Joshua 24:27

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

    And Joshua said to all the people, "See, this stone will serve as a witness against us. It has heard all the words the LORD has spoken to us. It will be a witness against you if you deny your God.

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And hua 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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And Joshua{H3091} said{H559} unto all the people,{H5971} Behold, this stone{H68} shall be a witness{H5713} against us; for it hath heard{H8085} all the words{H561} of Jehovah{H3068} which he spake{H1696} unto us: it shall be therefore a witness{H5713} against you, lest ye deny{H3584} your God.{H430}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And Joshua{H3091} said{H559}{(H8799)} unto all the people{H5971}, Behold, this stone{H68} shall be a witness{H5713} unto us; for it hath heard{H8085}{(H8804)} all the words{H561} of the LORD{H3068} which he spake{H1696}{(H8765)} unto us: it shall be therefore a witness{H5713} unto you, lest ye deny{H3584}{(H8762)} your God{H430}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    and sayde vnto all the people: Beholde, this stone shall be witnesse ouer you: For it hath herde all the wordes of the LORDE, which he hath spoken vnto vs, and shall be a witnesse ouer you, that ye denye not youre God.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And Ioshua saide vnto all the people, Beholde, this stone shall be a witnesse vnto vs: for it hath heard all the wordes of the Lord which he spake with vs: it shall be therefore a witnesse against you, lest yee denie your God.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And Iosuah sayde vnto al the people: Behold, this stone shalbe a witnesse vnto vs, for it hath hearde al the wordes of the Lorde whiche he spake with vs, it shalbe therfore a witnesse vnto you, lest ye denie your God.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    And 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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    Joshua said to all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of Yahweh which he spoke to us: it shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And Joshua saith unto all the people, `Lo, this stone is against us for a witness, for it hath heard all the sayings of Jehovah which He hath spoken with us, and it hath been against you for a witness, lest ye lie against your God.'

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • American Standard Version (1901)

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

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    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.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of Yahweh which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God."

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    Joshua said to all the people,“Look, this stone will be a witness against us, for it has heard everything the LORD said to us. It will be a witness against you if you deny your God.”

Referenced Verses

  • Josh 22:27-28 : 27 But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before Him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the LORD. 28 Therefore we said that it shall be, when they should say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say, 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.
  • Josh 22:34 : 34 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is God.
  • Luke 19:40 : 40 And he answered and said to them, I tell you that if these should be silent, the stones would immediately cry out.
  • 2 Tim 2:12-13 : 12 If we endure, we shall also reign with Him; if we deny Him, He also will deny us; 13 If we are faithless, He remains faithful; He cannot deny Himself.
  • Deut 31:21 : 21 And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles have befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.
  • Deut 31:26 : 26 Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.
  • Deut 32:1 : 1 Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
  • Titus 1:16 : 16 They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and disqualified for every good work.
  • Gen 31:44-52 : 44 Now therefore come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you. 45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 46 And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones; and they took stones, and made a heap: and they ate there upon the heap. 47 And Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha: but Jacob called it Galeed. 48 And Laban said, This heap is a witness between me and you this day. Therefore its name was called Galeed; 49 And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another. 50 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take other wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; see, God is witness between me and you. 51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have set between me and you; 52 This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you shall not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
  • Deut 4:26 : 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land where you go over Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
  • Deut 30:19 : 19 I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both you and your descendants may live:
  • Deut 31:19 : 19 Now therefore write this song for you, and teach it to the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
  • 1 Sam 7:12 : 12 Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and named it Ebenezer, saying, Thus far the LORD has helped us.
  • Job 31:23 : 23 For destruction from God was a terror to me, and because of His majesty I could not endure.
  • Prov 30:9 : 9 Lest I be full and deny You, and say, Who is the LORD? Or lest I be poor and steal, and take the name of my God in vain.
  • Isa 1:2 : 2 Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth: for the LORD has spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
  • Hab 2:11 : 11 For the stone shall cry out from the wall, and the beam from the timber shall answer it.
  • Matt 10:33 : 33 But whoever shall deny me before men, him will I also deny before my Father who is in heaven.
  • Rev 3:8 : 8 I know your works: behold, I have set before you an open door, and no man can shut it: for you have a little strength, and have kept my word, and have not denied my name.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Josh 24:21-26
    6 verses
    84%

    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.

