Joshua 24:25
New International Version
On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he reaffirmed for them decrees and laws.

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.

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

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

NASB 1995
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.

NASB 1977
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and made for them a statute and an ordinance 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.

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

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

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

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And Yeshua covenanted a covenant with the people in that day, and he taught them the commandments and the judgments in Shekim

Brenton Septuagint Translation
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.

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

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
That day Joshua made an agreement for the people and set up laws and rules for them at 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.

International Standard Version
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, making statutes and ordinances in Shechem.

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

Literal Standard Version
And Joshua makes a covenant with the people on that day, and lays a statute and an ordinance on it, in Shechem.

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

New American Bible
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day and made statutes and ordinances for them at Shechem.

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

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

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

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.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Choose Whom You will Serve
24So the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God and obey His voice.” 25On that day Joshua made a covenant for the people, and there at Shechem he established for them a statute and ordinance. 26Joshua recorded these things in the Book of the Law of God. Then he took a large stone and set it up there under the oak that was near the sanctuary of the LORD.…

Cross References
Exodus 15:25
And Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them,

Exodus 24:8
So Moses took the blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, "This is the blood of the covenant that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words."

2 Kings 11:17
Then Jehoiada made a covenant between the LORD and the king and the people that they would be the LORD's people. He also made a covenant between the king and the people.


Treasury of Scripture

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

made

Exodus 15:25
And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,

Exodus 24:3,7,8
And 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 hath said will we do…

Deuteronomy 5:2,3
The LORD our God made a covenant with us in Horeb…

in Shechem

Joshua 24:1,26
And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God…

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Joshua 24
1. Joshua assembles the tribes at Shechem
2. A brief history of God's benefits from Terah
14. He renews the covenant between them and God
26. A stone the witness of the covenant
29. Joshua's age, death, and burial
32. Joseph's bones are buried
33. Eleazar dies














(25) So Joshua made a covenant--i.e., a covenant that idolatry should not be tolerated in Israel, or suffered to exist. We read of similar covenants in the reign of Asa (2Chronicles 15:12-13), in the reign of Joash, by Jehoiada (2Chronicles 23:16), and of Josiah (2Chronicles 34:31-32).

Verse 25. - So Joshua made a covenant. Literally, cut a covenant, a phrase common to the Hebrew, Greek, and Latin tongues, and derived from the custom of sacrifice, in which the victims were cut in pieces and offered to the deity invoked in ratification of the engagement. The word used for covenant, berith, is derived from another word having the same meaning. This appears more probable than the suggestion of some, that the berith is derived from the practice of ratifying an agreement by a social meal. And set them a statute and ordinance. Or, appointed them a statute and a judgment. The word translated "statute" is derived from the same root as our word hack, signifying to cut, and hence to engrave in indelible characters. The practice of engraving inscriptions, proclamations, and the like, on tablets was extremely common in the East. We have instances of it in the two tables of the law, and in the copy of the law engraven in stones on Mount Ebal. The Moabite stone is another instance. And the Egyptian, Assyrian, and Babylonian monarchs seem to have written much of their history in this way (see note on Joshua 8:32). The word rendered "ordinance" is far more frequently rendered "judgment" in our version, and seems to have the original signification of a thing set upright, as a pillar on a secure foundation. In Shechem (see note on ver. 1).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
On that
הַה֑וּא (ha·hū)
Article | Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

day
בַּיּ֣וֹם (bay·yō·wm)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3117: A day

Joshua
יְהוֹשֻׁ֧עַ (yə·hō·wō·šu·a‘)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3091: Joshua -- 'the LORD is salvation', Moses' successor, also the name of a number of Israelites

made
וַיִּכְרֹ֨ת (way·yiḵ·rōṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3772: To cut, to destroy, consume, to covenant

a covenant
בְּרִ֛ית (bə·rîṯ)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 1285: A covenant

for the people,
לָעָ֖ם (lā·‘ām)
Preposition-l, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5971: A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock

and there at Shechem
בִּשְׁכֶֽם׃ (biš·ḵem)
Preposition-b | Noun - proper - feminine singular
Strong's 7927: Shechem -- 'ridge', a district in Northern Palestine, also a son of Hamor

he established
וַיָּ֥שֶׂם (way·yā·śem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7760: Put -- to put, place, set

for them
ל֛וֹ (lōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

a statute
חֹ֥ק (ḥōq)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2706: Something prescribed or owed, a statute

and ordinance.
וּמִשְׁפָּ֖ט (ū·miš·pāṭ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style


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