Choose Whom You Will Serve
14 Deut. 10:12;1 Sam. 12:24"Now therefore fear the Lord and serve him in sincerity and in faithfulness. ver. 2, 23Put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve the Lord. 15 1 Kgs. 18:21;Ezek. 20:39And if it is evil in your eyes to serve the Lord, ver. 22choose this day whom you will serve, whether [See ver. 14above] the gods your fathers served in the region beyond the River, or Ex. 23:24,32,33;34:15;Deut. 13:7;29:18;Judg. 6:10the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell. Gen. 18:19But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord."
22 Then Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that ver. 15you have chosen the Lord, to serve him." And they said, "We are witnesses." 25 So Joshua 2 Kgs. 11:17;2 Chr. 23:16;Neh. 9:38made a covenant with the people that day, and put in place Ex. 15:25statutes and rules for them at Shechem. 26 And Joshua Deut. 31:24wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And [ch. 4:3;Gen. 28:18] he took a large stone and set it up there Gen. 35:4;Judg. 9:6under the terebinth that was by the sanctuary of the Lord. 27 And Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, ch. 22:27,28,34;Gen. 31:48,52;Deut. 31:19,21,26this stone shall be a witness against us, for [Deut. 32:1]it has heard all the words of the Lord that he spoke to us. Therefore it shall be a witness against you, lest you deal falsely with your God."