Yosua 24:27

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Kata Yosua kepada seluruh bangsa itu: "Sesungguhnya batu inilah akan menjadi saksi terhadap kita, sebab telah didengarnya segala firman TUHAN yang diucapkan-Nya kepada kita. Sebab itu batu ini akan menjadi saksi terhadap kamu, supaya kamu jangan menyangkal Allahmu."

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Kata Yosua kepada seluruh bangsa itu: "Sesungguhnya batu inilah akan menjadi saksi terhadap kita, sebab telah didengarnya segala firman TUHAN yang diucapkan-Nya kepada kita. Sebab itu batu ini akan menjadi saksi terhadap kamu, supaya kamu jangan menyangkal Allahmu."

Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Maka kata Yusak kepada segenap orang banyak itu: Bahwa sesungguhnya batu ini akan menjadi saksi atas kita, karena telah didengarnya segala firman Tuhan yang dikatakannya kepada kita, bahkan, ia inipun akan menjadi saksi atas kamu, asal jangan kamu mungkir kelak akan Allahmu.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ And yf it seeme euyll vnto you to serue the Lorde, then chose you this day who you wil serue, whether ye goddes which your fathers serued (that were on the other side of the fludde) either ye goddes of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwel: As for me and my house, we wil serue the Lorde. ¹⁶ The people aunswered and sayd: God forbyd, that we should forsake the Lord, and serue straunge goddes. ¹⁷ For the Lorde our God, he it is that brought vs & our fathers out of the land of Egypt, & from the house of bondage, and whiche did those great miracles in our sight, and preserued vs in al the way that we went, and among al the people which we came thorowe. ¹⁸ And the Lord did cast out before vs all the people, euen the Amorites whiche dwelt in the lande: And therfore wil we also serue the Lord, for he is our God. ¹⁹ And Iosuah sayde vnto the people, Ye can not serue the Lord: for he is an holy God, and a ielous God, and cannot beare your iniquite and sinne. ²⁰ Yf ye forsake the Lorde and serue straunge goddes, he will turne and do you euill, and consume you, after that he hath done you good. ²¹ And the people sayde vnto Iosuah: Nay, but we will serue the Lorde. ²² And Iosuah sayde vnto the people: Ye are witnesses against your selues, that ye haue chosen you the Lorde to serue him. And they sayde: we are witnesses. ²³ Then put away [sayde he] the strauge goddes whiche are among you, & bowe your heartes vnto the Lorde God of Israel. ²⁴ The people sayde vnto Iosuah: The Lorde our God will we serue, and his voyce will we obey.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

A curious coincidence of circumstances is related by Livy, the Roman historian: he writes that "when three ambassadors were sent from Rome to complain of the perfidious conduct of the Aqui, the General informed them, that they might deliver their message to an oak which shaded his tent." On this one of the ambassadors turning away, said, "This venerable oak, and all the gods, shall know that you have violated the peace; they shall now hear our complaints; and may they also soon be witnesses, when we revenge with our arms the violation of divine and human rights." It is worthy of remark that Joshua merely set up a pillar under an oak - the one, perhaps, to protect the other; while the General directed the ambassadors to address the oak, perhaps with an idolatrous feeling that they were addressing one of the gods, who would aid his cause; while the Roman ambassadors caught the feeling, and really invoked the aid of the oak and the gods. Joshua 22:27, Joshua 22:28, Joshua 22:34, Genesis 31:44-52, Deuteronomy 4:26, Deuteronomy 30:19, Deuteronomy 31:19, Deuteronomy 31:21, Deuteronomy 31:26, 1 Samuel 7:12

it hath: Deuteronomy 32:1, Isaiah 1:2, Habakkuk 2:11, Luke 19:40

deny: Job 31:23, Proverbs 30:9, Matthew 10:33, 2 Timothy 2:12, 2 Timothy 2:13, Titus 1:16, Revelation 3:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:30 - a witness Genesis 28:18 - set it Genesis 31:48 - This heap Genesis 49:33 - had made Exodus 24:4 - twelve pillars Joshua 4:3 - twelve stones Joshua 22:10 - built Job 31:28 - for Isaiah 19:20 - for a James 5:3 - a witness

Cross-References

Genesis 9:26
He sayde moreouer: blessed be the Lord God of Sem, and Chanaan shalbe his seruaunt.

Genesis 13:8
Then sayde Abram vnto Lot: let there be no strife I pray thee betweene thee and me, and betweene my heardmen and thyne, for we be brethren.

Genesis 14:20
And blessed [be] the high God, which hath deliuered thyne enemies vnto thy hande: and Abram gaue him tithes of all.

Genesis 24:4
But thou shalt go vnto my countrey, and to my kinred, and take a wife vnto my sonne Isahac.

Genesis 24:10
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.

Genesis 24:11
And made his Camelles to lye downe without the citie by a welles side of water at euen, about the time that women come out to drawe water.

Genesis 24:12
And he saide: Lord God of my maister Abraham, I pray thee sende me good speede this day, and shewe mercy vnto my maister Abraham.

Genesis 24:13
Lo, I stande here by the well of water, and the daughters of the me of this citie come out to drawe water:

Genesis 24:18
And she sayd: drinke my Lorde. And she hasted, and let downe her pytcher vpon her arme, and gaue him drinke.

Genesis 24:19
And when she had geuen him drinke, she sayde: I wyll drawe water for thy Camelles also, vntyl they haue dronke ynough.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And Joshua said unto all the people,.... The chief of them now gathered together, and who represented the whole body:

behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; of the covenant now made, and the agreement entered into, as the heap of stones were between Jacob and Laban, Genesis 31:45;

for it hath heard all the words of the Lord which he spake unto us; this is said by a figure called "prosopopaeia", frequent in Scripture, by which inanimate creatures are represented as hearing, seeing, and speaking, and may signify, that should the Israelites break this covenant, and disobey the commands of the Lord they had promised to keep, they would be as stupid and senseless as this stone, or more so, which would rise in judgment against them. Nachmanides d a Jewish commentator, interprets this stone of the Messiah, the same as in

Genesis 49:24;

it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God; for a memorial and testimony to prevent them from going into atheism, a denying of the true God, or into apostasy from him, and into idolatry and false worship. The Targum of which is,

"behold, this stone shall be to us as the two tables of stone of the covenant, for we made it for a testimony; for the words which are written upon it are the sum of all the words of the Lord which he spake unto us, and it shall be unto you for a memorial, and for a testimony, lest ye lie before the Lord.''

d Apud Masium in loc.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 24:27. This stone - hath heard all the words — That is, the stone itself, from its permanency, shall be in all succeeding ages as competent and as substantial a witness as one who had been present at the transaction, and heard all the words which on both sides were spoken on the occasion.