“ Take good heed therefore unto yourselves,e that ye love the LORD your God. ”
selves-souls. Hebrew. nephesh , App-2.
DISCOURSE: 258 GOD’S INTERPOSITIONS FOR US ARE OBLIGATIONS TO LOVE AND SERVE HIM Joshua 23:10-11 . The Lord your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he hath promised you. Take good heed ther...
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God. Take good heed - unto yourselves that ye love the Lord - לנפשתיכם lenaphshotheychem, Take heed To Your Souls, literally; but...
Ver. 7-11. That ye come not among these nations, &c.— "Hold no familiarity; make no marriages with these idolatrous nations: never make the least honourable mention of the name of their...
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God. Take good heed therefore ... that ye love the Lord your God. The sum of his exhortation is comprised in the love of G...
The First Farewell Address of Joshua This discourse was probably delivered at Shiloh or Timnath-Serah. Unlike the Second Discourse, which is mainly a historical retrospect, it dwells chiefly upon...
CHAPTER XXXI. JEHOVAH THE CHAMPION OF ISRAEL. Joshua 23:1-16 . THE last two Chapter s of Joshua are very like each other. Each professes to be a report of the aged leader's farewell meeting wit...
Joshua's Farewell Address Joshua 23:1-16 Joshua's anxiety for the welfare of his people after his death has New Testament parallels. See Acts 20:29 ; 2 Peter 1:13-15 ; and especially John 13...
As the time approached for Joshua's passing, he twice gathered the people together and delivered to them his farewell messages. The first of these is contained in this chapter. Its burden was of the...
How closely connected sin is with its sure punishment. My backslidings shall correct thee! The very thing which we lean upon for confidence or comfort; that above every other evil, shall be sure to p...
‘TAKE GOOD HEED!’ ‘Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God,’ etc. Joshua 23:11-15 I. In this speech Joshua once more pressed upon the people their true char...
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves ,.... To be upon their guard, and to be watchful, were very necessary to them, that they might not be ensnared by the Canaanites, and drawn aside by them int...
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God. Ver. 11. Take heed therefore unto yourselves. ] Heb., To your souls, that chief part of yourselves, the welfare whereof li...
Take good heed Now it requires more watchfulness and diligence than it did in the wilderness, because your temptations are now stronger, from the examples and insinuations of your bad neighbours, t...
AN APPEAL ON THE BASIS OF GOD'S FAITHFULNESS (vs.1-16) Many years had passed now that Joshua calls for all Israel, elders, heads, judges and officers, and tells them he is old and advanced in age...
11 Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the L ORD your God. 12 Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain a...
Now it requires more watchfulness and diligence than it did in the wilderness, because your temptations are now more and stronger; partly from the examples and insinuations of your bad neighbours, th...
‘ Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love YHWH your God.' The thought of loving God was central to the teaching of Moses ( Deuteronomy 6:4-6 ), and revealed in the keeping of His co...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 23:11 . Take good heed therefore unto yourselves] Marg ., “unto your souls.” “Take heed with all your soul;” so Winer and Ges ., quoted by Keil , who adds, The form i...
Joshua 23:11-15 I. In this speech Joshua once more presses upon the people their true character as the chosen people of the Lord God. He is able now to appeal to facts in evidence of the truth whi...
Joshua 23:7 . Neither make mention of the name of their gods. This prohibition is often repeated, and it involves mythology in difficulties. The LXX had authorities for saying, Joshua 24:33 , tha...
I am old and stricken in age: and ye have seen all that the Lord your God hath done. Old age As in the snowy realms of the Alps lovely flowers open their cheerful petals to the sky, so, notwith...
EXPOSITION JOSHUA 'S SOLEMN CHARGE .— Joshua 23:1 Waxed old and stricken in age. Literally, was old, advanced in days (see Joshua 13:1 ). But this refers to a more advanced age st...
The Urgent Exhortation to be Faithful to the Lord
1 Corinthians 16:22 ; 1 Corinthians 8:3 ; Deuteronomy 4:9 ; Deuteronomy 6:5-12 ; Ephesians 5:15 ; Exodus 20:6 ; Hebrews 12:15 ; Joshua 22:5 ; Jude 1:20 ; Jude 1:21 ; Luke 21:34 ; Proverbs...
Hallowed Reminiscences Joshua 23:1-16 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A glorious rest. Our study opens with very striking words: "And it came to pass a long time after that the Lord had given rest unto...
Take heed — Now it requires more watchfulness and diligence than it did in the wilderness, because your temptations are now stronger; from the examples and insinuations of your bad neighbours, the...