LSB

LSB

Click to Change

Return to Top

Return to Top

Printer Icon

Print

Copy
Copy Options
Format by: Verse Paragraph
Strong's
Red Letter
Audio Bibles
Copy Options
Cite Print
The Blue Letter Bible

Joshua 24 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

Choose a new font size and typeface
Audio Bibles

Joshua Gathers Israel

(cf. Exo 24:9–18 )
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:1 -

Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and called for the elders of Israel and for their heads and their judges and their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:2 - And Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, ‘From ancient times your fathers lived beyond the [fn]River, namely, Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, and they served other gods.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:3 - ‘Then I took your father Abraham from beyond the [fn]River and led him through all the land of Canaan and multiplied his seed and gave him Isaac.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:4 - ‘To Isaac I gave Jacob and Esau, and to Esau I gave Mount Seir to possess it; but Jacob and his sons went down to Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:5 - ‘Then I sent Moses and Aaron, and I smote Egypt [fn]by what I did in its midst; and afterward I brought you out.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:6 - ‘And I brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea; and Egypt pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the [fn]Red Sea.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:7 - ‘Then they cried out to Yahweh; He put darkness between you and the Egyptians and brought the sea upon them and covered them; and your own eyes saw what I did in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness for many days.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:8 - ‘Then I brought you into the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan, and they fought with you; and I gave them into your hand, and you took possession of their land, and I destroyed them before you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:9 - ‘Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel, and he sent and summoned Balaam the son of Beor to curse you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:10 - ‘But I was not willing to listen to Balaam. So he blessed you repeatedly, and I delivered you from his hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:11 - ‘And you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho; and the citizens of Jericho fought against you, and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Girgashite, the Hivite and the Jebusite. Thus I gave them into your hand.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:12 - ‘Then I sent the hornet before you, and it [fn]drove out the two kings of the Amorites from before you, but not by your sword or your bow.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:13 - ‘And I gave you a land on which you had not labored and cities which you had not built, and you have lived in them; you are eating of vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.’

We Will Serve Yahweh Our God

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:14 -

“So now, [fn]fear Yahweh and serve Him in integrity and [fn]truth; and put away the gods which your fathers served beyond the [fn]River and in Egypt, and serve Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:15 - “If it is evil in your sight to serve Yahweh, choose for yourselves today whom you will serve: whether the gods which your fathers served which were beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living; but as for me and my house, we will serve Yahweh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:16 -

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

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:17 - for Yahweh our God is He who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery, and who did these great signs in our sight and kept us through all the way in which we went and among all the peoples through whose midst we passed.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:18 - “And Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. We also will serve Yahweh, for He is our God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:19 -

Then Joshua said to the people, “You will not be able to serve Yahweh, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgression or your sins.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:20 - “If you forsake Yahweh and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you after He has done good to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:21 - And the people said to Joshua, “No, but we will serve Yahweh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:22 - And Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves Yahweh, to serve Him.” And they said, “We are witnesses.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:23 - “So now, put away the foreign gods which are in your midst, and incline your hearts to Yahweh, the God of Israel.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:24 - And the people said to Joshua, “We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to His voice.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:25 - So Joshua cut a covenant with the people that day and made for them a statute and a judgment in Shechem.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:26 - And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:27 - And Joshua said to all the people, “Behold, this stone shall be for a witness against us, for it has heard all the words of Yahweh which He spoke [fn]to us; thus it shall be for a witness against you, lest you deny your God.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:28 - Then Joshua dismissed the people, each to his inheritance.

Joshua’s Death and Burial

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:29 -

Now it happened that after these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Yahweh, died, being 110 years old.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:30 - And they buried him in the territory of his inheritance in Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, on the north of Mount Gaash.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:31 -

And Israel served Yahweh all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders who [fn]survived Joshua, who knew all the work of Yahweh which He had done for Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:32 -

Now they buried the bones of Joseph, which the sons of Israel brought up from Egypt, at Shechem, in the portion of the field which Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for one hundred [fn]qesitah; and they became the inheritance of Joseph’s sons.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:33 - And Eleazar the son of Aaron died; and they buried him [fn]at Gibeah of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.
LSB Footnotes
The Euphrates River
The Euphrates River
Lit according to
Lit Sea of Reeds
Lit drove them out
Or reverence
Or faithfulness
The Euphrates River
Lit with
Lit prolonged days after
Ancient currency, cf. Gen 33:19; Job 42:11
Or on the hill
LSB

Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation

All rights reserved. Managed in partnership with Three Sixteen Publishing Inc.

LSBible.org

For more information on this translation, see the LSB Preface.

BLB Searches
Search the Bible
LSB
 [?]

Advanced Options

Other Searches

Multi-Verse Retrieval
x
LSB

Daily Devotionals
x

Blue Letter Bible offers several daily devotional readings in order to help you refocus on Christ and the Gospel of His peace and righteousness.

Daily Bible Reading Plans
x

Recognizing the value of consistent reflection upon the Word of God in order to refocus one's mind and heart upon Christ and His Gospel of peace, we provide several reading plans designed to cover the entire Bible in a year.

One-Year Plans

Two-Year Plan

Joshua Chapter 24 — Additional Translations: