Joshua 24:14-15
obey <03372> [fear.]
worship ............. worshiped ......... worship <05647> [serve.]
aside <05493> [put.]
From this exhortation of Joshua, we not only learn that the Israelites still retained some relics of idolatry, but to what gods they were attached. 1. Those whom their fathers worshipped on the other side of the food, or the river Euphrates, i.e., the gods of the Chaldeans, fire, light, the sun, etc. 2. Those of the Egyptians, Apis, Anubis, serpents, vegetables, etc. 3. Those of the Amorites, Moabites, Canaanites, etc., Baal-peor, Astarte, etc. How astonishing is it, that after all that God had done for them, and all the miracles they had seen, there should still be found among them both idols and idolaters!
Egypt <04714> [in Egypt.]
choose <0977> [choose.]
gods ........... gods <0430> [whether the gods.]
gods ........... gods <0430> [or the gods.]
family <01004> [as for me.]
Joshua 24:1
Joshua <03091> [Joshua.]
This must have been a different assembly from that mentioned in the preceding chapter, though probably held not long after the former.
Shechem <07927> [Shechem.]
As it is immediately added, that "they presented themselves before God," which is supposed to mean at the tabernacle; some are of opinion that Joshua caused it to be conveyed from Shiloh to Shechem on this occasion, to give the greater solemnity to his last meeting with the people. The Vatican and Alexandrian copies of the Septuagint, however, read [Selo,] both here and in verse 25; which many suppose to have been the original reading. Dr. Shuckford supposes that the covenant was made at Shechem, and that the people went to Shiloh to confirm it. But the most probable opinion seems to be that of Dr. Kennicott, that when all the tribes were assembled as Shechem, Joshua called the chiefs to him on that mount, which had before been consecrated by the law, and by the altar which he had erected.
summoned <07121> [called.]
appeared <03320> [presented.]
Joshua 7:3
three <07969> [about two. Heb. about 2,000 men, or about 3,000 men. labour.]
Joshua 12:20
Meron <08112> [Shimron-meron.]
Acshaph <0407> [Achshaph.]
Joshua 12:24
Tirzah <08656> [Tirzah.]
Matthew 4:10
Go away <5217> [Get.]
Satan <4567> [Satan.]
You are to worship <4352> [Thou shalt.]
Matthew 6:24
serve ............................. serve <1398> [serve.]
money <3126> [mammon.]
Luke 1:74
being rescued <4506> [that we.]
John 12:26
wants to serve .................. serves <1247> [serve.]
he must follow <190> [let.]
where <3699> [where.]
he must follow .................... him <190 846> [him.]
Acts 27:23
came <3936> [there.]
to whom ..... whom <3739> [whose.]
and <2532> [and.]
Romans 1:9
God <2316> [God.]
whom <3739> [whom.]
in .... by <1722> [with. or, in.]
gospel <2098> [the.]
that <5613> [that.]
I ... remember <4160> [I make.]
