Joshua 24
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Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to a Shechem and b called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they c presented themselves before God.
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And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: d 'Your fathers, including Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, dwelt on the other side of the River in old times; and e they served other gods.
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f 'Then I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his descendants and g gave him Isaac.
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'To Isaac I gave h Jacob and Esau. To i Esau I gave the mountains of Seir to possess, j but Jacob and his children went down to Egypt.
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k 'Also I sent Moses and Aaron, and l I plagued Egypt, according to what I did among them. Afterward I brought you out.
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'Then I m brought your fathers out of Egypt, and you came to the sea; and the Egyptians pursued your fathers with chariots and horsemen to the Red Sea.
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'So they cried out to the LORD; and He put n darkness between you and the Egyptians, brought the sea upon them, and covered them. And o your eyes saw what I did in Egypt. Then you dwelt in the wilderness p a long time.
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'And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, who dwelt on the other side of the Jordan, q and they fought with you. But I gave them into your hand, that you might possess their land, and I destroyed them from before you.
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'Then r Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose to make war against Israel, and s sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you.
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t 'But I would not listen to Balaam; u therefore he continued to bless you. So I delivered you out of his hand.
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'Then v you went over the Jordan and came to Jericho. And w the men of Jericho fought against you - also the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites. But I delivered them into your hand.
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x 'I sent the hornet before you which drove them out from before you, also the two kings of the Amorites, but y not with your sword or with your bow.
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'I have given you a land for which you did not labor, and z cities which you did not build, and you dwell in them; you eat of the vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.'
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a "Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in b sincerity and in truth, and c put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and d in Egypt. Serve the LORD!
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"And if it seems evil to you to serve the LORD, e choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether f the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River, or g the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. h But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD."
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So the people answered and said: "Far be it from us that we should forsake the LORD to serve other gods;
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"for the LORD our God is He who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way that we went and among all the people through whom we passed.
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"And the LORD drove out from before us all the people, including the Amorites who dwelt in the land. i We also will serve the LORD, for He is our God."
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But Joshua said to the people, j "You cannot serve the LORD, for He is a k holy God. He is l a jealous God; m He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
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n "If you forsake the LORD and serve foreign gods, o then He will turn and do you harm and consume you, after He has done you good."
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And the people said to Joshua, "No, but we will serve the LORD!"
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So Joshua said to the people, "You are witnesses against yourselves that p you have chosen the LORD for yourselves, to serve Him." And they said, "We are witnesses!"
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"Now therefore," he said, q "put away the foreign gods which are among you, and r incline your heart to the LORD God of Israel."
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And the people s said to Joshua, "The LORD our God we will serve, and His voice we will obey!"
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So Joshua t made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance u in Shechem.
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Then Joshua v wrote these words in the Book of the Law of God. And he took w a large stone, and x set it up there y under the oak that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
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And Joshua said to all the people, "Behold, this stone shall be z a witness to us, for a it has heard all the words of the LORD which He spoke to us. It shall therefore be a witness to you, lest you deny your God."
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So b Joshua let the people depart, each to his own inheritance.
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c Now it came to pass after these things that Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died, being one hundred and ten years old.
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And they buried him within the border of his inheritance at d Timnath Serah, which is in the mountains of Ephraim, on the north side of Mount Gaash.
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e Israel served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had f known all the works of the LORD which He had done for Israel.
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g The bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel had brought up out of Egypt, they buried at Shechem, in the plot of ground h which Jacob had bought from the sons of Hamor the father of Shechem for one hundred pieces of silver, and which had become an inheritance of the children of Joseph.
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And i Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in a hill belonging to j Phinehas his son, which was given to him in the mountains of Ephraim.
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Genesis 35:4
So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree which was by Shechem.
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Joshua 23:2
And Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers, and said to them: "I am old, advanced in age.
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1 Samuel 10:19
"But you have today rejected your God, who Himself saved you from all your adversities and your tribulations; and you have said to Him, 'No, set a king over us!' Now therefore, present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and by your clans."
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Genesis 11:7 - 32
"Come, let Us go down and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
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Joshua 24:14
Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD!
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Genesis 12:1
Now the LORD had said to Abram: Get out of your country, From your family And from your father's house, To a land that I will show you.
