Joshua 24:24

24 The people said to Joshua, "We will serve the LORD our God and will obey him."

Joshua 24:24 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 24:24

And the people said unto Joshua
A third time, that as by the mouth of two or three witnesses everything is confirmed, so by three testimonies of the same persons:

the Lord our God will we serve;
as they had before declared, and to which they add:

and his voice will we obey;
or his word, as the Targum, not only his word of command, but his essential Word, the Son of God.

Joshua 24:24 In-Context

22 So Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD." They said, "We are witnesses!"

23 "So now put aside the foreign gods that are among you. Focus your hearts on the LORD, the God of Israel."

24 The people said to Joshua, "We will serve the LORD our God and will obey him."

25 On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people and established just rule for them at Shechem.

26 Joshua wrote these words in God's Instruction scroll. Then he took a large stone and put it up there under the oak in the sanctuary of the LORD.