Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
And Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Your fathers dwelt on the other side of the flood in old time, even Terah, the father of Abraham, and the father of Nachor: and they served other gods.
Served other gods
Bible References
Your fathers
Genesis 11:26
Terah lived 70 years and fathered Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
Genesis 12:1
The Lord said to Abram:
Go out from your land,
your relatives,
and your father’s house
to the land that I will show you.
your relatives,
and your father’s house
to the land that I will show you.
Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham, and the gods of Nahor—the gods of their father—will judge between us.” And Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.
Deuteronomy 26:5
You are to respond by saying in the presence of the Lord your God:
My father was a wandering Aramean. He went down to Egypt with a few people and lived there. There he became a great, powerful, and populous nation.
My father was a wandering Aramean.
Isaiah 51:2 Look to Abraham your father,
and to Sarah who gave birth to you in pain.
When I called him, he was only one;
I blessed him and made him many.
and to Sarah who gave birth to you in pain.
When I called him, he was only one;
I blessed him and made him many.
Ezekiel 16:3
You are to say: This is what the Lord God says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
Served other gods
Joshua 24:15
But if it doesn’t please you to worship Yahweh, choose for yourselves today the one you will worship: the gods your fathers worshiped beyond the Euphrates River or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living. As for me and my family, we will worship Yahweh.”
Genesis 31:19
When Laban had gone to shear his sheep, Rachel stole her father’s household idols.
Genesis 35:4
Then they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and their earrings, and Jacob hid them under the oak near Shechem.