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约书亚记 24:23
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約書亞說：“現在你們要除掉在你們中間外族人的神，一心歸向耶和華以色列的 神。”
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
put away: Joshua 24:14, Genesis 35:2-4, Exodus 20:23, Judges 10:15, Judges 10:16, 1 Samuel 7:3, 1 Samuel 7:4, Hosea 14:2, Hosea 14:3, Hosea 14:8, 1 Corinthians 10:19-21, 2 Corinthians 6:16-18
incline: Proverbs 2:2, Hebrews 12:28, Hebrews 12:29
Reciprocal: Joshua 24:19 - Ye cannot 1 Kings 18:21 - if the Lord Job 31:28 - for Psalms 119:112 - inclined
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Now therefore put away, [said he],.... Which last words are rightly supplied, for they are the words of Joshua:
the strange gods which [are] among you; not their private notions and secret sentiments that some of them had imbibed in favour of idols, and the worship of them, as Ben Gersom thinks; but, as the Targum expresses it,
"the idols of the Gentiles;''
either such as they had brought out of Egypt, or had found among the plunder of the Canaanites, and had secretly retained; or, as others think, their "penates", or household gods, they had privately kept and worshipped, such as those that were in Jacob's family, which he caused to be delivered to him, and which he hid under an oak in this place where Israel were now assembled, Genesis 35:2; and which Joshua by a prophetic discerning spirit perceived were now among them:
and incline your heart unto the Lord God of Israel; to love, fear, and serve him; that is, pray that your hearts may be inclined thereunto, and make use of all means that may tend to direct your hearts to him, and his service; so the Targum,
"to the worship of the Lord God of Israel.''
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Joshua 24:23. Now therefore put away — As you have promised to reform, begin instantly the work of reformation. A man's promise to serve God soon loses its moral hold of his conscience if he do not instantaneously begin to put it in practice. The grace that enables him to promise is that by the strength of which he is to begin the performance.
