or offerings of beasts, but for a witness between us and you.

  • Josh 24:1
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    1 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.

  • Deut 30:19
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    19 Let heaven and earth be my witnesses against you this day that I have put before you life and death, a blessing and a curse: so take life for yourselves and for your seed:

  • Josh 9:27
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    27 And that day Joshua made them servants, cutting wood and getting water for the people and for the altar of the Lord, in the place marked out by him, to this day.

  • Josh 24:31
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    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.

  • Josh 4:15
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    15 Then the Lord said to Joshua,

  • Deut 29:10
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    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,

  • 1 Sam 12:13
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    13 Here, then, is the king marked out by you: the Lord has put a king over you.

  • Deut 29:2
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    2 And Moses said in the hearing of all Israel, You have seen all the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh and to all his servants and all his land;

  • Josh 3:5
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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.

  • Josh 9:6
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    6 And they came to Joshua to the tent-circle at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, We have come from a far country: so now make an agreement with us.

  • Isa 43:10
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    10 You are my witnesses, says the Lord, and my servant whom I have taken for myself: so that you may see and have faith in me, and that it may be clear to you that I am he; before me there was no God formed, and there will not be after me.

  • Josh 5:13
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    13 Now when Joshua was near Jericho, lifting up his eyes he saw a man in front of him, with his sword uncovered in his hand: and Joshua went up to him and said, Are you for us or against us?

  • Deut 3:21
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    21 And I gave orders to Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen what the Lord your God has done to these two kings: so will the Lord do to all the kingdoms into which you come.

  • 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.

  • Exod 24:7
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    7 And he took the book of the agreement, reading it in the hearing of the people: and they said, Everything which the Lord has said we will do, and we will keep his laws.

  • Deut 1:14
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    14 And you made answer and said to me, It is good for us to do as you say.