Teks -- Joshua 24:16 (NET)

24:16 The people responded, “Far be it from us to abandon the Lord so we can worship other gods!

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Clarke: Jos 24:16 - God forbid that we should forsake the Lord

God forbid that we should forsake the Lord - That they were now sincere cannot be reasonably doubted, for they served the Lord all the days of Joshua, and the elders that outlived him, Jos 24:31; but afterwards they turned aside, and did serve other gods. "It is ordinary,"says Mr. Trapp, "for the many-headed multitude to turn with the stream - to be of the same religion with their superiors: thus at Rome, in Diocletian’ s time, they were pagans; in Constantine’ s Christians; in Constantius’ s, Arians; in Julian’ s apostates, and in Jovinian’ s, Christians again! And all this within less than the age of a man. It is, therefore, a good thing that the heart be established with grace."

Calvin: Jos 24:16 - And the people answered and said,

16.And the people answered and said, etc Here we see he had no reason to repent of the option given, when the people, not swearing in the words of another, nor obsequiously submitting to extraneous dictation, declare that it would be an impious thing to revolt from God. And thus it tends, in no small degree, to confirm the covenant, when the people voluntarily lay the law upon themselves. The substance of the answer is, that since the Lord has, by a wonderful redemption, purchased them for himself as a peculiar people, has constantly lent them his aid, and shown that he is among them as their God, it would be detestable ingratitude to reject him and revolt to other gods.

TSK: Jos 24:16

1Sa 12:23; Rom 3:6, Rom 6:2; Heb 10:38, Heb 10:39

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Gill: Jos 24:16 - And the people answered and said // God forbid that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods

And the people answered and said,.... To Joshua, upon his proposal to them, the option he gave them to serve the Lord or idols, and which was only done to try them:

God forbid that we should forsake the Lord, to serve other gods; they speak with the utmost abhorrence of idolatry, as a thing far from their hearts and thoughts, as the most abominable and execrable that could be thought or spoken of; to forsake the word, and worship, and ordinances of God, and serve the idols of the Gentiles, strange gods, whether more ancient or more recent, such as their fathers worshipped in former times, or the inhabitants of the land they now dwelt in, for which they were spewed out of it.