Acts 7:2
And he said, "Brethren and fathers, listen: The God of glory appeared to our father Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran.
Acts 7:3
"and said to him, 'Get out of your country and from your relatives, and come to a land that I will show you.'
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Genesis 21:1 - 8
And the LORD visited Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah as He had spoken.
Psalms 127:3
Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a reward.
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Genesis 25:24 - 26
So when her days were fulfilled for her to give birth, indeed there were twins in her womb.
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Genesis 36:8
So Esau dwelt in Mount Seir. Esau is Edom.
Deuteronomy 2:5
Do not meddle with them, for I will not give you any of their land, no, not so much as one footstep, because I have given Mount Seir to Esau as a possession.
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Genesis 46:1
So Israel took his journey with all that he had, and came to Beersheba, and offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.
Genesis 46:3
So He said, "I am God, the God of your father; do not fear to go down to Egypt, for I will make of you a great nation there.
Genesis 46:6
So they took their livestock and their goods, which they had acquired in the land of Canaan, and went to Egypt, Jacob and all his descendants with him.
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Exodus 3:10
"Come now, therefore, and I will send you to Pharaoh that you may bring My people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt."
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Exodus 7:1
So the LORD said to Moses: "See, I have made you as God to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.
Exodus 10:1
Now the LORD said to Moses, "Go in to Pharaoh; for I have hardened his heart and the hearts of his servants, that I may show these signs of Mine before him.
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Exodus 12:37
Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children.
Exodus 12:51
And it came to pass, on that very same day, that the LORD brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt according to their armies.
Exodus 14:2 - 31
Speak to the children of Israel, that they turn and camp before Pi Hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, opposite Baal Zephon; you shall camp before it by the sea.
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Exodus 14:20
So it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel. Thus it was a cloud and darkness to the one, and it gave light by night to the other, so that the one did not come near the other all that night.
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Deuteronomy 4:34
Or did God ever try to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
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Joshua 5:6
For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the people who were men of war, who came out of Egypt, were consumed, because they did not obey the voice of the LORD - to whom the LORD swore that He would not show them the land which the LORD had sworn to their fathers that He would give us, "a land flowing with milk and honey.
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Numbers 21:21 - 35
Then Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying.
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Judges 11:25
And now, are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel? Did he ever fight against them?
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Numbers 22:2 - 14
Now Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
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Deuteronomy 23:5
Nevertheless the LORD your God would not listen to Balaam, but the LORD your God turned the curse into a blessing for you, because the LORD your God loves you.
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Numbers 23:11
Then Balak said to Balaam, "What have you done to me? I took you to curse my enemies, and look, you have blessed them bountifully!
Numbers 23:20
Behold, I have received a command to bless; He has blessed, and I cannot reverse it.
Numbers 24:10
Then Balak's anger was aroused against Balaam, and he struck his hands together; and Balak said to Balaam, "I called you to curse my enemies, and look, you have bountifully blessed them these three times!
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Joshua 3:14
So it was, when the people set out from their camp to cross over the Jordan, with the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people.
Joshua 3:17
Then the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the LORD stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan; and all Israel crossed over on dry ground, until all the people had crossed completely over the Jordan.
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Joshua 6:1
Now Jericho was securely shut up because of the children of Israel; none went out, and none came in.
Joshua 10:1
Now it came to pass when AdoniZe'dek king of Jerusalem heard how Joshua had taken Ai and had utterly destroyed it - as he had done to Jericho and its king, so he had done to Ai and its king - and how the inhabitants of Gibeon had made peace with Israel and were among them.
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Exodus 23:28
And I will send hornets before you, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite from before you.
Deuteronomy 7:20
Moreover the LORD your God will send the hornet among them until those who are left, who hide themselves from you, are destroyed.
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Psalms 44:3
For they did not gain possession of the land by their own sword, Nor did their own arm save them; But it was Your right hand, Your arm, and the light of Your countenance, Because You favored them.
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Deuteronomy 6:10
So it shall be, when the LORD your God brings you into the land of which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give you large and beautiful cities which you did not build.
