Joshua 24:17 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁷ The Lord is our God. He is God. He hath brought up us and our fathers out of Egypt, and preserved us all the way we went, and among all the nations through which we passed,

⁴ You have seen what I have done to the Egyptians; and how I have taken you up as on the wings of eagles and brought you to myself.

¹¹ As an eagle would defend his nest, And, when anxious for his young, would spread out his wings, and receive them, And bare them up on his shoulders; ¹² The Lord alone conducted them, And there was not a strange god with them.

⁵ I smote Egypt with signal miracles, which I did among them. ⁶ Now after this he brought our fathers out of Egypt, and you marched into the Red sea; and when the Egyptians pursued our fathers, with horses and chariots, into the Red sea, ⁷ and we cried to the Lord, he put a cloud and darkness between us and the Egyptians; and brought the sea upon them, and it overwhelmed them. Your eyes have seen all that the Lord did in the land of Egypt. And when you had been many years in the wilderness, ⁸ he brought us to the land of the Amorites, who dwelt on the border of the Jordan; and the Lord delivered them into our hands, and you took possession of their land, and extirpated them from before you. ⁹ And when Balak, son of Sepphor, king of Moab, arose and drew up in array against Israel, and sent for Balaam to curse us, ¹⁰ the Lord thy God would not destroy thee, nay he caused him to bless us with blessings, and rescued us out of their hands, and delivered them up. ¹¹ And when you crossed the Jordan, and came to Jericho, and the Amorites who inhabited Jericho, and the Chananites, and the Pherezites, and the Evites, and the Jebusites, and the Chettites, and the Gergasites, fought against us, the Lord delivered them into our hands. ¹² Indeed he sent before you the hornet, and drove them out from before us, even the twelve kings of the Amorites, not with thy sword, nor with thy bow, ¹³ and hath given you a land, on which you did not bestow labour, and cities which you did not build, and you are settled therein, and are eating of vineyards, and olive yards, which you did not plant. ¹⁴ Now therefore fear the Lord, and serve him with sincerity and truth, and put away the strange gods which our fathers worshipped in beyond the river, and in Egypt, and serve the Lord.

⁴ I am the self existent, even till you grow old, I am, I sustain you: I made you and I will bear with you; I will lift you up and I will save you.

⁷ [c] I recollected the loving kindness of the Lord; the mercies of the Lord in all those things which he retributeth for us. The Lord is a good judge to the house of Israel. He dealeth with us according to his tender mercy and according to the abundance of his saving goodness, ⁸ and said "Is not this my people? Children should not rebel." And he became their Saviour from all their distress. ⁹ It was not an ambassador nor a messenger; but he himself saved them. Through his love and his indulgence to them, he himself redeemed them and took them up, and exalted them all the days of old. ¹⁰ But they rebelled and provoked his holy spirit; so he became their enemy. He fought against them; ¹¹ though he remembered the days of old. O! where is he who caused the shepherd of his flock to come up out of the sea? Where is he, who put his holy spirit in them? ¹² That glorious arm of his which led Moses by the right hand? He forced back the water from before him, to make himself an everlasting name. ¹³ He led them through the deep, like a horse through a desert; and they were not fatigued: ¹⁴ and like cattle through a plain. A spirit from the Lord descended and conducted them. Thus thou .didst lead this people of thine, to make thyself a glorious name.

⁹ As for me, I removed from before them the Amorite whose stature was like that of a cedar. Though he was strong as an oak, I withered his fruit above and his roots underneath. ¹⁰ I indeed brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you about in the wilderness forty years, that you might inherit the land of the Amorites.