Joshua 24:27

World English Bible (2000)

Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be a witness against us; for it has heard all the words of Yahweh which he spoke to us. It shall be therefore a witness against you, lest you deny your God."

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  • Josh 22:27-28 : 27 but it will be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may perform the service of Yahweh before him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings;' that your children may not tell our children in time to come, 'You have no portion in Yahweh.' 28 "Therefore we said, 'It shall be, when they tell us or our generations this in time to come, that we shall say, "Behold the pattern of the altar of Yahweh, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you."'
  • Josh 22:34 : 34 The children of Reuben and the children of Gad named the altar "A Witness Between Us that Yahweh is God."
  • Luke 19:40 : 40 He answered them, "I tell you that if these were silent, the stones would cry out."
  • 2 Tim 2:12-13 : 12 If we endure, we will also reign with him. If we deny him, he also will deny us. 13 If we are faithless, he remains faithful. He can't deny himself."
  • Deut 31:21 : 21 It shall happen, when many evils and troubles are come on them, that this song shall testify before them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they frame this day, before I have brought them into the land which I swore."
  • Deut 31:26 : 26 "Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.
  • Deut 32:1 : 1 Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth.
  • Titus 1:16 : 16 They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
  • Gen 31:44-52 : 44 Now come, let us make a covenant, you and I; and let it be for a witness between me and you." 45 Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar. 46 Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap. 47 Laban called it Jegar Sahadutha, but Jacob called it Galeed. 48 Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was named Galeed 49 and Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another. 50 If you afflict my daughters, or if you take wives besides my daughters, no man is with us; behold, God is witness between me and you." 51 Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you. 52 May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.
  • Deut 4:26 : 26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
  • Deut 30:19 : 19 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before you life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that you may live, you and your seed;
  • Deut 31:19 : 19 "Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.
  • 1 Sam 7:12 : 12 Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called its name Ebenezer, saying, "Yahweh helped us until now."
  • Job 31:23 : 23 For calamity from God is a terror to me. Because his majesty, I can do nothing.
  • Prov 30:9 : 9 lest I be full, deny you, and say, 'Who is Yahweh?' or lest I be poor, and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.
  • Isa 1:2 : 2 Hear, heavens, and listen, earth; for Yahweh has spoken: "I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.
  • Hab 2:11 : 11 For the stone will cry out of the wall, and the beam out of the woodwork will answer it.
  • Matt 10:33 : 33 But whoever denies me before men, him I will also deny before my Father who is in heaven.
  • Rev 3:8 : 8 "I know your works (behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one can shut), that you have a little power, and kept my word, and didn't deny my name.

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  • Josh 24:21-26
    6 verses
    84%

    21The people said to Joshua, "No; but we will serve Yahweh."

    22Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him." They said, "We are witnesses."

    23"Now therefore put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to Yahweh, the God of Israel."

    24The people said to Joshua, "We will serve Yahweh our God, and we will listen to his voice."

    25So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

    26Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God; and he took a great stone, and set it up there under the oak that was by the sanctuary of Yahweh.

  • Josh 4:5-9
    5 verses
    78%

    5Joshua said to them, "Pass over before the ark of Yahweh your God into the middle of the Jordan, and each of you pick up a stone and put it on your shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;

    6that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask in time to come, saying, 'What do you mean by these stones?'

    7then you shall tell them, 'Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh. When it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. These stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.'"

    8The children of Israel did as Joshua commanded, and took up twelve stones out of the middle of the Jordan, as Yahweh spoke to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; and they carried them over with them to the place where they lodged, and laid them down there.

    9Joshua set up twelve stones in the middle of the Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests who bore the ark of the covenant stood; and they are there to this day.

  • Josh 4:20-21
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    76%

    20Joshua set up those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, in Gilgal.

    21He spoke to the children of Israel, saying, "When your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, 'What do these stones mean?'

  • Josh 22:27-28
    2 verses
    76%

    27but it will be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may perform the service of Yahweh before him with our burnt offerings, with our sacrifices, and with our peace offerings;' that your children may not tell our children in time to come, 'You have no portion in Yahweh.'

