Joshua 24:2

The Passion Translation

Then Joshua said to them all: “This is what Yahweh the God of Israel has to say to you: ‘Long ago, your forefathers—Terah, father of Abraham and father of Nahor—lived beyond the Euphrates and worshiped other gods.

Cross References

Genesis 11:22

When Serug was thirty, he had a son named Nahor.

Genesis 11:24

When Nahor was twenty-nine, he had a son named Terah.

Genesis 11:26

When Terah was seventy, he had sons named Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Genesis 11:27

Here are the descendants of Terah. Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran, and Haran was the father of Lot.

Genesis 31:19

One day, when Laban had gone to his fields to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.

Genesis 31:30

Now I realize you ran away because you desperately long to return to your father’s house, but why did you steal my gods?”

Genesis 31:32

Whoever has taken your gods will be put to death! So here, in the presence of our relatives, if you can find among our possessions anything that is yours, take it.” Now Jacob had no clue that Rachel had stolen the gods.

Genesis 31:53

Now may the God of Abraham and the god of Nahor judge between us!” Jacob made his vow by the Awesome One of his father Isaac.

Genesis 35:4

Then they surrendered all the foreign gods they had as well as their earrings. Jacob buried them under the oak tree near Shechem.

Isaiah 51:2

Yes, look to Abraham your father and to Sarah, who bore you. For when I called Abraham, he was but one person, but I blessed him greatly so that one became many.”

Ezekiel 16:3

Tell them, ‘Lord Yahweh says to you: Your ancestral origins were in the land where the Canaanites lived. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.

Joshua 24:15

If it seems wrong in your eyes to serve Yahweh, then make your decision today which gods you will worship—the gods which your ancestors worshiped in Mesopotamia or the gods which the Amorites worship in the land where you are now living—but I and my family, we will give our lives to worship and serve Yahweh!”