Discovery Box| (1.0029882978723) | Jos 9:5 |
| They had worn-out, patched sandals on their feet and dressed in worn-out clothes. All their bread 1 was dry and hard. 2 |
| (1.0029882978723) | Jos 9:13 |
| These wineskins we filled were brand new, but look how they have ripped. Our clothes and sandals have worn out because it has been a very long journey.” |
| (1.0029882978723) | Jos 14:10 |
| So now, look, the Lord has preserved my life, just as he promised, these past forty-five years since the Lord spoke these words to Moses, during which Israel traveled through the wilderness. Now look, I am today eighty-five years old. |
| (1.0029882978723) | Jos 22:24 |
| We swear we have done this because we were worried that 1 in the future your descendants would say to our descendants, ‘What relationship do you have with the Lord God of Israel? 2 |
| (1.0029882978723) | Jos 22:25 |
| The Lord made the Jordan a boundary between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no right to worship the Lord.’ 1 In this way your descendants might cause our descendants to stop obeying 2 the Lord. |
| (1.0029882978723) | Jos 22:27 |
| but as a reminder to us and you, 1 and to our descendants who follow us, that we will honor the Lord in his very presence 2 with burnt offerings, sacrifices, and tokens of peace. 3 Then in the future your descendants will not be able to say to our descendants, ‘You have no right to worship the Lord.’ 4 |
| (1.0029882978723) | Jos 23:7 |
| or associate with these nations that remain near 1 you. You must not invoke or make solemn declarations by the names of their gods! 2 You must not worship 3 or bow down to them! |
| (1.0029882978723) | Jos 23:16 |
| If you violate the covenantal laws of the Lord your God which he commanded you to keep, 1 and follow, worship, and bow down to other gods, 2 the Lord will be very angry with you and you will disappear 3 quickly from the good land which he gave to you.” |
| (1.0029882978723) | Jos 24:2 |
| Joshua told all the people, “Here is what the Lord God of Israel says: ‘In the distant past your ancestors 1 lived beyond the Euphrates River, 2 including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor. They worshiped 3 other gods, |
| (1.0029882978723) | Jos 24:13 |
| I gave you a land in 1 which you had not worked hard; you took up residence in cities you did not build and you are eating the produce of 2 vineyards and olive groves you did not plant.’ |
| (1.0029882978723) | Jos 24:14 |
| Now 1 obey 2 the Lord and worship 3 him with integrity and loyalty. Put aside the gods your ancestors 4 worshiped 5 beyond the Euphrates 6 and in Egypt and worship 7 the Lord. |
| (1.0029882978723) | Jos 24:15 |
| If you have no desire 1 to worship 2 the Lord, choose today whom you will worship, 3 whether it be the gods whom your ancestors 4 worshiped 5 beyond the Euphrates, 6 or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But I and my family 7 will worship 8 the Lord!” |
| (1.0029882978723) | Jos 24:16 |
| The people responded, “Far be it from us to abandon the Lord so we can 1 worship 2 other gods! |
| (1.0029882978723) | Jos 24:18 |
| The Lord drove out from before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. So we too will worship 1 the Lord, for he is our God!” |
| (1.0029882978723) | Jos 24:19 |
| Joshua warned 1 the people, “You will not keep worshiping 2 the Lord, for 3 he is a holy God. 4 He is a jealous God who will not forgive 5 your rebellion or your sins. |
| (1.0029882978723) | Jos 24:20 |
| If 1 you abandon the Lord and worship 2 foreign gods, he will turn against you; 3 he will bring disaster on you and destroy you, 4 though he once treated you well.” 5 |
| (1.0029882978723) | Jos 24:21 |
| The people said to Joshua, “No! We really will 1 worship 2 the Lord!” |
| (1.0029882978723) | Jos 24:22 |
| Joshua said to the people, “Do you agree to be witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to worship the Lord?” 1 They replied, “We are witnesses!” 2 |
| (1.0029882978723) | Jos 24:24 |
| The people said to Joshua, “We will worship 1 the Lord our God and obey him.” 2 |
| (1.0029882978723) | Jos 24:26 |
| Joshua 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. |
