Joshua 24:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

And Joshua said to all the people, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: In the past your fathers, Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nahor, were living on the other side of the River: and they were worshipping other gods.

Cross References

Genesis 11:22

And Serug was thirty years old when he became the father of Nahor:

Genesis 11:24

And Nahor was twenty-nine years old when he became the father of Terah:

Genesis 11:26

And Terah was seventy years old when he became the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Genesis 11:27

These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.

Genesis 31:19

Now Laban had gone to see to the cutting of the wool of his sheep; so Rachel secretly took the images of the gods of her father's house.

Genesis 31:30

And now, it seems, you are going because your heart's desire is for your father's house; but why have you taken my gods?

Genesis 31:32

As for your gods, if anyone of us has them, let him be put to death: make search before us all for what is yours, and take it. For Jacob had no knowledge that Rachel had taken them.

Genesis 31:53

May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, be our judge. Then Jacob took an oath by the Fear of his father Isaac.

Genesis 35:4

Then they gave to Jacob all the strange gods which they had, and the rings which were in their ears; and Jacob put them away under the holy tree at Shechem.

1 Chronicles 1:27

Abram that is Abraham.

Isaiah 51:2

Let your thoughts be turned to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth: for when he was but one, my voice came to him, and I gave him my blessing, and made him a great people.

Ezekiel 16:3

And say, This is what the Lord has said to Jerusalem: Your start and your birth was from the land of the Canaanite; an Amorite was your father and your mother was a Hittite.

Luke 3:34

The son of Jacob, the son of Isaac, the son of Abraham, the son of Terah, the son of Nahor,

Deuteronomy 26:5

And these are the words which you will say before the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramaean, and he went down with a small number of people into Egypt; there he became a great and strong nation:

Joshua 24:15

And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.