Parallel Verses

Julia Smith Translation

And Joshua will say to the people, Ye will not be able to serve Jehovah, for a holy God is he: a jealous God is he; he will not take away your transgressions and your sins.

New American Standard Bible

Then Joshua said to the people, “You will not be able to serve the Lord, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not forgive your transgression or your sins.

King James Version

And 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.

Holman Bible

But Joshua told the people, “You will not be able to worship Yahweh, because He is a holy God. He is a jealous God; He will not remove your transgressions and sins.

International Standard Version

So Joshua told the people, "You will not be able to serve the LORD, because he is a God of Holiness. He is a jealous God, and he will forgive neither your transgressions nor your sins.

A Conservative Version

And Joshua said to the people, Ye cannot serve LORD, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your transgression nor your sins.

American Standard Version

And Joshua said unto the people, Ye cannot serve Jehovah; for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgression nor your sins.

Amplified

Then Joshua said to the people, “You will not be able to serve the Lord [if you serve any other gods], for He is a holy God; He is a jealous God [demanding what is rightfully and uniquely His]. He will not forgive your transgression [of His law] or your sins.

Bible in Basic English

And Joshua said to the people, You are not able to be the servants of the Lord, for he is a holy God, a God who will not let his honour be given to another: he will have no mercy on your wrongdoing or your sins.

Darby Translation

And Joshua said to the people, Ye cannot serve Jehovah, for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.

King James 2000

And Joshua said unto the people, You cannot serve the LORD: for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.

Lexham Expanded Bible

But Joshua said to the people, "You cannot serve Yahweh, for he [is] a holy and jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions or your sins.

Modern King James verseion

And Joshua said to the people, You cannot serve Jehovah, for He is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your transgressions nor your sins.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

But Joshua said unto the people, "Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is a holy God and cannot bear your transgression and sin.

NET Bible

Joshua warned the people, "You will not keep worshiping the Lord, for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God who will not forgive your rebellion or your sins.

New Heart English Bible

Joshua said to the people, "You can't serve the LORD; for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.

The Emphasized Bible

Then said Joshua unto the people - Ye cannot serve Yahweh, for, a holy God, he is, a jealous GOD, he is, he will not forgive your transgression, nor your sins.

Webster

And Joshua said to the people, Ye cannot serve the LORD: for he is a holy God; he is a jealous God; he will not forgive your transgressions, nor your sins.

World English Bible

Joshua said to the people, "You can't serve Yahweh; for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.

Youngs Literal Translation

And Joshua saith unto the people, 'Ye are not able to serve Jehovah, for a God most holy He is; a zealous God He is; He doth not bear with your transgression and with your sins.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And Joshua
יהושׁע יהושׁוּע 
Y@howshuwa` 
Usage: 218

unto the people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

Ye cannot
יכול יכל 
Yakol 
Usage: 194

עבד 
`abad 
Usage: 288

the Lord

Usage: 0

for he is an holy
קדשׁ קדושׁ 
Qadowsh 
Usage: 116

God
אלהים 
'elohiym 
אל 
'el 
Usage: 2600
Usage: 114

he is a jealous
קנּוא 
Qannow' 
Usage: 2

he will not forgive
נסה נשׂא 
Nasa' 
Usage: 653

פּשׁע 
Pesha` 
Usage: 93

Devotionals

Devotionals about Joshua 24:19

References

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Images Joshua 24:19

Context Readings

The Israelites Promise To Serve Yahweh

18 And Jehovah will drive out all the peoples, and the Amorite dwelling in the land, from our face: also we will serve Jehovah, for he is our God. 19 And Joshua will say to the people, Ye will not be able to serve Jehovah, for a holy God is he: a jealous God is he; he will not take away your transgressions and your sins. 20 If ye shall forsake Jehovah and serve strange gods, and he turned back and did evil to you, and finished you after that he did good to you.


Cross References

Exodus 20:5

Thou shalt not worship to them, and thou shalt not serve them: for I am Jehovah thy God, a jealous God, striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and to the fourth, to them hating me;

Exodus 23:21

Watch from his face, and hear to his voice; thou shalt not rebel against him: he will not lift up your transgression; for my name is in the midst of him.

Leviticus 19:2

Speak to the assembly of the sons of Israel, and say to them, Ye shall be holy, for I Jehovah your God am holy.

Exodus 34:14

For thou shalt not worship another God: for Jehovah, his name is Jealous; he is a jealous God.

1 Samuel 6:20

And the men of the House of the Sun will say, Who shall be able to stand before Jehovah this holy God? and to whom shall it go up from us?

Psalm 99:5

Exalt ye Jehovah our God, and worship at the footstool of his feet; he is holy.

Psalm 99:9

Exalt ye Jehovah our God, and worship at his holy mountain; for Jehovah our God is holy.

Isaiah 5:16

And Jehovah of armies shall be exalted in judgment, and the holy God consecrated in justice.

Exodus 34:7

Watching kindness for thousands, taking away iniquity, and transgression and sin, and acquitting, will not cleanse; striking the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons and upon the sons' sons, upon the third and the fourth.

Leviticus 10:3

And Moses will say to Aaron, This which Jehovah spake, saying, In drawing near me I will be consecrated, and before all the people I will be honored. And Aaron will be silent

Leviticus 20:26

And, ye were holy to me: for I Jehovah am holy, and I will separate you from the nations to be to me.

Joshua 24:23

And now remove the strange gods which are in the midst of you, and incline your heart to Jehovah the God of Israel.

Ruth 1:15

And she will say, Behold, thy sister-in-law turned back to her people, and to her gods: turn thou back after thy sister-in-law.

1 Samuel 3:14

And for this I sware to the house of Eli if the iniquity of the house of Eli shall be covered with sacrifice and with gifts even forever.

2 Chronicles 36:16

For they will be mocking upon the messengers of God, and despising his words, and scoffing at his prophets, even to the bringing up the wrath of Jehovah against his people, even to no healing.

Isaiah 6:3-5

And this called to this, and said, Holy, holy, holy, Jehovah of armies: all the earth full of his glory.

Isaiah 27:11

In its harvest being dried up, women shall break it off in coming, illuminating it: for it is a people not understanding: for this he making them will not compassionate them, and he forming them will not have mercy upon them.

Isaiah 30:11

Remove from the way, turn aside from the path, cause to cease from before us the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 30:15

For thus said Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In turning back and in rest shall ye be saved; in quiet and in trust shall be your strength, and ye would not.

Habakkuk 1:13

Being pure of eyes from beholding evil, and wilt not be able to look upon labor: wherefore wilt thou look upon the transgressors? wilt thou be silent in the unjust swallowing the just above him?

Matthew 6:24

None can serve two lords: for either he will hate one and love the other; or hold firmly to one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Luke 14:25-33

And great crowds went with him, and having turned he said to them

1 Corinthians 10:20-22

But, that what things they sacrifice the nations sacrifice to demons, and not to God: and I will not ye be partakers of demons.

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