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

    26 And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a large stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.

  • Josh 4:5-9
    5 verses
    78%

    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?

    7 Then you shall answer them, That the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be a memorial to the children of Israel forever.

    8 And the children of Israel did so as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the midst of the Jordan, as the LORD spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel, and carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.

    9 And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there to this day.

  • Josh 4:20-21
    2 verses
    76%

    20 And Joshua set up in Gilgal the twelve stones which they took out of the Jordan.

    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?

  • Josh 22:27-28
    2 verses
    76%

    27 But that it may be a witness between us, and you, and our generations after us, that we might do the service of the LORD before Him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, You have no part in the LORD.

    28 Therefore we said that it shall be, when they should say to us or to our generations in time to come, that we may say, 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.

  • Deut 31:26
    75%

    26 Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of the LORD your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.

  • Deut 27:2
    74%

    2 And it shall be on the day when you pass over the Jordan into the land which the LORD your God gives you, that you shall set up great stones, and plaster them with plaster:

  • Josh 3:9
    73%

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

  • Deut 31:28
    72%

    28 Gather to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

  • Josh 7:25-26
    2 verses
    72%

    25 And Joshua said, Why have you troubled us? the LORD shall trouble you this day. And all Israel stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones.

    26 And they raised over him a great heap of stones unto this day. So the LORD turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called, The valley of Achor, unto this day.

  • Deut 27:4
    71%

    4 Therefore it shall be when you have crossed the Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you today, in Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.

  • Deut 4:26
    71%

    26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land where you go over Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

  • Deut 27:8
    71%

    8 And you shall write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.

  • Josh 8:30-32
    3 verses
    71%

    30 Then Joshua built an altar to the LORD God of Israel in Mount Ebal,

    31 As Moses the servant of the LORD commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of whole stones, over which no man has lifted up any iron; and they offered on it burnt offerings to the LORD, and sacrificed peace offerings.

    32 And he wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

  • Deut 31:19
    71%

    19 Now therefore write this song for you, and teach it to the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

  • Josh 4:3
    71%

    3 And command them, saying, Take from here out of the midst of the Jordan, from the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and leave them in the place where you will lodge tonight.

  • Josh 10:18
    70%

    18 So Joshua said, Roll large stones against the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to guard them.

  • Josh 24:18-19
    2 verses
    70%

    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.

  • Josh 22:34
    70%

    34 And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: for it shall be a witness between us that the LORD is God.

  • Deut 3:21
    70%

    21 And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen all that the LORD your God has done to these two kings; so shall the LORD do to all the kingdoms through which you pass.

  • Deut 32:46
    70%

    46 And he said to them, Set your hearts unto all the words which I testify among you today, which you shall command your children to observe to do, all the words of this law.

  • Gen 31:45
    70%

    45 And Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

  • Gen 31:52
    70%

    52 This heap is a witness, and this pillar is a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you shall not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

  • Josh 9:24
    70%

    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.

  • Josh 22:24
    70%

    24 And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, What have you to do with the LORD God of Israel?

  • Josh 7:9
    70%

    9 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it, and surround us, and cut off our name from the earth: and what will you do for your great name?

  • 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 4:15
    69%

    15 And the LORD spoke to Joshua, saying,

  • Judg 11:10
    69%

    10 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, The LORD be witness between us, if we do not do according to your words.

  • Zech 3:6
    69%

    6 And the angel of the LORD admonished Joshua, saying,

  • Josh 8:35
    69%

    35 There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers who were among them.

  • Deut 31:7
    69%

    7 And Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and of good courage: for you must go with this people to the land which the LORD has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.

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