Chapter summary

Joshua 24 Summary

Joshua 24 ends the conquest with a covenant renewal at Shechem: 'Choose this day whom you will serve… but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.'

Joshua gathers all Israel and walks them through their history — Abraham's call, the exodus, the conquest. He shows that everything good they have received is from the LORD's faithful hand, and presses them to decide whom they will follow.

His own famous resolve becomes the people's commitment: 'we will serve the LORD.' Joshua erects a great stone as witness to the covenant, and the chapter ends with the burials of Joshua, Eleazar, and the bones of Joseph in the promised land.

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Joshua 24:15 “But if it is unpleasing in your sight to serve the LORD, then choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my house, we will serve the LORD!””

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