File:Joshua Renewing the Covenant with Israel.jpg

Summary
Joshua 24:19-21

24:19. Joshua said to the people: You will not be able to serve the Lord: for He is a holy God, and mighty and jealous, and will not forgive your wickedness and sins.

You will not be able to serve the Lord, etc. . .This was not said by way of discouraging them; but rather to make them more earnest and resolute, by setting before them the greatness of the undertaking, and the courage and constancy necessary to go through with it.

24:20. If you leave the Lord, and serve strange gods, He will turn, and will afflict you, and will destroy you after all the good He has done you. 24:21. The people said to Joshua: No, it shall not be so as you say, but we will serve the Lord.

Joshua Renewing the Covenant with Israel; as in Joshua 24:14-28; illustration from a Bible card published by the Providence Lithograph Company Date: 1907