Joshua Chapter 24 verse 25 Holy Bible
So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
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So Joshua made an agreement with the people that day, and gave them a rule and a law in Shechem.
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So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
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So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
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So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
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So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set them a statute and an ordinance in Shechem.
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And Joshua maketh a covenant with the people on that day, and layeth on it a statute and an ordinance, in Shechem.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 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).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(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).
