19And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is an holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.
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Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
Exalt ye the LORD our God, and worship at his footstool; for he is holy.
Exalt the LORD our God, and worship at his holy hill; for the LORD our God is holy.
Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-28)Never was any treaty carried on with better management, nor brought to a better issue, than this of Joshua with the people, to engage them to serve God. The manner of his dealing with them shows him to have been in earnest, and that his heart was much upon it, to leave them under all possible obligations to cleave to him, particularly the obligation of a choice and of a covenant. I. Would it be an…
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