Joshua 24:2

New American Bible - revised edition

Joshua addressed all the people: “Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: In times past your ancestors, down to Terah, father of Abraham and Nahor, lived beyond the River and served other gods.

Cross References

Genesis 11:22

When Serug was thirty years old, he begot Nahor.

Genesis 11:24

When Nahor was twenty-nine years old, he begot Terah.

Genesis 11:26

When Terah was seventy years old, he begot Abram, Nahor and Haran. Terah.

Genesis 11:27

These are the descendants of Terah. Terah begot Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran begot Lot.

Genesis 31:19

Now Laban was away shearing his sheep, and Rachel had stolen her father’s household images.

Genesis 31:30

Granted that you had to leave because you were longing for your father’s house, why did you steal my gods?”

Genesis 31:32

As for your gods, the one you find them with shall not remain alive! If, with our kinsmen looking on, you identify anything here as belonging to you, take it.” Jacob had no idea that Rachel had stolen the household images.

Genesis 31:53

May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us!” Jacob took the oath by the Fear of his father Isaac.

Genesis 35:4

They gave Jacob all the foreign gods in their possession and also the rings they had in their ears and Jacob buried them under the oak that is near Shechem.

1 Chronicles 1:27

Abram, that is, Abraham. From Abraham to Jacob.

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham, your father, and to Sarah, who gave you birth; Though he was but one when I called him, I blessed him and made him many.

Ezekiel 16:3

You shall say, Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: By origin and birth you belong to the land of the Canaanites; your father was an Amorite, your mother 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

Then you shall declare in the presence of the Lord, your God, “My father was a refugee Aramean who went down to Egypt with a small household and lived there as a resident alien. But there he became a nation great, strong and numerous.

Joshua 24:15

If it is displeasing to you to serve the Lord, choose today whom you will serve, the gods your ancestors served beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites in whose country you are dwelling. As for me and my household, we will serve the Lord.”