Joshua 24:24-33

24 And the people said to Joshua, "The LORD our God we will serve, and his voice we will obey."

25 So Joshua ¹made a covenant with the people that day, and put in place ²statutes and rules for them at Shechem.

26 And Joshua ³wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And ⁴he took a large stone and set it up there ⁵under the terebinth that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.

27 And Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, ⁶this stone shall be a witness against us, for ⁷it has heard all the words of the LORD that he spoke to us. Therefore it shall be a witness against you, lest you deal falsely with your God."

28 So Joshua ⁸sent the people away, every man to his inheritance.

Joshua's Death and Burial

29 ⁹After these things Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being 110 years old.

30 And they buried him in his own inheritance at ¹⁰Timnath-serah, which is in the hill country of Ephraim, north of the mountain of Gaash.

31 ¹¹Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua ¹²and had known all the work that the LORD did for Israel.

32 ¹³As for the bones of Joseph, which the people of Israel brought up from Egypt, they buried them at Shechem, in the piece of land ¹⁴that Jacob bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for a hundred pieces of money.^[a] It became an inheritance of the descendants of Joseph.

33 And Eleazar the son of Aaron died, and they buried him at Gibeah, the town of ¹⁵Phinehas his son, which had been given him in ¹⁶the hill country of Ephraim.

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Joshua 24:24-33 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOSHUA 24

This chapter gives us an account of another summons of the tribes of Israel by Joshua, who obeyed it, and presented themselves before the Lord at Shechem, Jos 24:1; when Joshua in the name of the Lord rehearsed to them the many great and good things the Lord had done for them, from the time of their ancestor Abraham to that day, Jos 24:2-13; and then exhorted them to fear and serve the Lord, and reject idols, Jos 24:14; and put them upon making their choice, whether they would serve the true God, or the gods of the Canaanites; and they choosing the former, he advised them to abide by their choice, Jos 24:15-24; and made a covenant with them to that purpose, and then dismissed them, Jos 24:25-28; and the chapter is concluded with an account of the death and burial of Joshua and Eleazar, and of the interment of the bones of Joseph, Jos 24:29-33.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 16

1. 2 Kings 11:17; 2 Chronicles 23:16; Nehemiah 9:38
2. Exodus 15:25
3. Deuteronomy 31:24
4. [Joshua 4:3; Genesis 28:18]
5. Genesis 35:4; Judges 9:6
6. Joshua 22:27, 28, 34; Genesis 31:48, 52; Deuteronomy 31:19, 21, 26
7. [Deuteronomy 32:1]
8. Judges 2:6
9. For ver. 29-31, see Judges 2:7-9
10. [Joshua 19:50]
11. Judges 2:7
12. Deuteronomy 11:2; Deuteronomy 31:13
13. Genesis 50:25; Exodus 13:19
14. Genesis 33:19
15. Joshua 22:13
16. ver. 30; Joshua 17:15

Footnotes 1

[a]. Hebrew for a hundred qesitah; a unit of money of unknown value

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