Joshua 24:22

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And Joshua said unto the people, Ye [are] witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, [We are] witnesses.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 119:173 : 173 ¶ Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
  • Luke 10:42 : 42 ‹But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.›
  • Luke 19:22 : 22 ‹And he saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee,› [thou] ‹wicked servant. Thou knewest that I was an austere man, taking up that I laid not down, and reaping that I did not sow:›
  • Deut 26:17 : 17 Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
  • Job 15:6 : 6 Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
  • Ps 119:11 : 11 ¶ Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

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    18And the LORD drave out from before us all the people, even the Amorites which dwelt in the land: [therefore] will we also serve the LORD; for he [is] our God.

    19And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he [is] an holy God; he [is] a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.

    20If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.

    21And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD.

  • Josh 24:23-27
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    23Now therefore put away, [said he], the strange gods which [are] among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.

    24And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.

    25So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

    26And 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.

    27And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.

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    14Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.

    15¶ And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that [were] on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

    16And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;

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    22¶ And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We [are] very far from you; when ye dwell among us?

    23Now therefore ye [are] cursed, and there shall none of you be freed from being bondmen, and hewers of wood and drawers of water for the house of my God.

    24And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told thy servants, how that the LORD thy God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you, therefore we were sore afraid of our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

    25And now, behold, we [are] in thine hand: as it seemeth good and right unto thee to do unto us, do.

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    1¶ Then Joshua called the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh,

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    16¶ And they answered Joshua, saying, All that thou commandest us we will do, and whithersoever thou sendest us, we will go.

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    8And they said unto Joshua, We [are] thy servants. And Joshua said unto them, Who [are] ye? and from whence come ye?

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    17Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:

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    10¶ Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,

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    28Therefore said we, that it shall be, when they should [so] say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say [again], Behold the pattern of the altar of the LORD, which our fathers made, not for burnt offerings, nor for sacrifices; but it [is] a witness between us and you.

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    19I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, [that] I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

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    13¶ And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, [Art] thou for us, or for our adversaries?

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