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Selected Verse: Joshua 24:14 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Jos 24:14 |
Strong Concordance |
Now therefore fear [03372] the LORD [03068], and serve [05647] him in sincerity [08549] and in truth [0571]: and put away [05493] the gods [0430] which your fathers [01] served [05647] on the other side [05676] of the flood [05104], and in Egypt [04714]; and serve [05647] ye the LORD [03068]. |
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King James |
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. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| 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 that were among them"--a requirement which seems to imply that some were suspected of a strong hankering for, or concealed practice of, the idolatry, whether in the form of Zabaism, the fire-worship of their Chaldean ancestors, or the grosser superstitions of the Canaanites. |
| The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917] |
fear
(See Scofield) - (Psa 19:9). |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| The gods - Whereby it appears, that although Joshua had doubtless prevented and purged out all public idolatry, yet there were some of them who practised it in their private houses and retirements. Your fathers - Terah, and Nahor, and Abraham, as Jos 24:2, and other of your ancestors. In Egypt - See Eze 23:3, Eze 23:8, Eze 23:19, Eze 23:21, Eze 23:27. Under these particulars, no doubt he comprehends all other false gods, which were served by the nations amongst whom they were, but only mentions these, as the idols which they were in more danger of worshipping than those in Canaan; partly because those of Canaan had been now lately and palpably disgraced by their inability to preserve their worshippers from total ruin; and partly, because the other idols came recommended to them by the venerable name of antiquity, and the custom of their forefathers. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Fear the Lord - Reverence him as the sole object of your religious worship.
Serve him - Perform his will by obeying his commands.
In sincerity - Having your whole heart engaged in his worship.
And in truth - According to the directions he has given you in his infallible word.
Put away the gods, etc. - From this exhortation of Joshua we learn of what sort the gods were, to the worship of whom these Israelites were still attached.
1. Those which their fathers worshipped on the other side of the flood: i.e., the gods of the Chaldeans, fire, light, the sun.
2. Those of the Egyptians, Apis, Anubis, the ape, serpents, vegetables, etc.
3. Those of the Canaanites, Moabites, etc., Baal-peor or Priapus, Astarte or Venus, etc., etc.
All these he refers to in this and the following verse. See at the conclusion of Jos 24:33 (note). How astonishing is this, that, after all God had done for them, and all the miracles they had seen, there should still be found among them both idols and idolaters! That it was so we have the fullest evidence, both here and in Jos 24:23; Amo 5:26; and in Act 7:41. But what excuse can be made for such stupid, not to say brutish, blindness? Probably they thought they could the better represent the Divine nature by using symbols and images, and perhaps they professed to worship God through the medium of these. At least this is what has been alleged in behalf of a gross class of Christians who are notorious for image worship. But on such conduct God will never look with any allowance, where he has given his word and testimony. |
9 The fear [03374] of the LORD [03068] is clean [02889], enduring [05975] for ever [05703]: the judgments [04941] of the LORD [03068] are true [0571] and righteous [06663] altogether [03162].
27 Thus will I make thy lewdness [02154] to cease [07673] from thee, and thy whoredom [02184] brought from the land [0776] of Egypt [04714]: so that thou shalt not lift up [05375] thine eyes [05869] unto them, nor remember [02142] Egypt [04714] any more.
21 Thus thou calledst to remembrance [06485] the lewdness [02154] of thy youth [05271], in bruising [06213] thy teats [01717] by the Egyptians [04714] for the paps [07699] of thy youth [05271].
19 Yet she multiplied [07235] her whoredoms [08457], in calling to remembrance [02142] the days [03117] of her youth [05271], wherein she had played the harlot [02181] in the land [0776] of Egypt [04714].
8 Neither left [05800] she her whoredoms [08457] brought from Egypt [04714]: for in her youth [05271] they lay [07901] with her, and they bruised [06213] the breasts [01717] of her virginity [01331], and poured [08210] their whoredom [08457] upon her.
3 And they committed whoredoms [02181] in Egypt [04714]; they committed whoredoms [02181] in their youth [05271]: there were their breasts [07699] pressed [04600], and there they bruised [06213] the teats [01717] of their virginity [01331].
2 And Joshua [03091] said [0559] unto all the people [05971], Thus saith [0559] the LORD [03068] God [0430] of Israel [03478], Your fathers [01] dwelt [03427] on the other side [05676] of the flood [05104] in old time [05769], even Terah [08646], the father [01] of Abraham [085], and the father [01] of Nachor [05152]: and they served [05647] other [0312] gods [0430].
41 And [2532] they made a calf [3447] in [1722] those [1565] days [2250], and [2532] offered [321] sacrifice [2378] unto the idol [1497], and [2532] rejoiced [2165] in [1722] the works [2041] of their own [846] hands [5495].
26 But ye have borne [05375] the tabernacle [05522] of your Moloch [04428] and Chiun [03594] your images [06754], the star [03556] of your god [0430], which ye made [06213] to yourselves.
23 Now therefore put away [05493], said he, the strange [05236] gods [0430] which are among [07130] you, and incline [05186] your heart [03824] unto the LORD [03068] God [0430] of Israel [03478].
33 And Eleazar [0499] the son [01121] of Aaron [0175] died [04191]; and they buried [06912] him in a hill [01389] that pertained to Phinehas [06372] his son [01121], which was given [05414] him in mount [02022] Ephraim [0669].