YuēShūyàjì 24:14

14 Xiànzaì nǐmen yào jìngwèi Yēhéhuá , chéng xīn shí yì dì shìfèng tā , jiāng nǐmen lièzǔ zaì dà hé nàbiān hé zaì Āijí suǒ shìfèng de shén chúdiào , qù shìfèng Yēhéhuá .

YuēShūyàjì 24:14 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 24:14

Now therefore fear the Lord
Since he has done such great and good things, fear the Lord and his goodness, fear him for his goodness sake; nothing so influences fear, or a reverential affection for God, as a sense of his goodness; this engages men sensible of it to fear the Lord, that is, to worship him both internally and externally in the exercise of every grace, and in the performance of every duty:

and serve him in sincerity and in truth:
in the uprightness of their souls, without hypocrisy and deceit, and according to the truth of his word, and of his mind and will revealed in it, without any mixture of superstition and will worship, or of the commands and inventions of men:

and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of
the flood, and in Egypt;
that is, express an abhorrence of them, and keep at a distance from them, and show that you are far from giving in to such idolatries your ancestors were guilty of, when they lived on the other side Euphrates, in Chaldea, or when they were sojourners in Egypt; for it cannot be thought that the Israelites were at this time guilty of such gross idolatry, at least openly, since Joshua had bore such a testimony of them, that they had cleaved to the Lord unto that day, ( Joshua 23:8 ) ; and their zeal against the two tribes and a half, on suspicion of idolatry, or of going into it, is a proof of it also:

and serve ye the Lord:
and him only.

YuēShūyàjì 24:14 In-Context

12 Wǒ dǎfa huángfēng fēi zaì nǐmen qiánmian , jiāng Yàmólìrén de èr wáng cóng nǐmen miànqián niǎn chū , bìng bú shì yòng nǐde dāo , yĕ bú shì yòng nǐde gōng .

13 Wǒ cìgĕi nǐmen dì tǔ , fēi nǐmen suǒ xiū zhì de . wǒ cìgĕi nǐmen chéngyì , fēi nǐmen suǒ jiànzào de . nǐmen jiù zhù zaì qízhōng , yòu dé chī fēi nǐmen suǒ zāizhòng de pútaóyuán , gǎnlǎn yuán de guǒzi .

14 Xiànzaì nǐmen yào jìngwèi Yēhéhuá , chéng xīn shí yì dì shìfèng tā , jiāng nǐmen lièzǔ zaì dà hé nàbiān hé zaì Āijí suǒ shìfèng de shén chúdiào , qù shìfèng Yēhéhuá .

15 Ruò shì nǐmen yǐ shìfèng Yēhéhuá wèi bù hǎo , jīnrì jiù kĕyǐ xuǎnzé suǒ yào shìfèng de , shì nǐmen lièzǔ zaì dà hé nàbiān suǒ shìfèng de shén ne . shì nǐmen suǒ zhù zhè dì de Yàmólìrén de shén ne . zhìyú wǒ hé wǒ jiā , wǒmen bìdéng shìfèng Yēhéhuá .

16 Bǎixìng huídá shuō , wǒmen duàn bù gǎn lí qì Yēhéhuá qù shìfèng bié shén .