Joshua 24:25

King James Version 1611 (Original)

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וַיִּכְרֹ֨ת יְהוֹשֻׁ֧עַ בְּרִ֛ית לָעָ֖ם בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֑וּא וַיָּ֥שֶׂם ל֛וֹ חֹ֥ק וּמִשְׁפָּ֖ט בִּשְׁכֶֽם׃

Transliteration

wa-yikrōt yəhôšuaʿ bərît lā-ʿām ba-yôm ha-hûʾ wa-yāśem lô ḥōq û-mišpāṭ bi-šəkem

Grammar Details

• *wa-yikrōt*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular apocopated - and he cut
• *yəhôšuaʿ*: proper noun - Joshua
• *bərît*: noun, feminine singular - covenant
• *lā-ʿām*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - for the people
• *ba-yôm*: preposition + definite article + noun, masculine singular - in the day
• *ha-hûʾ*: definite article + 3rd person masculine singular pronoun - that
• *wa-yāśem*: conjunction + qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular apocopated - and he set/established
• *lô*: preposition + 3rd person masculine singular suffix - for him/it
• *ḥōq*: noun, masculine singular - statute/decree
• *û-mišpāṭ*: conjunction + noun, masculine singular - and judgment/ordinance
• *bi-šəkem*: preposition + proper noun - in Shechem

Word Meanings

• *kārōt bərît*: cut a covenant/make a covenant/establish a treaty
• *ḥōq*: statute/decree/ordinance/law
• *mišpāṭ*: judgment/ordinance/legal decision

Referenced Verses

• Exod 15:25 : 25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,
• 2 Kgs 11:17 : 17 And Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people, that they should be the LORD'S people; between the king also and the people.
• 2 Chr 23:16 : 16 And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the LORD'S people.
• Neh 9:38 : 38 And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.
• Neh 10:28-29 : 28 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding; 29 They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
• 2 Chr 29:10 : 10 Now it is in mine heart to make a covenant with the LORD God of Israel, that his fierce wrath may turn away from us.
• 2 Chr 34:29-32 : 29 Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. 30 And the king went up into the house of the LORD, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD. 31 And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the LORD, to walk after the LORD, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book. 32 And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
• 2 Chr 15:12 : 12 And they entered into a covenant to seek the LORD God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;
• 2 Chr 15:15 : 15 And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and the LORD gave them rest round about.
• Exod 24:3 : 3 And Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the LORD hath said will we do.
• Exod 24:7-8 : 7 And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient. 8 And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the LORD hath made with you concerning all these words.
• Deut 5:2-3 : 2 The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. 3 The LORD made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
• Deut 29:1 : 1 These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
• Deut 29:10-15 : 10 Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, 11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water: 12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the LORD thy God, and into his oath, which the LORD thy God maketh with thee this day: 13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. 14 Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath; 15 But with him that standeth here with us this day before the LORD our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:
• Josh 24:1 : 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.
• Josh 24:26 : 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.