Jos 24:14-15, 1Sa 7:3, 12:20, 24, Mat 4:10, 6:24, Luk 1:74, Joh 12:26 | TSK | STEP | fear. serve. 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! in Egypt.

Joshua 24:14-15

fear.

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

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

choose.

Ru 1:15,16; 1Ki 18:21; Eze 20:39; Joh 6:67

whether the gods.

or the gods.

Ex 23:24,32,33; 34:15; De 13:7; 29:18; Jud 6:10

as for me.

Ge 18:19; Ps 101:2; 119:106,111,112; Joh 6:68; Ac 11:23