Joshua 24:20 - The Scriptures 2009

²⁰ if you forsake יהוה and shall serve mighty ones of a stranger. Then He shall turn back and do you evil and consume you, after He has been good to you.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁰ If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁰ If you forsake the Lord and serve strange gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume you, after having done you good.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁰ If ye forsake Jehovah, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.

Common English Bible

²⁰ If you leave the LORD and serve foreign gods, then he will turn around and do you harm and finish you off, in spite of having done you good in the past.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁰ If you leave behind the Lord, and you serve foreign gods, he will turn himself, and he will afflict you, and he will overthrow you, after all the good that he has offered to you."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁰ If you leave the Lord, and serve strange gods, he will turn, and will afflict you, and will destroy you after all the good he hath done you.

Joshua 24:20 Cross References

1 Chronicles 28:8

“And now, before the eyes of all Yisra’ĕl, the assembly of יהוה, and in the hearing of our Elohim, guard and seek all the commands of יהוה your Elohim, so that you possess this good land, and leave it as an inheritance for your children after you forever.

1 Chronicles 28:9

“As for you, my son Shelomoh, know the Elohim of your father, and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a pleasing life, for יהוה searches all hearts and understands all the intent of the thoughts. If you do seek Him, He is found by you; but if you forsake Him, He rejects you forever.

2 Chronicles 15:2

And he went out to face Asa, and said to him, “Hear me, Asa, and all Yehuḏah and Binyamin. יהוה is with you while you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He is found by you, but if you forsake Him, He forsakes you.

Ezra 8:22

for I was ashamed to ask of the sovereign a group of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy on the way, because we had spoken to the sovereign, saying, “The hand of our Elohim is upon all those for good who seek Him, but His power and His wrath are against all those who forsake Him.”

Psalm 89:31

If they profane My laws And do not guard My commands,”

Isaiah 1:28

And the destruction of transgressors and of sinners is together, and those who forsake יהוה shall be consumed.

Isaiah 63:10

But they rebelled and grieved His Set-apart Spirit, so He turned against them as an enemy, and He fought against them.

Jeremiah 17:13

O יהוה, the expectation of Yisra’ĕl, all who forsake You are put to shame. “Those who depart from Me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken יהוה, the fountain of living waters.”

Ezekiel 18:24

“But when a righteous one turns away from his righteousness and does unrighteousness, according to all the abominations that the wrong one has done, shall he live? All his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered. For his trespass which he has committed, and for his sin which he has committed, for them he shall die.

Acts 7:42

“So Elohim turned and gave them up to worship the host of the heaven, as it has been written in the book of the Prophets, ‘Did you bring slaughtered beasts and offerings unto Me during forty years in the wilderness, O house of Yisra’ĕl?

Deuteronomy 4:25

When you bring forth children and grandchildren, and shall grow old in the land, and shall do corruptly and make a carved image in the form of whatever, and shall do what is evil in the eyes of יהוה your Elohim to provoke Him,”

Deuteronomy 4:26

“I shall call the heavens and earth to witness against you on that day, that you soon completely perish from the land which you pass over the Yardĕn to possess – you do not prolong your days in it but are completely destroyed.

Hebrews 10:38

“But the righteous shall live by belief, but if anyone draws back, my being has no pleasure in him.”

Joshua 24:21

And the people said to Yehoshua, “No, but we do serve יהוה!”

1 Samuel 12:15

“But if you do not obey the voice of יהוה, and shall rebel against the mouth of יהוה, then the hand of יהוה shall be against you, as it was against your fathers.

1 Samuel 12:25

“But if you persist in doing evil, both you and your sovereign are consumed.”