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So Joshuaוַ יְהוֹשֻׁעַmadeיִּכְרֹתa covenantבְּרִיתwith the peopleלָעָםthatבַּ הַהוּאday,יּוֹםand setוַיָּשֶׂםfor themלוֹa statuteחֹקand an ordinanceוּמִשְׁפָּטat Shechem.בִּשְׁכֶם
Joshua 24:25
Study it in the app“So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day, and set for them a statute and an ordinance at Shechem.”
With the Hebrew beneath
Joshua 24:25, word by word
- So Joshuaיְהוֹשֻׁעַyehoshua
Joshua
Joshua, the helper and successor of Moses. The name means "YHWH saves"; in Greek it is the same name as "Jesus". Other men bore it, among them the high priest after the exile (Haggai 1:1).
Where else “yehoshua” appears- madeיִּכְרֹתyichrot
make a covenant
Literally "cut": to seal a solemn agreement, splitting animals.
Where else “yichrot” appears- a covenantבְּרִיתberit
covenant
The commitment God makes with his people, with promises and commands.
Where else “berit” appears- with the peopleעָםam
crowd
The people gathered in a place: the crowd, or the troops that go out to war.
Where else “am” appears- dayיּוֹםyom
day
The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.
Where else “yom” appears- and setיָּשֶׂםyasem
put
To put something somewhere.
Where else “yasem” appears- a statuteחֹקchok
statute
A rule that God or a king sets and that must be kept.
Where else “chok” appears- and an ordinanceמִשְׁפָּטmishpat
rule
Each of the rules the law gives for concrete cases of life.
Where else “mishpat” appears- at Shechemשְׁכֶםshechem
Shechem
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Places in this verse
Shechem
Today: Tell Balata ruins, near Nablus, West Bank
A city in the hills of central Israel, between Mount Ebal and Mount Gerizim, about 30 miles (50 km) north of Jerusalem.
Abram came there when he entered Canaan, and God promised him the land (Gen 12:6-7). Joshua gathered all Israel there to renew the covenant (Josh 24:1).
The context
24And the people said to Joshua, “YHWH our Elohim we will serve, and to his voice we will listen.”
25 · This verse (above)
26And Joshua wrote these words in the book of the instruction of Elohim; and he took a great stone and set it up there under the oak that was in the sanctuary of YHWH.