Joshua 24:25
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
Joshua 24:25 in other translations
| BSB | On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance. |
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| WEB | So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. |
| ASV | So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. |
| YLT | And Joshua maketh a covenant with the people on that day, and layeth on it a statute and an ordinance, in Shechem. |
| DARBY | So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. |
| BBE | So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem. |
| Webster | So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. |
What does Joshua 24:25 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Joshua 24:14-28
14-28. Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him in sincerity and in truth--After having enumerated so many grounds for national gratitude, Joshua calls on them to declare, in a public and solemn manner, whether they will be faithful and obedient to the God of Israel. He avowed this to be his own unalterable resolution, and urged them, if they were sincere in making a similar avowal, "to put away the strange gods…
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Joshua 24:15-28
It is essential that the service of God's people be performed with a willing mind. For LOVE is the only genuine principle whence all acceptable service of God can spring. The Father seeks only such to worship him, as worship him in spirit and in truth. The carnal mind of man is enmity against God, therefore, is not capable of such spiritual worship. Hence the necessity of being born again. But numbers rest in mere…
Joshua 24:25 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Joshua 24:25
- Nehemiah 9:38
And because of all this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, Levites, and priests, seal unto it.
- Exodus 15:25
And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,
- 2 Chronicles 23:16
And Jehoiada made a covenant between him, and between all the people, and between the king, that they should be the Lord’s people.
- 2 Kings 11:17
And Jehoiada made a covenant between the Lord and the king and the people, that they should be the Lord’s people; between the king also and the people.
- Joshua 24:26
And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the Lord.
- Exodus 24:3
And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the Lord hath said will we do.
- Nehemiah 10:28-29
And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding; They clave to their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, and into an oath, to walk in God’s law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord, and his judgments and his statutes;
- Exodus 24:7-8
And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient. And Moses took the blood, and sprinkled it on the people, and said, Behold the blood of the covenant, which the Lord hath made with you concerning all these words.
- 2 Chronicles 34:29-32
Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem. And the king went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the Lord. And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before the Lord, to walk after the Lord, and to keep his commandments, and his testimonies, and his statutes, with all his heart, and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book. And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
- Deuteronomy 29:1
These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.
- 2 Chronicles 15:15
And all Judah rejoiced at the oath: for they had sworn with all their heart, and sought him with their whole desire; and he was found of them: and the Lord gave them rest round about.
- Deuteronomy 5:2-3
The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.
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Context
- Joshua 24:24
And the people said unto Joshua, The Lord our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
- Joshua 24:25
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
- Joshua 24:26
And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the Lord.
Joshua 24:25 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Entonces Josué hizo alianza con el pueblo el mismo día, y púsole ordenanzas y leyes en Sichêm. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et Josué fit une alliance avec le peuple en ce jour-là, et lui établit un statut et une ordonnance, à Sichem. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und Josua machte einen Bund mit dem Volke an selbigem Tage und stellte ihm Satzung und Recht zu Sichem. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Percussit ergo Josue in die illo fœdus, et proposuit populo præcepta atque judicia in Sichem. |