Joshua 24:24

24 And the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God and obey him.”

Joshua 24:24 in Other Translations

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

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

24 The people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God. We will obey him alone.”

24 The people answered Joshua, "We will worship God. What he says, we'll do."

24 So the people said to Joshua, "We will worship the Lord our God and 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 Then Joshua said, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD.” “Yes, we are witnesses,” they replied.

23 “Now then,” said Joshua, “throw away the foreign gods that are among you and yield your hearts to the LORD, the God of Israel.”

24 And the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God and obey him.”

25 On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he reaffirmed for them decrees and laws.

26 And Joshua recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak near the holy place of the LORD.

Cross References

• 1. Exodus 19:8; Exodus 24:3,7; Deuteronomy 5:27; Jeremiah 42:6