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the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Joshua 23:11
"So be very careful and watchful of yourselves to love the LORD your God.
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Christian Standard Bible®
So diligently watch yourselves! Love the Lord your God!
So diligently watch yourselves! Love the Lord your God!
Hebrew Names Version
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love the LORD your God.
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love the LORD your God.
King James Version
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God.
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God.
Lexham English Bible
Take utmost care for the sake of your life to love Yahweh your God,
Take utmost care for the sake of your life to love Yahweh your God,
English Standard Version
Be very careful, therefore, to love the Lord your God.
Be very careful, therefore, to love the Lord your God.
New Century Version
So you must be careful to love the Lord your God.
So you must be careful to love the Lord your God.
New English Translation
Watch yourselves carefully! Love the Lord your God!
Watch yourselves carefully! Love the Lord your God!
New American Standard Bible
"So take great care for yourselves that you love the LORD your God.
"So take great care for yourselves that you love the LORD your God.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Take good heede therefore vnto your selues, that ye loue the Lord your God.
Take good heede therefore vnto your selues, that ye loue the Lord your God.
Legacy Standard Bible
So keep your souls very carefully to love Yahweh your God.
So keep your souls very carefully to love Yahweh your God.
Contemporary English Version
Be sure to always love the Lord your God.
Be sure to always love the Lord your God.
Complete Jewish Bible
"Therefore take great care to love Adonai your God.
"Therefore take great care to love Adonai your God.
Darby Translation
Take great heed therefore unto your souls, that ye love Jehovah your God.
Take great heed therefore unto your souls, that ye love Jehovah your God.
Easy-to-Read Version
So you must continue to love the Lord your God.
So you must continue to love the Lord your God.
George Lamsa Translation
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, to revere the LORD your God.
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, to revere the LORD your God.
Good News Translation
Be careful, then, to love the Lord your God.
Be careful, then, to love the Lord your God.
Literal Translation
And you shall be very watchful for yourselves to love Jehovah your God.
And you shall be very watchful for yourselves to love Jehovah your God.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Take diligent hede therfore vnto youre soules, that ye loue the LORDE youre God.
Take diligent hede therfore vnto youre soules, that ye loue the LORDE youre God.
American Standard Version
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love Jehovah your God.
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love Jehovah your God.
Bible in Basic English
So keep watch on yourselves, and see that you have love for the Lord your God.
So keep watch on yourselves, and see that you have love for the Lord your God.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Take good heede therfore vnto your selues, that ye loue the Lord your God.
Take good heede therfore vnto your selues, that ye loue the Lord your God.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.
King James Version (1611)
Take good heed therefore vnto your selues, that ye loue the Lord your God.
Take good heed therefore vnto your selues, that ye loue the Lord your God.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And take ye great heed to love the Lord our God.
And take ye great heed to love the Lord our God.
English Revised Version
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.
Berean Standard Bible
Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.
Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Be ye war bifore moost diligentli of this thing oneli, that ye loue youre Lord God.
Be ye war bifore moost diligentli of this thing oneli, that ye loue youre Lord God.
Young's Literal Translation
and ye have been very watchful for yourselves to love Jehovah your God.
and ye have been very watchful for yourselves to love Jehovah your God.
Update Bible Version
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.
Webster's Bible Translation
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.
World English Bible
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.
New King James Version
Therefore take careful heed to yourselves, that you love the LORD your God.
Therefore take careful heed to yourselves, that you love the LORD your God.
New Living Translation
So be very careful to love the Lord your God.
So be very careful to love the Lord your God.
New Life Bible
Be very careful to love the Lord your God.
Be very careful to love the Lord your God.
New Revised Standard
Be very careful, therefore, to love the Lord your God.
Be very careful, therefore, to love the Lord your God.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Take diligent heed, therefore, unto your souls, - to love Yahweh your God.
Take diligent heed, therefore, unto your souls, - to love Yahweh your God.
Douay-Rheims Bible
This only take care of with all diligence, that you love the Lord your God.
This only take care of with all diligence, that you love the Lord your God.
Revised Standard Version
Take good heed to yourselves, therefore, to love the LORD your God.
Take good heed to yourselves, therefore, to love the LORD your God.
THE MESSAGE
"Now, vigilantly guard your souls: Love God , your God. Because if you wander off and start taking up with these remaining nations still among you (intermarry, say, and have other dealings with them), know for certain that God , your God, will not get rid of these nations for you. They'll be nothing but trouble to you—horsewhips on your backs and sand in your eyes—until you're the ones who will be driven out of this good land that God , your God, has given you.
"Now, vigilantly guard your souls: Love God , your God. Because if you wander off and start taking up with these remaining nations still among you (intermarry, say, and have other dealings with them), know for certain that God , your God, will not get rid of these nations for you. They'll be nothing but trouble to you—horsewhips on your backs and sand in your eyes—until you're the ones who will be driven out of this good land that God , your God, has given you.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"So take diligent heed to yourselves to love the LORD your God.
"So take diligent heed to yourselves to love the LORD your God.
