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Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Joshua 24:1-33

Chapter 24Chapter twenty-four, Joshua is continuing this final charge to the children of Israel. Picture now this old man he was. He was faithful to the Lord. He has done a good job, but now he is bent over with age. He has been weakened. His voice is probably shaky and trembling.And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, [Right in the heart of the land there between mount Ebal, and Gerezim.] and he called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, the... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Joshua 24:1-33

Joshua 24:1 . Shechem. Some think this was the Sychar where our Saviour talked with the woman. John 4:5. This place became far famed on account of the renewal of the covenant before Joshua’s death. He had built an altar here more than twenty years before. This town lies about eight miles from Samaria, and is now called Naplosa. Joshua 24:2 . Terah served other gods. Sabianism maintained that the world was eternal, and inculcated the worship of the planets as gods. The planets were also... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Joshua 24:1-33

Joshua 24:1-33Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem. Joshua’s last farewellI. God’s threefold mercies.1. Israel’s enlargement (verses 2-4).2. Israel’s exodus (verses 5-7).3. Israel’s entrance into Canaan (verses 8-12).II. Joshua’s threefold appeal.1. He exhorts them to fear and serve this great and this good God.2. To manifest in yet clearer light that the service of God is a reasonable service, and to show the utter folly of idolatry, Joshua, in the gravest irony, upholds the... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Joshua 24:13

Joshua 24:13And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour.The inheritance of the pastThe substance of these closing words of the old Hebrew chief amounted to this: they had had vastly more done for them than they had done or could have done for themselves. They were not the sole nor the chief architects of their own fortunes. At this stage in the fortunes of their national life the prescient eye of Joshua saw the resulting perils from the disposition among them to forget their past... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Joshua 24:14-29

Joshua 24:14-29Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve Him.The last days of JoshuaI. The reasonableness of serving God (verses 14, 15). To serve God, to obey Him, to love Him, to submit heart and life to His control, is only a seemly and adequate acknowledgment of claims felt to be just. God’s character, His mercy, His grace in the gospel, His promises of pardon, the gift of eternal life through His Son, create an obligation which, if it be disregarded, makes our attitude towards God not only... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Joshua 24:15

Joshua 24:15Choose you this day whom ye will serve.The Christian’s choice“Seem evil unto you to serve the Lord!” How can the service of the Lord seem evil to any one who is not either wholly void of understanding or altogether hardened against religious impressions? The service of God is exclusive. It does not admit of interference, or of competition, or of divided homage. It must have the whole man. He requires your whole heart--with all its principles, and dispositions, and sensibilities. And... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Joshua 24:13

Jos 24:13 And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat. Ver. 13. And cities which ye built not. ] For Hazor only was burnt, Jos 11:13 and the rest inhabited by them. read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Joshua 24:14

Jos 24:14 Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD. Ver. 14. And put away the gods. ] Deastros illos, which some of them secretly worshipped, as they did likewise in the wilderness. Amo 5:25-26 Act 7:42-43 So in Josiah’s days, Baal had privily his "Chemarims," or chimney chaplains, yea, those that "worshipped the host of heaven upon the housetops,"... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Joshua 24:15

Jos 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that [were] on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD. Ver. 15. Choose you this day whom ye will serve. ] He leaveth them not to their own free choice to do either, but to make proof of their voluntary and professed subjection to the true religion, which would... read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Joshua 24:13

And I: Joshua 21:45 cities: Joshua 11:13, Deuteronomy 6:10-2 Kings :, Deuteronomy 8:7, Proverbs 13:22 Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 20:7 - gavest Psalms 105:44 - gave read more

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