So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day - he induced them solemnly and voluntarily to renew the national covenant (cf. Nehemiah 10:1).
Verse Joshua 24:25. _JOSHUA MADE A COVENANT_] Literally, _Joshua cut the_ _covenant_, alluding to the _sacrifice_ offered on the occasion. _AND SET THEN A STATUTE AND AN ORDINANCE_] He made a solemn...
MADE A COVENANT WITH THE PEOPLE - i. e. he solemnly ratified and renewed the covenant of Sinai, as Moses had done before him Deuteronomy 29:1. As no new or different covenant was made, no sacrifices w...
THE SECOND ADDRESS CHAPTER 24:1-28 _ 1. The gathering at Shechem (Joshua 24:1)_ 2. Historic retrospect and exhortations (Joshua 24:2) 3. The answer given by Israel (Joshua 24:16) 4. Joshua's answ...
MADE. COVENANT: i.e. by sacrifice. Compare Jeremiah 34:18; Jeremiah 34:19....
Solemn Renewal of the Covenant 25. _So Joshua made a covenant_ "Percussit ergo Josue in die illo fœdus," Vulgate. "Thanne Josue smoot a boond of pees," Wyclif. A covenant had been concluded by God on...
DISCOURSE: 260 JOSHUA’S COVENANT WITH ISRAEL TO SERVE THE LORD Joshua 24:21. And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the Lord. And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against...
_VER._ 25. _SO JOSHUA MADE A COVENANT WITH THE PEOPLE,_ &C.— The Israelites having a third time repeated that they were resolved only to serve the Lord, and being thereby bound more strictly than ever...
_A Reminder of God's Blessings Joshua 24:1-25_ And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their of...
JOSHUA'S SECOND AND FINAL FAREWELL This discourse (Joshua 24:1), with Israel's response (Joshua 24:16), and consequent renewal of the Covenant (Joshua 24:25), occupies the bulk of the chapter. The boo...
COME IN, AND RECEIVE GOD’S PROMISES! JOSHUA _BRIAN ROWLANDS_ Maps to help you to study this book are on the Internet at www.easyenglish.info. CHAPTER 24 JOSHUA SAYS ‘GOODBYE’ TO THE PEOPLE – JO...
SO JOSHUA MADE A COVENANT — i.e., a covenant that idolatry should not be tolerated in Israel, or suffered to exist. We read of similar covenants in the reign of Asa (2 Chronicles 15:12), in the reign...
וַ יִּכְרֹ֨ת יְהֹושֻׁ֧עַ בְּרִ֛ית לָ † עָ֖ם...
CHAPTER XXXII. JOSHUA'S LAST APPEAL. Joshua 24:1. IT was at Shechem that Joshua's last meeting with the people took place. The Septuagint makes it Shiloh in one verse (Joshua 24:1), but Shechem in a...
JOSHUA'S LAST SERVICE TO HIS PEOPLE Joshua 24:16 Joshua did well to discourage their proud vauntings, and to show that the people could not in their own might realize God's ideal, Psalms 105:4. The...
Here we have the record of the final address of Joshua. In it he first concisely and comprehensively traced the Hebrews' history from the call of Abraham and did so in the form of the speech of Jehova...
On the basis of all God had done for them, Joshua urged the people to serve God and renounce all the gods their fathers had once served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt. That they had a choice is cle...
So Joshua (l) made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. (l) By joining God and the people together: also he repeated the promises and threatenings...
Covenant. He renewed the one that had been formerly made, stipulating, on the part of God, that the people should serve Him alone, ver. 23. After which he probably read some of the most striking passa...
It is worthy observation, that twice in the life, both of Moses and of Joshua, the renewal of this covenant was made. See Exodus 24:1; Deuteronomy 29:1 and Joshua 8:1 and now, Reader, it is always pro...
In the wars of Jehovah it was not always a question of hostile power. Indeed this is not the most serious evil which the people of God have to encounter in this world. The very same principle which wa...