Contextual Overview
11"So be very careful and watchful of yourselves to love the LORD your God.12"For if you ever turn back and cling to the rest of these nations, these that are left among you, and intermarry with them, so that you associate with them and they with you, 13know and understand with certainty that the LORD your God will not continue to drive these nations out from before you; but they will be a snare and trap to you, and a whip on your sides and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land which the LORD your God has given you. 14"Now behold, today I am going the way of all the earth, and you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one word of all the good words which the LORD your God has promised concerning you has failed; all have been fulfilled for you, not one of them has failed. 15"It shall come about that just as every good word which the LORD your God spoke and promised to you has been fulfilled for you, so the LORD will bring upon you every bad thing [about which He warned you], until He has destroyed and eliminated you from this good land which the LORD your God has given you. 16"When you transgress (violate) the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you [to follow], and you go and serve other gods and bow down to them, then the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and you shall perish quickly from the good land which He has given you."
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Take good: Joshua 22:5, Deuteronomy 4:9, Deuteronomy 6:5-12, Proverbs 4:23, Luke 21:34, Ephesians 5:15, Hebrews 12:15
yourselves: Heb. your souls
love: Exodus 20:6, Romans 8:28, 1 Corinthians 8:3, 1 Corinthians 16:22, Jude 1:20, Jude 1:21
Reciprocal: Exodus 23:13 - be circumspect Deuteronomy 4:15 - Take ye Deuteronomy 4:23 - heed 2 Kings 21:8 - only if they Jeremiah 17:21 - Take Hebrews 2:1 - the more
Cross-References
Genesis 23:6
"Listen to us, my lord; you are a prince of God [a mighty prince] among us; bury your dead in the choicest of our graves; none of us will refuse you his grave or hinder you from burying your dead [wife]."
"Listen to us, my lord; you are a prince of God [a mighty prince] among us; bury your dead in the choicest of our graves; none of us will refuse you his grave or hinder you from burying your dead [wife]."
Genesis 23:7
So Abraham stood up and bowed to the people of the land, the Hittites.
So Abraham stood up and bowed to the people of the land, the Hittites.
Genesis 23:12
Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.
Then Abraham bowed down before the people of the land.
Genesis 23:18
to Abraham as his possession in the presence of the Hittites, before all who were entering at the gate of his city.
to Abraham as his possession in the presence of the Hittites, before all who were entering at the gate of his city.
Genesis 23:20
The field and the cave in it were deeded over to Abraham by the Hittites as a [permanent] possession and burial place.
The field and the cave in it were deeded over to Abraham by the Hittites as a [permanent] possession and burial place.
Numbers 35:30
'If anyone kills a person [intentionally], the murderer shall be put to death on the testimony of [two or more] witnesses; but no one shall be put to death on the testimony of [only] one witness.
'If anyone kills a person [intentionally], the murderer shall be put to death on the testimony of [two or more] witnesses; but no one shall be put to death on the testimony of [only] one witness.
Deuteronomy 17:6
"On the evidence of two or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death; he shall not be put to death on the evidence of [only] one witness.
"On the evidence of two or three witnesses, he who is to die shall be put to death; he shall not be put to death on the evidence of [only] one witness.
Deuteronomy 19:15
"A single witness shall not appear in a trial against a man for any wrong or any sin which he has committed; [only] on the testimony or evidence of two or three witnesses shall a charge be confirmed.
"A single witness shall not appear in a trial against a man for any wrong or any sin which he has committed; [only] on the testimony or evidence of two or three witnesses shall a charge be confirmed.
Ruth 4:1
Then Boaz went up to the city gate [where business and legal matters were settled] and sat down, and then the close relative (redeemer) of whom Boaz had spoken came by. He said to him, "Come over here, friend, and sit down." So he came and sat down.
Then Boaz went up to the city gate [where business and legal matters were settled] and sat down, and then the close relative (redeemer) of whom Boaz had spoken came by. He said to him, "Come over here, friend, and sit down." So he came and sat down.
Ruth 4:4
"So I thought to let you hear of it, saying, 'Buy it in the presence of those sitting here, and before the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if not, then tell me, so that I may know; for there is no one besides you to redeem it, and I am [next of kin] after you.'" And he said, "I will redeem it."
"So I thought to let you hear of it, saying, 'Buy it in the presence of those sitting here, and before the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it; but if not, then tell me, so that I may know; for there is no one besides you to redeem it, and I am [next of kin] after you.'" And he said, "I will redeem it."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves,.... To be upon their guard, and to be watchful, were very necessary to them, that they might not be ensnared by the Canaanites, and drawn aside by them into idolatry, and so apostatize from the Lord and his worship, since their temptations would be many:
that ye love the Lord your God; which would the most strongly influence and engage them to serve and worship the Lord, and obey his commands, and be the best preservative against idolatry and false worship.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Joshua 23:11. Take good heed - unto yourselves that ye love the Lord — לנפשתיכם lenaphshotheychem, Take heed TO YOUR SOULS, literally; but נפש nephesh and [Arabic] nefs, both in Hebrew and Arabic, signify the whole self, as well as soul and life; both soul and body must be joined in this work, for it is written, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, mind, and strength.
