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Joshua 24:15 KJV
Joshua · chapter 24 · verse 15
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.Joshua 24:15 · King James Version
What Joshua 24:15 means
Joshua doesn't offer serving nobody as an option. The choice is which god, not whether. He is an old man addressing a nation that has just settled comfortably, and he puts his own household on the line first. As for me and my house is a commitment, not a decoration.
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Joshua 24:15 in context
13And I have given you a land for which ye did not labour, and cities which ye built not, and ye dwell in them; of the vineyards and oliveyards which ye planted not do ye eat.
14Now therefore fear the LORD, and serve him in sincerity and in truth: and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the flood, and in Egypt; and serve ye the LORD.
15And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
16And the people answered and said, God forbid that we should forsake the LORD, to serve other gods;
17For the LORD our God, he it is that brought us up and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and which did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way wherein we went, and among all the people through whom we passed:
Commentary
Cross references
- 1 Kings 18:21
- John 6:67-68
- Ruth 1:15-16
- Deuteronomy 29:18
- Ezekiel 20:39
- Exodus 23:32-33
- Acts 11:23
- Judges 6:10
Key words (Strong's)
- AmoritesʼĔmôrîyan Emorite, one of the Canaanitish tribesH567 →
- fathersʼâbfather, in a literal and immediate, or figurative and remote applicationH1 →
- choosebâcharproperly, to tryH977 →
- serveʻâbadto workH5647 →
- floodnâhâra stream (including the seaH5104 →
- evilrâʻaʻproperly, to spoilH7489 →
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Never was any treaty carried on with better management, nor brought to a better issue, than this of Joshua with the people, to engage them to serve God.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 15-28