Joshua 24:2

Holman Christian Standard Bible

Joshua said to all the people, “This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: ‘Long ago your ancestors, including Terah, the father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the Euphrates River and worshiped other gods.

Cross References

Genesis 11:22

Serug lived 30 years and fathered Nahor.

Genesis 11:24

Nahor lived 29 years and fathered Terah.

Genesis 11:26

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

Genesis 11:27

These are the family records of Terah. Terah fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran fathered Lot.

Genesis 31:19

When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

Genesis 31:30

Now you have gone off because you long for your father — but why have you stolen my gods? ”

Genesis 31:32

If you find your gods with anyone here, he will not live! Before our relatives, point out anything that is yours and take it.” Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.

Genesis 31:53

The God of Abraham, and the gods of Nahor — the gods of their father — will judge between us.” And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

Genesis 35:4

Then they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and their earrings, and Jacob hid them under the oak near Shechem.

1 Chronicles 1:27

and Abram (that is, Abraham).

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave birth to you in pain. When I called him, he was only one; I blessed him and made him many.

Ezekiel 16:3

You are to say: This is what the Lord God says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

Luke 3:34

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

Deuteronomy 26:5

You are to respond by saying in the presence of the Lord your God: My father was a wandering Aramean. He went down to Egypt with a few people and lived there. There he became a great, powerful, and populous nation.

Joshua 24:15

But if it doesn’t please you to worship Yahweh, choose for yourselves today the one you will worship: the gods your fathers worshiped beyond the Euphrates River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my family, we will worship Yahweh.”