Deuteronomy 6:11
Houses full of all good things, which you did not fill, hewn-out wells which you did not dig, vineyards and olive trees which you did not plant - when you have eaten and are full -
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Deuteronomy 10:12
And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Deuteronomy 10:13
And to keep the commandments of the LORD and His statutes which I command you today for your good?
1 Samuel 12:24
Only fear the LORD, and serve Him in truth with all your heart; for consider what great things He has done for you.
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2 Corinthians 1:12
For our boasting is this: the testimony of our conscience that we conducted ourselves in the world in simplicity and godly sincerity, not with fleshly wisdom but by the grace of God, and more abundantly toward you.
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Joshua 24:2
And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: 'Your fathers, including Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, dwelt on the other side of the River in old times; and they served other gods.
Joshua 24:23
"Now therefore," he said, "put away the foreign gods which are among you, and incline your heart to the LORD God of Israel."
Ezekiel 20:18
But I said to their children in the wilderness, 'Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers, nor observe their judgments, nor defile yourselves with their idols.
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Ezekiel 20:7
"Then I said to them, 'Each of you, throw away the abominations which are before his eyes, and do not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.'
Ezekiel 20:8
"But they rebelled against Me and would not obey Me. They did not all cast away the abominations which were before their eyes, nor did they forsake the idols of Egypt. Then I said, 'I will pour out My fury on them and fulfill My anger against them in the midst of the land of Egypt.'
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Ruth 1:15
And she said, "Look, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods; return after your sister-in-law.
1 Kings 18:21
And Elijah came to all the people, and said, "How long will you falter between two opinions? If the LORD is God, follow Him; but if Baal, follow him." But the people answered him not a word.
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Joshua 24:2
And Joshua said to all the people, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: 'Your fathers, including Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor, dwelt on the other side of the River in old times; and they served other gods.
Ezekiel 20:39
As for you, O house of Israel," thus says the Lord GOD: "Go, serve every one of you his idols - and hereafter - if you will not obey Me; but profane My holy name no more with your gifts and your idols.
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Exodus 23:24
You shall not bow down to their gods, nor serve them, nor do according to their works; but you shall utterly overthrow them and completely break down their sacred pillars.
Exodus 23:32
You shall make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.
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Genesis 18:19
"For I have known him, in order that he may command his children and his household after him, that they keep the way of the LORD, to do righteousness and justice, that the LORD may bring to Abraham what He has spoken to him."
Psalms 101:2
I will behave wisely in a perfect way. Oh, when will You come to me? I will walk within my house with a perfect heart.
1 Timothy 3:4
One who rules his own house well, having his children in submission with all reverence
1 Timothy 3:5
(for if a man does not know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the church of God?).
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Psalms 116:16
O LORD, truly I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have loosed my bonds.
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Matthew 6:24
No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
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Leviticus 11:44
For I am the LORD your God. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy. Neither shall you defile yourselves with any creeping thing that creeps on the earth.
Leviticus 11:45
For I am the LORD who brings you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God. You shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.
1 Samuel 6:20
And the men of Beth Shemesh said, "Who is able to stand before this holy LORD God? And to whom shall it go up from us?
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Exodus 20:5
You shall not bow down to them nor serve them. For I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me.
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Exodus 23:21
Beware of Him and obey His voice; do not provoke Him, for He will not pardon your transgressions; for My name is in Him.
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1 Chronicles 28:9
As for you, my son Solomon, know the God of you...
Ezra 8:22
For I was ashamed to request of the king an esc...
Isaiah 1:28
The destruction of transgressors and of sinners...
Isaiah 63:10
But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit; ...
Isaiah 65:11
But you are those who forsake the LORD, Who for...
Isaiah 65:12
Therefore I will number you for the sword, And ...
Jeremiah 17:13
O LORD, the hope of Israel, All who forsake You...
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Deuteronomy 4:24 - 26
For the LORD your God is a consuming fire, a jealous God.
Joshua 23:15
Therefore it shall come to pass, that as all the good things have come upon you which the LORD your God promised you, so the LORD will bring upon you all harmful things, until He has destroyed you from this good land which the LORD your God has given you.
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Psalms 119:173
Let Your hand become my help, For I have chosen Your precepts.
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Genesis 35:2
And Jacob said to his household and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, and change your garments.