25._So Joshua made a covenant, _etc This passage demonstrates the end for which the meeting had been called, namely, to bind the people more completely and more solemnly to God, by the renewal of the...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 12 THROUGH 24. Chapter 12 is only a summary of their conquests. The Holy Ghost not only gives us the victory over our enemies, but makes us understand and kno...
SO JOSHUA MADE A COVENANT WITH THE PEOPLE THAT DAY,.... Proposing to them what was most eligible, and their duty to do, and they agreeing to it, this formally constituted a covenant, of which they sel...
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. Ver. 25. _And set there a statute and an ordinance._] _Capita faederis ex Deuteronomio praelegi...
_So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day_ Engaged them to make good this solemn profession, by renewing the covenant they had formerly entered into, both in the days of Moses and in his tim...
1 Ioshua assembleth the tribes at Shechem. 2 A briefe historie of Gods benefits from Terah. 14 He reneweth a couenant betweene them and God. 26 A stone the witnesse of the couenant. 29 Ioshuas age...
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, in exacting this promise from them, AND SET THEM A STATUTE AND AN ORDINANCE IN SHECHEM. It was a second renewal of the covenant made with Israel on...
THE EXACTION OF THE PROMISE TO BE FAITHFUL...
JOSHUA'S SUMMARY OF ISRAEL'S HISTORY (vs.1-13) For the second time, as Joshua neared the end of his life, he called Israel together, primarily the elders, heads, judges and officers (v.1), but includ...
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...
Either, 1. _He set_, or propounded, or declared _unto them the statute and ordinance_, i.e. the sum of the statutes and ordinances of God, which their covenant obliged them to Or, 2. _He set_ or estab...
Joshua 24:25 Joshua H3091 made H3772 (H8799) covenant H1285 people H5971 day H3117 made H7760 (H8799) statute...
‘ So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.' It must be recognised as almost certain that burnt offerings and peace offerings were slain o...
CONTENTS: Last charge of Joshua and his death. Eleazar's death. CHARACTERS: God, Joshua, Eleazar. CONCLUSION: Joshua 24:15. It is the will of God that all should make religion their serious and deli...
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. H...
_Joshua made a covenant._ THE COVENANT OF JOSHUA “That day” was a very notable day in the annals of the children of Israel; its transactions might well be recorded in the volume of the book and engra...
_Ye cannot serve the Lord: for He is an holy God._ THE COVENANT RENEWED I. The difficulty of serving God. “Ye cannot serve the Lord.” It was a staggering admonition. It embodied what theologians have...
_Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve Him._ THE LAST DAYS OF JOSHUA I. The reasonableness of serving God (verses 14, 15). To serve God, to obey Him, to love Him, to submit heart and life to His con...
_Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem._ JOSHUA’S LAST FAREWELL I. God’s threefold mercies. 1. Israel’s enlargement (verses 2-4). 2. Israel’s exodus (verses 5-7). 3. Israel’s entran...
JOSHUA—NOTE ON JOSHUA 24:1 Joshua again called for an assembly at Shechem for a ceremony of covenant renewal (compare Joshua 8:30;...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 24:19. Ye cannot serve Jehovah] Joshua here bids the people count the cost of the decision expressed in Joshua 24:16. They could not serve Jehovah in the indifferent spirit of...
EXPOSITION THE LAST RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT.— JOSHUA 24:1 TO SHECHEM. The LXX. and the Arabic version read _Shiloh _here, and as the words "they presented themselves (literally, _took up their stati...
Chapter 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 wit...
2 Chronicles 15:12; 2 Chronicles 15:15; 2 Chronicles 23:16; 2 Chronicles 29:10;...
THE CONSECRATION OF THE PEOPLE Joshua 24:13 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The time comes sooner, or later, when we must all lay down the yoke which we have been wearing for God. We cannot always serve, no mat...
A statute — He set or established that covenant with them, that is, the people, for a statute or an ordinance, to bind themselves and their posterity unto God for ever....