Joshua 24:25

25 percussit igitur Iosue in die illo foedus et proposuit populo praecepta atque iudicia in Sychem

Joshua 24:25 Meaning and Commentary

Joshua 24:25

So Joshua made a covenant with the people that day
Proposing to them what was most eligible, and their duty to do, and they agreeing to it, this formally constituted a covenant, of which they selves were both parties and witnesses:

and set statute and an ordinance in Shechem;
either made this covenant to have the nature of a statute and ordinance binding upon them, or repeated and renewed the laws of Moses, both moral and ceremonial, which had been delivered at Mount Sinai, and now, upon this repetition in Shechem, might be called a statute and ordinance there.

Joshua 24:25 In-Context

23 nunc ergo ait auferte deos alienos de medio vestrum et inclinate corda vestra ad Dominum Deum Israhel

24 dixitque populus ad Iosue Domino Deo nostro serviemus oboedientes praeceptis eius

25 percussit igitur Iosue in die illo foedus et proposuit populo praecepta atque iudicia in Sychem

26 scripsitque omnia verba haec in volumine legis Dei et tulit lapidem pergrandem posuitque eum subter quercum quae erat in sanctuario Domini

27 et dixit ad omnem populum en lapis iste erit vobis in testimonium quod audierit omnia verba Domini quae locutus est vobis ne forte postea negare velitis et mentiri Domino Deo vestro