Joshua 24:19

World English Bible (2000)

Joshua said to the people, "You can't serve Yahweh; for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.

Additional Resources

Referenced Verses

  • Exod 20:5 : 5 you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,
  • Exod 23:21 : 21 Pay attention to him, and listen to his voice. Don't provoke him, for he will not pardon your disobedience, for my name is in him.
  • Lev 19:2 : 2 "Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and tell them, 'You shall be holy; for I Yahweh your God am holy.
  • Ps 99:5 : 5 Exalt Yahweh our God. Worship at his footstool. He is Holy!
  • Ps 99:9 : 9 Exalt Yahweh, our God. Worship at his holy hill, for Yahweh, our God, is holy! A Psalm of thanksgiving.
  • Isa 5:16 : 16 but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
  • Exod 34:14 : 14 for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.
  • 1 Sam 6:20 : 20 The men of Beth Shemesh said, "Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God? To whom shall he go up from us?"
  • 2 Chr 36:16 : 16 but they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of Yahweh arose against his people, until there was no remedy.
  • Lev 10:3 : 3 Then Moses said to Aaron, "This is what Yahweh spoke of, saying, 'I will show myself holy to those who come near me, and before all the people I will be glorified.'" Aaron held his peace.
  • Exod 34:7 : 7 keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the children's children, on the third and on the fourth generation."
  • Lev 20:26 : 26 You shall be holy to me: for I, Yahweh, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that you should be mine.
  • Josh 24:23 : 23 "Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel."
  • Ruth 1:15 : 15 She said, "Behold, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people, and to her god. Follow your sister-in-law."
  • 1 Sam 3:14 : 14 Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be removed with sacrifice nor offering forever."
  • Isa 6:3-5 : 3 One called to another, and said, "Holy, holy, holy, is Yahweh of Armies! The whole earth is full of his glory!" 4 The foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 Then I said, "Woe is me! For I am undone, because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for my eyes have seen the King, Yahweh of Armies!"
  • Isa 27:11 : 11 When its boughs are withered, they will be broken off. The women will come and set them on fire, for they are a people of no understanding. Therefore he who made them will not have compassion on them, and he who formed them will show them no favor.
  • Isa 30:11 : 11 Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us."
  • Isa 30:15 : 15 For thus said the Lord Yahweh, the Holy One of Israel, "You will be saved in returning and rest. Your strength will be in quietness and in confidence." You refused,
  • Hab 1:13 : 13 You who have purer eyes than to see evil, and who cannot look on perversity, why do you tolerate those who deal treacherously, and keep silent when the wicked swallows up the man who is more righteous than he,
  • Matt 6:24 : 24 "No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can't serve both God and Mammon.
  • Luke 14:25-33 : 25 Now great multitudes were going with him. He turned and said to them, 26 "If anyone comes to me, and doesn't disregard his own father, mother, wife, children, brothers, and sisters, yes, and his own life also, he can't be my disciple. 27 Whoever doesn't bear his own cross, and come after me, can't be my disciple. 28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, doesn't first sit down and count the cost, to see if he has enough to complete it? 29 Or perhaps, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, everyone who sees begins to mock him, 30 saying, 'This man began to build, and wasn't able to finish.' 31 Or what king, as he goes to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and consider whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 Or else, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an envoy, and asks for conditions of peace. 33 So therefore whoever of you who doesn't renounce all that he has, he can't be my disciple.
  • 1 Cor 10:20-22 : 20 But I say that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice, they sacrifice to demons, and not to God, and I don't desire that you would have fellowship with demons. 21 You can't both drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You can't both partake of the table of the Lord, and of the table of demons. 22 Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? Are we stronger than he?

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Josh 24:20-24
    5 verses
    80%

    20If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good."

    21The people said to Joshua, "No; but we will serve Yahweh."

    22Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him." They said, "We are witnesses."

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

    24The people said to Joshua, "We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice."

  • Josh 24:18
    78%

    18Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God."

  • Exod 34:14-15
    2 verses
    77%

    14for you shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God.

    15"Don't make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, lest they play the prostitute after their gods, and sacrifice to their gods, and one call you and you eat of his sacrifice;

  • Deut 6:14-15
    2 verses
    76%

    14You shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples who are around you;

    15for Yahweh your God in the midst of you is a jealous God; lest the anger of Yahweh your God be kindled against you, and he destroy you from off the face of the earth.

  • Deut 4:24
    75%

    24For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.

  • Deut 5:9
    74%

    9you shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them; for I, Yahweh, your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, and on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me;

  • Exod 20:5
    74%

    5you shall not bow yourself down to them, nor serve them, for I, Yahweh your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and on the fourth generation of those who hate me,

  • Josh 24:14-16
    3 verses
    74%

    14"Now therefore fear Yahweh, and serve him in sincerity and in truth. Put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the River, in Egypt; and serve Yahweh.

