Joshua 23:13-16

13 then you may be sure that the LORD your God will no longer drive out these nations before you. Instead, they will become snares and traps for you, whips on your backs and thorns in your eyes, until you perish from this good land, which the LORD your God has given you.
14 “Now I am about to go the way of all the earth. You know with all your heart and soul that not one of all the good promises the LORD your God gave you has failed. Every promise has been fulfilled; not one has failed.
15 But just as all the good things the LORD your God has promised you have come to you, so he will bring on you all the evil things he has threatened, until the LORD your God has destroyed you from this good land he has given you.
16 If you violate the covenant of the LORD your God, which he commanded you, and go and serve other gods and bow down to them, the LORD’s anger will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from the good land he has given you.”

Joshua 23:13-16 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO JOSHUA 23

Joshua being old, convenes the states of Israel a little before his death, Jos 23:1,2; and in his address to them observes what God had done for them, and would do, Jos 23:3-5; and exhorts them to keep the commandments of God, and cleave to him, and not to mix with the Gentiles, and join with them in idolatrous practices, and then it would be well with them, Jos 23:6-11; but otherwise should they join with them, and depart from the Lord, who had so faithfully and punctually performed every good thing he had promised them, they might expect all evils and calamities, utter ruin and destruction, to befall them, Jos 23:12-16.

Cross References 12

  • 1. S ver 5
  • 2. S Exodus 10:7; Exodus 23:33
  • 3. S Numbers 33:55
  • 4. Deuteronomy 1:8; 1 Kings 9:7; 2 Kings 25:21
  • 5. 1 Kings 2:2
  • 6. Psalms 119:140; Psalms 145:13
  • 7. S Joshua 21:45
  • 8. 1 Kings 8:56; Jeremiah 33:14
  • 9. 1 Kings 14:10; 2 Kings 22:16; Isaiah 24:6; Isaiah 34:5; Isaiah 43:28; Jeremiah 6:19; Jeremiah 11:8; Jeremiah 35:17; Jeremiah 39:16; Malachi 4:6
  • 10. Joshua 24:20
  • 11. Leviticus 26:17; Deuteronomy 28:15; Jeremiah 40:2
  • 12. Deuteronomy 4:25-26
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