Joshua 23:11
New International Version
So be very careful to love the LORD your God.

New Living Translation
So be very careful to love the LORD your God.

English Standard Version
Be very careful, therefore, to love the LORD your God.

Berean Standard Bible
Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.

King James Bible
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.

New King James Version
Therefore take careful heed to yourselves, that you love the LORD your God.

New American Standard Bible
So take great care for yourselves that you love the LORD your God.

NASB 1995
“So take diligent heed to yourselves to love the LORD your God.

NASB 1977
“So take diligent heed to yourselves to love the LORD your God.

Legacy Standard Bible
So keep your souls very carefully to love Yahweh your God.

Amplified Bible
So be very careful and watchful of yourselves to love the LORD your God.

Christian Standard Bible
So diligently watch yourselves! Love the LORD your God!

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So be very diligent to love the LORD your God for your own well-being.

American Standard Version
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love Jehovah your God.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Take good care in your souls to be in awe of LORD JEHOVAH your God!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And take ye great heed to love the Lord our God.

Contemporary English Version
Be sure to always love the LORD your God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
11This only take care of with all diligence, that you love the Lord your God.

English Revised Version
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Be very careful to love the LORD your God.

Good News Translation
Be careful, then, to love the LORD your God.

International Standard Version
"So be very diligent to love the LORD your God,

JPS Tanakh 1917
Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.

Literal Standard Version
and you have been very watchful for yourselves to love your God YHWH.

Majority Standard Bible
Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God.

New American Bible
As for you, take great care to love the LORD, your God.

NET Bible
Watch yourselves carefully! Love the LORD your God!

New Revised Standard Version
Be very careful, therefore, to love the LORD your God.

New Heart English Bible
And be very watchful of yourselves to love the LORD your God.

Webster's Bible Translation
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that ye love the LORD your God.

World English Bible
Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love Yahweh your God.

Young's Literal Translation
and ye have been very watchful for yourselves to love Jehovah your God.

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Context
Joshua's Charge to Leaders
10One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised. 11Therefore watch yourselves carefully, that you love the LORD your God. 12For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:15
So since you saw no form of any kind on the day the LORD spoke to you out of the fire at Horeb, be careful

Joshua 23:10
One of you can put a thousand to flight, because the LORD your God fights for you, just as He promised.

Joshua 23:12
For if you turn away and cling to the rest of these nations that remain among you, and if you intermarry and associate with them,


Treasury of Scripture

Take good heed therefore to yourselves, that you love the LORD your God.

Take good

Joshua 22:5
But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses the servant of the LORD charged you, to love the LORD your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

Deuteronomy 4:9
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;

Deuteronomy 6:5-12
And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might…

yourselves [heb] your souls

Exodus 20:6
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments.

Romans 8:28
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

1 Corinthians 8:3
But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

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Joshua 23
1. Joshua's exhortation before his death
3. by former benefits
5. by promises
11. and by threatenings














Verse 11. - Take good heed to yourselves. This is quoted from Deuteronomy 4:15, word for word. The Hebrew is, take heed exceedingly to your souls; but the meaning is either "as you value your lives" (Gesenius), or "with all your soul" (Keil). The former appears preferable. A third interpretation, however, "guard your souls diligently," is suggested by a comparison of Deuteronomy 4:9, 15.

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Hebrew
Therefore watch
וְנִשְׁמַרְתֶּ֥ם (wə·niš·mar·tem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Nifal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to

yourselves
לְנַפְשֹֽׁתֵיכֶ֑ם (lə·nap̄·šō·ṯê·ḵem)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

carefully,
מְאֹ֖ד (mə·’ōḏ)
Adverb
Strong's 3966: Vehemence, vehemently, wholly, speedily

that you love
לְאַהֲבָ֖ה (lə·’a·hă·ḇāh)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct | third person feminine singular
Strong's 157: To have affection f

the LORD
יְהוָ֥ה (Yah·weh)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel

your God.
אֱלֹהֵיכֶֽם׃ (’ĕ·lō·hê·ḵem)
Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative


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