Joshua 24:22

World English Bible (2000)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 119:173 : 173 Let your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.
  • Luke 10:42 : 42 but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her."
  • Luke 19:22 : 22 "He said to him, 'Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn't lay down, and reaping that which I didn't sow.
  • Deut 26:17 : 17 You have declared Yahweh this day to be your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice:
  • Job 15:6 : 6 Your own mouth condemns you, and not I. Yes, your own lips testify against you.
  • Ps 119:11 : 11 I have hidden your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.

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  • Josh 24:18-21
    4 verses
    85%

    18 Yahweh 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."

    19 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.

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

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

  • Josh 24:23-27
    5 verses
    82%

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

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

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

    26 Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh.

    27 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."

  • Josh 24:14-16
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    78%

    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.

    15 If 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."

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

  • Josh 9:22-25
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    74%

    22 Joshua called for them, and he spoke to them, saying, "Why have you deceived us, saying, 'We are very far from you,' when you live among us?

    23 Now 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."

    24 They 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.

    25 Now, behold, we are in your hand. Do to us as it seems good and right to you to do."

  • Josh 22:1-2
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    73%

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

    2 and said to them, "You have kept all that Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, and have listened to my voice in all that I commanded you.

  • Josh 1:16-17
    2 verses
    73%

    16 They answered Joshua, saying, "All that you have commanded us we will do, and wherever you send us we will go.

    17 Just as we listened to Moses in all things, so will we listen to you. Only may Yahweh your God be with you, as he was with Moses.

  • Josh 9:8
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    8 They said to Joshua, "We are your servants." Joshua said to them, "Who are you? Where do you come from?"

  • Deut 26:17-18
    2 verses
    72%

    17 You have declared Yahweh this day to be your God, and that you would walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his ordinances, and listen to his voice:

    18 and Yahweh has declared you this day to be a people for his own possession, as he has promised you, and that you should keep all his commandments;

  • Josh 3:9
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    9 Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God."

  • Judg 2:7
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    7 The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel.

  • Josh 23:2-3
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    71%

    2 that Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, "I am old and well advanced in years.

    3 You have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to all these nations because of you; for it is Yahweh your God who has fought for you.

  • Judg 11:10
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    10 The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "Yahweh shall be witness between us; surely according to your word so will we do."

  • Josh 1:10
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    10 Then Joshua commanded the officers of the people, saying,

  • Josh 22:27-28
    2 verses
    70%

    27 but it will be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may perform the service of Yahweh before him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings;' that your children may not tell our children in time to come, 'You have no portion in Yahweh.'

    28 "Therefore we said, 'It shall be, when they tell us or our generations this in time to come, that we shall say, "Behold the pattern of the altar of Yahweh, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you."'

  • Josh 24:1
    70%

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

  • Deut 30:19
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    19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;

  • Josh 9:27
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    27 That day Joshua made them wood cutters and drawers of water for the congregation and for the altar of Yahweh, to this day, in the place which he should choose.

  • Josh 24:31
    70%

    31 Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Yahweh, that he had worked for Israel.

  • Josh 4:15
    69%

    15 Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

  • Deut 29:10
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    10 You stand this day all of you before Yahweh your God; your heads, your tribes, your elders, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,

  • 1 Sam 12:13
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    13 Now therefore see the king whom you have chosen, and whom you have asked for: and behold, Yahweh has set a king over you.

  • Deut 29:2
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    2 Moses called to all Israel, and said to them, You have seen all that Yahweh did before your eyes in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;

  • Josh 3:5
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    5 Joshua said to the people, "Sanctify yourselves; for tomorrow Yahweh will do wonders among you."

  • Josh 9:6
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    6 They went to Joshua to the camp at Gilgal, and said to him, and to the men of Israel, "We have come from a far country. Now therefore make a covenant with us."

  • Isa 43:10
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    10 "You are my witnesses," says Yahweh, "With my servant whom I have chosen; that you may know and believe me, and understand that I am he. Before me there was no God formed, neither will there be after me.

  • Josh 5:13
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    13 It happened, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man stood in front of him with his sword drawn in his hand. Joshua went to him, and said to him, "Are you for us, or for our adversaries?"

  • Deut 3:21
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    21 I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, "Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings: so shall Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where you go over.

  • Josh 22:5
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    5 Only 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."

  • Exod 24:7
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    7 He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, "All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient."

  • Deut 1:14
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    14 You answered me, and said, "The thing which you have spoken is good [for us] to do."