Joshua 24:25

THE MESSAGE

Joshua completed a Covenant for the people that day there at Shechem. He made it official, spelling it out in detail. Joshua wrote out all the directions and regulations into the Book of The Revelation of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up under the oak that was in the holy place of God .

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people at Shechem and established a statute and ordinance for them.

Hebrew Names Version
So Yehoshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shekhem.

King James Version
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

Lexham English Bible
So Joshua made a covenant with the people on that day, and he established for them a statute and a judgment at Shechem.

English Standard Version
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and put in place statutes and rules for them at Shechem.

New Century Version
On that day at Shechem Joshua made an agreement for the people. He made rules and laws for them to follow.

New English Translation
That day Joshua drew up an agreement for the people, and he established rules and regulations for them in Shechem.

Amplified Bible
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance at Shechem.

New American Standard Bible
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

Geneva Bible (1587)
So Ioshua made a couenant with the people the same day, and gaue them an ordinance and lawe in Shechem.

Legacy Standard Bible
So Joshua cut a covenant with the people that day and made for them a statute and a judgment in Shechem.

Contemporary English Version
Joshua helped Israel make an agreement with the Lord that day at Shechem. Joshua made laws for Israel

Complete Jewish Bible
So Y'hoshua made a covenant with the people that day, laying down for them laws and rulings there in Sh'khem.

Darby Translation
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

Easy-to-Read Version
So that day Joshua made an agreement for the people. He made this agreement at the town called Shechem. It became a law for them to follow.

George Lamsa Translation
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and taught them the commandments and the ordinances in Shechem.

Good News Translation
So Joshua made a covenant for the people that day, and there at Shechem he gave them laws and rules to follow.

Literal Translation
And Joshua made a covenant with the people on that day, and laid on them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
So Iosua made a couenaunt with the people ye same daye, and laied statutes & lawes before them at Sichem.

American Standard Version
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

Bible in Basic English
So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
And so Iosuah made a couenaut with the people the same day, and set an ordinaunce & lawe before them in Sichem.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

King James Version (1611)
So Ioshua made a couenant with the people that day, and set them a Statute, & an Ordinance in Shechem.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So Joshua made a covenant with the people on that day, and gave them a law and an ordinance in Selo before the tabernacle of the God of Israel.

English Revised Version
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

Berean Standard Bible
On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor Josue smoot a boond of pees in that dai, and settide forth to the puple comaundementis and domes in Sichen.

Young's Literal Translation
And Joshua maketh a covenant with the people on that day, and layeth on it a statute and an ordinance, in Shechem.

Update Bible Version
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

Webster's Bible Translation
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

World English Bible
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

New King James Version
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

New Living Translation
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day at Shechem, committing them to follow the decrees and regulations of the Lord .

New Life Bible
So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day. And he made Laws for them in Shechem.

New Revised Standard
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made statutes and ordinances for them at Shechem.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
So then Joshua solemnised a covenant for the people, on that day, - and set for them a statute and a regulation, in Shechem.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Josue therefore on that day made a covenant, and set before the people commandments and judgments in Sichem.

Revised Standard Version
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made statutes and ordinances for them at Shechem.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

Contextual Overview

¹⁵ "If you decide that it's a bad thing to worship God , then choose a god you'd rather serve—and do it today. Choose one of the gods your ancestors worshiped from the country beyond The River, or one of the gods of the Amorites, on whose land you're now living. As for me and my family, we'll worship God ." ¹⁶ The people answered, "We'd never forsake God ! Never! We'd never leave God to worship other gods. ¹⁷" God is our God! He brought up our ancestors from Egypt and from slave conditions. He did all those great signs while we watched. He has kept his eye on us all along the roads we've traveled and among the nations we've passed through. Just for us he drove out all the nations, Amorites and all, who lived in the land. "Count us in: We too are going to worship God . He's our God." ¹⁹Then Joshua told the people: "You can't do it; you're not able to worship God . He is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He won't put up with your fooling around and sinning. When you leave God and take up the worship of foreign gods, he'll turn right around and come down on you hard. He'll put an end to you—and after all the good he has done for you!" ²¹ But the people told Joshua: "No! No! We worship God !" ²² And so Joshua addressed the people: "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen God for yourselves—to worship him." And they said, "We are witnesses." ²³ Joshua said, "Now get rid of all the foreign gods you have with you. Say an unqualified Yes to God , the God of Israel." ²⁴ The people answered Joshua, "We will worship God . What he says, we'll do." ²⁵Joshua completed a Covenant for the people that day there at Shechem. He made it official, spelling it out in detail. Joshua wrote out all the directions and regulations into the Book of The Revelation of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up under the oak that was in the holy place of God . ²⁷ Joshua spoke to all the people: "This stone is a witness against us. It has heard every word that God has said to us. It is a standing witness against you lest you cheat on your God."

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

made: Exodus 15:25, Exodus 24:3, Exodus 24:7, Exodus 24:8, Deuteronomy 5:2, Deuteronomy 5:3, Deuteronomy 29:1, Deuteronomy 29:10-15, 2 Kings 11:17, 2 Chronicles 15:12, 2 Chronicles 15:15, 2 Chronicles 23:16, 2 Chronicles 29:10, 2 Chronicles 34:29-32, Nehemiah 9:38, Nehemiah 10:28, Nehemiah 10:29

in Shechem: Joshua 24:1, Joshua 24:26

Reciprocal: Genesis 31:44 - a witness Genesis 35:4 - the oak Deuteronomy 29:12 - thou shouldest 2 Kings 11:4 - made a covenant 2 Kings 23:3 - made a covenant 2 Chronicles 34:31 - made a covenant Isaiah 24:5 - changed

Gill's Notes on the Bible

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day,.... Proposing to them what was most eligible, and their duty to do, and they agreeing to it, this formally constituted a covenant, of which they selves were both parties and witnesses:

and set statute and an ordinance in Shechem; either made this covenant to have the nature of a statute and ordinance binding upon them, or repeated and renewed the laws of Moses, both moral and ceremonial, which had been delivered at Mount Sinai, and now, upon this repetition in Shechem, might be called a statute and ordinance there.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Made a covenant with the people - i. e. he solemnly ratified and renewed the covenant of Sinai, as Moses had done before him Deuteronomy 29:1. As no new or different covenant was made, no sacrifices were necessary.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Joshua 24:25. Joshua made a covenant — Literally, Joshua cut the covenant, alluding to the sacrifice offered on the occasion.

And set then a statute and an ordinance — He made a solemn and public act of the whole, which was signed and witnessed by himself and the people, in the presence of Jehovah; and having done so, he wrote the words of the covenant in the book of the law of God, probably in some part of the skin constituting the great roll, on which the laws of God were written, and of which there were some blank columns to spare. Having done this, he took a great stone and set it up under an oak-that this might be ed or witness that, at such a time and place, this covenant was made, the terms of which might be found written in the book of the law, which was laid up beside the ark. See Deuteronomy 31:26.