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

Bible Comments

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 established it, to wit, that covenant, with them, i.e. the people for a statute or an ordinance, to bind themselves and their posterity unto God for ever, as a statute and ordinance of God doth.

Joshua 24:25

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