Joshua 24:2

KJV1611 – Modern English

And Joshua said to all the people, Thus says the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers lived on the other side of the river in ancient times, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.

Additional Resources

Other Translations

  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    Joshua said to all the people, "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Long ago, your ancestors, including Terah, the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates River and worshiped other gods.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And hua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And Joshua{H3091} said{H559} unto all the people,{H5971} Thus saith{H559} Jehovah,{H3068} the God{H430} of Israel,{H3478} Your fathers{H1} dwelt{H3427} of old time{H5769} beyond{H5676} the River,{H5104} even Terah,{H8646} the father{H1} of Abraham,{H85} and the father{H1} of Nahor:{H5152} and they served{H5647} other{H312} gods.{H430}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And Joshua{H3091} said{H559}{(H8799)} unto all the people{H5971}, Thus saith{H559}{(H8804)} the LORD{H3068} God{H430} of Israel{H3478}, Your fathers{H1} dwelt{H3427}{(H8804)} on the other side{H5676} of the flood{H5104} in old time{H5769}, even Terah{H8646}, the father{H1} of Abraham{H85}, and the father{H1} of Nachor{H5152}: and they served{H5647}{(H8799)} other{H312} gods{H430}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    he sayde vnto all the people: Thus sayeth the LORDE the God of Israel: Yor fathers dwelt afore time beyode ye water, Abraha & Nahor wt Tarah their father & serued other goddes.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    Then Ioshua said vnto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt beyond the flood in olde time, euen Terah the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor, and serued other gods.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And Iosuah sayde vnto al the people, Thus sayth the Lorde God of Israel: Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the fludde in olde time, euen Thare the father of Abraham and of Nachor, and serued straunge goddes.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, [even] Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Joshua said to all the people, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And Joshua saith unto all the people, `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, Beyond the River have your fathers dwelt of old -- Terah father of Abraham and father of Nachor -- and they serve other gods;

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, 'Your fathers lived of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Joshua told all the people,“This is what the LORD God of Israel has said:‘In the distant past your ancestors lived beyond the Euphrates River, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor. They worshiped other gods,

Referenced Verses

  • Gen 31:53 : 53 The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us. And Jacob swore by the fear of his father Isaac.
  • Gen 31:30 : 30 And now, though you would certainly be gone, because you greatly longed for your father's house, yet why have you stolen my gods?
  • Gen 31:32 : 32 With whomever you find your gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern what is yours with me, and take it to you. For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.
  • Gen 11:26-12:1 : 26 And Terah lived seventy years and begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran. 27 Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begot Lot. 28 And Haran died before his father Terah in his native land, in Ur of the Chaldeans. 29 And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves: the name of Abram's wife was Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife, Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah, and the father of Iscah. 30 But Sarai was barren; she had no child. 31 And Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife, and they went forth with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came to Haran and lived there. 32 And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years, and Terah died in Haran. 1 Now the LORD had said to Abram, Get yourself out of your country, and from your kindred, and from your father's house, to a land that I will show you:
  • Gen 31:19 : 19 And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.
  • Gen 35:4 : 4 And they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.
  • Deut 26:5 : 5 And you shall speak and say before the LORD your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous:
  • Josh 24:15 : 15 And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the river, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
  • Isa 51:2 : 2 Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
  • Ezek 16:3 : 3 And say, Thus says the Lord GOD to Jerusalem; Your birth and your nativity are from the land of Canaan; your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.

Similar Verses (AI)

These verses are found using AI-powered semantic similarity based on meaning and context. Results may occasionally include unexpected connections.

  • Josh 24:3
    78%

    3 And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the river, and led him through all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants, and gave him Isaac.

  • Josh 24:14-16
    3 verses
    77%

    14 Now 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 river, and in Egypt; and serve the LORD.

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

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

  • Josh 24:1
    74%

    1 And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their leaders, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

  • Josh 24:18-24
    7 verses
    73%

    18 And the LORD drove out from before us all the people, even the Amorites who lived in the land: therefore we will also serve the LORD; for he is our God.

    19 And Joshua said to the people, You cannot serve the LORD: for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.

    20 If you forsake the LORD, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm, and consume you, after he has done you good.

    21 And the people said to Joshua, No; but we will serve the LORD.

    22 And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.

    23 Now therefore put away, said he, the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to the LORD God of Israel.

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

  • Josh 3:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9 And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come here and hear the words of the LORD your God.

    10 And Joshua said, By this you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive out from before you the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Hivites, and the Perizzites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Jebusites.

  • Judg 2:12
    69%

    12 And they forsook the LORD God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and followed other gods, the gods of the people that were around them, and bowed themselves to them, and provoked the LORD to anger.

  • Judg 2:7
    69%

    7 And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.

  • Josh 4:1
    69%

    1 And it happened, when all the people had completely passed over the Jordan, that the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,

  • Josh 24:31
    69%

    31 And Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who survived Joshua, and who had known all the works of the LORD, which he had done for Israel.

  • Josh 23:2
    68%

    2 And Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders, for their leaders, for their judges, and for their officers, and said to them, I am old and advanced in age.

  • Deut 31:3
    68%

    3 The LORD your God, he will go over before you, and he will destroy these nations before you, and you shall possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before you, as the LORD has said.

  • Josh 9:24
    68%

    24 And they answered Joshua, and said, Because it was certainly told to your servants how the LORD your 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 very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

  • Acts 7:2
    68%

    2 And he said, Men, brothers, and fathers, listen; The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he lived in Haran,

  • Deut 11:30
    68%

    30 Are they not on the other side of the Jordan, by the way where the sun goes down, in the land of the Canaanites, who dwell in the plain over against Gilgal, beside the plains of Moreh?

  • Josh 9:8-9
    2 verses
    67%

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

    9 And they said to him, From a very far country your servants have come because of the name of the LORD your God: for we have heard of His fame, and all that He did in Egypt,

  • Josh 7:7
    67%

    7 And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord GOD, why have you at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? Would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side of Jordan!

  • Josh 4:21-22
    2 verses
    67%

    21 And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What do these stones mean?

    22 Then you shall let your children know, saying, Israel came over this Jordan on dry land.

  • Josh 22:1
    67%

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

  • Josh 1:10
    67%

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

  • Josh 18:3
    67%

    3 And Joshua said to the children of Israel, How long will you delay to go and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers has given you?

  • Josh 4:5-6
    2 verses
    67%

    5 And Joshua said to them, Pass over before the ark of the LORD your God into the midst of the Jordan, and every one of you take a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel,

    6 That this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What do these stones mean?

  • Deut 28:64
    67%

    64 And the LORD shall scatter you among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there you shall serve other gods, which neither you nor your fathers have known, even wood and stone.

  • Josh 4:15
    67%

    15 And the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,

  • Josh 1:12-13
    2 verses
    67%

    12 And to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh, Joshua spoke, saying,

    13 Remember the word which Moses the servant of the LORD commanded you, saying, The LORD your God is giving you rest and is giving you this land.

  • Deut 29:26
    66%

    26 For they went and served other gods, and worshipped them, gods whom they knew not, and whom he had not given to them:

Created by Digify•Powered by SQLExpert
© 2025 Bibelvers. All rights reserved.