Joshua 24:15
And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.Joshua 24:15 in the real world
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- מִיmîywho? (occasionally, by a peculiar idiom, of things); also (indefinitely) whoever; often us
- רָעַעrâʻaʻproperly, to spoil (literally, by breaking to pieces); figuratively, to make (or be) good
- אֱמֹרִיʼĔmôrîyan Emorite, one of the Canaanitish tribes
- עֵבֶרʻêberproperly, a region across; but used only adverbially (with or without a preposition) on th
- נָהָרnâhâra stream (including the sea; expectation the Nile, Euphrates, etc.); figuratively, prosper
- בָּחַרbâcharproperly, to try, i.e. (by implication) select
- עָבַדʻâbadto work (in any sense); by implication, to serve, till, (causatively) enslave, etc.
- עַיִןʻayinan eye (literally or figuratively); by analogy, a fountain (as the eye of the landscape)
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The Hebrew and Greek words standing behind this verse. Word-by-word alignment comes with the interlinear.
Cross-references
1Ki 18:21, Jhn 6:67–68, Rut 1:15–16, Deu 29:18, Ezk 20:39, Act 11:23, Exo 23:32–33, Jdg 6:10