And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.
Joshua said unto all the people. His address briefly recapitulated the principal proofs of the divine goodness to Israel from the call of Abraham to their happy establishment in the land of promise, and showed them that they were indebted for their national existence, as well as their special privileges, not to any merits of their own, but to the free grace of God.
On the other side of the flood - the Euphrates, namely, at Ur.
Terah, the father of Abraham ... and Nahor - (see the note at Genesis 11:27.) Though Terah had three sons, Nahor only is mentioned with Abraham, as the Israelites were descended from him on the mother's side, through Rebekah and her nieces, Leah and Rachel.
Served other gods - conjoining, like Laban, the traditional knowledge of the true God with the domestic use of material images (Genesis 31:19; Genesis 31:34).