Joshua 24:16

The NET Bible®

The people responded, "Far be it from us to abandon the Lord so we can worship other gods!

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The people replied, “We will certainly not abandon the Lord to worship other gods!

Hebrew Names Version
The people answered, Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;

King James Version
And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the Lord , to serve other gods;

Lexham English Bible
And the people answered and said, "Far be it from us that we would forsake Yahweh to serve other gods,

English Standard Version
Then the people answered, "Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods,

New Century Version
Then the people answered, "We will never stop following the Lord to serve other gods!

Amplified Bible
The people answered, "Far be it from us to abandon (reject) the LORD to serve other gods;

New American Standard Bible
The people answered and said, "Far be it from us that we would abandon the LORD to serve other gods;

Geneva Bible (1587)
Then the people answered and saide, God forbid, that we shoulde forsake the Lord, to serue other gods.

Legacy Standard Bible
And the people answered and said, "Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh to serve other gods;

Contemporary English Version
The people answered: We could never worship other gods or stop worshiping the Lord .

Complete Jewish Bible
The people answered, "Far be it from us that we would abandon Adonai to serve other gods;

Darby Translation
And the people answered and said, Far be it from us that we should forsake Jehovah, to serve other gods;

Easy-to-Read Version
Then the people answered, "We will never stop following the Lord . We will never serve other gods!

George Lamsa Translation
And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD to serve other gods;

Good News Translation
The people replied, "We would never leave the Lord to serve other gods!

Literal Translation
And the people replied and said, Far be it from us to forsake Jehovah, to serve other gods.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Then answered the people, and saide: God forbidde, that we shulde forsake the LORDE, & serue other goddes.

American Standard Version
And the people answered and said, Far be it from us that we should forsake Jehovah, to serve other gods;

Bible in Basic English
Then the people in answer said, Never will we give up the Lord to be the servants of other gods;

Bishop's Bible (1568)
The people aunswered and sayd: God forbyd, that we should forsake the Lord, and serue straunge goddes.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
And the people answered and said: 'Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;

King James Version (1611)
And the people answered and said, God forbid that wee should forsake the Lord, to serue other gods.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the people answered and said, Far be it from us to forsake the Lord, so as to serve other gods.

English Revised Version
And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;

Berean Standard Bible
The people replied, "Far be it from us to forsake the LORD to serve other gods!

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And al the puple answeride and seide, Fer be it fro vs that we forsake the Lord, and serue alien goddis.

Young's Literal Translation
And the people answer and say, `Far be it from us to forsake Jehovah, to serve other gods;

Update Bible Version
And the people answered and said, Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;

Webster's Bible Translation
And the people answered, and said, Be it far from us that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;

World English Bible
The people answered, Far be it from us that we should forsake Yahweh, to serve other gods;

New King James Version
So the people answered and said: "Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD to serve other gods;

New Living Translation
The people replied, "We would never abandon the Lord and serve other gods.

New Life Bible
The people answered, "May it never be that we turn away from the Lord and serve other gods.

New Revised Standard
Then the people answered, "Far be it from us that we should forsake the Lord to serve other gods;

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Then responded the people, and said, Far be it from us, that we should forsake Yahweh, - to serve other gods;

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the people answered, and said, God forbid we should leave the Lord, and serve strange gods.

Revised Standard Version
Then the people answered, "Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;

THE MESSAGE
The people answered, "We'd never forsake God ! Never! We'd never leave God to worship other gods.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
The people answered and said, "Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD to serve other gods;

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ If you have no desire to worship the Lord , choose today whom you will worship, whether it be the gods whom your ancestors worshiped beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But I and my family will worship the Lord !" ¹⁶ The people responded, "Far be it from us to abandon the Lord so we can worship other gods! ¹⁷ For the Lord our God took us and our fathers out of slavery in the land of Egypt and performed these awesome miracles before our very eyes. He continually protected us as we traveled and when we passed through nations. ¹⁸ The Lord drove out from before us all the nations, including the Amorites who lived in the land. So we too will worship the Lord , for he is our God!" ¹⁹ Joshua warned the people, "You will not keep worshiping the Lord , for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God who will not forgive your rebellion or your sins. ²⁰ If you abandon the Lord and worship foreign gods, he will turn against you; he will bring disaster on you and destroy you, though he once treated you well." ²¹ The people said to Joshua, "No! We really will worship the Lord !" ²² Joshua said to the people, "Do you agree to be witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to worship the Lord ?" They replied, "We are witnesses!" ²³ Joshua said, "Now put aside the foreign gods that are among you and submit to the Lord God of Israel." ²⁴ The people said to Joshua, "We will worship the Lord our God and obey him."

Bible Verse Review
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1 Samuel 12:23, Romans 3:6, Romans 6:2, Hebrews 10:38, Hebrews 10:39

Reciprocal: Joshua 22:29 - God forbid 1 Samuel 20:2 - God forbid 1 Kings 21:3 - The Lord Jeremiah 2:20 - and thou saidst

Cross-References

Genesis 4:1
Now the man had marital relations with his wife Eve, and she became pregnant and gave birth to Cain. Then she said, "I have created a man just as the Lord did!"

Genesis 24:17
Abraham's servant ran to meet her and said, "Please give me a sip of water from your jug."

Genesis 24:18
"Drink, my lord," she replied, and quickly lowering her jug to her hands, she gave him a drink.

Genesis 26:7
When the men of that place asked him about his wife, he replied, "She is my sister." He was afraid to say, "She is my wife," for he thought to himself, "The men of this place will kill me to get Rebekah because she is very beautiful."

Genesis 39:6
So Potiphar left everything he had in Joseph's care; he gave no thought to anything except the food he ate. Now Joseph was well built and good-looking.

Song of Solomon 5:2

The Beloved about Her Lover:

I was asleep, but my mind was dreaming. Listen! My lover is knocking at the door!

The Lover to His Beloved:

"Open for me, my sister, my darling, my dove, my flawless one! My head is drenched with dew, my hair with the dampness of the night."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And the people answered and said,.... To Joshua, upon his proposal to them, the option he gave them to serve the Lord or idols, and which was only done to try them:

God forbid that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods; they speak with the utmost abhorrence of idolatry, as a thing far from their hearts and thoughts, as the most abominable and execrable that could be thought or spoken of; to forsake the word, and worship, and ordinances of God, and serve the idols of the Gentiles, strange gods, whether more ancient or more recent, such as their fathers worshipped in former times, or the inhabitants of the land they now dwelt in, for which they were spewed out of it.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 24:16. God forbid that we should forsake the Lord — That they were now sincere cannot be reasonably doubted, for they served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and the elders that outlived him, Joshua 24:31; but afterwards they turned aside, and did serve other gods. "It is ordinary," says Mr. Trapp, "for the many-headed multitude to turn with the stream - to be of the same religion with their superiors: thus at Rome, in DIOCLETIAN'S time, they were pagans; in CONSTANTINE'S Christians; in CONSTANTIUS'S, Arians; in JULIAN'S apostates, and in JOVINIAN'S, Christians again! And all this within less than the age of a man. It is, therefore, a good thing that the heart be established with grace."