King James Version
Joshua 24:25 in the King James Version says “So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.” — study this verse from Joshua chapter 24 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.”
Joshua 24:25 · KJV
Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you, and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel.
And the people said unto Joshua, The LORD our God will we serve, and his voice will we obey.
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God, and took a great stone, and set it up there under an oak, that was by the sanctuary of the LORD.
And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us; for it hath heard all the words of the LORD which he spake unto us: it shall be therefore a witness unto you, lest ye deny your God.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“made”
H3772to cut (off, down or asunder); by implication, to destroy or consume; specifically, to covenant (i.e., make an alliance or bargain, originally by cutt
“with the people”
H5971a people (as a congregated unit); specifically, a tribe (as those of israel); hence (collectively) troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock
“that day”
H3117a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of time defined by an asso
he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo
“and set”
H7760to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
“them a statute”
H2706an enactment; hence, an appointment (of time, space, quantity, labor or usage)
“and an ordinance”
H4941properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, ind
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