    28"Therefore we said, 'It shall be, when they tell us or our generations this in time to come, that we shall say, "Behold the pattern of the altar of Yahweh, which our fathers made, not for burnt offering, nor for sacrifice; but it is a witness between us and you."'

  • Deut 31:26
    75%

    26"Take this book of the law, and put it by the side of the ark of the covenant of Yahweh your God, that it may be there for a witness against you.

  • Deut 27:2
    74%

    2It shall be on the day when you shall pass over the Jordan to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, that you shall set yourself up great stones, and plaster them with plaster:

  • Josh 3:9
    73%

    9Joshua said to the children of Israel, "Come here, and hear the words of Yahweh your God."

  • Deut 31:28
    72%

    28Assemble to me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

  • Josh 7:25-26
    2 verses
    72%

    25Joshua said, "Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you this day." All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.

    26They raised over him a great heap of stones that remains to this day. Yahweh turned from the fierceness of his anger. Therefore the name of that place was called "The valley of Achor" to this day.

  • Deut 27:4
    71%

    4It shall be, when you have passed over the Jordan, that you shall set up these stones, which I command you this day, in Mount Ebal, and you shall plaster them with plaster.

  • Deut 4:26
    71%

    26I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that you shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto you go over the Jordan to possess it; you shall not prolong your days on it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

  • Deut 27:8
    71%

    8You shall write on the stones all the words of this law very plainly."

  • Josh 8:30-32
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    71%

    30Then Joshua built an altar to Yahweh, the God of Israel, in Mount Ebal,

    31as Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded the children of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses, an altar of uncut stones, on which no man had lifted up any iron. They offered burnt offerings on it to Yahweh, and sacrificed peace offerings.

    32He wrote there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

  • Deut 31:19
    71%

    19"Now therefore write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the children of Israel: put it in their mouths, that this song may be a witness for me against the children of Israel.

  • Josh 4:3
    71%

    3and command them, saying, 'Take from out of the middle of the Jordan, out of the place where the priests' feet stood firm, twelve stones, and carry them over with you, and lay them down in the lodging place, where you will lodge tonight.'"

  • Josh 10:18
    70%

    18Joshua said, "Roll large stones to the mouth of the cave, and set men by it to guard them;

  • Josh 24:18-19
    2 verses
    70%

    18Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God."

    19Joshua said to the people, "You can't serve Yahweh; for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.

  • Josh 22:34
    70%

    34The children of Reuben and the children of Gad named the altar "A Witness Between Us that Yahweh is God."

  • Deut 3:21
    70%

    21I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, "Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings: so shall Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where you go over.

  • Deut 32:46
    70%

    46He said to them, "Set your heart to all the words which I testify to you this day, which you shall command your children to observe to do, [even] all the words of this law.

  • Gen 31:45
    70%

    45Jacob took a stone, and set it up for a pillar.

  • Gen 31:52
    70%

    52May this heap be a witness, and the pillar be a witness, that I will not pass over this heap to you, and that you will not pass over this heap and this pillar to me, for harm.

  • Josh 9:24
    70%

    24They answered Joshua, and said, "Because your servants were certainly told how Yahweh your God commanded his servant Moses to give you all the land, and to destroy all the inhabitants of the land from before you. Therefore we were very afraid for our lives because of you, and have done this thing.

  • Josh 22:24
    70%

    24"If we have not out of concern done this, and for a reason, saying, 'In time to come your children might speak to our children, saying, "What have you to do with Yahweh, the God of Israel?

  • Josh 7:9
    70%

    9For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and will surround us, and cut off our name from the earth. What will you do for your great name?"

  • Judg 2:7
    69%

    7The people served Yahweh all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great work of Yahweh that he had worked for Israel.

  • Josh 4:15
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    15Yahweh spoke to Joshua, saying,

  • Judg 11:10
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    10The elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "Yahweh shall be witness between us; surely according to your word so will we do."

  • Zech 3:6
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    6The angel of Yahweh protested to Joshua, saying,

  • Josh 8:35
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    35There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua didn't read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the foreigners who were among them.

  • Deut 31:7
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    7Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, "Be strong and courageous: for you shall go with this people into the land which Yahweh has sworn to their fathers to give them; and you shall cause them to inherit it.