22And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.
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Let thine hand help me; for I have chosen thy precepts.
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.
Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.
Thou hast avouched the LORD this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
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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