Joshua 24:1, Joshua assembles the tribes at Shechem; Joshua 24:2, A brief history of God’s benefits, from Terah; Joshua 24:14, He renews the covenant between them and God; Joshua 24:26, A stone the witness of the covenant; Joshua 24:29, Joshua’s age, death, and burial; Joshua 24:32, Joseph’s bones are buried; Joshua 24:33, Eleazar dies.
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Joshua 24 — Overview
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Joshua 24 — OverviewJoshua 24 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleThis chapter concludes the life and reign of Joshua, in which we have,
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the true faith and worship of God, that they might, after his death,…Joshua 24 — OverviewJoshua 24 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleThis 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…Joshua 24:1-14Joshua 24:1-14 · Matthew Henry's Commentary on the Whole BibleJoshua thought he had taken his last farewell of Israel in the solemn
charge he gave them in the foregoing chapter, when he said, I go the
way of all the earth; but God graciously continuing his life longer…Joshua 24:1Joshua 24:1 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeJoshua: This must have been a different assembly from that mentioned in the preceding chapter, though probably held not long after the former.
Shechem: As it is immediately added, that "they presented themselves before…Joshua 24:2Joshua 24:2 · Treasury of Scripture KnowledgeYour fathers: Genesis 11:26, Genesis 11:31, Genesis 12:1, Genesis 31:53; Deuteronomy 26:5; Isaiah 51:2; Ezekiel 16:3
served other gods: In the case of Abraham this was probably the case, till he was called to the…Joshua 24:2Joshua 24:2 · John Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleAnd Joshua said unto all the people,.... Then present, or to all Israel by their representatives:thus saith the Lord God of Israel; he spoke to them in the name of the Lord, as the prophet did, being himself a prophet,…
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