Joshua 24:25 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. ”

• Joshua 24:25 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Made a covenant with the people - i. e. he solemnly ratified and renewed the covenant of Sinai, as Moses had done before him Deuteronomy 29:1 . As no new or different covenant was made, no sacri...

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• Joshua 24:25 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

  So Joshua (l) made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. (l) By joining God and the people together: also he repeated the promises and threatenings...

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• Joshua 24:25 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  made. covenant: i.e. by sacrifice. Compare Jeremiah 34:18 ; Jeremiah 34:19 .

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• Joshua 24:25 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  25. So Joshua made a covenant, etc This passage demonstrates the end for which the meeting had been called, namely, to bind the people more completely and more solemnly to God, by the renewa...

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• Joshua 24:25 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  DISCOURSE: 260 JOSHUA’S COVENANT WITH ISRAEL TO SERVE THE LORD Joshua 24:21-27 . And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the Lord. And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witness...

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• Joshua 24:25 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. Joshua made a covenant - Literally, Joshua cut the covenant, alluding to the sacrifice offered...

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• Joshua 24:25 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Ver. 25. So Joshua made a covenant with the people, &c.— The Israelites having a third time repeated that they were resolved only to serve the Lord, and being thereby bound more strictly th...

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• Joshua 24:25 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day - he induced them solemnly and volun...

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• Joshua 24:25 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

  Joshua's Second and Final Farewell This discourse ( Joshua 24:1-15 ), with Israel's response ( Joshua 24:16-24 ), and consequent renewal of the Covenant ( Joshua 24:25-28 ), occupies the bulk of t...

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• Joshua 24:25 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  So Joshua made a covenant — i.e., a covenant that idolatry should not be tolerated in Israel, or suffered to exist. We read of similar covenants in the reign of Asa ( 2 Chronicles 15:12-13 ), in th...

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• Joshua 24:25 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

  CHAPTER XXXII. JOSHUA'S LAST APPEAL. Joshua 24:1-33 . IT was at Shechem that Joshua's last meeting with the people took place. The Septuagint makes it Shiloh in one verse ( Joshua 24:1 ), but S...

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• Joshua 24:25 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  Joshua's Last Service to His People Joshua 24:16-33 Joshua did well to discourage their proud vauntings, and to show that the people could not in their own might realize God's ideal, Psalms 10...

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• Joshua 24:25 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

  Here we have the record of the final address of Joshua. In it he first concisely and comprehensively traced the Hebrews' history from the call of Abraham and did so in the form of the speech of Jehov...

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• Joshua 24:25 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  It is worthy observation, that twice in the life, both of Moses and of Joshua, the renewal of this covenant was made. See Exodus 24:1 ; Deuteronomy 29:1 and Joshua 8:1 and now, Reader, it is alw...

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• Joshua 24:25 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day ,.... Proposing to them what was most eligible, and their duty to do, and they agreeing to it, this formally constituted a covenant, of which they...

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• Joshua 24:25 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem. Ver. 25. And set there a statute and an ordinance. ] Capita faederis ex Deuteronomio praele...

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• Joshua 24:25 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day Engaged them to make good this solemn profession, by renewing the covenant they had formerly entered into, both in the days of Moses and in his ti...

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• Joshua 24:25 - L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

  JOSHUA'S SUMMARY OF ISRAEL'S HISTORY (vs.1-13) For the second time, as Joshua neared the end of his life, he called Israel together, primarily the elders, heads, judges and officers (v.1), but in...

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• Joshua 24:25 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

        15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the L ORD , 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...

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• Joshua 24:25 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Either, 1. He set , or propounded, or declared unto them the statute and ordinance , i.e. the sum of the statutes and ordinances of God, which their covenant obliged them to Or, 2. He set or esta...

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• Joshua 24:25 - Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

  ‘ So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.' It must be recognised as almost certain that burnt offerings and peace offerings were sl...

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• Joshua 24:25 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

  CRITICAL NOTES.— Joshua 24:19 . Ye cannot serve Jehovah] Joshua here bids the people count the cost of the decision expressed in Joshua 24:16 . They could not serve Jehovah in the indifferent sp...

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• Joshua 24:25 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  Joshua 24:1 . Shechem. Some think this was the Sychar where our Saviour talked with the woman. John 4:5 . This place became far famed on account of the renewal of the covenant before Joshua's dea...

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• Joshua 24:25 - The Biblical Illustrator

  Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem. Joshua’s last farewell I. God’s threefold mercies. 1. Israel’s enlargement (verses 2-4). 2. Israel’s exodus (verses 5-7). 3. Israel...

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• Joshua 24:25 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

  EXPOSITION THE LAST RENEWAL OF THE COVENANT .— Joshua 24:1 To Shechem. The LXX . and the Arabic version read Shiloh here, and as the words "they presented themselves (liter...

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• Joshua 24:25 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

  The Exaction of the Promise to be Faithful

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• Joshua 24:25 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Chronicles 15:12 ; 2 Chronicles 15:15 ; 2 Chronicles 23:16 ; 2 Chronicles 29:10 ; 2 Chronicles 34:29-32 ; 2 Kings 11:17 ; Deuteronomy 29:1 ; Deuteronomy 29:10-15 ; Deuteronomy 5:2 ; Deute...

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• Joshua 24:25 - Wells of Living Water Commentary

  The Consecration of the People Joshua 24:13-28 INTRODUCTORY WORDS The time comes sooner, or later, when we must all lay down the yoke which we have been wearing for God. We cannot always serve...

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• Joshua 24:25 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

  A statute — He set or established that covenant with them, that is, the people, for a statute or an ordinance, to bind themselves and their posterity unto God for ever.

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