the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Yosua 24:2
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Berkatalah Yosua kepada seluruh bangsa itu: "Beginilah firman TUHAN, Allah Israel: Dahulu kala di seberang sungai Efrat, di situlah diam nenek moyangmu, yakni Terah, ayah Abraham dan ayah Nahor, dan mereka beribadah kepada allah lain.
Maka kata Yusak kepada segenap orang banyak itu: Demikianlah firman Tuhan, Allah Israel: Dari dahulukala duduklah nenek moyang kamu, Terah, bapa Ibrahim dan bapa Nahor, di seberang sungai dan mereka itupun telah berbuat bakti kepada dewa-dewa.
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Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Your fathers: Genesis 11:26, Genesis 11:31, Genesis 12:1, Genesis 31:53, Deuteronomy 26:5, Isaiah 51:2, Ezekiel 16:3
served other gods: In the case of Abraham this was probably the case, till he was called to the knowledge of God, when above 70 years old. Joshua 24:15, Genesis 31:19, Genesis 31:30, Genesis 31:32, Genesis 31:53, Genesis 35:4
Reciprocal: Genesis 11:22 - Nahor Genesis 31:21 - passed Genesis 31:29 - the God Genesis 35:2 - strange Joshua 24:14 - put 1 Chronicles 1:27 - Abram Nehemiah 9:7 - choose Isaiah 29:22 - who redeemed Isaiah 41:9 - whom Ezekiel 16:4 - for Matthew 1:2 - Abraham Matthew 20:5 - and did Luke 3:34 - Thara Acts 7:2 - when Romans 4:2 - but Romans 4:5 - ungodly Galatians 4:8 - ye did
Cross-References
And Abram sayde: Lorde God what wylt thou geue me when I go chyldelesse, the chylde of the stewardship of my house is this Eleazer of Damasco?
But thou shalt go vnto my countrey, and to my kinred, and take a wife vnto my sonne Isahac.
To whom Abraham aunswered: beware that thou bring not my sonne thyther agayne.
Neuerthelesse, if the woman wyl not folowe thee, then shalt thou be cleare from this my othe: onlye bring not my sonne thyther agayne.
And the seruaunt put his hand vnder the thigh of Abraham his maister, and sware to hym as concernyng yt matter.
And the seruaunt toke ten Camelles of the Camelles of his maister, & departed (& had of al maner of goods of his maister with him) and so he arose & went to Mesopotamia, vnto ye citie of Nachor.
And he commaunded the ruler of his house, saying: fill the mens sackes with foode, as much as they can cary, & put euery mans mony in his sackesmouth:
When the tyme drewe nye that Israel must dye, he sent for his sonne Ioseph and sayde vnto him: If I haue founde grace in thy syght, oh put thy hande vnder my thygh, and deale mercifully and truly with me, that thou bury me not in Egypt.
And all the lordes and men of power, and all the sonnes of king Dauid, submitted them selues, & were vnder king Solomon.
The elders that rule well are worthy of double honour, most speciallye they which labour in the worde & teachyng.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And Joshua said unto all the people,.... Then present, or to all Israel by their representatives:
thus saith the Lord God of Israel; he spoke to them in the name of the Lord, as the prophet did, being himself a prophet, and at this time under a divine impulse, and spirit of prophecy. According to an Arabic writer w: the Angel of God appeared in the form of a man, and with a loud voice delivered the following, though they are expressed by him in a different manner; perhaps he mean, the Captain of the Lord's host,
Joshua 15:13; and which is not unlikely:
your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time; on the offer side the, river Euphrates; so the Targum,
"beyond Perat;''
i.e. Euphrates; in Mesopotamia and Chaldea; meaning not the remotest of their ancestors, Noah and Shem, but the more near, and who are expressly named:
[even] Terah the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor; the Israelites sprung from Terah, in the line of Abraham, on the father's side, and from him in the line of Nachor on the mother's side, Rebekah, Leah, and Rachel, being of Nachor's family:
and they served other gods; besides the true God, strange gods, which were no gods: "idols"; the idols of the people, as the Targum; so did Terah, Abraham, and Nachor; Joshua 15:13- :;
Joshua 15:13- :;
Joshua 15:13- :.
w Abulpharag. Hist. Dynast. p. 35.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The other side of the flood - Better “On the other side of the river,” i. e. the Euphrates. See the marginal reference.
They served other gods - Possibly the “images,” or teraphim, which we find their ancestor Laban calling “his gods” (see the marginal reference); and of which it would seem that there were, as Joshua spoke, some secret devotees among the people Joshua 24:14, Joshua 24:25. It is not stated that Abraham himself was an idolater, though his fathers were. Jewish tradition asserts that Abraham while in Ur of the Chaldees was persecuted for his abhorrence of idolatry, and hence, was called away by God from his native land. The reference in the text to the original state of those who were the forefathers of the nation, is made to show that they were no better than others: God chose them not for their excellences but of His own mere motion.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Joshua 24:2. On the other side of the flood — The river Euphrates.
They served other gods. — Probably Abraham as well as Terah his father was an idolater, till he received the call of God to leave that land. See on Genesis 11:31; Genesis 12:1. And for the rest of the history referred to here, see the notes on the parallel passages in the margin.