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Joshua 24:25

That day Joshua drew up an agreement for the people, and he established rules and regulations for them in Shechem.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Backsliders;   Covenant;   Decision;   Government;   Pillar;   Shechem;   Stones;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Shechem;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Joshua, book of;   Shechem;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Pillars;   Shechem (1);   Holman Bible Dictionary - Book(s);   Covenant;   Ebal;   Joshua;   Joshua, the Book of;   Temple of Jerusalem;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Covenant;   Jacob;   Shechem;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Shechem ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Shiloh;   Smith Bible Dictionary - She'chem;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Conquest of Canaan;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Beyond;   Joshua, Book of;   Ordinance;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Covenant;   Shechem;   Teraphim;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people at Shechem and established a statute and ordinance for them.
Hebrew Names Version
So Yehoshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shekhem.
King James Version
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
Lexham English Bible
So Joshua made a covenant with the people on that day, and he established for them a statute and a judgment at Shechem.
English Standard Version
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and put in place statutes and rules for them at Shechem.
New Century Version
On that day at Shechem Joshua made an agreement for the people. He made rules and laws for them to follow.
Amplified Bible
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance at Shechem.
New American Standard Bible
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
Geneva Bible (1587)
So Ioshua made a couenant with the people the same day, and gaue them an ordinance and lawe in Shechem.
Legacy Standard Bible
So Joshua cut a covenant with the people that day and made for them a statute and a judgment in Shechem.
Contemporary English Version
Joshua helped Israel make an agreement with the Lord that day at Shechem. Joshua made laws for Israel
Complete Jewish Bible
So Y'hoshua made a covenant with the people that day, laying down for them laws and rulings there in Sh'khem.
Darby Translation
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
Easy-to-Read Version
So that day Joshua made an agreement for the people. He made this agreement at the town called Shechem. It became a law for them to follow.
George Lamsa Translation
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and taught them the commandments and the ordinances in Shechem.
Good News Translation
So Joshua made a covenant for the people that day, and there at Shechem he gave them laws and rules to follow.
Literal Translation
And Joshua made a covenant with the people on that day, and laid on them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So Iosua made a couenaunt with the people ye same daye, and laied statutes & lawes before them at Sichem.
American Standard Version
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
Bible in Basic English
So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so Iosuah made a couenaut with the people the same day, and set an ordinaunce & lawe before them in Sichem.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
King James Version (1611)
So Ioshua made a couenant with the people that day, and set them a Statute, & an Ordinance in Shechem.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So Joshua made a covenant with the people on that day, and gave them a law and an ordinance in Selo before the tabernacle of the God of Israel.
English Revised Version
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
Berean Standard Bible
On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Josue smoot a boond of pees in that dai, and settide forth to the puple comaundementis and domes in Sichen.
Young's Literal Translation
And Joshua maketh a covenant with the people on that day, and layeth on it a statute and an ordinance, in Shechem.
Update Bible Version
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
Webster's Bible Translation
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
World English Bible
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
New King James Version
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
New Living Translation
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day at Shechem, committing them to follow the decrees and regulations of the Lord .
New Life Bible
So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day. And he made Laws for them in Shechem.
New Revised Standard
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made statutes and ordinances for them at Shechem.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So then Joshua solemnised a covenant for the people, on that day, - and set for them a statute and a regulation, in Shechem.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Josue therefore on that day made a covenant, and set before the people commandments and judgments in Sichem.
Revised Standard Version
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made statutes and ordinances for them at Shechem.
THE MESSAGE
Joshua completed a Covenant for the people that day there at Shechem. He made it official, spelling it out in detail. Joshua wrote out all the directions and regulations into the Book of The Revelation of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up under the oak that was in the holy place of God .
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

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
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

made: Exodus 15:25, Exodus 24:3, Exodus 24:7, Exodus 24:8, Deuteronomy 5:2, Deuteronomy 5:3, Deuteronomy 29:1, Deuteronomy 29:10-15, 2 Kings 11:17, 2 Chronicles 15:12, 2 Chronicles 15:15, 2 Chronicles 23:16, 2 Chronicles 29:10, 2 Chronicles 34:29-32, Nehemiah 9:38, Nehemiah 10:28, Nehemiah 10:29

in Shechem: Joshua 24:1, Joshua 24:26

Reciprocal: Genesis 31:44 - a witness Genesis 35:4 - the oak Deuteronomy 29:12 - thou shouldest 2 Kings 11:4 - made a covenant 2 Kings 23:3 - made a covenant 2 Chronicles 34:31 - made a covenant Isaiah 24:5 - changed

Cross-References

Genesis 24:4
You must go instead to my country and to my relatives to find a wife for my son Isaac."
Genesis 24:8
But if the woman is not willing to come back with you, you will be free from this oath of mine. But you must not take my son back there!"
Genesis 24:19
When she had done so, she said, "I'll draw water for your camels too, until they have drunk as much as they want."
Genesis 24:21
Silently the man watched her with interest to determine if the Lord had made his journey successful or not.
Isaiah 32:8
An honorable man makes honorable plans; his honorable character gives him security.
1 Peter 4:9
Show hospitality to one another without complaining.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 selves were both parties and witnesses:

and set statute and an ordinance in Shechem; either made this covenant to have the nature of a statute and ordinance binding upon them, or repeated and renewed the laws of Moses, both moral and ceremonial, which had been delivered at Mount Sinai, and now, upon this repetition in Shechem, might be called a statute and ordinance there.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 were necessary.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

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 and public act of the whole, which was signed and witnessed by himself and the people, in the presence of Jehovah; and having done so, he wrote the words of the covenant in the book of the law of God, probably in some part of the skin constituting the great roll, on which the laws of God were written, and of which there were some blank columns to spare. Having done this, he took a great stone and set it up under an oak-that this might be ed or witness that, at such a time and place, this covenant was made, the terms of which might be found written in the book of the law, which was laid up beside the ark. See Deuteronomy 31:26.


 
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