Joshua 24:24

24 And the people said to Joshua, "We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice."

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 And Joshua said to the people, "You [are] witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves to serve Yahweh." And they said, "[We are] witnesses."

23 He said, "Remove the foreign gods that [are] in your midst, and incline your hearts to Yahweh the God of Israel."

24 And the people said to Joshua, "We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice."

25 So Joshua {made a covenant} with the people on that day, and he established for them a statute and a judgment at Shechem.

26 Then Joshua wrote these words in a scroll of the law of God, and he took a large stone and set it up there under a large tree, which [is] at the shrine of Yahweh.