Gen 35:2, Deu 27:15, Jos 24:14, Judg 10:16, 1Sa 7:3, 2Ki 23:13, 24 | TSK | STEP

Amen.To each of the curses the people were to say Amen, as well as to the blessings; to denote a profession of their faith in the truth of them, that they were the real declarations of the wrath of God; and an acknowledgement of the equity of these curses. It was such an imprecation upon themselves, as strongly obliged them to have nothing to do with those evil practices on which the curse is entailed. We read of those who entered a curse to walk in God's law. Ne 10:29. All the people, by saying this Amen, became bound one for another, that they would observe God's laws, by which every man was obliged, as far as he could, to prevent his neighbour from breaking these laws, and to reprove those that had offended, lest they should bear sin and the curse for them.

‏ Joshua 24:14

fear.

De 10:12; 1Sa 12:24; Job 1:1; 28:28; Ps 111:10; 130:4; Ho 3:5

Ac 9:31

serve.

23; Ge 17:1; 20:5,6; De 18:13; 2Ki 20:3; Ps 119:1,80; Lu 8:15

Joh 4:23,24; 2Co 1:12; Eph 6:24; Php 1:10

put.From this exhortation of Joshua, we not only learn that the Israelites still retained some relics of idolatry, but to what gods they were attached. 1. Those whom their fathers worshipped on the other side of the food, or the river Euphrates, i.e., the gods of the Chaldeans, fire, light, the sun, etc. 2. Those of the Egyptians, Apis, Anubis, serpents, vegetables, etc. 3. Those of the Amorites, Moabites, Canaanites, etc., Baal-peor, Astarte, etc. How astonishing is it, that after all that God had done for them, and all the miracles they had seen, there should still be found among them both idols and idolaters!

2,23; Ge 35:2; Ex 20:3,4; Le 17:7; Ezr 9:11; Eze 20:18; Am 5:25,26

in Egypt.

Eze 20:7,8; 23:3

‏ Judges 10:16

they put.

2Ch 7:14; 15:8; 33:15; Jer 18:7,8; Eze 18:30-32; Ho 14:1-3,8

strange gods. Heb. gods of strangers. his soul.

Ge 6:6; Ps 106:44,45; Isa 63:9; Jer 31:20; Ho 11:8; Lu 15:20; 19:41

Joh 11:34; Eph 4:32; Heb 3:10; 4:15

grieved. Heb. shortened.Not that there is any grief in God; he has infinite joy and happiness in himself, which cannot be broken in upon by either the sins or the miseries of his creatures. Not that there is any change in God; for he is of one mind, and who can turn him? But his goodness is his glory; by it he proclaims his name, and magnifies it; and as he is pleased to put himself into the relation of a father to his people, so he is pleased to represent his goodness to them by the compassion of a father to his children; for as he is the Father of lights, so is he the Father of mercies.

‏ 1 Samuel 7:3

A.M. 2884. B.C. 1120. An. Ex. Is. 371. return.

De 30:2-10; 1Ki 8:48; Isa 55:7; Ho 6:1,2; 14:1; Joe 2:12,13

put away.

Ge 35:2; Jos 24:14,23; Jud 2:13; 10:6

prepare.

De 30:6; 1Ch 22:19; 28:9; 2Ch 30:19; Job 11:13,14; Pr 16:1

Jer 4:3,4; Eze 18:31; Mt 15:8; Joh 4:24

serve him.

De 6:13; 10:20; 13:4; Mt 4:10; 6:24; Lu 4:8

‏ 2 Kings 23:13

the mount of corruption. that is, the mount of Olives.Houbigant, deriving the Hebrew {mashchith} from {mashach,} "to anoint," reads "the Mount of Olives." Jarchi, following the Chaldee, also says this was the Mount of Olives; for this is the mount {hammishchah,} of unction: but because of the idolatrous purposes for which it was used, the Scripture changed the appellation to the mount of {hammashchith,} corruption.

Solomon.

1Ki 11:7; Ne 13:26

Ashtoreth.

Jud 2:13; 10:6; 1Sa 7:4; 12:10; 1Ki 11:5,33

Chemosh.

Nu 21:29; Jud 11:24; Jer 48:7,13,16

Milcom.

Zep 1:5

Malcham.