Joshua 23:11

11 Be very careful, therefore, to love the Lord your God.

Joshua 23:11 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 23:11

Take good heed therefore unto yourselves
To be upon their guard, and to be watchful, were very necessary to them, that they might not be ensnared by the Canaanites, and drawn aside by them into idolatry, and so apostatize from the Lord and his worship, since their temptations would be many:

that ye love the Lord your God;
which would the most strongly influence and engage them to serve and worship the Lord, and obey his commands, and be the best preservative against idolatry and false worship.

Joshua 23:11 In-Context

9 For the Lord has driven out before you great and strong nations; and as for you, no one has been able to withstand you to this day.

10 One of you puts to flight a thousand, since it is the Lord your God who fights for you, as he promised you.

11 Be very careful, therefore, to love the Lord your God.

12 For if you turn back, and join the survivors of these nations left here among you, and intermarry with them, so that you marry their women and they yours,

13 know assuredly that the Lord your God will not continue to drive out these nations before you; but they shall be a snare and a trap for you, a scourge on your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land that the Lord your God has given you.