Joshua 24:19

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Ye cannot

Holy

A jealous

Exodus 20:5

Exodus 34:14

1 Corinthians 10:20

He will not

Isaiah 27:11

Bible References

Ye cannot

Then, he said, put away the strange gods among you, turning your hearts to the Lord, the God of Israel.

And Naomi said, See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods: go back after your sister-in-law.

No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.

Now a great number of people went with him.

Holy

Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord said, I will be holy in the eyes of all those who come near to me, and I will be honoured before all the people. And Aaron said nothing.

Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.

And the men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to keep his place before the Lord, this holy God? and to whom may he go from us?

Give high honour to the Lord our God, worshipping at his feet; holy is he.

But the Lord of armies is lifted up as judge, and the Holy God is seen to be holy in righteousness.

And one said in a loud voice to another, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of armies: all the earth is full of his glory.

Get out of the good way, turning from the right road; do not keep the Holy One of Israel before our minds.

Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?

A jealous

You may not go down on your faces before them or give them worship: for I, the Lord your God, am a God who will not give his honour to another; and I will send punishment on the children for the wrongdoing of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation of my haters;

For you are to be worshippers of no other god: for the Lord is a God who will not give his honour to another.

What I say is that the things offered by the Gentiles are offered to evil spirits and not to God; and it is not my desire for you to have any part with evil spirits.

He will not

Give attention to him and give ear to his voice; do not go against him; for your wrongdoing will not be overlooked by him, because my name is in him

Having mercy on thousands, overlooking evil and wrongdoing and sin; he will not let wrongdoers go free, but will send punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, and on their children's children to the third and fourth generation.

So I have made an oath to the family of Eli that no offering of meat or of meal which they may make will ever take away the sin of his family.

But they put shame on the servants of God, making sport of his words and laughing at his prophets, till the wrath of God was moved against his people, till there was no help.

When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.