Joshua 24:2 - Modern English Version

² Joshua said to all the people, “Thus says the Lord God of Israel: Long ago your fathers—Terah father of Abraham and Nahor —lived beyond the Euphrates and served 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.

Joshua 24:2 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 11:22

Serug lived thirty years, and fathered Nahor.

Genesis 11:24

Nahor lived twenty-nine years, and fathered Terah.

Genesis 11:26

Now Terah lived seventy years, and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.

Genesis 11:27

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

Genesis 31:19

When Laban went to shear his sheep, Rachel stole the household idols that were her father’s.

Genesis 31:30

Now you surely have gone away because you longed desperately after your father’s house, yet why have you stolen my gods?”

Genesis 31:32

But anyone with whom you find your gods, let him not live. In the presence of our kinsmen, point out what I have that is yours and take it.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen them.

Genesis 31:53

The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, and the God of their father, judge between us.” Then Jacob vowed by the Fear of his father Isaac.

Genesis 35:4

So they gave Jacob all the foreign gods which were in their possession and all their earrings which were in their ears, and Jacob hid them under the oak which was near Shechem.

1 Chronicles 1:27

and Abram, who is Abraham.

Isaiah 51:2

Look to Abraham your father and to Sarah who bore you; for I called him alone, and blessed him, and multiplied him.

Ezekiel 16:3

and say, Thus says the Lord God to Jerusalem: Your birth and your native land are from the land of Canaan. Your father was an Amorite, and your mother a Hittite.

Luke 3:34

who was the son of Jacob, who was the son of Isaac, who was the son of Abraham, who was the son of Terah, who was the son of Nahor,

Deuteronomy 26:5

Then you must answer and say before the Lord your God, “A wandering Aramean was my father, and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there with only a few in number, but there he became a great, mighty, and populous nation.

Joshua 24:15

If it is displeasing to you to serve the Lord, then choose today whom you will serve, if it should be the gods your fathers served beyond the River or the gods of the Amorites’ land where you are now living. Yet as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.”