Joshua 24:2 - Tree of Life Version

² Then Joshua said to all the people: “Thus says Adonai, God of Israel: ‘From ancient times your fathers—Terah, the father of Abraham and the father of Nahor—lived beyond the River and worshipped other gods.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And he spoke thus to the people: Thus saith the Lord the God of Israel: Your fathers dwelt of old on the other side of the river: Thare the father of Abraham, and Nachor. And they served strange gods.

Joshua 24:2 Cross References

Genesis 11:22

Serug lived 30 years and fathered Nahor.

Genesis 11:24

Nahor lived 27 years and he fathered Terah.

Genesis 11:26

Terah lived 70 years when he fathered Abram, Nahor and Haran.

Genesis 11:27

These are Terah’s genealogies: Terah fathered Abram, Nahor and Haran. Haran fathered Lot.

Genesis 31:19

But while Laban went to shear his flocks, Rachel stole the idols that belonged to her father,

Genesis 31:30

So now, when you up and left because you really missed your father’s house, why did you steal my gods?”

Genesis 31:32

Anyone with whom you find your gods shall not live. In front of our relatives, identify whatever is yours that is with me, and take it back.” (But Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.)

Genesis 31:53

May the God of Abraham and the gods of Nahor, the gods of their father, judge between us.” Jacob also made an oath by the fear of his father Isaac.

Genesis 35:4

So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods in their hand and the rings in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak tree near Shechem.

1 Chronicles 1:27

Abram—that is Abraham.

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you. For when I called him, he was but one, then I blessed him and multiplied him.”

Ezekiel 16:3

and say, thus says Adonai to Jerusalem: ‘Your origin and your birth are from the land of the Canaanite; your father was an Amorite, your mother was a Hittite.

Luke 3:34

the son of Jacob, the son of Yitzhak, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

Deuteronomy 26:5

“Then you are to respond before Adonai your God, ‘My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and lived there as an outsider, few in number. But there he became a great nation—mighty and numerous.

Joshua 24:15

If it seems bad to you to worship Adonai, then choose for yourselves today whom you will serve—whether the gods that your fathers worshipped that were beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. But as for me and my household, we will worship Adonai!”