Joshua 24:2 - The Scriptures 1998

² And Yehoshua said to all the people, “Thus said יהוה  Elohim of Yisra’ĕ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Joshua said to all the people, Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt in olden times beyond the Euphrates River, including Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor, and they served other gods.

American Standard Version (1901)

² And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt of old time beyond the River, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor: and they served other gods.

Common English Bible

² Then Joshua said to the entire people, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Long ago your ancestors lived on the other side of the Euphrates. They served other gods. Among them was Terah the father of Abraham and Nahor.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And he spoke to the people in this way: "Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: 'Your fathers lived, in the beginning, across the river: Terah, the father of Abraham, and Nahor. And they served strange gods.

Joshua 24:2 Cross References

Genesis 11:22

And Serug lived thirty years, and brought forth Naḥ

Genesis 11:24

And Naḥ

Genesis 11:26

And Teraḥ

Genesis 11:27

And this is the genealogy of Teraḥ

Genesis 31:19

And when Laḇ

Genesis 31:30

“And now you have gone because you greatly long for your father’s house, but why did you steal my mighty ones?”

Genesis 31:32

“With whomever you find your mighty ones, do not let him live. In the presence of our brothers, see for yourself what is with me and take it with you.” For Yaʽ

Genesis 31:53

“The Elohim of Aḇ

Genesis 35:4

So they gave Yaʽ

1 Chronicles 1:27

and Aḇ

Isaiah 51:2

“Look to Aḇ

Ezekiel 16:3

and say, ‘Thus said the Master יהוה  to Yerushalayim, “Your origin and your birth are from the land of Kenaʽ

Luke 3:34

of Yaʽ

Deuteronomy 26:5

“And you shall answer and say before יהוה  your Elohim, ‘My father was a perishing Aramean, and he went down to Mitsrayim and sojourned there with few men. And there he became a nation, great, mighty, and numerous.

Joshua 24:15

“And if it seems evil in your eyes to serve יהוה, choose for yourselves this day whom you are going to serve, whether the mighty ones which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the mighty ones of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell. But I and my house, we serve יהוה.”