20If you forsake Yahweh, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after he has done you good.|


In Context

17 for it is Yahweh our God who brought us and our fathers up out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage, and who did those great signs in our sight, and preserved us in all the way in which we went, and among all the peoples through the midst of whom we passed.

18 Yahweh drove out from before us all the peoples, even the Amorites who lived in the land. Therefore we also will serve Yahweh; for he is our God.|

19 Joshua said to the people, |You can't serve Yahweh; for he is a holy God. He is a jealous God. He will not forgive your disobedience nor your sins.

20 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.|

21 The people said to Joshua, |No; but we will serve Yahweh.|

22 Joshua said to the people, |You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him.| They said, |We are witnesses.|

Joshua 24:20 in Other Translations

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

24:20If you forsake the Lord and serve foreign gods, he will turn and bring disaster on you and make an end of you, after he has been good to you."

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:20If 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.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

24:20If you leave the Lord, and serve strange gods, he will turn, and will afflict you, and will destroy you after all the good he hath done you.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

24:20If 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:20If 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

24:20If ye forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

24:20If 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

24:20When 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.'

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

24:20If you forsake the LORD, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he has done you good.