Joshua 24:22

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Joshua said to the people,“Do you agree to be witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to worship the LORD?” They replied,“We are witnesses!”

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 119:173 : 173 May your hand help me, for I choose to obey your precepts.
  • Luke 10:42 : 42 but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the best part; it will not be taken away from her.”
  • Luke 19:22 : 22 The king said to him,‘I will judge you by your own words, you wicked slave! So you knew, did you, that I was a severe man, withdrawing what I didn’t deposit and reaping what I didn’t sow?
  • Deut 26:17 : 17 Today you have declared the LORD to be your God, and that you will walk in his ways, keep his statutes, commandments, and ordinances, and obey him.
  • Job 15:6 : 6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I; your own lips testify against you.
  • Ps 119:11 : 11 In my heart I store up your words, so I might not sin against you.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Josh 24:18-21
    4 verses
    85%

    18The LORD drove out from before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. So we too will worship the LORD, for he is our God!”

    19Joshua warned the people,“You will not keep worshiping the LORD, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God who will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.

    20If you abandon the LORD and worship foreign gods, he will turn against you; he will bring disaster on you and destroy you, though he once treated you well.”

    21The people said to Joshua,“No! We really will worship the LORD.

  • Josh 24:23-27
    5 verses
    82%

    23Joshua said,“Now put aside the foreign gods that are among you and submit to the LORD God of Israel.”

    24The people said to Joshua,“We will worship the LORD our God and obey him.”

    25That day Joshua drew up an agreement for the people, and he established rules and regulations for them in Shechem.

    26Joshua wrote these words in the Law Scroll of God. He then took a large stone and set it up there under the oak tree near the LORD’s shrine.

    27Joshua 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.”

  • Josh 24:14-16
    3 verses
    78%

    14Now obey the LORD and worship him with integrity and loyalty. Put aside the gods your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt and worship the LORD.

    15If you have no desire to worship the LORD, choose today whom you will worship, whether it be the gods whom your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But I and my family will worship the LORD.

    16The people responded,“Far be it from us to abandon the LORD so we can worship other gods!

  • Josh 9:22-25
    4 verses
    74%

    22Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said to them,“Why did you trick us by saying,‘We live far away from you,’ when you really live nearby?

    23Now you are condemned to perpetual servitude as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”

    24They said to Joshua,“It was carefully reported to your subjects how the LORD your God commanded Moses his servant to assign you the whole land and to destroy all who live in the land from before you. Because of you we were terrified we would lose our lives, so we did this thing.

    25So now we are in your power. Do to us what you think is good and appropriate.”

  • Josh 22:1-2
    2 verses
    73%

    1Joshua Sends Home the Eastern Tribes Then Joshua summoned the Reubenites, Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh

    2and told them:“You have carried out all the instructions of Moses the LORD’s servant, and you have obeyed all I have told you.

  • Josh 1:16-17
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    73%

    16They told Joshua,“We will do everything you say. We will go wherever you send us.

    17Just as we obeyed Moses, so we will obey you. But may the LORD your God be with you as he was with Moses!

  • Josh 9:8
    73%

    8But they said to Joshua,“We are willing to be your subjects.” So Joshua said to them,“Who are you and where do you come from?”

  • Deut 26:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17Today you have declared the LORD to be your God, and that you will walk in his ways, keep his statutes, commandments, and ordinances, and obey him.

    18And today the LORD has declared you to be his special people(as he already promised you) so you may keep all his commandments.

  • Josh 3:9
    72%

    9Joshua told the Israelites,“Come here and listen to the words of the LORD your God!”

  • Judg 2:7
    71%

    7The people worshiped the LORD throughout Joshua’s lifetime and as long as the elderly men who outlived him remained alive. These men had witnessed all the great things the LORD had done for Israel.

  • Josh 23:2-3
    2 verses
    71%

    2So Joshua summoned all Israel, including the elders, rulers, judges, and leaders, and told them:“I am very old.

    3You saw everything the LORD your God did to all these nations on your behalf, for the LORD your God fights for you.

  • Judg 11:10
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    10The leaders of Gilead said to Jephthah,“The LORD will judge any grievance you have against us, if we do not do as you say.”

  • Josh 1:10
    71%

    10Joshua Prepares for the Invasion Joshua instructed the leaders of the people:

  • Josh 22:27-28
    2 verses
    70%

    27but as a reminder to us and you, and to our descendants who follow us, that we will honor the LORD in his very presence with burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace. Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to our descendants,‘You have no right to worship the LORD.’

    28We said,‘If in the future they say such a thing to us or to our descendants, we will reply,“See the model of the LORD’s altar that our ancestors made, not for burnt offerings or sacrifices, but as a reminder to us and you.”’

  • Josh 24:1
    70%

    1Israel Renews its Commitment to the Lord Joshua assembled all the Israelite tribes at Shechem. He summoned Israel’s elders, rulers, judges, and leaders, and they appeared before God.

  • Deut 30:19
    70%

    19Today I invoke heaven and earth as a witness against you that I have set life and death, blessing and curse, before you. Therefore choose life so that you and your descendants may live!

  • Josh 9:27
    70%

    27and that day made them woodcutters and water carriers for the community and for the altar of the LORD at the divinely chosen site.(They continue in that capacity to this very day.)

  • Josh 24:31
    70%

    31Israel worshiped the LORD throughout Joshua’s lifetime and as long as the elderly men who outlived him remained alive. These men had experienced firsthand everything the LORD had done for Israel.

  • Josh 4:15
    69%

    15The LORD told Joshua,

  • Deut 29:10
    69%

    10You are standing today, all of you, before the LORD your God– the heads of your tribes, your elders, your officials, every Israelite man,

  • 1 Sam 12:13
    68%

    13Now look! Here is the king you have chosen– the one that you asked for! Look, the LORD has given you a king!

  • Deut 29:2
    68%

    2The Exodus, Wandering, and Conquest Reviewed Moses proclaimed to all Israel as follows:“You have seen all that the LORD did in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, all his servants, and his land.

  • Josh 3:5
    68%

    5Joshua told the people,“Ritually consecrate yourselves, for tomorrow the LORD will perform miraculous deeds among you.”

  • Josh 9:6
    68%

    6They came to Joshua at the camp in Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel,“We have come from a distant land. Make a treaty with us.”

  • Isa 43:10
    68%

    10You are my witnesses,” says the LORD,“my servant whom I have chosen, so that you may consider and believe in me, and understand that I am he. No god was formed before me, and none will outlive me.

  • Josh 5:13
    68%

    13Israel Conquers Jericho When Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him holding a drawn sword. Joshua approached him and asked him,“Are you on our side or allied with our enemies?”

  • Deut 3:21
    68%

    21I also commanded Joshua at the same time,“You have seen everything the LORD your God did to these two kings; he will do the same to all the kingdoms where you are going.

  • Josh 22:5
    68%

    5But carefully obey the commands and instructions Moses the LORD’s servant gave you. Love the LORD your God, follow all his instructions, obey his commands, be loyal to him, and serve him with all your heart and being!”

  • Exod 24:7
    68%

    7He took the Book of the Covenant and read it aloud to the people, and they said,“We are willing to do and obey all that the LORD has spoken.”

  • Deut 1:14
    68%

    14You replied to me that what I had said to you was good.