Joshua 24:21 - Revised Standard Version CI

²¹ And the people said to Joshua, “Nay; but we will serve the Lord.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²¹ And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve the LORD.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²¹ And the people said to Joshua, No; but we will serve the Lord.

American Standard Version (1901)

²¹ And the people said unto Joshua, Nay; but we will serve Jehovah.

Common English Bible

²¹ Then the people said to Joshua, “No! The LORD is the one we will serve.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²¹ And the people said to Joshua, "By no means will it be as you are saying, but we will serve the Lord."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²¹ And the people said to Josue: No. It shall not be so as thou sayest, but we will serve the Lord.

Joshua 24:21 Cross References

Exodus 19:8

And all the people answered together and said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do.” And Moses reported the words of the people to the Lord.

Exodus 20:19

and said to Moses, “You speak to us, and we will hear; but let not God speak to us, lest we die.”

Exodus 24:3

Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the words which the Lord has spoken we will do.”

Exodus 24:7

Then he took the book of the covenant, and read it in the hearing of the people; and they said, “All that the Lord has spoken we will do, and we will be obedient.”

Isaiah 44:5

This one will say, ‘I am the Lord's,’ another will call himself by the name of Jacob, and another will write on his hand, ‘The Lord's,’ and surname himself by the name of Israel.”

Deuteronomy 26:17

You have declared this day concerning the Lord that he is your God, and that you will walk in his ways, and keep his statutes and his commandments and his ordinances, and will obey his voice;

Joshua 24:20

If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm, and consume you, after having done you good.”

Joshua 24:22

Then Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the Lord, to serve him.” And they said, “We are witnesses.”