    15If it seems evil to you to serve Yahweh, choose this day whom you will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh."

    16The people answered, "Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;

  • Deut 12:4
    72%

    4You shall not do so to Yahweh your God.

  • Josh 9:23-24
    2 verses
    72%

    23Now therefore you are cursed, and some of you will never fail to be bondservants, both wood cutters and drawers of water for the house of my God."

    24They answered Joshua, and said, "Because your servants were certainly told how Yahweh 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.

  • 2 Kgs 17:35
    71%

    35with whom Yahweh had made a covenant, and commanded them, saying, "You shall not fear other gods, nor bow yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them;

  • Josh 23:16
    71%

    16when you disobey the covenant of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods, and bow down yourselves to them. Then the anger of Yahweh will be kindled against you, and you will perish quickly from off the good land which he has given to you."

  • Josh 3:9-10
    2 verses
    71%

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

    10Joshua said, "Hereby you shall know that the living God is among you, and that he will without fail drive the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Hivite, and the Perizzite, and the Girgashite, and the Amorite, and the Jebusite out from before you.

  • Josh 23:7
    71%

    7that you not come among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves to them;

  • Exod 23:24
    71%

    24You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor follow their practices, but you shall utterly overthrow them and demolish their pillars.

  • Jer 25:6
    70%

    6and don't go after other gods to serve them or worship them, and don't provoke me to anger with the work of your hands; and I will do you no harm.

  • 2 Kgs 17:12
    70%

    12and they served idols, of which Yahweh had said to them, "You shall not do this thing."

  • 1 Kgs 9:6
    70%

    6But if you turn away from following me, you or your children, and not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

  • Lev 19:4
    70%

    4"'Don't turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am Yahweh your God.

  • Deut 7:16
    70%

    16You shall consume all the peoples whom Yahweh your God shall deliver to you; your eye shall not pity them: neither shall you serve their gods; for that will be a snare to you.

  • Exod 23:32
    70%

    32You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

  • Josh 22:5
    70%

    5Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, to love Yahweh your God, to walk in all his ways, to keep his commandments, to hold fast to him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul."

  • Josh 3:5
    70%

    5Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you."

  • 2 Chr 7:19
    70%

    19But if you turn away, and forsake my statutes and my commandments which I have set before you, and shall go and serve other gods, and worship them;

  • Josh 24:27
    69%

    27Joshua 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."

  • 2 Kgs 17:38
    69%

    38You shall not forget the covenant that I have made with you; neither shall you fear other gods.

  • Deut 10:17
    69%

    17For Yahweh your God, he is God of gods, and Lord of lords, the great God, the mighty, and the awesome, who doesn't respect persons, nor takes reward.

  • Deut 31:3
    69%

    3Yahweh your God, he will go over before you; he will destroy these nations from before you, and you shall dispossess them: [and] Joshua, he shall go over before you, as Yahweh has spoken.

  • Deut 13:4
    69%

    4You shall walk after Yahweh your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and you shall serve him, and cling to him.

  • Deut 30:17
    69%

    17But if your heart turns away, and you will not hear, but shall be drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them;

  • Josh 7:19
    69%

    19Joshua said to Achan, "My son, please give glory to Yahweh, the God of Israel, and make confession to him. Tell me now what you have done! Don't hide it from me!"

  • Judg 2:21
    69%

    21I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations that Joshua left when he died;

  • Josh 22:18-19
    2 verses
    69%

    18that you must turn away this day from following Yahweh? It will be, since you rebel today against Yahweh, that tomorrow he will be angry with the whole congregation of Israel.

    19However, if the land of your possession is unclean, then pass over to the land of the possession of Yahweh, in which Yahweh's tabernacle dwells, and take possession among us; but don't rebel against Yahweh, nor rebel against us, in building an altar other than the altar of Yahweh our God.

  • Deut 8:19
    69%

    19It shall be, if you shall forget Yahweh your God, and walk after other gods, and serve them, and worship them, I testify against you this day that you shall surely perish.

  • Josh 7:12
    69%

    12Therefore the children of Israel can't stand before their enemies. They turn their backs before their enemies, because they have become devoted for destruction. I will not be with you any more, unless you destroy the devoted things from among you.

  • Ps 81:9
    69%

    9There shall be no strange god in you, neither shall you worship any foreign god.

  • Deut 10:20
    69%

    20You shall fear Yahweh your God; you shall serve him; and you shall cling to him, and you shall swear by his name.