Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
If you forsake Jehovah and serve strange gods, then He will turn and do you harm, and destroy you after He has done you good.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
Holman Bible
If you abandon the Lord and worship foreign gods, He will turn against you, harm you, and completely destroy
International Standard Version
If you abandon the LORD and serve foreign deities, then he will turn and do you harm, consuming you after all the good he has done for you."
A Conservative Version
If ye forsake LORD, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.
American Standard Version
If ye forsake Jehovah, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
Amplified
If you do abandon (reject) the Lord and serve foreign gods, then He will turn and do you harm and consume and destroy you after He has done you good.”
Bible in Basic English
If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good.
Darby Translation
If ye forsake Jehovah, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
Julia Smith Translation
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.
King James 2000
If you forsake the LORD, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you harm, and consume you, after that he has done you good.
Lexham Expanded Bible
If you forsake Yahweh and serve foreign gods, he will turn and bring disaster to you; he will destroy you after he has done good to you."
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
But when ye have forsaken the LORD and have served strange gods, he will turn and do you evil and consume you, after that he hath done you good."
NET Bible
If you abandon the Lord and worship foreign gods, he will turn against you; he will bring disaster on you and destroy you, though he once treated you well."
New Heart English Bible
If you forsake the LORD, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good."
The Emphasized Bible
When ye forsake Yahweh, and serve the gods of a stranger, then will he turn, and inflict on you calamity, and consume you, after that he hath dealt well with you.
Webster
If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.
World English Bible
If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good."
Youngs Literal Translation
When ye forsake Jehovah, and have served gods of a stranger, then He hath turned back and done evil to you, and consumed you, after that He hath done good to you.'
Themes
Covenant » Of man with God » Joshua
Decision » Instances of » Joshua
Forsaking » Those that forsake the lord
Forsaking God » Warnings against
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Joshua 24:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Israelites Promise To Serve Yahweh
19 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. 20 If you forsake Jehovah and serve strange gods, then He will turn and do you harm, and destroy you after He has done you good. 21 And the people said to Joshua, No, but we will serve Jehovah.
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Cross References
1 Chronicles 28:9
And you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind. For Jehovah searches all hearts and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek Him, He will be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will cast you off forever.
Acts 7:42
Then God turned and gave them over to serve the host of the heavens, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: "O house of Israel, have you offered to Me slain beasts and sacrifices forty years in the wilderness?
2 Chronicles 15:2
And he went out to meet Asa, and said to him, Hear me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin. Jehovah is with you while you are with Him. And if you seek Him, He will be found by you. But if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
Ezra 8:22
For I was ashamed to ask of the king troops and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way, because we had spoken to the king, saying, The hand of our God is on all those who seek Him for good, but His power and His wrath are against all those who forsake Him.
Isaiah 1:28
And the downfall of the transgressors and of the sinners shall be together; and those who forsake Jehovah shall be consumed.
Isaiah 63:10
But they rebelled, and troubled His Holy Spirit; therefore He was turned to be their enemy, and He fought against them.
Isaiah 65:11-12
But you are those who forsake Jehovah, who forget My holy mountain, who prepare a table for Fortune, and who furnish the drink offering to Fate.
Jeremiah 17:13
O Jehovah, the Hope of Israel, all who forsake You shall be ashamed. Those who depart from Me shall be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Jehovah, the Fountain of living waters.
Joshua 23:12-15
Otherwise, if you go back in any way, and hold to those left of these nations, these that remain among you, and shall marry them and go in to them and they to you,
Ezekiel 18:24
But when the righteous turns from his righteousness and does injustice, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked do, shall he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be remembered; in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.
Hebrews 10:26-27
For if we sin willfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more sacrifice for sins,
Hebrews 10:38
Now, "the Just shall live by faith. But if he draws back, My soul shall have no pleasure in him."