Joshua 24:14
Now therefore, fear the LORD, serve Him in sincerity and in truth, and put away the gods which your fathers served on the other side of the River and in Egypt. Serve the LORD!
Judges 10:15
And the children of Israel said to the LORD, "We have sinned! Do to us whatever seems best to You; only deliver us this day, we pray.
Judges 10:16
So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD. And His soul could no longer endure the misery of Israel.
1 Samuel 7:3
Then Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, "If you return to the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtoreths from among you, and prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only; and He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.
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1 Kings 8:57
May the LORD our God be with us, as He was with our fathers. May He not leave us nor forsake us.
1 Kings 8:58
That He may incline our hearts to Himself, to walk in all His ways, and to keep His commandments and His statutes and His judgments, which He commanded our fathers.
Psalms 119:36
Incline my heart to Your testimonies, And not to covetousness.
Psalms 141:4
Do not incline my heart to any evil thing, To practice wicked works With men who work iniquity; And do not let me eat of their delicacies.
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Exodus 19:8
Then all the people answered together and said, "All that the LORD has spoken we will do." So Moses brought back the words of the people to the LORD.
Exodus 24:3
So Moses came and told the people all the words of the LORD and all the judgments. And all the people answered with one voice and said, "All the words which the LORD has said we will do.
Exodus 24:7
Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the hearing of the people. And they said, "All that the LORD has said we will do, and be obedient.
Deuteronomy 5:24 - 27
And you said: 'Surely the LORD our God has shown us His glory and His greatness, and we have heard His voice from the midst of the fire. We have seen this day that God speaks with man; yet he still lives.
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Exodus 15:25
So he cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a tree. When he cast it into the waters, the waters were made sweet. There He made a statute and an ordinance for them, and there He tested them.
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Joshua 24:1
Then Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem and called for the elders of Israel, for their heads, for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.
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Deuteronomy 31:24
So it was, when Moses had completed writing the words of this law in a book, when they were finished.
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Judges 9:6
And all the men of Shechem gathered together, all of Beth Millo, and they went and made Abimelech king beside the terebinth tree at the pillar that was in Shechem.
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Genesis 28:18
Then Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put at his head, set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on top of it.
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Genesis 35:4
So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their hands, and the earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the terebinth tree which was by Shechem.
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Genesis 31:48
And Laban said, "This heap is a witness between you and me this day." Therefore its name was called Galeed.
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Deuteronomy 32:1
Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; And hear, O earth, the words of my mouth.
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Judges 2:6
And when Joshua had dismissed the people, the children of Israel went each to his own inheritance to possess the land.
Judges 2:7
So the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD which He had done for Israel.
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Judges 2:8
Now Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of the LORD, died when he was one hundred and ten years old.
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Joshua 19:50
According to the word of the LORD they gave him the city which he asked for, Timnath Serah in the mountains of Ephraim; and he built the city and dwelt in it.
Judges 2:9
And they buried him within the border of his inheritance at Timnath Heres, in the mountains of Ephraim, on the north side of Mount Gaash.
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Judges 2:7
So the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders who outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD which He had done for Israel.
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Deuteronomy 11:2
Know today that I do not speak with your children, who have not known and who have not seen the chastening of the LORD your God, His greatness and His mighty hand and His outstretched arm -
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Genesis 50:25
Then Joseph took an oath from the children of Israel, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here.
Exodus 13:19
And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for he had placed the children of Israel under solemn oath, saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here with you.
Hebrews 11:22
By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave instructions concerning his bones.
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Genesis 33:19
And he bought the parcel of land, where he had pitched his tent, from the children of Hamor, Shechem's father, for one hundred pieces of money.
John 4:5
So He came to a city of Samaria which is called Sychar, near the plot of ground that Jacob gave to his son Joseph.
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Exodus 28:1
Now take Aaron your brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister to Me as priest, Aaron and Aaron's sons: Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.
Numbers 20:28
Moses stripped Aaron of his garments and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.
Joshua 14:1
These are the areas which the children of Israel inherited in the land of Canaan, which Eleazar the priest, Joshua the son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the children of Israel distributed as an inheritance to them.
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Exodus 6:25
Eleazar, Aaron's son, took for himself one of the daughters of Putiel as wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers' houses of the Levites according to their families.
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